It had been two weeks since Samantha had left and Martin was not fairing well at all. Danny watched as his best buddy got more and more depressed. Whatever had been in the letter from Samantha had been powerful. Danny couldn't remember ever seeing Martin like this.

Sitting at home one night Danny's phone rung. Pausing the basketball game he was watching he reached over and grabbed the phone. "Taylor."

"You answer your house phone like that too." Came the familiar voice from the other end.

"Samantha, hey baby doll, how are you?" He asked, smiling down the phone.

"I'm doing all right Danny, how are you?" She replied.

"Missing you, for one. Apart from that I am doing all right as well. So how is LA treating you?"

Samantha paused before answering him. "Really well, I've already got a tan." She joked but her hesitation hadn't gone unnoticed by Danny.

"You never did like the cold. I suppose all that warm weather is doing you the world of good."

"You bet. Danny, I am so sorry about how I left. I just couldn't face saying goodbye to you. It would have been too hard." Samantha confessed. She took another deep breath before continuing. "I hope you aren't too mad at me."

"I could never be mad at you for too long baby, you should know that by now. I was a little annoyed that you felt like you couldn't come to me but I had seen how miserable you were and it was the right thing to do."

Samantha sighed with relief that her best friend wasn't mad at her. "How is everyone else?" She asked, really only wanting to know about one person.

"We're good. Viv came back to work last week and is taking things nice and easy. Jack is taking some time off so Van Doren has been down taking care of us. The new guy is okay, but he is no you Samantha. We miss you." He told her deliberately missing out how Martin was.

"So what's the new guys name?"

"Nicholas but prefers Nick. He's a good guy, knows how to get the job done, that's the main thing." Danny answered, knowing that she was desperate to ask about Martin.

"And Jack, is there something wrong with him?"

"No, he just felt he needed some time off after all that has happened in the last year. He's coming back Monday."

"You didn't mention Martin?" She questioned.

"I know. Wasn't sure if you wanted to know about him." Danny replied.

"How is he? Is he mad at me?" She whispered.

"I don't think mad is the correct term. He is upset you've gone. Watching him is like watching you after you guys split. He has taken it pretty hard Samantha. I don't know what you wrote in his letter but it had to have been pretty powerful, to get a reaction like that from him. He seemed devastated after he had read it."

"I told him the truth Danny and if he couldn't handle the truth then maybe it is best that we went our separate ways. He hurt me more than you'll ever know and I just couldn't deal with it anymore. Watching him swan around like nothing had happened between us, it was hard. I know I always wanted to keep us hidden and I have explained to him why I wanted it but to disregard me like that, I just couldn't take it anymore." Samantha tried to explain to Danny.

"Well it worked. He's miserable without you." Danny told her.

"So when you coming out to visit me?" Samantha asked, quickly changing the subject.

"Maybe soon. Need to get the time off first. Thought I'd let you get really settled and then once you had made a few nice looking friends then I'd come out and you could introduce me."

"Danny you never change." She laughed down the phone.

"Never will baby doll. Anyway I have to go, heading out to the bar tonight with a few buddies. Speak to you soon though."

"You bet big guy. I promise." Samantha said before hanging up the phone.

Samantha sat back after finishing her phone call and thought about New York. Had she really done the right thing in leaving?