Disclaimer: I do not, will never, have never owned anyone in this story other than Chloe, her dead parents and the taylor fam.

Chapter 20

Jack stared at the blonde out of the corner of his eye. Sitting at the outdoor café, the sunshine gleaming through her hair, bouncing off her gorgeous blue eyes. Sue took a sip of her tea. Levi was happily eating his breakfast beside their table for four. Jack glanced at his watch, they had been waiting for Bobby and Tara to come for fifteen minutes already and the silence was driving Jack up the wall. "Okay, I can't take it anymore," Jack said abruptly. Sue looked at him with a puzzled expression on her face, "It is too dang quiet."

"Welcome to my world," Sue laughed.

He winced. "Sorry."

"Don't be, Jack, I know what you meant. But I really don't know what there is to talk about."

Jack sighed, "Me neither."

"Oh!" Sue said perking up, "How about…when are we going to tell them what we know about the case?"

Jack groaned, "When it's time."

"And when would that be?"

"Definitely not today, we wouldn't want to ruin a perfectly good mini vacation over something that can easily be told any other time."

Sue studied his facial expressions, he seemed sincere, "I suppose you're right, but if they get mad that you didn't tell them sooner, you forced me to keep my mouth shut, that clear?"

"Crystal."

Sue smiled triumphantly. "Just so we understand each other."

Like I'll ever be able to understand you, or any woman for that matter. "Completely."

With a smile on her face, Sue took another sip of tea.

Tara yawned for the tenth time in 20 minutes and let her legs give in beneath her and she dropped to the chair. Jack and Sue looked at her with raised eyebrows. "What's good here?" Tara asked picking up the menu.

"I heard the bacon and eggs are to die for. Pardon the pun." Jack said, the light breeze barely moving his hair.

"I think I'll just have a coffee and bagel." Tara said, resting her chin on her palm, squinting at the sunlight.

"Sleep well?" Sue asked with a half smirk.

"After I finally fell asleep, which was two in the morning."

"Where's Crash?" Jack asked.

"Still in our room, he let me use the bathroom first."

"Sweet guy." Sue said with a tinkle in her eye.

Tara yawned, "Bad choice though on his part, I was in there for 45 minutes before he finally kicked me out."

"He actually kicked you out?"

"Well, more like broke the door down, picked me up, dropped me on the floor and told me to use your bathroom."

"But, you never came…?" Sue frowned.

"There was no need to. I had been finished for over 10 minutes when he kicked me out. I just wanted to irk him." She grinned, "And boy did it ever work."

"So, what took you so long to get here? We've been sitting here for almost 20 minutes!" Jack complained.

"I went window shopping." Tara said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Where?" Jack asked.

"Oh, in gift shops, little stores," she turned to Sue, "you wouldn't believe the beautiful things they have here, jewelry, sunglasses, clothes, I found the cutest shoes! We have to go shopping today, no buts about it!"

Bobby appeared at the table and sat down next to Tara, giving her a kiss on the cheek as he did so. With smirks on their faces, Jack and Sue glanced at each other. "So, what's good here?" Bobby asked. "Ahh, never mind, I'll just have a coffee and a bagel." Jack and Sue smiled at the similarity between Tara and Bobby.

"So," Tara asked, "have you guys found anything in the case yet?"

"Uh," Jack racked his brain for the right thing to say, "we have a lead that we're working on, but, it really wouldn't help anything if you knew what it was."

"It might even come back to bight you in the butt," Sue helped Jack out, gaining a flicker of a smile from him.

Bobby looked a bit suspicious but at that very moment the waitress came to take their orders. After she left then returned a few minutes later the foursome enjoyed their meal in silence until Tara broke the silence. "I'm stuffed." She leaned back in her chair and dropped her hands to the side, almost grazing the stone floor.

Sue dropped her fork, "Me too. I don't think I could eat another bite if I was starving to death in the middle of nowhere."

Bobby swallowed another bite and raised his eyebrows at Tara, "You're full? You barely ate half your bagel."

"Well, I had something to eat before," Tara explained sheepishly.

Sue turned her attention to the other woman, "So, how about that shopping trip?"

"Let's go," Tara and Sue both pushed back their chairs and stood up.

"Whoa," Bobby looked from one lady to the next, "what shopping trip?"

"Well, I had found a couple nice shops before and me and Sue wanted to go," Tara explained.

Bobby stood up, his intense stare at Tara made her shift her weight from one foot to the next, "When did you find them?"

"Earlier, when you were getting ready, if you wanted to come-"

Bobby interrupted her, "You went out alone? Tell me that Jack was along."

"Uh, well, noo, I didn't think it would be a problem," Tara said.

"And what if something would have happened to you? How would we know where to even start looking for you?" Bobby slowly stood up.

"Uhh…"

"We wouldn't! You never go anywhere alone! What part of 'your life is in jeopardy' do you not understand?"

Tara's jaw clenched, "Fine. I'll go to our room. When I'm allowed to leave my room without a babysitter watching my every move, let me know!" She grabbed her purse and stormed away. Bobby stood there for a moment before walking away in the opposite direction with slumped shoulders.

Jack stood up to face Sue, "You think we should talk to them?"

Sue sighed, "Probably."

"Dibs on Tara." Jack said quickly.

"Why do you get the easy one?" Sue put her hands on her hips.

"Because I'm faster, that's why."

"Faster, maybe, fair…not so much." Sue murmured.

A/N: I would like to send out a special thanks to 'Amy' for her wonderful review! thanks so much! and thanks to everyone else for the awesome reviews! keep it up!