Prologue
It was late. She never planned to work that late, but she just had so much work, too many things to do, and not enough time. So she had stayed late, way past Midnight to get what she could done. However, once midnight rolled around she just couldn't work. All the events of that day, that rainy October day came back to her, and she couldn't take it any more so she left.
Deciding she needed to clear her head, she started the walk from her office to her home. Well at one point in time it was her home, but now, now it was just a place to sleep, somewhere to rest and kick back before the next work day. She never knew why she stayed there. Maybe because it was where she was happiest, her first real home, but that wasn't the case any more, and it would never be again.
She decided to cut across the docks. It was drizzling when she left her office but now it was a full-fledged rainstorm.
As she approached the docks her heart jumped into her throat as she say him. There he was sitting on the edge of the docks. His masculine back hunched over, elbows on his knees, head in his hands. She wondered what he was doing the hunched over looking so fragile. She figured he would be at the hospital, but he wasn't.
She stood there looking on not able to move, afraid to, for fear he would disappear, again. Gathering all her strength she slowly placed one foot in front of the other walking towards him...
He knew she was there watching him he could feel her. He always could. He just wasn't sure he could face her, he wasn't sure he could look at her without feeling guilty. He was so close to losing everything he had ever wanted, but he wanted it with her. His love, his life, his only life, the one standing 20 feet behind him just watching him through the down pour of rain.
As she started to move toward him the hair on the back of his neck stood on end, his heart got jumpy, and the events of that day almost faded, almost. He still had this nagging felling that he should be at the hospital with her. She was living with him. As she reached out to touch his shoulder all those felling left. All he thought of was her, his angel on the docks with him...
She never knew how she did it. How she was able to walk across the docks to him, but she managed. As she approached him she could feel her heart speed up, her pulse quicken, all the while thinking that he should be at the hospital with her, he was living with her, and they were close. However as she reached to touch his shoulder all those thoughts were gone. All she could think of was him, her life sitting hunched over on the docks...
As her hand finally made contact with his shoulder sparks flew through the two. For two brief second they forgot about the past, and were just comfortable with the contact. As he stood up he slowly turned, making eye contact with her. That's when she realized he had been crying. His blood shot baby blue eyes revealed all the emotion he had felt that day.
As he stood up and turned around to face her there eyes met and he could tell she could see the pain. No words were needed. There never was a need for words with the two of them.
Silently with her eyes she asked if he was going to be ok. With a simple nod he let her know he would be. The stood there in the rain for what seemed like forever just staring into each other's eyes. Silently hoping for more. As he slowly dipped his head down her heart began to race. Was he about to kiss her? A second later there was no need for the question as their lips met in a passionate fury. They both wanted more as the continued their lip lock. Finally, the need for air becoming evident, they break apart resting their foreheads together.
As they stare into the others eyes they see the want, the need, to be closer. As they return to their lip lock he starts grabbing at her shirt. Slowly she pulls back and looks into his eyes. Seeing the love in his eyes she can't resist. She takes his hand, slowly moving across the docks.
That night she didn't go home alone, and she didn't sleep much. She spent the night with him. Making him feel loved, and him making her feel loved as they connected over and over again that night.
That would be the last night they would spend together for some time. That would be the last night they would be truly happy for some time. That was the night both there lives changed. Forever.