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Chapter 3

"Okay. Sounds like a fair place to start." Martin said taking a deep breath and bracing himself for what was going to come.

Danny started "I got a call around…"

"Danny" both Sam and Elena interrupted in warning tones. Rick closely watching both men.

"What? He needs to hear this part to." Danny argued looking at Sam.

"Your right he does and he will but not now. You can chew him out later when we're not in the middle of the office. Okay?" Sam said looking at him. The look asking him not to make this more awkward for her.

Danny instantly backed down. She'd been through enough and he wasn't about to make it harder for her again.

Martin was watching Danny too closely to see Sam's expression.

"Okay. Short version," Danny started again "Jack and Sam split up 'coz of you. He than got drunk, came to the office and threatened Sam with her job if she didn't sleep with him again. Only problem was that your dad was around the office at the time and witnessed the whole thing. He discussed it with Sam and then discussed it with Jack. Then Fitzgerald Sr. fired him."

"Wow" was all Martin could say, looking down, surprise evident on his face. Although whether he was more surprised at what Jack did or that his father had finally gotten his way and fired him he hadn't yet decided.

He looked up at Sam who was looking at him. "I'm sor…"

Sam quickly held her hand up and interrupted him "Don't. I don't wanna hear it and I don't need to. I'm over it, over him."

She said it with such conviction that, for the first time, Martin believed her when she said it.

"So what else have I missed then?" Martin asked.

All four other agents exchanged looks at that clearly said there was a lot more he needed to know and that some of it had to do with the repercussions of him leaving.

Martin was fairly sure this was going o be awkward and maybe a little hard but he wasn't prepared for what Sam said next.

"Well I spent six months in a coma."

"Huh? How…uhh…what…uhh"

"Car chase gone wrong. It happened about five weeks after you left." Sam continued "We, Danny and I, were chasing a suspect and he ran a red light. The intersection was pretty quite and we ran the light to but didn't see the SUV coming from the right."

"It hit us, hard!" she continued after a breath. "Danny, being the driver, only got fairly minor injuries compared to me and was outta hospital after couple of weeks"

"I, on the other hand, suffered serious head and internal injuries, further complicated by a miscarriage."

Martins shock doubled on hearing that and he looked at her in complete disbelief. Although he had to admit, to himself if no one else, he was glad Sam hadn't had a child with Jack.

"I'd only found out about the baby the day before. Anyway I woke up six months later and spent a further three months in hospital under going serious therapy, both physical and psychiatric for depression, and had to have two further operations to remove screws from my leg and from my arm" She held out her arm indicating the surgical and accident scars on her forearm.

"When they said I was physically well enough to leave, I was still a long way off being well enough to come back to work. I was still suffering from the depression and I was seeing two different therapists for that, Lisa Harris for the work related stuff and another woman, Julia, for the…more personal stuff."

Sam hesitated. She had dealt with all of this stuff and put it behind her. But now Martin was back it changed some things, made it harder for her to leave it there. Dealing with him leaving was almost as hard as her dealing with losing her child.

She wasn't sure how much she was really ready for him to know, how much she was willing to let him in again. He'd changed her and had more of an affect on her than she could tell him. Part of the reason she was happier and more relaxed now was because of him even though he'd been gone for three years!

Rick saw how much Sam was struggling and quickly helped her out and changed the subject "However she's all better now and I think there's some happier news Danny would love to share."

Sam looked at Rick and smiled gratefully to which Rick gave her a smile and wink.

"Yeh sure. You see you ain't the only one who's gotten engaged!" Danny stated with a smirk suddenly looking very happy.

"Really? Congratulations man that's great." Martin said warmly "Who is she and how did you two meet?" he asked.

"Her names Emily Winters, only don't call her 'Emily' 'coz she'll kick your ass! It's 'Em' to everyone. And I met her 'coz…well 'coz she was Sam's physical therapist."

Martin gave him a look.

"I know I know but what can you do? I love her and couldn't be happier 'bout it so you can just keep your opinions in it to yourself!"

"Hey" Martin started, hands raised in surrender "I ain't saying anything! I'm really happy for you, I think it's great. So am I gonna get to meet her tonight then?"

"Well seeing as we're going to my house and she lives with me, I'd be very surprised if you didn't!"

The whole team had to crack a smile and a couple of laughs at that one. Mood sufficiently lighter.

- - - - - -

Later it was just Sam and Martin left at the table as Elena, Rick and Danny had gone to get lunch and Vivian was in her office working.

They had been working in comfortable silence for a few minuets, the mood having stayed relaxed for the rest of the morning with them just telling Martin some funnier stories that had happened since he'd been gone.

"Martin" Sam spoke up leaning across the table towards him, looking serious "there's something else you need to know that I don't wanna wait to tell you but didn't wanna say in front of the others, and they knew any way so…"

"What is it Sam?" Martin asked now with an equally serious face.

"Well…" she looked down for a couple of seconds, contemplating how best to say this. She decided on the straight forward approach as there was no easy way to do this. "It's about the miscarriage"

"What about it?" asked Martin now looking confused.

Sam looked up and straight in to Martins deep blue pools "It wasn't Jacks baby Martin, it was yours."