Chapter number 3. You swept me off my feet.

"Somebody help me" Tash continued to scream at the top of her lungs, by then Jack had already managed to grab his gun and handcuffs from next to his pillow where he had put them. Jack got up and made his way quickly to were the noise was coming from, he entered the room and saw Tash standing on one side of the room and a man on the other with a gun pointing towards her. Jack recognized the man, he was the one that had escaped from prison last night.

"Drop the gun" Jack commanded pulling his gun out from his belt and aiming it at the criminal across the room. The man did as he was told and dropped the gun, holding his hands up signaling that he was surrendering.

"Your under arrest" Jack informed him pulling out a set of handcuffs and putting then around the criminals wrists dragging him outside to his police car. Everyone else was back inside making sure Tash was alright except Martha who had come out to see Jack.

"Nice job officer" She remarked leaning against the post at the start of the steps smiling as she watched Jack.

"Thanks, I'd better get off to the station and lock this guy up for good. Will I get to see you again?" Jack asked wrapping his arms around Martha.

"Yeah, as long as you stick around, this towns small enough to guarantee seeing people more than once" She replied kissing him before he left.

"So are you doing anything tonight?"

"Not yet"

Well how about we meet up at the surf club at five six and I'll make dinner".

"You cook" Martha said surprised, she'd never met a man who was talented enough to work up the guts to cook for her, especially on the first date.

"Yeah, so what do you say?"

"Sounds good, I'll see you later then"

"Yeah see you" Jack said before kissing her on the forehead and getting back into his car to drive off.

When Jack had left Martha walked back into Tasha and Robbie's apartment, she couldn't help but smile, it had only been about twelve hours ago when she had told Robbie and Tash that she would find a man herself and already she had found one. "What are you so happy about?" Robbie asked when ha saw the smile that was plastered all over her face.

"Nothing, can't a girl smile without a reason?" Martha said cheerfully.

"She defiantly wasn't that happy last night" Tash commented.

"Yeah I agree" Robbie added.

"So where's Jack gone?" Ric asked from where he was standing at the kitchen bench.

"Oh he just went back to the station to put that guy back in prison where he belongs" Martha told him.

"Ok so is the reason why your so happy got anything to do with Jack?" Tash asked changing the subject back.

"What?" Martha said sounding like she was covering something up.

"Come on spit it out" Robbie nagged.

"Ok" Martha started "so..."

"So..." Tash said encouraging Martha to continue.

"So I'm having dinner with him tonight".

"That's great news Mac".

"Yeah I know, how nice is he" Martha said going off into her own little world of dreams.

"Ok, this is scary she's love sick already" Ric commented.

"No she just got swept off her feet, not that you'd know anything about that" Cassie told him.

Ric gave her a dirty look and was about to say something but Maddie got in first. "Would you to just stop it, I can't stand it anymore" she said storming out the door.

"Where are you going?" Cassie asked before she closed the door.

"Somewhere were you too aren't" She exclaimed frustrated and slammed the door behind her.

The rest of the day seemed to go by slowly for Martha, she was just so excited about tonight. It wasn't usually like her to fuss over what she was going to wear or how she would do her hair, but today she was.

"Mac, have you gone crazy, since when do you care what you wear" Tash told her.

"Tash could you just bear with me for a minute. Now what about this?" Martha asked holding up a green strapy top with beads on it and a denim mini skirt.

"Are you going to get cold in that? it's still winter you know".

"I guess so, how about with jeans".

"Yeap sounds good".

An hour later Martha was sitting down at the surf club when Jack walked in.

"Hey you look great" Jack commented and kissed Martha on the cheek to greed her.

"Hey, you look pretty good yourself".

"So lets go then. Dinner's ready and waiting". Martha smiled and grabbed Jack's hand.

"So did everything go alright with that guy you arrested?"

"Yeah, he's back in jail, and I can tell you he won't be leaving anytime soon" Jack replied opening the door of the car for Martha.

"Good, I'd hate to think what would happen if he came back again".

The short drive to Jack's house was fairly quiet, Jack kept his eye's on the road and Martha sat back and watched him happily. "So this is where I live" Jack told her when they pulled into the driveway.

"Your next door to the hunter's" Martha commented.

"Yeah, we met them this afternoon. They seem like nice people".

When they got inside Jack pulled out Martha's chair for her and sat down on the other side of the table. "Champaign?" Jack offered.

"Yes please" Martha replied holding out her glass to make it easier for him. There was a very impatient knock at the door.

"Come in" Jack called out.

"Would you like to explain what this was doing in our mail box?" Beth asked not sounding impressed at all, she held out an old news paper article with a small picture of jack on it.

"It's not what it looks like" Jack explained.

"Then what is it?" Scott asked from behind Beth.

"It's a long story I think you should probably come and sit down" Jack told them.

Next time:

What will Beth, Scott and Martha's reaction be when Jack tells them about Harry Chambers?

What will the town's reaction be?

Will Jack have to leave just after he got here?