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Five weeks later…Jack hurried around to the other side of the car and opened the door, grinning from ear to ear. He grabbed her warm hand and slowly helped her get out of the vehicle.
"Are you sure you don't want to go home first? They don't even know you were released today." Sue smiled, as she carefully got out of the car. She was still very sore from the two weeks she had spent in the ICU, and then the three weeks still in a hospital bed, her injured shoulder still throbbing after five weeks.
"I want to surprise them." Jack looked at her concernedly.
"Are you sure you can walk that whole way? You haven't gone this far yet, and I don't have a wheelchair to push you." She rolled her eyes, but appreciating his worry.
"I'll make it." She said, as Jack quickly locked his car doors. Sue grabbed a hold of his arm and they slowly made their way upstairs.
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"Sue looked great yesterday, don't you think?" Tara said to Lucy as they walked back into the bullpen after lunch.
"She did. Hopefully she'll be released soon. I know she's getting anxious to get out of there."
"Where's Jack?" Bobby spoke up. They had all noticed Jack's frequent absence from the bullpen. He was always around when they needed him, but he had stayed pretty low key on their most recent cases, and they all assumed that he was spending as much time as he could at the hospital.
All of the sudden they heard Levi start barking madly from beside Lucy's desk. They all turned to look at him strangely, when Jack walked through the door, hanging around near Lucy's desk.
"Look who it is. We were about the send out the search party." Myles said, jokingly. Lucy started petting Levi, trying to get him to calm down as he was still barking at Jack.
"What's wrong with him?" Tara said coming over. Jack just grinned.
"I think he's realized that I brought him a special present. Actually, it's for everyone here." Myles rolled his eyes and sat back down at his desk.
"I don't think I want anything that he's brought for Levi." Myles muttered to himself. Jack hurried outside, and came back with a very pale, but smiling blond that had been absent from their team for weeks.
"That's too bad Myles." Jack said, as he heard Lucy and Tara scream and hurry over to carefully hug Sue. After everyone had hugged and welcomed her, Jack helped her over to her desk to sit down, as she was looking very tired and worn out. Everyone moved closer.
"How are you feeling?" Dimitrius asked kindly.
"Sore." She said smiling. "But happy to be out of the hospital. Strange thing is, I still can't piece together why I was in there, but as Jack tells me, for now I'm better off not remembering."
"You had us all worried." Bobby said, giving her his big Aussie grin.
"I still have a while to go, but I can't tell you how glad I am to be back." Everyone beamed at her, as she looked at Jack, who had a look in his eyes she had never really noticed until she had awoken out of the haze in the hospital and seen him sitting next to her, praying she would wake up. She knew that after what had happened they would need to talk, and that their lives were going to change.
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Jack and Sue walked very slowly through the park the next day, Sue still clinging to Jack's arm for support in the soft autumn evening sun, as Levi ran around chasing anything that was moving. Noticing how tired she was getting, Jack led her towards a bench and they both sat down, laughing as they watched Levi attempt to catch a squirrel.
"I thought that we would never have moments like this again." Jack said quietly. Sue looked at him intently for a few moments.
"God wasn't ready to take me yet, and I'm okay with that." She said smiling. Jack grabbed her hand and squeezed it. "But since I am here, I want you to know that I don't want to live without you anymore either." Jack looked at her slightly surprised. They hadn't really talked about a relationship between them, in the last few weeks at the hospital, but they both had realized their relationship had grown stronger as Jack had spent hours with her in the hospital.
"Me too." He said, as he leaned over and kissed her gently on the lips. As Sue rested her head on Jack's shoulder, she knew that the next few months were going to be hard. She was still confused about what had happened, she didn't remember why she had gotten hurt, but what she did know was that she had someone who was going to be with her every step of the way, and she was excited to see where their relationship was going to go.
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I love fluffiness. Please still review - I'd like to hear what you guys thought of the story. Originally, I was going to kill Sue (I know I'm terrible, but I was loving the angst I was building up), but in the end I just couldn't do it. Keep in tune with my other story, Within Part 2, which will be updated soon! Thanks so much for all your support!