Hello, my lovelies. This chapter is being put up in honor of trisisable, who reviewed 3 times and finally convinced me to finish this chapter no matter how busy I am 

After re-reading the last chapter, I agree with one of my reviewers that it was a bit dramatic ) So, I'm trying to tone it down a bit, but still make it interesting.

By the way, Lincoln Logs are the greatest thing EVER. They are so fun!

Um… here ya go 

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Nobody said anything for a moment. We all stood there, Jesse, Paul and I, in a frozen scene.

Then, Jesse took a step forward and Paul pulled harder back on my arm a nanosecond later.

"Let go of her." Jesse whispered. I could see the anger building up like Lincoln Logs in the small motel room.

Paul threw back his head and laughed. "As if, Jesse! I let Suze go once, and it was the biggest mistake I ever made. I won't give her up to you now."

Jesse took a few more steps forward until he was directly in front of Paul. Then, to my extreme surprise, withdrew a pocket knife and flicked it open. He held it directly in front of Paul's face.

"I said to let her go." Jesse repeated, even more softly this time.

Paul, the coward that he was, immediately released my arm.

Jesse withdrew his knife. He turned to leave and I began to follow, but Paul's voice stopped both of us.

"Suze," he called softly. "Is it really Jesse you want to be with?"

I turned around, probably the stupidest thing I could have done at that moment.

Paul was looking at me. His blue eyes that were usually filled with amusement and power now just looked sad. It seemed as though my only goal in life was to make the sadness leave his eyes.

I took a step toward him and he held out a hand. Another step, closer….

"Querida." I turned and saw Jesse's eyes, exactly the same as Paul's, only in a rich brown shade as opposed to crisp blue.

I suddenly realized the hellish situation I was in. I had to choose. Jesse or Paul.

Closing my eyes, I tried to concentrate. I remembered the wall incident, but Jesse was the one I had married.

Decisively, I flickered my eyes open and ran towards Jesse.

We hugged quickly, but soon turned back around to face Paul.

To my utter surprise, Paul was smirking.

"I thought it was the worst thing that happened to me Suze, when we separated. But now I realize it wasn't bad at all. And you're going to pay for it."

I wanted to explain to Paul that that made no sense whatsoever. Why would I need to pay for something that wasn't bad? However, I knew this would just piss Paul off even more than he currently was.

Paul was suddenly gone, he had shifted.

Jesse sighed and ran his tan hand back through his hair.

"Come on, querida, let's go home."

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The ride home was silent and tense.

I was ashamed that I had even thought about going to Paul. I mean, Jesse was my HUSBAND, right?

"Jesse… you know I would never choose Paul over you, right?"

Jesse was quiet for a moment, his hands tightened on the steering wheel. Then, at last, he said, "Yes, querida. I know that."

"Good." I murmured so softly I doubt he even heard me.

I knew we were both working over in our heads what Paul had said about me having to pay. I wanted to know what Jesse thought about it, but I believed it was best to just remain quiet.

Jesse pulled into the driveway without me realizing it. I was so deep in thought that I didn't even realize we'd been sitting in the car for about five minutes without doing anything.

I suddenly jolted alive when I saw we were home. I dragged myself out of the car and into the house.

Jesse did not follow me.

This seemed strange to me, but I went ahead and got ready for bed. Once I finished, I went back into the driveway in my robe.

Jesse remained in the car.

I walked over and knocked on the window of the car. Jesse still didn't get out, but at least his head turned the slightest bit and nodded to acknowledge me.

I sighed. Why the hell was he still sitting in the car? I pulled open the drivers door and gently put my hand on Jesse's arm.

"Come on, Jesse. It's time to go in."

"I don't… Susannah, I don't want to. I can't."

I stepped back. What? He physically could not get out of the car?

"Of course you can! Come on!" I repeated, tugging slightly at his arm.

He looked up at me, his eyes large and the deepest brown I had ever seen them without turning black.

"I don't think we can live together anymore." he said shortly.

"…"

"Querida?"

"…"

"Querida, say something."

"…"

"Please?"

"…"

He sighed. "Look, Susannah, I know it may seem like I'm doing this to punish you but I'm not. Really, I want to protect you."

I still remained silent. What the hell was he talking about?

"I know one of the powers of a mediator is that they can put their soul in another's body. I'm worried Paul may kill me and take my body to get to you."

Although I desperately wanted to, I couldn't seem to form words.

"I just don't want you to get hurt and think it's me. Well, I mean, of course I don't want you hurt at all. But I would kill myself before I let you think I would ever do anything to harm you."

Jesse was about to go off on a babbling rampage if I didn't intervene, so I finally choked out some noises that seemed to form something resembling English.

"Where… go… you… are?" I didn't think those words were in the right order or if they even made the slightest bit of sense, but Jesse seemed to understand.

"I don't know. I was thinking maybe Canda. And you should go too, very far away, maybe Europe would be good."

"EUROPE?" I finally managed to say. "You want me to go to EUROPE to escape from Paul? While you stay in Canada, with an entire ocean between us? No freaking way!"

"Susannah," he soothed. "Don't worry. It will be short term, I believe. Just until Paul-"

"You b.. b… believe?" I stammered. "As in, you're not really sure and we may never see each other ever again?"

"Well…" Jesse wasn't ready to admit it.

"No, Jesse. I'm not letting Paul ruin our lives."

Jesse looked tired. He seemed to slump down far into the driver's seat, but then straightened up and stepped out of the car.

"Okay," he agreed and he took my hand in his and gently kissed me on the lips.

Then, wrapping an arm around my waist, we walked together down the walkway to our house.

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Okay, I know that was still short but I wanted to get something out to you since I haven't updated all week. Please review!