Disclaimer: All characters and things from ANGEL and BUFFY belong to Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy. If they aren't on the show they belong to me.
Summary: A different turn of events after Season 1 Episode 12 "Expecting" A/C pairing
CHAPTER 65Jess felt Spike's strong arms move under her, and she opened her eyes slowly, realizing she was still up on the roof; she must have fallen asleep at some point. She looked up at see Spike looking down at her.
"Sorry to wake you, but the sun's almost up. I need to get inside." Spike told her.
Jess nodded, seeing the horizon slowly beginning to turn orange. "Thanks for staying with me up here tonight."
"Not a problem." Spike told her as he stood.
"You should get inside." Jess told him.
"You're not coming?" Spike raised an eyebrow.
Jess shook her head. "I can't." She looked down at her hands. "I'm not ready to deal with everyone. I know they are still mad at me."
"Jess, you have to face them sooner or later."
"Later would be better."
Spike shook his head. "It will only make it harder."
Jess took a deep breath as she stood. "Look, Spike, I don't want to deal with them now. I mean, right now, this whole thing is my fault. Connor missing, us being here at Wolfram and Hart…not being able to fix the contract…" Suddenly Jessica's eyes grew wide.
"What?" Spike asked, sensing something had just occurred to her.
"Contract…" Jess nodded to herself, and then looked up at Spike. "I gotta go."
"What? Where?" Spike started, but before he could get an answer Jess had already jumped off the roof and was running across the top of the building across the street. Spike shook his head as he watched her. She moved so much like Angel; she was definitely his daughter, now if Spike could only get Angel to forgive his daughter.
"Yeah, like the poof will listen to me." Spike said, knowing Angel wouldn't want to hear a word he had to say. He sighed, turning back into the building before the sun fried him.
Erin's cries woke Cordelia, who sighed, rolling over in her bed to find Angel's spot empty. She sat up, wondering where Angel was. Probably still out looking for Jessica. A million feelings rose in Cordelia as she thought about her first born. She was upset and disappointed, angry and confused and distressed about Jessica all at once.
Cordelia climbed out of bed and made her way into Erin's room, picking up the crying infant. "Shh…Erin, Mommy's here…" Cordelia soothed the child as she bounced her in her arms and made her way into the kitchen.
"She okay?" Angel's voice startled Cordelia who was too focused on Erin to look up as she entered the kitchen. When she did look up she saw Angel sitting at the kitchen table, a cup of blood between his hands.
"Hey…" She said weakly as Erin started to calm down. "Where's Jess?"
Angel shrugged. "I don't know."
Cordelia nodded, understanding. "You didn't find her." Maybe it was for the best. Cordelia still wasn't sure how she would react to her daughter coming back in the house.
"No, I found her." Angel said, looking down at his blood. "I just didn't talk to her. I couldn't." He paused for a moment. "Cordy, do you think we might have been to harsh on her?"
"What?" Cordelia was shocked Angel would even ask that. "No, Angel, we weren't."
"It's just…she seems so sad, she's lost." Angel sighed.
"Angel. You know I would do anything for her. She's my daughter, and I love her, but what she did is inexcusable." Cordelia said as she took a seat next to Angel, shifting Erin in her arms. "Connor is gone because of her."
"Maybe he's better off…" Angel starred out the window.
"What? Angel…" Cordelia placed her hand gently on his arm.
"We don't know, Cordy." Angel turned to face her. "Maybe Jess did save him. You remember what Connor was like after Faith was killed."
"It wasn't Faith." Cordelia told him.
"It doesn't matter. Connor lost it after that. Connor lost it before that. He was going to kill you, don't you remember? Maybe Jess did the only thing she could do to keep him alive." Angel said.
"And maybe our girl had a momentary lapse of sanity." Gunn said as he entered the kitchen with some papers in his hand, followed by Fred, Wesley, and Lorne, all looking as tired and drained as Angel and Cordelia did.
"What?" Cordelia asked.
"After we got over the shock of the whole Connor situation we all got to thinking that Jess isn't the type to normally do stuff like this." Fred told them.
"Yeah, she might be your daughter, Angel, but she isn't crazy." Lorne tried to lighten the gloomy mood in the room.
"Anyway…" Fred gave Lorne the eye to let him know it probably wasn't a good time to start joking around. "We found the contract Jess signed regarding Connor."
"It was destroyed." Angel said quickly.
"Right, the original copy was." Wesley told him.
"We got a copy of that." Gunn handed Angel the copy of the contract and then started pointing at things on it. "Jess signed her soul over to save Connor's."
Angel was shocked to see that Jess had indeed signed that part of the contract. He moved the paper to show Cordelia, whose mouth immediately dropped open.
"Angel…this is why Jess kept saying she couldn't leave this place." Cordelia was shocked, and was now starting to feel some sympathy for her daughter. "She gave up her own soul to save Connor's."
"And we made her feel horrible for it." Wesley sounded ashamed.
Jess came crashing through the door of Lindsey's apartment. She didn't bother knocking this time; she felt there really wasn't a need. She found Lindsey and Eve in the kitchen over breakfast, both a little shocked to see Jessica. Jess could smell the fear pouring out of them.
"So, I got home tonight, and then I was thinking, you two morons are the reason my life just went to hell." Jess gave a devilish grin as she paced the room. "So, I decided to come pay you a little visit, thought maybe I could do you a favor."
"What kind of favor?" Lindsey asked, a hand covering the bruise Jessica had given him the night before.
"You want Wolfram and Hart right? I mean, that is why you did this to Connor?" Jess asked.
"Part of it." Lindsey told her.
"Then it's yours." Jess told them. "I don't want it anymore. We don't belong there. Everyday I watch that place swallow us a little more. I feel like we are losing a bigger battle by staying there."
"So, you're just going to give us the firm?" Eve asked.
"Oh, hell no. You're going to do something for me." Jess told her.
"What do you want?" Lindsey asked her.
"I want you to release us from our Wolfram and Hart contract. You broke the one I had with the Senior Partners about Connor, so now I want to break the original one. I don't want a damn thing to do with Wolfram and Hart, and I don't want any of my people bound to them." Jess explained.
"Fine." Eve told her. "I can do that."
"You can? Or the Senior Partners can?" Jess asked.
"I can. I was given the privilege to terminate your contract when the time came." Eve said. "Whether it was at the time of your deaths, or something unforeseen like this."
"So terminate it." Jess told her.
"It's not that simple." Eve said. "You see, you were all bound separately to the firm. Some of you gained more then others, like Gunn, he got his lawyer brain upgrade. He'd have to give that back in order to leave."
"Give it back?" Jess was confused.
"Lose the information." Lindsey told her.
"Right." Eve nodded, showing Jessica a document that had somehow appeared in her hand. "Anyway, you'd have to get each person to sign off separately. Once you do that, I'll know, and I'll meet you in your office to release you all."
"Done." Jess said, taking the paper.
"You do realize, in order to get this all signed off you have to confront each member of your family who currently wants to rip your throat out, right?" Lindsey asked with a smirk.
"I'm a big girl." Jess told her. "I'll be fine." And with that she was out of the apartment.
Lindsey then turned to Eve a big smile on his face. "It looks like we are going to get what we want after all."
Eve nodded, kissing Lindsey. "Looks that way."
Jess stood in the lower level of Wolfram and Hart, pacing back in forth with the paper from Eve in her hand. She wasn't sure if she was ready to go upstairs and face her family. She wasn't sure how they would react. Suddenly, she felt someone's hand on her shoulder and she practically jumped out of her skin. She whipped around to see a familiar face. A face she would have loved to see had it been any other day.
"Kyle." Jess said to the teenager behind her.
"Hey." Nina's nephew smiled back at her.
"What are you doing here?" Jess tried to hide her shock.
"Why? Do not want me here?" Kyle stammered. "I shouldn't have come. I knew it. It's just I called and you never called back and well…"
"You called?" Jess raised an eyebrow.
Kyle nodded. "I had your office number, I just kept getting your machine though."
"Oh, well…I've been busy the past day or so." Jess said, knowing that was an understatement. The past day had been complete hell for her.
Kyle nodded. "I understand. You're busy, you run a business. But it's okay I stopped by?"
Jess smiled at him, wanting to nod and invite him in the building, but she knew she couldn't. She had more important issues to conquer right now. Her love life was the last thing on her mind. "Actually, I'm kind of busy…" She sighed.
"Oh." Kyle looked down at his hands.
"Not that I didn't want to see you, because I do." Jess added quickly. "I really do. Just today, it's not a good time."
"I see." Kyle nodded. "I shouldn't have just stopped by anyway. Would it be alright if I called again?" Kyle sounded hopeful.
Jess nodded, flashing him the smile she had inherited from Cordelia. "I'd like that."
"Okay." Kyle smiled at her, exiting the building.
Jess watched him walk down the steps and then took a deep breath before turning back into the law firm and making her way to the elevator. It was time to face her family, whether she wanted to or not.
Cordelia held the copy of the contract Jessica had signed about Connor in one hand as she sat up in her bed, nursing Erin. Angel watched her shake her head every time she went over it as he sat on the floor next to the bed. He loved watching Cordelia feed his daughter, and would have enjoyed the time he was spending with them, except for the fact that his life had come crashing down around him the day before.
"I just don't understand." Cordelia said, shaking her head as she read the documents in her hand over again. "Jess just signed herself over to these people."
"We all did." Angel reminded her.
Cordelia caught Angel's eye. "Not like this. She gave up any chance she had of getting out of here. Any chance she had to fix her past mistakes. Angel, she sold her soul to these people."
"Maybe there is something we are missing." Angel said.
"The fact that she loved Connor more then we probably ever did?" Cordelia suddenly busted into tears as the words came out of her mouth.
"Cordy…" Angel moved swiftly to the bed, running his hands over her cheeks. "Don't say that."
"Why?" Cordelia chocked on her tears. "I mean, we've been angry and upset with her since this whole Connor thing started, but in all actuality, if anyone should be angry with anyone, she should be mad at us."
Erin began to fuse, not liking the fact that her mother's chest was heaving from crying as she was trying to finish eating.
"Cordy…" Angel tried again.
"Angel, we didn't give her a choice. She saved Connor the only way she could because we were to wrapped up in ourselves to see we were losing him, and now we did lose him and we are screaming at Jess for doing what she thought was best." Cordelia shook her head as Angel tried to wipe her tears away. "We lost Connor, Angel, and now we probably lost Jess."
"Please, you lost me in a hell dimension, and I still found my way back. Like you could really lose me in L.A.?" Jess snorted, standing in the frame of the door.
Angel and Cordelia both turned to see Jessica, and the young woman immediately felt uneasy as her parent's eyes burned into her. Maybe she shouldn't have come to them first.
"I'll…I'll be out…" Jess pointed to the kitchen down the hall.
"Jess! Wait!" Cordelia called out, her voice full of emotion as she sat up straight, fixing her shirt and moving Erin to her shoulder to burp the infant.
The emotions in Cordelia's voice made Jessica stop dead in her tracks, turning back into her parent's bedroom. She studied her mother to see Cordelia looked a mess, tearstains on her face, and the smell of salt was in the air from Cordelia's tears. Jess then looked at her father to see Angel had a sad look in his eyes.
"Jess, come here." Cordelia patted the bed next to her.
Jessica's gaze darted quickly between her father and mother, remembering how angry Angel had been with her earlier.
Angel could sense his oldest daughter was uneasy around him. "Jess, come sit down."
Jess was reluctant, but moved to take a seat at the edge of the bed, running her hands over the edge of the papers Eve had given her earlier.
"Jess, we need to talk." Cordelia told her daughter.
Jess nodded, saying nothing. She had a look on her that matched the same one Angel got when he knew he might have said something to upset Cordelia. She was definitely her father's daughter.
"I'm sorry, sweetie." Cordelia said, fighting back tears. "We yelled and were angry, and we didn't understand why you did what you did."
"You weren't meant to." Jess told her. "I would have told you if you were supposed to know."
"Well, we know now." Angel said, taking a deep unneeded breath. "And we're not going to forget what happened, Jess."
"I didn't expect you to!" Jess snapped, feeling like she was being attacked by her father. Granted, Angel had every right to be angry with her, but she still didn't like it.
Cordelia gave Angel a look before handing Erin to him, and grabbing Jessica by the arm, pulling her reluctant daughter in tight. "Jess, I know you did what you thought was right, I just wish you would have come to us. This isn't something you should have had to make a decision about on your own."
Jess nodded, and for some reason unknown to her, gripped onto Cordelia tightly, not wanting to let go of her mother. "I had to save him. Connor would have done the same for me. I know he would have."
Cordelia nodded, rubbing Jessica's back. "I know, honey."
Angel watched the interaction between Jess and Cordelia and then looked down at Erin who was starring up at him with the same eyes Cordelia had. "Jess, we're going to get through this."
Jess turned to look at her father, as Cordelia pulled her daughter closer to her, running her hands through her daughter's long hair. "I know, dad."
"The question now is how?" Angel asked her. "How are we going to let this go? How are we going to trust you again?"
"I don't expect you to let this go." Jess told him. "And you're trust is just something I'll have to earn back, I guess."
"I guess so." Angel agreed with her.
"I have a good idea where we could start." Jess told him, unfolding the paper in her hand from Eve.
Angel looked at the paper Jess was shoving toward him. "What is this?"
"It's our ticket out of here." Jess said.
"What do you mean?" Cordelia was confused as Angel handed Erin back to her, and read the paper over.
"What is it?" Angel asked again.
"We signed ourselves over when we took this job. Our contracts couldn't be broken with Wolfram and Hart unless they made the first move." Jess explained. "They did."
"By destroying the contract you made with Lilah to save Connor." Angel understood.
"How'd you know I made it with Lilah?" Jess asked.
"Gunn got a copy of the original." Angel told her. "We saw it."
"Oh." Jess looked at her hands.
"Yeah, big time." Cordelia told her daughter. "Honey, you gave your soul for Connor."
"I told you, I did what I had to. Other then that I don't want to talk about it." Jess sighed, turning to Angel. "It doesn't matter anyway. Once we sign this paper we are free of this contract. They broke the one made about Connor, so now we are able to break the one we signed taking over this place. We can leave."
"We can?" Cordelia tried to hide the excitement in her voice.
Jess nodded. "All we need to do is get everyone to sign this paper."
"Angel, get a pen out of the top drawer of the night stand." Cordelia told him, as she took the paper from Jess, and then the pen from Angel, and signed her name under Jessica's signature. "I'm so ready to get out of this place." She bounced Erin in her arms.
"Dad?" Jess handed the paper to Angel
Angel seemed to be reluctant, but signed it anyway, and then handled it back to Jess.
"Make sure everyone signs it, Jess." Angel told her. "We came here together, and we are leaving together."
"I will." Jess stood, taking a deep breath. She was tired, too tired to think straight anymore. She didn't want to try. If she could have had it her way her whole family would be back in the lobby of the hotel, Connor included, just hanging around. Maybe soon, almost all of what Jessica wanted would happen. "Ok, let me go find everyone else." She then turned and made her way out of the room.
Cordelia watched her daughter exit, and then turned to Angel, a sad smile on her face.
"What is it?" Angel asked, squeezing Cordelia's hand gently.
"Just, everything." Cordelia looked down at Erin, who was fighting to stay awake. "We are finally leaving this place. You don't know how happy that makes me, but Connor…" Her voice dropped to a whisper. "He should be here with us, Angel. He should be with his real family."
Angel nodded, pulling Cordelia close to him. "I know. But sometimes the world doesn't work the way we want it to."
Jess decided, after visiting her parents, the next easier person to get to sign their release would probably be Lorne. She knew the demon had a good heart, and would probably be the one who would understand her decisions about Connor the most.
Jessica entered Lorne's office to find the green demon on the phone with someone who seemed very important. Lorne noticed Jessica but just pointed at the seat across from him, as he finished up his phone call. Jess complied, and sat, fiddling with the paper in her hands, and trying her best not to make eye contact with Lorne.
When the demon finished, he hung up his phone, and folded his hands in front of him. "Do you need something?" Lorne asked it the coldest tone Jessica had ever heard him speak in.
"I…" Jess sighed. Maybe Lorne wasn't the best person to come and see. He sure seemed a little ticked at Jessica. "Yeah, I do actually."
"Okay." Lorne nodded, leaning back in his chair.
"That's it?" Jessica had expected a little more then that. Maybe a little yelling, screaming, something from the demon.
"Do you want me to say I'm disappointed in you?" Lorne raised an eyebrow, seeming to know exactly what Jessica was thinking.
Jess shrugged. "It would be more appropriate, don't you think?"
"Well, I was." Lorne told her. "Yesterday. But, today I realized why you had to save Connor."
"You did?" Jess was taken back.
Lorne nodded. "I saw the contract you signed about Connor. After seeing that you practically gave up your life to save him, well I can't say that isn't heroic."
"Uh…thanks?" Jess was a little lost in the conversation. Yesterday, everyone seemed to want to rip her head off, now she was heroic?
"Not you're smartest decision to keep it from us, but, we'll just have to trust you made the right decision." Lorne told her.
"Thanks, Lorne." Jess smiled the beautiful smile she had gotten from Cordelia.
"That's what I like to see." Lorne motioned to her smile. "Now, what can I do you for?"
"This." Jess shoved the paper into the demons lap. "Sign it and we are out of here."
"You mean, out of Wolfram and Hart?" Lorne asked.
Jess nodded. "All you have to do is sign."
"Well, throw me a pen, beautiful." Lorne smiled, signing the paper as Fred and Wesley walked into the office.
"Jess?" Fred questioned.
Jess turned in her chair taking a deep breath, ready to take whatever comments or attitude Wesley and Fred had toward her and the whole Connor situation.
"Jess, we're sorry." Fred rushed forward, giving the girl a hug. "The things we said in the lab…we didn't know you gave up so much for him. We didn't understand…"
"It's fine, Fred." Jess sighed. She was getting a little sick of everyone just accepting what she had done. They should have been at least a little mad at her, after all, she had lied to them.
"The little princess here has gotten us out of Wolfram and Hart." Lorne smiled, handing Wesley the paper to sign.
"What is this?" Wesley asked, looking the paper over.
"The Senior Partner's broke my contract about Connor, so now we can break ours with them. We can leave this hellhole." Jess told him.
"Leave?" Fred raised an eyebrow, and seemed almost sad. "But my lab, and the resources here…"
"We managed before without them, we can do it again." Jess told her. "You don't have to sign it, if you want to stay but…"
"You want us to leave as a team." Wesley finished her thought.
"Dad seems to want that too." Jess told him.
"Where are we going to go if we leave?" Fred asked.
"Back to the hotel." Jess told them. "I kept the rent up on it, just incase something happened."
"Alright then." Wesley took the paper from Lorne and signed it, before handing it to Fred who signed it also.
"Okay." Jess stood. "Now I just need Gunn to sign it."
"So start packing, boys and girls!" Lorne said with a smile.
Spike had paced around outside of Angel's penthouse for about ten minutes before he worked up enough nerve to knock on the door. He wasn't scared of Angel; Spike wasn't scared of anything, well maybe Buffy when she was angry, but what vampire wasn't afraid of an angry slayer?
Spike was about to turn away, when suddenly the penthouse door swung open, and Cordelia was standing there with Erin in her arms. "Spike?"
Spike looked Cordelia over. She looked tired, but definitely as hot as she always did. He noticed she had lost a lot of weight since she had Erin. "Cordelia."
"Do you need something?" Cordelia asked, bouncing Erin in her arms.
"Uh, yeah, actually." Spike dug his hands into his pockets. "I was wondering if I could talk to Angel?"
"Sure." Cordelia nodded, leading Spike into the penthouse.
Once Spike was inside, he noticed there were boxes all over the floor, and everything seemed to be off the walls. He followed Cordelia into the kitchen where they found Angel fumbling with some mugs that he was trying to get into a box.
"Spring cleaning?" Spike asked.
"Moving." Angel said, sticking the permanent marker he had used to mark the boxes behind his ear. He was doing anything to keep himself busy, anything to keep his mind off of Connor.
"Well, it's bloody official, you are the world's biggest poof!" Spike threw out his hands.
"Excuse me?" Angel folded his arms across his broad chest.
"I mean, okay, Jess made a mistake by not telling you all about Connor, but believe me, it ate her up inside. I was there; I watched it for the last bloody few months! And now, over one little error she's made in all of this, your going to pick up and bloody leave her here?" Spike was outraged. "Yeah, that qualifies you for being a poof, Captain Forehead!"
Angel touched his forehead, and then crossed his arms again. "First of all, we aren't leaving Jess. We're all leaving together." Angel told him. "It was her idea. Secondly, how the hell did you know about Connor?"
"I…I just did." Spike told the other vampire.
Angel snorted. "Jess told you, didn't she? You knew I didn't know about my son, and you didn't tell me!"
"Hey! Jess needed someone to talk to, and she knew I would go prancing off and telling you about what she did the first chance I bloody got." Spike told him.
"Well, you should have." Angel told him.
"Right, because we are best buds and all." Spike rolled his eyes.
"Okay!" Cordelia cut into the argument. "Who cares, anymore? What's done is done. Now, Angel, why don't you get back to packing?"
Erin gave a small giggle at her mother's orders to her father.
"That's right, laugh it up, kid." Spike smiled at Erin, who made a face at him.
"And Spike, if you plan on coming with us, you better start getting your things together too." Cordelia told him.
"What? No, Spike's not coming." Angel told his wife.
"Well, we can't leave him here." Cordelia shot back at Angel.
"Why the hell not?" Angel asked.
"Hey, not like I want to go with you anyway!" Spike told him.
"So don't." Angel shot at him.
"Hey, not like I got any where to go though, anyway." Spike changed his mind. "So, Cordelia, I will go pack. See you later." And with that Spike was out the door.
"Cordy, why? Why would you tell Spike to come with us?" Angel asked.
"Because he is an extra superhero in all of this, and believe me, we need the help." Cordelia told him. "Plus, Jess seems to open up to him in ways you and I will never get through to her. Now, I'm going to go give Erin a bath. Please try and finish up this kitchen."
Angel nodded as he watched Cordelia walk out of the room. She was right, Jess did seem to take a liking to Spike, and Angel knew his daughter would never talk to Cordelia or himself like she talked to Spike. It wasn't fair. Angel and Jess had been close when she was a baby, and close when she came back from Quortoth, when had they lost that? Angel couldn't pinpoint the exact moment, but thinking back, it was probably about the time that Jess lost Connor. Angel sighed; he should have known something was wrong.
Jess made her way down to Gunn's office to find the door halfway opened. Seeing that the young lawyer wasn't in a meeting or anything, Jess pushed the door the rest of the way opened to find Gunn sitting at his desk with files piled high on both sides of him.
"Gunn?" Jess asked.
Gunn looked up, shock written all over his face. "Jess? You're back?"
Jess nodded, waiting for Gunn's reaction to her. Maybe he would be angry with her. She wasn't sure if she could take one more person understanding why she did what she did with Connor. Because the truth was, none of them really understood, and Jess thought they were lousy actors trying to act like they did. She could see it, deep down, they were all still confused, they all seemed scared of her. She wondered why not one of them would come out and show it.
"Well, good. Things were starting to get boring around here without you." Gunn stood, making his way around his desk and leaning on it.
"I bet." Jess said. Inside she wanted to punch him. She wanted somebody to tell her she was wrong in keeping Connor from them. She didn't want everyone to just move on like Connor never happened, like no one cared about her brother.
"So, what's up?" Gunn asked.
"I need you to sign something." Jess handed Gunn the paper that the rest of the fang gang had signed.
"What's this?" Gunn asked, looking down at the paper.
"You sign it, we're out of here." Jess told him.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean, the Senior Partners broke their contract with me, so we can break ours with them."
Gunn shook his head, shoving the paper back at Jess. "No."
"What do you mean, no?" Jess was taken back.
"You want us to leave this place, and everything we've got here. We are helping people here, and we have resources, and money!" Gunn told her. "I've never had money in my whole damn life, now you're taking it away from me?"
"We were doing fine before we got involved here, Gunn." Jess reminded him.
"Yeah, well we are doing better here. What we are doing here is right, it's good. I believe that." Gunn shot back.
"This place isn't good for us, Gunn." Jess told him.
"Oh, but it was fine for us when they were keeping your brother safe, right?" Gunn was angry. "But now, since we all know about him, suddenly this place isn't good anymore? Face it, Jess, if your brother was still out of our memories, you'd be sitting down in your nice comfy office going over paperwork!"
"Don't you throw this back in my face!" Jess snapped. "I'm trying to help you!"
"Likeyou helped Connor? Yeah, get him a new life, give him false memories! He's living a damn lie! A lie you helped build! I don't even know how you can live with yourself! And you know what? Screw you, screw your contract, and screw everyone else! They all are being gentle with you, and understanding. No one wants to make you feel bad. Well, you should feel bad! You were the one who did this! You brought it on yourself, and so if the only way you can deal is by leaving, FINE! You all can leave. But I'm not!" Gunn said as he walked out the door.
Jess stood in Gunn's office speechless. At least someone had told her what they really felt. She looked down at the paper in her hands with everyone's signature except Gunn's. She sighed, not knowing what she was going to do.