Abigail was that excited when they got in to the park that it took her a minute to decide what she wanted to go on first. She finally settled on wanting to go on the swing first as long as her daddy pushed her on it as she wanted to go really high. Maggie was standing watching them and she couldn't resist the urge to take a picture of Jubal with Abigail, he just looked so dam happy and she knew it was a picture that he would love because he hadn't even seen her taking it so it was a really natural picture.

After some time on the swing Abigail asked her dad to stop her so that she could get off, Jubal lifted her down and he stood her on the ground and he hunkered down to tie her shoes as they had opened. Abigail was resting her hands on her dads shoulders just watching him with so much love, he really was that little girls hero, she took another picture of them. Abigail waved at Maggie as she ran past her and towards the slides as she started to climb up to come down the slide.

Jubal came over and stood beside Maggie who was leaning against the railing, he leaned as close to her as possible as his hand brushed her's gently letting his pinky finger wrap around her pinky finger.

"Thank you"

"For what?" Maggie took her eyes off Abigail to look at Jubal

"For being so good with Abby in the car. I should have maybe warned you a little more about the number of questions there would be"

"She's an amazing kid, you should be so proud of her. And I don't mind answering her questions, I'm new to her so its only natural that she would have questions. And she gets to ask questions about her dad that her mum can't answer"

"I'm just not sure how I feel about you lying to my daughter?" He smirked playfully

"It technically wasn't a lie though, you kissed close to the cut in the car before we got out to wait for Abigail. Your daughter asked me if you had kissed my cut, so that technically is a no. And I'm sure she didn't need to know that yes her daddy's kisses had helped but that he hadn't kissed the cut"

Jubal couldn't shake the smile off his face, he loved how Maggie still had a part of the agent present while talking because she was right, he hadn't actually kissed the cut. He moved to stand slightly in front of Maggie, cupping her face gently he leaned in and lightly kissed her cut being sure not to hurt her

"Now if she asks again you can tell her that I did" he spoke softly as they were standing so close to each other.

Maggie couldn't remember anyone ever being that gentle with her, the kiss from Jubal had been so gentle that she could just about feel it, but what he was doing meant so much to her. She rested her hand on his hips under his jacket and she smiled looking at him

"You really are much sweeter than you let on at work, I'm really glad that I get to see this side of you"

Jubal was about to reply when he heard Abigail shouting

"Daddy, Maggie are you watching?"

Jubal turned around so that he could see Abigail, he was still standing in front of Maggie, she leaned forward resting her chin on his shoulder as they watched Abigail, her hands still resting on his hips. Abigail squealed in joy as she slid down the slide, Maggie spoke quietly to Jubal

"And that little girl is as sweet as her Daddy"

Jubal closed his eyes briefly hearing Maggie, he had never thought that he would be standing here with Maggie watching his daughter running around the park. He didn't have time to reply to Maggie as he felt her stand up straight and let go of his hips as Abigail came running towards him and jumped at him without warning. But clearly Jubal was used to this as he caught her without difficulty and he spun around playfully with Abigail in his arms and the little girl was laughing hard.

Maggie swore that her heart was going to explode in that moment, watching Jubal right now with Abigail she was getting to see this carefree side to him that she wasn't used to seeing. None of them at the office had seen him with his kids, he kept them very private and everyone respected that, he talked about them a lot but none of them had met them. Maggie knew Jubal would be a great dad but she didn't realise how much harder she would fall for him getting to see him being a dad.

"Maggie help, the tickle monster is coming"

Maggie was pulled out of her thoughts once again when she heard Abigail squealing and running away from her dad, the little girl ran and hid behind Maggie's legs making Maggie laugh softly

"Don't worry Abigail I won't let him get you"

"Oh nothing can stop the tickle monster" Jubal smirked watching his girls

Abigail peeked around Maggie's legs to see if her dad was still coming towards them and she squealed when she seen he was

"He's going to get us Maggie"

Maggie reached her arms around to hold Abigail close to her legs, she couldn't deny that the young girl brought out the fun childish side in her. Maggie turned around and hunkered down in front of Abigail, Jubal was leaning close trying to hear what Maggie was saying, Maggie turned her heard looking at Jubal

"Eh no listening Tickle Monster this is a private girly conversation" Maggie had on her best authoritative voice, Jubal stopped and held his hands up and this had Abigail laughing. Maggie told Abigail that when she said 'Go' they would both grab her dad and tickle him, Maggie had no idea if Jubal was a ticklish person or not but she knew he would pretend that he was for Abigails sake.

Maggie stood up straight with Abigail still hiding behind her legs a little "Okay tickle monster let's see what you've got" Maggie waited until Jubal was close enough to her that she was able to grab his two hands and while Jubal was confused and a little thrown by Maggie taking his hands she shouted 'GO' and Abigail came out from behind Maggie's legs and ran between Maggie and her dad and started tickling him. Jubal started laughing when Abigail started tickling him and he couldn't stop smiling as he realised that Maggie and his daughter were getting on so well that they had ganged up against him.

After a minute of tickling Jubal finally decided it was time to give in "Okay okay I give up, you both win" Maggie finally let go of his hands, he missed the contact instantly but that was briefly forgotten when he seen Maggie and Abigail high fiving each other before hugging. He knew that Abigail would love Maggie, but that didn't mean that a part of him still wasn't nervous, he wanted, needed his kids to get on with Maggie as he was starting to really struggle imagining a life without Maggie in it. Abigail pulled Jubal out of his thoughts before he could get totally lost

"Daddy can Maggie catch me on the really big slide just once?"

Jubal checked his watch to see if they had time before going to collect Tyler, and he looked at Maggie to see if she was comfortable with the idea of it and she nodded at him to let him know that if he was okay with it then so was she.

"You have time for just one go baby girl because then we have to go collect your brother"

"Okay Daddy, come on Maggie quick" Abigail caught Maggie off guard by taking her hand and running with her towards the slide. Maggie couldn't deny how much fun she was having with Abigail, spending time with her was making her forget about all the bad things from the last two weeks at work. She just made it impossible not to smile, she helped Abigail climb up to the big girl slide as Abigail called it, being sure that she was safe at every step.

Jubal had moved over to the slide so that he could watch them better, he leaned back against the railing just watching his girls together, he wasn't sure he had ever heard Maggie laugh as much as she had today with Abigail. He was taking that to mean that she was really enjoying her time. An older woman was walking past with what Jubal assumed were her grandkids and she stopped in front of him to speak

"You have a beautiful and wife and daughter" the older woman nodded in the direction of Maggie and Abigail and Jubal could not deny the large smile that appeared on his face, he knew it was way too soon to be thinking about that huge step with Maggie but it filled his heart with so much warmth and love that this woman had thought they were a family when she had seen them together. He also found that he really didn't want to correct the woman because he wanted this to be his family

"I do, thank you. I'm a lucky man" Jubal smiled as the woman patted his arm as she continued to walk on with the kids she had with her. He focused his attention back on Abigail and Maggie, it was going to take a lot to wipe this smile off his face, he watched as Abigail came down the slide and Maggie caught her at the bottom and she lifted the young girl spinning around which was making Abigail laugh so much as she held her arms out

"Look daddy I'm flying"

Jubal shook his head laughing as he made his way to Abigail and Maggie "I can see that baby girl" he wasn't sure if Maggie should really be lifting her yet with her arm but he could see that in that moment she didn't care about that, all she cared about was the joy it was bringing his little girl. He held his arms out for Abigail who Maggie playfully flew in to his arms and she wrapped her arms around her dad's neck hugging him tight

"Can we go collect Tyler and get food I'm soooooo hungry, I might die from hunger"

"Oh really, you that hungry huh?" Jubal laughed as they made their way back to his suv, he reached his hand down and took Maggie's hand in his, he knew that Abigail wouldn't see and honestly a large part of him didn't mind if she did, he just didn't want to put pressure on Maggie.

Maggie was surprised when she felt Jubal's hand but she took his hand entangling their fingers, squeezing his hand gently as they walked. She leaned closer to him to talk to Abigail pretending to whisper "You know your daddy get's really grumpy when he doesn't get food.. tells us he will die from the hunger just like you did"

"Hey I'm right here I can hear you both" Jubal pulled a funny face at them both

Abigail laughed and then smiled kissing his cheek "I'm just like my daddy"

Jubal squeezed Maggie's hand gently as a thank you for everything she was doing, she was right, her being there was letting Abigail see a side of her dad that she had never seen before and that was what he was like at work and what people at work thought of him. And the proudness and love that he felt when he heard Abigail say she was just like him was a feeling he never wanted to forget.

The drive to Tyler's school was short and it was filled with Abigail telling her Dad and Maggie about school and what her and her friends had done at school and what they played when they were outside. When they got to Tyler's school he was still training with his soccer team so they got out of the car to watch him. Abigail stood between her Dad and Maggie as she watched her brother and the young girl waved at her big brother when he looked their way

"It's been a while from I've got to see Tyler play sports" Jubal had been smiling from the minute they had got out of the car.

"You will have to find out when his next game is and we can go or I can cover you at work so that you can go" Maggie didn't mean to say that her and Jubal could go, it slipped out, she hadn't meant to say that thought out loud, but she had to admit she loved the idea of her and Jubal coming to watch Tyler

Jubal was losing count of the number of times that Maggie was surprising him today, part of him was waiting for his alarm to go off and for him to realise that the last month and today had all just been a dream "I'd really like to find a way that we both can come watch his game"

"Only if I can come too" Abigail had no idea of the importance of the conversation going on between the adults she just knew she didn't want to miss out

Jubal laughed softly and he ran his hand through his daughter's hair "Of course you can come baby girl"

"I need some back up, I can't be on my own against the boys" Maggie smiled looking at Abigail

As soon as training was over Tyler didn't even go to get changed or lift his bags he just came running towards his dad, he didn't care if his friends were watching him, he had missed his dad. When Jubal seen him coming running towards him he stepped forward and hugged him tight kissing his head

"Hey buddy.. You looked great out there"

"I can't believe you got to see me play dad"

Jubal smiled running his hand through his son's short hair "Go grab your bags and you can tell us all about your training"

Tyler looked over to where Abigail was standing with a woman that he didn't know "Who's that with Abby?"

Jubal looked over at Maggie and Abigail, the younger girl was busy telling Maggie a story and he loved how Maggie was giving his daughter her full attention "That's my friend Maggie, we work together.. I'll introduce you to her when you come back" Jubal kissed his sons head before Tyler took off running to get changed quickly and he grabbed both his bags and came back to the car

"Tyler we are getting Ice Cream as a treat because Daddy wasn't a good team leader to Maggie"

Jubal and Maggie both laughed at Abigails reason for them getting ice cream as a treat

"Daddy was a good team leader" Jubal looked at his daughter while speaking

"You didn't make Maggie's cut better with kisses" His daughter frowned at him like he had committed the biggest crime in the world

"Sounds like we deserve ice cream dad" Tyler laughed joining in with his sister on the idea of ice cream for a treat

"Oh great so now I've all three of you against me" Jubal pretended to be offended before laughing shaking his head at the three of them staring back at him "Tyler this is my friend Maggie, Maggie this is my eldest Tyler"

"Hi Maggie" Tyler smiled a little shyly

Maggie smiled "Hi Tyler, it's nice to finally meet you. Your dad talks a lot about you both and you look a lot like your dad"

"Just a lot younger that him" Tyler joked laughing when his dad nudged him gently

"Hey this old man can still hear perfectly fine"

"Daddy…food….I'm going to die" Abigail was holding her stomach like that was going to prove what she was saying.

Jubal shook his head laughing "Okay everyone in to the car so we can go and get some food before we lose Abby to hunger"