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Author's Note: Sorry for those of you still reading. I got sick for a while and then went out of town for a Family Reunion, but I'm back now.
Z was walking around the grounds after breakfast. She was thinking about what Doggie had told them last night. They were all having doubts but they had all realized that they were still a good team. Team…she liked that; she and Jack had already been a team. Bridge had immediately welcomed her and Syd; well it didn't take too long, even though they still had their differences. Than there was Sky. It took a while for those two to get along, but somehow she always was drawn to him even when he irritated her. He was the one who got her to open up and share about her childhood when Sam had first come. Not even Jack had known about that.
"What are you doing out here?"
Z looked up at Sky. He was wearing his work out clothes and she could tell that he had been running. She hadn't even seen him. How could she not? "Walking, thinking, you know about last night."
"Right. That was…" Sky looked away.
"You know we were all feeling the same way, it's okay that you were."
"No, it's not that."
"Oh." Well, why did he look away? "Than what were you going to say?"
"Don't worry about it."
He turned and she could tell that he was about to start running again. "Hey, what you're just going to run off, when we were in the middle of talking? Isn't that a bit rude?"
Sky turned and faced her with a slight smile. "We were in the middle of talking?"
"Well…how long have you been here?" Stupid change of conversation.
Sky raised an eyebrow, "Running?"
Z couldn't help but roll her eyes, "No at the Academy."
"I got here at 6:45. Nothing like a nice run in the morning."
"Do you do this every day?"
"Yeah."
"Wow. I guess there still is a lot that I don't know about you." Okay, that she didn't want to come out, perhaps Sky wouldn't respond. Z looked down and hoped that he wouldn't take it in any way whatsoever.
"Well, maybe than we'll have to change that."
Z looked back at him and he was staring right into her eyes. His face showed that he was very serious but his eyes were twinkling with mischief. Z slowly felt her cheeks getting hot as she and Sky kept eye contact. Z knew she should respond. With a deep breath, she replied, "I think I can handle that."
Sky took a deep breath. "Than maybe I can learn more about you?"
Z smiled, "Yeah, I can handle that."
Sky's hand started moving towards Z when she heard some cadets come running behind her talking. He dropped his hand and looked off into the distance. "Well, I'm going to finish my run."
Disappointed Z nodded slowly, "Right, have fun." She started walking off.
"Hey, Z." Z turned around and looked at Sky. "Maybe you'd like to run with me sometime?"
"Yeah, sounds good."
Sky smiled, and than turned around and continued his run.
