Title: Loving You
Author: SneetchesToo
Pairing: Grace/Judd
Rating: General
Summary: Day 5: "You amaze me." + love
Author's Note: #911DispatchersWeek2020. These two are so soft and mushy and I love them. The end.

Grace was shocked when she came home to the smell of a home cooked meal.

And she was even more shocked when she saw the candlelit table and the new vase of roses.

Judd was up to something for sure.

"Well hello there wife." She chuckled as he came around the corner, a casserole dish in his hands as he smiled at her. "Dinner is almost done! Just waiting on the rolls."

"Dear Lord I hope you didn't cook all this." She looked around the table in awe. "I'd really rather not wind up in the ER tonight."

She knew Judd tried, good Lord did he try, but he was certainly no cook.

Not unless it came out of the freezer.

Or could be cooked on the grill.

But this meal looked legit, and she wondered where he had gotten it all from.

"Ha ha ha." He ran back into the kitchen when the timer went off and opened the oven, a cloud of steam wafting through the air and she held her breath. "Carlos helped me."

"Well thank God." That man was a lifesaver.

"He did all the actual… work." Judd gestured around him with the hot mat and that's when she noticed the disaster in her kitchen.

The food had better be good because Carlos' mess was about to make her cranky.

"Is he gonna come back over here and clean all this up?" He had better, because she sure as hell wasn't doing the dishes after the day she'd had.

"No…" Judd tossed the rolls into the basket beside him and smiled. "I'll clean up, don't you worry."

"You better." She dropped into her usual chair as she watched him return to the table, placing the basket down before sitting in his own seat. "Because my feet are killing and I've had a day I'd rather forget about."

"Well don't worry about the mess." He smiled at her as he took her hands in hers. "I'll take care of it."

She raised an eyebrow at him as she waited for the other shoe to drop.

Did she forget an anniversary?

Was he in trouble or something?

"Why the fancy meal Judson?" She had to know the answer and she had to know it now. "What did you do?"

He chuckled at her line of questioning before dropping her hands and grabbing her plate, dishing out a little bit of everything before sitting it back down in front of her with a smile.

"Nothing. I didn't do anything." That didn't sound convincing. "You just… you amaze me is all. I just wanted to show you that."

Well that was not the answer she was expecting.

"Well thank you honey." She guessed she would roll with it. "I really appreciate that."

"And I appreciate you." He leaned forward in his seat and pressed a kiss to her lips. "I love you."

She felt her heart skip a beat at the words and it amazed her that even after all this time she was still affected by the sound of his voice saying those three little words.

"I love you too." She smiled as he sat back down and fixed his own plate before reaching over taking her hand and starting the prayer.

She would never understand what she had done to get this man to be hers.

But she'd do it over and over and over again for the rest of her life if she had too.