Val wasn't sure how she had managed to pull it off, but she had. She had called her boss immediately after she had finished eating and asked if she could have the two weeks off and he had given it to her. She was curious as to whether or not he meant it, but she wasn't going to question it. Especially since she was currently sitting in the passenger seat of Luke's truck wearing a light blue sun dress as he drove them up the coast.

It felt so good to be getting away from life for a couple weeks. It seemed like it had been forever since she was able to do it. The two weeks was going to be perfect for her to recharge her mental batteries. She glanced over to Luke who was focused on the road. He wore Aviators to block out the sun's rays. He wore a black tank top that hugged every square inch of his broad frame and a pair of khaki cargo pants with his boots.

"I can feel you watching me," Luke said then he glanced at her. She bit her lip to try and hide the smile, but it didn't work in the least.

"Are you sure that you want to do this? It's not too late to turn around and take me back home." Luke frowned looking to her long enough to search her eyes for some kind of meaning.

"I wouldn't have asked you to come with me if I didn't want you to." He paused for a moment. "What are you so worried about?" Val shrugged her shoulder and looked out her window. She wasn't really worried, but that wasn't going to stop her from aggravating him. Especially since she knew she could do it and get away with it.

"I don't know. How do I know that you're not taking me up there so that way you can do weird things to me?" Luke scoffed shaking his head.

"Good way to go and ruin the surprise," he stated. Val giggled.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. I've just been onto you since you suggested that I tag along with you." Val raised the center console that separated them and scooted into the center seat of his truck. She forced him to raise his arm and put her around her.

"I guess I'm going to have to get better at hiding my intentions, huh?" Val giggled again as she snuggled into his side a little more. She reached up and kissed his cheek.

"You're going to have to do something or I might have to throw you to the Bigfoot," Val said resting her hand on the inside of his thigh. Luke let loose a scoff of exasperation.

"Oh come on, now. You can't tell me you believe in that crap."

"It's not crap!" Val defended sending him a mild glare. "I believe in ghosts, so why can't I believe in Bigfoot too?" He shook his head glancing down at her though she wasn't looking at him.

"Because at least there is somewhat evidence of ghosts out there." Val rolled her eyes with a slight shake of her head.

"There is evidence of Bigfoots all over the world! Hair samples, pictures, video, you name it. Actual physical evidence. So if you look at it the right way, there's actually more evidence of Bigfoot than there are of ghosts."

"Oh please, next you're going to tell me that you believe in aliens." Val leaned away from him causing him to look at her for longer than he probably should have since he was driving.

"How else did we build the pyramids?" Luke laughed at her question.

"It sure as hell wasn't the aliens." Val sighed leaning back into him.

"Was too." Luke went to argue with her, but Val held her finger up to his lips hushing him before he started. "And I don't want to hear anymore on the matter. Aliens built the pyramids."

"What about The Great Wall then?"

"That was aliens too, but humans helped them. How else do you explain people being buried inside the wall?"

"I don't know, Val," Luke said glancing real quick out of his window as another car passed by them.

"Hieroglyphs and paintings and even scriptures suggest that there were aliens." Luke couldn't hold back another scoff at her words. "Don't mock me! Let me explain."

"Oh, I'd love to hear this."

"The hieroglyphs suggest super beings in chariots made of fire. Think about it, whenever anything enters our atmosphere it catches fire. We just went and said they were in chariots and called them gods because our small primitive minds couldn't comprehend the vastness of what space was and the technology the beings had."

"But why would they travel all this way just have to have build The Great Wall and the pyramids?" Val frowned at his question. He had a good point.

"If we knew that, we would understand so much more on what's going on out there." Luke hummed amused.

"What about yetis?"

"Yetis are nothing but Bigfoots from different parts of the world."

"Or are Bigfoots nothing but yetis from different parts of the world?" Val sighed looking up at him.

"Now you're just being an ass hole." Luke grinned as he glanced down at her then looked back towards the road. He felt her lips against his cheek once more then felt her settle back in next to him. Her free hand ran up across his chest. "But that stuff doesn't exist, Val." Val clicked her tongue at him letting her hand fall from his chest.

"What doesn't exist?" she asked just to clarify his words.

"Aliens. Bigfoot. Ghosts. None of that stuff is real. It's all make believe. For entertainment only."

"You don't even believe in ghosts?" she asked slightly confused. It wasn't like it bothered her that he didn't believe in ghosts or Bigfoot or aliens even, but it was a subject they had never really covered on both their parts. Luke knew that she at least believed in ghosts since she always watched shows that touched on the ghost hunting.

"Nope."

"Not even an afterlife?" Luke turned his eyes to her for a moment then looked back to the road. He shrugged his shoulders.

"What like Heaven and Hell?" Val nodded. Luke shrugged his shoulder. "I believe in the possibility, I guess. We just can't prove it. Sure, we have all this evidence that ghosts and stuff exist, but nothing solid enough to where we can accept it as truth."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously." Val hummed as she slid away from him and sat back in her seat. She turned around and got on her knees so she could lean over the seat to get into the back. The wind coming through her window pushed her dress up around her waist showing her underwear. Luke grinned staring for a moment. They were black lacy boy shorts. Val reached back trying to smooth her dress back down to its proper place.

"That's fine, Luke, just let me moon everyone that passes us," Val bit out sarcastically.

"I'm okay with it," Luke said with a chuckle on his breath. Val leaned up long enough to glare at him before leaning back over the seat to keep digging around in her bags in the back. The wind pushed her dress up one more time. Luke shook his head. He reached over and gave her rear a light slap causing Val to squeak.

"Stop that!" she demanded as she unzipped another bag. She exclaimed a sound of victory and sat back in the seat. She had a small bag in her hand and opened it. She dug through it and pulled out a bottle of nail polish. She propped her feet up on the dash so she could start painting her toes.

"Have you ever experienced something that you couldn't quite explain?" Luke shrugged his shoulders.

"Not that I can think of." Val began to paint her toes the same color blue as the dress she wore. "Have you?" Val paused for a moment then glanced at him with a frown.

"Yeah, but I don't really like to talk about it." She paused running the brush over her nails some more. "Maybe I'll tell you one day."

Curiosity filled Luke, but he decided against pushing the issue. He could see in Val's eyes that whatever it was that had happened to her still bothered her. They fell into a silence as the sounds of the radio played some music. He could feel the uneasiness that was wafting from her and he wanted it to end. He grinned once an idea came to mind. He waited for her to get ready to paint another nail then he slammed on the breaks. Val gasped as she lurched forward. She glared at Luke.

"Why did you do that?" she snapped as he laughed at her. She put the brush back into the bottle then pulled it back out. She ran the brush down his arm. Luke looked at the light blue mark on his arm then frowned at Val.

"Stop that."

"What, this?" she said running the brush down his arm one more time. Luke tried to wipe it away, but all it did was smear it across his skin. Val rummaged around in her little bag until she found a small bottle of nail polish remover. She pulled out a small cloth then used it to wipe away the nail polish on his arm. After he was cleaned up, she finished painting her nails.

She leaned back in her seat and wiggled her toes so she could admire her handy work. She then scooted back into the center seat and leaned into Luke wrapping her arms around his.

They had already been on the road for a few hours. They had gotten up early so they could travel. From what Luke had said they were going to be traveling for about eight hours depending on how many stops they had to take along the way. By this time, Val was getting a little restless. She felt like she could run the rest of the way and she would feel fine.

Almost as if sensing that she was feeling a large amount of restlessness, Luke pulled off the road and stopped at what looked like a small park or rest area. There were a few picnic tables scattered about. Some were left out to the elements while others were put under a shelter. There was several trees scattered about with a row of bushes that seemed to hide a small path that led somewhere out of sight.

Val hopped out of the truck after putting on her flip flops and stretched her arms above her head. She groaned as she stretched out her tired muscles. She heard Luke slide a medium sized cooler out of the bed of his truck and began to walk to one of the picnic tables. Val caught up with him practically skipping next to him. She wasn't sure why she was feeling so giddy, but she really didn't care.

They ate a light lunch together at one of the picnic tables. After Luke stowed the cooler in the bed of his truck, they made their way to the little foot path and went for a small walk to release some of the built up energy. Val walked out in front of Luke stopping on occasion to admire some flowers that were growing along the sides of the footpath.

They made their way up to the end of the footpath. There wasn't anything there of great importance. Just a couple stone benches that sat at the edges of a gravel circle with trees outlining the area. Val turned to watch Luke as he stepped up to her. She reached up to wrap her arms around his neck and kissed his lips gently the giddiness building back up inside her.

"We still have a couple more hours drive before we get there. We need to get back on the road." Luke turned keeping his arm around her shoulders as he began to lead them back down the footpath. Val's arm snaked around his waist as her free hand tangled around the fingers of the hand that was wrapped around her shoulders.

Luke grinned looking down at her. The smile on her face hadn't left since she had gotten approved for her two week vacation. She seemed to vibrate she was so excited. When he had told her that they were only going to be alone for just a week before Samantha was going to join them, Val got even more excited.

They had only been around each other for those three days before Luke had to wander off and play hero. In those three days, Luke had seen his demise in the two females. When Luke had announced that it was bedtime for Samantha, Val and fussed at him about it being the weekend and she didn't need a bedtime until he had agreed to let her stay up. It didn't matter if she was only up for another thirty minutes after that, Samantha was happy that she had gotten her way.

Luke, at that point, wasn't too sure what to make of Val already trying to make rules when it came to Samantha, but he really saw no harm in Samantha staying awake a little past her bedtime since it had been the weekend. He wasn't sure how far to let her go into the disciplinary portion of being around Samantha. Like he really needed to worry about something like that. Samantha was a good kid. She liked to push her limits at times, but what kid didn't. He rarely had to reprimand her for her actions.

Luke knew it was all over when he had walked into his kitchen the next morning to see Val and Samantha covered in flour as Val attempted to teach Samantha how to make pancakes, but the teachings just became a flour fight. He had stood there watching them as they giggled over the bowl trying to mix flour and water together for the pancakes then Val would fling a little bit of the flour in Samantha's face only to have Samantha throw some in Val's. That was when he realized that there was flour all over his kitchen. He had tried to get mad at them, but all that had resulted in was a couple handfuls of flour being thrown in his face.

He was pulled from his thoughts when he heard something rustling through the bushes and trees just out of his sight. His conditioning automatically put him on edge, but he was sure it was nothing. It didn't sound big enough for it to be something, but he could feel Val tense up next to him.

"What do you think it is?" Val asked in a low voice.

"It's Bigfoot," he said in a dark voice. Val glared up at him, then jabbed her finger into his ribs causing him to grunt and pull away from her.

Author's Note: Okay, first off, I would just like to thank all my peeps for all the wonderful reviews that I have gotten about this story. We have officially reached the 100 review mark! I just can't believe it. I have been feeling like I'm on cloud nine about this! I couldn't be happier! I love you guys so much and I'm so glad that you are enjoying my story thus far.

On that note, this is just a quick filler chapter that I had been thinking about for like EVER and it was starting to interfere with the rest of the story so I just said 'fine!' and wrote it out. The cabin is going to be in the next chapter and some pretty interesting things are going to be happening before Samantha gets there.

Also, I do have a quick reply to .2017 to her question on whether or not Samantha lives with Luke or not. I figured that in Luke's line of work that it would be best for Samantha to live with her mother solely for the fact that it would be simpler. I know I haven't really put her in the story too much yet, but don't worry she will be around more often. Now, I also started this story before the 8th movie hit theaters so I'm not sure if she lives with him in the movies or not. I just took what I thought was most logical and went with it.

Anyhow, I just want to say thank you guys for all the support and love that I'm getting. Don't forget to review because I just love them so much! Even that dickwad that said I don't have Luke in character. Psh. Anyways! I'm out, thanks one more time. Love you guys!

Aven