A/N: I have been extremely behind in my free writing, but considering my semester finals are coming up within the next month I have been rushing to get my work done and preparing for the finals so I am completely sorry about that. Anyways, I have had this chapter half way done for a few days and I have no homework as of right now so I managed to finish this chapter.

Chapter Forty-Four: Moving On

Lydia Scott sat on her bed as she watched her best friend walk around her room with a white board marker in his hand. Off to the side was a white board on a stand and currently it was blank. Lydia had a magazine in her hand.

"We need to come up with a plan," Aidan says as he continues his pacing.

"Why can't you just wait like everyone else? If they belong together then they will find a way to each other, true love and all that."

"Lydia, that's not the point. Kelsey and Sam are idiots."

Lydia chuckles and pushes her magazine to her bed. She sits Indian style on Aidan takes a seat facing her.

"Okay, have you come up with any ideas on how to get them together?" Lydia inquires.

"Just one," Aidan says as he hops off the bed and walks over to the white board.

Lock them in a room.

"Seriously, that's your only idea. No offense Aidan, that's lame."

"Well I don't see you coming up with something Lydia."

"I'm twelve. I shouldn't have to come up with something. This isn't my life."

"But you're a girl," Aidan tries to reason.

Lydia furrows her eyebrows as her brown hair falls into her face.

"What does me being a girl have to do with it?"

"Sam and Kelsey are girls."

"So are a lot of other people. Look, Aidan, I get that you love Sam and I do too of what little time I have spent with her, but you can't push something like this."

Aidan caps his marker and drops it on the floor.

"I just want to help."

"Be supportive, apparently that works wonders."

Aidan raises an eyebrow.

"Really?"

Lydia shrugs her shoulders.

"That's what my mom says."

-Defying Gravity-

When Sam had mentioned cooking for her girlfriend, she hadn't thought about how hard it was actually going to be to come up with something to make or how long it was going to take. She just knew that she and Kylie weren't as close as they had been in New York and Sam had missed that closeness. She knew part of it was because of her, but another part was because Kylie's ex was lurking around…maybe not lurking, but she was definitely a factor on why she and Kyle hadn't spent a whole lot of time together.

A vibrating noise on the counter top made Sam turn away from the stove, Sam had thought it was her phone, but it turned out to be Kylie's. Sam unlocks the phone and frowns at the text message.

I love you and I'm sorry

Sam closes the phone and turns back to the stove, hiding the small amount of anger on her face even though no one was in the apartment. A part of her knew that she shouldn't be so angry about random text messages of one professing love to her girlfriend when Sam was still in love with Kelsey, but she was trying to make things right and maybe this was the start of that.

Sam checked the dinner and smiled when it was indicating that it was done. Sam looked around the room at everything she had set up. The fireplace had everything needed for Sam to start it. The table was set and the lighting was minimal. Now all she had to do was wait for Kylie to come home.

-Defying Gravity-

"Pulling another late shift Daniels?" Rider says as he leans against her desk.

Kelsey rubs at her eyes and nods her head.

"Yeah, I've got nothing else to do."

"You can try moving on."

Kelsey sends a glare to her partner.

"I don't want to sound insensitive, but Kelsey, from what I know and it isn't much, you have been pining for this girl the last three years. Move on already."

"I can't just move on Rider. She left me at the altar. We stuff planned and it shouldn't be like this."

Rider knew that his partner was keeping a lot of stuff inside so he figured if he could get her to start talking then maybe she could start healing.

"What did you have planned?"

"We had a house and it was the house we talked about in high school. It was a good house. We had the house and we just needed to work on the last few things, rings and such. We were going to get a dog. I wanted to name him Shadow," Kelsey says with a smile. Rider grins. "We decided on two kids, but more was always up for further discussion. We were going to get married and at around this time we would have started the process of extending our family…right around this time."

"Kids aren't everything Kelsey. There was a time when I wanted kids and a wife, but all I got was the wife," Kelsey raises an eyebrow at her friend. "She couldn't have kids and were really weren't up for the whole adoption idea. I'm a cop and she was a lawyer. We weren't home all the time. We never would have passed."

Kelsey leans back in her chair.

"Is that why you are always so passionate about the cases involving kids?"

"It's my job, but it's also the reason why I turned down detective at SVU…too many kids involved. Have you thought about being a detective?"

Kelsey nods her head.

"That's where I am headed next. It's all logistics though. I've been waiting for them to tell me that I can officially become Detective Daniels. My dad never wanted that. He had a ton of chances to do so, but he had to raise me and he couldn't be a Detective then. He was happy just being an officer."

"What does he think about you being a Detective?"

Kelsey shrugs her shoulders.

"He really has no opinion on the matter. He would be happy with anything that I do…Sam, would too," Kelsey whispers.

"Let her go Kelsey. Let her go and start your own dreams."

-Defying Gravity-

"Dinner was amazing," Kylie compliments as she snuggles further into Sam as they sit by the fire.

"Good, I worked hard on it."

"I could tell."

Sam hums contently and places a kiss on Kylie's forehead.

"Where did you go while I cooked dinner?"

"I had to fix something and I think I managed to do that."

Sam pulls away from Kylie with tears in her eyes.

"You know I love you, right?"

"Of course baby, I know," Kylie retorts back as tears gather in her eyes.

"I love you," Sam cries before connecting her lips with Kylie's and lowers her to the ground.

Sam lies on top of Kylie and places a thigh between Kylie's legs and connects it to Kylie's center.

"I just love you so much."

Kylie leans up and connects her lips to Sam's.

"I know," Kylie says as she pulls back. "Show me."

-Defying Gravity-

Julian placed an arm around his wife as he settled into bed. By the time that he had gotten home, everyone in the house was sleeping even though it was just around midnight. Brooke turns over and cuddles into her husband's side.

"Where were you?"

"I spent some time with Kelsey and then I just drove around aimlessly not knowing why."

Brooke opened her eyes and smiled sleepily at Julian.

"Do you feel like everything is so messed up at times that you don't know if things can ever be right again?"

Julian nodded his head.

"The day Sam left Kelsey at the altar and we didn't speak to her for years. I just want things to go back to the way they were. Everything was so easy back then."

"No it wasn't. Julian, we almost lost you because you couldn't accept Sam."

"I was in shock. That was all it was."

"But I guess you were right. It was easier. Hopefully things will get easier again. I really want them to."

Julian places a kiss on his wife's mouth.

"So do I."

-Defying Gravity-

Sam let's out an exhausted breath as Kylie settles back down next to her. Sam wraps an arm around her naked girlfriend's body. Kylie places a kiss on Sam's breast.

"That wasn't bad," Sam states with a small smile.

Kylie bites the bottom of her lip before speaking.

"It wasn't good either."

And in that moment both girls knew what they had, whatever they had was over, for good.