Lucky

by A11y50n

AU. Sarah is dead and Kurt has custody of Sawyer. Mayfair is still alive. Jane was found in the same way but doesn't have the 'Kurt Weller FBI' tattoo so is dealt with by the NYPD. Jane is a classroom assistant in Sawyer's class.

4. Chapter 4

A/N: Here's the latest chapter and it's a long one, big surprise!

Also I'm not American so all the parts that I have written about the education system is from the internet, so if there are any mistakes, I apologise but please remember this is fanfiction.

Lucky Chapter 4

The pounding on the door was starting to annoy her, she really wanted to ignore it but it was obvious that that wasn't going to happen so she reluctantly went to her door and opened it to find a really annoyed Kurt who walked right by her into her home.

"Care to explain to me why you didn't let me know what happened?"

Jane looked at him in confusion.

"Are you angry at me?"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, why would I be mad? Could it be the fact that someone I thought of as a friend lost her job because of me? Could it be said friend didn't even tell me she lost her job? Could it be that my nephew came running to me at the end of school in tears and it took me a while to figure why he was so upset?"

"Maybe you didn't have enough coffee today."

The look on Kurt's face to her flippant response made her take a step back.

"Are you trying to be funny?"

"And failing apparently…"

"Seriously?"

Jane threw her hands up in frustration.

"What? What do you want me to say?"

"I want to know why you didn't call me straight away and let me know what was going on…"

"Kurt, it's my problem to figure out…"

"Excuse me?"

"What?"

"What, what?"

"It's your problem to figure out? What the hell Jane? What am I just some random stranger? I thought we were friends…?"

"We are but…"

"But what?"

"Look, it's sweet that you're here and everything but I'll find another job…"

"Jane, I am trying really hard not to grab you and shake you! Are we friends?"

"Yes, of course!"

Jane watched as Kurt breathed a sigh of relief.

"Look, friends help friends…"

"What could you have done? Plus you had other things on your mind."

"I went to the principal and when that got me nowhere I got Patterson to find the information about the school board."

Jane stared at him with her mouth open.

"As for you getting a new job, I think I have a solution. Why don't you become Sawyer's nanny?"

"WHAT?! I don't have any qualifications and …"

"And what?"

"I'm not a charity case. It's a thoughtful gesture but no thanks."

"Ok, first off, I went with someone with qualifications and look where that got me, Britney hurt Sawyer. Ever since the new academic year and Sawyer moved up a grade he misses you. Secondly, you love Sawyer and he loves you and I know for a fact that you will do anything to protect him. Last but not least, this is not and you are not a charity case. If you don't believe me then ask my team they will tell you I wouldn't offer this just to be nice. I think you would be great. There are some qualifiers though."

"Like what?"

Kurt smiled; he knew he had her attention now.

"Well, you will be looking after Sawyer, my hours can be regular but now that I have someone that I completely trust with the most precious thing in my life then I can be a little more flexible with my hours. The cases we have been investigating recently….have a complexity to them and may need more hours invested into the…cases, sometimes in the field but a lot of it is in the office. You will be responsible for taking him to and from school and to his after school activities. I would also like you to start to teach him self-defence moves. You will of course live with us. I will give you the usual holidays and benefits, you will get one evening a week and one weekend day free to yourself. However I will not be able to say with certainty which evening or day that will be with that much advance notice…"

"That sounds too good to be true, what's the catch? I don't have to cook do I?"

"GOD NO, I want Sawyer to live!"

A well-aimed cushion hit him in the face before he could draw another breath.

"C'mon, are you really going to tell me that you're good in the kitchen?"

"No but you didn't have to be so emphatic about it!"

"Jane, you have plenty of skills but none of them have anything to do with being in the kitchen!"

"Fine, what's the catch?"

"Well, I want you to study for your GED."

"Why?"

"Because you are smart and I think you should have the opportunity of doing whatever you want but that will be harder if you don't have your GED. Once you get that then you can think about what you want to do with your life."

Jane bit her lip and looked at Kurt.

"You're sure you're not offering this to me out of charity?"

"Jane, since you met Sawyer, you've put him first. I need your help to raise him. He loves you and feels safe with you. He trusts you and I trust you!"

"Ok."

Jane walked towards Kurt and held out her hand and he took it and they shook on it.

Jane was remembering that conversation she couldn't believe it was only yesterday. If she had any doubts they went flying out of her head when she saw Sawyer's reaction. She remembered looking at Kurt over Sawyer's shoulders to see the smug look on his face, not that he tried to hide it or anything. Today seemed surreal, she woke up in her new bed, her room still had that smell of fresh paint but it was a nice size. She smiled as she remembered Kurt telling her that the remote was solely hers from 11pm to 5am, the night before. It was nice that he remembered her night-time activities and was fine with her watching TV if she needed to.

She walked out of her room to go to the bathroom and was rammed into by her young charge. He hugged her tightly. She wrapped her arms around him and looked up to see Kurt in the kitchen with a smile on his face.

"Someone woke up and thought that yesterday was a dream, he wouldn't believe me that you were sleeping in that room."

"Hey, you weren't dreaming, I'm here but I really need the bathroom."

Sawyer let her go with a chuckle.

It was a great first day, it was just normal. She went to pick Sawyer up at the end of the day and it may have been petty but she did like seeing Miss Moore's face when she saw her picking Sawyer up. Jane couldn't resist and sent her a little sarcastic wave as Sawyer came running out. Sawyer hugged her when he reached her. They arrived back at the apartment and they both got down to their homework. Kurt had made some cookie dough and told her when to take it out and how long to bake them for and Jane groaned when she bit into one. Sawyer just smiled.

"Hey, if your Uncle asks you, I thought the cookies were ok, ok?"

Sawyer just shook his head as he bit into one. She helped him with his spelling and Spanish. She had to complete a subject knowledge audit and that took longer than all of Sawyer's homework. He stayed at the dining table reading a book while she finished her 'homework'. Kurt arrived home about 30 minutes after she finished her work; she and Sawyer were watching TV.

"Hey, guys. How was school Sawyer?"

Kurt received 'a thumbs up' from his nephew but he saw something else.

"Ok, what happened? You're looking way too smug about something, I should know I look like that when I'm entirely too happy. Spill it!"

It took some time but eventually he understood that Miss Moore wasn't happy with Jane's new job.

Kurt forgot about that terrible woman as soon as he found out the reason for Sawyer's happy face.

"So, how were the cookies?"

Jane got up and walked towards him and met at the table, she shrugged her shoulders.

"Eh, they were ok I suppose, I've had better…" Jane said nonchalantly

Kurt raised his eyebrows in shock and saw Sawyer roll his eyes and he motioned behind Jane's back that she ate six of the cookies and that she licked her fingers. Jane noticed the smile on his face and quickly turned to see Sawyer licking his fingers and he stopped when he saw Jane was watching and blushed when he saw he was busted.

Kurt chuckled.

"Oh well, maybe I shouldn't make them anymore then, seeing as they weren't that good…"

Jane turned back to look at Kurt.

"Now, let's not be too hasty…I mean Sawyer loves them and it would be rude to deprive him of them and I choked down a couple or…six! Ok, they're great! They're the best I've ever had, happy!"

"Yes, very, thank you!"

Jane gave him a look which he just ignored.

"Oh, by the way this is for you from Zapata…"

Jane reached for the gift bag that Kurt handed to her.

"For me? Why?"

"It's a 'congratulations on your new job' gift apparently." Kurt shrugged his shoulders and looked as confused as she felt.

"Ok, thanks."

Both Weller men watched as she opened the gift bag looked inside then gave them a puzzled look.

"I don't get it."

"What did she get you?"

Jane thought it would be better to show them, so she emptied the bag onto the table. Both Kurt and Sawyer watched as she took out some scrap books, glue sticks and a pair of scissors. Jane looked up to see Sawyer looking confused and Kurt bright red, just then her cell buzzed and she checked the text and saw it was from Zapata requesting something so Jane followed through and took a photo of Kurt right there and then and sent it to Zapata. Kurt's cell buzzed then and now it was Jane and Sawyer's turn to watch Kurt check his cell. The message from Zapata read

"Too soon?"

Kurt replied straight away.

"I hate you!"

"Nah, you love me! Goodnight." was the reply

Kurt looked up from his cell to see his nephew and Jane looking at him.

"Your Aunt Zapata thinks she's so funny but she isn't."

They settled into a routine. They would have breakfast together, Jane would take Sawyer to school and have the rest of the day to herself, then she'd pick Sawyer up and they'd do their 'homework', they'd have a snack that Kurt prepared and all three would have dinner together. Sometimes Kurt would work late so it was just her and Sawyer and they would either defrost something Kurt had made and froze or they'd order take out and order extra so Kurt would have some when he got home. Jane would try and stay awake on those days just so she could give him details about Sawyer's day but if she was really tired she would email him instead and little did she know that he lived for her emails, no matter the subject but the fact that she took the time to email or stay up and talk to him meant the world to him, not that he would say anything or do anything for that matter. Sawyer went back to swimming and soccer practice and on those days he didn't have either Jane started to show him basic defence moves. Their first weekend was weird. Kurt offered to show her New York but she declined feeling awkward about him spending his well-earned weekend babysitting her but when he asked her what she was going to do instead she floundered, she didn't expect him to ask her.

"Sawyer, go wash your hands please."

Sawyer looked between the two adults and rolled his eyes and stomped off in the direction of the bathroom.

"Great, his teenage years are going to be pleasant!" stated Kurt "Anyway, why won't you come with us?"

Jane just looked at him.

"Don't you want to spend time with Sawyer alone? You don't need to babysit me…"

Jane stopped talking when Kurt's laugh interrupted her. She gave him an incredulous look but that didn't stop his laughter. It took him a while to stop, she liked to think it was her intimidating look and the fact that she was not amused as he could see from her crossed arms and the scowl on her face.

"Jane, I'm not babysitting you. When I invite you it's because Sawyer and I would like to spend time with you. I know you haven't seen much of New York and to be honest neither has Sawyer; we never took him to see the touristy stuff as he was too young when he and Sarah moved here so we didn't think it was worth it. Now he's older and you haven't seen much either I thought it would be a good opportunity to show both of you the greatest city in the world. If I want to spend some 'guy' time…" Kurt noticed Jane's eye roll at this "with Sawyer I'll tell you. Look we both like spending time with you. If you tire of us just tell us that you need some alone time or girl time or you're busy, we won't be offended, disappointed maybe but not offended, you have a right to your own life. So are you going to come with us or not?"

Jane regarded him for a few seconds before she made up her mind.

"Yes please and thank you!"

"No need to thank me, it's my pleasure. Sawyer c'mon we're leaving in a few minutes."

Neither one was surprised that Sawyer turned up in a few seconds as if he was just waiting for the all clear signal.

Due to Kurt's case load it ended up them spending one or two weekends a month together the other times Kurt was working or Sawyer had birthday parties, swim meets or soccer matches to go to.

One morning Kurt was in the kitchen making breakfast and Jane was looking at a folder lying on the coffee table. She didn't see Kurt the night before as he called to say they were working on a case and hoped to get somewhere soon. She went to bed at 11 and he still wasn't in. She didn't even hear him come in. When she ventured out into the living room ready for the day she saw a few folders on the coffee table which in itself was weird, Kurt would never leave them somewhere where Sawyer could see them and she realised that he must have fallen asleep on the sofa working but he still woke up to make them all breakfast, he wanted to have a 'normal' life for Sawyer as much as possible. In his haste to get ready he must have forgotten about the case files. Jane decided to clear them up before Sawyer came out which would be soon. As she was moving the files a page fell out of one of the files, she picked it up and couldn't help but look at it and didn't think anything of it. She thought it would be better if she helped set the table for breakfast. She placed all the files by his bag and went into the kitchen to gather up the cutlery and plates that they would need and proceeded to set the table.

"So are you ready for your meeting?" Jane asked

Kurt paused looking after the scrambled eggs to look at her weirdly. They didn't really talk about specifics of his job so this was out of the ordinary.

"Excuse me?"

"Well, the meeting that you have at 2? I saw it in your files, a piece of paper fell out and I couldn't help but notice that there was a meeting place and time for 2 and I was wondering…Did I do something wrong? The files were on the coffee table, I didn't realise that they were confidential…"

"You understood what was written in those files?"

Jane gave him a perplexed look.

"Yeah, it's Bulgarian."

Kurt just looked at her with a slack jaw. He pulled himself together, took the eggs off the burner and his cell out of his pocket and made a call right there and there.

"Hey, it's Bulgarian!"

Jane stood there and listened to the one sided conversation understanding the words that was said but not understanding what was happening.

"Jane! Yep! We'll be there soon." Kurt said as he kept his eyes on Jane.

When he hung up he called Sawyer.

"Sawyer, c'mon buddy, we have to leave earlier than expected and breakfast is ready!"

Sawyer came out ready for school with his book bag that he placed on the sofa and gave his Uncle a questioning look.

"I have to go the office earlier than expected…" Sawyer looked at Jane, who just shrugged as she had no idea what had just happened "…and Jane is coming with me, so we're going to drop you at school a little earlier than usual, ok?"

Sawyer nodded his head. They sat down and enjoyed their breakfast although it was obvious that Kurt was distracted, he tried to ask Sawyer about his day but asked the boy the same question three times, and Sawyer kept on looking at Jane for answers.

"Your Uncle just got a break in a case and it's on his mind…"

Kurt listened to this and realised that he hadn't been paying attention.

"Sorry buddy, I have a few things on my mind and I haven't been paying attention to you…"

Sawyer got up from his seat and went to hug Kurt, who wrapped his arms around the boy. Jane always got a lump in her throat when she saw these two hug, there was something about it that was just so lovely. They finished their breakfast and headed out. They dropped Sawyer off; both Jane and Kurt got out of the SUV and hugged the youngster. Then they headed to the office, as soon as they entered the bullpen, Mayfair was there and asking for a private word with Kurt, Jane was left there by herself and she felt self-conscious, it felt as if everyone was looking at her, she looked into the office and it seemed as if Mayfair and Kurt were having a heated discussion. Eventually it seemed as if Mayfair won, Kurt pulled the door open and called Jane to join him and Mayfair.

Jane entered the office; she could feel the tension as soon as she walked through the door being held by Kurt.

"Jane, it's a pleasure to finally meet you. Kurt speaks so highly of you as does Sawyer." Mayfair said as she held out her hand for Jane to shake.

Jane quickly shook the outstretched hand and took the seat that was indicated. Kurt looked troubled.

"Is everything ok?" asked Jane

"We have something to tell you and let me be clear, I was the one to make it an order that Kurt doesn't tell you. He wanted to tell you once you were Sawyer's nanny but I wouldn't let him."

"Tell me what?" Jane asked as she turned to Kurt for an explanation.

Jane watched as Kurt rubbed a hand over his face.

"Jane the tattoos on your body are not just pieces of art…they're clues…"

"Clues to what?" asked a weary Jane

"Clues to criminal activities basically a visual list of said criminal activities whether it be organisations, individuals or events."

Jane just stared at him as if were nuts. She began to shake her head in denial.

"Jane." Implored Kurt

"No! They can't be. They're just tattoos."

"Jane."

"You knew. You knew when you met me at Sawyer's class. Was that why I got that job at the school so you could befriend me? You'd use Sawyer like that?"

"No! Jane, yes I knew who you were when I saw you in Sawyer's class that first day because I did a background check on Ms Moore and you, you know this, I told you about it. Yes I knew who you were but you getting a job at the school had nothing to do with me or the FBI. I swear. I'd never use Sawyer; if you believe nothing else then please believe that!"

Jane looked at him and saw the truth in his eyes and nodded, she watched as Kurt let out a relived breath.

"Look, we heard about the tattoo woman being found by the NYPD, Patterson heard about the tattoos and convinced Mayfair that we should have a look and…"

"And I have a contact at NYPD who owed me a favour, so they sent me a copy of the photos that they took of you and once Patterson…"

"…got a look at the photos she went nuts for them. She convinced Mayfair that we needed to be looking into the tattoos and because she did we have managed to stop several terrorist attacks, expose corruption and save innocent lives. We were working on the tattoos before I even met you."

"Why didn't you say anything once we were friends?"

"He was under orders not to." Mayfair said as she pulled out a folder from her desk and hand it to Jane.

Jane took the folder and looked at Kurt who shrugged his shoulders he had no idea what was in it. When she opened the folder she was shocked to see pages and pages of emails from Kurt asking permission to tell her about the tattoos and each with the same response from Mayfair a resounding 'no'. Jane showed the folder to Kurt who looked as surprised by the contents as she was.

"Am I a risk to Sawyer? To you?" asked Jane

"No, as far as we can tell, you have no link whatsoever with the tattoos, it seems as if you were taken off the road and drugged and tattooed. We know someone wanted to expose things but we don't know why you and the fact that we can't find any record of you at all maybe the reason why you were chosen, you wouldn't be able to be linked to the person or persons responsible but we're still looking."

"Why tell me now?"

"Well, the reason is because of you…" said Mayfair

"Me?" asked an incredulous Jane

"Yes, you read that file this morning, you can read Bulgarian and it may come as a surprise to you but we in fact do not have that many agents or any in fact that speak Bulgarian and as time is a factor…"

"You need me to help and had to explain why?"

"Exactly! I'm glad that you understand…"

"What do you want me to do?"

"Well, it would be good if you can come to the meeting point with me and the team just in case there's more Bulgarian…" said Kurt

"Ok, but I have to be back in time to collect Sawyer from school."

"That should be fine. Thank you again for doing this for us." Said Mayfair

Jane just nodded her head and waited until Kurt ushered her out of the office.

She was nervous, while waiting to leave for the meeting she asked if she could she the case files that relate to her tattoos and Kurt could see no reason not to so she spent hours going over the files and actually looking at the tattoos on her body and trying to understand the clue. Patterson was amazing to link so many tattoos to crimes. She hadn't had the pleasure of meeting the computer geek yet, she was tied up in a meeting with the rest of the team, and she was by herself. Then before she knew it, it was time for them to leave. Kurt made sure that she was wearing as much protective wear as possible, not only a bullet proof vest but a helmet as well as knee and elbow pads, she was surprised that he didn't make her carry the metal shield that riot police use. The look she gave him said it all.

"Don't give me that look. We want to keep you safe so you have to wear all of that!" declared Kurt

"How come none of you are wearing the extra stuff?"

"We're trained for this, you're not!"

"I thought that we're going to a meeting?"

"Yes, we are but we don't know what could happen!"

Jane was not happy and she made him know that she wasn't!

The drive was a little tense, whenever Kurt asked her a question she would answer him in Bulgarian which made Tasha and Reade smile, well until Kurt caught them doing it then they kept a straight face.

They arrived at the meeting point and entered the house cautiously; Kurt directed Tasha and Reade to other parts of the house. While Jane stayed close to him they saw a woman in what they assumed would have been a living room and she saw them at the same time and began to shoot, they ducked and they heard the woman shout something and Jane warned Kurt that someone would be coming down the stairs. There was a lot of gunfire but it was all over within a few minutes. The two people were dead. They didn't have any information on them. Kurt went to the living room and saw the footprint on the table and stood on it himself to try and find what the woman was looking for before they interrupted them. He found the envelope and opened it to see the tickets and pin inside.

She felt so weird, she couldn't remember the last time that she wore a dress, and it was figure hugging. They also covered all of her tattoos with make-up. She was going on an undercover mission with Kurt; it had to be her as she understood Bulgarian. She was so nervous, supposing that she messed up? She walked out to see Kurt in a tux and he looked amazing, she was speechless and apparently he liked her in the dress as he was speechless as well. When he placed that ring on her finger she, for a moment, allowed herself to believe it was actually real and that they were married. She wasn't in denial, she knew that she had feelings for Kurt and thought that maybe he had some for her as well but he never made a move so she must have been mistaken. She did love being in his arms when they were dancing, she pretended that they were on a date, for a few minutes everything felt so right then they had to complete their mission. It got a little bit tense at some points, they had to fight off so many Rich Dotcom's men but thankfully Tasha and Reade arrived just at the right time to help them. Reade and Tasha took Rich when they arrived back at the office, when they made it back to the bullpen, Sawyer was right there waiting for them as soon as the elevator doors opened. He ran to Kurt who wrapped his arms around him then moved to hug Jane as well. Kurt and Jane changed back into their clothes and took Sawyer home.

Whenever they needed help with translations they just asked Jane first because she knew a lot of languages, in some instances Jane would go out with the team, this happened more and more often until she was a fourth member of the team, only between school hours though as she had to be back in time for Sawyer. On rare occasions, Allie or even Mayfair would take care of Sawyer after school. Jane would also help with Ella, Kurt and Allie shared custody of the baby. Jane loved spending time with Ella as did Sawyer and Kurt. Ella was with them every other week, Kurt always tried to leave the office at a reasonable time a few times a week so he could have quality time with Sawyer and Ella however that was dependent on their case load. There was one week where they had Ella for an extra week as Allie and Connor were both sick and they didn't want Ella to get what they had so Jane and Kurt kept her. Jane would take Sawyer to school and Ella to day care then would drop off a batch of soup that Kurt made the night before for the couple. Kurt was drowning in paperwork and would come home late although he did facetime the kids. Ella was more responsive now and she was crawling around. She loved seeing Kurt, Allie and Connor on the phone; she always tried to grab them. That week wasn't too bad; Allie and Connor were still not well so Ella stayed with them. Jane woke up the next morning and knew Kurt had already left for the day as he sent her text saying so because they caught a case. Ella was really fussy and Sawyer was taking ages to get up and when she went to look for him he was still under his covers, the closer she got the more she could see him shivering. Ella started to cry; when she picked her up she could feel how hot the youngster was.

Both kids were ill; she called the school and day care to let them know that neither child was going to come in that day. Jane debated calling Kurt to let him know what was going on but she knew that if they just caught a case then they would be knee deep in looking for information and questioning witnesses and suspects. She told Allie and Connor what was going on and they offered to look after the kids even though they were not feeling better but Jane declined, she was feeling fine and thought it would be better if they got better first. So she spent the day cleaning up vomit, bathing the kids, with Sawyer it was a case of sitting in the bathroom making sure he didn't fall down while taking his shower, she would look away until he was done and he managed to wrap a towel around his waist and then she would help him into a clean set of pyjamas, which said how bad he must have been as he would usually only allow Kurt to enter the bathroom with him if he wasn't feeling too well. Ella was more accommodating. Then she had to do laundry. Both of the kids managed to be sick all over their pyjamas several times over the day, Sawyer was embarrassed but she tried to comfort him. Neither would eat much, a bite of a slice of toast and a couple of spoonsful of soup. Trying to get either of them to take any medicine was an impossible task and she couldn't wait until Kurt came home. Famous last words, Kurt called her to let her know that he and the team were headed out to run down a lead and it was out of state so he wouldn't be back before morning, she didn't feel right in telling him about the kids and when he did ask about them she told them that they were already asleep from their tiring day, which wasn't a total lie. She knew that he knew that there was something that she wasn't telling him but he also knew that she loved the kids and if it was something of an emergency then she would tell him.

Jane didn't even make it to bed that night, she was going to close her eyes for a few seconds and the next thing she knew it was morning 4 am, which was technically morning, she heard Ella starting to fuss so she went to get her, her temperature was higher than normal but not terrifyingly so. Sawyer chose that moment to wake up as well; she heard him move to the bathroom and heard him throw up once again. She gave both some more medicine and made a bottle for Ella and a cup of tea for Sawyer, both only managed to drink half, after burping Ella, Jane rocked her a little while keeping Sawyer company in his room. Ella fell asleep in her arms but she didn't really want to put her down so she held her while she read to Sawyer from his tablet. Sawyer didn't even make it through a few pages before he fell asleep again. Jane then put Ella back down and went to try and clear up the mess in the living room, Kurt would have a fit if he saw how untidy it became although if he knew how hectic it had been with two ill children he would understand.

She heard her cell vibrate and it was a message from Kurt, speak of the devil Jane thought. She listened to the message and found out that there was a break in the case and that he wouldn't make it home but would she please kiss the kids for him and let them know that he'd be home as soon as he was able. Jane groaned when she finished the message. It was another day of vomit, sweating and diarrhoea and not necessarily in that order. By late afternoon there was another load of laundry in the washing machine as well as another in the dryer, there was a pile of dishes in the sink, the apartment was a complete mess and she knew Kurt would have a heart attack if he saw it but Sawyer wanted to be read to so with Ella in her arms after finally going down for her nap, three hours later than usual, there sat Jane on Sawyer's bed her feet tented up so she could rest the tablet on it and read to the boy who seemed more fragile over the last couple of days. She got through a chapter this time before Sawyer's eyelids started to droop. The story was interesting so she continued to read then her eyes started to close, she thought it would be better to have a nap right there and then, just a cat nap just to refresh her before she put Ella down and tackle the apartment. She would close her eyes just for a few minutes, twenty at the most then she'd clear up before the insanity started again. She got comfortable and lay down and made sure that she had a good hold of Ella before she took her quick nap.

Kurt opened the door to the apartment and what he saw shocked him, he actually looked at the front of his apartment door again just to make sure that he did in fact enter his apartment, forget about the fact that his key worked in the lock. He was so confused, why was the apartment in such a state? There were dishes in the sink, there was a load of laundry in the washing machine as well as one in the dryer and he spotted a full laundry basket on the sofa waiting to be sorted and ironed, which was weird as he did his and Sawyer's laundry on Saturday morning and a lot of the laundry that he could see were Ella's and Sawyer's. He could see the remnants of a cup of tea which made his eyebrows reach his hairline, the only one that drank tea was Sawyer but only when he was sick, things were starting to make more sense thought Kurt. Then he spotted the children's medicine on the kitchen counter, and both were nearly empty and he knew full well that they were unopened as of last weekend as that's when he bought them. He made his way to Sawyer's bedroom and what he saw made his heart skip a beat. There was his nephew wrapped up in his hoodie that was way too big for him and his stuffed alien under his arm, a toy that had stayed on his shelf for a few years and only came down when he was sick, Kurt also noticed the red nose and the discarded tissues that filled Sawyer's wastebasket and the few that didn't make it. There by Sawyer on top of the covers was Jane who looked dead to the world and the fact that she didn't hear him come in said how tired she must have been and if he didn't know any better it seemed as if she was wearing the same clothes as the day before judging by the wrinkles only now he realised that he hadn't received any photos from day care over the last couple of days or emails or texts from Jane or Sawyer about his day at school which meant that both kids must have been sick and Jane didn't tell him. She'd been covering over the last couple of days and seeing as Allie and Connor was also sick she didn't have any help from them either. He was so lucky that Jane had come into his life. The fact that Ella was still asleep said everything that he needed to know, she was a creature of habit so the fact that she was still asleep meant that she must have gone down later than usual and that only happened when her routine has changed or if she was sick and judging from Sawyer's demeanour he was guessing that both kids were suffering from the same illness.

He closed the door as quietly as possible and took his cell out and called Mayfair. Then he started to clear up the mess, he began with the dishes, after they were done, he added the dry clothes to the basket on the sofa then transferred the wet ones to the dryer and began to sort and iron the ones on the sofa. He also noticed that Ella was running out of diapers so he made a quick run to the store to stock up on essentials. He then started their dinner, something that wouldn't spoil if they didn't eat it as soon as it was ready.

The smell permeated her brain first, it wasn't pleasant, and then the fussing started. Jane woke up to find the room even darker than she expected so she concluded that she slept for longer than the maximum twenty minutes that she allowed herself. The disgusting smell was really getting to her and she got up with Ella in her arms before she could wake Sawyer up. Jane quietly left the bedroom and pulled the door closed just in case Ella decided to have a crying fit.

"Now c'mon Ella Bella, you don't want to wake Sawyer up. Let's get you cleaned up; I'm going to have to stock up on your diapers as we're down to the last pack. Speaking of getting cleaned up do you think you'll want another nap while I'll sort out the apartment before your daddy arrives?"

Jane kissed Ella's temple and kept on talking to Ella as she walked to the little girl's bedroom unbeknown to her being watched by Kurt from the kitchen. She would have loved to have seen the look on his face at that moment.

Jane came out of Ella's bedroom a few minutes later carrying a now clean baby.

"Huh, I could have sworn we were on the last pack of your diapers, I must be losing my mind, don't you think Ella Bella?" Jane said in a sing-song voice.

Ella waved her arms about and she had a big grin on her face. Jane kissed her again and felt the slight temperature the little girl had.

"Oooh, I think it's time for someone's medicine…" Jane had to stop herself from laughing out loud from the look that she received from Ella, she wasn't yet two but she had her daddy's stubborn look down pat, the only thing that was missing was the folded arms. Jane hugged her closer to her and she was grateful that she did because it was at that moment that she realised that there was another person in the apartment and for a split second she was trying to figure out how to get to Sawyer then her brain started to kick in and she recognised the person in front of her, it was Kurt. She could have cried. For a moment she thought that he may be a figment of her imagination but then he moved towards her and took Ella from her or tried to, Jane wouldn't let her go she lifted one arm and slowly moved it to touch Kurt's arm and when it made contact instead of going right through she let Ella go into Kurt's arms, she was still staring at him while he said hello to his daughter who replied enthusiastically albeit non-verbally, words were not her thing yet, noises were but not words.

"Jane? Jane? Are you ok?"

Jane shook her head to clear it and saw both father and daughter staring at her.

"Huh? Erm, yes, yeah, I'm fine."

"You should have told me that they were sick…"

"You had a case and what could you have done? I was taking care of it and if I needed help I would have asked Allie and Connor…"

"Even though they're not 100%?"

"I didn't say it was the best plan but I kept them up-to-date and Allie understood why I didn't let you know plus if something had happened to Reade or Zapata because you were here instead of with them I wouldn't have been able to forgive myself and I know you wouldn't forgive yourself either!"

"That's not the point! How bad was it?"

"Well, it could have been worse. There was no projectile vomiting or diarrhoea but it was close. To be fair once one finished the other would start so it was constant. But they were angels considering…"

It was then that Jane looked around the apartment and noticed that Kurt had been back for longer than she expected and busy as well. The kitchen was back to its normal pristine condition, even though Kurt loved to cook, everything had its place and it stayed there until it was needed and put back straight away after it was used. Kurt wasn't OCD he just liked things in their rightful places. The several piles of laundered clothes was what caught her eyes next, the sofa was completely full of clothes put into piles and she could determine that there was couple for Sawyer and three for Ella, all were ironed ready to be put away. Then the scent of what she assumed was dinner hit her. She sniffed the air which made Kurt smile.

"We're having Bolognese pasta bake or as Sarah used to call it beef-a-roni." Kurt said with a smile on his face thinking about his sister

It was comfort food heaven as far as Jane was concerned and the way Kurt made it, not that he made anything that she didn't like, it had the right ratio of cheese to sauce to mincemeat, it was just so good! He usually had to make a double batch because they all loved it.

"Why don't I try giving the Ella Bella here her medicine? How have their appetites been?"

"Ella's been better than Sawyer but that's not really saying much. Sawyer's really weary of eating or drinking anything as he's worried that it's going to come out again. He was a little embarrassed that he had a few accidents. He was so anxious about them that he insisted on having a shower after each incident, I had to go into the bathroom with him as I was afraid that he would just collapse…"

"And he let you?" Kurt asked incredulously

"That's how bad he was, I looked away while he was showering but as soon as he had the towel around him I helped him to his room and into a clean set of pyjamas."

"This is probably the first time he's been really ill since his mom died, he's had sniffles and the odd cold but nothing that would keep him in his bed. Sarah would make a fuss of him, she would make sure he had his favourite stuffed toy, she would make him tea and toast, and those were the only things he wanted when he wasn't well. She would read to him and generally just try and make everything as if it wasn't so bad…"

"It must be hard for him, especially if he's remembering how his mom would look after him…"

"Hey, you've done a great job. You've loved them and cared for them, that's not easy when one kid is unwell let alone two and one who can't really tell you where it hurts or if she's going to throw up! You are a life saver."

He watched as Jane began to blush, he decided to walk away before he embarrassed her even more. He could never repay her for everything that she did over the last couple of days.

Ella took a while to take her medicine; Kurt was looking at a mirror image of his stubborn face while trying to get Ella to open her mouth. For a baby not even two she had a real determined streak, he could only imagine what she was going to be like as a teenager. Eventually, with a lot of bribery, Ella opened her mouth to allow the remedy to do its job but the look she gave him when the taste penetrated her taste buds was traitorous. He watched as she turned her head away from him. It took him ages to coax her back into a half decent mood; both he and Jane had to up their game. Ella's eyelids began to droop and Kurt put her down for a nap. Jane went to look in on Sawyer and saw that he was still asleep. By the time they both returned to the living room their dinner was ready. When Jane started to set the table Kurt stopped her.

"Jane can you take the drinks to the living room please?"

Jane gave him a perplexed look but did what he asked her to. She sat on the sofa and switched the TV on and waited for Kurt, she didn't have to wait long, she watched as he came with two large bowls, he handed her one and placed his on the coffee table and went back to the kitchen to retrieve the bread and grated cheese. He placed these on the coffee table as well. Jane just sat there sniffing the dinner until he returned.

"You could have started." Said Kurt

Jane just shrugged her shoulders.

"Dig in! I thought it would be better sitting on the sofa in front of the TV. You've had a couple of stressful days; you need to relax as well."

Jane got more comfortable by sitting crossed legged then she took her first forkful and moaned and closed her eyes in reverence.

"This is SO good!" she said through a mouthful of pasta, thankfully Kurt knew what she said or at least thought he did.

Kurt smiled and watched as she leaned forward to add more cheese to her bowl, she really did like her cheese, and Sawyer was the same. They both just enjoyed their dinner, not really paying attention to what was on the screen but glad of the background noise. Kurt didn't have the guts to start a conversation with Jane at that moment as she was really enjoying her meal. He wouldn't be surprised if she ate less than the kids, after dealing with their 'accidents' the last thing she would want to do is eat. Kurt watched her after he finished his bowl.

"Jane, would you like anymore?" Kurt asked

"I'll get it. What about you? Would you like some more?"

"Yes please just a little." Kurt said as he watched her unfold her legs and get up he gave her his bowl.

Once dinner was finished they heard Sawyer start to stir, and they both went to his room. To say that Sawyer was pleased to see his Uncle was an understatement, his whole face lit up. Kurt went to hug him and the usual tight arms were a fraction of their usual strength.

"Hey, how are you feeling buddy?"

Sawyer started to sign his answer, Kurt thought it would be good to know some sign language just in case Sawyer's non-verbal communication was permanent. Of course Jane was already fluent, that was the reason for Kurt and Sawyer to learn, and they had their own personal live in tutor.

"Do you feel like getting up?"

Sawyer nodded his head. Jane picked up the duvet and pillow after Sawyer vacated his bed. Kurt helped him to the sofa where Jane covered him with his duvet and placed the pillow behind him to make him more comfortable.

"Hey, I made Bolognese pasta bake, would you like some?"

They both watched as the young boy debated if he should have some or not and eventually Sawyer shook his head.

"Hey, as soon as your 100% again, I'll make it, I promise. How about some tea and toast?"

Sawyer nodded his head and Kurt went to make them for him. Jane heard Ella start to fuss and went to pick her up. By the time the tea and toast was ready Jane was back with a now clean Ella. Both children still had higher than normal temperatures. Sawyer again didn't manage to finish his two slices of toast but at least he had more than a few bites, almost one whole slice of toast. Ella on the other hand managed to finish her bowl of mashed bananas with a half a slice of toast. They settled down to watch a film, Ella was in Jane's arms, Sawyer was in between Jane and Kurt, Ella was the first to fall asleep, Kurt gestured that he'd put her in her crib but Jane just shook her head and held her closer. Then not ten minutes later Kurt felt Sawyer collapse against him, Jane felt the movement and turned and caught Kurt's eyes and they both smiled. They silently agreed to finish watching the film, not because either of them liked it but because they wanted the kids to sleep and they were afraid to move them right then. At the end, Kurt carried a still dreaming Sawyer into his room while Jane did the same for Ella.

The next couple of days was better as both of them were there to help both of the kids, plus the kids were on the mend which made it even easier. Allie and Connor wanted to come and collect Ella as soon as they were better, which was the same day Kurt realised that the kids were sick, but both Jane and Kurt argued against it, they'd just recovered from being ill themselves and having to look after an unwell Ella was not as easy thing, they grudgingly agreed. By the second day after Kurt came back, the kids were nearly 100%, just a few sniffles, Allie and Connor came to collect Ella who was ecstatic to see them in person not just on the screen, she was used to going back and forth so wasn't confused about leaving, they also bought Sawyer some magazines to keep him occupied, Sawyer hugged his thanks. The next day, Sawyer woke up and he felt back to normal, he had his tea and toast and even had more toast; Jane and Kurt shared a look at the ravenous boy in front of them and smiled. They continued to watch as Sawyer kept on eating slice after slice, well until he felt their gazes and paused with yet another slice near his mouth, he raised an eyebrow in question.

"We're just happy to see you eating buddy, that's all." Said Kurt

Sawyer nodded his head in understanding.

Later on, while Sawyer was in front of the TV well enough to play one of his computer games, Kurt approached Jane who was sorting out the last lot of Sawyer's laundry.

"Jane you didn't have to do that, I was going to get around to it…"

"Kurt, it's no bother and you've been flat out as well."

"Well, thanks. Jane I think you should go out for a few hours!"

Jane froze and stopped folding one of Sawyers t-shirt, then turned to Kurt.

"Excuse me?"

"Jane, you've literally been cooped up in her for the best part of a week and you haven't had any time to yourself…"

"The kids were sick, I wasn't going to demand that you come home from a case so I could have my evening off and I certainly wasn't going to make Allie and Connor babysit for me when they were in worse shape than the kids!"

"Jane…"

"No look, this wasn't a normal week, we can both agree on that and because of that I don't mind helping out…"

"Jane have you had any fresh air since all this started?"

"In New York?" Jane joked

"Jane, you know what I mean. This is not a suggestion, it is an order. You will leave this apartment for a couple of hours!"

They stared at each other and Jane blinked first, Kurt was just too stubborn, she knew it and she had witnessed it again through his daughter this past week. She began to fold the clothes once more but this time her movements were determined and hard unlike the soft way she was doing it before he interrupted her.

An hour later Jane was ready for her 'outing', she went to Sawyer and asked him if he needed anything from outside, the quick glance between nephew and Uncle didn't go unnoticed by Jane and she gave Kurt a look, a weaker man would have crumbled under that look but Kurt stood firm and just raised an eyebrow. Sawyer declined the offer, Jane got to the door and before she could say anything Kurt beat her to it.

"Jane do not even think about being back before 2, got it?"

Jane scowled then smiled sweetly at him, he wasn't fooled by the change in her demeanour, and she then spoke in another language, still with that smile on her face. He didn't even know what language it was but he just knew that she was swearing at him right there and then, it was his turn to scowl. As she turned and closed the door Kurt heard her again.

"It's Bulgarian Kurt!"

With another scowl on his face he quickly got his cell out and typed what she said into Google translator, his eyes opened wide when he saw the result. He looked up to see Sawyer looking at him questioningly.

"Oh, she just wanted us to have a nice afternoon…" Kurt said with a forced smile

Sawyer just shook his head in disbelief and went back to his game.

At 2:01 Kurt heard a key in the door and in walked Jane. He guessed that she was out there for a few minutes before she decided to enter the apartment. He just raised an eyebrow, it was amazing at how adept they had become at reading each other without one word he thought.

"I went to the Met, ok? Erm do you need me tonight?"

Kurt shook his head at the change of subject.

"No, why?"

"Well, I met someone and he invited me for a bite to eat and I'd like to go but I wasn't too sure if that would be ok?"

Kurt just stared at her for a few seconds.

"Sure that's ok! Did you like the Met?"

"It was great, thanks for making me get out today, I didn't realise that I actually needed that."

"You're welcome, so you're saying that I was right and you were wrong?"

"Do you want me to answer you in Bulgarian?"

Kurt blushed. Jane went to see Sawyer and showed him what she bought for him.

Kurt was getting ready to put the Bolognese pasta bake in the oven when Jane was ready to leave. Jane did a double take, she really did like that dinner, now she pouted, she knew that there wouldn't be any left when she came back as Kurt only made one bake and not two like he usually did, he probably thought that she wouldn't want any seeing as she was going out. Kurt saw the pout and smiled.

"Ok, I shouldn't be too late…"

"Jane…"Kurt looked back and saw that Sawyer was occupied with something "Jane, are you meeting him at his place?"

Jane smiled.

"I know that I can't remember a lot of things but even I know not to go to a stranger's home. We're meeting at this place where he says they serve some nice food…"

"Is he picking you up?"

"No I'm meeting him there, he doesn't know where I live, don't worry. I'm going to forward you his number once I'm in the cab, his name is Oliver, Oliver Kind."

"That's good…" Kurt was nervous, he rubbed the back of his neck with his hand "Erm, do you have protection?"

Jane gave him a quizzical look.

"Kurt! Why would I need a gun or knife when I'm going out to eat?"

Kurt gaped, he closed his eyes in defeat, and there was no easy way to ask this so he just had to do it he thought.

"No, I meant, protection as in contraception…"

Jane blinked at him a couple of times before she turned bright red.

"Am…am…am I supposed to…to…to…?"

"NO! I just want to make sure that you're ready for anything that may happen, anything that you want to happen. You do not have to do anything that you do not feel ready or comfortable for."

Kurt watched as she released a breath.

"I'm going out for a bite to eat and only for a bite to eat. I'll be back at a decent time!"

Jane opened and closed her mouth several times but nothing came out so she lifted her hand for a wave and left. Kurt rubbed his hand over his face, great, what a way to make a fool out of yourself he thought.

Jane arrived at the address and thought that there must be some mistake, although Oliver was standing there waiting for her so it must have been the right place. She paid the taxi driver and stepped out of the cab.

"Hi Oliver, I think I'm seriously underdressed for this place maybe we could rearrange?"

Oliver gave her a once over and grimaced slightly.

"Nonsense, it will be fine."

Jane was reluctant to enter such an establishment the way she was dressed so she was slow to follow. Her leather jacket was taken and Oliver couldn't hide his look of shock at the tattoos on her arms, he'd only seen the ones on her hands when they met in the Met, she had kept her jacket on the whole time.

"Look, why don't we meet up sometime next week? I'm sure that you're too busy to…"

"Jane, we're here now. Let's just eat shall we?"

Jane felt really small, this was the first time in a long time that she was made to feel disgusted with herself.

They were seated at a table and Jane felt the eyes of all the other customers on her. It didn't help that she was wearing her usual black jeans, her black boots and a really short sleeved t-shirt and Oliver was in a three piece suit. They were in a five star restaurant and she looked like she lived on the street, the grandeur of the place made her appearance even starker. The other patrons, well the female ones were all in dresses or skirts, after a discrete look Jane could tell that no woman was in trousers, this made her feel worse. She leaned forward to whisper to Oliver.

"Oliver, I am woefully underdressed for this lovely restaurant, I think it would be for the best if we just left…"

"Nonsense! LET PEOPLE LOOK IF THEY WANT!" Jane cringed when Oliver raised his voice. She tried to bury her head in the menu; she was momentarily distracted by the wonderful sounding dishes on said menu. Maybe she could actually enjoy the night she thought then she heard Oliver speaking in French but he didn't realise that she understood every single word that he was saying.

"Bring us a decent bottle of red but do not even think about selecting the most expensive, as you can see she'll not know the difference. Hmmm, I'll probably have to order for her, I doubt that she can read or understand French, I assumed she was educated, how mistaken I was. Well at least this meal can be over quickly, she doesn't look like she eats a lot, maybe she can just have a starter…"

Jane kept her head down, she was trying hard to keep the tears from rolling down her cheeks but it was a losing battle, she didn't notice the server giving her a quick look which turned to a sympathetic one when he realised that she in fact did understand French and everything that her companion was saying. Jane took a deep breath, she was not some meek girl, and she was a strong independent woman. She let out the breath that she was holding then immediately took another deep breath. After she let that one out she stood up.

"Oliver thank you for inviting me tonight but it is obvious that there was a miscommunication somewhere. It is painfully obvious that I am not dressed for this wonderful restaurant. I will leave now. Bye!"

With as much dignity as she could muster she walked to the area where her jacket was and because she was concentrating so hard on not crying or looking at anyplace other than in front of her she missed several looks of respect from both employees and guests. She collected her jacket and thanked the person but she couldn't tell if it was a woman or man for the tears in her eyes. She was lucky enough to get a cab straight away and she let the tears flow. It took no time at all to arrive back at the apartment, she hadn't been gone that long at all, and she wiped her tears away and paid the taxi driver and made her way back to her home.

Kurt was shocked when he heard the key in the lock, he and Sawyer were on the sofa watching a film, and they both looked at each other then back at the door. What they saw shocked them. There was Jane giving them or at least trying to give them a smile but it was wobbly so say the least.

"I'm just going to get changed then I'll be out."

Kurt was about to ask if she was ok even though it was apparent that she wasn't when she held up a hand to forestall him.

"I'll be out in a few minutes. I promise."

Kurt and Sawyer followed Jane with their eyes as she made her way to her room, the soft click of her door made them look at each other again. Sawyer was asking Kurt questions with just his eyes but Kurt had no idea how to answer said questions. It wasn't long until they heard the door again and they both turned towards the TV and sat still, neither knew why they did that but they did. They then heard another click of another door and Kurt assumed that it was the bathroom one. A few minutes later and Jane exited the bathroom and came and sat down next to Sawyer. There was silence for the first few minutes. Then Kurt spoke up.

"Do you want to talk about it?" he whispered

Jane just stared at the TV and Kurt thought that she was ignoring him until she started to talk quietly.

"It was an absolute disaster. At the Met he asked me out 'for a bite to eat', what does that mean to you?" She said as she looked at Kurt

"Well, just that a bite to eat, maybe a pizza place or diner but something low key, why?"

"So it doesn't mean a fancy five star French restaurant?"

Kurt sat up at in shock at this.

"Are you serious?"

One look from Jane told him that she was.

"I was in my black jeans that short sleeved t-shirt and my black boots. I didn't want to walk in once I arrived but Oliver was waiting outside and said it would be fine. Then they took my jacket and the look on his face when he saw the tattoos said it all, again I said we can just rearrange but he was adamant that we should eat. I noticed that none not one other woman was in trousers. I was nearly in tears; I barely kept it together then…"

"There's more?"

"This was the worst part; he started speaking for me…"

"But you can speak and read French fluently…"

"I know, but he assumed that I couldn't. The menu looked really good and I was deciding what I could have when he started to speak and I felt so small. I listened to him insult me and I don't know why but I didn't say anything, I didn't even let on that I understood what he was saying. I don't know why I froze…"

"Jane, you weren't expecting it, it completely threw you. You went out for a bite to eat you didn't expect to be put in a situation where you felt so uncomfortable…"

"I just hate the fact that I let him get away with treating me like that!"

"Do you want me to see if Patterson can find anything on him?"

Jane gave a small smile.

"So what did you do?"

"Once I knew I wasn't going to sob in front of him, I stood up and thanked him for inviting me but I was not properly dressed for the occasion so I thought it would be good if I left. I didn't wait for his reply, I collected my jacket and left, caught a cab and proceeded to sob all the way here!"

"I'm so sorry Jane."

Jane gave him another smile.

"So am I. I thought we could be friends, it would have been nice."

Jane faced the TV again. Sawyer got up; Kurt was still looking at Jane and thinking up ways to make Oliver Kind pay. Sawyer came back and sat down and placed something in Jane's hands. She looked down and smiled. Sawyer brought her a tub of her favourite ice cream.

"Thanks Sawyer, you're the best!" Jane kissed him on the cheek and he blushed as he wiped the kiss away making both Jane and Kurt laugh.

"Do you want to share?"

Sawyer shook his head and when she looked at Kurt he also shook his head. They sat back and carried on with the film and Jane finished the tub of ice cream. At the end of the film Jane turned to look at Kurt, he was slightly disconcerted as she wasn't blinking.

"You ok Jane?" asked Kurt

"I hope that you treat all your dates well!"

"Hey! Not all men are like…" Kurt looked at his nephew who was staring at him and quickly changed what he was going to say "…Oliver Kind!"

Then he watched as Jane covered Sawyer's ears while she spoke.

"I'm warning you right now, if I find out in the future that Sawyer has grown up to be a complete and utter douche ball and that he treats his dates badly, I will be coming after you, do you understand?"

"I understand completely but I hope that you're going to be in his life long term so that you can be another positive role model in his life and just for your information, I treat my date's really well thank you very much!"

"That's good to hear!"

Jane let her hands fall from Sawyer's ears and the boy turned to look at her then Kurt and he just rolled his eyes.

"It was probably for the best anyway…"

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, when I sat down I noticed several knives and forks for each place setting, why would you need more than one of each for a meal? I would have embarrassed myself even if I stayed; I just ended the humiliation earlier."

Sawyer got up and rummaged through a cupboard and found what he was looking for and placed it on the coffee table with a look to his Uncle. Then Sawyer dramatically yawned and signed that he was going to bed and he didn't need to be tucked in or read to. He hugged Jane then went to hug Kurt. With another look at his Uncle and back to the coffee table, Sawyer then went to his room and loudly closed his room.

Jane stared at Kurt with a raised eyebrow.

"Erm, do you want to explain what just happened?"

Jane was even more intrigued when she watched Kurt blush.

"Ok, well, Sawyer in his own discrete way wants you to watch his mom's favourite film…"

"Why?"

"Well, it's a famous film and it will answer your question about the cutlery."

Jane couldn't believe that a successful film had anything to do with cutlery. She watched as Kurt put the disc in the player, he gave her the cover to look over.

"Does Sawyer think I'm a hooker? How does he even know what a hooker is? Your sister let him watch this?"

"Jane, Sawyer's never seen it but he knows that it was his mom's favourite film. She always watched it when she wanted to be cheered up. It always made her smile. He's probably heard her talk about it and besides he knows it a chick flick…"

"You seem to know a lot about it…."

"Yeah, well, I've had to watch it a few times…"

Jane raised an eyebrow questioningly.

"A previous girlfriend absolutely loved the film and I would watch it with her, mainly when I messed up, you know missed dates or forgetting her birthday…"

"I thought you were a decent guy?"

"I am! But you've seen for yourself that my job is not 9 to 5 so I had to do some damage control."

"Why aren't you two together anymore?"

"We just drifted. I didn't want to make any more dates so I told her that it would be a good idea if she found someone else."

Jane winced.

"That can't have been easy?"

"No, it wasn't but I didn't want to pretend, that's not fair on either of us."

"True. C'mon then, let's watch this film."

A week later…

"Jane, can I ask you a favour please?"

Jane looked up to see Kurt standing in front of her nervously. This was strange, Kurt was always ultra-confident without being arrogant, so seeing him like this was baffling.

"Of course."

"Erm, can you make yourself scarce tomorrow from around 2…" they both turned around when they heard Sawyer cough "…make that 1 until around 6?"

Jane was confused, obviously they had planned something to do together, and maybe she should eat out as well she thought.

"That's fine; I'll eat dinner out so you won't…"

"NO! I mean, no that's fine thanks, Sawyer just wants some guy time with me and we want you back here for dinner, we insist!"

"Ok, if you're sure?"

"Yep, so you'll be back at 6, right?"

"Yeah, I'll be here for 6, I'll probably go see a couple of movies."

"Great!"

5:59 pm the next day…

Jane put her key in the lock, she'd decided on a movie then went for a really long run, she was all sweaty. The great thing about a movie theatre is the fact that no one knows or cares what you're wearing when the lights go down; she went in her running gear,

t-shirt, shorts and hoodie. She opened the door and was frozen to the spot, there stood Sawyer in a white shirt with a tie and black trousers, looking all formal and next to him was Kurt in his jeans and t-shirt. Jane just stood there with her mouth open until Kurt moved forward.

"Your dinner awaits Jane."

It was then that Jane took in the rest of the apartment, well the dining area. The table was covered with a red and white check table cloth with three place settings, a menu card on each plate as well as a small vase of flowers.

"I need to shower!" blurted Jane

"Jane…" began Kurt

"No, seriously, I went to the movies and then went for a really long run, if I sit at the table like this you two will pass out from the smell…I'll be quick, I promise, five minutes!"

Before either Sawyer or Kurt could reply Jane ran into and out of her room and into the bathroom in the space of five seconds. True to her word she was back in five minutes, her hair was still damp but she had changed into her trademark black jeans and t-shirt, didn't bother with her boots, she preferred walking around in her socked feet. Before she got to her chair, Sawyer had pulled it out and took her napkin from the table and placed it on her lap, Kurt took his seat while Sawyer was taking care of Jane. Jane had tears in eyes which made it difficult to read the menu.

"Our server took the initiative and brought a bottle for the table."

Jane looked up to see Sawyer by her but this time with a bottle in his hands, on closer look it was the boy's favourite drink they had on special occasions, a fizzy white grape juice, Kurt always served it in a wine glass for Sawyer so he felt special as well, Jane looked at the bottle and nodded her head and watched as Sawyer carefully poured the drink into her glass, then Kurt's and finally his. While he was dealing with the drinks, Jane looked at the menu, she nearly cried when she read what was written. Not only was it designed to read like a 'normal' menu, the selection was her perfect meal, she wasn't what you called high maintenance and it showed in the menu. For starters there was hummus with the choice of vegetables or bread, that was a no brainer, bread each and every time then the main course was Bolognese pasta bake, Kurt must be getting fed of eating this she thought but when she looked up she saw the smile on his face and smiled back.

Sawyer was back by her side with a notebook and pen in his hand waiting to take her order.

"Hmmmm, everything looks spectacular! I think I'll have the hummus with bread for the starter and then the pasta bake please."

Sawyer nodded his head and then went to Kurt who also went for the same.

"Sawyer really wanted to cheer you up after what happened."

"This is the sweetest thing and thank you for helping him."

Kurt shrugged his shoulders. They both watched as Sawyer carried two plates to the table, he served Jane first then Kurt and then went to get his. Jane looked down and saw a little ramekin filled with hummus, and if she knew them homemade hummus, and pitta bread cut into triangles, it was only then that she noticed the number of knives and forks at each setting. She looked up into Kurt's eyes to find him smiling; she had to blink a couple of times before she could speak.

"Ok, I have to do this now or we'll never get through the meal!"

Jane got up and hugged Sawyer in his seat and placed a kiss on his cheek and hugged him again quickly before going back to her seat. She looked at the cutlery and then at Kurt and both remembered the film and he picked up the correct knife and discreetly showed her even though they weren't in a business meeting. They all enjoyed their starter. Jane moved to collect the plates when Sawyer gave her a look so she dropped back down into her chair which made Kurt chuckle. Sawyer removed their starters and came back with a bowl of grated cheese and some garlic bread rolls then he and Kurt went to get their individual pasta bakes, each was cooked and served in a lovely white ceramic oven dish, again Sawyer served Jane first, then Kurt, Kurt had placed Sawyer's in his nephew's place. Jane sniffed the dish and moaned in response. They all dug into their main, Kurt watched and smiled and shook his head as both Jane and Sawyer added even more cheese to their dish. The garlic bread rolls were a success as was the main itself. They took their time over the meal, they enjoyed the food as well as the conversation, and no one minded having to stop eating to sign with Sawyer, as it made the whole experience even more wonderful. Before Jane could even try and help clear the dishes, Sawyer shot her a look so she held up her hands in surrender and watched as he cleared the table. Throughout the whole meal, Sawyer was an attentive server, he always kept an eye on their glasses and refilled them when they dropped below halfway, Jane was glad that it was non-alcoholic otherwise she'd be tipsy already.

"My compliments to the chefs! That was a wonderful meal but the company was even better!"

They sat at the table just chatting; Jane told them what she thought about the movie she saw. She saw Sawyer get up again and was shocked when he handed her another menu, this time the dessert one. She looked at the selection and couldn't help but smile. There was 'rich chocolate brownie served with ice cream', 'ice cream sundae' and a 'selection of ice creams', Jane was debating between the first two options eventually she decided on the ice cream sundae which Kurt and Sawyer also chose.

"Do you need any help?" Kurt asked

Sawyer shook his head. Both Jane and Kurt watched as Sawyer went to the kitchen and got three tubs of ice cream out as well as the brownies, they watched as he assembled the sundaes. He started with some brownies in each large sundae glass, then put a scoop of chocolate ice cream in each one followed chocolate candy and chocolate sauce, then more brownies, followed by salted caramel ice cream and more chocolate candies and chocolate sauce, then even more brownies topped with vanilla ice cream covered with crumbled brownies, chocolate candies and chocolate sauce. He put all three glasses on a tray and looked to his Uncle to help him carry it, which Kurt did. Once the tray was on the table, Sawyer served Jane and his Uncle before taking his. They lifted their spoons up and clinked them before they dug into their dessert. All three enjoyed their sundae. Sawyer refused any help when it came to clearing the table or cleaning the dishes. Kurt and Jane could only watch.

"He wanted to do everything himself." Kurt whispered

"It was a really sweet thing for both of you to do for me. I really appreciate it. I don't think you have to worry about me coming back to deal with you if Sawyer turns out to be a douchebag, he's already proven that he knows how to treat someone, I have no fears that he will in any way treat someone special or anyone for that matter like Oliver did!"

"He's a great kid…"

"He's a credit to Sarah, you and the team…"

"Thanks, but he was always a good kid. I didn't have too much to do with that."

"Don't sell yourself short! You've been an important part of his life before his mom died and even more so since. Kids pick up on everything plus he loves you, it shows and you should be proud of that…"

"I am I know I'm very lucky to have Sawyer in my life. And we both know how lucky we are to have you in our lives. Sawyer was really upset with how you were treated, he asked me if I could arrest Oliver for being 'mean' to you and I had to explain even though he wasn't a nice man he wasn't a 'bad' man so I couldn't arrest him."

"Oh wow, just as I thought that he couldn't impress me even more…"

"That's not the best part; he didn't like my answer so went above me and straight to Mayfair to ask if Oliver could be arrested, he wasn't pleased with her answer either."

"Wow that topped it!"

They moved to the sofa once Sawyer was finished in the kitchen and started to watch a film, no one made it 30 minutes into the film, all three were fast asleep.

A couple of months later…

"Kurt, I think that you made a mistake with my pay, unless you've given me a really generous raise?"

"Oh, no, I forgot to tell you. I need you to buy a fancy dress and I didn't think it was fair for it to come out of your own money so I added a bit more this month…"

"A dress? For what? I can afford my own dress you know! And what do you mean by 'fancy'?"

"Well, I want to treat the whole team, Sawyer, Allie, Connor and Ella to a really nice meal, I know Ella won't really appreciate it but I don't want to leave her out."

"When is this meal?"

"I just got confirmation from the restaurant, it will be next week."

"Ok, is there a theme or something?"

"No, but I want you to be comfortable! Tasha and Patterson can help you if you want?"

"That sounds good, I'm a bit clueless when it comes to 'dressing up' plus it would be good to spend some time with Patterson, I haven't had a chance to get to know her, we generally just say 'hi' and 'bye' because one of us is usually on the go."

"Great! Oh if you need more money let me know ok?"

Jane gave him a look that could kill but he just let it roll over him.

"Sure!" Jane said sarcastically

The night of the dinner arrived, Allie, Connor and Ella couldn't come because Ella had another cold and no one thought it would be a good idea to take her to the restaurant in that state. Mayfair had to go to D.C. for an impromptu meeting, so it was Kurt, Jane, Sawyer, Tasha, Reade, Patterson and her boyfriend Borden. Jane was shocked when Kurt drove them to the fancy French restaurant that Oliver took her to. Jane gave Kurt a look which he totally ignored and ushered them into the place. Kurt helped her with her wrap and he gave it to the person on the front desk. Jane felt self-conscious in her emerald green short sleeved dress but she remembered Kurt and Sawyer's reaction when they saw her come out of her bedroom, both of them looked stunned.

"You look beautiful!" whispered Kurt

"You're a princess!" signed Sawyer

Both comments made her blush.

"Both of you look very handsome in your suits!"

They were seated at their table and waited for the others to arrive; they didn't have to wait too long. Once everyone was seated a server came to hand them menus and Jane recognised him as the one that served her with her ill-fated time with Oliver. Sawyer was seated in between Kurt and Jane; both helped him to figure out what he wanted to eat. The server came and took their drinks order, when he came to Kurt, Kurt shared a look with Jane over Sawyer's head and then turned to the server and asked if they had grape juice?

"I'm afraid not sir, but we do have the sparkling variety, if I may interest you in that?"

"Could you please use the champagne glasses for us three please?"

Reade and Zapata heard this and shared a look and changed their order so they had the same as Kurt, Jane and Sawyer, as did Patterson and Borden. Once their drink order had been taken, they looked at their menus again although, Jane, Kurt and Sawyer knew what they wanted but the others were still choosing. By the time their bottles arrived in a large silver champagne bucket and their server had poured everyone their drinks, everyone knew what they wanted to order. Their server was ready to take their orders.

"Er Jane, sorry to be a pain but my French is pretty basic and I know that you're fluent, I really do not want to mangle the language, would you mind ordering for myself and Sawyer please?"

"Oooh, and me?" asked Zapata

"And me?" asked Reade

When Jane looked at Patterson and Borden they were both looking at her pleadingly. She looked around the table again and saw the same look on all the faces, hope. Jane took a deep breath and recited what each person wanted in flawless French. The server was impressed and commented on what a lovely family she had.

"Jane? Is that you?"

Everyone turned to the voice to see a man looking at Jane; it didn't escape anyone's notice that Jane lost some colour when she saw the man.

"Wow! You look stunning, even with those tattoos. Maybe we can try and have that date again? Now that you know how to dress! You never told me that you spoke French, your accent needs some work but it's better than not speaking a word at all."

Oliver was standing there waiting for something but Jane had no idea what so she introduced the table to him.

"This is Kurt, he's my…"

"We live together!" Kurt said

"Yes…we live together with Sawyer here…" Jane said as she gave Kurt a perplexed look.

Kurt held out his hand and Oliver took it which Kurt was hoping he would, and then Kurt proceeded to crush Oliver's hand with his own. Oliver winced but didn't say a word. After the handshakes, Oliver watched as Kurt and Sawyer had a brief conversation with their hands, the others were busy with their drinks because if their hands weren't busy then they would have flattened the smarmy man by their table.

"That's the mean man that treated Jane badly?" Sawyer signed

"Sawyer, you should never describe people like that no matter how much they deserve it! But yes that's the man that upset Jane."

Oliver and the others were watching the exchange and when Kurt was signing, everyone bar Jane and Sawyer were in the middle of their drink and they all choked because of Kurt's honesty. Oliver noticed this and knew he was the topic of conversation.

"This is Natasha Zapata, Edgar Reade, Nigel Borden and…"

"Patterson, just Patterson." Patterson interrupted

The server had come with their food so Oliver took that as his cue to go back to his table but before he left he said a parting shot.

"I hope that your son gets…better soon."

Before Kurt could even get up several things happened at the same time. Jane called his name, Patterson who was sitting to Kurt's right grabbed his arm and the server blocked him in, when Kurt looked up the server maintained eye contact then moved his gaze to Sawyer. Kurt got all the messages. Zapata had also grabbed Reade's arm to stop him from doing anything stupid in front of a lot of witnesses.

"Hey buddy, you know you're perfect as you are right?" Kurt said and signed at the same time.

Sawyer nodded his head emphatically then signed "Uncle Kurt, he's an…" Sawyer paused as he looked around the table "…not a nice person and I think he was jealous!"

"Why do you think he was jealous?"

"Because he realised he made a mistake with the way he treated Jane. Can we eat now?"

Kurt and the rest of the table laughed and Kurt ruffled Sawyer's hair as their starters were placed in front of each of them.

"Before we eat I'd like to make a toast. Please raise your glasses for Jane and Sawyer. Jane achieved full marks on her GED, and Sawyer achieved a B for Math on his report card!"

Jane was shocked when she heard her name. She hadn't told anyone yet about her results, she didn't know how. She didn't even know how Kurt had found out although looking around the table she figured it out quite quickly, Patterson turned a lovely shade of pink and avoided her gaze. They already had a small celebration at home for Sawyer's report card, he always put in a lot of effort and she loved the fact that Kurt always made a big deal of his card. This was special as Sawyer found Math really hard but studied so hard that he managed to achieve a B, both she and Kurt were so proud of him.

"Hold on, so while working with us on certain cases and looking after Sawyer not only did you have time to study, you aced your GED?" asked an incredulous Reade

Jane shrugged her shoulders.

"It was pure luck!" stated Jane

"No, you worked hard." Said Kurt

Another shrug of the shoulders, Jane hated being the centre of attention and tried to deflect it, thankfully Patterson came to her rescue.

"Jane I'm sorry I couldn't go shopping with you and Tasha, something came up at work and I couldn't manage to get away. I love your dress though! The green brings out your eyes."

"It's ok, I understand, these things happen."

"Maybe the three of us could hang out another time?"

"Yeah, sure."

"Great. I'd love to see all your tattoos up close and personal!"

Patterson was about to take a bite of her meal when she felt everyone's eyes on her and when she looked at Jane she saw the deep blush on Jane's face. Patterson thought about what she said then it was her turn to blush.

"No, no, no, I did not mean that! Obviously I want to see your tattoos but not that way. I just assume that the photos don't do them justice! I've spent hours upon hours staring at photos of your tattoos and thought that I would love to see them in person." Patterson realised what she said and tried to rectify it. "I mean in a totally professional and non-creepy way, I'm straight I swear!"

"Wow Patterson, you know how to make a lasting impression don't you!" said Tasha

Reade and Borden chuckled and Jane smiled. Jane saw Kurt trying to keep a straight face but he failed. Nigel kissed Patterson's temple.

"This is so embarrassing!" muttered Patterson

Meanwhile, Kurt and Sawyer were having their own conversation.

"Uncle Kurt, what does straight mean?" the youngster signed

"It's a way to describe when someone loves someone of the opposite sex, like a man loving a woman. The proper term is heterosexual. People describe people as gay or homosexual if they love someone of the same sex, like a man loving a man or a woman loving a woman."

"Oh, ok." Sawyer signed then went back to his starter.

They enjoyed their starters. Their glasses were refilled quickly and quite circumspectly, the service was great. Then talked turned to Jane.

"So Jane, what are you going to do now?" asked Patterson

Sawyer looked scared, and then looked to Kurt for an explanation.

"It's going to be fine buddy; Jane's not leaving any time soon, are you Jane?"

Jane hugged Sawyer to her "No of course not!"

"Anyway, Jane will be enrolling at college!" stated Kurt

"I will?" queried Jane

"Yes, why not? Do you have another idea for what you want to do?"

"No, not really."

"Are you interested in anything specific?" asked Reade

"Well, I really like what we do, maybe criminology? I like languages as well."

"Is there even a language that you don't know?" quipped Tasha

"So where do you want to go?" asked Patterson

"I don't know the deal was to get my GED, which I now have. Maybe a degree will take up to much of my time…"

"You're kidding right? I don't even know when you studied, I can't imagine getting home from work to study, I'm always way too tired but you did it!" said Tasha

"Look, you don't have to make any decisions right now, look at your options. If you want to go to college we can work something out just figure out what you want and we can sort out the rest!" said Kurt

Their mains arrived and they all tucked in. The chatter was light-hearted. Sawyer was having a great time. He 'talked' to Patterson about one of his latest computer games and they started to 'geek' out over it then Tasha demanded to know when he was going to try some new recipe, he and Edgar looked at each other and decided to come up with a time to bake. Kurt was busy talking to Jane and letting her know that she has their full support in whatever she decides to do. Patterson and Tasha were having fun at Reade's expense and Jane joined in a couple of times as well. Nigel and Kurt were having a friendly disagreement about baseball teams. Then it was time to order their desserts. Everyone chose a different one and they all 'oohed and ahhed' at everyone else's once they arrived. Chatter still flowed around the table albeit more slowly as more attention was paid to what was in front of them.

When their server brought the cheque there was a moment of tension when all the adults took out their cards to pay their share and Kurt refused to let them do so.

"I invited you all!"

"What's that got to do with it?" asked Reade with a tone.

"Well if I invited you then I should be picking up the bill!"

Jane could see that all the adults wanted to argue with Kurt and all their gazes settled on Sawyer before theirs met Kurt's and grudgingly they put their cards away, Jane included. Kurt paid for the meal and as he was doing so, he received several text messages within a few seconds. He took out his cell and read the messages and lost the colour in his face. He looked up to the people around him and he saw all of their sinister smiles and he gulped.

When they arrived home Jane turned to Kurt and Sawyer and thanked both of them for a wonderful night, she hugged and kissed Sawyer.