When she had found out later that night, Lilly was shocked that John had gotten reservations for a very expensive restaurant. Once inside her breathing had literally stopped, taking in the beauty of the place. It was immaculate with usual design that she never had seen before. The smell of the food, well added to the mixture of love and romance.

Inside Salsa music was playing in the background, while the two sat down together looking over

With every new relationship comes trying out new things, water skiing was one of the things that Lilly dared herself to try out. However as she rode on the waves; a series of laughter erupted. She never felt this free or happy before, but literally had no clue about the sunburn that would prove to be a bad one.

However John wasn't nearly as much interested in doing this, but sat back to watch his girl enjoying herself on their first vacation together. In fact it didn't take very long before he had joined her; against his own will on the Miami waters. Pretty soon he too liked the idea of water skiing but not nearly as much as Lilly was.

For she found it to be the most fun thing she had ever done in her entire life. Just because John wasn't into it, didn't once cause her to stop doing it. In fact Lilly continued treading on the waves, until noon. By that time, she was red as a lobster.

"You run out of sunscreen"

Lilly knew this wasn't healthy, especially with her pale complexion" Forgot the bottle back at the hotel", silently cursing underneath her breath. Why all the days to forget this, when she knew how horrible it felt to actually have one.

Nevertheless, there were no stops made at the hotel as the couple made their way back to the beach. Incredibly both Lilly and John lay back; taking in the hot Miami sun. As much as this felt good, she then saw him listening to a small portable radio.

" Listening to the sports radio, again" taking it away" We're on Vacation remember" before realizing that he had been listening to police dispatches " Not cops here" touching his hand.

John gave a smile as he then proceeded to put it away, before getting up to go and buy them both a cold bottle of water. While gone, Lilly lounged back wanting to just stay here for a very long time; this vacation to her was like pure heaven.

Upon coming back his eyes stared at the blonde in a black bikini, but noticed just how beautiful she truly was. In a way he felt lucky to even get a chance with her; but perhaps this was merely fate that had brought the two together.

After sharing a bottle of water, Lilly then got up as she took a dip to cool off her body; while ignoring the stares of the adolescent men standing behind her. It made her think of both Vera and Scotty's own immaturity to these things, but upon turning around John lay back still listening to that damn walkman.

Well perhaps John has his own little quirks that she couldn't change; getting his mind away from work was another unsolved one. However the topic of work wasn't on Lilly's mind, since landing in Miami Beach. Yes getting out her own skin for awhile proved to be a good thing.

Back in Philly, Vera was on his own little rampage about where both John and Lilly had gone on Vacation. In the midst he was practically driving everyone around himself insane. As both he and Scotty tossed a football around, Kat stood there not amused.

"You two not going to do any work until Boss gets back" she asked, eying the two men carefully.

Vera shrugged" Not like Boss to not answer his phone, keep on getting voicemail"

"Same with Lil", exhaled Scotty from across the room "No sign of her at her apartment, like she vanished. Think she's back with what's his face"?

Upon entering the room, Jefferies wasn't into playing around. In fact he hated filling in for John with a passion, but didn't like the fact that both Valens and Vera weren't actually doing any real police work. After handing them both a case, he ignored their immature comments but still wondered where John had gone off to.

After all they were close friends, but why was John exactly being so secretive over this? Jefferies continued question several possible theories but couldn't pinpoint as to why, for now he had to keep a stern watch on the two; still tossing the football around.

"Did I not make myself clear" taking the football away" Do your jobs, stop acting like kids".

With that said, Scotty then let out a breath "Sure Tombstone" grinning at Jefferies whom by now had stern look displayed on his face.

If that wasn't enough, back in Miami Beach; Lilly was busying herself by playing beach volleyball. She was fine with the age difference between them but why was John being so difficult about trying out newer things?

She could spend hours coming up with theories but didn't, Lilly was more focused on playing the game and socializing. For once in her entire life, she let herself live a little. Work could wait, but having fun was also important to her as well.

That is until John had left the beach, Lilly had no clue as to why. Was it at all possible that he felt simply too old or was this not his thing. Whatever it was she continued to play in the warm hot sand taking in life's happiest pleasures.

Upon returning, Lilly was practically sunburned so badly that it alarmed John. In fact he grew concerned over her being like this. As he gently undid the top of her suit, he could see how red her normally pale skin had become.

"Got too much sun Lil" before hearing her moan in pain upon sitting down.

Being burnt all over wasn't such a good idea, as John began rubbing cold Aloe Vera all over. Lilly winced in pain from this but felt the coolness of the Aloe now penetrating her skin. It didn't dull the fire that had been flaring up all over her body.

That conquest hit the very next morning, when Lilly awoke in miserable pain. Her body was practically on fire" Stop" yelling loudly at him.

John knew that having a sunburn wasn't fun at all, but hated to break the news about returning back home. When that news broke, Lilly groaned especially sitting on the plane feeling miserable. Just their luck, the plane would be experiencing bad turbulence.

With bad sunburn, and bumps in the air she felt even sicker than previous. That and the sound of John snoring next to her didn't at all help. How could he possibly be sleeping through this, but now she was also feeling like she was coming down with either the flu or bad cold.

After a brief stopover, the plane finally had landed in Philadelphia before the two then both departed back to their own apartments. By now Lilly practically collapsed down on her bed, drifting into a very deep sleep.

On the other hand, John had to watch his grandson; Sean for two whole days. Though he was already school age; Sean was already bugging him about going outside to play in the snow. Long flight and short vacation didn't exactly help with his lack of energy but john had seemed to make it through; swimmingly.

Just two days later, Lilly lay in bed with a thermometer in her mouth with bad sunburn. When it beeped she groaned seeing that she did in fact have a high grade fever "Crap" muttering out that word softly.

Yup Lilly had the flu, plus a bad cough to boot. She silently cursed herself for no using any sunscreen but also getting sick right as their squad was opening up a very dangerous cold job.