I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I know this has taken me for like ever to update. And I am seriously so very sorry for that. I do have a good excuse...but I won't bore you with the details. But hopefully you like this ch. It is complete Joanne/Maureen...not even a mention of anyone else (except Kristin). I wrote this in kinda rush...so hopefully it's not too bad and explains things enough for you guys. If you don't think so, let me know and I'll try to fix it. Enjoy.

(Maureen's POV)

Time had stopped. I couldn't believe what I had just heard. Had Joanne really said she wanted to have a baby with me; could this really be happening. My body couldn't move. Maybe because if I had just imagined it, I didn't want to know I was wrong. Maybe I wanted to just live as long as I could in this moment…thinking that Joanne and I had a chance to be together.

"Maureen?" I heard Joanne say, basically in a whisper, "what do you think?"

"What do I think?" I almost sarcastically responded, turning in her arms, now staring into her eyes. "Are you serious? What happened with Kristin? What changed your mind? Just a month ago you didn't want to be around me? Now you want to have a baby with me? Joanne, there's a lot to talk about here!" I was talking about a mile a minute; a thousand questions going through my mind. But I did have so many questions for Joanne.

"I understand," she chuckled…probably at how I was reacting, "let's go talk," she added, a little more serious this time. She grabbed hold of my hand and led me to an empty corner of the waiting room. "Ok…honeybear," she smiled upon calling me this and I have to admit that I loved hearing her say that word.

"So what happened?" I calmly asked as I sat across from her, taking her hands into mine.

"Well, kind of a long story."

"I have the time."

"I told Kristin that I wanted to come see you for your birthday. I even invited her to come along because I knew she wouldn't like the idea of me coming alone to see you. Well she didn't like the idea at all. So it sparked this huge fight between us."

"So you broke up with her because she wouldn't let you come here for my birthday?"

"Well not exactly," her eyes dropped, staring at our adjoining hands. "Once we starting fighting, all hell broke loose. It was basically just us yelling at each other about our entire relationship." She paused, seeming to try and gather some sort of courage to continue. "I think what got to her was when I told her that I loved you," her eyes now met mine, "and that the only reason I was even with her was so that I could forget about you."

My heart stopped. "I love you too." I couldn't be more serious in the moment. "But why would you want to forget about me?" I could almost cry right now.

"Cause you hurt me so bad that I didn't want to give you a chance to do it all over again. Thought maybe if I was with someone else that it would help me forget about you, help me move on. But the truth is…nothing will ever make me forget about you…or make me stop loving you." She was crying now. I reached over, wiping the tears from her cheeks. "What is it about you that makes me so crazy?" she laughed through the tears.

"Probably the same thing that makes me crazy in love with you."

"Maureen, are you sure about this? About us trying it over again?"

"Joanne I have never been more serious about anything. I love you. That's the only thing that I know and that matters. We'll figure something out." She looked so scared right now…but somehow it looked like a good scared. "And this whole you living in Chicago, me living in New York…" she cut me off.

"I'm moving back to New York."

"What," my eyes lit up, "are you serious?"

"Even if you wouldn't want me back…"

"You're kidding right…me not want you back," my smile had taken over my face. I moved over to sit next to Joanne, sitting as close as I possibly could, without sitting on her lap. "Of course I want you."

She smiled, hopefully taking the comment as me wanting her in quite a few different ways…cause that's the way I meant it. "I've already talked to my old firm…I've been offered my old job."

"And you're taking it?"

"Yes," she smiled, "now I just have to find a place to live."

"Don't you know that you already have a place to live."

"Where?" I know Joanne wasn't that dumb, she was trying to be cute…which was completely working.

"With me of course."

"I don't know Maureen. Maybe we should take this slow."

"Why? It's not like we haven't lived together before."

"I just don't want to screw this up. I want you to be with you and I don't want something stupid like us rushing back into living together to ruin it somehow."

"Wait a minute though Ms. Jefferson. You just told me you wanted a baby with me and now you are saying you don't want to even live with me. That's not much of a home situation for the baby," I laughed.

"I do want a baby with you…maybe not right now, but eventually I would love nothing more."

As much as I hated to admit it, maybe she was right, maybe us living together right off wasn't the best decision. I have a feeling though that we would be spending a lot of nights over at each other's places though. "Well you can stay with me until you find a place," I added, now sliding onto her lap, wrapping my arms around her.

"Well thank you," she grinned. "So…this is it then? We are us again?"

"That's what I want…if you want that."

"I do."

And that's all I needed to hear. My lips were soon tightly pressed against hers. This is what I had been waiting for…for the past five years, my dreams were consumed with this moment. I love her…that's all that matters to me right now. I had her back…she was mine and I was never letting her go again.

Alright...so what do you think? Let me know...please review...love the reviews and love u guys for sending them my way. So I'm thinking like one or two more chs. And do have an idea for another oneshot...so keep an outlook for it. May be a while until I can update this again...work is driving me crazy...but hopefully not as long as it took to get this ch up. Thanks for reading.