A/N Sorry for the shorter chapter. Just to warn you guys, the next couple of chapters are probably going to be the last two. I just feel like things are naturally wrapping up the way I want. Thanks for reading. Hope you guys enjoy!

Summer allowed Jack and Amy to feel free to do whatever they pleased. Without work, Jack had trouble determining the day of the week and even separating each day from the next. But Jack went to bed that night knowing that the next day would be different from all of the others.

Jack woke up and began to dress in his formalwear, but when the phone rang early that the morning he got nervous. Just as he'd worried, his babysitter had cancelled on him. He walked around the room in panic and eventually took a deep breath and called Andie because he didn't know what else to do.

"Hello," Andie answered

"Hey," Jack said quickly.

"Is everything alright?" Andie asked, immediately worried by Jack's tone of voice.

Jack had been an odd combination stressed and sad all week because he knew this occasion was approaching. The anniversary of Jen's death let loose so many emotions in him, and it only took this little inconvenience to cause him to lose it. "One of my students was supposed to babysit today, but they just called and cancelled," he explained.

"And you have no one else you can call?" She asked.

"No," he said definitively. He had already racked his brain for any possible option. Usually he would just turn to Pacey and Joey, but they were coming too, of course.

"Day Care!" she said brilliantly.

Jack sighed. Of course he'd already thought of that. "It's Sunday. They're closed."

Andie thought for another minute. She was the right person to call in a time of crisis. "Rob," she confidently suggested.

"One problem," he said. "I haven't told him."

"But you need to," she said.

Jack took a deep breath. "I know," he said. "Thanks, I'll see you later."

"Good Luck. I love you." She told him. "So does he."

He hung up the phone and picked it up again to dial Rob.

"Hey," he answered.

"Hey," Jack said. "Can you come here?" he asked. This was something he wanted to do in person.

"Sure," he said. "Is everything okay?"

"No one's hurt," he said. "I'll explain when you get here.

"Leaving now," he said, and did just that.

"I got here as fast as I could," he said.

Amy was playing in the living room and Jack took Rob into the bedroom so they could talk in private. "I'm just going to start at the beginning," Jack said. "Amy's mom's name was Jen. We were best friends in high school, went to college together. I lived with her and her Grams for a couple years. We were inseparable. A couple years after we graduated Jen had Amy and the father left her. Grams and I were helping her raise Amy. Jen was having increasing heart difficulties and at Dawson's mom's wedding, she passed out," Jack paused allowing himself to calm down, and giving Rob time to process it all. Then I found out she had a heart condition that became apparent during Amy's birth, but Jen had kept it to herself. It was just the way she was. They'd tried everything but there was nothing that would work. When we knew it had become fatal, I volunteered to raise Amy. There was nothing I wanted more." Jack had tears in his eyes but was less embarrassed when he saw that Rob did to. "Today's the one year anniversary of her death, and my friends and I are going to her grave, but my babysitter cancelled," he explained. He looked at Rob. "I need you," he said vulnerably.

Rob put his arms around him. "Okay," he answered quickly, "I'm here." When Rob let go he stood back and looked at Jack for a moment. "I love you," he said.

"I love you, too," Jack said, and at that moment, he couldn't help but be happy.