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Friday night came and I was sitting behind my desk in my office, writing up my last report from the tiresome week we'd had at work. 12 bodies had come through the morgue since Monday afternoon, 3 being murders and the rest either accidental or things like heart attack and people who had lost the battle with cancer, but for each patient that came through the morgue I had to write reports. I had just finished the final report and was capping my pen when I heard the elevator doors open and saw Jo make her way into the morgue. She smiled when our eyes meet and I felt my cheeks widen at the sight of my girlfriend making her way towards me.

"You ready to go?" she asked and I nodded

"Yeah just finished my final report. Abe rang to say that he has gone out of town for the weekend, apparently him and a couple of old buddies decided to go on a fishing trip, so he won't be home until late Sunday night at the earliest" I told her and she smiled

"So what do you have planned for tonight?" she asked wrapping her arms around my waist and pulling me closer.

"Well I was thinking that since you have a fondness for Chinese food, maybe you'd like to order take out and we can go sit at the park?" I suggested and she smiled

"I think that sounds oddly romantic. I'm in" she said and I smiled leaning down and kissing her before grabbing my bag and making my way out of the precinct with her.

We were at the park with our Chinese food, sitting on a picnic blanket that Jo kept in the back of her car, when the worst possible thing happened and I had to tell Jo the truth or at least get her to trust me enough to follow instructions. We were in the middle of a conversation about our week and cases we'd had during the week in a pretty secluded part of the park when out of nowhere a random stranger pulls out his gun and tells us not to move or make a sound otherwise he would shot both of us, Jo who tried to reason with the man as a cop only angered him more and he aimed the gun at me and fired. The bullet having lodged itself close to my heart fracturing a couple of ribs, left me panting on the ground struggling for air. Jo kept on saying to me that I had to stay with her, that I couldn't leave and that she loved me. I reached out for her hand and gasped out

"Do you trust me?" I asked and she nodded

"I need you to rush to the shop and grab clothes and a towel before meeting me at the Hudson River, I'll explain everything soon. Can you do that for me?" I asked and she nodded through the tears

"Promise me Jo" I gasped out and upon seeing her nod in response, I reached for her hand and wit my dying breath I whispered

"I love you Jo". I felt the rush and then the cold as I wound up in the middle of the Hudson River, swimming to the shore I just hoped that Jo was doing as she promised and was on the way to the Hudson River.

JO

I blinked, once, twice, three times but he wasn't there anymore. I had finally confessed to Henry my feelings as he lay dying in front of me and he had done the same, with his dying breath he had told me he loved me. Shaking my head I remembered that I had promised him that I would go to the shop and get him some clothes, luckily Abe had showed me where he kept the spare key saying that there might come a time where I would need to get into the shop. I guess he had been right in preparing me for this. I rushed up to the apartment above the shop and rushed down the hall into a room that I assumed was Henry's and grabbed the first things that my hands rested on, which just so happened to be a pair of track pants, the matching jacket, a white t-shirt and a pair of sneakers. I ran out to one of the hall cupboards and luckily found a couple of towels, shoving them into the same bag that had the clothes in before racing back down through the antique shop and out to the police car. On the way to the Hudson River I kept on trying to figure out why on earth Henry would want me to meet him there and none of the conclusions that I was making in my head made any sense. So I concentrated all of my energy on driving to the river.

When my car was parked and grabbing the bag of clothes I rushed out to the shore line where I started calling out for Henry, I didn't know what I was doing just that I needed to hear him answer me and see him again. I needed to know what would happen to us, if we had a future together and if we did would that turn into more? I couldn't lose Henry now like I had lost Sean! Just as I was about to give up all hope of seeing him again I heard a rustle behind some bushes and saw a hand pop out from behind a tree before the sheepish voice came from Henry

"Can I please have the clothes bag Jo?" and as I made my way closer to the bush I handed placed the bag in his hands and waited. He was alive, somehow he had made it through, somehow he had come back to me and for that I was eternally grateful. Dressed he made his way out from behind the bush and the first thing I did was through my arms around his neck and clung tight.

"I can't believe you're here!" I said in shock and he looked at me sheepishly

"I know and trust me it's a long story" I pulled back and glared at him, I needed to know what his story was, to truly know him I needed the truth.

"Henry, can you please tell me the truth? No more games, no more lies the whole truth" I said and he shook his head, I was about to turn around and leave him feeling betrayed but catching me in a tender embrace he whispered

"Here is not the place. You'll probably need something alcoholic and I definitely will need a drink" he said and I raised an eyebrow at him and he just gave me a look as if to say "trust me" and so as I lead him back to my car I kept on thinking of all the different reasons why he would need alcohol?

On the car ride back to the shop, Henry's hand was on mine pretty much the whole way there. And I couldn't help but smile internally at the gesture. Though as we neared the shop he did turn to me with a sad expression on his face and said

"I am so sorry that this happened Jo. Twice now we have gone out with plans for a nice date and both times they have failed and I really truly feel to blame" he said and I chanced a glance at him and he looked tremendously put out and I shook my head

"Please stop worrying yourself Henry. There is nothing better than spending time in your company even though at times you make no sense and you seem completely out of place but that is one of the reason why I think I started developing feelings for you" I said, before realising what had just come out of my mouth, though I was serious about our relationship, I wasn't entirely sure where we stood now that I had seen him "die" though I wasn't even sure I had seen that properly.

"I appreciate that Jo, but you might feel completely different once you find out the truth" he said and I raised an eyebrow at him, before he shook his head and I realised that I had been driving the last couple of blocks on auto-pilot and we were now outside the shop. He got out of the car and made his way around the car to open my door and held out his hand for me to take. I smiled taking his hand

"Who said chivalry was dead?" I joked and he shook his head at the joke, but I could see the small smirk on his face.