Jackson knocked on the door the Erica's penthouse. He had been on his way to the Police department when he received an urgent text message from Erica.

The door swung open and Jackson found Erica standing in the middle of the room. A small table sat next to her. Candles were lit in the middle of the table and all over the room. With a little help from Opal Erica had turned the penthouse into an exact replica of a hotel room in Paris.

Her normally brown hair was covered with a blond wig. She wore that familiar French Maid's uniform that she had worn years ago, "Bonjour Jackson. Souvient de nos soirs romantiques a Paris?" she giggled "I worked on that all night."

He stood there in awe at all she had done. "Erica….wow. Of course I remember Paris."

Erica held out her hand to him and with her index finger motioned for him to join her. As he stood in front of her she pulled him into a passionate kiss.

"Mon Corrina jamals avant de j'a vu une femme aussi beau que vous." He dipped her down like they were in the movies and kissed with the same passion and fire as they had when they were in Paris.

Finally coming up for breath she smiled up at him, "Am I really the most beautiful woman you've very seen?

"Oui Oui" he kissed her neck eliciting giggles from her lips. "Never before in my life have I laid eyes on such a beautiful woman. You know that."

The sat down on her couch holding tight to one another. After kicking Kit out of their lives they were slowly repairing their broken relationship. There was no doubt I their minds that they loved each other. So much had happened in their lives they had someone how lost the magic that they had built. With life slowly returning to normal they were fighting to not go back to where they were just weeks ago. They had taken their love for granted forgetting how easy it was to lose one another or the people they loved.

"What did I do to deserve all this Erica?" he asked about the romantic atmosphere that surrounded them.

"Do you remember last year when we left this place? It was just you and I. Life is easy when it's just you and I. Then we came back here thinking that life was going to be as easy as it was when it was just you and me." She thought back to just a year ago when life had seemed so simple.

He smiled thinking about the nights they spent just sitting quietly together. Life was simple then. "We had to come back we couldn't hide from the real world."

"No we couldn't" she agreed, "But I had thought that the magic we shared would follow us back."

"Instead life was waiting for us." He finished her thoughts.

"It was. It was one hurdle after another."

"Greenlee's trial."

"David being alive."

"Zach's death."

"David's shooting"

"Protecting Kendall."

They went back and forth on the hurdles they faced when they came back to town, "We made it through all that Jackson. We were almost there. We were just a walk down the aisle to living happily ever after. But then…"

"Then Jane came along." He thought back to the Erica twin that had taken over her life. That one event had changed the course of their lives. They had overcome yet another hurdle when the truth came out but this time the hurdle left them changed in such a way that they had lost something between them.

"Jackson I can't say enough how sorry I am that I put my own desires before our love. So much happened over the last year that it changed me. I didn't want to sit back and watch life pass me by. I wanted everything. More fame, more happiness, more of you. I just wanted more and went about it the wrong way. I callously sacrificed our love in my mission to find more. We could have had it all if I had just found a way to balance everything."

He put a finger to her lips, "Erica I love you for the stubborn willful woman you are. If you weren't going after what you wanted in life with that drive and passion that screams out to the world to get out of your way you would be 'The Erica Kane'. I never want you to change who you are for me. I didn't fall in love with a submissive woman. I just wanted you to not lose the family you love in the process of bulldozing your way through tinsel town."

"Before I called you over here tonight I contemplated calling up my pilot and having him whisk us a way on another romantic get a way. Then I realized that escaping wasn't our answer. You need to be here for your daughter and I for my own. Besides life is easy when you're hiding from the world. I don't ever want to take you for granted ever again. Jack, I don't know if I'm ready to be your wife or not. Please don't be mad at me for that. But, I don't want to just marry you now to keep you in my life. When we get married again it will be because we're both ready."

"Erica Kane I have waited 25 years for you I can wait a little longer. It wasn't just about getting married it was about us being together sharing our lives together." He pushed her down to the couch and once again kissed her showing her how much he loved her.

They shared an intimate moment together their first in such a long time. They needed this quite moment with each other to forget the world outside for just a moment. They basked in the glow of their love listening to the sounds of their breaths feeling each other's heart beats.

Their quite moment was interrupted by the sound of his ringtone singing out to him.

He hung his head irritated with the interruption.

"Montgomery" he tried to say not too harshly. He listened as Jesse talked to him. "Ok thanks Jesse I'll be over there soon."

"That was Jesse?" she asked.

Jack nodded, "Yeah. The temp. D.A. has arrived. Jesse asked me to meet her at the police station. Jesse is at the Chandlers and can't be there."

"Do you know this D.A.?"

"Yes and other than myself I couldn't have asked for a better person to go after JR. She's as tough of a D.A. as they come."

"Who is it?" She couldn't think of anyone who was as good a lawyer as he was.

"It's the D.A. from Llanview; Nora Buchanan."