All right so here we have another fluff chapter, with hopefully a little angst. Though probably not much. I hope you like it.

Jess' POV

"He's escalating," Becker said bluntly, arms crossed over his chest. Jess knew Becker was tired, she'd felt him tossing and turning all night, but he looked as immaculate as ever. The only giveaway, if someone looked closely, was how heavily he was leaning against the wall of Lester's office. Everyone had arrived early that day for the meeting, though they had to wait a while for Lester to join them after he got caught in traffic. Suffice it to say, he was not in a good mood. Lester turned to Matt in frustration.

"Just find him and have Becker shoot him, so we can get back to whatever passes for normalcy around here." he said. Becker raised an eyebrow at his comment and Abby let out a chortle of glee.

"Can I help?" she asked Becker who just sighed and shook his head. The phone on Lester's desk rang making everyone jump, except Becker and Matt who seemed to have nerves of steel. Jess could only wish she had those. Connor apparently, who'd been dozing off in one of the chairs, didn't have them either. He jerked in shock so hard that he nearly fell out of the chair. Lester hit the speaker button.

"Yes, what is it?" he sighed. His secretary's voice came over the speaker.

"Minister on line one for you sir."

"Perfect timing as always," Lester muttered under his breath. He turned to Becker and Matt who were both leaning on the wall. "You two figure out a way to draw him out."
Becker nodded and kicked Connor's leg to wake him up again. He jolted upright looking around in a mild panic, making Jess smile. When she met Becker's eye she had to put a hand over her mouth to stifle the laughter threatening to bubble to the surface. Jess had gotten to her feet and was making her way to the door when she was suddenly falling. She did her best to brace herself for the impact, but it never came. She felt hands on her arms and opened her eyes to see Matt and Becker both holding one of her arms. They were both giving Connor death glares and she assumed she had tripped over Connor converse covered feet. Connor sank lower in the chair under the weight of the combined glares.

"Sorry Jess," he said. Jess smiled at him.

"It's fine Connor. It was an accident after all." Jess gently extracted her arms from Matt and Becker's grasps and headed out the door. Becker was beside her in a second.

"I'm not leaving your side for a second until we find this guy," he whispered on her ear. Jess was finding it difficult to concentrate on putting one foot in front if the other when he was this close. She looked up at him and was surprised by how tired he looked when it was just the two of them. She knew the armory was just up ahead and an Idea sprang to mind. When they hit the open door she tugged a surprised Becker in as they went past.

"You seem to have developed a habit of pulling me into empty rooms." He murmured as he walked past her. Jess rolled her eyes and shut the door behind firmly, locking it so that only someone with the same level of clearance as her could open it again. She pulled him over to the cot that she had remembered seeing in there from the last time she'd brought Becker paperwork to sign and made him sit down.

"Jess?" he said in a confused tone when he hit the hard canvas.

"You don't have to be on the clock for another hour at least." She said when he tried to get back up, pushing on his shoulders. "Try and get some rest."

"I'm fine Jess," he said trying to ignore the fact that Jess was shaking her head.

"You forget I'm sleeping with you Becker," she said as she pushed him to lay down, which he grudgingly did. "I can feel you tossing all night."

Becker's POV

Becker didn't want to admit just how tired he was. The nightmares had come back last night, despite Jess sleeping right beside him, only this time she was burning alive in the truck and he couldn't get to her. That mixed with the last week of sporadic sleep meant he was flat out exhausted. Luckily he hid it well, at least from everyone except Jess apparently.

"Jess, I'm trained to go without sleep for long periods of time. We should get you to the ADD," he said trying to get back up, only to be pushed back down by Jess. She really was stronger than she looked, or he was more tired than he thought.

"My shift doesn't start for another hour either." She said smiling down at him. The fact that she looked a bit like an angel flitted through Becker's mind, and was quickly replace with thoughts of a different nature. He smiled slyly and Jess quickly stepped away before he could grab her.

"Oh no you don't," she said with a laugh, "I know that look. Sleep is all you're getting right now." She walked over and sat on the swivel chair a good three feet away from him. She reached into the bag she was caring and took out a book.

"I'm gonna sit right here and read while you take nap."

Becker sighed and admitted to himself that he was fighting a losing battle, because in truth he would do pretty much anything Jess asked him to, and he really needed the sleep. He could feel himself drifting off while she was talking, but one thing was still gnawing at his curiosity.

"Jess? Where'd you learn to use a gun?"

Jess' POV

"Jess? Where'd you learn to use a gun?" Becker voice was muffled as he fell asleep making Jess smile. Becker looked like a kid when he slept, all the tension and responsibility was swept away. It didn't really surprise her that she like to watch him sleep. She just hopped it wasn't borderline stalker behavior.

Jess bit her lip, wondering if she should tell Becker she had a sure fire way to draw DMW, she was liking that nickname more and more, out. She didn't really like it, though Becker would jump on the chance, because it put Becker right in the crosshairs of the stalker and she loved him too much to take the risk. Her new phone vibrated in her pocket, bringing her back to reality.

"Hello?" she said not bothering to look at the caller ID, the only people who even knew she had the phone were on the team.

"Hey Jess," Abby's cheerful voice came over the line. Jess smiled and walked into the room adjacent to the Armory so she wouldn't wake Becker.

"What's up Abby?"

"Not much really. I just realized that we don't have to punch the clock for another hour and was trying to find you for some girl talk." Abby said. Jess could hear different conversations I'm the background, as well as several sets of footsteps.

"I'm in the Armory," she said.

"Why," Abby's voice was so full of shock that Jess almost burst out laughing. She thought about making up some crazy story just for fun, but she was just too good natured.

"I made Becker take a nap since he looked like he was about to fall over."

"I'll be there in a sec," Abby hung up the phone and true to her word she was outside the door almost instantly. Jess went to open the door and instantly worried when she saw who was with her.