A/N: another post, thanks for the reviews of the last once, and the ones that even took the time to review CTTC part 1. For those of you active on Romancefanfiction; there's a new story started in the Spring Showers challenge section there. I just couldn't resist. It's Very off-the-cuff, and very much a WIP. Anyhow, you might enjoy it.

FBI Safehouse,

Eastern Maryland, 11.00 PM

The ride towards the safehouse was, except for Sue's silence, the armed men escorting them and the unknown destination, quite uneventful. As one by one the cars in the motorcade dispersed in various directions to shake anyone off who might be pursuing them, they drove deeper and deeper into the night, leaving the main roads. Sue had fallen asleep, exhausted after an exceptionally long and terrifying day. The moment the car began to move, her eyes became so heavy she didn't even resist closing them. She felt tired, so tired. It had been a roller coaster-ride of emotions and events ever since she woke up this morning. It felt like a year ago, so much had happened. The stress of her announcement of leaving, the draining emotions ensuing that momentum. The call, the assassination attempt, Jack...it was just too much to handle.

In the beam of the headlights Jack tried to make up where they were heading. They had been traveling east ever since the last dwellings of DC had slid past. At an intersection he saw road-signs for Annapolis, but the car headed more eastwards, over rural roads, through settlements but not a notable village or town. They had left the national roads as soon as they passed Largo on the 214 and Kettering on the 202. From then on, even Jack was lost where they went.

What seemed to be crop-fields went by, and forests. Occasionally they crossed a regional road, sometimes traveling down it but making left and right turns onto smaller roads. After a while he had stopped trying to make out where they were heading. And he figured asking the agents wouldn't help him much more. He sat back in his seat and looked at the woman next to him sleeping. Hearing Levi's soft whine he looked over his shoulder and ruffled the dog's fur. 'I know buddy, I don't like it too.'

Once they had reached the house, over a narrow winding road leading to what he figured to be Chesapeake Bay, Sue woke up, because the car had stopped moving and the engine's vibrations were no longer to be felt. Still exhausted she rubbed her eyes, trying to make out where they were. Then the door opened and Jack stood there. "GOOD MORNING," he said.

"MORNING? TIME WHAT?" she asked. "ELEVEN PM," he responded. She couldn't suppress a yawn as she climbed out of the car and stepped on the wooden verandah of a two-story brick house. The front door opened and two agents stepped out, checking out the newly arrived.

To her right she saw water glistening in the moonlight. The light that flowed out of the windows of the house, together with a light on the verandah were enough to make it able for her to make up what he said or signed, because he stood just slightly on her left, where the light fell on him, not around him. "Where are we?"

"fs ANNAPOLIS, I think. Well, nearby anyway."

"PLACE THIS KNOW YOU?" He shook his head. "fs GARRETT, HIM KNOW." She shivered a little as a cold breeze rolled ashore from the Bay. "COLD YOU?" She nodded.

"Let's get inside then."

The escorting agents came back out. 'Place is secure, we'll be in the adjacent wing. There're alarm buttons installed in your rooms. Push them and there'll be agents all over the place in seconds.'

Jack nodded. 'How many personnel around?'

The agents smiled. 'Four here, and you probably drove past another four or so on the way down here. You're safe.'

'Thanks,' said Jack.

'No problem. Make yourselves at home,' said one of the agents and then they walked out.

When they were alone, Jack looked around in the living room, the kitchen. He was about to go back to the living room when he heard Sue moving upstairs. He climbed the stairs. She just came out of a room when he stepped on the corridor. 'You like it?'

'I think so, I'm too tired to really notice,' she said. 'Which room do you want?'

He frowned at her question. The same room you're in he thought. 'I don't know, we have two bedrooms?' She nodded. 'And I still have a choice?'

'Yes.'

'So, which one has your vote?'

'Jack..'

'Yeah?'

'I'm really tired, could you please take one, I will take the other one.' He blinked a few times over her weary voice. Her solemn behavior. 'Sue, are you okay?' he asked with a worried look on his face.

'Just tired.' He could see she only spoke half of the truth there.

'Is there something wrong? You want to talk about it?' She shook her head. 'Tomorrow, please?' she said, her eyes pleading.

He bit his lip in frustration but tried to stay calm and friendly. 'Sure, tomorrow.'

"GOOD NIGHT," she said, and he replied the same.