Title: Hours
Summary: For 10iloveyou Prompt 7 - Hours.
A few hours.
That was all the dream lasted. A few hours.
But for that little while it was real.
They were married and happy and having a baby.
Except that it wasn't real. And he knows that. In his head, he knows that it wasn't. He knows his life is working for the FBI and being a dad to Parker. He wouldn't change that, wouldn't give it up for a dream.
It's just that for those few hours, all the feelings, the touches, and the looks made sense. He didn't have to bury them and pretend everything was just fine while it was eating him alive.
The truth is that working with her every day kills him. The truth is that when she smiles at him his heart stops. He doesn't know when it came to this; he doesn't know how long exactly it took him to fall for her. But he can't remember anymore when he didn't love her.
Before the surgery he could push the feelings to the back of his mind. He could deal. It was fine, really.
Then there was the dream. And for those few hours, he had everything.
And then he woke up.