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.bradley

Rose couldn't sleep that night. She tossed and turned unable to settle the thoughts in her mind. She needed Jack and she couldn't imagine her life without him. She had tired though, numerous times. Each time her mind came up with a blank screen as if someone had forgotten to play the movie that she was meant to be watching.

She sighed again and rolled over to face Jack. She stared at his face, taking in all the details she could. If he was going to leave her she wanted to remember him perfectly. His eyes were closed but she knew too well the deep blue colour that was under his eye lids. His eyes could light up any room and could make her smile, laugh and cry and all in the same look. She loved those eyes almost as much as she loved him. She glanced down to his lips, the lips that had kissed her so many times. They were her favourite shade of red, a deep dark red. She wanted so much to lean her hand out and trace over them with her finger but she knew that would only wake him and she wanted to continue looking over him for just a bit longer.

She knew deep in her heart that one day and a lot sooner than she would have liked, that those lips would never kiss her again and that they would never whisper private secrets into her ear. That those eyes would never open and that she would never be able to see the blue that was hidden underneath them. She didn't want to think about this but it continued to pop up into her mind and control all her thoughts. She let out a cry of despair before covering her face with her pillow. Jack awoke to the movement and her cries and tenderly placed his hand on her arm.

"Rose? Are you okay?" She didn't answer him so he shook her. "Rose?" He asked again.

Rose removed the pillow and glared at Jack. "YES?" She asked.

Jack couldn't help but chuckle. It started off as a small laugh but soon after he had taken in her whole appearance and then the expression on her face it turned into full on hysterics.

"Rose do you know how funny you look?" He laughed.

She stared in shock at him for a few minutes but then she too joined in the laughter. "I suppose I do." She laughed. Jack grabbed her by the waist and pulled her over to him. He pushed a single thread of hair away from her face and smiled, finally controlling his laughter.

Rose smiled back. "I love you so much Jack! This isn't fair." She whispered.

Jack sighed. "No it's not. I don't want to leave you or Clara." He then placed his hand on her stomach. "Or the new one." He laughed.

"Jack we could just move somewhere warm? Some place where it doesn't snow." She looked at him, waiting for an answer.

"Sure Rose. If that is what you want?"

She nodded. "All I want is you Jack."

"Rose you know that you are my everything, I would do anything for you. You are my life Rose." He kissed her. "But I have one condition." He didn't want to ask her because he knew that she would say yes to anything that he said but he also knew that it wouldn't matter if he did move somewhere hot. He knew that his end was nearing. "We stay here until the baby is born."

Rose looked worried but nodded anyway.

"Now Rose, how about we make the best of the time I have left?"

"Why? You have lots of time left. You aren't leaving me anytime soon Jack." He smiled at her comment but she knew that he really did believe that he didn't have much time left. "But if you want. So what did you plan on doing then?"

This made Jack's smile real. "I have a list." He chuckled. "Should we start from the top?"

"Of course!" Rose nodded. "What's on the list?"

"Well?" Jack's grin turned evil. "You are about to find out." He leaned over and kissed her but was again stopped but his coughing.

"Jack?" He looked up at her. "How about we save that one for after you get better?"

"Good idea." His smile faded though. "Now I would like to go for a walk with my beautiful wife and daughter."

Rose got up from the bed and pecked him on the cheek. "Easily done. Now get dressed!" She ordered as she raced towards the wardrobe and started fumbling through her clothes. She threw clothes all over the room.

"What are you doing Rose?"

"Finding the perfect dress to wear for my walk with my perfect husband of course!" She smiled and Jack couldn't help but smiling back.

"Well I suppose I should get ready." He got up and sorted through the mess which Rose had now created on the floor, to find his favourite top and pants. He grabbed a jacket from the rack near the bedroom door and went to go get Clara. She was still asleep and he paused a moment to look at her. She looked a lot like her mother but had his eyes and they had already started to find out that she had his personality. At times it would annoy Rose but this only made him laugh. He saw so much beauty in her, even when she was annoyed.

Jack watched the tiny ups and downs of Clara's chest as she breathed and felt a sudden sadness as he knew that he was going to miss her growing up. He went over to the edge of her bed and kissed her on the forehead.

"Clara." He whispered. "Make sure you marry someone nice...Don't go for the money just go with your heart." Tears were running down his face and blurring his vision but he managed to continue. "Clara I will always love you and always be watching over you! No matter where I am." Clara did not stir from her sleep so he gently nudged her to wake her up.

She glanced up at him and smiled. "Daddy!"

He got her ready to go out and he met up with Rose in the lounge room. "Let's go." He opened the door for Rose, who was now carrying Clara and he grabbed a hat with his other hand.

They walked not far, as Jack couldn't walk to far without coughing to much but that walk was one memory that Jack would never forget. He smiled and laughed with his wife and played with his daughter. Smiling at people who pasted them and dancing down the street just to make Rose smile.

When they got home Jack opened the door again for Clara and Rose. He fumbled with taking his coat off but finally managed. He took his hat off and hung it up for the last time.

But before he could continue inside the house something caught his eye from outside. He turned and walked back outside but there was nothing he could see. He went to walk back inside but something stopped him, something was wrong. He walked over to the oak tree in the middle of the garden. He had drawn many of his drawings under this oak tree, Rose at his side. Of course may of the drawings had been of her. He looked around on the ground, not sure what he was searching for but then he noticed it. He felt stupid for not noticing it earlier. The oak before him had no leaves. The last leaf of the oak had finally fallen and he knew that it was now the end of autumn and that the winter that he had been dreading so much had finally arrived.

He let out a cry. "I don't want to go."

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.bradley