First of all a big apology for abandoning this story for so long! :(
I kind of got addicted to making gifs for my tumblr and put all my free time in making that.

But I really wanna finish this story. So, I'm really gonna try to do that.

If you're not interested in the story anymore (because you already have forgotten what it was about :p), it's okay :D But for those who want to read it, here is the next chapter.

And because I don't live in LA and also never have been there, I have no idea if there exists a park like the one in the story. But let's just pretend :D
(also I don't know how realistic it is, that there is a closed pub just "laying around", but...yeah... :) )

"Here?", she pointed to an area next to some bushes, "It looks nice"

Nick followed her finger with his eyes and shook her head. "No, let's go somewhere else"

"Okay..", she said a bit confused. It was the third spot she had suggested and he had given her the same answer every time, "Everything alright?"

"Yeah sure", he said a little bit too quick and thrust his hands into his pants pockets.

It was the day of their reconciliation getaway and they had decided to spend the afternoon in a nice park. What Jess didn't know was, that he had a little surprise for her. And as always, he had the hardest time to not blurt it out.

"Where are we going?", Jess asked again.

"Just...", he just said, laid his hand on the small of her back and pushed her gently in one direction.

She shook her head in confusion but let him guide her.

"Here!", he finally came to a stop and pointed at a spot next to a big tree and near the little lake. It was the nicest spot he knew. Or to be honest, it was the spot, Winston had told him, would be the nicest.

Jess looked at the blanket he was pointing at and frowned. "Nick, there is already someone...", she started but stopped when she looked up and saw the little grin on his face.

Her eyes widened. "Oh..this is our...?"

He nodded, feeling particularly proud of himself.

She looked a few times back and forth between Nick and the blanket on the grass. Her expression a mixture of fascination and disbelief. Nick had tried really hard. There were flowers around the blanket. He had bought some weird non-alcoholic champagne (He had allowed himself to buy beer for himself though), fruits, pie and had made a few sandwiches and even salad.

"You're amazing!", she finally said and flung her arms around his neck.

He let out a little chuckle, pulled her closer and took in her sweet familiar scent, that never failed to fill his body with a warm feeling.

She brought some space between them pressed a quick, gentle kiss on his lips and raised one finger. "Don't ever say to me again, that you can't be my fairytale prince when you pull off something like that"

He chuckled again and could feel his face getting flushed. "It's just a bit of food Jess", he tried to play it down.

She ignored his comment and once again looked over the blanket. "How did you even manage to do that?"

"I prepared it in the morning and asked Sid to watch over it", he looked around and realized that there were no other people within at least ten meters. He grinned, "I think he scared the other visitors away. And all he wanted was one of the sandwiches and a little bit of beer"

But to be honest he was really relieved that everything went according to plan. A part of him had been afraid that Sid would still sit in the middle of the blanket with no food and especially no beer left, when they arrived.

She let out a little laugh. "I have the best boyfriend. With all his connections to homeless people"

"You know it", he winked and shot his finger gun at her.

She crinkled her nose, tiptoed and pressed another kiss on his lips.

"Come on, let's sit down", he took her hand in his and guided her to the blanket.

After their first round of food, they had made themselves comfortable on the blanket. Jess's head rested on his chest and he had his arm around her.

Nick was surprised about the amount of food, Jess had eaten. Maybe it was already because of the baby. Or maybe she was just hungry. He actually had no idea, when the baby would start to be hungry. Maybe he should look that up. Yes. He was going to look that up. In fact he was going to look up everything there was to know.

"So, how are you?", he asked after a while, "Any more dizziness, morning sickness, anything?"

She smiled. "I'm fine"

"Great", he said quietly and stroke over her hair.

There was another moment of silence until Nick started to sit up, forcing Jess to do the same. She looked at him with a silent complain, but he ignored it and leaned his back against the tree next to the blanket. He reached out to take Jess's hand into his own and looked at her. She looked back, her expression a bit confused.

"Jess, I wanted to talk to you about...ya know...future stuff"

A small smile appeared on her face, when he said the word 'future'. "Oh. So serious"

"As you know, my current job situation isn't the best, because..well...I don't have one..", he started.

A little grin appeared on her face and he couldn't blame her. His talents certainly did not include communication.

"And besides the fact that I always talked about how much I hate being a bartender, I actually liked it", he admitted. Jess just nodded.

"I want to stay in that field, but I don't want to be...just a bartender", for the last words, he used the same contemptuously tone most people used, when they heard about his job.

"Nick, I..", Jess started, but he shook his head.

"I know you don't care what I do Jess", he said with a soft voice, "But I do. And I wanna do more!", he paused for a second to gather his thoughts, "I heard about an old pub. It's closed for a while now and nobody seams to be interested in it. Probably because it's in a horrible state. It would need a lot of restoration. But it's really cheap and...err", he trailed off and looked down on his hands, starting to rub them together, "You know what? It's a stupid idea. Forget about it"

He didn't look back up again, so Jess placed her hand on top of his hands to stop his nervous habit. Their eyes met again and the expression in hers basically pleaded him to go on.

"I was just thinking..", he finally continued, "Maybe I can get it and have my own bar"

It was a thing, he had thought about even before Shane had fired him, but back then he had discarded it quickly every time, because he had a job and it would have been just too risky. But in the last days, he couldn't stop thinking about it. It was actually really something he would like to do. Create his own empire, where he could be the boss, but still doing what he likes to do. And now the idea was out in the open and Nick was a little bit worried about Jess's reactions. He knew that she was normally very supportive, but this was big and the timing was everything but perfect.

"I think it's great!", she finally said with a smile.

He raised his eyebrows surprised. "You do?"

"Yeah", she smiled.

"You really think I could pulled that off?"

"Yeah", she said again and grinned, "I think you can do a lot of things when you really want to. And I actually think that could be perfect for you. You're smart enough to run your own business, you have more then enough experience with bars and you like fixing stuff. Plus, you would be your own boss", she smiled glowingly, "I think you will have the best bar and you will show this Shane person how dumb she was for firing you"

Nick couldn't help but laugh. It was just way too cute how much Jess still disliked that woman.

"What?", she demanded, her eyes big and confused.

He stopped laughing and shook his head slightly. "Oh god Jess, I love you so much!"

Her expressed turned into a still confused, but happy smile. "Love you too", she said quickly before Nick's lips shut her up.

"But Jess", he said with a more serious tone, "you know that this is very risky and even if I can establish something profitable, at least at the beginning there won't be any profit for sure. I just don't know if it's the right time..."

"Don't worry about it. You need a new job anyway. And I think something like that...it's now or never. And I don't want it to be never, if that's really something you want to do", she smiled, "I have a job and I make a decent amount of money. We're gonna be fine"

He shook his head, guessing what she means by that. "I won't let you pay for me", he said with a determined voice.

She rolled her eyes. "Don't be such a man, Nick"

He smirked."I thought you like it, when I'm a man", he said with a hoarse voice.

"Oh, shut up", she giggled and hit him playfully against the chest.

He chuckled, caught her hand and pressed a kiss on her knuckles. "But seriously, I don't think we'll be able to get our own place for now. So I guess we have to live with the two idiots a bit longer. I hope that's okay for you", he looked at her apologetic.

"You wanna move in together?!"

His eyes widened. They actually never have talked about this topic. He had just assumed that it would be the next step. "Err..yeah..I thought?", he stammered, "I mean...if you want to.." Really smooth Miller.

Her face light up and she nodded with a big smile on her face.

Nick returned the smile relieved. "Good", he said softly.

"But don't worry too much Miller. We still have time until this thing pops out", she pointed at her stomach with a little laugh, "And I don't think Winston and Schmidt are going to kick us out as soon as the baby is there"

"Oh no!", Nick protested instantly, "We have to get something before we have the baby. I will not let our baby live with Schmidt. He will make it all weird and probably try to put his stupid bathroom products on it. Or feed it with 200$ sushi mash. There should be as less contact as possible between that weirdo and our kid"

"Oh come on Nick", she giggled, "Don't act like that. I know how much you love Schmidt"

"Blahh", he grimaced, "Don't say stuff like that, Jess"

She rolled her eyes and he gave her a little grin.

"Hey Nick", she said after a while and put her hand on his knee, "Thanks for talking to me about that"