From the very sweet anonymous prompt, "Every dawn by your side is a special day." Happy Valentine's Day! I promised my boyfriend I'd pay attention to him, so I'll write more after he leaves tonight, haha.

It was late evening when the team tumbled out of New Delhi into Portland's early morning. Thanks to the time difference, they'd been going for about twenty hours straight, and everyone was tired – doorlag, as Ezekiel had taken to calling it. They did the bare minimum in terms of wrapping up the case, leaving a note for Jenkins and everything else for after they had all had some time to sleep. Ezekiel had disappeared almost instantly; Eve had to haul Flynn away from his desk and out to the car so they could go home. Cassandra and Jacob were close behind them, wandering sleepily out the front door. They waved as Flynn and Eve pulled away from the curb and away into the slowly lightening morning.

Jake was turning towards his truck when he glanced back over his shoulder to wave at Cassie and saw her clambering up onto the hood of her car. Grinning to himself, he turned and took a few steps back toward her. "Whatcha up to over there?" he called out.

She glanced back and shot him a sheepish smile. "Sun'll be up in a few minutes," she explained. "Thought I'd watch the dawn."

For a minute he stood there with his hands in his pockets, shaking his head. Then he said, "C'mon. I know a spot a five minute drive away where we can see it better."

"Yeah?" She smiled and slid back off her car, crossing the fifteen feet between their vehicles. "Okay, let's be quick."

"Yeah." They hopped into the cab of his truck and he started up the engine.

Jake drove them out to an empty lot on a hill where the view to the east was pretty clear, and parked facing the opposite direction. They hopped out and he waved her around the back, where he helped her into the truck bed and from there onto the roof of the cab. They sat there side-by-side, heels tapping the truck's back window, facing the horizon where it was starting to turn orange. There wasn't a lot of space on the roof there; they sat close together, their hands overlapping in the small space between them.

Drowsy despite herself, Cassandra leaned her head on Jacob's shoulder as the sun crept its way slowly into the sky. "Thanks," she murmured to him as they watched.

"Yeah," he answered quietly, leaning his cheek against the top of her head. "Thanks for the idea."

She nodded lazily. "I'm glad I thought of it. It's beautiful."

"Sure is," he agreed. "One o' the most beautiful things I ever saw."

She smiled. "And you're an expert."

"S'pose so," he answered, amused. They were quiet for a few more moments before he suggested, "I oughtta show you an Oklahoma sunrise sometime."

"Worth seeing, huh?"

"You bet," he told her. "Everything's pretty flat where I'm from. There's a lot o' sky."

"Sounds nice," she agreed. "Oklahoma's a couple hours ahead of us. But next time we get back to the Annex around four or five in the morning, we can keep that in mind. Accounting for the time of year, and everything."

"Yeah, I like that plan," Jake said. "Feel like any day that starts with Cassie an' a sunrise is probably gonna be a good day."

Cassandra smiled broadly. "Even if we have to sleep afterwards because we've been awake for almost twenty-four hours?"

"Yeah. Even then." Tired and content and feeling a little less inhibited than usual, he turned and kissed the top of her head. She looked up at him, beaming, and he couldn't help noticing that even completely worn out she was absolutely adorable.

"Maybe we should try to catch more sunrises then," she suggested, biting back an enormous smile.