and what does work !!!!!!!


YHM!!!! don't do anything with jack/sue and nick/sam !!!!!


do you have a different approach to this j/s and n/s!!!!

So I should leave J/S and N/S alone ... and out of the story?

NO!!!!!!!


J/S ----> Jack and Sue

N/S ---> Nick and Sam


that's what i am saying!!!!!

Myles, very funny!

Great job!

Yhm, listen to Suejack - J/S = Jack and Sue and N/S = Nick and Sam!!

It's fate!!!

Joy

Ladies, you're cracking me up ... and I love you all for it.

You're rooting for a couple (N/S) you haven't even met!

love Myles'comments

looking forward to more, a nice fuzzy with Jack and Sue would be good about now

cath

This J/S, N/S discusion is a hoot.

The parallels that Myles noted were so like him. Like his comments in the E&B episode when he noted the chemistry between Jack and Sue.

I am interested to see what occurs when Sue hopefully returns from her training session. If I recall correctly, she is expected to return in the evening.

All assuming yhm hasn't stolen her and is hiding her with Bobby somewhere

suejack patience is the only thing that works, and it is worth waiting for

of course we are rooting for Nick and Sam, that means we can leave the J/S part as the one thing we all love Jack & Sue and anyway they sound like really good people with a very familar history

Soph

You mean they're not???!!! yhm, don't play with us now. You know how we can get when you mess with our heads over these things.

I do not mess with people's heads! Sheesh!

You don't mess with our heads, you mess with what's inside. Our minds!

So I should stop? Where's the fun in that?

Meantime, enjoy!

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6 -- RESPONSE


“One more irreverent squawk out of you, Myles, and I’ll drag you into a ring,” warned Bobby.

Myles held up his hands in surrender. “I was merely making a point about the apparent parallels. One can never have too many nudges in the right direction.”

“Thank you, Myles,” said Jack. “I may not be a Harvard-educated Einstein but I get it.”

Tara grinned. Ever the peacemaker, she waved at Jack. “What’s your take on this?”

“I’m not sure if there’s another sting Nick’s involved in or if he’s been forced into hiding because of Kim’s release or he’s seriously in some other trouble. I haven’t had time to dig or make contact with anybody in New York. I’ve been trying to work out where to start without ruffling any feathers … just in case. I only know he wouldn’t send that message to Sam if he had a choice.”

Myles scratched his head. “If it’s trouble, it isn’t any safer for Sam than it is for Nick. Where is she?”

“In my apartment.”

Bobby choked. “You’re out of your mind. That’s safe?”

“I couldn’t think of anywhere else to put her up at short notice. And for the moment, it’s safer than New York.”

“True,” said Myles. “So we have three to-dos: one, find a safe house for Sam, which may or may not end up Jack's place; two, find out what Nick’s been working on, which could mean contacting NY surreptitiously or otherwise; three, find Nick.”

“That about sums it up,” said Jack, tiredly. “And four, let D in on this. And Sue.”

“Right-o,” said Bobby, slapping his hands. “I’m in. Since Darcy’s away, I can baby sit Sam … maybe I’ll get Darcy to do some sniffing because she just happens to be in New York.”

Myles rolled his eyes. “The winds of fortune … ”

“I’m in,” said Tara, ignoring him. “You’ll need me to trace all those emails and calls. Let me have Nick’s contact details.”

“For what it’s worth, I’m in,” said Lucy. “Doing whatever I can.”

They turned to Myles, who was bent over an open drawer. Bobby stretched a leg and kicked the bottom of his desk. He cleared his throat menacingly.

Myles looked up. “What? I’m looking for my New York FBI directory.” He held it up. “Who do you want me to call first?”

What a riot!

Why is Sam at Jack's place?? Why? And why did you even come up with a character that also stands with an S?

1 Eating steak? Sorry, local joke, Mel might understand ... Where I live, there's a chain of steak houses called "Jack's Place". And no, I do not eat there.
2 All the better to mess with your mind, my dear ...

Yes, I understand. Hey, I'm all for Sam eating steak, so long it's not Sue's steak..

Why not? The food there is excellent..

And since when you got into cahoots with that big bad wolf, hm?

I don't know if Jack's place is safe for Sam because if they know Nick, they'll know about Jack!!!

Myles is just so Myles!!!

Now, go team!!!

Yhm, don't mess with us too much!! I'm sure you would like us to finish this story intact!!!

Joy

Great! Big adventure is waiting for us

we are waiting, yhm...


Restie

YHM !!!


please continue !!!!!



btw WHERE IS SUE!!!!!!


can't wait for more!!!


p.sWHY IS SAM AT JACK'S PLACE ???? .........

you're messing with our minds, lady .. pretty mean to pick those first letters indeed!

Now WHY is Sam at Jack's place...

Say, have you folks met Jo- , oops!

I love Myles' irreverent squawks! They're definitely spot-on.

Continue "nudging away!"


gracie

what do you mean by oops!!!!

Just ... oops!

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7 -- RENDEZVOUS


That evening, the knock on Jack’s door sent Bobby propelling Sam into the guest bedroom. However, he kept one cautious eye and ear on Jack as the latter peered through the peephole.

Bobby relaxed when he saw Jack grin and open the door to be immediately enveloped by two leggy blondes.

“Hi,” breathed Sue, shakily, after being thoroughly kissed. “I missed you today … are you okay?”

“I could be better.” He grinned, not releasing her, yet somehow managing to pat the prancing Levi. “Want to go out and come in again?”

Sue narrowed her eyes at him beneath her bangs. “I’ll bet you’d enjoy that,” she said smiling, not moving away.

Then she stared at a spot over Jack’s shoulder. “I take it that eye belongs to Bobby?”

Jack whirled round about the same time Bobby threw open the door to reveal himself and Sam, both grinning madly.

Jack sighed. He would have to do something to ensure Bobby’s silence in the bullpen. Keeping one arm around Sue, he made the introductions, remembering to include Levi.

Sam knelt to ruffle Levi’s fur, earning Levi’s instant friendship. He woofed and held up his paw, which was solemnly shaken.

“He likes you,” said Sue, smiling.

“I like dogs,” answered Sam sincerely, “and this one is especially likable. Aren’t you, you handsome fellow?”

Bobby smothered a grin as he watched the blondes bond: Levi was clearly relishing the additional attention. Sue was asking interested questions about Sam’s work and Bobby knew she was already working her magic, comforting, earning trust and making a friend. He never ceased to be amazed by this ability of hers.

He’d spent his first moments in Sam’s company trying hard to recall who she reminded him of and now, watching her laugh at Levi’s antics, it struck him that Sam was an older Shirley Temple: not too tall, slim, curly haired, sophisticated and all grown up … she even had the dimples, although an aura of sadness clung around her.

Nick, whoever he was, would have to be out of his mind to deliberately break her heart.

I like the hello Sue gave Jack!! And, it looks like Sue and Sam are going to be fast friends!!!

So, our Jack and Sue are a little closer than we thought!! Good show!!!

Yhm, why are you crying and saying "oops"???

Joy

hey hun please don't cry!!!!


i like the "hello" jack got from sue!!!!! they kept it a secret that they were Romantically involed with each other but only bobby knew !!! right !!



can't wait for more!!!!!!

Great welcome, Jack But I need to know more about Bobby and Sam... I think he likes her...


Restie

Great roundevous between Jack and Sue. I like this Samantha character. I wonder what is in store for her.

YHM, just got a moment to begin checking out all the entries for the latest challenge. I was so excited to see you'd entered! I'll be sure to do my best to keep up with this story along with your other one my friend. And guys, the whole J/S and N/S thing just had me laughing out loud as I read through it. See we can trust YHM (I think...) with the J/S stuff. She just likes to drag us along for a while so she can laugh while we freak out. Aren't I right hun?!

I think so too

and I also think that there's more between Jack and Sue going on

Oops? You dare say oops and then do not care to elaborate? Is this another one of your mind games? And you're crying??

See, you know me too well. Definitely time for a makeover. And with suejack thinking she's thinking like me ... definitely ...

Thanks for reading thus far, folks. And thanks for the support.

I'm not laughing, really, more like crying ... why? I'm messing with my own mind?

Now, now, yhm, don't cry. You know we love you. Even if you mess with us sometimes..

Love you all back! But it won't stop the messing ...
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8 -- RETROSPECTION



Jack watched the two women with affection.

The short-haired blonde he’d known as long as he’d known Nick; he’d been the patient confidant as Nick wrestled with his feelings for Sam for years, culminating in his fear that his undercover work was a cause for circumspection. Sam had had no such qualms. But it had taken Nick’s near escape from death and Jack’s eventual intervention for him to accept the gift that was Sam’s love.

The long-haired blonde Jack had admired from afar for almost three years - despite the fact that she sat mere feet away from him at work - before he surrendered to his own growing attraction. He’d confessed his feelings after she’d been nearly killed by a serial killer and had been completely been stunned when she’d shyly admitted to sharing the same feelings. She had kept quiet only because she’d been convinced he felt nothing for her. Confessions out of the way, things had blossomed from there.

Watching them, Jack wondered why it was that it often took the threat of loss to make people value what they had, to look closely at and cherish what had been before them the whole time.

He made a vow, right then, that he would do what ever it took to find Nick, or at least find out what had happened to him, and to reunite Sam with Nick.

And he vowed to cherish Sue with everything he had.

Aw.. what wonderful vows..

Jack, those are very honorable vows - and I know you will try to make this all right!!

Joy

I certainly hope so too ... thanks so much for dropping by, Joy and Mel.

oy that was good....


YHM no messing please......

Nice and sweet, albeit somewhat short, post yhm. I loved the look into Jack's thoughts. And I, and probably several other ladies around here, are going to do our part to make sure Jack sticks to those vows! Not that I have any doubt that he wouldn't do everything possible.


You know I've been thinking (scary I know), and it struck me as somewhat funny that we keep begging YHM to quit "messing" with us and our minds and yet that is half the fun of her threads! Hmmmm.... Well, I mean, at least I think it makes it more fun...Okay, I need to shut up now and FINALLY go to bed before I say too much.

Jack, don't forget the vows should be fulfilled...


Restie

9 -- REMINISCENCE


“There’s so much sadness about Sam,” said Sue, as Jack walked her home after they’d left his apartment for some supper and time alone, Bobby having offered to stay over. “She’s upset about Nick but there’s something deeper than that. I didn’t want to pry … ”

Jack smiled. “Trust you to pick up on that.”

Sue looked at him curiously. “Should I ask?”

“This is where the personal and the professional get a little awkward. I wouldn’t necessarily tell all my co-workers about Sam’s past but you - ”

“What about me?”

“You’re not exactly just a co-worker.”

“Then what am I … exactly?”

“The love of my life? Who happens to work with me?”

“Oh.”

Jack chuckled. He loved it when he managed to reduce her to silence on occasion. Besides she was completely adorable when she pursed her mouth, thinking hard of a come back.

“Anyway,” Jack continued, sobering at the thought the current situation, “Sam was a foster child with Nick’s family when she was about thirteen. She’s never known her own family and she’s been moved around pretty much from the time she was four. According to Nick, what was mutual admiration turned into love by the time she left for art college. The family was thrilled.”

Sue nodded.

“Then Nick left the safety of the DA’s office and joined the Bureau. He tried to end the relationship because he couldn’t stand the thought of her worrying about him or, even worse, mourning him. He really did break it off the minute he was assigned undercover work; that’s why she fled to New York. When he disappeared during the North Korean case, I tried to be there for her as much as I could. After he was found, he called and I told him where to find her and left him to do the right thing. Next thing I know, he transferred to New York and they’ve been together since … till now.”

“She must be thinking about that first time and about the undercover risks … losing him would be more than just losing love and a future, it’d be losing family too … Jack … ”

oh sue !!!<sniffs>


WOW !!! the was a nice story about N/S........wow jack and sue Secretly seeing each other ..... !!!!


can't wait for more!!!!

I think Sam and Nick's relationship reminds me something... what do you think, Jack and Sue?

Can't wait for more!!!!


Restie

hmm?? I'm trying to predict what she'll say next, but I honestly have no clue. A little nervous about that, but it's probably nothing.

Nice work!

Yhm, this is a wonderful post!! I love hearing the story of Nick and Sam!!

But, I know this brought to home the danger and fear that Jack and Sue have to live under all the time!! I'm sure Sue is thinking about how she would feel if something happened to Jack.

Jack's cute - I love the fact that they have managed to keep their true relationship a secret!!

Can't wait to see what Sue is going to say to Jack!!!

Joy

We certainly learned a lot as we followed Sue and Jack on this walk. They have so much in common with Sam and Nick. I agree that Sue has to be thinking of the danger involved with their jobs. I love how Jack reduced her to silence when he told her she was the love of his life.

hey yhm,

great insight into Nick and Sam's lives, I think we are going like these new characters

Can't believe no one in the Bullpen has picked up on the fact they are dating, where has Lucy's radar gone?!!!

Soph

Wow, that was such a beautiful love story behind Nick and Sam. And that last line? Did Sue discover something?

10 -- REVELATION


Jack saw the look on Sue’s face and pulled her into his arms. His kiss was hard and fierce, not something that she'd expected, or experienced before, from him. Bundled up in the love she knew he felt for her was fear …

She was learning to cope with the uncertainties Jack’s profession brought into their relationship; her being near him at work bringing a degree of comfort. It would’ve been so easy to choose a man whose job carried far fewer risks but there could be no other man for her. So she would deal with the risks as they came, as she would the different facets of the surprisingly complex man she loved beyond all else.

“Something like that,” murmured Jack, moments later.

He kissed her again, gently this time, soothing her lips, reluctant to relinquish them.

“She can’t believe he sent that message … won’t believe he would’ve sent it willingly, not when they’ve come so far. But not hearing from him is slowly tearing her up. I don’t like not knowing what’s happening to Nick either … he’s not an irresponsible guy.”

“Lucy told me the team is working on finding out what happened in the past week.”

“I’m deeply grateful.”

Sue smiled, touching his cheek. “There’s a fellow agent who could be in trouble … and another who’s suffering because of it.”

“I feel responsible since Nick joined the Bureau partly because of me. And I don’t want any of the team getting into trouble either; they’re already doing this on their own time.”

“You didn’t force Nick to the Academy, did you? And the team is doing it for you willingly.”

He kissed her forehead. “The thing is, we don’t even know at this point if it’s another undercover mission. I don’t want to send up red flags in all the wrong places if we ask too many questions. But if we don’t ask … ”

“So we find out, in our own way, for both their sakes. And yours.”

Jack drew a deep breath. “I hate feeling this helpless.”

“Sam says you’ve always been her rock.”

Jack shrugged it off. “She’s a great girl. I’m glad you got along.”

Sue grinned. “We do have something in common.”

He smiled. “Blonde?”

“No.”

“Tell me.”

“We both think the world of you.”

And she kissed him, leaving him speechless.

I could die and be a happy woman now.