Okay! Since I love you guys and you've all been so nice in your reviews, I decided to post the last chapter of "The Moment You've Been Waiting For" today.

"You look terrible," Jack commented as he observed his friend and partner using his crutches to walk into the hospital room Jack was resting in. Mac scoffed.

"You're one to talk," he shot back. Jack shrugged, nodding towards the chair next to his hospital bed. MacGyver took the hint and hopped his way over to the chair, easing himself down and setting the crutches off to the side. "I heard you're the one who let Thornton know Riley and I weren't at the compound anymore," Mac commented after a minute.

"Yeah, honestly I don't remember a ton about what I did or said," Jack admitted. "But I'm sure I did. Seems like I'm always saving your butt, kid," he teased.

"Don't you always said that what you said your job is about?" Mac argued lightly. Jack inclined his head.

"That I do," he conceded. Jack looked up at his young friend, who was absentmindedly picking at a loose string on the chair he was sitting on. Mac's face had fallen into a grim mask, and Jack immediately knew what the young man was thinking. "Hey," he said. MacGyver looked up at him. "This wasn't your fault, kid," he insisted gently.

"Jack, how can you say that?" Mac asked. "You and Riley could have died! I mean, you almost DID die!" he added, gesturing towards the bed Jack was in. "How can you say that this isn't my fault?"

"First of all, it's gonna take more than a bullet in my stomach to kill me," Jack insisted. "Second, we're your friends, Mac. You should know that when push comes to shove, we're always gonna be there for you, even if it means putting ourselves in danger, and do you want to know why?"

"I thought you just said it's because we're friends," Mac said, sounding slightly more like his own snarky self.

"Okay yeah, that's one reason. The other reason, though, is because you'd do the exact same thing for us," Jack explained. "You can't think that you're the only one who gets to sacrifice himself for his friends, do you?" Jack stared at his friend with one eyebrow cocked. MacGyver tried to hold his friend's stare defiantly for a moment before he finally broke eye contact with a sigh.

"No," he muttered.

"Good," Jack said, leaning back on his bed. "Glad we got that sorted out." After a few moments of silence, Jack spoke again. "So Thornton thought she could pull off looking like a regular tourist?" Jack asked with a chuckle. "If she were by herself, she may have been able to pull it off...maybe. But towing along six other agents was bound to look a little suspicious!"

MacGyver grinned as he thought about their boss trying to pull off looking like a regular tourist. "I think she'd do a pretty good job," he argued. "I mean, there is a reason she's director of the Foundation," he pointed out. "She's good at what she does."

"You have a good point, my friend," Jack conceded. "She came in earlier today," he added. "Let me know that they got the driver of your guys's getaway car to talk, and they were able to track down the rest of Ramirez's crew because of the intel he gave us."

"Yeah, she told me that too," Mac said. "She also told me that she made sure that Ramirez is being put in solitary," he added. "He's got double the guard, less privileges, and he's being put in an even more secure prison than the first one. He should be there for a long time."

A nurse name Margaret bustled in, making her way over to Jack's IV lines to make sure things were dispensing at the right time and the right amount. She turned around and looked at the young man in the chair.

"Aren't you supposed to be in bed too?" she asked, giving an evil one-eyed stare.

"Busted," Jack called out softly as the nurse marched over and held out Mac's crutches to him.

"Real mature, Jack," Mac shot back under his breath as he made his way to his feet and accepted the offered walking aids. He had just positioned them under his arms when Riley and Thornton walked into the hospital room.

"Can you give us a minute?" Thornton requested. The nurse didn't look extremely happy, but she wasn't going to be the one to tell Patricia Thornton no. She left the room, closing the door behind her. As soon as they were alone, Thornton turned to her team.

"I just wanted to say that I'm glad everyone is okay," she said.

"We wouldn't be that way if it weren't for you, Patty," Jack said. Mac and Riley agreed with their older partner's sentiments.

"We're a team," Thornton replied as she glanced around at everyone. "We work together, we watch each other's backs."

"See, Patty gets what I'm talkin' about!" Jack said triumphantly, looking at MacGyver with a smug look in his eye. MacGyver rolled his eyes at his friend's 'I told you so' attitude, but he nodded in defeat.

"Alright, alright," he said, chuckling slightly. "I get it. I need to stop blaming myself for what happened."

"Darn right you do," Jack muttered.

"Easier said than done though," Mac added in warning.

"Well, we'll be right here helping you realize that not everything is your fault," Jack replied. "Because we're a team."

"You're not gonna let that go, are you?" Mac asked with a sigh.

"Nope."

"I'm sure we can continue this conversation later," Thornton interrupted. "Mac, you look like you're about to fall over. Go back to bed," she ordered. She and MacGyver exited together while Riley stayed in the room with Jack.

"Hey Ri," Jack said when he saw her standing there. "How's the arm?"

She looked down at her arm, which was currently in a sling. "Well, it's been better," she said as she looked back to the older man. "How are you?" she asked after a moment of slightly awkward silence.

"Been better," he parroted her earlier comment with a wink. Riley rolled her eyes.

"Seriously, Jack," Riley said. "I'm glad you're okay. When Mac told me what had happened, I was worried we wouldn't get back to you in time," she admitted.

"I'm not going anywhere," Jack assured her. "If I died, who'd be around to educate you on your classic '80's films?"

"No," Riley stated. "That's not happening."

"Come on," Jack whined. "Why are you and Mac so against me educating you?"

"I'm not even going to dignify that question with an answer," Riley shot back. The two of them continued bickering, but it was a friendly bicker. Riley was just glad that everyone had gotten out of the whole situation alive, and arguing with Jack brought some sort of normalcy to their lives, which she felt like they all desperately needed.

"You doing okay?" Thornton asked as she and MacGyver made their way down the hallway.

"Yeah, the doctors say that I can go leave tomorrow. I think it's twenty-four hours too long, but Margaret kinda scares me, so I'm trying to keep on her good side," the blond admitted.

"That would probably be in your best interest," Thornton agreed. "I'm sorry I didn't get to you earlier," she added after a moment.

"It's not your fault," Mac said, glancing sideways at his boss. "You did the best you could, and I talked with Officer Torres; he said you were very intimidating on the phone when you tried to get him to give you permission to come into the country," he informed her with raised eyebrows.

"I don't know what he's talking about," Thornton replied, keeping her gaze forward. Mac was pretty sure he could see a small smile playing around her lips. "I was simply asking for permission to come into the country to get you guys," she explained.

"So you were being intimidating?" he teased lightly. She didn't respond, but Mac took that as a yes. "But seriously; thanks for being there, for coming to get us."

"Like I said. You guys are my team. We protect the people who are important to us."

"Sure, the last few days have kind of sucked, but when you take a step back and look at everything around you, you start to notice all the good you have in your life. We all survived Ramirez, who is now locked away tighter than ever before. I've got Jack, Riley and Thornton who always have my back. Everyone was going to recover and be just fine; I guess at the end of the day, that's all that really matters."

Aaaaaaand cut. It's a slightly abrupt ending, but honestly, I feel like I'm better at writing the hurt/angst part of H/C stories XD I struggled with the ending, so let me know what you guys think? Any ideas if you think it could have been better? Again, I don't know if they're OOC or not, so let me know!

I hope you all enjoyed the sequel to Left Behind, Not Forgotten, and that it lived up to expectations :)

So Tamuril2 gave me some writing prompts a looooong time ago, and I promised her the next story I posted would be from her prompt. I'm giving you guys all a heads up, it's a Person of Interest crossover, so if you don't know what POI is, you have a few options...

1) Watch the show because it's good ;)

2)PM me and I can give you the details you need to know in order to follow the story

3) Google is a wonderful tool, but beware spoilers!

4) If you don't want to do any of these, you can always read it if you want, or you don't have to read it. I won't be offended :)

I'm hoping to have it up within the next week or two, but with school starting up again I don't know what my schedule will bring :)

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