Part 2: A day in La. Jack and Sam

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CHAPTER TWO: Jack and Sam

LaLa Land

Jack had ulterior motives taking Samantha to California with him on assignment … he thought about sending Danny and Elena but changed his mind. At least with he and Samantha, work would get done … Danny and Elena were truly in love and may have not been able to keep their eye on the prize leaving them to their own devices. Of course, Jack was keeping his eye on his prize … Samantha. He had been in love with her for years. Years when he was not allowed to be in love and years when he was free to be in love but feared and probably would have been, rejected by her. This was his chance, merely to talk away from the prying eyes of New York. He needed to tell her how he felt and what he wanted but he also needed to tell her about Hanna and his fears of failure. He thought about his badge again … the true meaning of what it meant to be an FBI agent. Fidelity … this time with Sam, he would be. Bravery … that was never a problem in the line of duty but he was scared to death of Hanna … a teenager … a troubled teenager. Integrity … possession of firm principles: the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards / completeness: the state of being complete or undivided / wholeness: the state of being sound or undamaged … This was the problem … Integrity! He didn't possess high moral standards, as far as the FBI's upper echelon could see. He didn't feel complete without Sam and he was damaged. Integrity was something that he had to work on.

When he leaned in for the kiss and she returned it and then gave him one of her own, he felt whole for that brief moment in time. He had a lot of work to do to get himself straight. He had a job offer that would have set him up for life but that badge kept talking to him so he turned it down. He really did have high moral standards … it was that higher echelon that sometimes let politics get in the way of the real job … finding missing people … not just the important ones … all of them. It was also Jack's high moral standard that would potentially get in his way of his relationship with Hanna and Samantha and Fin. He told Sam that he wanted to be everything that she wanted him to be for her. He needed to be everything Hanna needed him to be for her. Fin was going to need a strong father figure and The Missing Person's Unit of the FBI needed a strong leader, one that was respected by the team and one that knew what it meant … truly meant to be an FBI agent … Jack could be that man. Sam told him that he could do anything he set his mind to do … Jack had his mind set. He was going to tackle that integrity thing. Head on … full force … without a doubt … without a trace, of a doubt … he was the man that Sam, Fin, Hanna and the team needed. Jack was back! At least, he was on his way back … there will be bumps in the road but Jack was most definitely back! Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity. It looked good on him. It felt good on him … for the first time in a long while. Now, if he could just not let his job get in the way of his personal life this time, he could add OHSOB to his badge collection … One Happy Son of a Bitch.

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More D and E to come. Thanks for reading! Give me a shout, would appreciate your thoughts. Judeey:)