With a light jacket to throw over the top her outfit was complete. There was still some heat in the autumn sun but the evenings were cooling fast.It w...s five thirty and so she went for a shower, and then dressed and applied a light make up; and adding eye liner and eye shadow to emphasise her eyes. Her hair, she brushed and let hang down her back with just a clip to hold it away from her face. She hooked small dangling earrings into her ears and the blue stones that swung at the bottom of them. "It wasn't a dream it was real. I'm afraid, Jake. It seems as if things are spinning out of control. Like it doesn't really matter how I feel about things." Oh, baby, you're so wrong. All that matters is how you feel about things. I just see an opportunity that has fallen in our laps. All that I want is for you to be taken to sexual heights that you have never been able to imagine. To do that I need help and I think, if you're honest with yourself, you'll agree I need some help. I can't take. ‘Do you want to take a few more moments with him?’ she asked. Though her question was asked nicely, and her tone was compassionate, it rang with the weight of additional ominous words she omitted, like ‘final’ or ‘last’ – for that is what we all literally faced in that weighty and ominous moment. These could easily be the last few moments we would ever see our infant son still alive as the surgery he was about to undergo was absolutely life-threatening in and of itself. Barbara and I both. We were just two people who work together. And I know you well enough to know that isn’t going to change now. Not even after what we did here tonight.“We know a hell of a lot more about each other now,” she continued. “We’re closer now, better friends. I know we’ll do things like this again, too. It was fun, a lot more fun than I would have thought. And I’m not worried that anything will change at work. You’ll still be the Chief and I’ll still be the Desk Sergeant and if I screw up you’ll still.