The next morning they woke up slightly confused before bounding out of bed. Neither had set the alarm and it was already seven am.

"I'm sorry Jesse please don't take this wrong, but if I don't get to work my staff sergeant's going to chew my ass out."

"Shh I'm fine not like I don't have to be at work in," she checked her bedside table, "good grief twenty five minutes."

Both scrambled to get dressed, Jesse in her work clothes and Gage in his evening ones. Rushing out of the apartment at a dead run he realized that he didn't have his car. Jesse rushed out with keys in hand to see him standing at her car with his head hung in shame.

"I forgot, oh lord Gage come on, let me take you home." She drove somewhere between the speed limit and way too fast, but made it there in one piece. Gage hurried to the house to change into his BDU's.

The day seemed to mimic the morning in that rushed pace and didn't slow down, each was of course exhausted from the night before and the day cruelly taunted them taking what reserves they did have and rendering them useless.

When Gage finally got home that night it was after eight.

Marty was sitting at the table eating fried rice when he came dragging in. "Are you ok?"

He nodded taking a seat across from her. "Just tired."

"Would you like some of this?" She showed him the take out box filled with beef and broccoli.

"Mmhmm."

Sliding it across the table to him along with the fork she'd been using he finished it up for her.

"Thanks Marty. I'm going to shower and sleep. Good night."

She grinned at his back shaking her head. "Good night."

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