Is this the end of the moment?
Or just a beautiful unfolding,
Of a love that will never be?
Or maybe be?

-Anywhere but Here (without You) by Safetysuit

Chapter Four

"Josefant?"

Uh-oh. This could only lead to trouble. His sister hardly ever used his nick name… only when, "You're going to do something you're snot suppose to aren't you Ellie?"

"Please it's only for a second. It won't take long." His sister pleaded. "I just have to see dad. It's just something I have to do."

"But Ellie—"

"I know. I know the rules and the risk I'll be taking, but I have to go see him. Please." His sister continued to plea. The corner of her eyes threatened to spill with tears. His sister never cried. Not since, not since mom.

"Just this once," Joey turned so that he was facing the adults and his back covered his sister, "hurry back I don't know how long I can keep 'em busy."

Behind him Elle made her escape.

"Uncle Fargoose! Why is the sky blue?"

Maybe they were nothing to each other. Maybe it was just his intellectual mind running away from him and he had ill-rationalized something that really wasn't there. It wouldn't be the first time.

Zane prided himself at being a man of science. That if he could quantify and give it tangible meaning than that within itself made it real. He believed the events of the past few months should have lead to a logical solution. Whatever that could have been, but now would never be.

Ex-Deputy Lupo has done it again! She managed to make him question everything that he knew to be true. There was that kiss for starters—it was supposed to be the final puzzle piece of the big secret she was keeping from him. Sure Zane had been kissed before however it wasn't the kiss itself, it was the principle behind it. And she felt it too, and even if she hadn't than why did she kiss him back before pulling away? He stood by his observation that kiss really didn't feel like the first time. Ergo he had a right to know what they meant to each other she owed him that much, but no.

Jo giveth and Lupo taketh away.

"Damn it!" Zane said as he angrily ran his hand through his hair. Simultaneously he heard a crash sounding an awful lot like broken glass. He let out a few choice swear words but bit back his tongue when he saw the cause of the crash.

Standing a few feet away was a little girl, who was just about crying her eyes out. He silently cursed himself. The director of security was back and just in time to see him practically scaring one of GD's future scientist- this was just the icing on top of a catastrophe of a day.

But before he could make an apology the kid turned on her heel and ran in the opposite direction. With his track for the day he decided not to follow her. Besides he already tried that earlier and look where that got him.

He brushed the situation off, besides, 'maintenance at the end of would clean up the glass' he thought as he returned to his work and left the broken glass on the floor.

"So you're saying it's because of the at musts pear (atmosphere) is a mixture of gas mole cures (molecules) and other thingies . . . and Mister Roy G Biv says blue ray light scatters as it moves through the at musts pear?"

Old director Fargo, as far as current Director Fargo concluded, was not a very patient man. With the anger ray debacle shedding some light on the matter and this Director made a bit more effort to be more kind and tolerant (well except for Dr. Parrish of course there was no hope for him in his book), Jo's son was take the lead against Parrish without even trying. He wouldn't say he disliked the boy. He kind of reminded him of himself at that age.

"Uh-Fargo?"

"Yeah Sheriff?"

"Where's the other one?"

"The other one?" Fargo flashed Carter a sheepish look. "Wasn't she," he looked around but didn't see her anywhere. "She was here a minute ago. Doing cartwheels in the rotunda I swear!"

Meanwhile the younger sibling of twins (that was there) tried to hide the guilt and worry from his face. "C'mon Ellie. Where are you?" He hissed.

"FAR-GO!" Allison, Henry, Grace, and Jack choir together.

Fargo started to panic. Jo was going to kill him. And with her Special Forces training people weren't going to be able to recognize his body. His best bet was his dental recorders. He was too young to—

"Hey look what I can do!" The four adults and Fargo turned to see the girl in question standing with her feet apart and her hands in the air. "Watch," as she proceed to do a cartwheel. Halfway through she lost her footing and tip towards her right side. Luckily mid-air she got her footing back and land so that she didn't hurt herself.

Elle stood up forcing a smile, "Ta-da!"

Allison, the Deacons, and Fargo clapped enthusiastically. Jack smiled to himself. He was reminded of his own daughter at that age- remembering when Zoe wanted to be an Olympic gold medal gymnast/princess.

Behind the five adults the worry in Joey's chest seemed to intensify. His sister always stuck the landing. Always! The first time she did one she was able to complete a one-eighty rotation and that was a long time ago since then. Something was wrong. But he knew he couldn't ask about it with the adults around. His sister would rather bottle up her emotions instead of letting anyone else get involved, she was his annoying older sister that.

Joey flashed her a worried look, but she refused to look at him.

"Hey Ellie. Fargoose six plane (explain) to me why the sky is blue!" His sister rolled her eyes at him. That did the trick.

"Did he now?" His sister challenged.

"Yep. And it isn't to match you or Daddy's eyes!" Joey said the past part rather triumphantly and louder. He watched as his sister recoiled back like he hit her. She looked away but he already saw the stream of tears down her face. He scolded himself.

"We need to take the kids out of GD. The tour has been over since this morning and people are going to start questioning their presence here." Fargo said quietly.

"Well what do you suppose we do?" Grace asked just as quietly so that only they could here.

"Since GD isn't equipped with any child care centers." Henry added.

"Hey don't blame me." Fargo quipped defensively.

"I have an idea." They turned to Jack.

"I can take them back to S.A.R.A.H. I know my jeep doesn't have car-seats, but I can still buckle them in and drive really slow. It's our safest bet."

Allison smiled at him and his idea and added, "Just be sure you drive under the speed limit Carter. Afterwards you can give yourself a traffic violation ticket later."

"You want me to give myself a slowing ticket?" Jack asked humorously. The five adults chuckled to themselves.

Turning away from the group he knelt down so that he was eye leveled with the twins. "You wanna go take a ride with me?"

"Sure, but only if I get to turn on the sirens and ride in the front!"

"But that snot fair!"

"Yeah so? I already called dibs."

"Come on you two. My jeep is this way." They ran as fast as their little feet could take them in the direction he pointed.

Kids. Jack sighed to himself and he took a couple of long strides to catch up to them. Today was a really long day and getting longer it would seem.

"Welcome home Jack," came Fargo's auto-tuned/feminine voice, who Jack has grown to know as S.A.R.A.H.

"I see you brought home some guests." The smart house acknowledged.

"Zoe!" The twins raced towards top of the stairs where the youngest Carter stood.

Somehow Jo Lupo made it through the day. Somehow she made it back to her office and got herself not to think just do. To breathe and to push everything away, nothing else matters but the task at hand and that was her job. The sun had already set when she pulled out of the parking lot and drove back to the bunker.

"I'm on my way out S.A.R.A.H." Zoe Carter was the last person she wanted to see her like this. Their eyes locked.

"Hey Jo. Thanks for not telling me your niece and nephew were coming over." Zoe's voice was dripping with sarcasm but without any malice.

"No wonder you were so out of it this afternoon. Anyway the kids are asleep in my room. They spent the whole day watching the Goonies over and over again. By the fifth time the credits were rolling they were fast asleep."

'Sounds like something Zane would do. It was after all his favorite movie growing up and they are his kids,' Jo couldn't stop herself from thinking.

"-Complements of Zane since he left the DVD last week, anyway since my room is occupied at the moment I will be sleeping over at Pilars. And speaking of catching up, we should catch up as well Jo since, well…"

"What happen?" Jo asked barely trusting her voice.

"It's not like he broke up with me or anything because we weren't actually going out."

"Awe Zoe." Her heart went out to her friend and she couldn't help but feel like she was part of the reason why she felt this way.

"So I told him that we should be friends. Besides I think he likes someone else, and I was just too love struck to see it. I blame teenage hormones."

Jo was in shock.

"But you know it still kind of hurts you know."

The sad thing was Jo did know yet she couldn't bring herself to say anything.

"Plus I don't think I was ever really over Lucas in the first place—"

"Awe Zoe," Jo said before bringing the younger woman into a hug.

Zoe sniffed and rubbed stray teardrops from her eyes, "Thanks Jo. So we'll catch up yeah?"

"Come and find me. I'll be picking up a few shifts at Café Diem while I'm here. You should come visit me when you have time."

Jo nodded sealing a promise.

"Oh and bring the twins! I can't wait for them to meet the town. Bye Jo. Bye S.A.R.A.H.!" With that Zoe left.

Jo made her way to the kitchen and found Carter enjoying a slice of pie.

"Hey Jo," he said between bites.

Jo nodded to him.

"So Allison is dropping some of Kevin's old clothes tomorrow for Joey and while Zoe spent the day watching the kids I found some of her old stuff that I brought into Eureka during the move."

"Ahem."

"S.A.R.A.H. helped too." Jack added as he polished off the rest of his pie.

"Besides helping Jack find what he was looking for since I archived the things in the attic I also looked into GD mainframe for some early childhood development programming and updated my software. Hmm, I wonder if this is what nesting feels like. I am just so excited."

"Thanks S.A.R.A.H." Jo said numbly. "I'm just going to go to bed now. Long day and all."

Jack put his dishes in the sink and turned to Jo. "You're not alone in this Jo. We're all here for you Jo. You don't have to go through this alone."

Jo nodded again not trusting her voice for the umpteen time that day and headed for the stairs. She stopped at the top of the stairs and turned to where Zoe's room was. But didn't make any movements to go in- she wasn't ready, not yet.

She didn't know if she would ever be and that scared her the most.

The end of Chapter Four.

This chapter was really hard to write, but that's no excuse. And I'm really sorry and you guys deserve better. I really tried to get this up sooner, but everything just kept getting in the way. Then worst news as fans we could possible hear was released last week. Now more than ever I'm determine to see this through to the end.

BTW special thanks to RyaJynx thanks so much for being my beta and I hope your week get's better.

Oh and here's the info I got from Fargo and Joey's explanation about 'why the sky is blue': h t t p : / / w w w . sciencemadesimple .com / sky_blue. html (if you were wondering.)

Review? I'll see you guys in the next chapter.