Us Against All Odds (En)

Back to Reality

Twilight, I suddenly realized, is only an illusion: the sun is either above the horizon or below it, which means that day and night are linked as few things are. One cannot be without the other, and yet they cannot exist at the same time. I remember wondering what it would feel like to be always together and yet eternally separate.

Nicholas Sparks

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They had returned to Seattle on June twenty-ninth. They had returned home tired.

They would return to work on the fourth of July, with a few days left to recover from the jet lag.

The captain and her wife had gone to the barracks to see their friends. They had brought back gifts for everyone.

- "my favorite captain and her goddess of a wife!" Travis, who was at the front desk, said.

- "did you miss us?"

- "we missed Carina's cooking... And you too a little bit, I can tell you that once again we feel bad for criticizing you at the beginning of your reign... Andy is too... Andy and Jack is too disorganized, once you get back I mean not on the field..."

- "Are we talking about me?!" Jack said as he walked out of Maya's office with a charming smile under his face. "Are you okay Carina?!" He asked with a smirk as he thought back to the  wedding eve.

- "you can avoid doing... Your... Jack, with my wife please?!"

- "no, but I'm sorry, but I understand you, Maya!"

- "we're going to see Jo afterwards, do you want to come?" Carina asked.

- "tell her I love her" he said awkwardly before going up to the break room.

They had all gone upstairs.

- "How was the vacation?" Vic asked.

-"It wasn't a vacation... It was their honeymoon" said Dean with a huge smile and a wink.

-"Dean... Don't start," Maya stared at him.

-"Tell us all about it!" Ben said.

-"We're waiting for Andy if you don't mind."

About ten minutes later Maya's best friend arrived.

After saying hello to everyone, the distribution of gifts was done and they were ready to tell about their vacation.

When one started a sentence, the other finished it. They told of seeing a friend of Carina's and dancing in a park in Catania. They explained that they had sneaked into the Italian girl's father's house while Vincenzo was away and Maya had shown everyone the photos she had taken of Carina and Andrea, especially the photo of Carina dressed as a clown.

She kept saying that she wanted that, she wanted a little being that would look exactly like that.

They had told everything, embellishing their speech with pictures they had taken, of Etna and the sea bed. Everything was there, except the surprise meeting of the brunette's father and the too intimate moments.

**19 PUMPER, LADDER 19, AT ALDER STREET AND NINTH STREET**

Dean, Ben, Travis and Jack were out on a call with the other A-Team firefighters. Vic was assigned to the front desk and Andy was off duty, she had come specifically to see the girls.

Once the men had left, Maya and Carina had recounted more intimate passages.

-"By the way Maya! Did your wife like your swimsuit?!" Vic asked.