'Til The End of Time

Chapter 18: Remember You

Owen stood in front of Baylie's room and just looked at her limp body lying in the bed. "I'm gonna miss you. I hope you will too. I'll see you one day." He walked closer to her and kissed her forehead.

"She'll miss you bud." Jay walked in and hugged him. Owen put his head on Jay's chest and cried.

"She shouldn't have gone like this. She was my best friend." Jay cracked a smile through the tears streaming down his face.

"I'm done Camille." Hank yelled, it was heard throughout the front part of the hospital.

"Hank, you can't be done. Our son and his wife are dead. Their one year old son. Is without parents." Camille cried out. Erin picked Jack up and put him on her lap.

"Momma!" He yelled. Erin smiled through the tears. She kissed his head then laid him down so he could go to sleep.

"Erin, come on let's go home. Jack Needs to sleep in his bed." Erin opens her eyes and let Jay take Jack.

Erin walked into the house and smelled the aroma of the honey candle that was lit a few days ago. Jay put The sleeping Jack into his bed then they called it a night until Jay started hearing  this wailing cry in the middle of the night.

Jay rolled out of bed after kissing Erin.
"Hey bud. What's wrong?" Jay picked him up and sat down with him in the rocking chair.

"You and me. We are gonna finish having this talk. I'm your daddy. You can always come to me for anything you need. I promise. I never had one that cared about me but you do and we are gonna figure this out together. Jack, you are my first Born and I want you to know you are amazing and my little hero. If you need to get something out you can come to me or go to your mom. Never take it out on a bottle or a bottle of drugs. I don't want you doing that. I love you and right you are about the best thing that's happened to me in my life. Meeting your mom was the first but holding you in my arms it's the best feeling in the world. Jack, I want you to put the Badge on your chest everyday and know you made a good choice. Being a hero is more than just saying you are one. Jack,I love you. I want you to change the world one day. Do the good your mom and I taught you to do."

Erin smiled through the tears as she watched Jay hold their son rocking him back to sleep.

"Your mom is the strongest person I know. Yeah I told you this the day you were born. Jack, you need to know that your mom she went through hell, and I don't want you going through it. You can do whatever you want in your life just know I'll be here to back you up one hundred percent. I promise little guy. I love you a lot and I never want anything to happen to you, and if I freak about you wanting to do something. Just back up and ask again. I promise I'll try not to get mad but you are my first born and I never want to see you in a casket before me." Jay kissed his head then put him back in the crib. Jay looked over at Erin and smiled. He got up and kissed her the they both laid down in the bed.

"I don't know why I ever worried or doubted you Jay."

"I was so close to coming home in a casket five years ago. I wasn't gonna come home. I don't know what brought me home. It wasn't Ally and it wasn't Mouse. I think it was this feeling I got the night I was in the hospital. It was telling me something that I'd find the one thing I need to keep moving. I was in the hospital because I was nearly killed. Erin, before I was I saw this woman and her child. He was only a year th they died. I couldn't save them. I almost died in the blast that killed them. I wish I had. But I got this feeling that I'd meet someone and that someone was you. You gave me the feeling that I wouldn't be alone. That I would always have the need to keep going. I do, still it's you and Jack. When you left me I was alone and thinking about killing myself. I didn't because I got that feeling again that feeling that you were gonna come back. Erin, when I first saw you. I knew you were the one I needed. I didn't say anything because of Hank's rule but we stuck with being partners until you left and that's what changed it. Erin, I haven't told you this but I love you very much. I don't know what I would do without you or Jack. I have my niece and nephews but it's not the same as you and Jack. I come home and here you two are. You bring me so much so much joy. I don't know what I'd do if I ever lost you or him. You saved my life. You brought me home from Iraq, you gave me the strength to not kill myself from PTSD, or the pain I was having. You didn't know me and I didn't know you but I had this feeling that it was the person I was going to find and it surely was. You saved my life.." Jay turned around tears streaming down his face. He grabbed Erin's cheeks and pulled her in for a kiss.

Jay backed up, "Er-" Erin put her finger over his lips.

"Shh you don't have to explain." She grabbed his cheeks and kissed him.