During the following three days Ed had barely left her alone. Sloan sighed as she sat at her desk,she knew he was only looking out for her best interests. She also knew that if Ed didn’t start giving her some distance Atwood would become suspicious. Sloan hadn’t had the oppurtunity to tell her boss about her pregnancy. She was still debating about telling him at all. 

The only reason he wasn’t here now was because she had finally convinced him to go home and get some sleep. Granted it was nearly one in the afternoon but she knew he hadn’t slept very much since she had told him about the baby. 

Sloan sighed as she felt a migraine start to form behind her eyes. This should be the happiest time in her life.
She and Tom should be celebrating,making plans.
Instead he was god knows where doing god knows what under Lewis’s orders.
She didn’t even have a phone number to contact him.
Sloan glanced out the window,she missed him so much.

 The main thing she wanted more than anything in the world right now was something Ed couldn’t give her.
She needed Tom’s arms around her.
She needed to hear his voice telling her everything was okay.
Sloan just wished she knew if she was ever going to see him again. 

Ed Tate closed the door to his apartment and leaned back against it. His eyes drifted closed as weariness washed over him. The last few months were finally starting to catch up with him. 

Finding the pillar,then watching it being destroyed. Sloan being kidnapped.
Lewis forcing her on the run.
Kelly.

 Ed’s eyes snapped open at the last thought. He just realized this was the first time he had really been in his apartment since she had died. With everything that had gone on the last few months the only sleep he had gotten was a catnap or two at the lab. The only time he had come by his apartment was to grab a change of clothes. 

Not bothering to turn on the light the young doctor moved through the living room toward his bedroom. Ed paused in the doorway,there was no way he could sleep in that room. Even though Atwood had gotten the lab to replace his bed the room was still full of memories. Memories of how he had failed a friend who had trusted him to help her. 

So engrossed in his thoughts Ed didn’t see the shadow come up behind him. Couldn’t react fast enough when the assialant tackled him to the floor.