"I can not believe you did that to me!" I mean really, Jim that was terrible!" [Blair slammed the truck door]

"Oh, come on, it was fun !" [Jim's attempts at appeasement had yet to calm down his lover/partner]

"Fun! Fun! What was so much fun? Hmmm.... going into a restaurant, for what I thought and requested a simple birthday dinner, no fuss no muss. Only to find the entire police department waiting our arrival. With not only black balloons, black candles but a coffin ! A coffin Jim! I *so* did not need that image in my brain prior to bed time!!" [stepping through the front door of their building and nearly hitting Jim in the nose with it]

"Well, I did not know about that bit, but you have to admit babe, it was filled with gifts, and you did have fun! After all you only turn 50 once as you told me not that long ago! Come on babe lets just go to bed, and you can nail me to the mattress." [hope hope. As they mounted the stairs]

"Nail you to the mattress!?! You will be lucky if you ever get any again! "

"But Blair....." [whine]

"Ya know Jim we have been living in this building for over twenty years and that elevator has worked about twice!"

"Er actually its fixed, " [confused peek at his lover]

"what! If its fixed then why did we take the stairs?" [as he opens the door to apartment 307]

"er, because you started up and I followed?" [half smile]

"Jim, [smile begins to form, guide reaches out to his sentinel, lover, partner and friend] I'm fifty! Why don't I feel fifty?"

"Don't know, maybe cause you are in love?" [snuggle, kiss, slow move to stairs to loft]

"Ya know big guy maybe I will nail you to that mattress after all" [clothing scattered all over, thumping sounds, silence...]

"Happy Birthday Captain Sandburg"

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