sloane

and he loves the kid, and he gets along real well with carole, and carole knows he doesn't love her, but she wants her little boy to have a father again. so she really tries to stick it out, but she knows it's not fair. she breaks things off, and she moves back home, and maverick goes back to work, and everything's fine.

except every time he hears a dumb joke, he keeps looking for carole, hoping to hear her laugh. and every time there's something to celebrate, he wants to go home to carole, crank up the music in the kitchen, and have a beer and a dance. and when he almost dies for the thirteen-billionth time, it's carole and her little boy he thinks of as he punches out.

the second he's cleared, he's on the first flight back to virginia, walking into her house, begging her to take him back because he loves her, damn it. she completes him.