As with most emergency responders, Jacob and Jessica met at work when they were freshly assigned partners. Day 1: Jacob was quite reserved and spent the entire day by himself. Jessica expressed her inability to endure the full shift in silence and at the beginning of the following shift offered to leave. Jacob's personality came through right away, and over the course of that next year, they developed a friendship that progressed to a relationship that has brought them to this point, 6 years later. What follows is history.