This is just a one-off and is an alternative ending to Ashes to Ashes. I may add another chapter later about what they talk about in Luigi's but I'm not sure. It depends on how this chapter goes down really. I know that this isn't a good ending for the series, but I really wanted to write a happy ending for Galex. Please review and give feedback!

Gene was transfixed by the look on Alex's face. She had just figured it out: she's dead. Alex had lost everything all over again today: Molly especially. And in the next few moments she would lose this strange reality and pass into Heaven. She was about to lose Gene though, and that was killing her. Alex knew however that she had never really had him and never would now. Now that Alex knew the truth – that she had lost everything from the future – she no longer felt guilty about how much she wanted to stay with Gene because he was her everything. She looked into his eyes and saw that he had begun to cry: surely he couldn't let her go?

"Please, Gene, let me stay," Alex begged, "let me stay with you. I, I love you." She had grabbed onto his suit jacket, as if she was making sure he was looking at how much she wanted this.

"Alex, you know how I feel about you," said Gene while trying to hold back the tears, "but you have to move on. You simply can't stay."

"You're staying Gene! I can stay with you! I can help you and, maybe , help whoever joins the team next… " Alex's eyes frantically moved between each of Hunt's eyes, waiting for his reply. Gene sighed and lifted his hand to wipe the tears. Alex took hold of his hand and realized that it was shaking. "You know you want me to stay, Gene. It's so easy, just tell me that you want me to stay."

"Don't make this any harder, Alex. Of course I want you to stay!" His voice broke on his last word and he began to weep unashamedly. Alex let go of him and, to Gene's amazement, she simply walked away from him and away from the Railway Arms. "Where the bloody hell do you think you're going?" Gene yelled after her.

Alex pivoted on the spot where she stood. "I'm starting as I mean to go on!" She turned and started to walk again.

"You make no sense sometimes, you know!"

Alex hid her smirk before she turned again. "Who are you to decide when I leave? You can't force me, can you?" Gene was silent. "Well, there you go… Are you coming or what?"

"To… your place?"

"Close. Why don't we go to Luigi's for a change?"

"Perfect," Gene smiled, properly for the first time in years. "Then upstairs?" Alex looked at him in disgust, but secretly her heart skipped a beat. "I knew you'd come round to my charm eventually."

Gene half-ran to catch up with her, and they walked along the streets towards Luigi's knowing that this was only the beginning of something very special indeed.