Disclaimer: I do not own any characters in this story, except for Angel and Eddie. All others are property of ABC Disney.

Author's Note: This is a non-traditional Rafe/Alison story. I won't say anymore than that because I don't want to give away the story. Please tell me what you think.

Rafe looked over and smiled at his wife. They'd been married 6 years now, and had two beautiful children. Angel was 5 and Eddie was almost 2. Eddie looked exactly like his mother, while Angel was her father. He had to laugh when he thought about the day they brought Eddie home from the hospital. Angel had drawn a picture, and the house had been decorated for his arrival. Alison's pregnancy was easy going with him. She never had any difficulty like she did with Angel.

"What are you thinking?" she asked, realizing he had drifted off into space while sitting on the couch.

"I was thinking of how lucky I am. I've got you, Angel, and Eddie. There's nothing more I could ask for," smiling at her as he leaned in for a kiss. The moment was short lived as their little boy came wobbling over to the couch. His big blue eyes staring up at them and giving them that silly grin. That was the one thing that was the same with them, they both had Alison's blue eyes.

"Hello there, my little man," Alison said leaning over and picking him up. "I bet you're getting hungry." She got up and went into the kitchen to make him some dinner.

"Angel, what do you want for dinner?" she yelled from the kitchen. Right as she yelled that she heard the patter of little feet running and soon saw her sandy blonde daughter come around the corner.

"I want pizza!"

"No, you are not getting pizza tonight. We have Danny's birthday party tomorrow, and I'm sure they'll have pizza there. I can make you some chicken and rice. How's that?"

"I guess so," she said, with a pouty face as she went back to her room.

Rafe laughed, he couldn't get over how wonderful a mother she was. "What time is the party? I forgot about it."

"7 o'clock." She knew the look on his face, he had promised someone else something at that time. "I knew you were going to do this. I knew you'd forget and promise something else."

"I will be there as soon as I can. One of the guys asked me the other day if I was willing to work a little overtime, and I told him yes. I should be getting off work at 7:30 or so. Are you upset with me?" as he walked over to the kitchen and stood over her.

She couldn't help but smile. He always had a way to make her not be upset at him anymore. "No, I can never be upset at you, Rafe Kovich," as she laid her head on his chest, feeling his heartbeat.

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"We're here," Alison said as she walked into Lucy's house holding Eddie in her arms and Angel by the hand.

"Hey cuties," Lucy said, taking Eddie out of his mom's arms and giving him a big hug. "Where's Rafe at?"

"He forgot about the party, he'll be here in about 45 minutes," she said setting down her purse and presents by the door. She then realized she had left the camera at the house. "Lucy, I left the camera at the house."

"It's ok, just get copies of the pictures from our camera," Lucy said walking back in from the play room.

"I have a roll almost used up though, I'll just be a few minutes," she said, picking up her purse to run back to the house real quick. As she was walking out the door Angel and Eddie ran up to her "Mommy! Mommy!"

She squatted down to their height, "I'll be right back. I have to go back to the house for something. I love you two," she said giving them each a big hug and a kiss before closing the door behind her.

As Lucy saw the door close she got a bad feeling. She ran over to the door to tell Alison not to go, but already saw her backing out of the driveway.

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Lucy looked at the clock again, it was now 7:30. Where was Alison she thought? Why hadn't she gotten back from the house? They only lived five minutes apart. It shouldn't take her this long to get back. Something was wrong, she could feel it.

Ian walked up behind her, "It's going to be ok, Lucy. She probably just got to the house and remembered something else." He had just said those words when the phone rang. She looked at Ian, daring him to answer the phone.

"Hello, Thornhart residence," he said, thinking it was probably Alison saying she was on the way back.

"Ian, it's Jamal. Is Lucy there?"

"Sure, just a minute," he said handing her the phone and saying Jamal's name quietly.

"Hey Jamal," she said, breathing a sigh of relief that it wasn't bad news.

"Lucy, is Rafe there?"

"No, he's supposed to be here in a few minutes though. Why do you ask?"

"I don't know how to tell you this, Lucy. Jack and I are on the side of the road right now. There's been an accident."

"Alison-." Ian turned around to see the color drain from her face and her start to fall to the floor. Running he was able to grab her before she got hurt. He picked up the phone, "Jamal, are you still there?"

"Yeah, I was just about to tell Lucy that Alison was in a wreck. It's not good, we're going to go get Rafe at work and meet you at the hospital," Jamal said as he hung up the phone.

Ian was redialing the phone when Reese walked in from the playroom. "Was that Jack on the phone?" she asked before noticing the look on Lucy and Ian's faces.

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