She was looking at what had been Evelyn Mercer's house. It was a well respected place. It had been built with only love and it would remain there for the love of people who needed it and wanted it. She stood on the sidewalk, out front another house and looked at the people file into the Mercer house. She saw Jerry get out of the car and walk in with his wife. Then came Jack and Bobby. She saw them all; and when Jack saw her, he hit Bobby on the arm and they walked over to where she stood looking at the house.

"Crystal!" Cried Bobby as he came next to her and embraced a huge. She hugged him and shut her eyes tight, taking his deep scent. "Bobby…" She whispered and kissed him lightly on the cheek. Their hug had been a few moments but they had felt each other; shivers had gone through their bodies. Bobby had buried his head in her neck and hair taking everything back that had once been his. Her skin was still light and golden, and her hair was still the sweet vanilla.

Bobby had been the same, still the sweet, hard man to her. He was just as she thought he would be, and when she had hugged him she had put her head on his shoulder and lightly taken him in. Bobby smiled at her, a genuine smile and then moved back to let his little brother through.

When she saw Jack her lips parted and for a moment, her eyes shimmered. He came up to her and hugged her. She put her arm's tightly around little Cracker Jack and whispered in his ear, "Can I still call you that? Cracker Jack?"

As they hugged he nudged her and heard him say, "Not a chance in hell Crystal…" She smiled and let him go after she kissed him on the cheek.

"You came for mama's funeral, then?" Bobby asked as they started walking towards the house. "Yeah…I'm so sorry boys."

"Who are you calling boys?" Bobby asked and smiled when they started laughing. "True, Jack still needs a few years."

Jack pursed his lips at Bobby who smiled at him as Jack said, "She's the same age as I am. And you, your only four years older than both of us."

Crystal smiled, it was the same brothers. Bobby and Jack had always been her favorites, always would be. Then the memories came back and everything started filling in again.

"It looks…the same." Crystal whispered at the house and went into the back with them. Jack smiled and nodded solemnly, "Yeah…yeah it does."

Cop Green was reading files off to his partner, Fowler, as they were at the office. Fowler wanted to know the blonde girl, the new girl.

"She isn't new, Fowler. She's an old friend…she's a friend of the Mercer's. You could say she's one of them…"

Green trialed off looking thoughtful as he watched her. "Little, Crystal Carrington. It's nice to have the girl back here."

"Why do you keep calling her girl-" Fowler asked but Green went on.

"C, or Crystal was always known for being the girl next door. She was the fifth person to be in the Mercer's house the longest. Mrs. Evelyn almost adopted her but the neighbors had wanted a kid. She had grown up with those boys. She had cared about them more than anything else. But only with Jerry and Angel was she a sister to. Bobby was different…"

Crystal spaced off as they were sitting in the living room, all of the thoughts came into her mind. One's that she swore she'd never remember…

"Bobby." She whispered touching his face lightly as she ruffled his hair with her hand. He was laying on her, in her bedroom and when she said his name he brought his head back up. It was earlier in the morning when they had awoke and recalled the night before. "Crystal…" He murmured as his lips lightly touched her cheek and he kissed her. "Bobby, you'd better go…if we get caught-" She started but he kissed her again and she slid her hand over his biceps as he moved her head slightly to the left and kissed her neck. Crystal shut her eyes momentarily and then whispered again, "We have to get dressed, if we don't-" But he ignored her and looked into her eyes, "One more time." A smile slid over her face. She ran her fingers through his hair again and kissed him.

A sudden burst of someone, saying something, made her come back and she looked around, bewildered.

"Crystal!" Jerry said as he came through the doorway. "Jerry!" She said as she got up and gave him a hug. "I've missed you, girl. Where you been?" Jerry asked as they sat down momentarily. "Oh, you know, doing things…" Crystal said in a whisper. "Anyway," She said quickly, "What is new with you?"

"Well, I have a family, and a home, two daughters-" He was going to say more but he knew Crystal. "No shit! You have a home! You have a family…you've been fucking' busy, haven't you?" An amused look came over her face as she said it.

Meeting Angel was the same, he walked through the door and picked her up only to twirl her around a few times and say, "Girl!"

She gave an innocent smile and asked him how he had been hanging everything up in his life and he only answered, "You have to do some fucking hard things in the Marines…you'd never guess it, but there are girls." He winked at her as then she smiled politely and got up and went up the stairs.

"Crystal." Called Bobby from the hallway as she landed on the platform. She turned to him and gave a small smile. "Come here…" He took her hand and led her to his old room. Shutting the door behind him Bobby turned back to her. "How you've been chickadee?"

She took a breath and said, "Good…fine. You know why I have come back, don't you?" She asked. He looked up at her, seriously from the bed, where he sat.

"Not for me." He said plainly and looked into her eyes, he was bringing back memories-too many. As Bobby sat on the bed he thought about their last meeting and what happened and what they established.

FLASH BACK

"Bobby, your leaving, aren't you?" The younger Crystal whispered to him as he held her. "Yeah, yeah I am."

"What about us, what about everything?" She asked, turned to face him, both knowing what the other would say. "Crystal, you know it's never going to work. You don't love me and I can't love you. The only reason we-" He started but she cut him off.

"We wanted it. We don't even love each other." She whispered looking down, she was ashamed of herself and of him. They had been sinful, very stupid people. They were too young and they didn't even love each other. Did they even know what love was?

Coming back too she looked into Bobby's eyes who was still sitting on the bed. Walking over she sat next to him and took his hand. "Why did we do that?" Crystal whispered to him as he turned his head to face her. "I don't know Crystal…I don't know. We were stupid and we didn't think about really loving a person. It was do and be done with."

Crystal let go of his hand and shrugged as she lay back and look at the ceiling. "You don't love me, do you?" She asked him and he lay back with her and asked the question back to her. At the same moment they both said no. She looked over at him and smiled. "It was...We are grown up now. We don't love each other and that has always been a given but we can't-" Crystal started.

"We can't ever do that again or make love each other when we don't love each other. We were so out of control…" Bobby said.

She got up and slowly walked to the door, "We have bigger problems now. We have to find the killer of your mother-"

"We do…and Crystal," He said as she was about to walk out the door, "none of my brothers know about us back then. And there's nothing now, so, welcome home sister."

"Jackie!" Bobby yelled through the house. Jack appeared around the corner with his skates. "Go find C, would you?"

"Come on…you go find her-" Jack leaned on the wall and shook his head as he turned back around. "Why the hell do I have to look for her…?"

Going up the stairs he heard Bobby yell, "You're finding her cause she's sleeping in your room-" Jack turned and faced the door and yelled back to Bobby, "Why does she want my room?"

"Cause, I put her there. You two are the same age remember?" Bobby taunted back at Jack.

Jack cursed as he knocked on his door to his room. He was quiet as he opened the door and saw Crystal. She had the music on and she smiled at him. "We're playing hockey, aren't we?" She asked as Jack entered the room and shut the door.

He reached over and shut the music off. "Yeah."

Crystal walked up to him and tapped her hockey stick on his shoulder. Jack took it and pulled her closer. She looked into his blue eyes and got lost. He put his head down and when they were inches away he whispered, "I've missed you."

Crystal was about to turn but decided that he would stop and that- Jack stopped and looked into her eyes and pulled back. "You're not going to-" She asked.

"Kiss you?" Jack asked then shook his head with a smile as he laughed at her, "No. I just missed you. You're like a sister…"