"This is so amazing. I can't believe you're finally home and you and Roger are getting married." Maureen smiled leaning over to hug Callie again as they all sat in the living room.

"It's great to be home Maureen. I missed you too." Callie laughed looking over at her.

"OK, so now we have to plan the wedding. It's gonna be the wedding of he century." she smiled looking over at her.

"Down girl. Roger and I just want something simple." she laughed looking over at her.

"Who says? I want something big and elaborate." Roger smiled leaning over the couch to kiss Callie.

"Since when do you want a big wedding?" she asked looking up at him.

"Since forever. I wanted the day we got married to be the most special day anyone has ever seen." he smiled looking down at her.

"I missed this so much. Watching you two together. This is gonna be amazing." Maureen smiled looking over at her.

"I missed it too." Callie smiled looking over at her. "Um... Maureen, there's something I need to talk to you about. In um... in private." she said looking up at Roger.

"You guys aren't pregnant already, are you? I mean, if you are that's even more amazing. I always wanted to see what your kids would look like. I mean, with Roger's green eyes and your little nose..." she started as Callie interrupted her.

"No we're not pregnant. Um... can we just talk to you?" Callie said looking over at Allison as they got up from the couch and went into hers and Roger's room.

"You're really scaring me now." Maureen said looking over at her.

"Sit down sweetie." Callie said standing next to the bed.

"Um... OK. This sounds serious." she said looking over at her.

"Um... Maureen. I'm um... I'm HIV positive. I found out before the last time I was here. I didn't want to tell him because I was afraid he was gonna try to kill himself for hurting me." she said as Maureen looked up at her in disbelief.

"No, you um... you're not. You um... you can't be. You're healthy." she said getting up as tears rose to her eyes.

"I am healthy sweetie. I've been on good meds for a long time and everything is fine. I'm gonna be OK." she said going over to her.

"But how? How did this happen?" she asked looking over at her as tears fell from her eyes.

"When me and Roger were together after he was with April. The time I came for his birthday. But I'm OK sweetie. It's not Roger's fault. He didn't know. If he did know, you know he would never have hurt me on purpose. That much you have to know." Callie said walking after her as she paced the bedroom.

"How could he have let this happen? How could he have let you get infected?" she asked looking over at her.

"It's not his fault Maureen. It just happened. You can't blame him for something he didn't know about at the time. Sweetie, you don't believe that he would ever hurt me intentionally." she said looking over at her.

"I can't believe this. We just got you back and now we could lose you like we lost Angel and Mimi." she cried looking over at her.

"Honey, I'm gonna be OK. I'm healthy. You're not gonna lose me any time soon. I promise." she said looking over at her.

"How can you promise that? You can't." she yelled looking over at her.

"Sweetie, she's home. Roger brought her home and they're gonna get married. She's gonna be OK no matter what happens because she's home with us now. We'll take care of her. We'll take care of both of them." Allison said going over to her.

"Allie, how could we be losing her? We just got her back." Maureen asked looking over at Allison.

"We are not losing her Maureen. We're gonna do everything we can do to make sure she and Roger have a long healthy life together. Mark my words. I will not let them die. Not without a fight." Allison told her wiping her eyes.

"Maureen, I'm gonna be OK. I'm home where I belong and I don't intend to leave my best friends and the man I love anytime soon." Callie said standing next to them.

"Do you promise?" she said looking over at her.

"Maureen honey, I didn't come home to die. I came home to start living again. I'm not going anywhere yet." she smiled looking over at her.

"OK." Maureen smiled faintly before hugging Callie again.

"Why don't we go back outside? Roger's probably hiding under a table and poor Collins and Mark are probably crying from listening to you yell." Allison smiled looking over at them.

"Oh my God, Roger. I have to make sure he knows I'm not mad at him." Maureen said looking over at Callie.

"I know already Maureen." Roger told her standing in the doorway after opening the door. He was wiping his eyes.

"Roger honey, I'm so sorry." Maureen called out rushing to him.

"Hey, it's not the end Maureen. This is just the beginning. We have Cal back finally and I don't plan on letting her go any time soon." he told her taking her into his arms and holding her tight.

"I know sweetie. We're gonna fight to keep you both alive. I promise." she said hugging him.

"I know." he smiled kissing her head as Callie and Allison smiled watching them.

"OK Maureen. You can get off my man now. I thought you turned lesbian." Callie laughed teasing them.

"Bi. I still think Roger's hot." Maureen laughed wiping her eyes.

"Well he is. But he's my man, so back off woman." Callie laughed walking over to them.

"You actually think Roger's hot?" Allison laughed looking up at Roger.

"What? I am hot." Roger smiled looking down at her.

"I'm not seeing it." Allison teased as Callie and Roger wrapped their arms around one another.

"That's because you like those short, dark and obnoxious guys." Roger laughed looking down at her.

"Hey. I am not short." Benny called out as everyone laughed.

"Yes you are. And you're dark and obnoxious too." Allison yelled as they all went into the living room.

"Who's obnoxious?" a young woman asked entering the loft.

"Benny. Hey Baby. There's a couple of people I'd like you to meet." Mark smiled getting up from the couch to greet her.

"Callie and Roger. Mark's been telling me all about you since we met. It is so great to finally meet you." she smiled looking over at them. She was outgoing and a lot different from Mark. She had pretty long dark hair and had beautiful brown eyes.

"It's nice to meet you too Serena." Callie smiled looking over at her.

"Mark was right. You two do make a beautiful couple." she smiled looking over at her.

"Well we've known each other since we were 3. And you know what they say. Once you're with someone long enough, you start to look alike." Callie laughed looking up at Roger.

"Isn't that what they say about pets?" Roger asked looking down at her confused.

"Pets, boyfriends. Same difference." she laughed as he wrapped his arms around her and held her tight.

"You were right Mark. They are cute together." Serena smiled looking over at him.

"Yeah, that's gonna get old really quick." Maureen laughed looking over at her.

"I like it. I think it's romantic." Serena smiled as she watched Callie and Roger laughing together.

"So you really want a big elaborate wedding?" Callie asked looking up at Roger as they lay in bed together. She was playing with his chest hair and he was caressing her back looking down at her.

"Mhm. I've been dreaming about you in a long beautiful wedding gown coming down the aisle towards me since we were 15." he smiled looking down at her.

"Really? How come I never knew that?" she asked smiling up at him.

"Because it's embarrassing for a teenage boy to be thinking about his wedding. That's a girl thing." he smiled shifting to sit up more. His chest muscles flexed as he did this.

"Roger, you never cared what anyone thought of you." she said sitting up with him taking the sheet with her to cover her chest.

"No, I never cared what anyone else thought of me. I always cared what you thought of me and I didn't want you to think I was a dork." he corrected her raising his hand to play with her long blond hair.

"But Roger, you knew you could always be yourself around me. No one knew more about me than you and vice versa. At least that's what I thought." she said lifting her hand up to caress his hair.

"Cal, you always knew everything about me, but by the time I was 16 I didn't know who I was. I mean, you wrote in your diary that you liked me, but you were 12 then. I fell in love with you, but I thought you stopped liking me. And then I thought you had a thing for Collins because you were always together." he smiled looking up at her.

"Collins was like my girlfriend. He knew my feelings for you. I made him swear not to tell you, but I was hoping he would anyway. You know how bad guys are at keeping secrets." she laughed looking down at him.

"Nope. He just kept torturing me about asking you out. He kept saying that if I didn't ask you out soon, you were gonna get asked out by someone else and I'd lose my chance." he smiled looking up at her.

"I did get asked out by other guys, but I belonged to you. I always belonged to you Roger." she smiled leaning over to kiss him.

"Who asked you out?" he asked looking over at her.

"Roger, it doesn't matter. I never wanted to date anyone but you. We belonged to each other. Even when we were 3." she smiled caressing his cheek.

"Yeah, but who asked you out back in school?" he asked as she leaned back.

"You're not gonna let this go, are you?" she laughed looking over at him.

"I'm just curious." he asked looking up at her.

"Rob. When I turned him down, he started messing with me." she said looking over at him.

"Was that the day I kicked his ass?" he asked looking over at her.

"Mhm. He was such a jerk." she said smiling at him.

"OK, who else?" he asked looking over at her.

"Mark. But he wasn't very good at it." she laughed looking over at him.

"Mark? Our Mark asked you out? When?" he asked sitting up more.

"It was for the spring formal in 9th grade." she smiled looking over at him.

"How did he ask you?" he asked curious.

"Well, he came up to me and said that he knew I liked you, but since it didn't look like you were gonna ask me out anytime soon, would I like to go to the spring formal with him." she laughed looking down at him.

"You're kidding? He asked you like that?" he laughed bringing his legs up to his chest.

"Yeah. Don't torture him about it though, OK? It was a long time ago." she said looking over at him.

"But that is the lamest way to ask a girl out ever." he laughed looking over at her.

"We were 14 Roger. And I didn't see you getting up the nerve to ask me out." she smiled looking over at him.

"That's true. I can't believe Mark gets the balls up before I do and he blows it like that." he laughed looking over at her.

"I know. I felt bad for him. He's always been in your shadow Roger. Everything he wanted, you got." she said looking over at him.

"What do you mean?" he asked confused.

"Well, do you remember when we were little? He wanted the comic book party for his 10th birthday, but you had one instead. He wanted the magician at his 8th birthday party, but your parents got one for you first. He liked me, but I was always your girl." she said folding her legs in front of her.

"Yeah but, he gets to live when this is all over." he said looking over at her.

"But he's been watching you get what you want all these years. While you were out living your dreams, he was documenting it. He didn't get to do much living of his own. That must have been really hard for him." she said looking over at him.

"Oh man. You're right." he said looking over at her.

"Roger, it's not your fault. It's just that you were always older and we were all so close. We liked the same things and your birthday was always first." she smiled looking over at him.

"But he's been taking care of me. He lost Maureen because of it and now 6 years later, he's just getting his life back." he said looking over at her.

"But he is. That's all that matters Baby. We're all getting our lives back." she smiled laying against his chest.

"Finally. It only took us 7 years." he smiled leaning down to kiss her head.

"But we are Roger. We're together again and we're never gonna let each other go again." she said looking up at him.

"You've always been my destiny Cal. I've known that for as long as I can remember." he smiled leaning down to kiss her.

"I know Roger." she whispered kissing him again. This time more passionately.