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A/N: Hope you all like the ending.

Epilogue

Matt York walked around slowly. He couldn't stop grinning, he was so happy to be at CalSci. It was his first day. School had been out for the summer and he watched as everyone was buzzing about, getting the final preparations ready. He looked down at his schedule. His first class with Professor Charlie Eppes. Matt had a lot to thank to his friend, being as without Charlie's input, Matt knew that CalSci would have never accepted him. Too bad Matt couldn't find Charlie or his class room.

Charlie was in his office, with Larry standing beside him. Charlie was really very nervous. What if his classes where empty now? What if the students didn't want to learn from someone who had spent last year crazy? It had been so long since he was last teaching. Charlie grabbed the paper bag to breath into that Larry gave him.

Larry watched Charlie breath in the bag. He was very glad that he remembered to think ahead and bring a bag. Charlie had gotten the okay to teach again, and for weeks now, Charlie had been ecstatic. Larry looked down at his friend, but now, he was worried, nervous, but yet still ecstatic. When Charlie had calmed down, Larry took the bag away. "Now, Charles. Just stay calm. I don't have a class this morning, so if you desire I can accompany you. Of course I will be sitting in the back of the room and only for support."

Charlie nodded, "Yeah. That'd be great, Larry." He stood up and looked at this watch. "Class will be starting soon. I'd better get in there." He turned towards the door and just stood there.

Larry put his hand on Charlie's back, "Charles. It will be fine, great even." He slowly pushed his friend forward, to the door.

Ellen Booth smiled. She heard that Dr. Eppes was back. She had missed him while he was away. He just made math so easy to understand. In fact, she was having to take the freshman class over again because the professor who took over for Dr. Eppes did not explain it in a way so that she understood, and he didn't really seem to care about the students. Many of them had failed and where taking the class over again.

She looked around the campus and found someone who looked lost. She looked him up and down and decided that she'd help the cute new guy. She walked up, "Hello."

"Hi." He smiled looking around again.

"Lost?" She asked, knowing the answer.

He chuckled, "Yeah. Just a bit." He shook his head, "Sorry. I'm Matt, Matt York."

"Ellen Booth." They shook hands. "So, want me to help you out?" She looked down at his schedule. "Can't find Dr. Eppes' class?"

"Dr. Eppes?" Matt asked, blinking. "Oh. Charlie." He nodded. "Yeah. Can't find Char ... I mean Dr. Eppes' class. Can you help me?" He asked, not used to calling his friend Charlie.

Ellen picked up on this, "Why are you calling him Charlie?" She started walking.

He followed her, "Uh. He's actually the reason why I got into CalSci. We're friends."

She raised an eyebrow, "Really?" She smiled at him, "That's amazing. I've only had him as a teacher and then after what happened last year, he didn't teach us long." She paused, "Do you know what happened last year?"

Matt nodded, "More than you know." He looked around and saw Larry pushing Charlie down towards them. "Charlie! Larry!" Matt said happily, walking up to them.

"Mathew." Larry nodded a greeting. "It appears as if Charles is having difficulty finding the nerves to enter the lecture hall."

Ellen had followed Matt to the two professors, "Hello Dr. Eppes, Dr. Fleinhardt."

"Hello Ellen." Larry said smiling, still guiding Charlie to the room.

Charlie smiled slightly at the two of them.

Matt patted Charlie on the arm, "Hey, Charlie. Don't worry about it. You're a great teacher! You have no reason to be nervous."

Charlie rolled his eyes, "Sure. Like I'd believe you. Crazies don't scare you in the least."

Matt laughed at that, "Oh. That's not always true. Some of them are really scary."

Ellen started to speak, "Dr. Eppes, Matt is right. You have no reason to be nervous. I'm taking the class again because after you left, I didn't understand any of it. I was hoping that you were teaching again this year otherwise I would have dropped that class. It's just that you make math so easy."

Charlie nodded, "Now that I will believe." He smiled, feeling better about himself and his teaching. "I just don't trust these two to tell me the truth." He said, obviously talking about Larry and Matt, "Being as they are friends, they tell white lies and all that kind of stuff."

Ellen laughed, "I know what you mean. But they are just trying to help you when they do that."

Charlie nodded and then froze, they in front of the door.

"Charles." Larry asked, "Would you like the paper bag again?"

Charlie shook his head and took a deep breath, smiling. "I'll be fine." He walked into the room which was filling up quickly.

Don was amazed at how fast the lecture hall was filling up. He stared in wonder. All of these people want to learn math from my brother. He chuckled to himself, watching his little brother walk in with Larry, Matt, and a young woman. He watched as they left Charlie down in front and Matt and the woman took their seats. Larry had seen Don sitting in the back of the room and he went to join him. "Hey." Don said, moving so that Larry could get a seat.

"He's very nervous."

Don nodded, "I can tell. But I think that the rumor of him being totally crazy has helped his class. I don't think I've ever seen it this full before."

Alan sat down next to his eldest son, "Me either. He will have his hands full with this class." Alan watched his youngest son get ready to talk to the students down in front. "I'm glad he's teaching again."

Dr. Harry Roland situated himself in the chair. "He can handle it, even if he thinks he can't." He paused, "He did take his medicine today, right?"

Alan nodded, "Of course."

Don looked up, "Oh. Glad they showed up. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to hold onto three extra seats." He moved so that Megan, David, and Colby could get a seat in back.

"I'm so excited." Megan said, beaming.

Colby watched Charlie wearily, "Sure he's ready? He looks like he's going to have a panic attack."

"He'll be fine." Alan said, pausing, "Right?"

Harry nodded. "I'm sure of it."

"I didn't know that Charlie had so many people coming to his classes." David said, in awe at the large group.

"It is rather astonishing." Larry said, his head resting on his hands.

The six of them sat quietly, ready for class to start.

Charlie had his eyes closed, listening to the students file into his room.

He was keeping his breathing calm. He was keeping his thoughts on track. He was going to get through this day. He was going to teach again.

Charlie sighed and opened his eyes, the room was getting full. He wondered if it was because more people wanted to learn math or if people just wanted to say their teacher was insane. He shrugged and made sure he had all of his notes. Charlie didn't need his notes, he'd been over them so much that he knew them by heart, but Charlie was nervous.

He looked and saw his chalk. He had always made sure that he was in a lecture all with a blackboard and chalk, not with the markers. He wanted to be embraced by dust and not that horrible marker smell.

He heard the class room quiet down. His back was too them and he knew he had to confront them and start to talk. Charlie sighed, closing his eyes one last time, running everything through his head. He was strong now. He chuckled to himself, he was still taking medication, but that didn't surprise him any. Bipolar was something that he had to live with. Pretty soon he may not need his medicine and just do therapy weekly with Dr. Roland. Charlie knew that he was strong. And he knew what he needed to do.

Don watched Charlie with his back to the class. He was silently worried for his sibling. He knew that Charlie was strong now, but what if he wasn't strong enough?

His worry left him as he watched Charlie turn around, looking as he should. A great big smile on his face, and the energy seemed to radiate off him. Charlie was in his element. And Don felt like he was given a great privilege to watch his brother work.

Charlie sighed, facing the class. Wow, it was really full. He shook his head slightly, that was good. More math students. He slowly walked in front of the class. It was dead silent in the room, everyone waiting for him to talk.

Charlie took a breath ...

"Hello. I'm Dr. Eppes." He paused, his grin widening as his fear and worry was replaced with the joy of teaching, "Let's get started, shall we?" He asked, rubbing his hands together excited.

Fin

A/N (again): Well, my very fist Numb3rs fanfiction is done. Sad really, I'm going to miss writing it. Don't worry, there will be more Numb3rs stories coming from me in the future.
Also, I want to mention that I actually have an idea for a sequel to this story, and if people demand a sequel, I will write it. But if no one tells me that they want a sequel, I won't write it.
But before I write anymore Numb3rs stories I will have to finish all my other fanfictions that I've been ignoring.
Well, I think I'm done rambling.
Thank you for reading my story, I hope you liked it.

Sushi Chi