A/N: Thank you for all your support and wonderful reviews. This story has been amazing to write and I am happy I got to share it with you all. :) I plan to finish the other two and then start our next journey together. :)
"I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when we kiss
They're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God himself did make us
Into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true it may seem like a stretch
But it's thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death"
Such Great Heights by Iron and Wine
Six years later...
"Go Julian!" Alex yelled from her spot on the bleachers with her three year old daughter, Amelia, while watching her five year old son's tee-ball game. Smiling at her little girl, Alex asked, "Do you see your brother?"
"No," the little curly red haired girl said in her saddest voice with her bottom lip stuck out.
"Come here, little one," Alex said scooping her 'mini me' up in her arms. Their daughter looked just like her minus the hair, red just like Casey's. Julian on the other hand had taken on his own features, but still had a head full of curly red locks. Along with red hair like Casey's, Julian also seemed to act more like Casey, while Amelia tended to favor Alex. The differences in her children just made her love them even more.
Letting her daughter sit in her lap, Alex pointed out Julian standing at home plate preparing to swing his bat at the tee. Then she pointed out head coach Casey standing near-by. The little girl grew especially excited when she spotted her Mama. "Go Brother!" Amelia yelled effectively deafening Alex in one ear while kicking her little feet back in forth against Alex's shins.
Julian paused and waved towards his little sister then looked to Casey to get the nod that he was okay to swing. Casey had never been more excited than when it was time to sign him up for ball. She'd laughed to her wife and said if she got any wish in raising their children it would be that they play baseball and softball. Alex couldn't help but agree. Plus, Casey was just as cute as the children when I came to getting excited about the sport.
Watching Julian swing his bat and hit the ball, Alex and Amelia cheered as Casey instructed their son to run. He made it to the second base before the ball caught up with him. Alex was amazed with how athletic their son seemed to be. He definitely took after Casey.
As the next child came up to bat, Casey told the boy something and then let him hit. The child hit the ball softly and took off to the base as Julian came running fast. He pasted third base and continued to run on to home base. Touching the bag in the nick of time and effectively ending the game.
Alex and Amelia cheered for the kids as they all said congratulations and goodbye. Walking towards the dugout, Alex set Amelia down on the ground and let her run to Casey. As she walked into the dugout, she watched as Amelia ran and jumped right into Casey's arms. Casey beamed with love always for their children, and the look she had on her face when she looked at Amelia and Julian at this moment made Alex fall even more in love with her. Feeling someone touch her back, Alex turned to see Carol.
"Did I miss the end?" Carol asked, already knowing the answer. Holding a bag of popcorn, the grey haired woman laughed, "That concession line was outrageous, well I guess Amelia can share this with Julian."
Alex hugged her mother in law, "I am sorry. Julian won the game, I swear he runs as fast as Casey. Do you want to come out for pizza with us?"
"I have a better idea, what if we take the little ones for ice cream and I take them home with me and let you and Casey have the evening to yourselves?" Carol offered with a smile.
"If you promise to get the clay stains out of Julian's baseball pants you have a deal!" Alex laughed.
"Why don't you go tell Casey while I let the little ones eat the popcorn?" Carol said patting Alex on the back.
Alex walked over to her wife with a bright smile on her face, only pausing to hug and congratulate their son, as Carol called the kids out to the bleachers to enjoy their popcorn. Looking at her wife smiling back at her, Alex couldn't imagine how after twelve years of being together and ten years of marriage she could possibly find herself falling even more in love with her wife by the day, but every morning when she woke up next to Casey that was the case. Seeing Casey's emerald eyes glisten as she closed the distance, again Alex fell just a bit more.
"May I kiss the coach?" Alex asked with a sly smile.
"Absolutely," Casey smiled pulling her wife in and pressing her lips lightly against her wife's.
As they parted, Alex whispered, "So, I have some good news."
"You do?"
"Yeah," Alex said before lazily kissing Casey again, "Your mom said she'd take the kids tonight and we could have the night to ourselves."
"I love this idea!" Casey whispered against Alex's cheek. "I vote light dinner, wine, and a fire."
"I know where you are going with that idea." Alex laughed as she pulled back and waggled her eyebrows at her wife.
"Good." Casey replied with a smirk as they heard Julian and Amelia begin fighting over the popcorn as Carol scolded them both. Casey pulled Alex into her arms as they watched their children argue while their grandmother continued to correct them. The argument finally ended with Carol taking the popcorn away from them both and both children whining in response.
Alex laid her head against Casey's shoulder observing the scene, "Do you remember when everything was relaxed and quiet?"
Casey let out a loud laugh that made Alex feel like she had butterflies in her stomach before responding, "No."
Joining her wife in laughter, Alex said, "Yeah, neither do I," as they headed back to collect their children.
Later that evening after a nice meal at an Italian restaurant, Alex and Casey laid on the living room floor sharing a bottle of wine in front of the fireplace talking about the last couple of weeks at work. Both had been busy, but they always made sure to make time for one another and their children. If they had learned anything six years earlier it was to never take one another for granted again.
"I have a question for you, it's changing the subject, but I'd like to know your answer." Casey stated.
"Okay," Alex said rolling onto her stomach to look into her wife eyes.
"Do you think I could handle being the District Attorney of Manhattan and being a good wife and mother still? I want your honest answer." Casey said as she bit her lip.
Alex smiled, "First, I would never give you anything less than my honest answer. Second, I think you could, but I'd like to have a contingency plan that if it didn't work out. You know a non-conflict way I could tell you, and we would try to work something out. Why do you ask? Did McCoy offer you the position?"
"McCoy mentioned it to me yesterday, he wants to put me up for the position. I told him I would have to talk to you about it. To be honest Alex, I don't think I want to take it. I did at one point, but I know deep inside my time with you and the kids would be cut and I don't want that. I want to be with you all." Casey answered softly.
Alex watched every word play across her wife's face and could see just how genuine every word was for her. Leaning forward she captured Casey's lips in a soft but sensual kiss. As they parted, Alex whispered, "I will support you either way, but I love you even more for putting the kids and me first."
Rolling them over to where she was on top, Casey smiled against Alex's lips, "I wouldn't have it any other way."
Kissing her wife again, it was easy to forget everything else they'd been talking about, Alex had this amazing effect on her. Feeling the blondes hands begin to ease under her shirt as her tongue lightly dragged along her lips asking for entrance Casey happily parted her lips. As the kiss deepened Alex drew Casey's shirt up and over her head only breaking their kiss long enough to free them of the fabric barrier.
Soon all their remaining clothes found their way to the floor, and they began relishing the newly exposed skin. Kissing her way down Alex's neck and down to her breasts, taking a nipple eagerly in her mouth, Casey ran her finger nails lightly up and down one Alex's thighs, grinning as the blonde easily parted her legs for her in anticipation. Casey didn't cave that easily though, instead she pressed her own aching center against Alex's, causing an eager a mumbled plea to fall from her wife's lips as she kissed her way over to Alex's other nipple.
Rolling her tongue around the stiff bud, she couldn't help but roll her hips against Alex's again desperate to ease some of her own need. Feeling Alex's hands untangle from her hair, and begin their own journey down her body Casey's breath caught in her throat. As Alex's hands cupped her breasts, Casey looked into her wife's eyes taking a quick breath in as Alex pinched her nipples and began to roll them between her fingers. Again, Casey couldn't help but react by rolling herself against Alex, causing them both to cry out in pleasure.
Alex let her hands slowly travel down Casey's torso, making sure to lightly drag her nails in all the right places. She loved how Casey lifted herself up just enough to give her access. Not making the redhead wait, Alex lightly ran her finger tips across Casey's hot wet center. Even the lightest of her touches caused the redhead to moan, "Alex."
Slowly and gently rolling them onto their sides, Alex kissed her wife before saying, "I want us to come together."
Casey nodded in understanding as she moved her hand between Alex's legs again moaning when she discovered just how wet Alex was for her. Matching Alex's painfully slow touches, Casey gently ran a finger tip over Alex's soaked folds, going even slower over her swollen clit. It was only when both women were panting against each other's mouths that they finally caved and began rubbing fast circles against each other's clits.
As they both began to tremble in each other arms, they filled the room with their cries of pleasure. Casey was the first to come undone crying out Alex's name in ecstasy and bucking against the blonde causing Alex to crash over the edge with her. Holding onto one another, they both regained some control before Casey slid two fingers easily into Alex causing her to gasp at the sensation and quickly mimic the movement eliciting the same reaction from Casey.
Each quickly located the others spot and began moving their fingers fast to reach that place of pleasure again. The faster they moved into each other the louder their moans and pleas became, each begging the other to make them come. This time Alex came first and the feeling of her clamping down hard on Casey's fingers as she came was what sent Casey crashing over with her. This time they both drew out their orgasms as long as they could. As they both came down from their highs, they lay wrapped tight in each other arms enjoying the warmth of the fire.
Casey couldn't imagine being happier anywhere else. Feeling Alex trace a finger down the scar that remained on her chest from the shooting six years earlier, Casey kissed her wife's head. "I love you, Alexandra, I always will."
Looking up at her wife, Alex smiled, "And I love you, Casey, forever and always. Let's go to bed before we wake freezing here on the floor at three in the morning."
Casey nodded and allowed Alex to help her up. As they made their way upstairs, Casey smiled at all the happy pictures of them and their children. There were pictures from when they first started dating, their engagement, both their weddings, the years before children, pictures of Alex pregnant with each child, and billions of pictures of their children and family in general. By the time Casey reached the top of the stairs, she realized she had achieved everything she had ever wanted in life.
Following Alex to bed, Casey crawled beneath the covers and pulled her wife tight in her arms. "Alex, thank you."
"For what, my dear?" Alex mumbled into Casey's chest.
"For helping me achieve everything I ever wanted in life, I owe it all to you and your love." Casey said softly.
Alex looked genuinely into her wife's eyes, "I feel the same about you. Thank you, Casey, thank you for loving me too."
"I love you, Alexandra." Casey smiled pulling her wife close. No matter what else would come their way, they both knew they had all they ever wanted. They would always be happy thanks to their love.