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U is for Umbrella
'When the sun shine, we'll shine together, told you I'll be here forever, said I'll always be your friend, took an oath I'ma stick it out to the end, now that's raining more than ever, know that we still have each other, you can stand under my umbrella, you can stand under my umbrella.'
They're sitting in the church, surrounded by everyone they've lost. They're alive (or some version of it) and they have each other and they're hands are tightly clasped and they're not letting go.
They sit next to each other and wait (they're not entirely sure for what) and smile.
Then there's a flash of light and they're alone in a house (one that looks exactly like their little yellow home from 70's Dharmaville) and they keep smiling and there are tears.
It takes a few days, but they figure out that they're in some form of afterlife, mostly because they recognize people on the news that have already died (and also because Jack and Kate live four blocks away and Miles lives across the street and Jin and Sun live next door).
They believe they have their happily ever after now, and they couldn't be happier; Miles and Jin come over all the time and they have barbecues and almost burn their eyebrows off and Sun and Juliet become closer, forgetting the history the island put between them.
James and Miles are godfathers to Ji Yeon and Juliet is a godmother.
They try not to think about the fact that Jin and Sun's little girl is in their afterlife too.
The first thing that truly gets to them is when Rachel and Julian show up at their front door.
Since ignoring Ji Yeon's appearance with Sun and Jin (because they've all, theoretically, died and have moved on), they've stopped overthinking everything; people who are supposed to be here with them are. It's some kind of magic of the island they're becoming okay with that.
At least until Rachel shows up with Julian and a tear-filled smile. Julian is five, almost six years old and somehow he knows exactly who his Aunt Juliet is and runs into her stunned arms and holds her tight.
Rachel follows behind her son and they're a hugging, crying, sobbing mess. James stands back with a single tear in his eye and watches Juliet happier than he's ever seen her.
She introduces him and Rachel engulfs him in a bone crushing hug, whispering a heartfelt 'thank you' in his ear. They sit down in the living room, Juliet between Rachel and James, Julian chattering to the adults happily and playing with his aunt's fingers.
Later that night, when Rachel and Julian are asleep in the guest room (that they've been trying to figure out what to do with), Juliet cries and James holds her closely, their bodies touching from sternum to toes. He holds her and runs a hand through her hair and Juliet eventually smiles up at him and he kisses her.
It rains a week later when Rachel finally explains that the last thing she remembers is a pair of headlights on a dark night coming home from Julian's friend's birthday party. The sisters cry again but Julian has them smiling again when he comes in on James' back, both of them laughing and shouting.
Jin comes in with Ji Yeon and there's a surprise when Daniel comes in with Charlotte.
The fear that the island will claim them again is slowly receding and they relax into their lives.
They've stopped counting the number of days they've been here but they think it's been a little over a year. They celebrate an anniversary and eat amazing food in a fancy restaurant.
The next day, James goes off to the precinct where he's a cop (completely by choice and based on those moments leading up to remembering Juliet, and he still has small panic attacks about how the hell he could have not known her). Juliet goes off to the hospital where she's a doctor and a researcher (even though Edmund is long dead, thanks to a bus, he's not in their afterlife, which Juliet is eternally grateful for). And they come home together at the end of the day.
James is reading in bed when Juliet comes out holding a thin white stick, a glowing smile on her flushed cheeks and he raises an eyebrow, takes his glasses off his face.
She calms her face a little and walks slowly towards him, the stick dangling from her fingers.
He takes it from her and finally breaks their eye contact, looks down at the little pink plus sign.
James smiles a little, a loving, wonderful, completely content smile, before dropping the stick onto their bedspread and pulling her by the waist over his lap. The book is discarded and she laughs as he pulls her against him, pressing his mouth to hers and then over her cheek, her ear and down her neck.
She's laughing breathlessly and his hands are moving over her and then one is gone, fumbling in a drawer and she's breathless for a different reason.
It's not what she thinks. He pulls his hand back from the drawer and stops his assault on her body. She settles against him with a smile before her eyes are drawn to the little black velvet box in his palm.
They both cry when she says yes and he puts the pregnancy test on the bedside table next to the empty ring box.
That night, they fall asleep spooned (which is a comfortable, usual occurrence) with James' hand draped protectively over her still flat stomach and her hand (the left one glittering softly in the moonlight filtering in through the curtains) curled around the arm over her waist.
They're home.
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