A/N: This epilogue will consist mostly of flashbacks. I hope that you the reader will be able to understand what will happen within this chapter and will be able to follow along. P2P

It's now 32 years after Coke and Simmons have died…

Attica Correctional Facility.
639 Exchange Street
Attica, New York.

The steel fenced in gate laced with barbed wire 30 feet up automatically slides open when the inner gate fully closed. The man waiting for it to open walks towards it to breath his first breath as a free man. He'd done his time and now he was free. The gate fully opens and he steps through.

"So how does it feel to be a free man?" The man calls from the car across the street.

"You have no idea."

"At least you made it out alive."

"Thanks to you. If you hadn't kept me out of genpop I'd be history."

The two men come face to face and lean in for a manly hug. Not a bro hug mind you but a sincere hug spanning over years of friendship. After they separate the ex-con asks,

"Are we driving back to the city today"

"As a matter of fact, we are. Are you ready for a road trip?"

"You're on. But keep it at the speed limit I just got out and don't want any reason to be back in a cell."

"Welcome back partner," Ryan says to his friend.

Xx

He was getting way too old to keep up with them anymore. He just turned sixty-one and they were wearing him down quickly.

"Daddy come on! We want to slide one more time!"

He's never denied them fun and he won't start now even though his joints really hurt. He takes his place at the bottom of the slide and waits for Jody, one his six-year-olds to slide down. She was a surprise along with her brother but he knew that his wife would welcome any child that they conceived.

"Are you tired, Rick?" His wife asks sitting at a nearby bench.

"You know I think that they might want you over here to catch them instead of me Kate."

"Oh no, you don't! You told me that twins never ran in your family so consider this your punishment." Kate says in a joking tone.

He could only smirk at her as he watched his son Jon climb up the slide's ladder and sit at the top. He pushes off and Rick sees the joy on his face when he throws his arms up in the air and screams all the way down.

Kate watches from the bench as Rick catches their youngest son Jon. Her memories fade back to when she found out that she was going to be a mother for the first time.

She walked into his new office and sat across from him with a smirk on her face. She knew she was late and while they were not actively trying to have a baby, she knew that they would welcome this child into their lives.

"What are you thinking about?" Rick asked after he finally got her attention by calling her name three times."I have news. Good news I think but we need to talk about it." Kate said.

"Kate you have never been this unsure about anything. Is everything okay?" Rick asks earnestly.

"It is. But how do you feel about children?"

"I love children. I think that we should have as many as we can."

"Well, it looks like you're going to get your wish sooner than you think."

"Wait, are you saying what I think you're saying?"

"I am. I just came back from my OBGYN appointment. She told me that we're going to be expecting our first child in about seven months from now."

"Kate, that's amazing I can't wait."

"Rick I've never done anything like this I don't know how to be a mother!"

"That's okay Kate because I know nothing about being a father… Yet. But I'm sure that we'll figure it out together."

Kate remembers when she gave birth to their first son David. He'll be turning thirty at the end of this month. She also remembers when Lily was born two years later. Lily's was a quick labor and delivery. They say that after you have your first child the second one is pretty much easier, and it was. Lily will soon be twenty-eight years old and she is her father's little girl. What she can't get over is the fact that she is the mother of a set of six-year-old twins. The twins were a total surprise and caught them off guard. But when Rick told her that he would welcome them with open heart and arms he knew everything was going to be okay.

"Hey old man, let's get back home so we can feed these little guys." While her husband gets the children's things together Kate's mind goes off on a new memory.

Her life as a detective ended when she was shot. She was shot in the line of duty and with rehabilitation and physical therapy he was able to regain the use of her leg again. There are times when it hurts her to stand for a long amount of time so all she needs to do now is sit for a little bit and she's fine. Since she was given the opportunity to retire with a disability pension, she took it and her career as a detective was essentially over.

They got a call from the team that was staking out their suspect's apartment telling her that he had just returned from the store. If they were quick, they could take down their suspect and have him in holding before it would be time to go home tonight. He was hold up in an apartment on the west side. She knew it was dangerous to attempt the execution of a warrant with just two people. Ever since Esposito was found guilty of murder and serving time, it was just her and Radner. They entered the apartment building and headed up to the third floor she knew something was wrong. She just didn't know what. Something in her gut told her to turn back but Radner kept pushing the issue that they needed to arrest their suspect before he could kill someone else. If Radner knew how the day would turn out she would have taken back those words. Radner who had been taught how to approach an entryway forgot all about her training and pounded on the door standing directly in front of it. The next thing Kate heard was a shotgun blast going off right through the door killing her instantly. She turned to take cover but when she heard the rack of the shotgun slide one more time, she knew she would die in that hallway. Her last thoughts were of her husband and children.

She would have been dead if it wasn't for the suspect slipping as he exited his apartment with his is shotgun raised. When he tripped the shotgun pointed downwards but before he hit the ground, he had already pulled the trigger and a 12-gauge #4 buckshot shredded her left leg. Scattershot does that to a person's flesh and bone. She was in surgery for 10 hours initially removing most of the pellets. The second and third surgeries we're almost as long removing the remaining pellets and reconstructing her leg. But they got her put back together and with physical therapy, she learned how to walk again.

"I think that's a great idea," Rick says drawing Kate from her thoughts.

He knew that she was thinking about something other than feeding their children. He knew as well as she did that her ex-partner was being released from Attica this morning. Rick had no love for Esposito but he never deserved to be put away for a crime he was ordered to carry out. The problem was that Montgomery died before the trial ever started and could never testify to that fact.

The trial lasted for just under two months. Rick could see that it was taking an emotional toll on his wife due to the fact that her Captain had suddenly died of a brain aneurysm shortly after the jury was selected and her partner who decided that he would honor their captain by keeping his mouth shut did so. Any testimony he would have given during the trial that would have cleared his detective died along with Roy.

Roy knew that this was an opportunity to regain some of the real estate that the drug dealers had taken to sell their poison even if it meant killing someone to get it. He had given Esposito the order that if he had a clear shot at either or both Simmons or Coke, he was to take them out.

Esposito would never disobey an order from his captain or anyone in command it was in his blood to never disobey and he wasn't built that way.

If he was given the same order again, he would carry out his mission with no questions asked. Rick had wondered if his integrity might have been misguided. But he did take out Simmons and now Washington Heights is almost back to where it was back in the early nineties. People with families have moved into the neighborhood and turned it into their own. Drug dealers have been told to hit the road or pay the price by the residents who have taken back the neighborhood.

Rick did exactly what he said he would do. When Captain Ricciardi retired from the Coast Guard Rick was given the opportunity to be the skipper of the Hamilton. To honor his previous captain, he did what he thought was the right thing to do and took command of the Hamilton for two years. He was promoted to captain and with it came the responsibility of command. He hated taking the promotion in a way because when he left for his last tour of duty Kate was already two months pregnant. Upon his return from a nine-month deployment, he came home to a two-month-old baby boy and he immediately put his papers in to retire with over twenty-seven years of service with the Guard. His pension would tide them over until Kate could retire from the force. But the future can bring some unforeseeable events. Not soon after he retired Kate was involved and injured in a shooting that ended her career. She herself had over 21 years of service as a detective for the NYPD and being that she was injured beyond being useful for the NYPD she was given a disability retirement. He could tell his wife hated every second of it but this is life you play the cards that you're dealt.

When he was finally released from service with the Coast Guard a week later they had a very small get together that included her father, her aunt and his best friend Phillip at City Hall. They were married on June 2nd, 2010. He thought that his son would be fussy and uncooperative throughout the ceremony but it was just the opposite. He slept through the whole thing without a peep.

He's proud of his son today because he had joined the U.S. Navy right out of college. What he was now was a helicopter pilot attached to HSM 41 stationed in San Diego California. He is married to a very beautiful woman who he met at a military mixer for pilots. Her name is Anna and she is a medical doctor in the U.S. Air Force.

His daughter had taken the path of her mother. Lily had decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and become a patrolman at the age of twenty. After attending a prestigious East Coast law school, she had decided that she did not want to be behind a desk all day. With her training, she could end up being just about anything she chose. But after many talks with her mother, she decided to carry on the tradition of her being an NYPD detective. She had just received her gold shield three weeks ago.

"Rick shake a leg! Your oldest daughter will be home at the loft before we can collect her younger brother and sister." Kate stressed.

"Kate come on can't you see all the stuff that they brought with them today? It's going to take me at least fifteen minutes to gather all their stuff up in order to head home in the first place. So please don't tell me what we should be doing right about now. Lily will wait for us to get home. I'm pretty sure that there is a lot to keep her occupied until we get there."

"Are you sure that you want her roaming around in the loft alone? Who knows what she might find?" Kate said very slyly.

"Come on Jon, Lily let's get a move on. We need to beat your sister home before she can do any snooping!"

Kate could only stand there watching him juggle the twin's toys and giggle knowing that her daughter would never invade their privacy.

"Come on old man, let's get back home."

"Yeah, yeah. You know that I love you right?"

"I do. So shake your ass. Then maybe we can have some alone time together later tonight."

"Are you forgetting that Lily will be home when we get there?" Rick supplied.

"Oh yeah, but she won't be staying over tonight. She's just having dinner with us."

"I'll hold you to that."

"I know that you will. I love you, Rick."

"Always Kate and I love you too."

~Fin~

With this chapter, we come to the end of our tale. I hope that this was worth the time it took you to read it, I know it was for me when I wrote it. Thanks for your support!

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