AGAIN

Epilogue

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The sun shone brilliantly on the hill top over looking the city. It was a warm spring day caressed by the breeze blowing off the bay. The small gathering was simple. Well thought out, but not over the top. Not anything like the last time.

Gathered around, their friend's faces shone with love and support, and the occasional smug, 'I knew they'd find their way back' look. He stood there in the middle of the crowd waiting for her. He had spent so much of his life waiting on her and now was no different. But there was no fear now. No insecurities. No vulnerability. Just the overwhelming feeling that this was right. It took a second, third and fourth try, but it was right.

She appeared at the top of the porch steps, in a simple white lace gown carrying a small bouquet of wildflowers. Holding her other hand was their nearly two-year-old son. He tugged on her arm to move down the stairs. She knew that he saw daddy waiting for them and he wanted to hurry to get to him. As the pair descended her smile lit up as she thought back over the past few years. How things had changed. How they were so different this time. How this was all, in some crazy way, the perfect life. Unconventional, sure. But perfect.

About halfway to the crowd in the yard, the boy let go of her hand and took off full speed toward his father. He picked up the boy with ease and spun him around like he had so many times before in their backyard. A laugh passed through her lips and she ran to catch up to her boys. The man she loved held out a hand for her. Their fingers intertwined as he pressed a kiss to her cheek and they stood there as a family.

There was no minister, and they had taken care of the legal part the week before at the courthouse. This was just about them. The words they spoke to each other and the promises they made were spoken straight from the heart. Neither one of them shied away from what happened to them the first time, but they each pledged to make it right the second. His words were honest and heartfelt, the words that could only come from a man truly in love. Her's were tear-filled and emotional. Not emotion borne out of panic or fear, but the emotion of finding your way back to the love of your life.

Sealing it with a kiss they turned and looked at those around them, those who had seen them at their best and at their worst. Each and every smile was a reassurance that this was exactly the way things should turn out.

Later that night, Alex and Izzie lay wrapped in each other's arms in the silence of the honeymoon they never had the first time around.

"Alex?"

"Hmm?"

Izzie knew that now was as good a time as any to bring up their future ...

"I want to have another baby."

... again.

THE END ...

But I've been thinking about it, and decided that I'm not ready to be done with this story yet. Therefore, I started working on the plot for the sequel. … IF you, the reader, are interested. Are you?

I've got it pretty well planned, but I think I want to get quite a bit written before I start posting. But if you all want it, then I'll get to work. Let me know how you feel about the sequel!