6 Months Later:

Calleigh looked at herself in the mirror. She grinned to herself as she rubbed her large belly. She was getting huge and she couldn't be happier about it. She finally felt as if everything was going right and this time nothing was going to go wrong. She rubbed her stomach again before the door behind her creaked open. "Hey, everyone is downstairs waiting, come on." Natalia's voice came to her gently and she walked toward Calleigh. "Look at you. I swear when you told us you were pregnant again I thought I was going to faint. I'm so happy for you Cal." She hugged her friend and grinned. She looked down at the engagement ring that adorned Calleigh's left ring finger.

Calleigh returned her grin before grabbing Natalia in a bug hug. Before she would have apologized for being the reason that Peter kidnapped her in the first place, but now, after a lot of insisting by everyone, she didn't feel guilty for everything that happened with Peter. Though she hated that she had to do it, she got some counseling that both her and Eric attended in order to work through the things that happened to them and the things that have haunted Calleigh before. Now, she found herself here pregnant with twins this time around and she had every member of her family was back intact. Horatio pulled through, but he still was on injured leave, though she hated to admit it, it might be a while before H hit the field again, but she had no doubt in her mind that he would be back. She assumed the role as the leader and when she goes on maternity leave then Eric would run the lab.

She took Natalia's hand and smiled at her, "Come on, let's go." Natalia nodded to her and allowed her to lead her out of the bedroom of her and Eric's new home. "So tell me about how things are going with Ryan?" Natalia blushed at the question and just shook her head.

"Maybe later when we have another girls night out. Things are great though. We had our rough patches in the past but now things are great and we couldn't be happier. Ryan is hoping that I'll be liked you in a little while." Natalia stared pointedly at Calleigh's tummy. She grinned when Calleigh laughed out loud at her comment.

When Calleigh finally quieted down she looked to Natalia and said, "Well I can't disagree with, it would be nice if the twins had some friends to grow up with. Plus, they would be an addition to our CSI family." She wiggled her eyebrows a bit before bursting out in laughter.

"THEY!!! When Ryan and I have kids, we're only having one kid." Natalia said with a huff. Calleigh cracked up at that comment and led her friend to the backyard. She nearly cried out in laughter when she saw Ryan and Eric arguing how to grill the steak, not paying attention to the amount of gasoline they were putting in.

She looked over to Natalia who had her hand over her mouth to shield her laughter. It was too funny watching the both of them try to be macho men. She looked to Calleigh and said, "Well I hope that they don't burn everything. I'm starving." She looked back to them when she saw that Ryan lit a match and was about to drop it into the grill. "Wait Ryan!" By that time she was too late as everyone watched the match fall to the grill. Eric and Ryan jumped back as the flame shot out of the grill liked a rocket.

To make it even better they were covered in dark soot so everyone starting laughing that much harder. Natalia and Calleigh shook their heads to each other as they were approached by Valera. "Men! They think they know everything. I told them that they shouldn't do that, but did they listen, noooo, they rather argue with themselves about how the steak should be done. Well now look at what happened to them. Serves them right." Natalia and Calleigh cracked up again when Tyler came over and dragged Valera away as she continued to talk about the hypocrisy of men.

Calleigh and Natalia headed toward Horatio who was sitting and laughing with Ray Jr. and Yelina. It took them a while, even after everything that happened to H, but in the end they knew that they had something real, something that even they couldn't deny in respect to his dead brother, but it was something that everyone saw coming regardless of what they say.

"Hey guys, what's going on?" Calleigh asked them when they reached the table.

"Oh nothing, Horatio was just telling me a couple of barbeques that the team has held in the past and that for some reason, every year when it happens, something goes wrong and someone ends up being the bud of the rest of the lab's joke." Yelina replied with a smile on her face. "He actually told me that this is the second year in a row that Eric and Ryan will be the center of it." She grinned at Nat and Cal who blushed good-naturedly.

"Boys will be boys," Horatio said with a chuckle. He nodded to them and smiled as Alexx came toward them.

"Hey guys, what's going on?"

"Horatio and Yelina were just teasing Calleigh and my men." Natalia answered Alexx's question. Alexx started laughing and shaking her head, giving Ryan and Eric, who were arguing about whose fault it was that the grill blew up.

"Those two are like peas in a pod, stubborn and foolish at the same time. But their best qualities are that they love whole-heartedly, so the two of you are very lucky to have them in your lives." Alexx said sweetly and both Calleigh and Natalia nodded as if they were being reprimanded. They both smiled sweetly at her, before they left to go join their men.

Calleigh and Natalia reached Ryan and Eric as they both stared in dismayed at the mess that they made for the second year in a row. Natalia walked up to Ryan and hugged him tightly before saying, "It's alright, we love the both of you the same, even though you both are embarrassment to our family names." Natalia gave Ryan a grin as he looked at her confused.

"Wait, are you saying yes? You'll marry me? Really?" Ryan jumped up in joy when Natalia nodded her head to answer all of his questions. He calmed himself down as people began to stare at him but that did not deter him as he turned to face everyone and announce. "Natalia has agreed to marry me everyone." He smiled goofily as everyone began to clap and cheer.

Everyone started to keel over in laugh when Valera said out loud, "Like there was a big surprise there." Ryan blushed before he took out the ring from his pocket and put it on her ring finger. Calleigh grinned as her friend look that happiest she's been in a long time. She looked to Eric and whispered to him, "Maybe we can have a double wedding." She grinned at him ruefully as he shook his head.

"Anything you want baby, anything you want. We can do anything we want." Eric kissed her soundly on the lips before saying. "I love you, I love all of you."

A/N: So this is my ending to this story!! I hope you guys enjoyed it and I thank all of you for supporting me and sticking with this story till the end. Hopefully I will be able to come back and make a sequel, but for now I will be taking a little break from writing after I complete my other stories. I hope you guys like those as well.

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