Epilogue:
Claudia Blankenship checked her watch for the third time in the past three minutes as she watched the man sitting at the bar nurse the same beer he had all evening. She was pretty sure he hadn't taken a single drink out of it. Officially Crash had been closed for thirty-five minutes but Claudia was trying not to be rude and kick the man out. There were still a few other people in the building but generally once the bar was cleared and closed they would leave rather fast.

Finally she exhaled all her air and breathed in a fresh new batch as she stepped in front of the man at the counter, "We're closing the place up. Bartender is already locking up the back."

The man looked up at her and she was taken aback by his deep, icy blue eyes. His face showed no emotion at all as he stood up and pushed the beer away from him. She took a quick peek and saw that it was full.

"Not much of a drinker are you?" Claudia asked rhetorically.

The man looked down at her and suddenly she was captured by his soulful eyes. A smile played across his face and she found herself strangely drawn to him. It was something deeper than attraction. Something about his eyes spoke of deep meaning and complexity even though they were frozen solid. She could tell that he didn't smile often.

When he didn't say anything Claudia found herself fumbling for words as he dropped several bills onto the bar, "You know," she started, "I get off in about fifteen minutes. Maybe we could go for a walk or something?" She could tell that her voice was laden with hope and she regretted it thinking that it would make her look desperate.

The man smiled and ran a hand through his short blonde hair and looked into her eyes, "I'm not sure I'd be the best of company right now. Maybe some other time?"

In the way he phrased the statement as a question it gave Claudia hope that this wouldn't be the last she'd see him, "You going to come around here sometime?"

She noticed the smile on his face thinned a little but she caught a sparkle in his blue eyes that almost made her melt and his voice was calm and soothing, "I've got some unfinished business in Seattle. I can guarantee that I'll be back."

He finally pushed away from the bar and walked to the door and exited the building. Claudia sighed and her shoulders dropped as her mind continued a conversation with him in her head. She found herself wishing he had stayed just a bit longer. It was then that she noticed the man at the table near the door stand up and follow him out.

In a brief glance she could see that he had the deepest gray eyes and his face displayed even less emotion then the man she had just been talking to. He had blonde hair that was longer then the man at the bar but it was unkempt in a rugged way. Before she knew it he was already out the door. She found it odd that they had left at the same time but shrugged it off.

Just then the couple that had been seated at a table over by the pool tables stood up and made their way towards the door. The woman had straight black hair down to the middle of her shoulders and she had deep, dark eyes that almost seemed to be more black than brown. The man had semi-long brown hair and soft brown eyes. He caught her looking over at them and gave a soft smile and a short nod before the two were outside.

At first Claudia thought that it was just a coincidence but the more she thought about it the more it seemed planned. They all had moved with precision and a hidden dedication. Like they all knew exactly what they were doing and knew that they could count on each other to do it. Before she knew it the lights shut off and she was being ushered out the door by the bartender. Once outside she glanced down the alley in the opposite direction from where she lived and she saw four figures walking side by side towards the space needle.