Alison drove home as fast as she could. She didn't want to waste one minute of the short time she had with Rafe.

Alison walked up to the house alone and rummaged through her purse to find the keys to the front door, but before she could even get the keys in the lock the door swung open...

"Welcome home, angel." Rafe seized her and pulled her through the doorway into a long passionate kiss as he kicked the door shut with his foot.

Without breaking from the kiss, they seemed to dance over to the couch, on which they fell and melted deeper into each other's embrace.

"Well..." Alison sighed with a breath as their lips separated, "That was some homecoming!"

"Mmmm," Rafe moaned as his face nuzzled against her soft skin. It didn't take long for his mouth to find its way back to hers. He wanted to take in all of her and he wished that this moment would never end.

As they laid down onto the couch, Rafe's side pressed against something sharp.

"Ow! What the-...?"

"What's the matter?" Alison asked, surprised by the sudden interruption.

Rafe pulled a hard-backed book out from between the cushions. It's corner had been sticking up out of the couch.

"A baby name book?"

"Oh...haha!" Alison giggled

"Yeah, funny to you! You didn't just have this thing pierce your side."

"Pierce?" Alison laughed. "Oh come on! It barely pressed into you."

"So a baby name book, huh?"

"Yeah...Livvie brought it over one day. I've been looking through it every once and a while for ideas."

As Rafe flipped through the pages, he looked horrified. "Ugh! Some of these names are TERRIBLE!"

Alison laughed again, "Oh I know, and not to mention unpronounceable! Like this one!" Alison pointed to a girl's name in the E section-EADGYTH. "Or Egberta! How cruel is THAT?!"

"Or Richard!" Rafe interjected. "Please don't ever name our child something like Richard...and why do you have MASON highlighted?"

"What's wrong with Mason...I liked it."

"It's a little...unusual."

"Unusual?! Ok, RAFE...not an unusual name, at all...why don't you throw out a couple suggestions. After all, it's your baby too."

"Alright, fine." Rafe accepted the challenge.

"Fine."

"Fine...well...ummm..." Rafe's mind went blank.

"Go ahead...I'm waiting."

"I'm thinking..."

"Not so easy, is it?" Alison teased, smiling at having won.

Rafe laughed to himself, remembering his phone conversation with Ed earlier in the day, when he was so excited he told him he'd name his kid after him.

"What are you laughing at?" Alison prodded.

"It's nothing...I was just laughing, because I was so excited earlier when my boss called to tell me he pulled some strings to let me come down here for the day, and I jokingly told him we'd name the kid after him."

"Your boss?"

"Yeah, Ed."

Then Alison began to laugh hysterically.

"It's not that funny."

"Oh yes it is! I am SO not having a child named 'ED'!"

Rafe joined in the laughter. "Well...I was caught up in the moment."

"And if it's a girl, I suppose YOU'D like to name her...what?...Edith, Edwina?!" Alison continued to tease.

"Actually..." Rafe smiled, as he seriously thought about the fact that he was coming up with a possible name for his child, "I kinda do have an idea for a girl's name."

"Really? Well come on! Let's hear it."

"Well it's just that, when I was younger...when my mom died...well, I just always pictured having a little girl some day and naming her after my mom."

"Aww, Rafe..." Alison leaned in and kissed him, wanting to comfort him as she saw an expression of vulnerability in his face.

"Well her name was Dasha. It sounds kind of strange, but in my country-..."

"It's beautiful," Alison said, sounding a little choked up.

"I mean, it could even be a middle name or something...whatever you want."

Rafe saw Alison was beginning to cry.

"Are you okay, Alison?"

"Oh I'm fine...no really, I'm fine. Ugh!" Alison sniffled and wiped her eyes, "These stupid hormones! I swear...I watched a rerun of 'Gilligan's Island' the other day and I started to cry. It's just...they just can't seem to get off that island!"

There was a moment of silence, before Rafe and Alison both broke out in a heartfelt laughter.

"You cried at Gilligan's Island?!" Rafe teased, looking at Alison as if it were the most ridiculous thing he'd ever heard.

"Oh shut up! How would you feel if YOU were stranded on a deserted island for all that time and you just couldn't get off of it?!"

Rafe smiled and took Alison into his arms, "As long as I was stranded with you, I'd feel wonderful."