"I can help you..." She begged, anything to get him to come with them.
"No, you can't...you can help them by staying on the boat."
Michael then did the final line and handed it to Terry who looked just as shocked.
"I can help you..." She was crying now.
Michael then faced her and locked his eyes.
"It's okay...it's going to be all right."
"No. It wont."
The only hopeless words she was able to choke out as she spoke to Michael who was still standing on the dock looking into her eyes.
Michael raised his hand and touched the side of her cheek, the feeling of his warmth and his smooth palm made Ana raise her own shaken hand and cover his.
Both starred into each other's eyes for what seemed like a lifetime, His sad dark gray eyes and her tear filling wide blue ones, seemed to melt together and know what they were thinking right at that moment.
"Hey..." He said in the same calm voice he had used when they were both laying together on the bus floor that day.
He tried his best to smile but nothing was working...both of their hearts were breaking.
"It will." He said in a stern voice and tried his best to make her believe that was true.
That was the last time Ana Stezer ever laid eyes on Michael Powell.
The date was June 16th, It had been a year since this had all happened.
A year since Michael had died.
A year since he gave her the greatest gift anyone could ever give to a person...
That gift was a child.
Hunter Powell was now five months old and getting big.
He was a chubby baby and full of life, he had bright eyes that saw the world around him and a giggle that could melt anyone's heart.
The island was no longer a place of pain and loss of the one's left behind.
It had become a happy place that was full of life and the future of what to come.
They were a family and looked out for each other...most of all their baby.
Ana couldn't believe it had been a year since this whole thing had started, a year since she woke up in a whole new world.
A year since Luis had died and she became a fighter.
A year since her friends had died and she grew close to a very special man.
It had been a year since all those laughs and smiles, a year since her heart would jump each time she heard his voice.
A year since they made love and made Hunter.
A year since he stayed behind and made sure she lived on.
She missed everything so much and would have done anything to fix it.
But she was happy now for the first time in a while.
She had her baby, which was the only thing that mattered in her life.
Her heart would skip beats whenever she watched him sleep in his crib, or whenever she rocked him back and forth in her arms, telling him about his daddy.
Hunter was the thing that made her move on...Michael must have known it all a long.
It wasn't just Ana who had to live...it had to be their son to.
But even if she felt like everything was in order now and the pieces of her life were starting to settle...she knew a certain part of her heart would be missing forever.
Even if she had Hunter with her to remind her of the love she once had...she promised at the exact hour Michael had taken his life that day back in June, she promised she would never forget.