"Come on mom why can't dad stay here! Its not forever its just for a few months until hes fully recovered. You heard the doctor he can't take care of himself." shouted Emma.

"Because..." started Calleigh.

"Because nothing!" shouted Megan. "You may not love dad anymore but that doesn't mean that we don't. Why can't dad just stay here?" asked Megan.

"Because if he does then we'll just argue. And I don't want to put him or you guys throught that. That's the whole reason why we even got that stupid divorce anyway."

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Well Calleigh lost the argument but how did she expect to win against two 16 year old girls.

"Tim i'm going to make the girls some lunch do you want anything?" Calleigh shouted from the kitchen. When she didn't hear a reply she walked into the living room to find Tim asleep on the couch. She smiled widley at the site of him. His right arm was tucked under his head and his left arm which was in a sling was laying infront of him. His mouth was open and he was snoring softly. Calleigh walked over to him and sat down queitly on the couch.

She ran her hands through his hair and watched him shift slightly. And he stopped snoring. Calleigh laughed slightly, she thought of the good old days when they were married. Tim would snore and that's all she would have to do to get him to stop was to run her hands through his hair. She sighed heavily and was startled from her thoughts when Tim picked that moment to talk.

"I know your watching me."

"Sorry I just wanted to make sure you were ok." Calleigh stated ignoring the feeling she got when Tim looked her in the eyes.

"I was just sleeping Cal. I'm not dead."

"I know." Megan and Emma walked into the living room and quietly exited when they saw there parents talking. "The other day when I said that you really scared the girls. You didn't just scare the girls..." Calleigh started to say but the words were lost in her throat and she looked down at the ground.

"Calleigh..." Tim started.

"I'm um...going to make the girls some lunch do you want anything?" said Calleigh not looking into Tim eyes.

"No i'm not really hungry."

"Ok." said Calleigh and she got up rather quickly and re-entered the kitchen.

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The girls went back up to their room and closed the door quietly. "Ok I think we need to do some major match making here." stated Emma.

"What... are you crazy!" shouted Megan.

"No i'm not crazy. Look you and I both know that they still love eachother."

"But-" said Megan.

"But nothing. He loves her and she loves him they know it and we know it. Arn't you sick of just seeing dad on the weekends?"

"Yeah."

"ANd don't you wann see Mom and Dad happy?"

"Yeah." said Megan.

"Alright then we agree on something." said Emma.

"Alright what do we gotta do?" asked Megan.

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Tim walked quietly into the kitchen to find Calleigh stirring a pot of noddles Tim's guess was she was making mac 'n cheese the girls' favorite. He walked up behind her and wrapped his right arm around her waist and set his chin gently on her left shoulder.

"Calleigh..." said Tim smelling her hair.

"What?" Calleigh said breathlessly just being this close to Tim having him hold her like this was enough.

"I uh..."

"Yes." said Calleigh looking into his dark chocolate eyes and getting lost in them.

Tim's face leaned into Calleigh's and she leaned into his but something inside Calleigh snapped and she brought her face away causings Tim's head to rest on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry." she stated.

"Calleigh..."

"I just can't Tim. I'm sorry."

"No its ok. I understand." said Tim. "Your waters boiling." said Tim pointing to the stove.

"Oh. Thank." said Calleigh turning towards the stove and regrettign what she just turned down. Tim sighed and walked out of the kitchen.

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Tim walked up stairs and knocked on the girls' door.

"Can I come in?" asked Tim threw the door.

"Um...yeah just a sec...Ok come in." said Megan.

"What are you girls up to?" asked Tim curiously.

"Nothing!" the girls said together.

"Ok well...I was going to go walk down to the park you girls wanna come with?"

"Daddy do you really think you should be going out I mean you were just shot like a month ago." asked Emma.

"Yeah I'm fine. Besides the doctor said I need to get some excerise and i'm not going to get any by sitting on my butt all day...So you girls gonna come or not?"

"Um...yeah sure. Just let us grab our shoes." said Megan.

"Ok i'll wait outside." said Tim closing the door.

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"Just were do you think your going?" asked Calleigh as Tim put his hand on the handle to the front door.

"I'm taking the girls to the park." said Tim as the girls walked down the stairs.

"Are you sure you should be driving?" asked Calleigh a hint of worry on her face.

"Why Cal do you care? Do you think i'm stupid? Were walking." said Tim.

"Girls what about lunch?" asked Calleigh ignoring Tim.

"We'll just get something at the park."

"Oh, ok. Well don't forget your grandpa is coming over tonight so don't stay out to late ok." said Calleigh the girls and Tim both nodded.

Calleigh watched her life walk out the door. She wanted Tim more then anything and to be honest she didn't know why she kept rejecting him. She guessed she was just scared of what would happen if they got back together again. She had always pictured her life with Tim ever since the first time she saw him. They started dating, the got engadged, then married, then Calleigh got pregnant, and then they just started fighting like crazy over the stupidest things. Tim wanted Calleigh out of the field and she wouldn't have none of that. Then they started disagreeing on who killed who. And then it led to fighting over the blankets at night and then after the girls were born it was just all the time. And one night Calleigh had had enough and she asked for a divorce. She knew she was making a mistake but Calleigh was southern and hot headed and she just had to have her way, And when she made a choice she stuck with it. And she wished she hadn't made that choice she wished she could just go back and do it all over again.

She just had to tell Tim she stilled loved him. But how would he react? Especially since she rejected him twice already. 'Oh well.' Calleigh thought.

"I've lived 15 years without him. I can live the rest of my life without him to."

TBC...