A/N: Hey y'all. Ray still ain't here. Em...only three chapters today, because well...this is th end, my only friend the end! Well...hope you enjoy
Peace and Love,
Sophie

At 8:32 pm, Marlena's cell phone rang. The said woman was currently resting on Eddie's chest watching him sleep a small smile on her face.

Eddie awoke as he saw Marlena stir, picking up her cell. "Hello?"

"What...? That's not...no..." she whispered paling. Eddie looked curiously at her, quickly wrapping his arms around her and pulling onto her lap, as she began to sob.

"Shh...it's okay...what's wrong, ese?" Eddie said mildly alarmed as she began to sob harder and harder. "Marly?"

There was a knock at the door and Eddie gently picked up Marlena, opening the door to find the police?

"Can I help you?" he asked, gently placing Marlena on the couch.

"Is Miss Sanchez here?"

"Yeah, why do you need to see her?"

"We need to discuss the murder of her sister," the police man said

Eddie's eyes widened as he quickly let them in. Marlena was still sobbing slightly. Eddie sat immediately next to her, protectively, feeling her fall into his arms, sobbing into his shoulder.

The policemen, while obviously uncomfortable, shot them both looks of pity. The younger one cleared his throat. "Does your sister have any enemies, someone that would want to kill her?"

Marlena shook her head, attempting to quiet the sobbing, praying this was just a bad joke. "Not that I know of..."

After an hour of intense questioning, Marlena sat numbly in Eddie's living room, silent tears streaming down her face, a cup of broth in her hands, long gone cold. Sighing she placed the cup on the coffee table, laying down on the couch pulling out a pill, and using the lumpy broth to wash it down, sleep over taking her.

Marlena and Miranda were in their room putting make-up on. Suddenly Miranda turned to Marlena. "Why weren't you there? Why didn't you stop her?"

"I...didn't know Mira, I wanted to help you..."

"But you didn't..." Marlena's attacker appeared behind Miranda pulling out a knife slitting her throat. Marlena began to fall back, landing on the hard locker room floor. Instead of her attacker there was Miranda with a knife. Marlena tried to get up but couldn't, falling back the world swimming around her

Eddie leaped up, hearing a scream from the living room, finding Marlena on the couch looking small, and helpless much as she did the night she was attacked, only sobbing.

"Marlena.." he said weakly moving next to her holding his arms out to her allowing her to crawl into his lap and sob.

"Why w-w-wasn't I-I th-th-there for h-her?" she sobbed as Eddie rubbed her back.

"There was no way you could have known, this isn't your fault," he said looking her in the eye.

"B-b-but I-I'm her sis-sister," Marlena kept on insisting. She hugged Eddie like she has hugged no one else in her life. He was a good man because he understood how it felt. She let him be hugged like a giant teddy bear.

An hour later Marlena was sleeping relatively peacefully, however was still clinging to Eddie as if the world would end if she let go of him. Eddie would have smiled down at her if he didn't have a sense of her sadness.

A quiet knocking brought Eddie out of his thoughts. He shifted slightly having Marlena cling to a pillow instead of him. He opened to door a crack, peering out. Not that he would admit it, but he was kind of scared.

"Rey!" he hissed opening the door completely, allowing his friend to pass in. While Rey was standing in front of Eddie, neither said a word.

"I loved her," Rey said flatly turning his eyes to Eddie's. "And she's gone,"

"Miranda is-was...a friend of mine, a close one. Marlena is the same, hopefully...more. I loved her like a sister," he told Rey sadly

Rey let out a small sob "God damn...God damn," he repeated, sobbing sinking to the floor and Eddie soon followed, holding him like a brother

"You know what God would say?" Eddie asked, "He would say 'Everything happens for a reason."

"Fuck that, Eddie, I loved her, ese." Rey sobbed. Eddie was surprised he could talk since he was bawling his eyes out on the carpet, "Eddie, man I told her I'd always be there for her, but I wasn't and now she is gone...forever."

"She's not gone. Well in body she is but she still remains her with us-you in spirit." Rey gave Eddie a shadow of a smile, standing, eyes red and puffy "I owe you so much," Rey told him, hugging Eddie close. He pressed a small kiss to Marlena's forehead, in a brotherly manner or Eddie would have kicked his ass and walked out the door, ignoring Eddie's offer to spend the night

Eddie sighed, and picked up Marlena, who immediately buried herself in his chest. He carried her to his bed, and placed her there, pressing a kissing to her lips and turned leave.

"Eddie..." Marlena called, almost frantically "Please don't go..." Eddie felt his heart break at the scared, childlike look of her, looking so frightened, sad, and scared at once.

"Of course," he murmured, sitting gently on the bed.

"Stay with me, please," she sobbed. "I'm-I'm..." Her voice changed so it was almost a whisper "I'm scared, if you don't stay with me, I'll lose you too, and I can't lose another person I love, not someone who I love as much as you," she confessed and Eddie pulled her in his arms, and let her stay there, the hours, minutes, lasting forever, and Eddie wouldn't have cared if it never stopped.

His fury and sadness suppressed this happy moment. He didn't know what to say to the woman who was sobbing in his arms. The one who lost everything her sister, her best friend. Soon his arms grew tired and he gently placed her into the new, fresh, sheets.

"Eddie...?" Marlena asked when she felt herself being moved.

"Yeah babe? I'm right here," Eddie said as he slid into the sheets. She felt his presence and she hugged him and he her. They fell asleep together. Nothing happened.. At least for tonight