Tim sighed deeply, staring at the box in his hand.
"Hey."
Tim glanced up and saw his father and Horatio standing there. Zack appeared next, hiding behind his father.
"Hi." he mumbled.
"You know, forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't this supposed to be a happy day?" Horatio asked. Tim sighed again and shrugged. "Hey, when I married Liz..."
"Horatio, may I remind you your divorce just got finalized?" Tim asked.
"Let's use me as an example then." John stepped forward. "I know you love Maria."
"Do you remember Calleigh?" Tim asked, looking up at his father.
"Yeah. Sweet girl. You two were inseparable."
"Dad, she's here, in Miami."
"Oh." John said, unaware of what to make of all of this. "And? You've seen her?"
"I work with her."
"Tim's got the hots for her." Zack piped up.
"Zack, shut up."
"Tim, what are you saying?" John asked.
"I love Maria but I don't know what to do about Sarah." he said.
"Tim, Sarah's been gone for seven years."
"No..." he shook his head. "Um... Calleigh and I have a daughter together. Horatio, I swear this was all before we worked for you but... the sex last month wasn't."
"Tim..." John groaned. "Does Maria know?"
"No!" he shook his head again. "I don't know if I love her."
"Speed, it's just cold feet." Horatio said. "We all get them on our wedding day."
He nodded.
"What did you guys want?"
"The priest wants to start in five minutes." Zack replied. Tim nodded again and slid into his suit jacket.
"Straighten your tie." John added. Tim rolled his eyes but did what he was told and handed his brother the box.
"I'm counting on you. Okay?" he said. Zack nodded. "I'm serious. You lose this..."
"You'll kill me."
"And I know how to hide the evidence." Tim clapped Zack on the shoulder. He winced and followed Horatio out of the room. Once they were gone, Tim turned to his father. "Do you think I'm doing the right thing?"
"What do you think?"
"I think I should get over it and go marry Maria."
"Smart boy." John smirked. "Come on."
Tim took a deep breath and walked out onto the altar, waiting for Maria to meet him.
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"Are you sure?" Alexx asked.
"Yeah. I'm fine Alexx really. I guess he deserves to be happy."
"Oh sugar, you two need to talk. This will be a big mistake, believe me."
"It's okay. I have Sarah."
"Calleigh..."
"I have to get her ready to go to a friend's. Have fun tonight. Tell uh... tell Tim I said congratulations."
Alexx sighed as the phone went dead and went back into the church. Maria was now with Tim, a bright smile on her face.
"Maria, do you take Timothy to be your husband?"
"I do."
"Timothy, do you take Maria to be your wife?"
Tim could feel every single person in the church staring at him.
"Tim?" Maria asked.
"Maria, I..." Tim stared at her round, brown eyes, waiting for an answer.
"Tim, I need an answer."
"I can't. I'm sorry. I just don't love you." he said, then ran towards the doors, leaving everyone shocked.
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"Okay so you're all set?" Calleigh asked. Sarah nodded.
"Mommy?"
"What?"
"How come I haven't seen Daddy at all?"
"Daddy's busy with work baby." Calleigh replied. Sarah nodded, though a sad look was on her face. "Come on. I'll walk you over to Tara's."
Calleigh walked out of her house and down the street to Tara's house. She talked with Tara's mom for a while, said good bye to Sarah, and went home. As she neared her house, Calleigh realized Tim was standing near her front door.
"I don't want to talk to you." she said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Fine. We don't have to talk." Tim said, kissing her softly. "But I do need to tell you a few things."
"I'm not listening."
"I know you Calleigh and I know I'm gonna hold your attention." Tim smirked. "I love you. I just walked out of my wedding to tell you that and plead that you forgive me and give me a second chance because I don't wanna live without you anymore."
"I'm not falling for it so you can just leave."
"I don't have anywhere else to go."
"Too bad. Get out of here."
"No. I'm not. Not until you forgive me. I was stupid not to tell you but I really forgot about her. Having you back in my life is the best thing and it's like everything else just fades away."
"You know what?" Calleigh said. "You left me. You ran when we were both hurting."
"I know and I was a fool."
"At least you realize your mistakes."
"Yeah. I do. It was a mistake leaving you. I don't want to make the mistake of not having you again."
"No. You hurt me. You hurt me when you left and then it hurt knowing that you had another woman somewhere. What were you going to do? Pretend that we could be happy and lie to Sarah? Then your girlfriend comes back and you play it off like we're not important?"
"But you are." Tim said. "You're the most important thing to me Calleigh. I know you know that. Let's go back to the way we were."
"You want to come in?"
"I can spare a few minutes."
Calleigh smiled and unlocked her front door. Tim let her go in first, then close the door behind him and he left his old life behind, ready to start a new one with Calleigh and Sarah.
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A/N: This is not the last chapter. Next chapter is the epilogue. Last chapter, I hope I cleared up what happened. Sarah was Tim's best friend, the one we read about in his bio on well at least I did. :-/ anyway... after that, he left and went to Miami. Just clearin' any confusion.