See the west wind move like a lover so
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in the fields of gold
We'll walk in the fields of gold

Sara had cancer, it had spread throughout her entire body, and there was nothing that the doctors could do to treat it. She was given a year, at most, to live. So she began to record videos for the girls, and Tommy, and Greg. She had videos for everything that the children could possibly go through in life, and even though she wasn't as strong for her final videos, she kept making them.

Greg was given a lot of time off so that he could be with Sara and the children, Warrick, Nick, and Catherine also took time off to do the same when Greg couldn't.

At the ages of five and three, the children couldn't understand why their mom was so sick, but they were being prepared for her death.

"My beautiful babies," she said to them. "Mommy is very sick, and I'm not certain how much longer I'm going to be with you."

"Where will you go," the bright-eyed Kayla asked.

"Soon the angels are going to take me to heaven, but you won't be able to come, neither will daddy. Not right away anyway. When you are much older, and you have grand-children, maybe then will be your time to join me, but you have many years until then."

"Why can't we come with you," little Tommy questioned.

Sara looked to Greg, who had tears in his eyes. "Mommy wants to stay here very much," Greg said. "But she is too sick to stay, and no body can cure her, except for God. So she needs to go to him, but once she is there, she can't come back."

"When I die though, and I go to heaven, I promise that I'll watch you as you are growing up. And I've made videos for you to watch as you grow up, so that you can always come to me for advice."

"But I don't want you to leave," Laura cried.

Sara cuddled her three babies close to her and whispered that she didn't want to leave them either. Greg hugged them as well.

It was only two months later that she died.

The funeral came and went, and whenever they were lonely, they watched a video, which made Greg cry every time. Catherine would come over to help Greg watch the children, and she gave him advice on how to raise them.

Greg would visit her grave often, and he would pour his heart out to her tombstone, in hopes that she would hear. Nearby was the grave of their mentor, Gil Grissom. He would sometimes go there to talk as well.

Many years have passed since those summer days
Among the fields of barley
See the children run as the sun goes down
Among the fields of gold
You'll remember me when the west wind moves
Upon the fields of barley
You can tell the sun in his jealous sky
When we walked in the fields of gold...

Two years had passed since Sara's death, and though the twins still missed her, Tommy had little memory of his mother, except what he saw in the videos. Greg watched as the children played in the back yard of the house, even though he had tears in his eyes, he smiled because he loved them.

He had just finished watching one of Sara's videos that was for him. In it she said the following: "Greg, I know that you are probably only watching this because you still miss me. I just wanted you to know that it's ok to miss someone you love. But I want you to be happy, which means that someday, when some woman comes along who you think is good, and you love her, and you think she could raise the children well, don't let my memory stand in the way. I will always love you forever, and I know that you will love me too. I hope that someone is helping you through my loss the way you helped me through losing Grissom. Because of you I could live again, and I could love. I'm certain that our children are even more beautiful than they were when I left. There's just so much that I want you to understand, I love you so much that I never want you to be sad and alone. So my love, someday, be happy again, because that's the Greg I love."

What she had said was true, all of it, he just needed to be told. They would always be together in his memories, and she would be watching him from the clouds until it was his time to join her. Nothing could truly keep love apart, not even death. As Greg watched their young children run around and he smiled, she would live on in them, in Laura, Kayla, and Tommy, they each had her beautiful brown hair, and the two girls looked very much like her. Greg sighed, this was still his family, and someday some other loving woman might be his wife, and she would help raise the children, but this would always be the most important memory.

THE END

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