Disclaimer: see chapter 1
A/N: Well, I was really going to continue this story out, but it seems that I lost my muse. I took me three days to come up with this chapter, so I just decided to end the story here. I think it is my subconscious slowly preparing me for the best show on TV. Please enjoy and thanks for reading!

Donna stretched her arms over her head and opened her eyes. She reached over for Josh, but only found an empty space. She heard the shower shut off. She pushed herself up on her arms and looked around the room. He had already been to his room, since his bags were sitting in the corner and to get them coffee. She grabbed his dress shirt off the floor and slipped it over her head. She walked across to the coffee and bags sitting on the table. She heard him come out of the bathroom.

"So, which bagel is mine? Or the better question is how many of these did you actually think we could eat this morning?"

She turned and looked at him and she felt her face flush. He stood there, completely still, a towel wrapped around his waist and another hanging around his shoulder. His eyes roamed over her body, up her legs to her face and back again.

She started walking toward him. "Josh? Josh, are you…"

"Marry me" he said. Donna stopped her in tracks. "What did you just say?"

She could see the wheels turning in his head and the fact that those two words came out of his mouth seemed to shock him as well.

"Josh, did you just ask me to…"

He leaned back against the wall and smiled. "Yeah, it would seem that I did."

She crossed her arms and glare at him. "Joshua, you know, it's not nice to tease a girl with…"

"Who said I was kidding?" She dropped her arms and stood there as he walked over to her. He wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her into him.

"Josh…" she said in a whisper, tears forming behind her eyes.

"Donnatella, just hear me out. That's not how I would have ever imagined asking you, but seeing you standing there in my shirt, discussing breakfast… well, all of a sudden I flashed to a morning a month from now, a year from now, 25 years from now and it was still the same scene – you and me in the morning, half naked, getting ready for the day. And it's right. I can feel it in every fiber of my being. I suddenly saw the life I wanted but had ignored or put off for so long and that life has to be with you or I don't want it at all."

"Oh Josh" she said, wrapping her arms around his neck, tears falling down her face. He brought one hand to her face and wiped the tears away.

"And I know that this isn't the most romantic thing in the world… hell, I don't even have a ring or anything… but it felt right, in that moment, seeing you standing there, looking sexy as hell in nothing but my dress shirt… well, I just thought that it had to be said. I know it's soon, but…"

She started to laugh, loudly. Josh just stared at her, confused. "I'm sorry, did I miss making a joke?"

"Oh… my sweet, completely silly Joshua" she said, cupping his face with her hands. "Soon? You think this is soon? I think it's been the longest marriage proposal in the making ever! No, it's not at all too soon."

He narrowed his eyes at her. "So does that mean that you are…"

"Saying yes? Yes, I am saying yes." He smiled brightly at her and wrapped his arms around her waist, picking her up off the floor and spinning them around. As he set her back down on the floor, she leaned in to kiss him. It was a sensual kiss that held the promise of a future to come and it made her want him even more than she thought was possible.

He pulled back from her lips, so she started to work her way down his neck. He moaned as she ran her finger nails down his back. "Donna…" he growled out "… what about the coffee?"

"Screw the coffee" she whispered in his ear as she ripped the towel off his body and wrapped her hand around him. He pulled her in for a fierce and wild kiss, walking them backwards toward the bed. He yanked the shirt over her head and they tumbled back onto the bed, barely separating to breathe.

An hour later, they emerged from the bathroom after taking what could only be described as the sexiest shower ever. She pulled on her jeans and shirt and watched him walk around the room, getting ready for the day.

"So, what should we do today?" he asked, turning in her direction as he concentrated on putting his watch on.

She sighed and looked up at him. "I think we should head back to DC." He slowly looked up at her. "Donna…" he whined.

She grinned and walked over to him. She placed her hand on his cheek. "Why don't you want to go back? You know we can't stay here forever."

He just sighed and leaned his forehead against hers. "Because DC will suck the life out of us."

"Only if we let it, Josh. But you realize you aren't facing DC alone anymore. You never really were."

He put his hand on her hips. "I know, but…"

"Josh, it's who we are, it's where we live, it's our life. We can't avoid it forever, but we can take it on, together now."

He placed a light kiss on her lips. "You're right. But, we really have to go back today?"

She laughed. "Well, we have to go back sometime and I do believe I need a proper engagement ring and I just love that little place near the townhouse in Georgetown."

He hugged her tightly and kissed her temple. "Alright, we'll go back today, but I just want to say now that I love you and I will always love you. I just want to say that and make sure you believe it before we head back to the craziness."

"I love you too, Joshua, and always will. Not DC or anything could change that." She kissed his cheek and pulled out of his arms.

They quickly packed their things and headed out. They checked out, saying goodbye to Rhonda. They put their bags in the trunk of Josh's car. They leaned back against the car and looked around one last time before getting in the car. They headed back to DC, not being real sure what tomorrow or the day after tomorrow would hold, but they knew that whatever it was, they would face it together.

THE END