Epilogue
Rachel had taken Frank to dinner in a sort of welcome back gesture and now they were in his kitchen. Frank was trying to prepare coffee but his tin was almost empty.
Throwing it in the garbage he said "Ah, can I tempt you with good ol' beer?"
She laughed, he had been so wrecked since his return that when he finally said something simple pleased her. He had been deep in thoughts during the dinner.
"You know," he said as he took two bottle of beer out the fridge "I thought he could come for the holidays, be David's kinda big brother."
"What's that mean?" She said doubtfully.
"Well I thought... I thought we might give it a go" he put down the beers on the counter, never to be touched again that night.
"Give it a go?" she asked.
"Yeah, uh you know... us"
"Us?" Rachel's eyebrows shot to the roof "There's no us, Frank!"
"Uh yeah, well, if that FBI Agent was dating her boss, what are two D's dating each other really?"
"I don't want to date you!" she said bitterly, a bit too bitterly, she calmed down and repeated "there's no us"
He'd been hurt by that. But he was quite sure that she wasn't completely indifferent to his assets... well to him let's say.
"Oh yeah?" a smirk crept on his face.
"Yeah. What would us be about?"
"Well" he began walking toward her. In a matter of second he had pulled her into his arms and pushed her back downcast and was leaning over her. Just before he kissed her she saw an incredibly mischievous yet charming smile on his face.
"You are going to regret that Holloway!" she blurted.
"Oh yeah?" he asked once again with his smile growing.
With the taste of his kiss still in her mind and all her rational thought leaving for the moon she finally answered. "Oh yeah!" with the biggest smile she could manage before taking him to the floor with her. She had finally found her Frank Holloway, after all he had been through, so much had change but he was back.
I had to end it with a "Water Rats" sequence since it started that way… and yes it's a bit ofa "they lived happily ever after…" ending but I couldn't help it.
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