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Epilogue

John sat alone in his office; it must have been sometime close to midnight as he stared at a picture on his desk. A picture of the two of them; an older picture when he had just started to fall in Love with her. It was at Christmas time and she looked so beautiful, he how ever looked brooding in the picture as usual. He smiled to himself shaking his head at how he could bare wait, wait nine more hours to make her his wife, to commute to her, commit his love and his live. A commitment of a future of raising a family and growing old together, he knew he was still afraid of things, still afraid she would get hurt, but he also knew that the fear of not making the most of every waking moment with her was so much greater.

John was still caught up in thought when he heard a knock on his office door; his blinds were already closed cause he was going to be spending the night here, the first night away from her since they had been back home. She insisted because tomorrow was there big day. He heard the knock again and he called for them to come in, he shook his head having not a clue who it could be, the station was pretty empty and not one even knew he was here.

He looked up to see her walk in, she was smiling, he stared into her baby blue eyes as she approached him by his desk, she came around the desk in front of him as he stood. He smiled not having a clue what was going on when he saw her lean her arms down and shove all the stuff from his desk to the floor in one swept.

"What's going on?" he asked as he smiled and walked around the desk towards her

"I just figured maybe we'd get a jump on those babies you promised me" she said wickedly as she pulled him to her, kissed him passionately and gently lowered herself back on his desk, so they could make love.

"Hey where is everyone I'm home, Natalie, girls, Daddy's home where is everyone?" John asked as he came in the front door from a very long day at work. He took off his shoes and turned to hang up his jacket, when he turned back around and he saw them. His girls, his twin girls, their twin girls, they had innocent looking faces, faces like angels, faces with what seemed to be chocolate smeared all over them.

John laughed to himself knowing his two girls were far from innocent, they were trouble, trouble just like their momma all wrapped up in one.

"Well, isn't anyone going to say Hello to there dad after a long day a work" he asked them as they moved forward and grabbed onto his legs.

"Hey, Daddy" three year old Alison told her daddy sweetly as he continued to stare at her smeared chocolate face, then he looked over to his other leg to Abigail holding on tightly, she too looked up at her dad and smiled and said Hey. He continued to look down at them as he walked with them on his legs; they started to giggle as he asked his next question. The question he already knew the answer to, the answer that was all over their faces.

"Did my angels stay out of trouble today?" he asked and they both shook their heads up and down several times, John watched them and then he heard Natalie yell out from the kitchen.

"Who ate all the cookies from the cookie jar?" John laughed at her words, the girls stood still on john's legs as they saw Natalie swing the kitchen door open, she saw John, she met his eye's, her eye's roamed to the girls who were so innocently clutching to his legs.

Natalie tried not to let out a laugh as she saw their chocolate covered faces, she bite back her smile and she looked back at John.

"Think you got yourself a real mystery here, why don't you get your bag and canvass the area for prints" he told her and he couldn't hold his laughter in any more, she looked at him and lost hers too. She walked closer to him, she leaned down to the girls, one at a time, wiped the face a bit with her hands.

"Go wash up, its time for dinner" she told them as they smiled and left John's legs and ran to get washed up.

John pulled her closer to him as she stood in front of him, he took her finger that still had some of the chocolate on it, and he put it in his mouth and tasted it.

"Chocolate chip Huh? And they didn't save me any did they?" he asked, she smiled.

"Do they ever?" she said and she leaned in to kiss him.