Author's notes: I still own no part of Once and Again nor do I own any part of the song Someday We'll know...simply a fan of both and decided to combine the two with my own twist. This is the last chapter...well, there will be two parts to an epilogue but this is the last regular chapter of the story. Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy...

Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you...

Eli reluctantly pulled away and said, "Grace, I heard a car. Is that a car door slamming?"

She sighed. "I know. I heard it too. Can't have little eyes watching us here can we?" She gave Eli a quick kiss and slowly stepped away from him. She turned and saw her mother.

"Tell me you're not still in the exact same spot you were in when I left!" Lily said with a laugh.

Grace looked at her mother and nodded while smiling and said, "Hey wild man! Come here and give your big sis a hug!" Grace bent down and held her arms wide as Philip ran to her giggling all the way.

"Hi Gracie! Mom said I'm not going to be in a wedding and you're not going to marry Geoff. How come?" Philip looked at her puzzled.

Grace looked up at Eli with a look of confusion. Eli knew what she was thinking, knelt down and said, "Hey Philip! What, no hug for me?"

"EEEE! You haven't been here! Why not? Eww, you have hair on your face. I'll give you a big hug anyway!" Philip let go of Grace and tightly wrapped his arms around Eli's neck. "I missed you Eli", he whispered.

"Me too buddy. I missed you too." Eli sighed. 'I should have come back home. I never should have stayed away this long.' He kept one arm around Philip and held Grace's hand. Eli took a deep breath, looked him in the eye and said, "We have something to tell you. Are ya ready? It's big. Important. Pretty major." Eli was worried he wouldn't understand what they were about to tell him.

Grace tightened her grip on his hand, looked at Philip, and said, "Yes Phili, it's really big. You can handle it though, right?" Grace smiled.

"I am almost seven years old. I can handle anything. Mom said I was getting too big for my britches on the way home today. I said they fit fine. She laughed at me. I knew what she meant though Gracie. I'm getting too big for her. She wants me to stay little so I can be her little man. I'm glad you want me to grow. I'm ready. Tell me." Philip said with a smile full of confidence, knowing in his heart he could understand anything they wanted him to understand.

Grace took a deep breath and said, "I'm not marrying Geoff because he just wasn't making me happy. I want to be happy like you are when you learn something and you laugh and laugh so hard that you can't tell anyone what it is you learned. I want to be able to laugh and I never really laughed with Geoff." She looked at Eli. He smiled warmly and squeezed her hand. She mouthed 'I'll tell him' to Eli and he nodded. "Wild man, there is someone I know that I feel that way about. You know him too."

Philip looked at her with wide eyes and said, "are you gonna marry him today? The other one?"

She smiled and said, "No, we aren't getting married today. We have a lot to do before we could get married." She was afraid to look into Eli's eyes. Grace smiled and said, "Do you wanna know who he is?"

Philip looked at her and slowly drifted his gaze to Eli. He saw they were holding hands and simply stated, "Its Eli. You love Eli."

Grace's mouth dropped open and Eli laughed. "What made you say that? Why did you say it's me?"

"You're holding hands. Mom and Dad hold hands. Aunt Judy and Uncle Will hold hands. Jake and Tiffany hold hands and so do Karen and Henry. Everyone in love holds hands don't they? Eww, you don't kiss do you?" The two laughed and Grace said, "You are too young to know anything about that."

Philip laughed and said, "Ha ha! I saw you! I saw you and you didn't know! I was in the car and I saw you kiss before Mom got out and said anything. You kissed."

Lily stepped outside and said, "Leave them alone and come inside. We have to get your things put away. Where are you keeping your sleeping bag this time? Philip, leave them alone. Now." Lily looked at Eli and winked, took Philip's hand and they went into the house.

"Wow" was all Eli could say.

"Big isn't he? He grows more and more every day in every way imaginable. I bought him some clothes last year for his birthday and nothing fits him anymore. I was in the store and had no idea what to get him. I stood in the aisle where the cars and trucks are and couldn't remember for the life of me what he already had." Grace stopped a moment, stood back up, and looked at Eli. He stood and she asked "what?"

"I was so wrong. I have missed so much because I stayed away. Never again. I will not stay away again. How could I possibly have thought the pain of seeing you with Geoff would outweigh the joy of seeing my family, my friends, everyone I've ever loved? That little face of his would have made up for anything. Someone needed to hit me in the head with something." Eli sighed and looked up at the sky. 'One. I cannot believe I am counting planes again. Look away from the sky Eli. Stop escaping.' He looked at Grace and softly said, "We need to talk. We have to figure out what will happen. Our weekend is almost over."

Grace sighed deeply and felt tears form once again in her tired eyes. I don't want to think about this. I want to block everything out but I know I can't. Why did we wait so long? We are both idiots. Grace felt a smile creep across her face and watched confusion appear on Eli's beautiful face. "Do you know what I just realized?" She watched as he shook his head and continued. "You and I are both idiots. I have to smile about that even if it was through my tears. Do you realize we don't even have a remotely legitimate reason for feeling that way either? We were in love and completely terrified of it and wasted so much time. Thank god we've realized our mistakes and now we can live our lives without stupid little worries about what the other is thinking."

She took a deep breath. "I don't want you to go. I know, I know, you have to go but I don't want you to. Am I completely wrong? Am I childish and selfish for feeling this way? I want you here with me...with us...here...happy. I'm sorry sweetheart. I am not making it very easy on you am I? I'll be fine. I know that now. I will be fine and my life will be filled with love and laughter. I just don't want to discuss your leaving right now. I want to enjoy us. I want to enjoy the fact that right here at this moment in this spot in the yard I can look in your incredible eyes and tell you I am completely in love with you Eli Sammler and that will never change." She took his hand in hers and smiled warmly while gazing into his beautiful, loving eyes.

"I love you Grace Manning. I always have and now I know without a doubt I always will. With you, I have found home...I wasn't certain before but after everything this weekend, I know I am home when I am with you, no matter where we may physically be. You are always in my heart and even though I have to leave in a few days, I will be back. I will never be away from this big beautiful house and my amazing family and the woman I love for more than a few weeks at a time, I promise. I can't. My heart won't let me. You are all at the top of my list from now on." Eli sighed and pulled Grace close. The smiled as they realized their hearts were beating as one. "Grace Manning I always knew I loved you. I always knew you were the one for me. Right now, right this moment I am alive. It took me so many lonely years but in one weekend, I found my forever. Right in front of me and I never knew."

Grace smiled and with confidence she said, "I knew you'd figure it all out someday. Today is your someday Eli. Our someday and now we know. Now, Eli Sammler, man that I love, take me inside that big beautiful house and let's let the rest of the world in on our secret." Together they walked across the yard, hand in hand, smiles on their faces, tears in their eyes, and stepped into the house where it all began...