Author: mysunshine08
Title: Four Years Later
Rating: K - K+
Summary: What happens when Sara comes back after four years have passed?
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of CSI...if I did...well we just won't go there, I do own the little girl though
A/N: this is my first fanfic ever...so please be nice though helpful criticism would be well helpful
Chapter 5 - Home
He nearly spilt his drink when his ears heard the little girl's question. He definitely wasn't expecting that sort of question, well at least no the bluntness of it. He didn't think a four-year old could think, yet understand the situation that her mother and he had. The man laughed inwardly, then again this was a daughter of two scientists, she would have had to be smart. He thought about how he should answer her. Should he just tell her the truth or be more subtle with it and let her figure it out. He felt the answer rise in his throat when someone else answered for him.
"Yes, he is you father." They both looked up at the women who had not only read his thoughts, but spoke them.
"Oh, but I thought you said that daddy didn't have a beard?" she got up from the booth and walked over to her new found daddy and climbed into this lap and petted his beard, then settled into his arms and got comfortable. This put a smile on his face, so she knew what he looked like. It felt nice that the older women had told his daughter about him.
"Well, the last time I saw him he didn't have one." The little girl nodded like she was given the answer to life.
"He looks hotter with one." Her hands flew to her mouth after she realized that she had said her thoughts out loud. She didn't think she was going to them, but she did. Her daughter laughed at the funny face her mommy was making.
He just stared at her; he felt his cheeks turning warm and red. He couldn't believe she had just said that.
"I'm sorry; I didn't mean to say that out loud." Her cheeks were getting as red as his.
"But if you hadn't, you would have been thinking it." She nodded and sat back down and looked across from her and sighed. Her daughter had fallen asleep in her daddy's arms.
"But since we are being honest," he continued, "I still think you look 'hot' with you pony-tail"
She laughed at that, "Yea right, I just drove 400 miles with that girl you are holding, singing 'The Isty-Bisty Spider' over and over again." Her little girl had taught herself that song. She looked at the scene in front of her; he was holding his, their daughter, like he was going to lose her the moment this visit ended.
Pain shot through her at that thought does he think that he was just there to see them, then they would be on their way again. She had to tell him that she was there for good, forever. The she loved him, and always had, it had grown with each passing day, with each beat of her heart.
"I'm not going anywhere." She couldn't control her words anymore, they were just coming out of her, and her soul was now controlling everything inside her.
"I'm here to stay, italics we /italics are here to stay. I love you." She had said this in a whisper, but with so much passion that not even the greatest writer could capture it in words.
He saw the tears fall down her face when she said those words. Had he heard her right? Did she really just say what his soul was trying to say this entire time? Was his dream really coming true, right now at this moment?
He felt his own tears fall down his cheeks as he admitted he loved her too, and that he was never going to let her go away again. That next time, no there wasn't going to be a next time. He was going to keep them both here if it meant going to the end of the world and back a million times, he was going to keep her, them, here in his life forever.
He stood up as smoothly and quietly as he could with out waking his little angel that was asleep in his arms. His other angel gathered the little girl's things and her jacket and stood face to face with the man in front of her.
For the first time in two years he felt completely happy. He could think clearly, no more thoughts about her never coming back, or what did he do wrong. He could say what he wanted without the fear of regretting it. And so he did.
"I love you, I always did, and I never stopped. I also missed you very much, and my heart is overjoyed to not only see you, but that you brought me my daughter." They both just stood there looking at each other like the world had stopped and they were admiring it for the first time. Their thoughts were interrupted by a single command from the waitress behind the counter.
"Kiss her already." The waitress smile and nodded toward them.
The only thing they could do was obey the command. So they did, he bent down and kissed her light and sweet. The waitress clapped and as the man tried to pay her she said that they were not to worry about the food that it was on the house. She watched as the old newly found couple left the diner in complete bliss.
The drive home was slow and quiet, no words were needed to tell how they felt now that they were together again, and they would never part again.
The End
There I have finished my first fanfic ever!!! I'm so proud of myself; I think I deserve a cookie
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