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That's What She Said

"Well if she couldn't handle me being your ex then I guess maybe it is better this way." Rachel told Frank

The two of them were talking in Rachel's office in the other side of the house. Frank thinks Rachel scared Giada off by telling her that she was Frank's ex wife and maybe some other stuff that Frank was trying to pull out of her.

"I know what your problem is Rachel"

"Really and what is that?"

"

You don't want to see me with anyone else, but I have to see you with him"

"Oh that is not true"

"It's not?" he questioned

"No, I am not the problem you are! You're the one who dates a different girl every six months, then get tired of her and find someone new. That is your problem your too stuck on me!"

"Have you been talking to Fletcher?"

"What? No!"

"That is his theory too"

"Well he is right Frank"

"Please don't sit there and act like your all innocent too"

"What in the hell are you talking about Frank?"

"Rachel you don't have to pretend with me, I know your not really in love with Grant come on, who are you fooling?"

"Excuse me!"

"You two just started dating like eight months ago and now your engaged? You don't love him, you won't ever love him or anyone else because your still in love with me"

That was the truth Rachel really was still in love with Frank and him being here made her realize it even more. The love of her life was standing there telling her all the things she already knew but tried to conceal in her heart. It was no secret that Frank still had a thing for her too.

Rachel paused for a moment then she tried to speak again, but remained silent. She was speechless so Frank went on.

"We should have worked out our problems maybe we wouldn't be in this situation. I never thought that divorce would be our end game. We were so in love, we were just getting started on our little family, everything was perfect for us. How could something so right go so wrong?" He asked her and more so himself

"I don't know Frank, we were trying to balance our careers, raise our kids, we barely had time for each other"

" I really thought we would be able to work it out, we threw away seven years of our life together because of trust issues and outside forces"

"It was wrong of us to have our daughter to try and save our marriage"

"I know" he said and he was getting ready to pour his heart out to her

"I still love you Rachel I never stopped loving you. I want you in my life again, I want to wake up to your beautiful face every morning, hear the sound your laughter…" he could go on and on. Rachel had began to develop tears in her eyes by now.

"Be with you to watch our children grow, grow old with you. I can't be without you Rachel I really can't!"

"Frank…"

"Be with me"

"I can't" she said, it broke Frank's heart a little

"Rachel please"

"As much as I love you I have to let you go, Grant makes me happy and I made a promise to him"

"But your not in love with him"

The alarm clock went off startling Frank from his dream. He didn't want to wake up, he needed to know what happen next with he and Rachel. He hit the stop button and rubbed his face, he looked over to his side and his wife was still sleeping soundly and looked so angelic. He hoped what happened to the Rachel and Frank in his dream would never happen to them in this life. He got up out of bed and stretched a bit before he headed out of the room. He put on a pot of coffee to wake himself up and once it was done he would bring her some. Frank checked on the boys in the next room and Fletcher was still sleeping but Riley was sitting up in his crib playing with some of his stuffed animals.

"Hey man you must have woken up before me huh" Frank told his child who just smiled "Let's see if you need a diaper change" Frank check his diaper which just had a little pee and changed him. After that Frank took him back to the kitchen to see if the coffee was ready then he took him to he and Rachel's room.

Frank put Riley down on the bed first and then he got in himself. He shook Rachel a little bit until she woke from her slumber.

"Morning baby" Frank said giving her a kiss

"Umm good morning!" she had to say licking her lips "What time is it?"

"Just a little past six, I programmed the clock an hour and thirty minutes early so we could have some coffee and a little time to actually pack instead of rushing out the door. Look whose come to join us"

"Hi baby!" she gave Riley a kiss "Daddy woke you up?"

"No he was actually already up, he was just sitting playing with his toys quietly"

"Are you going to behave the same way on the plan too?" of course she really wouldn't get much of a response, and he just climbed on top of her to lay on her chest.

"You must still be tired huh?" Rachel asked him and Riley just yawned "I can tell he will be very mommy loving today"

"Well that must be nice but anyway I'm going get us a coffee and I need to tell you about my dream last night." he said leaving the room

As he came back in Frank gave her a cup and then kept one for himself and began to tell her what the dream was about.

"So you had a dream?" she asked

"Yes"

"Was it a good dream?"

"Not really, we were divorced but still in love with each other"

"Must have been some dream"

"Yeah it was. We had been divorce for two years, Fletcher and Riley was in the dream and we also had a daughter."

"I got my baby girl!"

"Yes you had your daughter but she was only conceived to try and save the marriage"

"What?"

"Ah huh, I worked out of the country and came back for Riley's 5th birthday. From what I gathered I really didn't get to see our children as often as I should. Oh and you were engaged to someone named Grant"

"I was getting remarried?"

"Yeah after eight months"

"Oh that is not like me, I must have gotten pregnant with his child or something"

"No you weren't"

"Well how did he look, was he attractive?"

"I'm telling you that I had a dream that we were no longer together and all you can wonder about is if the guy was good looking!"

"I'm sorry I just wanted to know if I could still attract the cute men while I am pushing into my forties"

"You could be fifty years old and still snag them"

"Aw thanks Frank" she smiled

"But I still better be the only man in your life!"

"You will be. That dream must have scared you"

"It did"

"Why did we divorce?"

"It wasn't clear but it involved us not being able to spend time with each other, always busy doing other things"

"You think it might have been infidelity?"

"I don't know"

"Know this Frank I would never cheat on you, I have no reason to. You're the only man I could ever love and I nothing will ever change that. You and I are in this together for life, and have lots of babies your just not allowed to watch them by yourself!" she laughed.

"I'm still angry with myself for that, I promise that will never happen again"

Riley sat up from where he was and tried reaching for Rachel's cup but she pulled it away.

"Mama" Riley whined. Frank put his coffee down and held Riley close to him

"See everytime your around it is like I am invisible to him" Frank said but Rachel didn't grab for him, he ended up settling down a little bit

"Say dada Riley" Rachel told him

"I think I am giving that up for right now, he will catch me by surprise I hope"

"Yeah he will say it when he is ready. I guess I better go and wake up Fletcher we have to be out of here soon" Rachel said and started getting out of bed and Riley started whining again

"Here he wants his mommy right now so I will go and wake up Fletcher. And I can't be left alone with him anymore so"

"Aw Frank I really didn't mean that" she started to laugh again

"You promise you won't ever leave me" he ask being serious now

"Frank it was just a dream"

"I know but what if something like that does ever happen?"

"Well if we were to ever split, I would do everything I could to stop that from happening. I love you Frank and won't ever stop loving you. Stop worrying" she kissed his lips and showed him just how much she did love him.

Later they were on a private plan headed to Australia. Riley had started to get fussy so Rachel was feeding him a few cut up grapes. Fletcher was playing his game boy and Frank caught up on a few paper work. In an hour their plan would be landing then it was straight to the hotel and then Rachel had to rehearse her show. So in the meantime Frank would be taking care of the kids.

"Hey honey" Rachel said

"Ah huh?" Frank said back

"I've been thinking"

"About what dear"

"Taking a break"

"A long break or a short break?"

"A long break, I've been touring, doing movies, and putting out albums for about three years straight. I need a break from my career!"

"I agree, but would the record company agree?"

"I have a meeting with them when we get back to the states"

"What do you think they will say?"

"Well I have one more album in my contract to fulfill, so I think they might let me break for a while"

"And you can put it out anytime you want so let's go for it"

"So your behind me on this"

"One hundred percent"

Great! I'm so excited, we'll take so many vacations, we'll finally have time to find another home, and we can get started on another baby!"

"Over share" Fletcher said from his seat

"Oh put on your ear phones" Rachel told him jokingly

"I like that idea the best" Frank said

"Of course you do"

"You could help me with my detective business and maybe come out on stake outs with me"

"You would let me!" Rachel asked, she always wanted to go with Frank when he had stake outs, but she never had the time

"Yeah you'll have a lot of time on your hands, but you have to wear a disguise and stay in the car"

"You would make me stay in the car!"

"Yeah what else can you do but write down things and answer the phones"

"Well isn't that what Rochelle does?"

"No Rochelle along with Thomas are my private eyes, we all play secretary. So since I wouldn't have to pay you…"

"No you would pay me some how"

"How then?"

"You know how" she said seductively and winking

"Once again too much information" Fletcher said again

Later while Rachel was gone the boys were taking a nap in their hotel room. By then Frank had forgotten about his dream, until he went to sleep and the dream picked up from where it left off.

"Frank stop right there!" Rachel didn't want to hear anymore "You and I had a great run but it is over, it's been over for two years. I don't want to go that route again with you, what we had was special yes but I've moved on and so should you"

"When you really, really love someone you don't want to move on. Remember when you told me it was us always and forever? You would never leave me because I was the only man you could ever love? I know that is still true, and if you don't follow your heart you won't be hurting anyone but yourself"

"Frank why must we do this now" Rachel's tears were falling from her eyes and Frank reached up to wipe them away and cupped her cheek. His hand felt so good to her, like it belong there. She missed the touch, the feel of his warm skin. He sent sparks all through out her body and he took advantage of the moment and kissed her.

It just felt natural to the both of them to do it. A few months after their divorced had been finalized Frank came over to the house to drop the kids back to her from their weekend with him. It was late at night so they were all sleeping and he helped her put them to bed. They didn't know what came over themselves that night but they ended up sleeping together just to get it out of their system. But the feelings never left and needless to say that was the last time they had been intimate with each other.

The two of them hand been kissing for almost a minute when Rachel stopped herself

"Frank no"

"What?"

"This is wrong, we are at our child's birthday party doing this and people are right outside not to mention my fiancé"

"Rachel what we are doing is not wrong" he said and went on to kiss her some more, but Grant ended up walking in before it could happen.

"You two okay in here?" Grant asked

"Everything is fine" Rachel told him "Were done here anyway" she said turning to Frank and walked out. Grant lingered for a moment looking at Frank for reassurance that everything was really ok. But Frank just shrugged and walked past him following Rachel outside.