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Naturally Mine

Frank was going to find a way back into Rachel's heart and if it meant breaking Grant's heart then so be it.

A couple of nights later Rachel was sitting in bed with a lot on her mind. All the planning of the wedding was getting to her, she and grant's issues that they have not really talked about, and the constant struggle of her heart wanting no one else but Frank was taking a toll on her. She was living a lie and she felt like she couldn't go through it anymore. Grant was in the bathroom brushing his teeth and was talking to Rachel about something, but she wasn't listening.

"My mom wants to fly out here two days before our engagement party this weekend, can you believe that? It's like she wants to be too involved with everything, so I told her I would ask you about it" Grant didn't get a response from Rachel, so he talked on. "And the guys want me to have a bachelor's party but I am a little reluctant to do so. Why would I want to see pretty girls when I have the most beautiful woman on Earth already right in my life?" He washed his mouth and walked out into he and Rachel's bed room.

"Honey" he said but Rachel was still in her own world "Rachel"

"Huh"

"Are you ok?"

"I'm sorry honey I just have a lot on my mind"

"I can tell what's on your mind baby"

"Just the wedding and… us"

"I know planning a wedding is time consuming and tough but I'm here to help in any way I can"

"I know, but also I am worried about us"

"What about us?"

"Well we really haven't gotten a chance to talk about what happen, you know"

Grant sighed "I'm assuming were talking about Frank right?"

"Yeah"

"Rachel he is a non factor in our relationship. I forgive you and I think I've come to forgive him too. But that doesn't mean that I still want him to our wedding"

"I know you don't"

"Look I love you flaws and all, that's all you need to know."

"But Grant"

"I Love You Rachel Marron and I am gonna make you Mrs. Grant Christian McNamara!"

Grant started kissing her in all her favorite spots, but it just never felt the same. Grant could always make her feel young and sexy, but his love making skills weren't on the level that Frank's were. Frank knew how to make her come alive and she felt more than sexy with him. Grant continued to kiss her along her collar bone then he moved to her neck and all she could do was let out a moan. Rachel knew it was wrong what she was letting herself do, but she wasn't ready yet. While Grant closed his eyes while making love to her Rachel's remained open while she held on tight. She couldn't help the lone tear that had escaped her eye.

Two days later Frank was busy with his two youngest kids playing in the park while they waited for Fletcher to come and pick them up. While his daughter was cutting kart wheels Frank sat on the grass with Riley as he took a breather from running around.

"How long left do you have to stay with us?" Riley asked

"About a week and a half"

"I'll miss you so much daddy"

"I'll miss you guys too. I wish I could stay here longer but I can't"

"Then why don't you?"

"It's not that easy son, I made a commitment but I don't have long left"

"I hate when you are gone we all do, and sometimes at night I hear mommy crying too. I think she misses you the most"

"Really?" intrigued Frank now was

"Yeah before you came back I would see her crying and I would ask her what's wrong and she said that she missed you."

"How long ago was this?"

"After my birthday"

"Where was Grant?"

"Sleeping in the guest room, that's what he would tell us"

Then his daughter came running over to him and jumped right into his arms

"Catch me daddy" she said and Frank caught her

"I don't want to ever leave the park"

"I don't blame you your having so much fun, but Fletcher will be here in a little while to take you guys back home."

"I wanna stay here with you" she whined and hug Frank more

"Come on let's go play on the swings again!" Riley told his sister and they both went running towards the swing sets

Frank watched them run off until he felt someone else presence, he turned his head around and caught a glimpse of Rachel.

"What are you doing here?"

"What does it look like? I came to pick up the kids"

"Well where is Fletcher?"

"He's tied up with some after school activities" she stood there watching their children play in the distance

"You don't have to stand up you can sit down, unless your afraid of getting dirty"

"I'm not afraid of getting dirty, I'm not always in my DIVA mode you know"

"Well what are you waiting for can call them over"

"Frank shut up, I want to watch them play for a little while"

Rachel sat on the grass leaving a good enough amount of space between she and Frank.

"I thought you didn't want to have anything to do with me"

"That's not true"

"Yes it is"

"Okay maybe some truth to it, but I was angry with you. I can not say that I don't wanna have anything to do with you anymore because you're the father of my children. We'll always be in each other's life no matter what."

"Is that it?"

"No"

"Can I ask you something then?"

"What?"

"Are you sure your making the right choice here?"

"I'm still asking myself that same thing"

"What's wrong Rachel it's either you wanna be with Grant or not, make a choice"

"I love Grant"

"Ok so why are you here with me?"

"I just told you that I want to watch my kids play"

"Rachel from two weeks ago would have wanted to get her kids and get the hell away from me. But the Rachel that is sitting in front of me now is the same one from the night we almost made love. What's wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong Frank"

"You don't sound so convincing"

"I just have a lot on my mind ok"

"Am I one of those things?"

Rachel turned away from him trying to avoid his gaze, she thought for a few seconds and gave him his answer.

"No your not" she stood up and got ready to go

"I don't believe you and I have the facts to back that up"

"Kids come on" she called out to them

"Aww mom just a few more minutes" Riley said from the distance

"I'm sorry we have to go"

The kids started to go and met their mother and father

"Tomorrow night I have a few things to do so I won't be able to come and pick up the kids…" Frank told Rachel

"You won't have to, Grant and I engagement party is tomorrow night and the kids of course will have to be there

"Oh" he said displeased as the children appeared right in front of them

"Hug daddy" his daughter told him and he scooped both his kids up as they both hugged him

"I love you guys"

"I love you too daddy" Riley said

"I love you more daddy" his sister tried to compete

"I will call you both and Fletcher later tonight ok, so pick up the phone"

"I would prefer that we call you" Rachel interfered "Is that ok?"

"Why can't I call them Rachel huh? Grant doesn't want me calling the house or something" Frank said starting to argue

"No it's not that"

"I never get to call our kids and when I do no one answers the phone but you end up calling me back"

"Frank let's not start an argument with our children here please"

"Fine I'm sorry" he let the children down and said the rest of their goodbyes and left

Frank went back to sitting on the ground to think about what was going on. Instead of picking on Rachel he forgot to convince her to come back to him.

All night Rachel had thought about what Frank had said to her that afternoon and even the next evening at her engagement party all her doubts was still stuck on her mind.

All of their friends and family were in the mist of the party. Everyone was having a wonderful time coming together to celebrate the love between the future bride and groom. The kids were running around somewhere and Grant was talking with some of his relatives. Rachel was in a little group herself talking with a few of her friends from the music industry and Bill was right next to her. He noticed that she wasn't talking too much with them so he put his arm around her and rubbed her arm with his hand. Then he whispered in her ear.

"Something wrong?"

"No why?"

"Your nervous I can tell"

"Of course I am"

"You wanna talk?"

"Yeah I do"

She and Bill went inside the house and to her office

Back outside Fletcher was trying to work up the courage to go and talk to a nineteen year old Britney Spears. Grant came up behind him to reassure him

"Go and talk to her man" Grant said

"I want to but she just broke up with that guy from the boy band"

"That might be just what she needs a friend to talk to"

"What if she takes one look at me and walks away? I don't know if I could take that kind of rejection"

"Women want men with confidence in themselves, a man who knows what he wants and goes for it. How do you think I got your mom?"

Grant ushered for Fletcher to go off and talk to Britney

Back inside the house Rachel was pouring her guts out to Bill

"I don't know what to do here Bill, I love Grant I do but I still want a life with Frank"

"Damn"

"It's that bad?"

"Yes it is" he told her

"What should I do?"

"I think you already know the answer to that, you've always known the answer Rachel even before you got together with Grant"

"But I can't back out now"

"Ok so if you go through with this wedding to you want to be miserable and always in wonder about how your life would have been had you chose Frank?"

Rachel put her head down

"I think you know what you have to do"

A little later outside Grant was trying to give a toast but he couldn't find his bride

"I'm searching for the Future Mrs. McNamara in the crowd but I can't seem to find her" he said just then she and Bill came outside through the back doors behind him. Bill went down the steps and Rachel stood next to Grant. "Here you are I was wondering where you went off to"

"Sorry I was talking to Bill in the house"

"Well now that you're here I can deliver my toast"

"Grant baby wait"

"What's wrong Rachel"

"We need to talk"

"We can talk later let me just do this for you first" Grant went on to talk into the microphone, but he was fixing to make a fool of himself. "I just want to thank everyone for coming to our celebration. You don't know how much this means to all of us" Grant went on to talk while Fletcher and Britney were in the back away from everyone talking. They seemed to really hit it off with each other.

"So you mean to tell me that you've mastered avoiding the paparazzi" Britney asked

"Yep" Fletcher said

"Well are you going to explain to me how you done that?"

"I don't know if I should give out my secret"

"Well would you do it tonight over dinner with me?" she asked and Fletcher smiled

Back to Grant on the mic

"Rachel I know we haven't been together that long and some people might think we are making a mistake but I know in my heart that we can make each other very happy. I know that it was only God who brought us together on that night that we met. With all that said I Love You Rachel Marron and I am so happy that you chose me to be your husband!" He opened his arms and went for a hug as everyone clapped. He even kissed her deeply on the lips to show everyone that this woman was his and no other could ever take her spot. The tears had started to form in her eyes again and then they started to drop

"Grant" she said so that only he could hear her he looked at her and seen that she was crying. He wiped the tears from her eyes.

"Aww your crying it's okay baby, just tears of joy"

"No Grant that's not it"

"Then what's the matter?"

"Grant we need to talk privately" she said and started back up the huge back porch stairs to go into the house. Everyone was wondering what was going on so Grant reassured them that everything was fine and that they would be back.

Meanwhile across the city and in the suburbs of upper middle class Los Angeles Frank was having a poker game with five of his retired buddies from the CIA. They were drinking beer and having a plain good ole time, listening to Frank's problem that he is having.

"Listen Frank you and Rachel I love ya both, but it's time to move on. If you couldn't get back together before today then it will never happen." his friend Corbin said

"Don't listen to him Frank he's divorced too, except he hates his ex wife" Frank's other friend Andrew said "What you need to do is show up at the wedding and drag her out of there"

"What?" Mike said "David get your boy"

"I speak the truth" Andrew said again

"I think it's really over this time fellas"

"Don't say that Frank" said Corbin

"No really guys I've done everything I could do to try and get her into my life and nothing has worked. I finally gave up yesterday when she came to get the kids. It's over" Frank was defeated and hurt. He put his head down on the poker table and the guys went silent, Mike patted Frank's shoulder to console him a little

"Frank I hope your not down there crying"

"I'm not crying, tough guys don't cry"

Just then they heard a knock at the front door

"Frank do you want me to get the door?" David asked

"Yeah sure" he said picking his head back up again.

Not long after David returned "Frank someone is waiting for you in the living room"

"Who?" Frank asked

"Just go and see, guys we should go" David said and ushered all of the guy's out of Frank's house so he could be alone. Frank drunk some more of his beer and got up to go see who it was in the living room. He thought it might be Fletcher coming to check up on him.

"Rachel?" he said facing the back of Rachel's figure

"Hi Frank"

"What are you doing here? I thought you and Grant were having your engagement party tonight."

"We were but I called off the wedding"

Rachel ended up telling Frank about it all night. Fletcher and Bill's along with the house staff to took care of the children. Grant ended up leaving with his parent's to go back to New York. He packed a few of his things and Rachel promised him that she would send the rest of his stuff to him. There was no bad blood between them, because Grant told her that deep down he knew that her heart wasn't in the relationship anymore. And he still loves her but feels that he can move on from this too.

As for Rachel and Frank they went back to living life and came to an agreement that they talk about their relationship when he got back from the Vatican. This time Frank was only going to be away for a month because he was putting in his resignation to quit. But just as life was coming back together again for Rachel she got a phone call one day saying that Grant had been killed in a car accident. Frank flew in to be with her and the kids in New York. After the funeral Frank, Rachel, and their kids drove back to their hotel. After they got the kids settled in Frank found Rachel on the balcony.

"Rachel are you ok?" he asked

"I don't know"

"It's going to be alright"

"Did you see the way his family was looking at me during the service? Like why did I even go?"

"You shouldn't care what they think, you were apart of Grant's life and he loved you"

"I just feel like it's my fault, it's my fault that I got him killed" she said and Frank went give her a hug

"If I would have married him he would have still been here, alive"

"It's not your fault Rachel, Grant's death had nothing to do with you. That was God's will, God wanted his child back home."

"I know but I still can't help to think about what ifs"

Frank hugged Rachel even tighter, she was bearing the guilt of Grant's death and there was not much more Frank could say to her than what he already sad. All he could do was pray for her