A/N: Yay, an update! Nope, I'm not dead, I'm just lazy!

Disclaimer: 7th Heaven isn't mine and the song "These Dreams" by Heart isn't mine, either

Chapter 4: A Promise Is A Promise

Lucy regained her sense of reality shortly after Roxanne and Chandler faded away. She breathed in deeply, still in shock that she'd seen her friends once again...from beyond the grave.

Lucy walked slowly into the kitchen of her home, hoping to find Kevin in there. And Lucy did find Kevin in there, sitting at the Kinkirk family's kitchen table quietly, a distant look in his eyes.

Kevin must have remembered today's date, Lucy realized sadly. How could Kevin forget, though? Chandler and Roxanne were like family to Kevin, too.

Kevin and Chandler had shared a close friendship like that of Lucy and Roxanne's. Kevin had always told Chandler everything and, vice versa, Chandler told Kevin everything.

When she realized that Kevin had not noticed her standing in the room, Lucy cleared her throat to make him aware she was there. Kevin looked over at her, a distant look still in his eyes.

Lucy moved across the kitchen and slowly sat down next to Kevin. He looked at Lucy sadly, tears glistening in his eyes.

A single tear rolled down Kevin's cheek, "I miss them, Luce."

Lucy nodded, "I do too, Kevin."

Lucy embraced Kevin gently. For a few moments there was a deep silence.

The silence was broken when Lucy asked a question, "So, the kids are still asleep, am I right?"

Kevin nodded.

"Kevin, Roxanne and Chandler, they..." Lucy sarted to say, but Kevin finished her sentence for her.

"...visited you as ghosts and told you to tell Rain the truth," Kevin finished.

"Yeah...how did you know?" Lucy asked, surprised.

"I saw them too, Luce. They came to me early this morning and told me the same thing," Kevin replied.

Lucy nodded, no longer surprised. Somehow deep inside of her mind she knew they'd visit Kevin, too.

"Kevin, they made one thing clear, to..." Kevin joined in with Lucy on the rest of her words, "...tell Rain the truth."

"And that is what we have to do, no matter what," Kevin said.

Lucy nodded and embraced Kevin once again. The couple both openly wept. They cried for their lost friends and they cried for the daughter they might also lose by revealing the truth to her.

What if Rain wouldn't accept the truth? What if she felt unloved by Lucy and Kevin because she wasn't related to them by blood. What if she hated them for keeping secrets about such a big part of her life from her...that part of her life that revealed that Rain wasn't really their 'true' daughter, that she had been adopted and that her real parents were dead?

This would not be an easy thing to do.

But Lucy and Kevin knew they had to tell Rain. They made Roxanne and Chandler a promise and they couldn't break it and let them down. Plus, Rain had the right to know the truth, even if it hurt her. The truth does hurt after all, but it also sets you free.

Lucy and Kevin tried to prepare to face the hardships that telling Rain the truth just might, and probably would, bring.

At the moment, the couple only knew one thing for sure: a promise is a promise, no matter how hard keeping said promise can be.

...-...

Roxanne looked sadly through Lucy and kevin's kitchen window as they embraced and cried.

She felt bad, actually just plain awful, for putting her two best friends through such pain. A ghostly tear slipped down Roxanne's transparent cheek.

Roxanne tried to keep herself strong inside, though. Lucy and Kevin would have told Rain the truth without her and Chandler asking them to, anyway, Roxanne told herself. They were too good and too honest of people to keep such a thing secret from Rain, even if learning the truth hurt her.

Besides, no matter how much Rain may hurt when she finds out, she would heal over time. Rain had Roxanne's strong will to carry on. Roxanne could tell that just by looking at her daughter...her beautiful daughter who she never got to really know, and who she still loved very dearly.

I love you, Rain, Roxanne thought to herself. I'm sorry that I don't know you.

Chandler appeared next to Roxanne and right away saw her sadness. He embraced her in a tight, but at the same time gentle, hug.

Chandler put his mouth near Roxanne's ear and wishpered in a ghostly voice, "I love you."

Chandler then placed his ghostly lips upon Roxanne's and kissed her softly. The two ghostly lovers then faded away into thin air together.

The sweetest song is silence
That I've ever heard
Funny how your feet in dreams
Never touch the earth

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-Slo Motion