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And here it is then: the final chapter... Who is the mysterious guy that got Morgan the Valentine's Day gifts? I think most of you will already know! ;)
Morgan felt unable to say anything now she finally knew who all the gifts were from. He smiled at her as he handed her a bouquet of red roses. "Happy Valentine's Day, Morgan."
Still unable to speak, she took the roses from him. He smiled at her again. "Surprised to see me?"
"I… I was hoping it would be you," she confessed as she looked up at Greg, her cheeks slightly red. "I just thought you couldn't have gotten me all those gifts since you had been out all night. Or weren't you?"
With her eyebrows frowned together and a suspicious look in her eyes, she looked at him. He started laughing.
"I have been out all night, don't worry!" he told her with a smile. "I set it all up! I called Russell before shift and asked him if he could send me away as soon as my shift started, so I wouldn't be at CSI when you found your gifts. I also asked Nick, Henry, Hodges and Sara if they wanted to help me out, which they were actually more than happy to do… I dropped off the gifts at their places before shift, being very careful of course not to leave any fingerprints or DNA on them. And then they did the rest for me! Nick put the rose with the card in your locker, Henry the teddy bear, Sara hid the bag of candy hearts in the breakroom and Hodges did put that box of chocolates on your desk. I had to tell you he was sorry that he hadn't told you the truth right away, but technically he didn't lie to you about it."
Thinking back, she remembered Hodges only asking her why he would put that box on her desk. Now she knew the answer: because Greg had asked him to do so. She shook her head. "I still don't understand… How did you know what I wanted? I haven't told anyone, except…"
She stopped. She hadn't told anyone except her mother… But would her mother…? Greg smiled at her as if he could read her thoughts.
"Your mother called me yesterday," he confessed. "She had first called LVPD and they gave her my number. She then explained to me how unhappy you felt that you had never had a real Valentine's Day and that you would love to for at least once feel special today. She also told me about the gifts you had mentioned to her on the phone and she even remembered a story from when you were in the fourth grade about…"
"The candy hearts," she finished the sentence for him, nodding as she remembered the story. "The boys were supposed to get candy hearts from the cafeteria and then give them to a girl they thought was nice. By the end of the day, I was the only girl in the fourth grade that hadn't gotten any candy hearts. A few days later I found out this boy I liked had given me candy hearts after all, but another girl had taken them from my locker. I ended up going to see a kid's movie with him, but on that day I felt so… lonely!"
"Well, hopefully you won't feel lonely tonight," Greg said with a sweet smile, which made her melt on the inside. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you it was me right away, but I wanted to keep it a secret until tonight. Are you mad at me?"
"No, of course not!" she said, nearly drowning in that worried look in his beautiful brown eyes. "This is the sweetest and most romantic thing anyone has ever done for me! Thank you so much, Greg!"
"You're welcome," he smiled. "Hopefully you can also forgive your mother for meddling… Apparently you always mention me quite a few times whenever you're on the phone with her and she kinda figured you… well…"
"That I like you?" Morgan looked at the roses in her hands, suddenly feeling very shy. It was true that she really liked him, but now she was standing here she didn't know how to tell him anymore. She looked up at him when he put an arm around her waist to pull her close.
"No matter what you're going to say, can I tell you first that I think you look beautiful?" he whispered. He slowly took one rose from the bouquet in her hands and held it up. "Will you please be my Valentine, Morgan?"
She took the rose from him and looked at him. Slowly, her lips changed into a smile. "I'd love to be your Valentine, Greg… I'll be your Valentine for as long as you like!"
And then she wrapped her arms around him and finally kissed the man she had wanted to kiss since last year's Valentine's Day.