So I finished the last three chapters of this story. My friend told me I had to post these, so I can start working on her other story, so I figured I should get on it since I already had these typed up..
He knew they were getting worried about him that much he could tell from the looks on their faces. He didn't mean to worry them, but...he couldn't bear the thought of going through the day without seeing her, even if it was only a brief glimpse.
It gave him reassurance that she was still there, with him.
In a way, he was surprised to see her here, and in a way he wasn't.
"Waiting on me?" he asked as he sat down in the sand beside her. She gave him a small smile before putting her chin back on her knees. He knew she was deep in thought, the tip of her tongue was peeking out the corner of her mouth, like it use to when she was deep in thought, as she looked out at the ocean.
"Rea, what's going on?" he asked, starting to get concerned from the silence that was around them.
She gave him a small smile, "Nothing G, just thinking" she replied.
Silence wrapped around them again, and then Reagan sighed, and pushed herself up off the sand and started to walk, but he knew that she wasn't disappearing this time, she wanted him to follow. So he did.
"Do you trust them?" she asked suddenly as they walked. Callen looked at her confused, and then looked in the direction that she had tilted her head in. Squinting against the bright light of the sun, he then made out the shapes of his partner, Kensi, Deeks, Eric, Nell, and Hetty, further along the beach in the opposite direction.
"With my life" he answered automatically.
Reagan laughed, and then began to walk in the opposite direction of his team. "You trust them to have your back, G, but do you trust them with your past?" she asked turning her head to look at him.
"I don't even know my own past" he pointed out as they walked.
"Do you trust them with the part that you trusted me with?" she asked, and Callen didn't know what to say to that. She caught him off guard.
A smirk crossed her lips. "That's what I thought".
As they walked she took his hand and he felt her warmth. "Callen, you say they're your family, but you don't even trust them with the little bits and pieces of your life you know about. That's a little strange, don't you think, to hide everything from your family?" she asked.
"I can't lose another person I care about…" he said, and then mentally added, Like I lost you.
"Everyone loses people they care about Callen, it's a part of life" she replied before letting go of his hand and he knew that she was pulling another of her disappearing acts.
She began walking down the beach, in the way that they had come. She turned back around, her fair flying over her shoulders, glistening when the sun rays caught it in the light just right.
"They're good for you G, don't push them away, they're the only family you have left now that I'm gone" she said before walking down the beach, the sun's rays blending around her, and then, she was gone, disappearing with the golden light that floated along the beach.
A ghost…
His ghost…