Note From The Author-- I suddenly realized today that I never finished this story. I completely and totally epic fail. Anyway, here's the last chapter and I hope you enjoy

As Sophia Flack fussed with her veil, she wondered if it was normal to want to see her Dad more than anyone else in the moments before her wedding. Her mother had fled to the sanctuary moments before, afraid if she didn't take her place she would never stop crying; and Maria and April had gone to corral Patrick and the rest of the wedding party so the ceremony could actually start on time. The one person she hadn't seen in well over an hour was her father; so with one last look in mirror she picked up her bouquet and went to find him.

It didn't take Sophia long to track down her Dad. He was in the hallway outside the Bride's room, staring quietly out the window. For a moment she just stood there, taking him in. There may have been gray at his temples and a few more laugh lines on his face, but her father was still the most handsome man she had ever seen.

She could feel tears welling up as she finally spoke. "Daddy?"

Don turned, and his eyes filled when he saw her. "Baby you look gorgeous," he told her proudly. The antique lace dress skimmed her figure and her hair tumbled free, her veil cascading down her back, left bare by the dress. Above all, she looked happy, radiantly so.

"You have that look," Sophia told him. "That Dad look that says you're going to start crying and make me start up too."

"Nah," he said with a casual shrug. "Big tough NYPD Detectives don't cry, and Maria told me I'd die if I made you ruin your makeup."

She grinned. "Somehow that doesn't surprise me. You ready for this?"

Flack mimed a shot to the heart, pressing his hand dramatically to his chest. "As ready as a father can ever be." He walked to meet her and put his hands on his shoulders and she could see those bright blue eyes brimming with tears. "Ah hell there I go with the crying. "

"Don't start," she warned with levity "Maria will take you down."

"I'll risk it," he told her. Reaching out for her, he pulled her into his arms. "You have no idea how proud your mother and I are of the woman you've grown into."

Trying to fight back tears, she shook her head. "I'm glad I've made you proud. I love you, Daddy."

"I love you too." He pulled back and grinned at her. "Let's not keep Finn waiting any longer."

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Only an hour later Finn and Sophia were man and wife, and Stella's head was reeling at the thought. She couldn't believe that her little girl was married.

"When did we get old?" Mac questioned.

She turned to look at him with a soft smile. "I was just wondering that myself." Her attention turned back to her daughter and she shook her head. "She's so beautiful. It's hard to imagine that Don and I made her."

"You did a good job."

"Yeah," Stella whispered. She brushed at the tears in her eyes as they announced the father daughter dance. "I don't think I've stopped crying all night. My daughter's married." She gave a surprised laugh. "God that's terrifying."

Mac smiled. "I think champagne's just the thing for that."

Finn had been watching the pair of them, and he waited for Mac to go for drinks before he walked up to stand next to Stella. "Thank you," he told her.

"For what?" she asked curiously.

He grinned before turning his attention back to the dance floor. "For her."

Stella found herself too stunned to say anything, so she just stood with him and watched as Don and Sophia glided across the floor. Sophia's eyes held her father's as the two of them talked and danced, and it only brought the tears on faster. "He loved her first," she said quietly.

"I know," Finn told her. "I'll never forget it."

As the music filtered away, Sophie leaned up to kiss her father's cheek and turned laughing into her little brother's arms. Smiling, Flack made his way over to Stella to pull her onto the dance floor. Sighing contentedly in his arms, she felt completely at peace. Dancing with the man she was still madly in love with after so many years, at their daughter's wedding, made her realize just how lucky they were to have found each other; and it just kept getting better.