A Few Years Later

Ria smiled as she saw Dupree entering the Lightman Group, followed by a dark-haired woman. Ria was glad that he had managed to recover completely from the mall bombing incident. He had gone back to working a few weeks after he awoke from his unconscious state. Ria had come to love her job, even if Lightman would use her once in a while. Sure, she would get pissed at Lightman for doing that, but she was slowly getting used to it, just like she was now accustomed to Loker's radical honesty.

"Hey Ria," Dupree said as he walked up to her, the dark-haired woman right beside him. "I'd like you to meet someone." He turned to the women beside him . "Ria, this is Savanna. Savanna, this is Ria."

"Hi," Ria said with a smile, shaking Savanna's hand. She had heard of Savanna before; Dupree had mentioned her every once in a while.

"Nice to meet you," Savanna replied with a shy smile.

"We're getting married in July, and here's an invitation. It would be nice if you could come." Dupree handed Ria an envelope, which she turned over to find her name written across it.

"That's great! I mean congratulations." Ria saw the happy look on Dupree's face, and she was glad to see him so happy. They had luckily stayed friends through their break-up, and she was happy that he had found someone else he enjoyed being with.

"Thanks. We were just going to grab something to eat. You could come if you'd like."

"Eli already planned to take me somewhere tonight, sorry."

"That's fine, have fun. We better get going now, see you later, Ria." Ria watched them leave the building.

"Hi Ria," a voice said from behind her. Although she recognized that voice, she still turned to see who it was.

"Hi Eli," Ria replied, as he pulled her in for a quick kiss. Nobody in the building really cared if they kissed right there, in the office, as the employees were already used to Loker's radical honesty which was normally just as inappropriate, not to mention that Lightman and Foster seemed to be headed in the same direction.

"Ready to go?" Eli asked as he reached for the keys in his pocket.

"I thought you said we were leaving at seven?" Ria asked, recalling the time Eli had told her a few hours ago.

"Yeah, well, there's nothing to do here, so why not go early?"

"I guess you're right," Ria replied. They had already finished the cases for the day, so the employees were getting restless with nothing to do. "Where are we going?"

"That would ruin the surprise," he said with a small smile. "Come on, we have to get the helmets."

"We're riding your motorcycle?" Ria asked curiously as Eli picked up two helmets and followed Ria to the door.

"Yeah." Eli led Ria out to his motorcycle and handed her a helmet.

"And Lightman and Foster don't mind that we're leaving?"

"Don't worry, I told them we were getting off of work early." The two put their helmets on, and Eli took a seat in front while Ria sat behind him. She put her arms around his waist as he started up the motorcycle and drove out of the parking lot.


"Pizza?" Ria asked as the motorcycle came to a stop in front of the local pizza restaurant. The same pizza place where they had their first date.

"Yeah," Eli said, taking Ria's helmet and putting it away with his own. He loved how she didn't know what was going on as she normally did. He knew she would catch on soon enough.

"Why pizza?" Ria implored suspiciously.

"You don't like pizza anymore?" Eli remarked jokingly.

"No, I was just wondering," she said doubtfully.

"We're just having dinner," Eli confirmed to Ria's questioning expression. He watched as it turned to satisfaction.

"You're not a good liar."

"Okay, so we're going somewhere else after this. Stop trying to ruin the surprise." After ordering their pizza, the two found a seat in the back of the room.

"So where is this mystery place that we're going next?" Ria probed as soon as they sat down.

"You'll find out soon enough." Eli smiled, knowing that the mystery of it must be driving Ria crazy.

After a few more minutes of chatting about the cases they took earlier that day, the waitress brought over their pizza.

"Another thing I love about this place: good service." Eli said as they each grabbed a slice of pizza.

"The best thing," Ria agreed. "Except for the quality of the food; that's pretty good too."

"Yeah, the pizza's great." Eli nodded.


"So where are we going now?" Ria questioned as they left the pizza place. She headed towards the motorcycle.

"Oh, we're not taking that." Eli said, stopped on the sidewalk.

"What?" Ria asked, confused. She hated being oblivious to what was going on.

"We're walking," Eli answered simply. "Come on." Ria walked up to him and took his outstretched hand in hers.

"Why are we walking-?" Ria left her question unfinished when she saw a few familiar faces standing in front of an ice cream store. While still continuing to walk, Eli turned to see what she was looking at.

"-so what flavor do you want?" they heard the man ask the two kids next to him.

"Oh, I want the cookies and cream one!" the younger girl exclaimed excitedly, whirling around to her brother. "What do you want, Trent?"

"I'll have the same thing," he responded more calmly than his sister.

"We had a case from them before," Ria told Eli.

"Yeah, the one where the mom ended up going to jail," Eli recalled. The case that led to our relationship. Eli thought as they focused their attention back to the family.

"-I'll go get those, then." The man walked up to the counter to order the ice cream while Trent turned to his sister.

"Come on, Sarah, let's find a bench."

"Okay!" The girl followed her brother, and soon found a bench to sit on. Their dad brought back the ice cream just as Ria and Eli returned their attention to each other.

"They looked so happy," Ria said.

"Yeah, they don't seem to be having as much problems as before." Eli commented. "I mean, you never know if there were more lunatics in their mom's family..."

"Wow, look at that!" Ria pointed to a circle-shaped fountain to their left. "I never noticed that before…"

"They just put it up a few months ago…" The two went up to the fountain for a closer look.

"Ria," Eli said, kneeling down on one knee and reaching into his pocket. Ria suddenly knew what the 'big surprise' was. "Will you marry me?"

"Yes, I will!" Ria exclaimed after a moment of surprise, taking the ring as Eli stood up. She wrapped her arms around Eli, and Eli returned the hug. Just what I wanted when I first saw her. Eli managed to think before the two pressed their lips together for a passionate kiss.


Author's Note: Well, that's the end! I really hope you liked the ending, as I wasn't so sure about it. I'm sorry that you had to wait so long for this epilogue, I got pretty busy(long story). I actually had a hard time writing this(I'm bad with endings, especially happy ones xD) I really hope you enjoyed the WHOLE story. I hope you liked it as much as I liked writing it. It was fun. xD

Thank you SO much for anyone that reviewed this story! I loved reading your feedback! I'd appreciate it if you reviewed this epilogue as well. (:

I might write another Loker/Torres fic, but it probably won't be anytime soon. Right now I'll probably be writing stuff about Cal/Gillian(my other Lie to Me ship xD), but I might have a few Eli/Ria oneshots written soon...

By the way, as much as I would want to, I do NOT own Lie to Me and it's characters in any way.