Epilogue - Love

"You know the division of the sexes is not actually fifty-fifty. "

Dave Rossi stopped at the red light and looked over at his passenger. "Oh?"

"At birth it's actually one hundred and six boys to every one hundred girls, probably to compensate for the inherent fragility of the Y chromosome."

His passenger looked like someone had taken the main characters from Harry Potter, tossed them into a blender and hit combine. He had Harry's looks, right down to the round glasses on his nose. He had Hermionie's brains going in there, and her reading ability, far beyond his age. And he had Weasley red hair. "That so."

"Uh huh. And men in high stress occupations like law enforcement tend to skew to male children."

Dave watched as his five year old Grandson squirmed in excitement. "You really want a little brother that badly?"

"Uh-huh." Danny Reid flashed him the grin that always melted his Aunt Penelope's heart.

"Okay." Dave chuckled. He knew there were no promises he could make here.

They made it to the hospital and got him out of his seat. "Don't forget the balloon." Talked to the nurses, found the room. "Slow down." He said as Danny started running. Got to the room, "Knock first." Waited for the come in. "Remember, you have to wash your hands." Got the hands clean and then finally, finally, let him go around the curtain.

And Danny stopped.

And he stared in wonder.

And he slowly walked over to the bed and looked at the little bundle in his mother's arms.

"Hi Julia," he said with a grin. "I'm your big brother."

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Notes:

The end to another long tale. Much thanks to my beta reader, the ever patient REIDFANATIC, I could not ramble without her.

I didn't tackle Laura's stepmother because there is no tackling someone with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, they can neither be rationed with or treated for they refuse to believe that anything is wrong. All you can do is walk away and start your own family.

Watch this space for my next piece, which will be something not quite a crossover between CM and a very obscure Sci-fi show. I'll have the first chapter up sometime today.

Thank you all for reading.

- TKL