Epilouge
It was weird in some ways and in others it wasn't. If there was never an attempt on Rick's life he would have never met Kate. If he never met Kate then she would have never come out of her self-imposed shell. It's funny how life turns out, but he would not want it any other way. They are both very happy. Right after he was released from the hospital he asked her to move in with him for two reasons 1st he needed to be cared for and who better to do that then his girlfriend. 2nd he was in love for the last time in his life.
This is why he was sitting at his desk trying to write the last chapter for his series of Storm books called "Hail Storm." It was then when Kate walked into his office and asked him how it was going.
"So Rick, what is happening with Mr. Storm?"
"Kate I think that this will be the last Storm book in the series. I am getting tired of writing him because really, how many times can you actually save the world?"
"You do know that this is what drew me to you in the first place, right?"
"So it wasn't my good looks?"
"Yeah they might have had something to do with it, but I love you for who you are not what you are able to write about."
"Kate, I have an idea for a different kind of series based on you and the cases that you solve. Would you consider me writing about you?"
"Rick, that depends. Are you going to make her look like a bumbling idiot?"
"No, never! Not a bumbling idiot, She would be a savvy, tough as nails, top-notch detective."
"Well, okay, I guess. What were you thinking of naming her?"
"I am really liking Nikki Heat! What do you thin about that name?
"Rick, are you serious? That is a strippers name! I'll be laughed out of the 12th quicker than you can write the second chapter. Change the name!"
"Kate really, think about the titles we could use, Naked Heat, Federal Heat, In Heat, Body Heat, Heat Wave, I'm in heat!"
"I'm in heat? Really Rick where is your head at?"
"Kate the last title is how I feel about you, so let's do something about that."
"Rick, change that name!"
"Well, Kate you know that I have artistic license don't you?"
"Rick, if I get my hands on you it will get so ugly really fast!"
"Do tell detective...do tell!"
Let the games begin...
The End.
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