Epilogue

5 Years Later

"Gabriel, there's mommy and daddy." Keith said pointing them out to his grandson as they got off the bike to join them at Dog Beach.

"MOMMY! DADDY!" the little boy yelled running up to his parents.

Keith smiles as Eli lifts his son high into the air before putting him on his shoulders and wraps a arm around Veronica waist before joining him.

"Sheriff." Eli says as they reach him. Even after five years, Eli still called him Sheriff even when he told him that he could call him Keith. Eli had kept to his word and even though he didn't join her at Hearst he had gone to work for his uncle while taking night classes in automotive and business courses. He had stayed with the PCHers until he was able to find someone that he felt comfortable handing the reins over too.

On Gabriel's first birthday, he had gotten down on one knee in front of their friends and family to propose. They waited no time walking down the aisle.

Celeste had flown them and others to Australia that summer and they had been greeted by Duncan and Lilly Kane, even if that wasn't the names they were using.

"Eli. Honey." he says as she sits down next to him.

"Hey dad. How's he been?" she asks as Eli places Gabriel into her lap and sits down himself. His little girl hadn't surprised him when she decided to change her major from journalism to criminal justice halfway through her Freshman year at Hearst. She had taken over Mars Investigations last year and with Mac as her partner, things were going good enough for him to spend most of his time at home with Gabriel and Backup.

"Only had one problem. Seems Uncle Logan had planned to take him surfing and someone forgot his wet-suit at home." he tells her with a smirk.

"Oh, how bad was it?" Eli says with a smirk.

"After an hour of crying and yelling, we were able to calm Logan down long enough to remind him that Gabriel has a wet-suit that he keeps in my car." he tells them with a laugh.

"Speaking of Opie, where is he?" Eli ask looking up and down the beach.

Keith points out on the water, where a lone surfer is.

Logan had surprised them all by joining the Navy a couple months after his father's death. Any time he was home on leave he stayed with Keith or Dick.

Kendall was found guilty of being an accomplice to Aaron's murder, when security footage was found of Liam Fitzpatrick sneaking into the hotel room moments before the time of death, her history with the family came to light and would be a very old woman if she ever got out.

"Eli!" Felix yelled as he and Hector walked over to join them. "You tell them."

Thumper and Marisol smiled at them as they sat down.

"Not yet, waiting for everyone to get here." Eli says quietly.

Felix had joined Eli working for Angel. He had joined Eli at the night classes and the two of them had just closed the sale on their shop. They were now their own boss.

Hector had repeated his Senior year and gotten a full ride to Hearst. Now he was teaching auto at Neptune High. Thumper had followed Marisol to New York when she got an internship for a new designer. He found work at a tattoo parlor and was on his was to becoming partner in the business. They tried to visit as much as their schedules allowed.

"Hey party people! Look who I found." Dick called as he, Wallace and Mac joined the group. Dick had gone to Hearst and graduated with a degree in business management and had just opened a surf shop that Logan was a silent partner of.

Wallace had twisted his knee during junior year of school but with help he was able to stay and was now a health ed teacher at Neptune on top of being the basketball couch.

Mac had turned down a career at Kane to become a partner at Mars Investigations and told everyone that Bond was nothing without Q. She had stayed in contact Cassidy, visiting him at the secure facility that his lawyer was able to get him into. He had been found guilty of being Woody's accomplice but his lawyer had reminded that he had been abused by Woody for years and had only helped due to the threat Woody had made to kill his brother. He had been given fifteen years but luckily those years could be done at a private clinic so he could get the mental help that he needed.

Logan had been right that Cassidy had more friends than he thought. All of them and all the PCHers had sat behind him every day of the trial. They even visited him as much as they were able. Cevando, Peter and Marcos' mothers had even gone to see him, letting him now that not one of them blamed him for the lose of their sons.

Even if he never told them, visiting days were his favorite because they always wrote down family the line that asked relationship to inmate.

Dick and Mac had tried to date but it only lasted a little over a year. They realized that they were better friends than lovers. There was a lot of history between them but they couldn't make it work.

"Hey Q, you left before I did how did we beat you?" she asks watching as Dick and Wallace sat down.

"Someone wasn't ready when I got to the apartment, so I had to wait." Mac says before sitting down between Wallace's legs. Wallace barely waits before wrapping his arms around her waist and kissing the side of her neck.

"I told you I was sorry baby. I forgot to tell my assistant to remind me of the time while I was whipping those boys into shape." Wallace said. After the breakup with Dick, she and Wallace had stating hanging out more. It had happened so slowly that it wasn't until V had called them out on it that they realized that they had been dating. They had moved in with each other last year.

Wallace had been talking with Eli and V about how to propose in a way that would be unforgettable. He had the ring safe in Keith's safe for now.

V and Eli just laugh as Logan joins them and sits down between her and her dad.

"So I hear someone had a little hissfit." she says with a smile.

"Ha ah very funny." he says with a smile. "So..who's first this year?"

Since graduation, they have been meeting, some there some not, to celebrate Lilly and those that they have lost.

"ME!" Gabriel yelled jumping to his feet. "I want to say thank you to Lilly." he said with a wide grin.

"Oh really...why kiddo?" Wallace asked.

"If Lilly hadn't asked my daddy to look after mommy than I wouldn't be here and..." he said suddenly bashful.

"And what, mijo?" Eli asks.

"And I wouldn't be able to be a big brother soon."

"WHAT?!" everyone yells as V, Eli and Keith start laughing.

"Well... that's one way to tell everyone." she says with a smile grabbing her son and holding him tight as Eli wraps his arms around the two of them. "As my loving son just blabbed. I'm pregnant."

Everyone just shakes their heads and laughs as they look at each other.

"You know I think I'm with little man. Thank you Lil." Logan says.

Dick, Mac and Wallace smirk. "Thanks Lilly."

"I wouldn't have this family if it wasn't for her. Thanks." Felix says.

Thumper, Marisol and Hector nod to what he said. "Thanks."

Keith smiles and nods.

"Thank you Lilly and happy birthday..wherever you are." V whispers as Eli drops a kiss on her neck.

"Thanks Lilly, for the best thing that ever happened to me." Eli says.

Anyone passing by would see them for what they are, a family.

The End