Epilogue to 'Repeating'

Author: Dylan Shelby

Disclaimer: I do not own any of it.

Summary: Epilogue to 'Repeating'

Author's Notes: Here is the epilogue. This story needed more closure than what I gave it. I hope you enjoy it. Don't forget I have a series that doesn't follow the movie. The first one in that is 'At the Beginning'.

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The outside was warm. It always was in Hawaii. It had rained a few minutes before and like most showers only lasted a few moments. He had come out to the back porch to think. And he wasn't having much luck with it. "Rafe?" she called to him. He turned around to see her at the door. "Hey." he greeted. She came out and shut the door. "I just got Danny to sleep." she informed him. He just nodded and went back to looking at the stars. "We need to talk." she whispered.

Again those words echoed in his head. The last time she had said them she had made his heart soar, but he wasn't about to think that meant that this time would be good as well. "What do we need to talk about?" he asked. She came and sat down next to him on the steps. "Our wedding is tomorrow Rafe." He gave her a smirk, "I kinda knew that." She shook her head, "Before we get married I want to make sure that everything is okay between us."

"I guess I've been the one who's been pulling away huh?" She took his hand into hers and turned his body so that he was facing her. "Yes you have. I need to know what is going on Rafe." He let out a long sigh and rolled his neck getting ready for a 'big' talk. "I guess I haven't settled this in my mind." "Then why did you propose?" Rafe let out a grunt. "Because I want to marry you. Because I also got swept up in the moment and I don't know..." he stopped. "We have to come to an understanding Rafe. If we don't then I am going to call off the wedding." she stated quietly.

"I don't know what to say Ev'lyn. I love you. And I have never loved anyone as much I love you. When I came back and found out that you were involved with Danny I nearly died. I couldn't think of why you two had done that. You were my love and he was my best friend. And then to find out you were pregnant..." he stopped for the moment. Evelyn sat quietly beside him, letting her presence be the support.

"And while I was trying to adjust myself to that I lost my best friend. I HATED Danny for what he did. I HATED you for what you did. And I could've lived my life hating you both for it. When you two would've gotten married, I wouldn't have shown. Because I wouldn't have been able to watch it." he stopped again, shaking his head. He never would have told her that, but he did need to get it out. He did need to move past it. "And I did try. I told Danny that we had to move past it and face facts, but I never did. In the back of my mind I always held this vision of you and me together. And then Danny died. I nearly let my best friend die while hating him."

That fact shamed Rafe. More than any of the others. He had been wrestling with why he had told Danny about his upcoming fatherhood, but the more he thought about it the more he knew why. It wasn't to hurt Danny. It wasn't so that Danny would give his blessing for him to go back to Evelyn. No, the reason he had done it was because as much as he hated the thought of Danny with Evelyn he hated the thought of his best friend dead even more. He tried everything in his power to make his friend stay alive. "I told Danny that he was going to be a father." Rafe whispered.

"What?" Evelyn was shocked. "I'm sorry Ev'lyn. I knew I was loosin' him and I tried everything in my power to keep him alive. And he knew. He knew that if he died that you and I would get married. And that too is something that I haven't been able to deal with." Rafe confessed. Evelyn let go of his hand and stood up to walk down the small steps. "Rafe I don't know what to do." she finally said. Rafe got up and walked over to her. "I don't either. I know that I love you. I know that Danny would want us to be happy because I felt the same when I thought I was gonna die."

"Then why can't we be happy?" she asked. "The same reason other people can't be happy, guilt. We are still feeling guilty about our love." "But I don't Rafe. I don't feel guilty about our love. I feel guilty because I love you more. I feel guilty because I wanted you more than I wanted Danny. And I feel guilty because I got everything I wanted at the expense of my son's father. That is what I feel guilty about Rafe. And I know that you feel the same way." The two just looked at one another, not saying anything. There wasn't anything more to say at the moment.

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Danny had started crying again and so Evelyn left to tend to him. Now in the dark outside Rafe had a choice. Everything he wanted was in that house. And everything that could have happened wasn't going to. Rafe couldn't change the past. And given the chance he would've changed everything from the beginning. Everything surrounding him Rafe made a decision.

"He's beautiful." he whispered to Evelyn. She had heard him when he was walking in the house. "Yes he is." she agreed. "When your finished, I'm ready to finish this." he told her and left. It was only a few minutes until Evelyn came out into the living room. She sat across from him and for a moment they did nothing, but stare at one another.

"My biggest fear is that Danny's memory is always going to haunt you. That there will be days when you wish that he was the one that was sharing everything with you. I don't mind the moments where Danny Jr. is going to do something and you think about it because I know I'll be thinkin' the same thing...." "...When you guys were getting on that plane to leave for the mission Danny told me his biggest fear was that I loved you more than him. And I told him that I loved him. And I did and I still do, BUT I do love you more Rafe. I wasn't lying when I told you that. And I didn't lie when I told Danny that I loved him and would be waiting for him.

If Danny had come back alive Rafe I would have married him and eventually I would have given him my whole heart. We would have become a family and I would have lived out my days happy. But every time I would have seen the sunset I would have thought of you and your memory would always haunt me. However, Danny didn't come back, you did. And as much as I miss Danny now and as much as I will miss the fact that he will not get to see his son grow up, his memory will not haunt me the way that yours would have."

Rafe looked at Evelyn trying to form into words the thoughts going through his mind. But he didn't have time for Evelyn started talking again. "I hate the fact that Danny will not get to see his son grow up and become a wonderful man. But I don't have to worry that Danny will not have a daddy. Danny told me before you came back that if it weren't for you he wouldn't know where he would be or who he would be. And so I don't have to worry about younger Danny because I know that you are going to be there for him. You are going to raise him and you are not going to make him feel guilty or shut him out..." "...No. I am going to love that boy more because he is apart of Danny. And I will try Ev'lyn. I will do everything in my power to make sure that he not only knows how special he is but how special his father was."

Evelyn stood up quickly and went over to Rafe and together they collapsed on the sofa. "I love you." she whispered. He smiled and kissed her, "I love you too.

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The wedding had been simple, but beautiful. The couple happy with not only their choices, but for the first time in a long time, life. Now together under one roof as man and wife they were entwined together. Evelyn whose head rested on Rafe's chest sat up for a second so she could look at him, "Rafe will you let Danny call you Daddy?" His expression turned from peace to confusion, "What? Where did that come from?" "I was just wondering. I want Danny to call you daddy. I want him to be able to live a normal life. We can tell him about Danny when we think he is old enough to understand everything." she explained. He smiled at her. "Is that why you wanted his last name to be McCawly?" She nodded, "I know how hard it is not to be normal and I didn't want my son to have to go through that."

He leaned down and kissed her. "I love you. And I promise Danny will be as normal as possible. He will have two parents that adore and love him." "I love you." she whispered and continued to kiss him. Only thoughts of one another consumed them after that and when ecstasy was reached once more they reveled in peace.

The End.

So how did you like it? I ended it on a high note and now I think I am satisfied with it. Anyway if you want more fluffy fics or something slightly different than please check out my other fic, 'At the Beginning' which is actually going to be a part of a series.

Just like breathing, it's not a problem until you aren't getting any! - Reviews.

~ Dylan.