Chapter 10—Epilogue

(Friday 2pm) Chance was sacked out the couch at the office. He had just been released from the hospital. It had been a cat and dog fight with Winston to get him to bring him here instead of his own place. Eventually he had won out, but only because he had threatened to walk here. Now Winston was downstairs still steaming. It was a pretty good idea to stay up here and out of sight for a bit. To tell the truth he was rather exhausted from the trip, but he had been too inactive for too many days already. His arm was still in a sling, but it was healing rapidly, along with the rest of him. Besides, he needed to be here, to have a little normalcy in his life. He was just about to fall asleep when Winston hollered from below…

"You up for a visitor?"

Chance sat up and hollered back, "Sure, who is it?"

No answer was forthcoming, but Kado appeared moments later.

Chance stood up, with a smile on his face, "Boy is it good to see you."

The two men shook hands, and then Chance waved his one free hand inviting him to sit. Chance retook his place on the couch, almost sitting on Carmine who had appeared out of nowhere.

"I just want to thank you for all you did. I owe you my life." Kado stammered, and looked uneasily at Carmine.

"No worries, but I do have one question."

"Sure, anything."

"When you brought me back here, why did you drug Carmine too?" as Chance stroked Carmine's head.

Kado looked embarrassed at that question. "Well…….I'm scared to death of dogs. When I got here with you and he met me at the door I panicked. I slammed the door on him. I ran to the store and got some sleeping pills and some meat and slipped it under the door."

Chance chuckled. "So that explains it." After a short pause "How are Nori and Dani?"

"They are just fine. In fact, I'm on my way to the airport right now. I'm going to join them over there for a week's vacation." Kado smiled.

"Well, you tell Daniel that he can come play with Carmine anytime he wants."

Kado looked a bit alarmed at that statement, but he gave Chance a half smile and said "That would be great, I know he couldn't be anywhere safer."

Kado stood on that note, glanced warily at Carmine, and reached over to shake Chance's hand once more. He then proceeded down the stairs. Chance went with him to the top of the stairs and then stopped. He heard bickering in the kitchen area and he figured that meant Guerrero had shown up. He eased his way partway down the stairs to an argument.

"….and you were willing to throw my life away on a WHIM that he wasn't going to shoot?" Winston said heatedly.

"Look dude, I know their type, they were not going to shoot their one and only hostage." Said Guerrero with his mouth half full.

"And just how did you know that?"

"I just knew dude."

"Well next time, don't risk MY life on an 'I just know'……… Winston's voice faded as Chance headed back up the stairs.

'Yup,' he thought. 'Everything is back to normal.' He eased himself back onto the couch, pushing Carmine off onto the floor, and smiled. 'Back to normal' felt wonderful.

The End

Well. That's it folks Thanks for reading along. And please now that its complete let me know if you liked it in its entirety. I have another long story already planned if you guys want more. It's about a Marine Biologist and it will have Orca in it (I love Orca). So please leave a review letting me know you liked this one and if you want another one. I will prob do a standalone fic before I start that one. Also don't forget to let FOX know we want season two!!