Epilogue - The Next Day

"AMA?"

Cara nodded, "Against..."

Lena put a hand up, "I know what it means, I just... I thought that we'd... I guess I was an idiot."

Bianca stepped next to Lena at the nurse's station, "Were you going to meet somewhere?"

Lena turned and leaned against the station, "No, we weren't."

Bianca was silent for a moment, not quite sure what to say, but she had found Lena for a reason and so pushed forward with her reason for being there, "Do you... do you think we could be friends Lena?"

Lena gave a half a chuckle, "Most likely not."

Bianca took one of Lena's hands in her own and let go. Lena frowned and looked down. "The rings. Bianca..."

"Frankie, don't let her leave Lena."

Lena shook her head, "I have only known her for..."

Bianca cut her off, "Do you love her?"

"Z całego serca."

Bianca raised an eyebrow, "How about French or English?" A small smile came to Bianca's lips, "Although I think I got the jist of it."

Lena smiled back, "Avec tout mon coeur."

"So, if you love her so much, then tell her that. Life, life is too short to quibble about how long you've known someone, how old they are, or even if they were straight or gay."

Lena raised an eyebrow, "Speaking from personal experience now?" Bianca shrugged and Lena tried to hand back the rings. "But, these are yours."

Bianca pushed Lena's hand back, "They never were, sometimes, when Miranda and Gabby are going at it, or it's just been a really bad day, every once in a while I wonder what it would have been like if we had worked, but, Lena, we were done before we began."

"Bianca-"

Bianca held a hand up, "Every moment I spent with you, the good ones, they'll be with me forever, but these rings, they were a last gasp of a dying relationship. Tell Frankie how you feel." Bianca smiled, "It worked for me. I told Marissa and then she found me just so irresistible she couldn't keep her hands off of me."

There was a laugh that came from around the corner. "How long have you known I was there Bianca Montgomery?"

Bianca bit her lip with a smile, "Long enough." She gave Lena push, "Go, go..."

"I don't have a..."

Bianca finished her sentence, "A car... hmmm... ooh, Ryan parks his bike behind the hosptial for the winter usually. He should drain the tank of course, but I think it still has enough gas in it."

"I don't..."

Bianca pushed Lena towards the set of swinging doors. "Go, or you'll regret it for the rest of your life."

Lena paused in the doorway with a frown, "First... first there's something I have to do."

Marissa put her arm around Bianca as the waiting room door swung closed, "Are you sure that was a good idea?"

Bianca shrugged, "Probably not. But," she looked over at Marissa, "everyone should get the chance to be as happy as we are."

Marissa rolled her eyes, "Ah Bianca, my romantic." She paused, "So..."

"So..."

"AJ wants a brother."

Bianca pursed her lips, "Well, I'm done with getting pregnant. Finito for sure."

Marissa kissed the tip of Bianca's nose, "Well, it's a damn good thing then that you're gay huh?" She smiled, but it was a serious smile, "I've... I think... If I can, I mean. Four kids, wow... but..."

"The father?"

Marissa shook her head, "I don't... I don't know. Uh,..."

Bianca cut Marissa off, "You're about to say, not Zach."

"Now you're just showing off, Ms. Psychic Montgomery. But, who then?"

"How about Brot?"

Marissa blinked, "Ah... wow, okay, left field, meet Bianca. But, not yet, I mean, we should talk about it more, and you need to..."

"Melt down a bit first?" Bianca gave Marissa a gentle shove, then leaned into her. "All good suggestions. Of course, you're assuming that you have one, not twins."

Marissa frowned, "And why..."

"Let's see. The Stone twins, you and Babe..."

"Oh... I guess we'll have to start thinking of names in batches of two then huh."

Bianca laughed.

Frankie leaned against the guard rail and shook her head. So much had gone on since that night she'd been hit by Erica Kane. A few good things, mostly bad things. She'd found Anna, who, despite her failings could be a good boss. She had a job, she had a roof over her head most nights, and when she didn't there wasn't it was because of her job. She even felt, for the first time in her life like she had purpose.

Her head came up and her eyes looked towards Pine Valley, then towards the rest of Pennsylvania. "It's the damn town. Pine frickin' black hole Valley."

A bike pulled up next to her rental car, but she didn't look up and mumbled again, "Damn town."

A throat cleared to Frankie's right and after a long moment she finally looked over. "Lena. Look, I..."

Lena put a hand up and without a word, handed Frankie a piece of folded paper. "What is it?"

"Open it."

Frankie did, "This is a resignation letter to... to Chandler. Lena, you can't give this to the Chandler Board."

Lena shook her head, "Too late, I emailed it to them all before I got on the bike at Bianca's."

Frankie frowned, "Wait, what? How did you write it that-"

Lena interrupted Frankie with a slight chuckle, "Francis, you and I, we live in such different worlds don't we." Lena grasped Frankie's hands in her own, the letter fluttering to the ground. "It took longer to find a proper printer than to distribute it. I love you."

Frankie was still frowning. "Lena, I don't under-"

Lena looked back over her shoulder, "It's this town. I can see it in your eyes, it turns you, it does nothing good for you. I want to be with you. The Board wanted me in Pine Valley if I was the CEO, so..."

"You resigned. Lena, we don't even..."

Lena cut off Frankie yet again, "Everyone else has always come first. Michael, Bianca, my-my mother. No longer. No, I will show you that I love you, that you are worthy of love every single day, just..." Lena looked around, "Not here."

"I can't, I'm not..."

Lena put her arms around Frankie for a moment, then took a step back with her FBI badge. "You're not really an FBI agent, you're an agent of something, something good I think. I figured that one out by myself. Yes, sure you can say that you can't love me because you're... dead, or hurt, or whatever else you can come up with. Then I'll show you every day not only that I love you, but that you can trust me enough to love me."

"I'm not Ma..."

"No, you're not. You would never let a man kick you around, you'd never waffle back and forth over whether or not you loved your best friend, and you, you'd give your life for someone you don't know just as quickly as for your friends or family."

Frankie turned around and looked out past the guard rail, "You think you know me so well. Maybe, perhaps, maybe I don't even like you, and definitely don't love you?"

Lena didn't move, "Then you'd have told me before this moment."

Frankie turned, "I'll give you this, you seem to know me better than I know myself."

Lena smiled at that, "Then you have to trust me. Come back with me, just for tonight. Then, we go anywhere we want. You want."

Frankie put a tentative hand on Lena's arm, and found herself pulled into the taller woman. "I... I'm pretty sure that I'd rather be, being tortured in some dank cell somewhere than be right here, right now. I'd... I'd know what the hell to do."

"Either kiss me, or walk away."

Frankie reached up, and chose the kiss.

Fin ~ December 13th, 2011