When I thought that making Ryan a ghost was the craziest thing I ever wrote… my hands made this fic

So please…love it, hate it but don't ignore it…

Summary: Post 10.1, Natalia falls asleep thinking about leaving CSI, when she wakes up nothing is the same

Disclaimer: Unfortunately I don't own Ryan or any other CSI:Miami character except the one created by me…

Future Revealed

Natalia shut her locker

"You really hate that locker today don't you?" said Ryan closing his locker with less sound

"Really funny" snapped Natalia

"Sorry" he mumbled

"It's alright" she sighed "I had really bad couple of days"

"Yeah I noticed"

"All I want to do know is to clear that stupid locker and walk out of here" said Natalia and looked at the locker as if it was her worse enemy

"Come on Nat…" said Ryan "I thought we talked about this"

She turned with her back to the locker and faced him "I know Ryan and I appreciates your support it was the only thing that gave me to courage to face Randy but I…I still don't think I can do it anymore"

Ryan didn't say anything he just gave her a pleading look

"Maybe you should let me give you a ride and we'll talk about it on the way?" he suggested

She sighed right now she wasn't planning to change her mind but she also didn't want to hurt him if there is was one thing that could make her stay it was him

"Ok" she agreed "I'm not in the driving mood anyway, but I can't promise you anything and I also can't promise that I won't fall asleep"

"No problem" he said, it was obvious that her answer cheered him up "after you"

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Natalia fell asleep quickly like she predicted

When she started to wake up she felt weird she didn't feel like she was in the car seat anymore she slowly opened her eyes she expected to see a road in front of her but all she saw was a sealing

First she thought that she fall asleep so deeply that Ryan had to carry her all the way to her bedroom but when she took a minute to look around she realized that it wasn't her bedroom…it was obviously a woman's bedroom but nor hers and defiantly not Ryan's…she was also wearing a nightgown that wasn't hers

"Mommy…" she heard a kid's voice coming from the entrance of the room she turned her head and saw a little brown haired girl looking at her

"Excuse me?" mumbled Natalia "who are you?"

"Mommy that's not funny…" said the little girl she was looking straight at Natalia

For some reason Natalia felt bad for this girl…the kid looked familiar to her even though she don't remember ever meeting her

"Come here…" said Natalia

The girl climbed on the bed and looked she had light brown hair and big hazel eyes she reminded Natalia of someone but this situation was too weird for her to figure out who

"Are you ok mommy?"

'Why is she thinks I'm her mother and where the hell am I?' thought Natalia

"Are we going to Miami today mommy? I packed my bag"

"Going to Miami?" mumbled Natalia 'what does she mean? We are in Miami!'

"We are going to visit daddy today right?"

"Daddy…"

"Uncle Tony is here…" said the little girl

"Uncle who?" asked Natalia confused

"Maggie" called a man's voice "come here kid…"

"Coming Uncle Tony…" yelled the little girl and run out of the bedroom

'Oh my g'd someone kidnapped me, did he do something to Ryan? Did he kidnapped the little girl and convinced her to call me mom?'

She jumped off the bed a grabbed a robe that was laying on the edge of the bed

She looked outside the bedroom's window it wasn't her apartment's view but it looked like one of Miami days…or maybe not?

"Nat… are you dressed?" asked the same voice from earlier

"Who are you?"

"Here we go again" sighed the man he was tall guy with dark hair and he was wearing a suit

He stepped into the room and Natalia stepped back

"Whoever you are stay away from me!"

"Shhhh! Keep it down Natalia your daughter might hear you" said the man nervously

"I don't have a daughter!" fired Natalia "what kind of sick game you're playing"

"This is what I'm talking about Natalia, hearing something like that can scar her for life"

"How old is she?"

"She'll be five in three months and she's your daughter" said the man "and what you're doing right now you do every year"

"And remind me what's that you psycho!"

"You forget everything that happened from the day that Ryan drove you home" said a familiar voice Natalia's heart jumped when she saw the woman that entered the room

"Anya?" mumbled Natalia "is that you?"

"Hey sis" smiled Anya softly then she turned her head towards the man "I told you I'll handle this on my own Tony, she's my sister" she said with accusing tone

"And she's my friend…I was worried about her"

"But you weren't her friend then, she doesn't remember who you are damn it!" snapped Anya

"An…what's going on?"

"Go make Maggie something to eat" ordered Anya "I'll handle this…go!"

When the guy named 'Tony' left Anya wrapped her arm around her sister's shoulders the both set down

"Annie you look different…you look…"

"Five years older?" smiled Anya "I'm and so are you…take a look" she pointed at the mirror Natalia took a look at her reflection he hair was shorter, darker more straight the woman that Natalia saw last time she looked in the mirror was defiantly younger

Anya pooled a newspaper out of her bag "Take a look" she said

Natalia was surprised "The San Diego chronicle?"

"Yes Nat…read the date"

"March 3th 2017…" mumbled Natalia "it's…"

"Five and a half years after Ryan drove you home and day after that you left Miami and the lab and came here…to San Diego California"

"This is San Diego?" asked Natalia

"Yes I went to college here remember? When you came here you said that you can be in a place that reminds you to Miami without being in Florida"

"So why I don't remember anything?"

Anya sighed "that's the part I really hate…six months after you left Miami something traumatic happened to you that devastated you so badly that every year that passes after this event happened you forget everything that happened since the moment you fall asleep in Ryan's car you get your memory back by the end of the day but…"

"But…this isn't happening Anya please tell me this is a nightmare…and who's this guy?"

"Tony Morales he's your friend you met him when you came here Five and a half years ago that's why you don't remember him right now"

"And the little girl Maggie…"

"He full name is Margaret" smiled Anya "and she's your daughter"

"I named her Margaret?" asked Natalia

"It Ryan mother's name" explained Anya

"Why would I name my daughter after her?"

"Because it's his daughter too" said Anya "then night he drove you home something happened and…anyway she's his daughter"

"Oh my g'd she really looks exactly like him! Her eyes and her hair she…he know right?" asked Natalia "she said that we are going to Miami to visit daddy so it means that we are going to visit him right? It doesn't make sense why would I keep Ryan's daughter away from him…I mean this all I even wanted"

Anya sighed "I don't know how to tell you this Nat…I hate doing this to you but I have to…Ryan is dead he's been dead for five years that's the event that I mentioned earlier"

"No!" Natalia jumped of the bed keeping her distance from Anya "you are lying now I know it's not real! He can't be dead! No! No! No!"

Anya pooled another newspaper from her bag and handed it to Natalia, this one was much older than the previous one it looked…

"Five years old…this newspaper survived five years" said Anya "I've been showing this to you every year…"

Natalia grabbed the newspaper with shaking hands, this time it was the Miami daily, on the front page there was a large picture of what used to be a whole airplane and now his parts where scattered on what looks like a large field somewhere in Florida, the date said…

"March 3 2012 exactly five years ago…" mumbled Natalia "this can't be happening"

"I hate that I have to do this to you every year Tali" said Anya sadly "but this is the only way to bring your memory back by the end of the day"

"No" said Natalia shaking her hand in denial "there is no way that Ryan died in some plane crash!"

"Read the article Nat…please"

"Tragic day for Miami PD, horrible plane crash took the life of a local hero, crime scene investigator Detective Ryan Wolfe was on his way to San Diego along with forty-six other passengers…" Natalia threw the newspaper aside swallowing the tears that threatned to choke her "Anya please take that away from me…I can't do this"

"Nat…I know that this is hard" said Anya and tried to touch her sister's hand but Natalia pooled away

"You don't know anything! One second a fall asleep thinking that the worst thing that can happen to me is that some psycho that I tried to help locked me in a trunk of a car and tried to drown me and then I wake up five years later! In a different state with a kid and the only man I ever loved died in a horrible way and because of me!"

"Natalia it wasn't your fault" said Anya quietly "I know that he was on his way here but it was his decision Nat…he wanted to see you"

"And we have a daughter…" mumbled Natalia between tears "who looks exactly like him"

"She said we supposed to be in Miami today?" asked Natalia

"Yeah you do that every year…"

"I want to go there now!" said Natalia determent "this is the only thing that will make me believe any of this is real"

"You say that every year" sighed Anya

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All the way to the airport Anya drove silently and Natalia watched the sleeping Maggie

'This is crazy' thought Natalia 'I can forget a lot of things but having a child? Ryan's child? The girl is his copy'

"An…?" whispered Natalia

"What?"

"Did Ryan knew I was pregnant? Before he got on that flight?"

Anya sighed "you sent him tons of emails he never responded your friends said that in the day of his flight he just disappeared without saying a word to anyone or packing any bag he just bought a ticket and that's it…"

"This is crazy Ryan loved kids he will never demy his own child no matter how angry he was with me…"

Anya smiled

"What?" asked Natalia "oh let me guess I say that every year?" said Natalia

"Exactly" confirmed Anya "Part of me always suspected of Tony"

"The guy that supposed to be my friend? Why?"

"Because he's a computer programmer with enough skills to mess up a few emails and he has a thing for you and he always tries his luck despite the fact you told him like a million times that you like him only as a friend and that…"

"What?" asked Natalia "what is it An..."

"The thing you always say to him and to every guy that ever tries to hit on you is that the only man you ever loved is dead and there will be no other"

"Yes…" whispered Natalia whipping the tear that rolled down her cheek "that's true"

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After saying goodbye to Anya Natalia got on a plane with Maggie

"Mommy?" whispered Maggie

"What is it sweetie?" asked Natalia gently stroking the child's hair

"Daddy was a good man right?"

"Oh baby" said Natalia hugging her daughter "there will never be another man as good as your father" she embraced the little girl and the she started to feel sleepy her eyes started to close…somebody was calling her name

"Natalia? Nat? It's time to wake up…earth to Natalia"

"What?" jumped Natalia "where am I? Where's Maggie?"

"Who's Maggie?" asked familiar voice

"What?" mumbled Natalia, Maggie was gone and also the plane…it was replaced with a car…Ryan's car

"Ryan?" mumbled Natalia turning her head to see a very confused Ryan staring at her

"That's my name…"

"You supposed to be dead!"

"Thanks a lot Nat!"

"She told me you were dead…you died in that plane crash five years ago"

For a minute Ryan just stared at her then he mumbled "post-traumatic stress disorder…defiantly"

"What year is this?"

"The year when you end up in a psychiatric hospital Natalia you are scaring me"

"It's 2011?"

"Yes…what year is it supposed to be?"

"Oh my g'd" whispered Natalia and sighed "this was a bad dream" and before Ryan had a chance to respond she wrapped her arms around him mumbling "just a dream…just a dream"

Ryan sighed "whatever psychopath…you are suffocating me"

"I'll tell all about it…inside" said Natalia finally letting him go

"You are inviting me inside? I thought you want to be alone"

"I changed my mind…it was a really bad dream" smiled Natalia "so are you coming?"

"After you…psycho…"

R&R