Epilogue

In time Marie would learn to recover from what had been done to her, with good help from Terry, and her parents. She however never would let a man near her again, she would try to date a few during her teen years, but as soon as they would try something more than kissing she would start panicking and in the end they would give up.

Horatio and Calleigh would as most other parents go though the same struggle's and challenges as any other parents would. They would help her through numerous of nightmares after the accident, it in the beginning it was so bad that Calleigh had to sleep inside her room for almost a year. They would however fade away slowly, and by the time she was sixteen they were more like a distant memory.

Being the Caine's daughter she would from time to time live in her parents shadow as they would be a lot in the media. After all Horatio was the head of the crime lab and he were to be on top of everything at all times, it was he who talked to the press whenever something happened. It was he who assured them everything would be fine. And in most cases it would be.

Marie, Terry and Isabel grew up expected to follow rules and laws, and to behave like role models for the rest of the society like their parents. However maybe that was the fault, the pressure would became too much and like every other teenager they would rebel against their parents. Terry a bit more than his sister and Marie though.

At her sixteenth birthday he would take her to a concert to confess that he over the years had fallen in love with her. Their parents would picture them to get love and married and have children of their own some day, considering they were so close. The only flaw in the plan was that Marie loved Terry as a brother and not as a lover. She would be dancing like crazy like the rest of the people of the concert. He was trying to get a hold of her, but she got away from him, and bumped into what would be her future wife.

Calleigh and Horatio was not all happy about the match to begin with, but as they knew it to be serious they found it best to support it, rather than to loose her. The day young Marie were to recieve her twin boys was one of the happiest in Calleigh's life. As he hold the first born which was to be named Horatio after her husband, she found that she had all she needed. A husband and a daughter that loved her more than anything, and two new grandchildren that she would learn to love as much as she loved her young daughter. All due to one drunken mistake she made so many years ago.

Feeling Horatio's arm wrap around her, she turned her head and whispered, "I love you, I always will."

"I love you too, sweetheart, for the rest of our lives," he whispered before kissing her. With her by his side he had all he ever wanted and needed. With her he was complete and he knew she felt the very same way.

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