Reunion

[Jo_Luvs_Ketchup]

Okay as I told you on IM, you know the part I am waiting for..I guess I'll have to keep waiting LOL Great post though! I'm glad they're living together!!! Keep up the great work Tara!

[candace~n~nathan]

yeah, so i just cried!!!!! after our talk tonight, yep the tears came lol.

GREAT, lovely, SWEET post!!!! ahhhhhh i'm gonna sleep on that thought now....:-D

[Laney]

I just had the worst day and was happy to see a new post. So sweet!! Keep it coming!

[TDivisionInspector]

YAY! GREAT TARA! KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK! I wanna know what happens next. I really love this part.

Nate smiled sheepishly. “I bought it 20 months ago, CD.”

CD was stunned. “You did?” He nodded in reply. “And you kept it all this time?”

and this part


Nate picked up some Chinese anyway, and went home to his fiancé and baby. After some coaxing, Natie finally did fall asleep. When his parents were finally alone, they retreated to their bedroom and made love.

[Snowfall]

I'm so sorry it's taken me so long to get back to this.....life just keeps getting crazier and crazier.
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~ Monday afternoon at the Division ~

“Now, nobody make a huge deal and overwhelm her, OK?” Nate instructed everyone at the Felony Divison. Everyone was there—Kate, Jinny, Magda, Raina, and everyone else that knew CD. Everyone was so incredibly excited to be seeing her again, and extremely curious. They had been filled in on the basics of what was going on, but many of the details were still being speculated amongst the group.

The only person that didn’t know who CD was, or what was going on, was the new officer, Stacy Reynolds. She was being her usual nosy, obnoxious self, and poked herself into the discussion. “Don’t overwhelm who?” she asked.

“Uh.....” Nate replied, not knowing what to say. He looked at Jinny for help.

“Let’s take a little walk, Stace,” Jinny said, and guided her out to the hallway.

“What’s going on? Who’s coming?” she asked again.

Jinny stopped once they were in the hallway. “Here’s the drill, Stace. Nate’s old partner is coming to visit the Division. She and Nate just got engaged last week. We haven’t seen her in a year and a half, and a lot has happened to her since then. So it would be really great if you just minded your own business when she visits, OK?” Jinny said, telling her more than asking her.

Stacy looked wounded. “Why? I’m just curious about the what the big fuss is. I mean, you’d think that she’s the only partner that Nate has ever had. I don’t see what the big deal is.”

Jinny just looked at her, annoyed. “You know what? I need you to run an errand for me. Right now.”

“Wh—“ Stacy replied, as Jinny walked to her desk, picked up a cd player, and plopped it into Stacy’s arms.

“There’s an address taped to this. Please take it back to its owner.”

“Uh.....OK.....” Stacy replied, and started walking towards the elevator.

Jinny walked back into the bullpen. “OK, NOW let’s have ourselves a reunion!” she said happily. Everyone laughed. She turned to Nate. “Did she say when she was coming?”

CD stepped into the doorway of the division, Natie in tow. No one noticed her at first, though. “Talking about me?” she asked, a big grin on her face. Everyone turned to look, happily shocked expressions on their faces. “Hey, guys. I’m back!”

“CD!” the whole gang exclaimed at once. Kate, Jinny, Magda, and Raina rushed up to her, and they had a group hug.

“Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh,” Kate whispered and stared at little Natie. “Is he....?” she asked.

“Yeah, he’s mine,” CD confirmed. Her face was lit up like a Christmas tree. “Nate Jr. We call him Natie.”

“Awww, let me see him!” Kate cooed, and extended her arms to him. CD placed him in her arms, and Kate cradled him close to her chest.

“That is one beautiful baby, CD,” Magda added, smiling at him. “And we all thought that you would be the LAST person to ever be a parent. Well, except for my partner, here,” she chuckled, and elbowed Jinny.

“Yeah, Nate told me about your new little family! That’s amazing, Jin!” CD said.

“Yeah, just call us the Cleavers,” Jinny laughed. “Speaking of which.....” Jinny looked at CD, and then to Nate, who was busy passing his baby around for everyone to see, “things seem to be going well for you lately!”

CD smiled. “Yeah, they have.”

“Do you have a date for the wedding set yet?”

“Oh, gosh, no, not yet. This has just all been happening so fast as it is.....I need some time to get settled into my new routine before I get started on wedding plans....and also, I’m not entirely sure that we’re even going to have a formal wedding.”

“What? Why?” Raina asked. “Weddings are SO beautiful!”

“Yeah, they are, but they’re also expensive, and we’ve both had big weddings before.....and I mean, look, we even have a baby.”

“So?” Raina prompted.

“AND....I just don’t think we want to wait as long as it would take to plan a wedding, before we get married. I mean, with our history, the sooner the better!” she chuckled.

CD and Natie stayed and visited for a while, and then Nate joined them for lunch out.

Meanwhile, a few blocks over, Stacy parked in front of the apartment building where she was to deliver the CD player. She got out of the car, picked up the CD player, and stepped away from the car without looking. Poor Stacy. She never had a chance—she never saw that bus coming.

[Snowfall]

~ 2 Months Later ~

“I do,” CD replied. Her face was shining at Nate as he held her hands.

“I do,” Nate answered as well.

“I know pronounce you husband and wife. You may kiss the bride,” the judge said.

Nate and CD’s lips softly met for a brief but tender kiss. “I love you,” Nate whispered.

“I love you, too.”

~~~~~

Although Nate and CD insisted on just a simple ceremony at city hall, their friends from the division made them a compromise. CD and Nate flew to Hawaii for a long weekend honeymoon while Natie stayed with Jinny, Hank, and little John. Then, the next Saturday night, Kate, Jinny, and Raina threw them a reception at a nice restaurant on the wharf. It was also a birthday celebration for Natie, as it was his first birthday that day.

~ 6 Months Later ~

The new Basso family was taking a stroll through a park early one evening. CD pushed the stroller, and Nate walked along beside her. The autumn air was cool and crisp, but the sun was still above the horizon and lit up the sky in shades of pink and peach. Nate looked at it. “Looks like it’s going to be warmer tomorrow,” he mumbled aloud.

“How do you figure?” CD asked.

“The colors of the sunset usually portray what the weather tomorrow will be like. A pink sky means it’ll be warm tomorrow.” He smiled at her, and they walked in silence for a few moments.

CD watched him, waiting for the right moment to tell him. He seemed to be in a happy mood tonight. She took a deep breath. “Nate, you still want more kids, right?”

He looked at her with a little concern. Although they agreed that they both wanted to have at least one more baby, he still worried that she wouldn’t want to after all. “Well, sure....I love Natie. And I missed so much of his life.”

“Then you’ll be happy by what my doctor told me today.”

Nate stared at her in surprise. “You mean....”

CD nodded and grinned. “I’m pregnant.”

Nate’s face lit up like a Christmas tree, and he wrapped his arms around her and hugged her. “You are?!?!” he exclaimed. CD nodded happily and wrapped her arms around her neck. They kissed. “How far along are you?” he asked.

“Just three weeks. A long ways to go.”

Nate placed his arm around her shoulders and they continued on their walk. “I can’t wait,” Nate replied.

CD smiled at him again. “Me neither.”

CD stopped and strained to see Natie’s face. She was wondering if he’d fallen asleep yet. He had, but all of a sudden she felt sharp pains shoot up through her insides. “Oh God,” she whispered. She was bent over, clutching her abdomen.

“CD! What’s wrong?!” Nate asked, suddenly scared.

“I don’t know...but it really, really hurts.”

Nate rushed CD to the emergency room. By this point, she was heavily bleeding. They admitted her for testing. Nate was a basket case. This was all too familiar to him. She had lost so much blood, that there was talk of a transfusion. She looked pale. “The baby,” CD weakly whispered to him.

“Everything is going to be fine, sweetheart,” he tried to soothe her. He knew that he didn’t sound very convincing, but it was the best that he could muster considering the circumstances. Nate looked at her, and she didn’t look very good. He called for the nurse. “I think my wife is ready for that blood now!” he yelled out.

CD passed out, still holding Nate’s hand.










CD’s eyes opened to Nate’s heartbroken face. She looked at her hand, and it was held by his.

“You’re still alive!” Nate whispered. “Don’t worry, the paramedics are on their way. Just please stay with me....please don’t leave me now.”

CD was confused. “Paramedics? Leave you? What are you talking about, Nate?”

“You’ve been shot, CD. And it looks like the marshal did it. But it also looks like you were able to take care of her.”

“I don’t understand.....the baby.....” she trailed off.

Nate studied her face. “Baby?” he wondered to himself.

By then, though, the paramedics arrived and whisked CD off to the hospital. Nate stayed with her the whole ride. Several hours later, after surgery and a brief recovery period, CD laid sleeping in her hospital room. Nate barely slept at all that night, but dozed in and out while propped up in the chair beside her bed. When CD awoke, it all came back to her. She knew what had happened, and what hadn’t now. It had all been a dream. Just a dream. Two and a half years hadn’t passed. She and Nate weren’t married. They hadn’t had Natie. And, most importantly, she had never left Nate. The last thing she remembered was going to the marshal’s apartment, who then pulled a gun on her and shot her. She peeked under her hospital gown, to discover that her entire midsection was wrapped in gauze. She was alive. As she faded out the night before, she hadn’t known if she would be found before it was too late. Then she looked over at Nate. That sweet, dear man. She loved him so incredibly much. She’d loved him before, but since her dream, she knew just how much he meant to her. This was the man that she would spend the rest of her life with.

CD noticed that her tongue was parched. The only thing she could find to drink was Nate’s half-full bottle of Mountain Dew that was beside his hand on the nightstand. CD picked it up and took a long drink. The movement awakened Nate. You could see the relief wash over his face.
“You’re awake,” he whispered and smiled.

“I am,” she replied. “Who found me?”

“I did....when you were a no-show for dinner, I knew that something had happened. I went to the hospital, because I figured you were stuck there, seeing Gina. Then, I found out the same thing you did. So I looked for you, where I figured you’d gone.”

“I love you, Nate.”

Nate was astonished. He’d never heard those words from her before..though he’d been dreaming of her saying them for a long time. He narrowed his eyes. “I love you, too, CD.” He kissed her softly and tenderly. He knelt on the floor beside her, to be as close as possible to her. He held her hand in his.

~~~~~

CD didn’t share her dream with him right away, but she didn’t waste any time, either. They married three months later, surrounded by their families and friends. CD went back to work at the division. They had their two babies, and they all lived happily ever after.

THE END

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THANK YOU THANK YOU to all of you who have supported my fic writing over the last couple of years. I have truly enjoyed myself writing it, and I'm glad I was able to entertain some of you with my writing. This will most likely be my last TD fic. As a working college student, I don't have time for much else. It gets harder every year. Also, although I'm still a fan of TD and CD/Nate, my heart just isn't in it anymore. I think I've covered everything that I wanted to cover, and I've moved on to other things. But my fics will live on....so enjoy.

[Swimgirl587]

Hey it's all good.....this was a good fic I'd have to say that I know what ur going through, I hardly have the time to write as much as I would like too. I am also I working college student and I just don't hav the time anymore.

So just go to work and go to school and do your best in both

[Laney]

Oh. My. God. Talk about a surprise ending! Loved it though. Amazing.

[candace~n~nathan]

that was so wonderful, tara. i wanted to wait until today to read this so i would be awake and fully appreciate it. i'm so glad i did. that fic was wonderful. i, too, have lost the time and effort that it took to write. i actually started a fic to present to you as ur graduation gift a few weeks back............even though it was for you, i had to stop trying b/c i just didn't have the touch anymore.... it really sucked, so the end lol.

these boards have been wonderful for the simple fact of meeting new people. i never had the intention of making friends here (i just wanted to read fic!), but i did! i never would've gotten through a lot of things i did get through, and that all started out b/c of mainly cat. and then michelle. and then cat talked about this snowfall girl... good thing she did b/c she approved, so i thought i would too. met a very very nice girl (as well as 2 wonderful sisters!!), and then i got to meet you all in PERSON. i never would've thought that would've happened!!!!! love you tons and i'll see you next tuesday

[Snowfall]

Originally Posted by candace~n~nathan

that was so wonderful, tara. i wanted to wait until today to read this so i would be awake and fully appreciate it. i'm so glad i did. that fic was wonderful. i, too, have lost the time and effort that it took to write. i actually started a fic to present to you as ur graduation gift a few weeks back............even though it was for you, i had to stop trying b/c i just didn't have the touch anymore.... it really sucked, so the end lol.

these boards have been wonderful for the simple fact of meeting new people. i never had the intention of making friends here (i just wanted to read fic!), but i did! i never would've gotten through a lot of things i did get through, and that all started out b/c of mainly cat. and then michelle. and then cat talked about this snowfall girl... good thing she did b/c she approved, so i thought i would too. met a very very nice girl (as well as 2 wonderful sisters!!), and then i got to meet you all in PERSON. i never would've thought that would've happened!!!!! love you tons and i'll see you next tuesday

awwww....you are such a good friend. That really touched me. And I'm really touched that you were going to write a fic for me.....it's even OK that you weren't able to finish it, b/c just knowing that you wanted to do that for me is enough.

p.s.: back when I just lurked the boards, you were always my favorite. You were MY role model. the first time I met you in person, it was almost like meeting a celebrity.

And thank you to Swimgirl and Laney, too, for your sweet comments. I'm really glad that you enjoyed it.

[Jo_Luvs_Ketchup]

That was a nice ending. Not what I expected at all. Just wanted to say good job! Sorry to see it end.

[Laney]

Glad to have read.I'll definitly miss it though. I haven't had much time to read anymore. My son is almost one and we found out recently he'll be getting a sibling sometime next year. No time anymore. Good luck with school.