“I don’t know what she’s going to do, a kid, no place to live,” said Alice with a long hot sigh.

            “What do you mean?” asked Lara hearing every word that they’d said, the night was clear and she and Carmen had heard everything.

            “Well, she can’t stay at Sam’s, can she?  The woman is dead, they weren’t married, and even if they’d been, it wasn’t legal,” said Rosita, turning in Alice’s arms. 

            “You guys don’t know?” asked Lara as she took a long swig of the wine straight from the bottle, forgoing the glass.

            “Know what?” asked Carmen.

            “Sam left everything to Shane; she did it weeks ago when she gave me the deeds to The Planet.  Shane’s a billionaire…”

***** 

            Quin sat down, Daisy was in the other room, sleeping soundly.  Her arm was in a cast, fractured in several places.  Helena and Peggy were on their way back from Europe right now, and Quin could just see the huge fit that Peggy was going to pitch when she arrived. 

            Tina walked into the living room, carrying two cups of tea, sitting next to Quin on the floor against the couch, “You going to be ok?”

            Quin nodded, sipping the tea, “I can’t stop thinking about Sam.”

            Tina bit her lip, nodding, “Me either.  It was my fault you know?  That she died.”

            Quin looked over at Tina from the corner of her eye, smirking, “When did you have time to plant a bomb?  If it was a bomb, it could have been anything, and you did that, did you?  Talented girl.”

            Tina shook her head, the whole time they’d been on the plane back to California, Tina’d been thinking of the chain of events that had led to Sam being on that train.  She’d gone to Seattle to have her shoulder checked, the reason she’d been shot in the first place was because Sam had saved Tina.  “Sam went to Seattle because she got shot, she got shot saving Angelica and I.  If Sam hasn’t been so sweet and brought back that damn stuffed frog, she’d be alive today.”

            “And you’d be dead,” snapped Quin setting the cup on the table to her left.  Turning and touching Tina’s face.  “You can’t trade in one life for another, if it was meant to be, it would have happened.  I’m a big believer in fate, you can change one thing in your life, but if it was meant to happen, it would, change what you want, it will happen.  You can’t blame yourself for what happened to Sam.”

            “I can, and I am,” said Tina heatedly.  “Sam would be…”

            “No, she wouldn’t be, Tina stop it, you are being too emotional about this,” began Quin.

            “And you’re not!  Don’t you care that Sam died!”

            “I do, but I care that Daisy is alive too,” said Quin calmly as Tina bolted up and began to move around the living room.  “I’m happy that you are alive, grateful to Sam for being the hero that she was, but I can’t say I wish that you could trade places with her.  Sam didn’t have to do what she did; she did it to save Angelica the pain of being motherless.”

            Tina looked up at the ceiling, tears spilling from her eyes, rushing down her cheeks.  Quin stood, moving to her, gathering her into her arms, “Death isn’t the end, it’s just their new beginnings, somewhere Sam’s starting over,” whispered Quin into Tina’s ear. 

***** 

            Darci sat in her office, going over what she’d found more times than she could count.  The same devastating results each and every time, nothing would change that fact.  Absolutely nothing on earth was going to change what was going to happen to Jo it was absolutely inevitable.  There were no miracles to be had, no last minute spells, and no going back in time to change it.  Fate was finally going to right itself.