*The best part about being a fanfic writer is that I can write whatever the heck I want and change whatever I don't like, so guess what? That little thing about angels disappearing in hot water ain't happening in my fanfic…

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The early morning sun spilled into the bedroom the next morning. Alison and Rafe slowly awoke and smiled at each other.

"Good morning, husband," Alison moaned.

"Good morning, wife." Rafe brought her face to his and kissed her. They stopped kissing, smiled at each other, then kissed again.

Rafe took Alison into his arms and held her for a little while as they woke up.

"So what do you want to do today?" Alison asked.

"Anything as long as I'm with you and we're not apart for a single second."

Alison laughed. "Well that's the great thing about the weekends. We can just do nothing but hang out here with each other." She looked up at Rafe and they kissed again.

"We probably should think about getting out of this bed sometime soon."

"You're right. I got an idea."

"Okay."

"Well, we'll go take our morning run."

"Mmm-hmm."

"Then after that, we'll be all hot and sweaty, you know. So we'll have to take a shower. We could do that…" Alison put her mouth to Rafe's ear. "Together," she whispered. Alison started laughing. "Your heart rate just went way up! I can feel it right through your chest!"

"You just kind of caught me by surprise."

"It's not like we haven't seen each other naked, though. We've seen each other naked lots of times." Alison laughed.

"The thing is, I've never quite done anything like that before, showering with someone I mean. Sounds um…intriguing."

"Well just think of it as one of those earthly pleasures you're supposed to be experiencing before you go."

Rafe laughed. "You know what I think we should do?"

"What?"

"I think we should just skip the morning run. I mean, there are other ways we can exercise right?"

"Race ya!"

"Hey!" Rafe called out to her as Alison sprung out of the bed and ran to the bathroom. Rafe got out of bed and followed her. When he got there, Alison already had the shower running and was standing there with a towel around her.

"I beat you," she teased.

"You had an unfair head start."

Alison shrugged her shoulders. Then, she let the towel drop to the floor. "Well? Are you just going to stand there or are you going to join me?" Alison shot Rafe a killer grin, then slid the shower door open and stepped inside.

Rafe laughed, shed himself of his boxers, and stepped into the shower.

Alison turned around and grabbed Rafe by the shoulders. He wrapped his arms around her and covered her lips with his. They let the hot water fall on them as they kissed passionately...

~*~*~*~

Rafe dressed in some sweats and Alison threw on her robe. They sat on the bed and Rafe blow-dried her hair.

"I haven't had someone else blow-dry my hair in a long time. Are you sure you're not bored?"

"Bored? Never. This is actually kind of fun, and you have such beautiful hair." He turned the blow dryer off. "Okay, I think it's done."

Alison turned around and smiled at him. "Thanks."

"So what do you want to do now?"

"Hmm, let's see. Well, we took a shower together, and that was really nice. And hmm, oh, breakfast! We can make breakfast together."

"Alright."

Alison hopped off the bed and held out her hand. Rafe took it and she led him into the kitchen. "What do you want to eat?"

"Hmm, well I can't cook anything."

"Well that's okay because I can so I'll help you."

"Pancakes maybe?"

"Sound great to me!"

So the two cooked breakfast together, but it took a while. It was hard to get any cooking done when they kept kissing every two seconds.

~*~*~*~

Later in the afternoon, Alison had found a bunch of Serena's board games hiding in the closet, so she brought them out and she and Rafe played a few.

"Sorry!" Rafe yelled as his green man bumped Alison's red man back home.

"No fair!" Alison complained. "How can you be so good at this game when you've never played it before?"

"Beginner's luck?"

"Are you sure you don't have any powers left?"

"I'm not cheating!" Rafe laughed.

"Hmm," Alison mumbled.

"You know, maybe we should put this up and start thinking about dinner."

"Um…yeah, we should," Alison said softly.

"Alison, are you okay?"

"No."

Rafe got up from his spot on the floor and sat down beside Alison on the couch. "What's wrong?"

"I was just thinking about how perfect this day has been. I wish everyday could be like this."

Rafe held her face in his hands. He wiped away one of her tears with his thumb. "I know, so do I." Then, he pulled her into his arms. "Listen, when I leave, you know I'm not really going to be gone."

"Mmm-hmm."

"I'll still be with you…in your heart."

"But it won't be the same, Rafe."

"But you know what? Even though you won't be able to see me or hear me, I promise you that you'll feel me. You'll feel my presence, because I'm going to be watching over you. You know that, don't you?"

"How can I ever be happy, Rafe? How will I ever be happy knowing I can feel your presence but that I'll never be able to spend a life with you? Tell me."

"You'll be happy, Alison. You have your bakery…that was your dream ever since you were a little girl. You'll have that to focus on..."

"But what about my other dream?" Alison looked Rafe in the eyes. "I want a lifetime with you. I want us to grow old together and to….and to have babies together." Alison started to cry.

"I know." Rafe held her close to him.

And now, it was more aware to them than it had ever been-the time to say goodbye was almost here.