It's Been A Long Time... [Desperate Measures Sequel]

SixtyFour.

"I'm going to speak to him today," Katherine told me as we sat on the sofa in Dean's home. It has been three days since myself and Dean had our heart to heart, two days since he returned to work and one day since I rang Milton expecting to hear some kind of verdict regarding the case. 

She watched me as I bit my thumb before I removed my hand from my face and spoke, "I thought you had already told him."

Katherine shook her head before she picked up her mobile from the arm of the arm looking down at it as she spoke. "I didn't have the heart, he's been so wrapped up in your court case and your relationship."

"Do not worry about any of that, you are the most important thing right now," I told her as I smiled at her. "He'll want to know, he will want to help you in any way he can."

Katherine sighed as she touched her stomach, "I just don't want the baby to go to a random home where things aren't regulated." She rubbed her belly, "I want my baby to be safe."

"They don't just give babies to crazy people," I reminded her as I laughed. "I promise everything is going to be okay."

She smiled at me, "Thank you." She laughed, "I would never have thought that I would be telling this to you. I swear that me and you were going to be enemy's till the end of time."

I shook my head, "I have enough already without adding you to the list. You and those two girls are everything to Dean and I would never want to get in between the relationship you all share."

Katherine tucked her hair behind her ears as she looked at me, "He tells me that you two are definitely going to be getting a house together, that you have even booked a few places to look at."

Biting my lip I nodded slowly, "Just looking though. I want to find the perfect home, I want to make sure that next time we host Thanksgiving or even Christmas that we actually have enough room for everyone. Maybe we can offer more room for people to stay too."

"I know as long as he is with you that's all he needs," she told me. "He doesn't care much for big fancy things, he just wants to be happy and to make you happy."

"All I want is for him to be happy," I explained to her. "I know that we have been through quite a bit together but I don't ever want to lose him. I don't want to be without him in my life." I smiled as I thought about him, about the smile he gave to me, how he looked at me when he thought I wasn't looking. "Do you believe in fate?"

She sighed, "I used to." She nodded as she tilted her head and raised her eyebrows, "You two, you two are meant to be together." She laughed, "I don't believe that after all this time that you two would be okay if you weren't meant to be." 

"I hope so," I picked up my glass from the table before taking a small sip. "I hope he feels the same as me. I hope he doesn't just feel sorry for me."

Katherine burst out laughing, "Sometimes I feel like maybe you don't know him." He shook her head as she grinned widely, "I'm pretty sure you already know if he didn't want to be with you then he wouldn't. He most certainly wouldn't be looking at buying a home with you either."

Laying in bed I was watching Dean cut a promo where he was doing an interview. I smiled seeing him on the screen before I was distracted by my mobile phone ringing. I picked up my phone and checked it to see it was Stephanie. I slowly pressed the green button and put her on loudspeaker as I laid there. "Hello?"

"Tasha, is that you?" She asked me. 

Nodding to myself with a large smile on my face I spoke, "Hi Stephanie." It was actually nice to hear her voice, I had forgotten how much I missed seeing these people almost every day. 

"I'm so glad I got hold of you," she told me, I could hear the smile in her voice. 

"This better not be you trying to get me back into the ring," I told her as I leaned my head on Dean's pillow and allowed myself to breathe in his scent that he had left behind. 

She chuckled, "Well I am calling to check on you. I wanted to make sure you are doing okay, that you are getting the right support."

I sighed, "I wouldn't go as far to say I'm getting the right support but I'm doing okay. I still don't have the final verdict yet." 

"If you need a good counsellor I can refer you," she told me as I noticed her voice change from happy to serious. "I want to make sure you get the best help there is out there. You might not work for me anymore but I think a great deal of you, Natasha."

"Thank you," I really thought a lot of Steph. She had been good to me, I'd done some things I didn't want to do in the beginning but she always looked after me and when I wanted to leave she didn't even try to make me stay, she gave me the space I needed. "I do miss being surrounded by everyone, I guess it gets easier in time."

"We can always find something for you if you ever want to return, I think you should think about the counsellor thing, they work wonders."