"Get the gun." Jack tells Kate and pushes her forward again. She slowly walks to Monica and bends down to get the gun, once she stands up, she looks into Monica's eyes trying to get her to look down. Monica looks down and see a small pistol hidden in her front Jean. Monica winks at Kate and in a second Monica grabs the gun for out her belt and Kate drops to the floor giving Monica a clear shot a Jack. He tries to bring up his gun, but a chain of bullets go off from Monica's gun first. The bullets drill into Jack chest, sending him falling backwards, he gasps for air one last time, before closing his eyes and not moving.  Monica then lowers the gun and walks closer to make sure he was gone for good, his eyes open but showing no movement. She turns away and bends down on her knees and wipes away her tears and breath deeply for a second and thinks to herself: "It's over dad, it's over." Monica then hears the click of a gun infront of her and looks up in amazement and sees Kate standing infront on her with Monica's gun pointed at her. She looked crazy, breathing hard and her hands shaking.

"Kate, its ok. He's dead, he's not going to hurt you." Monica says standing up trying to calm her down.

"Put down the gun you Bitch." Kate says to Monica with a evil face. Monica is shocked and can't figure out whats going on. She throws the gun down and looks at Kate again.

"Why are you doing this?" Monica asked Kate.

"Why am I doing this? I'll tell you want I'm doing! I'm going to f*king kill you just like I did your father." Kate yells at Monica, her eyes widen as Monica think back on the night, seeing her father being shot and falling to the ground. Monica stays silent for a second trying to think.

"If I couldn't have a father then you couldn't either! Your father killed my dad! Murdered him in cold blood." Kate explains crying tears of hate.

"What?" Monica asks her, not being able to make sense of it all.

"Last year my dad was approached by a gang of drug dealers. My dad didn't want to be a part of it, so one night he went to their office to tell them that. Then your father and a bunch of cops show up and kills everyone, including my father! He wasn't even part of the gang, and your father killed an innocent man in cold blood. So, he took my father, I take your father.  Kind of poetic isn't it?" Kate says trying to keep the gun still in her shaking hand. Monica couldn't believe it, she didn't know anything about it, nothing. And here stood the person that killed her father, her partner she had been working with trying to find the
serial killer.

"And Jack? What does he have to do with this?" Monica asks trying to make sense of the whole story.

"That loser? I just used him, he hated you enough. Well, actually he hated all woman. I just used him to get your father here.  I knew it wouldn't be long before you would call your daddy to help you." Kate says starting to laugh.

"You had him kill all those woman, just to get to me?" Monica asks, she couldn't believe that Kate would do this, why not just come after her in the first place? But that was usually the case with a crazy serial killer. But Jack had already paid for the murder of those woman, and now it was Kate's turn to pay for killing Monica's father.

"It may seem a little harsh. But hey, he enjoyed it! And so have I." Kate says laughing. Monica felt like bursting out and grabbing Kate by throat, the image of her father being shot, went through her mind over and over.

"And now, it's time for my final revenge. Good bye..pal!" Kate says and gets control of the pistol in her hand and aims it at Monica's head. But Kate sees Monica's eyes look behind her, and just as Kate looks behind her, she can only see a wooden plank coming towards her. Mike hits her hard and the gun falls out of Kate's hands, but Mike is too weak to stop Kate as she punches him hard in the face sending to the ground again, where he lays. But as soon as Kate turns she sees Monica foot sink into Kate's face, Kate gets knocked down to the ground and then quickly gets up again a block off Monica's punch, and hits Monica in the face, causing a cut above Monica's left eye. But she returns the punch to Kate with a hard right, a left and another right upper cut. Kate falls backward into the empty boxes and breaths hard, with blood flowing from her nose and mouth she lays there still.  Monica also tries gather streaght as she sinks to her knees and also breaths hard, she touches her cut and sees the blood and looks back at Kate again who still isn't moving.  Monica then looks back at Mike who was lying on the ground holding his gun shot wound to keep the blood from flowing. She then tryingly stands up and walks over to him, and bends down by his side.

"You ok?" She asks him, and Mike just looks up at her with a grin on his face.

"Well I've been better, but thanks for asking." Mike says in a cocky way, and Monica just smiles. But just when she tries to help him up she hear something behind her.

"YOU BITCH!!" Monica turns to see Kate on her feet with a the pistol in her hands, Mike sees this and reaches out next to him for the nearby gun. He pushes Monica down and just before Kate's gun goes off, Mike pulls the trigger sending the bullets streaming into Kate's chest. She stands there for a second in shock and then falls backwards on the hard ground. Monica is stunned at what just happened, and looks at Mike in amazement and Mike just smiles at her. Monica then helps Mike to his feet and they tryingly walk back down to the car to call for backup.

Soon after the police arrived and found the bodies of Jack and Kate. Mike was quickly rushed to the hospital with Monica by his side. Walker,Trent, Carlos, Michelle were told what had happened and they rushed to the hospital. As Trent first ran through the door, he saw Monica standing in the hallway. The moment she saw him she smiled brightly and met him halfway, hugging each other tight. And once their eyes met they kissed each other passionately.

"I'm so glad your ok." Trent says looking deeply into his love's eyes.

"Is it true about Kate and Jack?" Carlos asked Monica, with his arm around Michelle.

"Yeah it is." Monica answers Carlos and her smile disappears.

"Who would have thought. Is Mike going to be alright?" Trent says trying to change the subject.

"Ross is with him right now, but he should be ok." Monica says looking down the hallway.

"Good." Walker says coming closer. Just then Doctor Ross comes walking to them smiling.

"Hey guys. You friend was very luckily, no internal organs were damaged. So, he's gonna be fine. You can go and see him now." Doctor Ross tells them all and they all  sign of relieve.

"Thanks Ross." Monica says and shakes Ross's hand and he smiles back at her.

"Come on, let's go see how the comic is doing." Carlos says and starts walking to the room, and the others just smile and follow him. Trent then looked at Monica again, noticing the small bandage above her eye.

"You sure your ok?" Trent asks her before they walk inside the room. He wasn't sure for what reason he had asked that. Wheather she was going to be ok after her father's death, or over what just happend to her.  Monica then thinks for a second then answers him.

"Yeah, I think so." She says with a smile and nods.  They too then enter the room where Carlos is busy mocking poor Mike.

"Carlos I swear when I get out of this bed, I'm going to beat you up SO bad....." Mike says laughing but grins when he feels the pain again. He and Carlos were always mocking each other, and even when Mike was in bad shape, Carlos always found it the perfect opportunity to mock him, since Mike won't be able to chase after him.

"Yeah, Yeah, whatever man. You'll be lucky to get out of here alive with the kind of food they serve here! Believe me!" Carlos says still joking with Mike and the others just laugh at the two friends. Trivette then comes walking inside the room and greets everyone.

"Did you get it?" Monica asks Trivette after greets him back.

"Get what?" Walker asks the two.

"The information about the drug bust last year. The one where Kate's father was murdered. Race didn't kill him Monica. According to the bullet identification, and four witnesses, the gang leader killed Kate's father, he must have thought that he led Race to him.  I guess Kate just heard the story wrong." Trivette says to them all. Monica signs in relief. Even though Kate had killed her father for no reason, she knew that her Dad had lived a life worth remembering. One that would live on in her. Forever.
 

LATER THAT AFTERNOON

The guard walks up to Andrews and unlock the handcuffs, and puts them away. Andrews rubs his wrists and starts to follow his lawyer down the hallway at the Dallas Police Department. But before they reach the elevator, Monica comes walking around the corner.

"Woa! You stay away from me! Your lucky I didn't sue your ass Banon." Andrews says as he is taken by surprise of Monica's appearance. Monica just glares at him and then turns to the lawyer.

"Could I have a minute with your client?" She politely asks him.

"If it's alright with you Mr. Andrews?" The lawyer asks him, Matt then looks at Monica for a second and nods. The lawyer then gets into the elevator and goes down. Matt then turns to Monica.

"I hope your not going to kick my ass..again." He says to her cocky.

"Don't tempt me." Monica says in a serious tone and crossing her arms.

"So, what do you want? You did catch the murderer, I'm free to go, right." Matt asks her, trying to keep cool.

"Yeah you are Matt. I just wanted to...to apologize. I didn't know you were innocent, and I'm sorry." Monica tries hard to say. Matt then smiles at her and realizes for the first time that maybe she wasn't as bad as he thought.

"Forget about it. I'm glad you caught the guy. You know Mon, I know you and me have had our difference's in the past..." Matt tries to say.

"You tried to kill me Matt." Monica says cutting him off, and tries to smile about the matter. Matt then also smiles back at her and continue's.

"I know, that was just business. It was a hell of a lot of money." He says laughing, and Monica just smiles at him.

"You know what Monica, your ok. If you ever need some info or help, you know where to find me." Matt says and with that the elevator doors open  and he walks inside. And as the doors close he waves goodbye to her and Monica just smiles back at him with her arms still crossed. After he's gone she thinks to herself:" It is true what they say, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." She smiles to the thought and then turns and walks down the hallway.

THE NEXT MORNING

The gentle winds races through the leaves of the huge oak tree and the sound of a voices whispering surround the graveyard. So little time had passed and she knew it would take a long time for the worse pain to go away. She stepped closer and rubbed off the old dry leaves from the top of the huge stone, she then bent down to her knees and listened to the wind sing to her,  and the sound of birds singing in the old tree above the stone. Monica then brought the flower to her lips and kissed it softly and gently placed a single red rose on the grave. She wiped away the single tear on her cheek and looked at the engraving on the stone
and it read:
'Here lies
Race Banon
Father, Friend and Hero
May he rest in peace'
1955-04-12 - 2000-09-07

'Live each day to it's fullest'
 

She touched the stone, wanting to feel her father. But she knew that she would never be able to hold or talk to him again.

"I wish I could see you daddy." She says and another tear streams down her soft cheek. Then out of nowhere a single purple Butterfly comes flying to the stone and gently lands on top of the stone. Monica looks up at it in amazement, and knew exactly what the sign meant, she smiled brightly and looked up to the sky.

"I love you too dad." She said smiling and with that the Butterfly flew off into the blue sky, when Monica couldn't see it anymore she slowly got up and kissed her hand and placed it on the stone.  She then turned and walked a few steps, but stopping for a second and looking back one last time again. She then smiled and continued to walk towards the road where Trent was waiting for her leaning against the door of the Corvette. He was wearing a green short-sleeved shirt and Jeans and his sunglasses on, Monica walked closer wearing her yellow summer dress, and her long black hair hanging down. Trent walked closer and when they got to each other they looked deeply into each others eyes.

"I know there isn't anything I can say to make you feel better Mon. I just want you to know that I'll always be here for you, no matter what." Trent says rubbing Monica's arms with his hands. He was SO in love with her, and there was something he wanted to ask her, but this wasn't the right time, another time together.

"I know that as long as I'm with you, I'll get through anything. I love you Trent Malloy." She says to him, she knew Trent would always be there for her, and she knew that she would get through this, with Trent by her side.

"And I love you Monica Banon." And with that he leans forward and they kiss passionately.

The next day Walker invited Monica, Trent, Carlos and Michelle have dinner at his Ranch. Alex promised them the best dinner ever, and she wasn't kidding. After a great dinner, Walker and Alex decided to stay inside and drink some wine together. Carlos and Michelle went outside to the portch and took a seat on the new swing, enjoying each others conversation.

"So, what now?" Carlos asks her putting his one arm around her shoulders. Michelle then looks at him confused.

"What do you mean?" Making herself comfortable and wrapping her other arm around his waist.

"Well, this is the usually the part in the movies where, the bad guy is dead, the hero of the movie got the beautiful girl and everyone lives happily ever after." Carlos says to her smiling, and Michelle only laughs  at him.

"You can be so adorable sometimes." She says kissing him, and then thinks for a  second.

"I don't know what happens next, this is where the movie usually ends. So, that's means we'll just have to wait for the sequel." She says looking up at him smiling. Carlos then laughs at her and they kiss each other passionately.

Meanwhile, Trent and Monica headed a few feet up a small hill overlooking the entire Ranch and took a seat on an old tree log. The night sky was so beautiful, the bright moonlight lit the whole country side up and it made it the perfect scene for Trent. He then took Monica's felt hand and held it tight.

"Monica, the day I met you, I knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. The way you look at me, the way you touch me and the way you love me, is more than I could ever ask for. The other day made me realize that I could have lost you, and I can't imagine living without you. I started a new life the second I saw you, and now I never want to loose you again......You  father said that we should live each day to it's fullest,....treasure each moment in the future, I want you in my future Monica." Trent says looking deeply into her eyes.

"What are you saying Trent?" Monica says, for some reason she couldn't breath easily. Trent then stood up still holding her hand and walked infront of her and bent down on his one knee, and took out a small shaped box from his pocket. He carefully opened the small box revealing a sliver ring with a diamond.

"Monica Banon, will you marry me?" He asked and his words took her breath away, her heart skipping a beat and then started racing.

"Trent? I...I don't know what to say?" She said still stunned with joy.

"Say you'll do the honour of being my wife." He said back to her, Monica then smiled brightly.

"Yes! Yes I'll marry you!" She said excited and with that Trent took the ring out of the box and carefully slided it on her finger. Her eyes filling with tears of joy, and once the ring was one, Trent stood up and she immediately jumped up and kissed him.

"I love you Trent Malloy." She said looking into his baby blue eyes.

"And I love you Monica Banon." He said and they kissed again.

Trent then picked her up and started spinning around, both laughing with joy. They soon headed back to the house to tell the others the exciting news. Monica would soon change her name, and become one with Trent, a Malloy. But that's another story.....

THE END!!