Dark Paradise

epilogue

E P I L O G U E

CELIA WAS SHOCKED UPON HEARING JAVIER'S WORDS. She had immediately pulled back from the embrace and with one look at his face, Celia knew he wasn't lying.

"W-what?" She stuttered out the single word. "Really?"

"Yeah, I guess I apparently know enough about the cartel they're wanting to promote me and send me back to Colombia." Javier said as he placed his hands at his hips and looked at his shoes.

"Are you going to go?" Celia asked the one question Javier hoped she didn't ask.

Javier's looked back up at Celia who stood their hiding her emotions from him pretty damn well. If she was upset, she didn't seem like it. The DEA agent tapped his foot as he tried to come up with a way to tell her that he was going to go despite everything that had happened.

"If you are, it's fine." Celia reassured the agent as she reached a hand out to grab onto Javier's arm. "I'll just support you from home. I just don't think I can stomach another trip to Colombia. I'll hold down the fort here. You go do what you do best and take those bastards down. I just hope we have time to spend together before you go."

"We do. Two months of it, actually." Javier said as he pulled Celia back to him once again.

"Then I shall make this next two months the best damn two months you'll ever have." Celia promised before her lips were back on Javier's again.

As much as she knew two months wasn't a lot, Celia made the best of them with Javier. After spending a few more days in D.C., they two flew down to Miami to spend some time with Celia's family. Towards the end of the first month of Javier's "vacation", he confessed to Celia that night that he had bought tickets for them to fly to Texas so that she could meet his father. Celia responded to the surprise by tearing up while littering his face in kisses and then having sex.

The last month Javier had before going back to Colombia was spent in Laredo, Texas. Even if it had been two months after the death of Escobar, people were stilling paying their respects and expressing their gratitude to Javier. Celia found a little humor in seeing the way Javier would squirm a little from being uncomfortable as he never really knew what to say. Even though people praised Javier for being a hero when he didn't believe he was one, Celia liked to remind him that he sacrificed a lot to take down Escobar.

They had finished yet another one of their many rounds of sex just because she knew Javier would be flying out to Colombia the next day. Celia had got to thinking about all the people who have thanked him for what he's done for the country. Especially after seeing so many people come up to him at the wedding reception last night.

"You know those people who go up to you all the time have a point in thanking you for what you've done." Celia admitted as she slid her hand across Javier's bare chest.