So it has been very long since I have posted a story. I will not be finishing Faith. I lost my hard drive with the rest of the story and all of my planning on it. Then I fell ill and I just don't want to try to finish it. It was so near the end but I could not do it...

I did however have one idea for a story that stayed with me. And so with great thanks to TC for Beataing this chapter I present to everyone "Life is short"

*Thanks to TC for proofing this first chapter

** I do not own Heartland otherwise Amy would have had a ring on her finger at the end of season 5... Actually it would have been before that!

***This takes place 3 months after the season Finale. Jack is still in France.
Lou and Peter are preparing to move. Amy still has not spoken to Ty about the
ring, and Mallory is still in Nashville.


The sound of hoof beats rang out as Amy bent down over Dexter's neck urging
him over the tree. He landed and Amy pointed him toward the next jump. He took
it in stride and Amy pushed him for home. In a matter of minutes Amy pulled
him down to walk before they walked through the gate.
When she reached the barn she dismounted and unsaddled Dexter just as a large
horse taller clattered down the drive. Amy looked up to see a young woman get
out of the car.
"Hi. Are you Amy Fleming?" the brunette asked.
Amy smiled, "Yeah, how can I help you?"
The woman smiled warmly. "My name is Jenny Hall. I was told that you are the
person to talk to about training a horse."
"Oh, yeah. What can I help you with?" Amy asked as she started to the
trailer.
Jenny looked at Amy with a tear in her blue eyes. "My husband… he was a
horse trainer and he left me this horse, and I am at my wit's end with him."
Amy sucked in a breath. She knew that this would be an impossibly hard case
but she had to help. "Yeah, I can try. Tell me what you want me to do for
him."
Jenny pursed her lips. "Please, just fix him. He has killed a man; I can't let
him kill me."


"And Ty, she asked me to stop her horse from killing her!"
Ty's eyes widened, "And you offered to help anyway! Amy, this horse sounds
dangerous. Should you really be working with him?
Amy rolled her eyes. "Ty, I know what I am doing. Now, are you going to help
me move him to the round pen or not?"
"Well, I won't let you get killed alone." Ty opened the gate and the two set
to work moving the horse with many words still unsaid between them.
It only took a matter of minutes to move the horse and once he was in the
round pen, the horse spun around and lunged at the horse in the pen next to
him.
Amy watched the horse as he began to pace, teeth bared, ready to pounce. "He
seems to hate the world," she commented dryly. "He will be fun to work with."


Peter walked in to the house and waded through the cardboard boxes to the
kitchen. He smiled at the smell of Lou's dinner concoction. "What smells so
good?"
Lou smiled and said: "Food that I did not cook!"
"Oh, sounds great!" Peter said with a grin, and moved two boxes out of his
way.
Amy walked in to the room with Katie. "Isn't it wonderful that we are all safe
from the poison of Lou's cooking?"
"Well, tomorrow you will be cooking your own meals and we will see how long it
takes you to starve." Lou retorted smartly.
Amy rolled her eyes. "Really? Well, there is this little thing called take-out


Lou cut her sister off. "Dear, sweet, naive, Amy… you will get sick of
take-out, not to mention go broke buying it."
Amy rolled her eyes again. "I suppose this would be a good time to mention
that I have offers all over Alberta to do clinics. I could have a clinic to do
every weekend if I wanted! I could be richer than the two of you in a matter
of months."
"Amy, that's great. Why are you not excited?" Lou was bubbling over with
enthusiasm.
"Because I would spend all my weekends traveling, and I don't want that. I
don't want to be away from home," Amy sighed and sat down in a kitchen chair.
Lou nodded. "I can see that. I hated to distribute my time between Heartland
and Peter when we lived in Dubai. I wanted both."
Amy nodded, but her mind somewhere else entirely. It was not on her clinics or
her sister, but Ty.


"Je tiens à vous dire quoi faire avec votre temps! Tu es completement
débile!" Lisa slammed the phone on the table. "Con!" she muttered in French.
She turned to Jack. "No luck. This airline strike has got nearly all the
flights canceled."
Jack chuckled. "I can tell."
Lisa spun into a tizzy, "Jack, we were supposed to fly home two months ago,
but with this government revolt and the airline strike, there have not been
but a few flights in and out in the last few days alone. This country is going
to hell in a hand-basket."
"Now Lisa-"
Lisa cut Jack's comment off and continued her rant: "They are burning houses
of the rich and killing innocent people to make a point! And it's moving south
every day closer to us. We need to leave as soon as we can. I have spoken to a
friend of mine and she is trying to get us tickets on the next flight out. But
I don't know if we will make it out before they burn everything to the ground.
We could very well be dead in a few days."
"Now, Lisa," Jack said reasonably, "don't go thinking like that."
"Jack, don't sit there and say that," Lisa said. "I can see right through you.
You have the same worries that I do. We are a hundred twenty meters outside
Paris and Paris was burned days ago. In a few days we need to be prepared to
leave. I am meeting a Spanish Horse breeder tomorrow to sell all my stock."
Jack stood up. "Okay," he said, "we had better start early tomorrow."
Lisa looked at Jack seriously. "I am starting now. I have seen this once
before and I don't plan to see it again." She grabbed her boots and walked out
in to the sun, leaving Jack to think a moment before he followed.


"Okay, 'night Grandpa." Amy hung up the phone as Lou walked in.
"What did grandpa say? Is he coming home?" Lou crossed her fingers even though
she knew the answer.
"No. They can't get flights out. He wished you luck with the move but it was
cut short. He said they had to get some horses ready for sale." Amy picked up
Katie and spun her around.
Lou smiled at the sound of her daughter's giggle. "Peter is trying to pull
some strings, but doesn't know if the guy can get them tickets or not."
"Lou, if Lisa has buyers for a few horses it can't be that bad. Besides, they
are not in Paris. They will be home, and Grandpa will be here for the
house-warming party in two weeks." Amy smiled convincingly, her mind split
between her grandfather and Ty.
It seemed that lately Ty was always a part of her thoughts. Sometimes it was
the glittering ring she had found, other times it was the fact that she never
saw Ty, what with him working and spending his spare time at school. But most
of the time, it was the ring and her words that had discouraged Ty from the
proposal that would have changed everything.


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~Libby