Hey guys! This is my first attempt a Mamma Mia fanfic so I hope you like it.
Like so many others, I haven't seen the stage version but am completely obsessed with the film, I've so far seen it five times!! :O Also love Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan as Donna and Sam, so sweet they are!
Anyway, please read and review, luv ya all Gemz xxxxx
This Time It's Forever
Summary: Twenty one years they'd been apart before a special occasion brought him back to her. Now Donna and Sam are back together and married, this time it's different, they both know it's for keeps. DonnaSam pairing but with others thrown in too.
Chapter 1- Finally Found
'I'm gonna miss you so much Soph,' Donna whispered to her only daughter as she prepared to leave the island to go on her travels with her fiancé Sky.
'I'm gonna miss you too mom but I will come back to visit,' Sophie replied.
'Promise?' Donna asked as she hugged Sophie.
'I promise,' Sophie said as she pulled out of the embrace, 'anyway it's not all bad is it? You've got Sam now.'
A small smile flitted across Donna's face, 'yeah, I have,'
She turned around and her gaze locked with that of her new husband, Sam Carmichael. He gave her a reassuring smile and she turned back to her daughter. Sophie walked past her and stood in front of her three potential dads, Sam, Bill and Harry, who had all left the reception to come and see her off. 'Thank you all for coming,' Sophie said, addressing all three of them, 'I know you all came out here to see me get married but in the end, it wasn't my wedding you ended up witnessing,' she added, smiling first at Sam and then at Donna, 'but thanks for coming, it meant a lot.'
Sophie walked over to Sam and hugged him, 'you will look after my mom, won't you?' she asked.
Sam pulled out of the embrace and looked at Sophie, 'Soph, of course I'll look after her. You know how much I love your mom and I will do anything to keep her safe, for you as well as for me,' he said.
Sophie nodded as she went over to Bill, 'take care Soph,' he said and kissed her on the cheek.
She smiled at him as she went over to Harry, 'I hope to see you soon Sophie,' he said as he too kissed her on the cheek.
Sophie walked back over to Donna and gave her one last hug, 'I'll see you soon mom, I love you,' she whispered.
'I love you too Soph and don't forget to come back and see us soon,'
'I won't!' Sophie called as she clambered into the boat.
Donna, Sam, Bill and Harry watched and waved as the boat set off from the dock. When the boat became nothing more than a microscopic dot on the horizon, Bill and Harry left the dock to go back to the reception, leaving Sam and Donna on their own. 'You OK babe?' he asked as he stepped towards her, holding out his hand.
Donna turned around and smiled, taking her hand in Sam's, 'yeah, I'm fine…I'm just gonna miss Soph so much,' she replied.
'I know, I will too. I would've liked to have got to know her a bit better before she went though,'
'She'll be back Sam,' Donna said, 'anyway, every cloud and all that…I've got you and having you back in my life is the best thing that's happened to me in ages.'
'Well I'm glad you feel like that because I'm not going anywhere,'
'I wouldn't want you to,' Donna said.
She let go of Sam's hand and cupped his face in her hands before leaning across to kiss him softly on the lips. Sam deepened the kiss, poking his tongue into her mouth, gently exploring it. He wrapped his arms around her waist and Donna moved to wrap her arms around his neck, preventing him from going anywhere, even if he'd wanted to. They pulled away a while later and exchanged smiles as Donna gazed into Sam's eyes. She couldn't believe what had happened in the past couple of days. Everything had happened so fast and if she was honest, she wouldn't have changed any of it because if Sophie hadn't taken it upon herself to invite Sam, Bill and Harry to her 'wedding' then she wouldn't be standing here, wrapped in Sam's arms as a married woman. Donna had never in a million years expected to find three ex-lovers of hers hiding in her old goat house the day before her daughter's 'wedding' but had got used to having them all around again, especially Sam. Sam Carmichael, all hers after twenty one years apart. They had both made mistakes but all that was behind them now, all that mattered was the future, their future.
A small smile crept across Donna's face, 'what are you smiling at?' Sam asked as he gazed downwards at his beautiful bride and they began a slow walk back up the beach.
'Just you,' Donna replied as she took hold of Sam's hand and drew imaginary circles on the palm, 'and how today you have made me the happiest woman alive. How, by turning up for Sophie's 'wedding', you forced me to face up to my feelings for you,'
Sam stopped walking and turned to face her, 'face up to them?'
Donna nodded as she sat down on the sand, gesturing for Sam to sit down beside her, which he did, 'when you went back home to get married…I never ever thought I'd see you again. For twenty one years, I kept my true feelings bottled up inside me. Of course, Rosie and Tanya knew about what had happened between you and me all those years ago but I never told them how I truly felt about you. I didn't think I'd see you again and I thought it'd make the whole thing worse for me,' she explained, 'you turning up for Sophie's 'wedding' completely out of the blue did shock me at first but then, I came to realise that the feelings I'd had for you all those years ago had simply been suppressed by my belief that I'd never see you again. I loved you then and I still do now Sam, always will.'
Sam moved from his sitting position beside Donna and went to sit behind her. He slid his arms around Donna's waist and she was overcome by that familiar sensation of butterflies in her stomach that came over her everytime Sam touched her, 'I'm sorry Donna,' he whispered, 'I knew that I should've told you that I was engaged when we first met but I didn't want it to spoil things. I fell in love with you and if it hadn't been for the small matter of me being engaged to somebody else, I would've given up everything to come and live with you, that was how much I loved you.'
Donna leant backwards and gave him a sidelong glance, 'you would've given up everything for me?' Sam nodded, 'you know, letting you go was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do but I guess, if that hadn't happened, I might not have had Sophie and you wouldn't have had your two sons. We've both made mistakes but that's in the past, it doesn't matter now. That doesn't matter now; we've finally found each other again, after twenty one years,'
'I meant what I said at the chapel,' he said, stopping to move the material of Donna's dress aside to drop a trail of feather-light kisses across her shoulder and up her neck, she gasped lightly at his touch, 'I have never stopped loving you in the twenty one years we've been apart. Even when I was married to Lorraine, I couldn't help but wish it was you I was married to. I'm just glad I've got my wish now, I promise that I'm not going anywhere, I don't intend on leaving this island again without you in tow.'
'I wish I had known that you'd come back for me but if I'd have known, as I said earlier, I might not have had my baby girl and then none of this would have happened. No man has ever made me feel as alive as you do but we have a lot of making up to do, twenty one years worth to be precise,'
'Well, what better time to start then?' Sam asked as he leant slightly downwards and kissed Donna softly on the lips.
He was about to deepen the kiss when Donna pushed him away slightly, 'just a sec Sam,' she said as she turned to face him, 'I hope you realise that I've got the two gobbiest women in the world, who also happen to be my best friends, sleeping in the room next door.'
Sam shrugged, 'so?'
'They'll hear everything!'
'Since when did you care so much?'
Sam grinned at her and Donna's heart melted instantly, his smile sent shivers of delight through her body, 'lets see if they're still at the reception first,' she finally said.
'Good idea,' Sam said as he stood up to brush the sand off his trousers.
He held out his hand to Donna and pulled her up before draping an arm across her shoulders. She wrapped an arm around his waist and whispered, 'I love you Mr Carmichael.'
Sam smiled and leant down to kiss the end of her nose, 'I love you too, Mrs Carmichael,'
Donna sighed happily, 'you've no idea how happy it makes me to hear you say that,'
'I think I do sweetheart. You've no idea how long I've waited to be able to say that,'
'Twenty one years perhaps?'
'You got it baby,'
Donna giggled lightly as she and Sam walked off the beach and back towards the reception, in search of Rosie and Tanya.
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