Hey! Here is one of the alternate endings/beginnings. This was the FIRST thing I wrote when starting Tranquility. So, this was the beginning that first came to my head. I wanted her to live too.

ANYWAY I went through and edited it so it made sense since it fit well with the whole story. (the flashback was all I added)

Riley heard the sounds of laughter coming from the room down the hall. She groaned not wanting to get out of bed yet, but knew if she didn't her house would be trashed. Or her bathroom would be flooded. Maybe even the carpet ripped up. She pulled herself out of bed, feeling every ache and pain. Her back and gotten worse but she refused to go on medication again. Her scar tissue all over her body would start aching every now and then too. She ran her hand over her abdomen, hating that she couldn't feel anything there.

She opened the door and saw toilet paper all over the place. It was stuck to the walls and ground into the carpet. She rolled her eyes and pulled out her phone.

I'm not cleaning up this mess, Happy. Get your ass home.

She shut her phone and continued to walk down the hallway. She spotted the three culprits and tried her hardest not to laugh. They all looked at her with guilty grins.

She walked over and sat on the couch and opened her arms. Her five year old twins climbed into her lap and the 6 month old puppy sat between her legs.

Sarah looked just like her mother. She had long blonde hair and piercing blue eyes. Her pale skin was just a shade darker than her moms, but it was a far cry from her fathers. Alexanders hair was just as dark as his eyes were. His skin was tanned no matter what the season was, and his hair fell into curls. No one could mistake the fact that Happy was his father.

"Why is there toilet paper everywhere?"

"Uh, Terror did it." Alex replied.

"So, Terror let himself out of his crate, pulled the toilet paper everywhere and wrapped it all over both of you?"

"Yep." Both children replied in unison.

"Well, since Terror is your dog, sweet children, you will be cleaning it up."

She felt her phone go off and saw that it was Happy.

Be there in 5

"And your father will be home in five minutes."

Both children shot off her lap and frantically started cleaning. Happy was a good father, but he was strict. He had a hard time adjusting to a house that was literally never clean. She heard the bike pull into the driveway and the door open soon after. Happy walked in scowling.

"Sorry babe, didn't mean to be gone that long."

"It's okay. Your children are cleaning up right now."

"Oh they're my kids today?"

"Yep."

Happy walked over and pulled Riley into a standing position. He kissed her lips passionately and pulled her flush to him. She smiled against his lips when she heard their children yell out how gross it was that they were kissing.

"Want me to call Venus so we can have a date night?"

"Call Venus so we can fuck all night."

Riley rolled her eyes and walked over to where her phone was. Once the two of them had gotten their spark, it never left. For being forced to marry, they were a great couple. Through all of the shit they went through in the past seven years, they always stayed close. Riley looked over at the two cuts hanging on the door. She had always wanted to resew the president patch on Happy's cut, but he told her to leave it be. She had resewn the VP patch on her own but only because it had been hastily sewn on and she hated how it looked.

She frowned as she remembered everything that happened that caused those patches to be where they were that day. She wouldn't change where she was now, but it hurt her heart knowing everything they lost on the way there.

Riley opened her eyes in the hospital to see tubes and wires everywhere. Her chest ached. She figured that's what had woken her up from her dream with Chibs. He had said she made a choice, but she didn't remember doing so.

"Riley!"

She slowly turned her head to see Happy rushing over to her. His eyes were bloodshot and his face looked tired. He touched her face lightly and she saw tears in his eyes.

"You look rough, Hap."

Happy laughed and rest his head on her shoulder.

"Says the woman hooked up to more machinery than I thought possible."

"Is he head?"

"Yeah, babe. He's dead."

"Good."

"Cops claim self-defense, but they're gonna wanna talk to you."

"Alright. Tiggy okay?"

"Riley-"

"Where is he?"

"He walked out just fine, but he collapsed after they took you. He had a pretty nasty brain bleed. They tried getting the pressure off his brain but-"

"Did someone call Venus?"

"Yeah. She was with him until the end."

"How long have I been here?"

"It's been three days. They didn't know if you were going to make it."

"I dreamt of Chibs. He told me I had to choose."

"Choose what?"

"Between living or dying. Said I would need to fight."

"You fought babe. They have no idea how you pulled through that. I kept telling them that you're tough as hell, but-"

"You were scared."

"There haven't been many times in my life that I've been scared, but yeah."

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be sorry. Just get better."

She looked at his cut and saw the presidents patch hastily sewn on. She touched it and wanted to smile. She wanted to congradulate him and be happy, but that patch on his chest meant that Tig was dead. It meant that her father took two of the most important people in her life away. She shut her eyes, not wanting to cry.

"I need you to get better so you can sit at my left."

"Me?"

"Yeah. Quinn is to my right, I want you at the left. Everyone already voted on it. It's on your cut."

"I love you, Happy Lowman."

"And I love you, Riley Lowman."

"You alright, babe?"

"Yeah, just thinking about the past."

Happy put his hand on the side of her face and gave her a soft smile.

"I miss them too."