This is the 6th and final story for the Fairy Tale Collection. I suggest reading the rest of the collection first and then reading this. This story is going to focus mostly on the children but the parents will have parts too.

Disclaimer – Disney owns Lizzie McGuire. Everything else is mine.

A/N – "Thoughts", This chapter is set sixteen years after First Child, The "new" trio are juniors in high school.

Chapter 1 – The Final Fairytale

Miranda walked out onto the hotel room's balcony and with a small smile, studied Gordo for a moment as he stood looking out at the view with his back to her. "He's driving himself into the ground. Well, at least this is the last week and he'll be home soon." Walking up to him, she wrapped her arms around his waist and gently nuzzled his neck, "You look exhausted," she told him.

Not much had changed after over twenty years of marriage. Three children did make you a little wiser and being older, mellowed you a little, but between Miranda and Gordo, the heat was still there. The flirty banter and sarcastic teasing was an every day constant in the Gordon household.

While Miranda was still concerned about her looks, to Gordo, she was even more attractive now then when she was twenty-five. The same could be said for Miranda; she was more in love with him now, than when they were first married. Even during the good times with Ryan in Paris, she felt nothing like what she felt when she was with Gordo.

Gordo closed his eyes as he rested his arms over hers. "This is why I like working with animated characters. No bullshit and they do what I tell them."

"Tudge will love to hear that," Miranda teased, getting the desired laugh out of Gordo. "Jason any help?"

"Yea. He's the only one who I can trust to actually get any work done and do what I ask," he said as he gently leaned back into his wife's embrace.

Jason Gordon was now sixteen and as he got older, the more Miranda thought they were more like brothers than father and son. They looked incredibly similar, Jason was roughly 5'8", had his father's untamable black curly hair and piercing blue eyes. They also had many of the same habits and mannerisms; both were highly intelligent but often forget they were still human. Whereas Gordo wanted to be filmmaker, Jason wanted to be a writer.

While he was under sized for an athlete, Jason was one of the biggest soccer stars in the region and was set to be captain of the boy's varsity team, which was expected to compete for the start championship this year.

With Gordo shooting a movie over the summer in New York City, he decided to bring Jason with him. He was to be his personal assistant, fetch him whatever he needed during the course of the day, and it also gave him some one who thought similar to him and that he could bounce ideas off.

While they butted heads often, aside from being father and son, Jason had Miranda's short fuse temper and Gordo's perfectionism for a volatile mix; but they did make a very good team.

"Where is my assistant anyway?"

Miranda snickered softly, "Where do you think? I can't pry him away from that laptop, they've been IMing each other since you got home. Its kinda sweet."

The person Miranda was talking about was sixteen year old, Amanda Craft. She was one of Jason's two best friends and not so secret crush. Ever since Amanda and Rachel Braden, Lizzie's daughter, met Jason, the new trio had been inseparable despite varying interests and other outside factors.

Gordo looked over his shoulder at Miranda and than turned around in her arms, "So how was your shopping trip? Maria leave me any money on my credit cards?"

For Gordo's last week in New York, Miranda and their two daughters flew out to visit them and spend a small family, working, vacation in the city.

Maria Gordon was fourteen and was around 5'5", shoulder length curly black hair, and had her mother's expressive black eyes. Where as Jason took more after his father, Maria took more after her mother. She had Miranda's offbeat sense of style, dare devil attitude, and her mother's speak first, think later mindset.

She also had her stubbornness; she saw something she wanted, she didn't let anything get in her way of getting it. At the moment, that meant Larry and Amy's youngest child, Eric Tudgeman.

Like her father and brother, she was highly intelligent too, which when mixed with everything else, often got her into trouble. Where as Jason more followed their father into media and also athletics, she again took after her mother and was more in to arts, singing and drawing, and being creative.

Of the three children, and the whole family for that matter, Maria and Jason had the most violate relationship. They loved each other but they knew exactly how to push each other's buttons. It wasn't uncommon for them to be yelling at each other one moment and for either of them to be going to other for advice the next. That was their relationship's unpredictable nature.

Being so close in age, Maria and Jason also bickered with each other a lot like Gordo and Miranda did at their age, of course minus the flirty undercurrent. The two of them could have arguments for days but Jason was fiercely protective of his sister and had a hard time seeing that she was growing up, which lead to a lot of the arguments.

The second daughter was Natalie Gordon. She was defiantly a mix of the two parents and being the youngest, six years old, was Daddy's Princess. She in turn idolized her father, constantly following him around and asking questions. Also, much to Lizzie and Miranda's amusement, Natalie had her father wrapped around her little finger and was often spoiled. Much like Miranda herself, Natalie could talk Gordo into doing a lot of things.

"Oh, I believe you have some money left. Maybe twenty five cents or maybe even a penny," Miranda teased. Gordo rolled his eyes and wrapping his own arms around her waist, pulled her closer, and kissed her.

Meanwhile, inside, Maria was flipping through tv stations as she spied on her older brother. She smirked to herself as she could see Jason trying to hide a smile. "Hey lover boy."

Jason glanced over at her, "What?" he snapped.

"Tell your fiancé I said hi," Maria teased him with a wide grin.

"Shut up skunk head," Jason shot back. A few years ago, when Maria was first experimenting with hair dyes, she somehow gave her black hair white streaks. Since then, Jason called her skunk head whenever she crossed him.

His computer beeped, drawing his attention back to it.

AKC212 : Hey you still there?

LW9 : Yea…Maria is being a pain.

AKC212 : heh, so how's NYC?

LW9 : alright, spend most of my time on set…a little tired and want to hang out a lil before summer practice starts…how's home?

AKC212 : boring…you're in NYC and Bec went on vacation w/ her family…plus, Cait is coming over tonight, so I gotta do the family thing yawn

LW9 : my poor baby…heh

AKC212 : SHUTUP!

LW9 : don't worry. If everything goes according to schedule, I should be back home next Tuesday…when does Bec get back?

AKC212 : late Sunday night I think…I'm gonna call her tomorrow, so I'll find out…

AKC212 : school is in a lil over a month, can't wait…rolls eyes

LW9 : don't remind me, I don't think I've even had a summer break…but its worth it, this time, my dad is paying me for this…not much but still better than workin for free

AKC212 : I hear ya…hang on a min, Mom's yellin at me

AKC212 : groan I gotta get off…the Princess is here…time for the fun to begin…SAVE ME!

LW9 : lol

AKC212 : gtg, ttyl

LW9 : night

AKC212 has signed off

Jason was still grinning to himself as he logged off online, looking up, he saw Maria watching him with a smug grin.

"You've got it bad big bro," Maria teased him.

"Shut up dork," Jason said shutting off the laptop.

Maria's grin slowly faded and a deep thinking look replaced it. "Jay, can I ask you something?" Jason shrugged, so she continued, "Its about Eric."

Jason stopped what he was doing and looked at her. "I don't think I'm the right person to,"

Maria cut him off, "Please, Jay, I'm desperate."

Jason slowly walked over to the couch and sat down on the top of the back of the couch. "Fine. Shoot."

"I've been tryin to get Eric to, you know, notice me as more than a friend, but its not working. Do you think I'm being too subtle?" Maria asked.

Taking a deep breath, Jason tried to answer her the best he could. "Mar, when have you ever done anything subtly?" he asked her sarcastically.

Maria smirked at him. "True. Thanks," she said getting up and making her way towards her bedroom that she was sharing with Natalie. "I knew big brothers were good for something." She laughed as she quickly ducked into her room as Jason threw a couch pillow at her.

Later that night, in the master bedroom, after Miranda laid down in their bed, she smiled to herself as she stared up at the ceiling. For as much as she prided herself on being an independent woman, she couldn't fall to sleep without him next to her.

She hated when Gordo had to go off on assignment somewhere, it always felt like something was missing. So when the chance came up for her and the girls to join him, if even for a week, she jumped at it.

"It's either sleep alone in my comfortable bed and get no sleep or sleep with him in a crappy hotel bed and sleep well."

Looking over at the other side of the bed, she snickered. Gordo was sprawled out, dead to the world.

"I love that goofball," she thought as she rolled over and snuggled closer to him. Resting her head on his chest, she closed her eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.