He said he would be back. Amy didn't doubt this. She sat on the front porch cradling Amber as Ty drove up. She smiled, her façade. He didn't know, and hopefully he wouldn't. Amy had been to many call outs since the kidnapping. Each day had become mundane and even Ty noticed that she had changed slightly. She didn't talk as much, she didn't even seem to want any physical contact with other people, even him.

He looked at the mother of his child and his future bride. He smiled. This was his family. He made eye contact with Amy and she smiled gently at him. He wanted to ask her what wrong; he felt like she was keeping something from him.

"How was your day?" He asked as he grabbed the alert infant from her arms.

"Nothing unusual", She replied casually.

"You want to go for a ride?"

"Not really, I think I'll just go to sleep, this little one kept me up all night, again", She complained in a cheery kind of way. T

"Okay, well, I'll put her to bed in about half an hour", Ty told the sleepy Amy as she walked to her bed in a zombie-like fashion.

Ty walked in a few moments later to see Jack and Lisa sitting down to a cup of coffee together. Mallory was out the front arguing with Georgie, a new foster kid that Jack had agreed to look after. Mallory had gone to see her parents over the holidays and that's when Jack agreed to look after Georgie. The two haven't really seen eye to eye.

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"It's not fair to Amy", Lou commented as she watched the two babies in the nursery. Katie was over two years old and Amber was just over two months.

"Well, they said at least another six weeks", Peter said.

They had been planning to move into their house for over six months now. The renovators hadn't exactly been on task. Lou felt bad for not letting Amy use the nursery for her daughter and for making Amy put up with two screaming babies while she looked after a newborn.

"That's way too long Peter", Lou said, pressing a hand to her forehead.

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"Hey Caleb, when you go to the shops do you think you could pick up some ice-cream while you're there?" Ashley asked as she wrapped a hand around her stomach, she was nearly in her second trimester by now and was hoping that her morning sickness would come to an end, rather soon.

"Yeah, anything else you want?" He asked as he walked out of the house.

"No, that's everything", Ashley said.

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The horses whinnied in the night. It was storming, again. Sundance reared in his stall and Spartan attacked his stall-door. Georgie tried to calm them down but nothing was working.

"You're doing it wrong", Mallory said in an annoyed tone.

"Well, how am I supposed to do it?" Georgie retorted.

"The horses aren't usually this easily agitated", Mallory assumed this must have been a rather large storm, "Maybe we should get Amy."

"Who's that person?" Georgie said, pointing to a figure out in the darkness, walking towards the barn.

"I'm not sure, I'll go check", Mallory walked towards the stranger but didn't quite recognise his face, "Excuse me, is there a reason you're here?"

"Yeah, can you tell Amy, I'm back?"

"Um, okay, is that everything then?" Mallory was a bit wary of this man, he seemed very strange.

"Yeah, that's everything."

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A/N:

Sorry to keep you waiting so long, I know it's really short but hopefully you'll get a really nice chapter in December, I've been doing NaNoWriMo this month that is why I haven't had the chance to update, for all those readers of For Keeps, I will be updating that one soon too.