Authors Note: I had posted this but going over my story while I wrote, I realized it got deleted! How rude. Enjoy. Another updating coming soon.

Shelby agreed to come back down to the office, gripping her steering wheel until her knuckles turned a ghostly white. Ethan had told her they needed to talk, and she wasn't sure if that was a good thing, or if this was a bad thing. Shelbys mind was in different places, second guesting herself as she drove. Rachel was so much like her, it was unreal, but there were differences, which slightly angered her.

She wanted Rachel to be hers, biologically, but if she wasn't, she was still going to invest in the time to foster her, that little girl had to live with her either way. Shelby wanted to keep the little six year old girl in her care, she felt a connection to the little girl that was like something she had never felt before.

Shelby pulled up to the tall building and got out of her car, taking her purse from the passenger side seat and tried to shake off the bundle of nerves rising inside of her. She walked up to the building and opened the door, making her way up towards the top floor. She had complied, taking the elevator, since there was many floors below Mr Harris's that she needed to get through before reaching his, where little Rachel was.

The elevator took her to the floor, opening into his front office where his assistants and other workers had cubicles and offices while his was at the back. She walked towards the big dark doors and took a deep breath, knocking her fist against the wood.

A voice welcomed her inside and she walked inside, smiling as Rachel dropped her toy and came running towards her. Rachel was excited to see Shelby, Ethan told her he had big news for them both when she showed up. Rachel asked if it was about her mommy and Ethan smiled, hoping the girl could catch onto what he was smiling about.

"Shelby!" Rachel yelled, grabbing onto the woman's leg with a big smile. Shelby reached down and wrapped her arms around her little waist, hoisting her up onto her hip. Shelby wore the same smile as Rachel, pure happiness as they saw each other.

"Hi, baby girl." Shelby said, still surprising herself that the words slipped from her mouth, but didn't question it, not even for a second. Rachel was in awe, she was always in awe of this woman, she was so beautiful, she had the most beautiful hair in the world and her eyes looked like hers, she didn't understand it, but this woman was so much like herself.

Ethan cleared his throat, looking over at the girls, he hated to ruin the cute moment, but they needed to get down to business. Shelby put Rachel down and took her hand, leading her over to the couches. Shelby took a seat, and allowed the child to sit down on her lap, wrapping her arms around Rachel.

"We brought back the DNA test, and we found that the DNA samples taken are a match to each other." Shes heart stopped and she pulled Rachel back onto her chest with a deep inhale of breath.

"What's DNA?" Rachel asked, looking back and forth between the two adults with a scrunch of her eyebrows.

"DNA is something that, well its hard to explain, sweetie, but anyways," Ethan said, not sure how to explain what DNA was to the six year old, "there is something we need to talk about, you, Shelby and I. We found your mommy." He said. Rachel's eyes widened in excitement, they found her mommy! Her mommy! Wow.

"Who's she?" The six year old questioned, wiggling on Shelby's lap as Ethan shuffled through some papers on his lap. He looked up at the six year old with a smile, and then let his eyes meet Shelby's, standing up and nodding his head towards them.

Shelby took a deep breath while Rachel sat confused, why did Ethan just smile? She want to know who her mommy was. She wanted to go see her right now.

"Ethan! Wait! Who is my mommy?" The little girl asked, standing up and marching over to him. Rachel put her hands on her hips with a pout on her cheeks and Ethan couldn't help but break out into a grin.

"Shelby over there can tell you." He gave them come privacy, closing the door as he exited his office. Shelby was watching them interact, nervous and confused as to how the hell she was going to tell Rachel that she was her mommy, she didn't know how to break it to the little girl.

"You can?" Rachel said, coming back over to Shelby and taking a seat back on her lap. Shelby loved that she was so open to love and affection even though she barely knew the woman.

"Do you know her, Shelby?" She questioned when the woman in front of her was silent. Shelby shook off her thoughts and looked down at the tiny child sitting on her lap. She wrapped her arms around her waist and gave her a little squeeze before nodding her head.

"I do." Shelby gulped, here goes nothing. Rachel's eyes widened, shes was going to find out who her mommy was.

"Who? What's her name? Is she nice?" The six year old rushed out, moving on Shelby's leg like a mad man. Shelby pulled her closer when she almost fell off her knees, the dreams of holding her daughter like this in the front of her mind as she took a calming breath.

"She looks just like you, and you already know her." Shelby tried, thinking maybe the six year old could put two and two together, but all she got was the tilt of her head and a frown.

"Who is she, Shelby?" Rachel pouted, thinking this woman was messing with her.

"Shes, shes.. Her names Shelby, and she's me." Shelby told her, tears forming in her eyes as she looked down at her daughter, the beautiful little baby she had given birth to six years ago today. She had Shelby's eyes, and clearly Shelby's personality. Rachel was beautiful, so beautiful that Shelby almost couldn't believe that she was sitting in front of her.

While Shelby reflected, Rachel sat on her lap, frozen at the words Shelby had just said. Shelby was her mommy? She did look like her, but Rachel didn't understand. Shelby looked down at Rachel, noticing the tears forming in the little girls matching brown eyes.

"Y-You're my mommy?" Rachel let her tears go, surprising both herself and Shelby when the child through herself at Shelby. Shelby nodding, pulling the now sobbing child up to her chest, turning her so she could rock her gently in her arms. Rachel fit in her arms almost as if a three year old was sitting on her, she was so tiny.

"M-Mommy!" Rachel cried out into Shelby's shirt, grasping onto the woman she attached herself to as if her life depended on it while Shelby just held her, her heart melting when she heard her little girl cry out for her.

"Shh, baby, I'm right here, I'm right here." Shelby rocked Rachel, whispering calming things into the little girl's ear until her sobs turned to sniffles and her grip on Shelby was released. She just cuddled into the woman as they sat together, Rachels red eyes staring into Shelby's teary eyes. It had taken everything in her not to cry along with her baby, she was beyond happy, but yet the saddest she'd ever been. She'd missed so much in her daughter's life, it almost felt like she was meeting her at 18, when she was supposed to have met the girl, but fate worked its magic and brought both girls what they truly wanted in life.

Shelby her daughter, and Rachel her mommy.