Lou sorted through the papers in her office, she had finally managed to sort out some customers for Amy to work with, they would all arrive in a few weeks' time. Meanwhile she had been working on sorting things out for this law suit, she never thought that a client would sue the business simply because her sister was having her baby. Most of the clients who had been turned down understood. Lou opened up her email and noticed one about Trigger.
She sighed, the colt had grown so much since they last saw him. He was going to be Katie's first horse, she had asked Amy to teach Katie all the ropes when she was older and Amy seemed happy to.
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Ashley looked in the mirror, she had decided to forgive Caleb for 'catching up' with some of his old girlfriends. They were heading down the right road now and she was pleased, they had put a deposit on a piece of land with a small house on it and would be moving in next month, she would be in her second trimester by then. She was excited to be starting fresh with Caleb, just as she was thinking about him he came up behind her and snaked his arm around her waist.
"Hey beautiful", He told her as he kissed her neck before she turned to face him.
"Hey", Ashley replied as she placed her hands on his chest with a grin, "I've been thinking, when we move in, to our new house that we could place the nursery across the hall from us."
"Sounds good to me", Caleb said as he kissed her on the cheek, his arms resting on her back, "You know I love you right."
"Yeah…" Ashley said with a hint of uncertain sarcasm, just to tease her husband.
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"Hey Badger, do you want to go get something to eat tonight? Normally I would stay here but Lou's volunteered to be chef-need I say more?" Mallory said, sitting next to Badger on the fence around the circle arena.
"That sounds good to me", Badger told her, with a slight grin.
Mallory jumped down from the fence to see Ty taking Harley to his stall, he must be bringing the horses in for the day it was nearly 3 in the afternoon.
"Hey Ty, where did Amy go off to?" Mallory questioned.
"She had to go see a client", Ty answered.
"So who's watching Amber?" Mallory asked.
"I just put her down when she fell asleep", Ty replied as he closed Harley's stall.
"Wait, who's the client?" Badger asked Ty.
"Not sure", Ty said back to him, placing the halter and lead rope back in the tack room, "Mallory do you feel like mucking out some stalls?"
"Not really but I'll do them anyway", Mallory replied.
"So Ty, you're meaning to say that you just let Amy go off on her own to meet a random stranger that she's never met before on a secluded property?" Badger queried, which made Ty think.
"I suppose if you put it that way", Ty said, realising that maybe he should have gone with Amy, suddenly a loud noise came from the house and Ty sprinted to go check on his daughter.
When he came into the house he could hear Amber crying, Lou was in the office but Peter had taken Katie when he went into town to run some errands. He went to her crib and picked her up gently and cooed at his child.
"What happened?" Mallory asked as she came through the door, confused just like the others.
"I'm not sure", Ty said as he placed the baby back into her bed, he noticed the window in the nursery was open so he shut and locked it.
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Amy arrived at the property and saw the horse trotting around the arena, she could swear she's seen that horse somewhere before but she couldn't put her finger on it. She parked the car and looked around, she couldn't see anyone around the place. She walked into the barn and nearly choked on all the dust, something didn't feel right, the whole place was worn down yet why was this beautiful stallion doing here? Surely such a well-kept horse couldn't live on a property that was in such poor condition. Amy grabbed out her cell phone and called Ty.
"Hey Amy", Ty said on the other end of the line, "What's up?"
"I don't know, there's nobody here and the whole barn is in a shambles, I can see the horse out the front and he just looks like he doesn't belong, I think that I'll just come home, I'll check in another day, there's something weird about this place anyway", Amy said, surveying the property.
"Okay, so I'll see you in what, half an hour?" Ty queried, feeling a pang of guilt remembering what Badger had said to him earlier.
"Yeah sure", Amy said as she hung up the phone. She decided to quickly inspect the house, she couldn't find anything in there and left trying not to snoop around too much.
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Soraya wiped the tables and turned the radio up, finally a song was playing. It always felt like she was just listening to people talking rubbish on that radio so she was always pleased when they finally played a song. She would be finished work for the day in half an hour and decided she would go to Heartland to see Amy and her little family.
Soraya felt somewhat lonely now that all her friends were moving on and having families and she wasn't even in any relationship, she really needed to get out more and meet some people.
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"Please stop crying", Peter said as he jiggled Katie in his arms, the crying baby just wouldn't stop.
"You're doing it wrong", Jack, who had just met up with Peter at Maggies, told him. Peter gave the crying baby to Jack and within minutes she was hushed, Peter gave Jack a questioning look, "I have a lot of experience."
"So, got more feed to collect?" Peter asked, hoping to strike up a light conversation.
"How'd you know?" Jack said with a hint of humour, "So you and Lou ready for the big move?"
"Yeah, about that…" Peter started, "Renovations aren't going according to plan, we might have to wait another couple of weeks."
"So you mean we have to put up with two babies for another couple of weeks?" Jack said, slightly aggrevated.
"Uh..kinda…yeah", Peter answered in an apologetic tone.
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"So Ty, when are you going to pop the question?" Mallory asked, halfway through their game of scrabble, after the incident earlier they figured it best to stay in the house for a while so the three of them decided to get out the old Scrabble board, "I mean, you already skipped that step really so it shouldn't be too bad now."
"Wait, Ty, you're going to propose?" Badger asked, astonished by this new news.
"At some point, hopefully", Ty answered. He placed some letters on the board and got up to go check on Amber while the others had their turns, He opened the door and thought he would wake her when it creaked, surprisingly it didn't. Ty soon found out why, when he went over to see her, she was gone, there was nothing there, his heart started racing, He ran out to see the others with a panicked look on his face.
"What happened?" Mallory asked, panicking too.
"She, she's gone!" Ty answered, his voice quavering.
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Hope you all liked it!
I have decided that it has taken me waaaaaaaayyy too loooooooooooong to write this fanfic and I have just gotten some awesome ideas for the next one in the series so I am trying to move it along as fast as possible.
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