Thank you for every review! I'm sorry for this rather abrupt ending - I'm not satisfied myself but somehow the best I could get out of it right now. I might update it someday.

The day had finally come. Ty was finally returning to Heartland. Amy hasn't slept all night and has barely eaten anything since days – she was too nervous and exited. It felt like he has been gone for years but when he was finally dropped of at Heartland it felt like he has never left.

"I can't believe it really worked out", Amy whispered in his ear while they were still embracing each other.
"Me neither", Ty responded, "Seems like I finally found my luck again."

It wasn't too easy for Ty to settle in again. He has spent weeks away from Heartland and had to deal with the sort of people he never wanted to deal with again. He has spent the last weeks always looking over his shoulder, always watching out for the mood swings of everyone around him, being judged and misunderstood.
At Heartland everyone behaved like nothing has happened, like he never went away. They didn't look at him differently or talked to him like he has changed. But Ty has changed. Ty has changed because he now knew what it meant to fully enjoy and appreciate every single day at Heartland. No matter how bad the weather was how moody Jack was and how much work he had to get done till the end of the day. Heartland didn't only cure horses. It has at least cured on human being as well.

He was relaxing while riding with Amy when he interrupted the silence:"Oh and Amy?"

"Yeah?"
"I found a name for the puppy who is slowly growing into a wolf."
"Really?" Amy asked.

"Jap. Kibou. Isn't that cool?"

"Kibou? What kind of a name is that?" Amy asked in disbelieve.

"A Japanese one. Means hope", Ty answered, stood up slightly in his saddle to place a kiss on Amy's mouth.

"Do that again and I'm convinced", Amy said.

He did it again and so Kibou joined the Heartland-family.

Amy and Marion have put a lot of work into helping the horses from the Sunshine-Farm. They came to a point where all of them where ready to start a new life without having to deal with the physical and psychological pain. Marion needed the space they were taking in for other horses and since school was about to start again they didn't have the time to give every one of them the attention the needed and deserved.

The family was sitting outside in Marion's garden and enjoyed a barbeque together when Marion brought up the theme.

"I think it is time to let them go", she said.

"What do you want to do with them? Randomly sell them?" Amy asked, who was not comfortable with the idea yet. She knew that they wouldn't keep the horses but letting them go was painful anyway.

Marion knew why her daughter was reacting the way she did and therefore more or less ignored her comment.

"I'm not sure what we are going to do with them. I think we should start finding new owners for them – even if it takes us some time", Marion said.
"Do you have the space?" Tim asked.

"Yes, since Lisa has taken three and Luke took all the pigs, cows and what else we found over there we are fine. I'm just worried that they don't get enough attention and develop unproductive behaviour again. Like Sapphire who has finally stopped biting whenever she gets annoyed. So, if you would all keep your eyes and ears open I would be very grateful!"

And so they did. One by one the horses left Heartland – it didn't take a long time until most of them found a new owner since Marion had a good reputation and even Amy was well known by a lot of horse owners. Sapphire was the last to leave and Amy was getting hopeful that she might be able to stay at Heartland. But eventually even she left and the every day life returned. It seemed like even Tim had accepted that Marion's love for him left the day he left and so he tried to work things out with Janice again. She wasn't happy when Tim was running after his ex-wife but from what Marion had heard Janice was more forgiving than she was.

Everyone who has spent one day at Heartland knew that the peace and quiet never lasted long. But for this family these were happy days.