A/N sorry everyone but can you please read the note at the bottom, after the chapter, it's really important! Thank you! :)
"EMMA!" Rhydian screamed as he placed James in the cot that was in Maddy's room, his girlfriends mother then came rushing through the door and looked at Maddy. She hung her head sadly as she turned round to Rhydian,
" She's gone." Emma said with so much sadness.
" NO, NO, NO!" Rhydian screamed covering his ears, at hearing the screaming Daniel ran into the room, and at seeing his daughter, a tear escaped his eye but Emma caught his attention as she nodded towards James in the cot, Daniel then realised she wanted her grandson out of the room and he followed his wife's order.
After, it was just Rhydian and Emma in the room with Maddy, the young father was pacing around the room screaming,
" No, no , no."
"Listen Rhydian, I know it hurts, I know it hurts so bad that you don't think its worth existing but listen to me, you have a beautiful baby boy, a baby who needs his father. What would Maddy think? She didn't die for you to disown your own son, she died so you and James could have a wonderful future together." Emma choked out, Rhydian stopped pacing around the room and then just collapsed onto the floor and allowed sobs to take over his body.
Emma then sat with him, placing his head her lap and stroking his hair like she had done with Maddy before, Emma has promised to her daughter that she would look after Rhydian, and she would not fail in her promise. For the next hour, Rhydian just laid on the floor shaking, not moving, holding his chest where his heart was. The heart that was now shattered to pieces.
James' cries then filled the house and Rhydian slowly got up, Emma was surprised, he was emotionless but alive. He went over to Maddy and kissed her cold lips before leaving the room and going to his son. At seeing James squirming around in Dan's arms, Rhydian said,
" Pass him here Dan, go and sit with Maddy I don't want her to be alone." Dan nodded and left the baby with Rhydian.
The young father sat down in the rocking chair with James on his chest, it was strange to think that only a few months ago he had found Maddy writing her letters in this chair. Letters he would now have to give to James as he grew up.
" James Ryan Morris, I love you so much and I promise to make your Mum proud, I also promise to be the best Dad you could ever have." He then proceeded to kiss his small son on his head. In that moment, he felt a surge of love come back into him, the love he had lost when Maddy died. He smiled slightly, and when his son hiccuped, his mouth grew wider.
Rhydian then began to look through the piles of letters Maddy had left, surfing through the titles until one caught his attention for Rhydian, once I've slipped away. He slowly undid the envelope, careful to conserve the letter inside, this was Maddy's last message to him and he didn't want to lose a single letter. As he unfolded the letter, he was also careful not wake James who had clung onto his Dad's tshirt, sleeping,Rhydian then began to read...
Dear my one and only love,
If your reading this, I guess it happened. But you know what? I wouldn't have changed one second of our lives together, not one second.
However that is not the most important thing in all of this, James is. You see I've known our baby has been a boy from day one (my motherly instincts kicked in) yet I chose to be adamant it was a girl to wind you up, because I love how you scrunch up your nose when you get annoyed. Although, if I have been dramatically wrong and little Marley is with you, I'm going to look like a right idiot in all these letters, let's not hope thats happened eh?
Anyway, I guess as your reading, it's happened very recently to you, and I'm sorry, I'm sorry I've left you to raise our son alone, I'm sorry I won't be there to hug you on your bad days and wipe away the tears. I'm sorry I'll never be your wife or kiss you just one more time. And most of all I'm sorry that I've left you alone in the big scary world, but always remember that I will always be in your heart. Always.
But please, I don't want you to stop living. I want you and James to live life to the full and I want you two have amazing transformations on the moors and If James is anything like you, he'll find a way to sneak out of the den when he's transforming, let him, it never did us any harm right?
Most of all Rhydian, know that I will always love you. Always.
Goodbye my love,
Maddy x
After Rhydian had finished reading the letter, he carefully put the letter back down.
"I love you too Mads." Rhydian said before falling asleep in the rocking chair with young James sleeping away too, the day had taken its toll and red tear marks were stained all over the young fathers face. His future had changed now Maddy wasn't in it, but he was going to make sure Maddy would be always be alive in his memories.
A/N do you all officially hate me now? Aha! I am actually a massive maddian shipper! Now it's time for the important stuff, I am offering you, the reader, options about the continuation of this story...
1) write one shots of Rhydian/James growing up
2) have James opening the letters from Maddy
3) a mix of the two above
4) leave this story as it is finished On this chapter.
Please just tell me a review, I would love to know what you think!
Darkfire: thank you for the review, I haven't seen any of your reviews, which is strange but thank you!
Jelli Kelli: I'm sorry I killed Maddy off but it had to be done! Thank you for the review!
nikitabella: I know I've separated them but just remember it's onto 8 months till we actually get to see Maddian reunited!
Guest: Thank you!
nightingale: Thank you!
cathywolfmaddian: I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
Guest: I'm sorry but I had already planned to kill Maddy off!
wolf200: I completely understand why you want to kill Maddy off, from the start I always wanted to write about Rhydian coping without Maddy, because normally it's the other way round!
