okay guys,, i am sooooo sorry. my computer got all messed up and i couldn't fix it because we had a blackout. anyway, this is the final chapter 10. please forget anything else i have written as chapter 10. again, i am so sorry, and thanks for being patient with me ~xoxo bella~

Gerard

I watched as Lynz closed the door to Ember's room. I followed her down the hall to Bandit's room, and stood by the door as she checked on the sleeping girl. Our girl. I smiled, and Lynz walked over to me.

"She's beautiful, y'know that?" I said quietly, slipping my arm around her waist. Lynz smiled.

"Yeah. She takes after both of us. I mean, honestly – it's not like she looks more like one of us than the other." Lynz stopped.

"What's wrong?" I asked, turning to face her and putting my hands on her waist, pulling her close.

"Nothing, it's just...what did Ember's mom look like? I mean, does Ember look more like you, or...?" She looked up at me. I thought for a moment, and Lynz blushed. "I'm sorry. If you don't want to talk about her, it's alright."

"No. I'm not afraid to talk about her. It's just...weird, what with everything that's happened over the last few days." I smiled sadly.

"I know, baby. It's been a crazy few days, and let's just remember that Ember was the one who travelled across the friggin' country to live with people she never met before." Lynz smiled. So did I.

"Well, Ember's got her mom's- I mean, Mandy's- heart shape face. She's a lot more slender – but not like she's too thin – which is like Mandy, too. She has the thick hair, but Mandy's was blonde. So Ember's got my hair and eyes." I smiled. I loved the name Ember. Mandy must not have given up all her spunk when she left and had our daughter. I just wished that she had let me meet Ember before.

"Hey, Gee? How did Mandy's lawyer find us anyway? Y'know, to send Ember here?" Lynz asked. Good question.

"I-I don't know. I know that you need to leave a guardian in a will if you have a child – like how Frank and Jamia are for Bandit – but I would have thought that since Mandy obviously didn't want me to know Ember that she would have picked her family or something." I frowned. I would have to call that lawyer and ask him about it some time. Lynz snapped me out of my thoughts.

"So, what do we do now?" She asked mischievously. I shrugged.

She smiled. "Well, the kids are in bed. We can do whatever we want..." She trailed off. I smiled.

"Ohh..."I said.

Twenty minutes later we were caught up in an intense match of Call of Duty. Lynz was standing on her chair, and yelling obscenities whenever she got hit.

"Shit! What the fuck, Gerard?" She yelled. I smiled evilly.

"What's wrong, honey bunch? Don't like losing?"

"No I fucking don't! Be nice to me – I'm your wife!" She shrieked again as I shot her from behind.

"NEVER!" I yelled, and, throwing my controller aside, I attacked. Lynz was standing on the couch, and I was sitting on the floor, so all I had to do was turn around and grab her calves.

"FUCK!" She shrieked as she fell on top of my legs. I laughed, and then she turned on me.

"I'll kill you, you asshole!" She started tickling me. Fuck. I'm so ticklish.

"Stop! STOP! Stop! Heehee!" I squealed. Lynz laughed.

"I win, Gerard."

"No – hahaha- no, I'm not giving up." I made a desperate attempt to flip her over so I could pin her down, but I don't have a lot of upper arm strength. Lynz laughed at my attempt and batted my arms away.

"Say I win, and I'll stop tickling you." She smirked. I couldn't stop laughing to say it, so I waved my arms around pathetically until she got the message. She leaned back against the couch.

And I grabbed her. I was just about to tickle her when I heard someone clear their throat. I looked up. It was Ember.

"Umm. Okay then. I'll just... go back to bed." She looked at us strangely, and then awkwardly turned and walked away. I looked at Lynz, and noticed how weird we really did look. She was sitting on my legs, and I was holding onto one of her arms, the other hand resting on her stomach – where I had been ticking her moments earlier. Lynz made eye contact with me. We burst out laughing, and were sobbing and holding each other from laughing so hard.

"Poor Ember." I gasped out. "She probably thinks we're crazy."

"We are crazy." Lynz said, and our eyes made contact again. I realized how much I really loved her – with everything in me – and smiled.

"What? Is there something on my face?" She asked self-consciously.

"No. I was just thinking."

"About what?" She asked suspiciously.

"You." I answered, and leaned towards her. We kissed, and, a while later, I was rocking her back and forth in my arms, singing softly to the sleeping woman in my arms.

"You can run away with me, anytime you want." I kissed her forehead, and fell asleep beside her on the couch.