A/N: well my lovely readers it seems we have come to the end of this beloved story. I've had lots of fun writing this one because I got to leverage more on how Columbia saw things during her time with Frank. I'd like to say a final thank you once again to the Guests who have reviewed I wish you guys had accounts so I could thank you and a big thank you to Cececat who has been a big encouragement to me not only in this story but in others! Now before I get all teary eyed let's open the book to the last chapter and read on…

*Chapter 10: Final*

When Gemma woke up the next day her aunt was no longer in bed but she had been tucked in nice and snugly, as she listened silence rang through the house apart from Keesa's slight snoring at the foot of the bed. She looked at the clock on her aunt's side of the bed and found it was nearly 1 in the afternoon, but that wasn't all she found she also found the diary sitting on the nightstand open to another entry she'd missed.

Gemma sat up and grabbed the diary sitting back against the headboard and pulling her knees to her chest before she started reading.

April 26.

Gemma my beautiful girl, I'm so proud of you and how you've grown up to be a wonderful, amazing, bright and sweet young woman my only regret is that I couldn't have told you the truth sooner. I hope you can forgive me for lying to you for so long but I didn't want to burden you with trying to tell you all you had grown up knowing me as and calling me was wrong. There's so much I want to tell you but I can't do it in a letter.

Love,

Laura

Gemma felt her stomach twist into a knot as her mind first tried to register this letter as some kind of last words letter but as she read it again and again tears started to sting her eyes. She heard the car pull into the driveway and quickly got out of bed and rushed down stairs to stand before the door. Time seemed to slow down as she watched the handle turn than Laura step inside. Gemma gripped the hem of her shirt right in her hands as her tears spilt over and the word in her throat came out as a mere whisper.

"M-mommy."

Collie heard the word and her eyes snapped up in time to see Gemma launch herself at her and hug her tight then begin sobbing. Tears stung her eyes as she wrapped her arms around the teen sinking to her knees and just holding her close.

"My Gemma, my beautiful baby girl."

Gemma closed her eyes and clung tightly to her mother feeling like a small child. After a few minutes Collie gently took Gemma's face in her hands making the girl look at her.

"Gemma I'm sorry, so so sorry I never told you but at the time you were old enough to start learning what to call me I had no idea who I even was and by the time I remembered you had already learned to know me as your aunt."

Gemma gave a small smile shaking her head.

"Don't be sorry, I'm just happy you're here."

Collie smiled kissing her forehead lingering for a long moment before putting her own in place of her lips.

"What happened that night that made you forget?"

Collie sighed shakily getting to her feet and pulling Gemma up with her before walking to the couch and sitting down with Gemma leaning on her shoulder.

"After I left the dinner and wrote that note I planned on giving Frank a piece of what had been on my mind for years but when I seen Magenta, Riff and Rocky all run by my room and Magenta paused signaling for me to follow before taking off again. I wasn't sure but if I had to guess wherever they were going it was because Frank had stirred up trouble so I followed them to the whole in the wall that led into the lab.

I watched as Frank had Magenta turn first Brad, dr. Scott the man in the wheelchair, then Janet into statue like beings and I lost it I was so tired of his antics that I just let loose like a busted pipe.

'First you spurn me for Eddie then you throw him aside for Rocky! You're like a sponge you take take take and drain everyone of their love and emotions well I've had it! I loved you! You hear me?! I loved you and what did it get me?! A big fat nothing! You chew people up and spit them out again! I'm not going to take it anymore so now you have to chose between me and Rocky, named because of the rocks in his head!'

Oh the look on his face was priceless, I'd never seen him look so shocked in any of my time in the castle. He gave a whimper of sorts but nodded to Magenta, who had been giving me a panicked look throughout my whole fit, then just like with the others she flipped a switch and I was turned to stone. I don't remember anything before I suddenly came back to myself and began singing and dancing without my own control. When the trance broke I watched as Frank tried to smooth talk his way out of Riff killing him and for some reason I let out a scream when he got Frank backed into a corner, call it lingering feelings or just a moment of panic that Riff would do such a thing in front of three humans they intended to leave alive.

That scream made Riff turn around before I could blink and shoot me right in the chest with his antimatter laser. I remember falling and my head hitting the stand that held a stage light I had been controlling but after that it was all black. I woke up a day or so later in the bedroom upstairs with Magenta sitting beside the bed holding you, I knew at once who you both were but I didn't remember why I knew you. Magenta seen I was awake and moved to my side.

'Laura there's been an accident, your cousin, Nellie McCall, died in the accident and asked that you look after her daughter Gemma in her place. I cannot because my brother and I are going away so it is up to you to take care of her.'

So for the next several months I believed I was my cousin Laura and when I began at DTV you were already calling me Lulu or sometime aunt Lu as you got older. When Magenta and Riff came back as Nation and Cosmo they gave me a medicean that brought all my memories back to me and then they sat me down and explained what had happened while I was frozen. Magenta had put a protective slip under my costume so the laser wouldn't kill me just knock me out but when I fell I hit my head and triggered a spell of amnesia. Then she explained why she and Riff came back, apparently not long after they returned to Transexual someone had traced Frank's murder back to them and they went on the run all over earth until they ended up back here.

I wanted to tell you that I wasn't aunt Laura that I was mommy but you were only 2 and I didn't want to confuse you by trying to tell me if taught you to call me the wrong thing so I stayed with it. I was going to tell you in time but then you found my diary and I let you figure things out for yourself. I'm so sorry I never told you."

Gemma was silent for a long moment taking in all the new information before she looked up at her mother and shook her head hugging her again.

"I don't care that you lied to me, I forgive you for it because you're here and I don't have to wonder who my mother is anymore because I've known her all along."

Collie smiled holding Gemma close.

"Thank you baby. I love you my Gemma."

Gemma smiled closing her eyes.

"I love you too mom."

A/N2: well everyone I hope you enjoyed the ending (I really do I stayed up until 1:30 in the morning typing it for you all) I hope I didn't make you cry to hard. If the end wasn't that big a surprise to you I'm sorry for being predictable but I thought it was a beautiful idea. Once again thank you all so much for reading and reviewing they were great encouragements for me to keep going! As a thank you if anyone reading has a request for Collie, Laura Ansalong, Riff, Magenta, Cosmo and Nation type stories feel free to drop me a message or comment and I will try my best to type something up! I hope I get to see you all again soon! BBFN (bye bye for now)!