Chapter 11:

2 hours later...

Ty was stood at the fence of the arena watching Katie on Pogie. She was having her weekly lesson with Amy and they both seemed to be enjoying it. Katie had only been riding a few weeks and could already walk without the need of someone to lead her around the arena, she took to it like a duck to water. She obviously had the Fleming riding genes! As he was watching Amy shout out instructions, he could almost see her and their kids. She was going to be an amazing mother.

"Uncle Ty! Watch this!" Katie yelled across the arena, she kicked Pogie into a trot and trotted around the arena.

Ty started clapping and shouted "Woo! Go Katie!" He quickly jumped over the fence to join Amy in the centre.

"Hey Katie, one more lap then we will call it a day," Amy shouted across the arena.

Katie did as she said and went round the arena in a trot, Ty grabbed Amy's waist and spun her around and gave her a kiss.

"Shouldn't you be studying?" Amy asked with a quizzical look on her face.

"Yeah I should, but I have literally had enough learning about the anatomy of barn animals for one day. I did go at it for two straight hours though, so be proud of me for that!" Ty laughed, "Y'know you're doing a real good job with Katie, she is loving this!"

"Yeah I know, she definitely has the Fleming horse riding genes!" Amy replied, "I can't wait to be doing this with our kids someday."

"Me neither," Ty replied, grinning like a Cheshire Cat.

"Right Katie, let's take Pogie back to the barn and sort him out." Amy said, clipping a lead rope to Pogie and leading them out the arena.

All three of them worked together untacking Pogie and cooling him off. Georgie also joined them and told them all about her day, and how cute Stephens's dog is. She also commented about how popular she was because of that photo that was put on Facebook of Ty.

They heard Lou shout that dinner was ready so they all made their way to the house and sat round the dinner table in their usual seats.

Surprise, surprise, Tim had dropped by uninvited, but (Lou as usual) anticipated this so had already set him a place.

"So Ty, what are you doing after dinner?" Lou asked.

"Well, I better go back to the trailer, seeing as I don't have any clothes or anything here to wear." Ty replied while taking a sip of beer.

"No, Uncle Ty! You HAVE to stay!" Katie shouted, "Please, I like you being here! You're fun!"

"Aww Katie, I have to, I need to get clothes and PJ's to wear!" Ty laughed,

"Well go home and get stuff to wear, then come back here!" Katie demanded.

"Yeah I'm sure he prefers it here, in this mad house, compared to a nice peaceful trailer, where there is no bed hogging or wake up calls for Uncle Ty!" Lou joked. Amy just shook her head and laughed along with everyone else.

"Actually, believe it or not, I love it here in this mad house! It gets proper lonely in that trailer, especially at night!" Ty said truthfully. Even though he loved having his own place, it was usually cold (because of the heater that was older than he was) and was really lonely.

After dinner, Ty left to go and pick up a few days' worth of things from the trailer. Katie had basically guilt tripped him into doing it because she gave him the 'puppy dog' eyes and he caved straight away.

Lou and Amy were in the living room drinking Tea and talking.

"Y'know, Ty should just move in. The girls love having him here and I guess he's OK to have around too. It's good for grandpa to have another man around the house. I also bet that you don't mind waking up with him every morning," Lou smirked.

"Oh wow Lou, can you be anymore crude?!" Amy laughed, "But yeah I do love having him around. I hate having to say goodbye every night. I doubt grandpa would allow it though."

"I think he might be ok with it, besides seeing as Caleb is off at the rodeo half the time, it is an extra pair of hands around here when he's not at school or the clinic. I will talk to him when you and Ty go and do night check," Lou said.

"Oh thank you Lou! When Ty gets here can you send him down to the barn? God we haven't actually done night check together, alone, for ages!" Amy said, with emphasis on the 'alone'.

Jack was sat on the porch, he saw Amy run down to the barn.

"Hey grandpa, Amy is going to do night check with Ty when he gets here." Lou said sitting down next to the old man.

"Aww remember when they first got together, night check went from being a quick 20/30 minute job to sometimes over 4 hours!" Jack exclaimed.

"Yes, God. That seems so long ago now," Lou said recalling the memories in her mind," you know, grandpa, I think they miss living in the same place. With Ty being at work and school, they hardly get to see each other anymore."

Jack looked at Lou, he knew where this was going.

"These past 2 nights have been great for them grandpa. Would you allow Ty to move back in? And not in the loft, with Amy?" Lou asked.

"Actually, I was talking to Tim about that tonight and he actually said the same thing. I do think that everyone would benefit having Ty around, especially Katie, she loves him so much!" Jack proclaimed, "I was going to talk to them about it tomorrow."

Ty pulled up next to Jacks truck and got out with a big duffle bag with his clothes and stuff, "hey guys, where is Amy?" He asked walking up to the porch with his bag.

"She is in the barns oink night check, and she told me to send you up when you got here." Lou said, "Leave that bag and I'll put it in Amy's room when I go to bed."

"Ah cheers Lou. I'll see you both tomorrow. Night guys," Ty said dropping his bag and rushing down to the barn.

"Night." Lou and Jack said together.

"He really does love her, it's so adorable!" Lou commented getting up and walking over to the bag.

"Yeah he does," Jack replied looking at Ty running down to the barn. He quickly followed Lou inside and they both went to bed.