Previously -

She said, "You go home with your good man, honey. Everything will be okay."

I raised my eyebrow at Carlos, and he smiled at me and took my elbow and helped me up and we left the table after giving Daddy and Grandma a kiss and we walked out of 'Plum Dinner Hell' together.

We heard a drunken wail as the door shut behind us. "Guck. Why meee?"

A/N Dinner was fun, huh? I have to call someone out because I think this is the same person that dogs me now and then and still reads my stuff just to leave ignorant comments that can't even be considered a review. I'm fairly certain this person is not from the U.S. and her grammar and English is pretty darn good, so an English speaking country perhaps.

FYI-If you are going to continue to do this, I'm going to keep pointing out your stupidity. Yo, dodo, Stephanie is the youngest Plum daughter and if you are talking about Val, she's not in this story and we don't care if you hate her or not. And, you lose because the dinner scene was the best part of the chapter.

From: Guest

:I skipped the latter part of this chapter because I don't hate Helen. I hate
her youngest daughter.

To all my gal pals out there, lets finish this story! Yeah!

Chapter 14/Epilogue

I was so upset that I couldn't speak on the way home and Carlos was silent too. This was it. I knew what was coming next. Dickie had Helen on his side and so does Morelli now. Not one of my boyfriends had ever been treated so bad and this one I just really happened to love. He was going to dump me because of my crazy family.

When we got to the apartment, I ran in the kitchen and opened the fridge and started fixing him a healthy meal. I knew he was hungry and I didn't know what else to do to let him know how much I cared for him. He had discarded the potato shirt and was sitting on the couch watching the news on the TV. I brought him the plate with a turkey sandwich and pretzels and a bottle of water and handed it to him. He smiled and pulled me down next to him.

"Thank you, Babe."

"You need fuel for that body of yours. I don't want you to be hungry."

"I'm not going to go hungry."

"Are you going to break up with me?"

"No. Then, I would go hungry." That was sweet and made me smile.

"You really are a special guy, Carlos."

He smiled at me and gave me a gentle kiss. "And, you are a very special woman and I love you very much."

"When the doctor clears me, I want to make little latte colored babies. Lots of them. I want to horrify Helen."

"Babe, you're horrifying me. One or two will be scary enough."

"We'll give them your name, but I want to be unwed and make a good stink."

"Now I'm horrified. You just used unwed, stink and lots of babies together. You could jinx us into having quadruplets."

I blanched and looked down at his crotch. "Oh. Those run in your family? Maybe only half a squirt will do. Can you manage that?"

"No. And Babe, Badasses don't squirt. That doesn't sound manly." I rolled my eyes.

I put my arm around his waist. "You know what I mean. Maybe just give it half the juice and we'll get just two."

He chuckled and took a bite of his sandwich still grinning and then said, "Babe, the things that come out of that pretty little mouth... I think we should just let nature take its course. I look forward to whatever the future brings for us."

He put one big arm around me and finished his sandwich and I snuggled into his side and thought about that and wholeheartedly agreed. I loved my big manly badass that was so sweet to me and treated me so good.

The next afternoon, Carlos called up to the apartment and asked me to come to the garage. He was standing down there with several of the guys when I got there. There was a car covered and with a bow on it in one of the 'primo' spaces. "Babe, this is for you."

A couple of the guys pulled the tarp off the car and I opened my mouth in shock.

There sat my Nova. It was fully restored in baby blue with baby blue two-tone leather seats and chrome wheels. Everything on it was new and restored and it had a muffler. He handed me the keys and I got in and started it up. It sounded hot, moan worthy hot. I jumped out and kissed him and hugged all the guys. "I want to take it to the bonds office to show Lula. She won't believe it!"

Carlos said, "Babe, when you get the chance, check your glove box. There is something in there for you."

"Okay. Carlos, I really love you."

"I know. Have fun but, don't be gone long. You're still healing."

I pulled out of the garage in my Nova and it drove and sounded like a dream. I loved it as much as the poor Lexus.

When I got to the bonds office, I went in and squealed at Lula and Connie. "You gotta' come see!"

Lula came out and said, "You bought a new car? That's a fine ride."

"No. Lula, this is my Nova..."

She made a face and walked around the car. "Nuh uh, girl."

"Yeah, it is. Carlos got it restored for me."

"Girl, that is one fine ass ride now. You be lookin' good in that machine."

"You want to go for a spin?"

"Hell yeah!"

Connie said, "Let me go tell Vinnie we'll be back soon."

We took off down the road and decided to stop for ice cream. When we pulled in, I remembered Carlos telling me that something was in the glove box.

"Hey Lula, open the glove box. Carlos said there was something in there for me." Her eyes got big and she slowly pulled out a little box wrapped in a ribbon. Connie erupted, "Fuck girl, that looks like a ring box to me."

Lula said, "Here. Hurry and open it!"

I just sat staring at it in shock. "Nuh..uh."

"Let me have the fucking thing, I'll open it," Connie said from the back seat.

"Take it girl, it might not be a ring."

I said, "Nope. It could be a ring."

Connie reached out and snatched the box. "I'm gonna' open it. The suspense is making me crazy here." She pulled the ribbon and started to flip it open and I couldn't look. I turned my head just as she screamed and yelled out, "Ho-ly crap balls!"

Then Lula yelled, "Damn, my eyes! Turn it off! I ain't never seen nothing that bright." Then I just had to turn around.

It was a good thing I wasn't driving when they pulled that out. It was a ring and like nothing that I had ever seen before. I'm sure the band was platinum and it was engraved and came up to meet the diamond setting like a blooming lotus flower. The petals had little diamonds inside and in the middle sat a huge round diamond and it was a sparkler. I just sat stunned and blinking at it. Connie said, "I'm fixing to shit fireballs I'm so red with envy. I introduced you to that stud. Now, you get to marry him and have all that hot all the time. Fuck me!"

Lula said, "Put it on, girl."

I gulped. "Nuh..uh. Put it back in there." Talking about babies and the future is one thing. Seeing that was totally different all together.

"What the hell do you mean? Fuckin' cat's out of the bag now. Ain't no puttin' it back."

"Just put it back for now and lets go in and get the ice cream." Both women rolled their eyes at me.

That night at dinner Carlos and I were both quiet. He didn't ask me about the ring and I didn't bring it up. "I love the Nova. It's really fun to drive. I still feel bad about the Lexus. I know you spent a lot on both cars."

He shrugged. "Babe, it was just a car. I'm going to replace it for you. This time you can pick what you want."

"Oh, no. I only need one car."

He said, "The Nova is for fun. A restored vehicle like that is really not a car you want to drive every day. You won't want to take it out in the winter and drive it in the snow. We'll keep it covered in the garage."

"Oh. I guess I understand. I love you. Thank you."

"Babe, I love you and I like making you happy. I hope you'll let me keep doing it."

I was getting stir crazy so I started spending time down in the control room and getting to know Carlos's men. He had some of them start training me to do some small computer jobs to occupy my time. Just doing research on fugitives and new security clients. I went to lunch with a different group every day unless Carlos wanted to join me.

Carlos busted a few of us for eating contraband one afternoon. I had hidden some Tastykakes in the break room and walked up on Tank sneaking one of my butterscotch krimpets. I tip-toed up right behind him and cleared my throat really loud and snickered as the big man jumped a half foot in the air. We had just taken our first bite of a cake and Hal walked in. He's about the same size as Tank, just a different flavor. He looked at our full mouths and guilty faces and walked over and stuck his hand in the box. So, now the three of us are chewing and Lester walks in and he stands there with his hands on his hips for a minute and then walks over and gets a cake out of the box.

This went on until the second box was open and the boss walked in and Bobby Brown who was behind a couple of the guys, swallowed his cake down and whimpered and said, "Shit! Hide me. I'm the one he'll smash the worst on the mats for this." So, what are friends for except to have your back and we all scooted closer together and hid him.

Ranger stood there with his hands on his hips and the corners of his mouth were twitching. He said, "You can play boys, but you gotta' pay. If you play with Stephanie, you'll pay often. Babe, keep your Tastykakes in the apartment. And, Brown, I see your boots."

Behind us, we heard, "Fuck!" We all started laughing, even Carlos.

A few days later, Carlos took me to my female doctor and I was cleared for most normal activities including sex and light exercise. It had been getting harder and harder not to do the deed. We couldn't just snuggle and go to sleep and our foreplay was getting more aggressive every night. When my doctor asked me if I wanted a birth control shot, I turned to Carlos.

"What do you want sweet man?"

"Babe, I told you. Whatever you want, I'll give you."

"I think I want to see if we can do it." He just winked at me and nodded and I told the doctor to put her needle away.

Carlos had Ella make her version of chicken alfredo with crusty bread and we had wine. He had brought me fresh red roses when he came up to the apartment. He showered and changed and lit some candles and put soft music on. Gotta' love a guy that's hot and romantic.

After dinner, Carlos had used the massage oil and then commenced to love me to exhaustion and now he was just holding me against him and rubbing circles on my back. He reached behind him and opened the nightstand drawer and pulled out that little ring box and wiggled it at me.

"I have been half afraid that you would run this week. I knew you saw this and I wanted to give you some time to think about it. We don't have to talk about marriage yet. I decided that I didn't want to start making your little latte babies without a promise to you. This is my promise. It says that you're mine and I'm yours. Please wear my ring, Babe."

I smiled at him and kissed him. "Well, when you put it like that, sweet man…" He slipped the lotus blossom ring on my finger and gave me a tender and loving kiss and lingered there for a moment and whispered, "My Babe. Mine."

THE END

/Babe HEA Boom!

I hope you liked this silly little remake of the original. It was fun to write. I got my original book finished and I'm looking into publishing options. What this means for you guys is that I have a little more time to write more fanfic. So, I'm writing a Halloween tale called 'Dance with a Devil' a Babe and I am going to finish Babe and the Beast, the vamp story. I already had like ten chaps completed on it anyway. So both of these will go up soon.

Thanks for reading me, chicks!

FYI-My original book is called 'Way to Go' and is like this style of my writing. Rated about the same with kooky characters, including animals, romance, drama and intrigue and lots of laughs. It is not dark and does have twists, but not the really dramatic ones you're used to with me. Let you know when to look for it.