Chapter 36:
Katie came running into Amy and Ty's room and jumped up onto the bed, "Uncle Ty, Uncle Ty! Please can you make me chocolate pancakes?" She exclaimed.
Amy and Ty both groaned, Ty looked at the clock and it said 06:56 – he had to be up and go to the clinic soon – however his alarm wasn't meant to go off for another 4 minutes. Those extra 4 minutes in the morning mean everything to everyone!
"Right ok, but only because you asked so nicely!" Ty yawned.
Amy chuckled, "God she has you wrapped around her little finger!"
"How can I say no to this sweet face?" Ty said tickling Katie's sides and she started belly giggling.
"Right Katie, why don't you go and get your toy Pogie and me and Ty will be right out," Amy asked realising that all she had on was Ty's t-shirt and he only had a pair of boxers on.
"Yeah ok!" Katie exclaimed, she jumped off the bed and ran out the room to her room.
"Good morning babe, we could have had another 4 minutes sleep but Katie ruined that one! Right let's go get decent and make some pancakes," Ty said leaning over and kissing Amy.
"Mmm morning, I would have loved an extra 4 minutes! But Katie's obsession with chocolate chip pancakes has stopped that from happening!" Amy replied.
Ty and Amy both got up, Amy threw on a pair of sweats and Ty grabbed a tee and some shorts. They walked into the kitchen and started cooking the pancakes. Amy attempted to cook one, but it did not work out what so ever.
"Hmm I think I will stick to boiling water from now on," Amy laughed scraping the pancake off the pan.
"Yeah, if you can manage that," Ty winked. Amy put on a fake shocked expression and waited till his back was turned and rolled up a tea-towel and whipped him right on the arse. Ty let out a small yelp and instantly spun around, "Hey there was no need for that!"
Amy was howling with laughter. "Oh – my – god – you – should see – your face!" Amy howled
Ty raised an eyebrow and put down the spatula and slowly and calmly started to walk towards Amy, who was too busy laughing to notice the look in his eyes. He put his arm around her waist and went to kiss her, but as she closed her eyes his hands started attacking her waist. Amy screamed, "STOP! NO FAIR!" Ty was not stopping any time soon.
"You two do know what time it is don't you?" Lou said angrily, she was still in her dressing gown and slippers, "What's happened?"
"She towel-whipped me!" Ty said like a little kid.
"Well he insulted my cooking!" Amy said sticking her tongue out at Ty.
"You two are so childish! But what is this I hear from a very excited 4-year-old about chocolate chip pancakes?" Lou asked laughing at the childishness of the pair.
"Well she woke me us 4 minutes before my alarm was due to go off – which we are still not over by the way – begging uncle Ty to make her chocolate chip pancakes, and you know he is totally whipped and didn't want to say no to her," Amy laughed sitting down at the table.
"Well she gives me sad eyes if I say no, and I can't deal with that!" Ty defended himself.
"How come it works for Katie but not for me?" Amy teased giving him 'puppy dog' eyes.
"Because she's cute and doesn't attack me with tea towels." Ty huffed turning his back to Amy and pouring the coffee, "Lou would you like some coffee?"
"You two are so funny, but please, don't do this again at 7am! And yes please Ty, that would be great. Pour one for Peter too please? He has to catch a flight soon so will be out in a minute." Lou replied.
Ty poured 3 cups of coffee and passed 2 to Lou and took the third for himself, "Here you go." He said.
"Thanks Ty, also cheers for making breakfast again," Lou said.
"No probs," Ty replied.
"Hey where's my coffee?" Amy asked.
Ty laughed and replied, "In the coffee pot. I don't pour coffee for towel whippers!"
Amy rolled her eyes and stood up and poured herself some coffee, "I am sorry, I will make it up to you," She smirked.
"Oh really, how would you do that?" Ty asked curiously.
Amy whispered something into his ear that know one else could here, Ty instantly grinned.
"Oh not at the breakfast table please!" Lou exclaimed pulling a sickly looking face.
Ty and Amy both laughed, "Right babe, I have to go to the clinic. I will be back around 7 tonight because we have a few surgeries and I need to catch up on paper work." Ty said standing up.
"Okay, I will see you then, love you," Amy replied turning around and giving him a quick kiss.
"Love you too, bye everyone," Ty said as he walked out the door.
There was a mixture of bye's and bye Ty's heard, he smiled when he walked out the house. He loved his family and this family was so much better than his 'biological' family. He suddenly had thoughts about his past life and shivered at the thoughts and memories. He jumped in the truck and drove to the clinic, Bon Jovi was blasting out and he was singing along to livin' on a prayer – seeing as he was half way to the clinic (Sorry bad joke, I actually have used this joke in uni this week. It was my first lecture of the week and we were on slide 33/66 and I got all excited because I felt like bon jovi… Yeah… I was rather sleep deprived and actually had a laughing fit in the middle of a lecture!)
Ty parked up at the clinic and walked in to see Scott talking to Cass, "Hey Ty," They both said at the same time and laughed.
"Hey guys, what's going on today then?" He asked.
"Rusty needs surgery on his front hoof, Daisy is having a calf delivered and Buster, well Buster missed you. There is also a tonne of paperwork for you to do!" Scott laughed, passing buster to Ty. The dog immediately started licking Ty's face and barking at him, "Me and Cass are going to do Rusty's surgery, can you please get started on the paperwork? She needs to get one more practical in before school starts again next month. I am sure Buster will keep you company!"
"Ok, have fun guys, and I am sure Buster will do his best!" Ty laughed as the others walked through to the operating room. Ty poured himself some coffee and sat at the desk, Buster of course was sat on his knee. He decided to send Amy a picture of him and his friend with the caption 'Look who I am looking after again! Xxx' Ty quickly pressed send and opened up the laptop and began his paperwork, yay!
Amy was out in the barn with Georgie and heard her phone Bing, she had a look and saw that Ty once again was looking after Buster, she showed Georgie and she laughed, "Aww Harley has some competition! Send him one of Harley saying he feels left out, see what his reply is,"
"That would be cruel, but also funny. Let's do it!" Amy replied, she quickly snapped a picture of Harley and wrote back 'Looks like someone has some competition! Xxx'
"Right come on, lets turn these horses out before they too feel left out!" Amy stated opening the stall door to lead Spartan out into the front field. They turned out the rest of the horses and checked on the back field. Georgie looked at the time and realised she was going to miss the bus if she didn't run, "Bye Amy I am going to miss my bus! See you tonight! Stephen is coming over to jump Phoenix with me!" Georgie yelled as she ran across the yard.
"Ok, bye Georgie!" Amy yelled back, chuckling to herself remembering that her and Ty used to get 'caught up' before she had to go to school, but for totally other reasons. She smiled as the memories of her and Ty in the early days.
Amy got back to work and was thinking about Ty's upcoming birthday, she wanted to get him something special and thought of the best idea ever. Buddy. Well she had to get the ok off her Grandpa and Lou first, but she was sure they wouldn't mind. She decided to ask them at lunch. She got back to working with Boris and was making sure that he was ok with a hose pipe and being washed. He did well with the hose and allowed Amy to wash him. When it was lunch time, she walked up to the house and sat with Lou, Katie and Jack. Peter had left earlier that morning for a week – something about a conference that couldn't be missed or something, but Lou was surprisingly okay with it and they didn't argue before he left for the first time in months! Things really were looking up.
"Hey Amy, how is Boris? Nearly ready to go home?" Jack asked looking up as she walked through.
"Yeah, I am going to call his owner tomorrow, can I ask you two something?" Amy asked.
"Go on…" Jack encouraged.
"Well, you know it is Ty's birthday next week? Well, there is this puppy he has been looking after at the clinic, and he has completely fallen in love with him. I was wondering if you would allow me to get him for him so he can keep him?" Amy asked, hoping it would be ok.
"Of course! I was talking to him last night and he wouldn't stop going on about that damn puppy! He showed me loads of selfs or whatever you call them with the puppy!" Jack laughed.
"Selfie's grandpa, selfies." Lou stated laughing, "But yeah, I think he would love that!"
"Oh Thank you guys! I am going to call Cass later to see Scott because Ty answers Scott's phone if he's close! I think Ty is going to love it! Little Buster will love it here too I bet," Amy laughed.
They ate lunch and then Amy went to call Cassandra, after 2 rings there was an answer, "Hello Amy? How come you're calling me?" She asked.
"Well, I know Ty answers Scott's phone if Scott isn't always around and I kind of need to speak to him without Ty knowing, so could you pass me on to him?" Amy asked.
Amy heard Cass pass the phone to Scott saying that Amy was on the phone asking for him. Scott put the phone to his ear, "Hey Amy, long time no speak! What can I do for you?"
"Well, it is Ty's birthday next and I was hoping you could sell Buster to me? But somehow keep it quiet?" Amy asked hopefully.
"Yes of course! He hasn't put the dog down all day! I will bring you the paperwork tomorrow when we come and check on the horses," Scott replied laughing.
"I am going to regret this; he is going to ditch me for the dog ain't he?" Amy laughed, "Thank you Scott. I will sort it out with you tomorrow. See you later!"
"Bye Amy," he replied putting the phone down.
Amy smiled, she knew Ty would be so surprised and would probably love her forever. She smiled to herself and went back to work.
Ty came home after dinner and collapsed onto the couch next to Amy, he put his head on her shoulder and groaned, "Buster went to the adoption place today, he actually cried when he was taken from my arms. Like I mean literally howling and trying to run back to me."
"Aww babe, he will be ok. It is for the best though isn't it? I mean a vet clinic isn't the greatest place for a puppy to live. He will be much happier at a place where he has friends to play with," She replied stroking his head.
"Yeah, you're right. Do you need to go and do night check?" Ty asked lifting his head up off her shoulder and looking her in the eyes.
"Yeah I do, Georgie and Stephen are out there now, but I want you to just take a look at Paint's leg, it's a bit swollen again," She replied, giving him a kiss.
"Okay, come on then," Ty stood up and held his hand out for Amy to stand up. Their fingers were intertwined and they strolled across the yard and went into the stable, they saw Georgie and Stephen watering the horses, "Hey guys how's it going?" Ty asked.
"Great thanks, we have finished feeding and now we are just watering," Stephen replied, "How was work?"
"Painful. I had to give away puppy that I love to the adoption home, but it is all part of the job! Now we are just looking at Paint," Ty said sadly.
"Aww hope you're ok. It is hard giving up an animal you love, my horse had to be sold when my mom and dad split up because neither of them had the time to help me look after it!" Stephen said.
"How was the project?" Amy asked, quickly changing the subject.
"Really good, we of course, won first prize, Olivia and Jess basically copied everything off Wikipedia and failed the module!" Georgie laughed.
"Wow, that's great you two, obviously the miracle girl and vet student were very helpful," Ty teased.
"Oh shut up ego head!" Georgie said. Everyone laughed. Georgie and Stephen went back to finishing their watering and Amy and Ty were looking at Paint. "Yep, his arthritis is definitely flared up again. Try massaging his legs and use some anti-inflammatory remedies and we will see how he does." Ty explained.
"Right, I will go and whip up a batch now, Georgie do you want to come and help?" Amy asked.
"Yeah sure. Ty will you take over here?" Georgie asked.
"Of course, pass me the hose." Ty and Stephen were watering the back field troughs and talking about things. "How are you doing Stephen, haven't had much chance to talk to you lately." Ty asked.
"I am doing much better; I feel like I am a different person. I still have nightmares about everything, but I am getting there. I have a great councillor at school who is helping me through everything. How are you? Georgie said you had a nightmare the other night," Stephen asked.
Ty looked away, "I am fine, the nightmare was about a movie me and Amy had watched the night before, nothing bad. Come on, lets go back and see what the girls are doing," Ty did not want Stephen to know he was still affected, he wanted him to think that he was ok because the last thing Stephen needed was to see Ty, years later still being affected.
Stephen nodded, not sure whether he believed him or not but just went along with it anyway. They walked back into the barn to see the girls massaging Paint's legs. They all chatted about their days and went to leave the barn when they heard a car horn and Stephen groaned, "That'll be my mom, I will see you all tomorrow!"
"Bye!" Amy, Georgie and Ty all shouted.
They walked back up to the house and sat in the living room. Jack was telling them about Tim's new theory about if they feed the cows a certain feed they will be worth $200 more. What a load of Bull that was! They all laughed at Jack's annoyance.
Georgie went to bed at around 9, Jack also went to bed at 9.
Lou was sat on Lyndy's chair and Amy and Ty were laid on the couch.
"Hey guys, I know its your birthday next week Ty and I know you will want some 'alone time'" Lou started, Amy and Ty both blushed, "Well I was thinking you could borrow a cabin at the dude ranch if you want, I don't have anyone booked in next week, so it is all yours!"
Amy turned to look at Ty, they both were happy that Lou had offered because they would have probably ended up in the loft if not, and it was getting a bit too cold for that! "Oh thank you Lou, we really appreciate it!" Amy exclaimed.
"Yeah, thanks Lou," Ty smiled.
"Well that is settled then, right I am going off to bed I what are your plans for tomorrow?" Lou asked.
"Well, I have the day off, woo! Amy has got Caleb on the morning routine, so we get a lie in," Ty explained.
"Lucky you two have fun with that! Goodnight both," Lou said getting up and walking through to her room.
"Night," Amy and Ty said at the same time.
They sat on the sofa for a while longer, just being close with each other. They went to bed soon after, Ty got undressed and so did Amy. They crawled into bed and started kissing, Amy had some making up to do for towel whipping him this morning.
AN: Sorry guys! I have been writing this since Monday and I have been struggling for like inspiration haha. I am back on it though :) Hopefully I will write a few more chapters while I am off this week and get them uploaded when I can!
Thank you guest who said i am awesomeness personified :P And all you other lovely reviewers for your comments! you are all the reason I carried on with this story! Let me know what you think :D
Did you all enjoy season 9 premier? I loved it!