Epilogue – Part III

Trevor had fallen perfectly into his father's shoes since he was ten years old, he had been at the top of every prestigious list, he was Valedictorian of his graduating class, he was at the top of his graduating class from College, he had two Master's Degrees in Business Administration and Economics and he did all of it with his inherit charisma. He by no means had built his success with his Father's Money. He had gotten to college and lived with all of the comforts of life with the money for sure, but in his adult life, not so much.

When he had turned sixteen, he had invested his entire savings into stocks and the savings of the son of a Billionaire were substantial. The savings themselves were made from his father's money, but he found that he had knack for stocks and by the time that he was eighteen, he had turned his $28,000 savings into $568,000. By the time he was 21, he was worth $21,000,000, his own money and that saved him from the ridicule of being called a Trust Fund Baby. Now, not even before he was thirty, he was the Chief Executive Officer of the world largest multinational conglomerate, a stock trader with an amazing aptitude with a combined income of roughly $78 Million Dollars a year. All thanks to his father and that $28,000 Dollars.

"How did the Board take the news?" Trevor asked his father as they stepped out onto the porch, "I hope that they're okay with this sudden change."

Jake snorted, "It's not sudden because I've been telling them for months that I intended to step down. My replacement was in question though. We had two candidates, you or to re-approach Maxwell to come back on."

"Who did they recommend?" Trevor asked with a raised eyebrow.

"You, although there was one vote against you," Jake snorted, "Me."

Trevor turned in astonishment to his father and raised an eyebrow, "Dad."

"Well I didn't think that you wanted to do it, and I wasn't exactly sure if you were ready to take on the job," Jake said, "But that was before I approached you this afternoon. If I could change my vote, I would, but I can't do it."

The younger man put his hands over his chest, "Do you have confidence in me to do this, I mean you voted for Maxwell and he's not even an Executive anymore, technically he's retired from running day to day operations. After the whole Donald Wilson shit, you took on a more hands on approach and you took most of his duties and gave them to yourself, so Vice Chairman is more of just a title. So tell you chose a retired guy over your own son?"

"A retired guy, who served simultaneously as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Head of Worker Relations for the entire company, Vice Chairman of the Board before I took most of the duties back and as my lacky who I sent to do my dirty work," Jake reasoned, "Son, you're very smart, you've been trained from birth to do this, but Maxwell was overqualified, but don't worry about it, I'm fully confident that you can do this and you have the job. Don't worry about the Board, I have it in my fist and it's at your disposal as long as you run the proposal by me first, okay?"

"Well I'm CEO now and I'm not giving it up," Trevor insisted.

Jake nodded and smiled, "I know that and I know that you'll do a great job."

Rose shut the door behind her as she and Shawn finally made it back into the house. She was still getting over the fact that she had fainted in the ER and the fact that she was going to be a Grandmother. It was a light, tingly feeling, something that made her just want to sit down and giggle uncontrollably. But she had to keep her poker face on to get through the rest of the evening and then she would allow that feeling to come to the surface, as soon as all the snobby socialites had all gone home.

"Go upstairs, get in bed and keep your cell phone handy if you need to get a hold of me," Rose said as she hung her coat up on the rack near the door, she had been in her dress since before taking Shawn to the ER, so they were all ready to go, she only need to know the hold up, "I'll be home in a flash."

"Ok Mom," Shawn turned to his mother and smiled at her with a certain weakness to it before turning back fully and trudging up the stairs. He was feeling exhausted, he would tell Alex congratulations when he felt better.

Rose turned and walked further into the living room, she heard a fork scraping against a plate and turned to see her youngest daughter Morgan sitting at the counter eating something. Raising an eyebrow, Rose walked into the kitchen and brought a stone cold glare down on her daughter, "I take it that you're strawberry short cake of all things is because you're-…"

"Bored," Morgan answered for her, "We are we going?"

"First of all, where is your sister?" Rose raised an eyebrow.

Morgan motioned to the stairs, "Putting finishing touches on her hair."

Rose sighed and smiled, "Okay, finish up and put that in the dish washer."

Morgan nodded and when Rose turned back to start her walk to the back porch, she turned and threw her voice. She was an expert at yelling and she knew that her soon to-be, married and currently pregnant daughter would have no trouble hearing it, "Alexandra Long, you had better get your pregnant ass down here and ready to go in ten minutes or there will be hell like no other that you've ever experienced to pay, got that you little girl!"

"I'm right in the middle of closing a deal for a $1 Billion Contract between News Corp, Viacom and Time Warner to cement their networks on our systems for the next twenty years," Trevor said as he watched the contracts finish setting up the ceremony area for tomorrow, "What do you think?"

Jake nodded with smile, "Another record we have under our belt."

"Hey Diamond Jim, Diamond Jim junior," Rose said from the doorway of the porch, "The limousine is waiting to take us the restaurant, get a move on."

"Yes Mistress Rose," Jake retorted with a smile before getting up from the chair and walked to the porch door to greet his wife with a kiss, "Don't you have something to say to our son?"

Rose turned and smiled at Trevor with a mischievous grin, "Yeah, you get to tip the driver."

Trevor laughed at his Mother as he joined them in the house.

Opening the door to the limousine for his family, Jake watched as his daughters, his wife and his eldest son piled into the back of the car. He felt bad that they were leaving Shawn here, but he was in no shape to stand a party. He had tried to instill in his kids that you had to be patient and sit through all of the ceremonial crap to get to the top, but he knew first hand that you couldn't get through something like this with food poising.

"Jake, I love the fact that you feel bad about leaving Shawn here, but we have the Bloombergs, the Gates, the Buffets and dozens of other important people waiting at the restaurant," Rose reminded her husband from inside the limousine, "You don't want to piss them off they'll make your life hell."

"I know, I know," Jake reasoned with her as he crawled into the limousine next to her, "Get used to this Alex, yap, yap, yap, do this don't do that, for the rest of your life. You'll never ever get another moments peace."

Alex crossed her legs and looked up to her father with an amused grin on her face, "Dad, I think that I'm going to be more like Mom is to you, it in the genes to boss men around, and for the men to be pliable."

Trevor raised an eyebrow, "Pliable?"

"Throw a little wink, sweet talk, threaten them," Alex smiled to herself as limousine pulled out of the Long Family Compound, "You know Mom."

"I know what you mean," Rose shrugged, "I taught them all well."

"Yes you did Mama Walton," Jake answered back compliantly.

"Ladies and Gentleman," The MC of the Wedding announced from the stage that had been set up in the restaurant, "It is my proud honor and distinct privilege to introduce to you, the future, Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Stoops!"

Jake and Rose clapped their hands as their daughter and their future son in-law walked hand and hand out onto the cleared dance floor. Everyone in that room, besides the workers that had been paid to cater and entertain and serve the guests, and Trixie and Spud, was a Millionaire, some of them were even Billionaires. Zachary worked as Head of Worker's Relations for INGB, a position that his father had once held and he was INGB's newest Board Member. The Couple's combined networth was over $600 Million, unlike Trevor, Alexandra had chosen to get her trust fund which was up the territory of nine figures and Zachary had as well. They were the spawn of the ultra-rich, but what made them different from the other members of the Ultra-Rich Society is that their parents had raised them to be humble and not to act like snobs to people with less money.

"Luckily, we only have to do this one more time with Morgan," Rose quipped to her husband as they watched the two receive congratulations."

"Oh don't tell me that you had fun planning this and that you loved me paying for it," Jake retorted with a grin.

"Oh please, $13.5 Million? That's like .00001 of your Networth," Rose snickered.

Jake turned to his wife and narrowed his eyes, "And you worried that money with spoil our kids."

"Well Trevor only saved every cent you ever gave him until he was sixteen," Rose turned and wrapped her arms around her husband's neck as the first song began. Jake reciprocated and pulled his wife closer to him by her waist and began to move to the soft music, "He was quite literally a self made Multi-Millionaire by the time he was twenty one. We taught them to value the mountains of cash that are around them, I was wrong."

Jake raised his eyebrows, "What was that?"

Rose smiled and leaned to bury her head in his chest, her muffled reply made Jake chuckle, "I'm sorry."

"I know baby," Jake chuckled, "What are the odds that Morgan will marry someone who isn't rich?"

Rose looked up with a smile, "I hope that she does, she doesn't seem like the type of person that would marry into this class of people. But the thing is that she can't really go advertising it, anyone would want to take advantage of her if she goes around telling people that 'when I turn twenty one, I've got about $400 Million Bucks coming my way'. By that way, you've set up way too much for them in their trust funds."

"Oh, I should tell you that I beefed up Morgan and Shawn's Trust funds," Jake said, waiting for the bomb to go off.

Rose narrowed her eyes, "How much?"

"$800 Million, each," Jake answered simply.

Her eyes screwed up, "Jake, what the hell? That's a ridiculous amount of money."

"I make over that amount in a year," Jake shrugged, "But I also added the little precondition that they can't touch it until their 25 and graduated from College with at least a Bachelors Degree. I made sure that they couldn't just kill time with us until their 25 and be sitting on $1.6 Billion."

Rose smiled and ran her hands through his hair, messing it up, "Sometimes, I don't give you enough credit."

The Next Day –

"Who gives this woman to this man," The Officiator of the Ceremony asked from the head of the wedding alter.

Jake smiled over at his daughter and then back to the Officiator, "I do."

The officiator nodded and leaned over to kiss his daughter on the cheek before leading her over to Zach who took her by the hand. At last it was done. It had been a painful moment for fathers throughout time and Jake had just joined the club. Sighing, he made his way to his empty seat next to his wife. Grasping his wife's hand, he watched as his daughter and his new son in-law exchanged their vows. It was a hard moment for him, and he knew that it would be coming for his other daughter and to a lesser extent his two sons. Trevor had expressed that he might get married to his girlfriend, but his son did things slowly, so he wouldn't have to deal with that any time soon. Never the less, Rose would take it a little harder then he would.

But he'd be there with her, and for his children.

Until he died and even then, he support his children and be with his wife until he went off, Into That Good Night…

AN:/ YAY! It's done, finally! I was able to squeeze it down into one more portion. I had a forth one written up, but I decided to cut it down to the last scene and stick it in here. The other things were choppy and I didn't much like them, but I like how this came out. I had this idea three years ago but it ran into the ground and three years later, I decided to re-tool the plot and this is what you get.

Big thank you to everyone who reviewed this story! It seemed to take off fairly quickly and it made me happy to see that. There might be a few one shots to this story up my sleeve, but I don't know yet. I almost forgot, I have to say thank you to everyone who continued to read this story, even through the portions where the vocabulary belonged to a Corporate Analyst, I just had have a little realism in it.

And with that, good night, and good luck!