Hi everyone! Finally made time to upload this! My Tuesday was a complete failure I had an awful day! But here it is anyway...

I believe someone asked what Anne's plans were now she's not at university, it answers it here somewhat...

Thank you all for all your reviews and follows it means the world! Hope you all enjoy!

Love Carrots x

"Just how high up are the Lambs in the hospital?" Anne asked in amazement as they entered Gilbert's apartment building.

Gilbert smiled "I asked them time and time again if they were sure they wanted to pay for something so luxurious." He said with a smile, "They insisted, they own the penthouse and insisted I use it." He said going red.

"There's a security guard and everything!" Anne said with a smile to the guard. "This is amazing!" She said excitingly as they entered the lift.

Gilbert chuckled "well you know I don't like a handouts but Dr Hemming told me my time for living in cramped hall of residents were over." He got out his keys and turned it in the lock for the penthouse.

"Oooo look at you all keys in lifts!" Anne teased.

"Anne." He said rolling his eyes.

"No the buttons are for us mere mortals." She smiled before a key came in front of her.

"This is for you." He said with a grin on his face as she took the key "you can join us gods in the know." He said with a grin.

"Ah, I always knew I was goddess material." She said with a grin to him. "Are you sure you want to give this to me?" she asked him. "Would it not be better with your parents?" she asked him.

"No offense but I don't want my mother walking in on me butt naked." He said with a grin.

"Are you going to walk around butt naked?" she asked him with a flirty eyebrow.

He laughed "I don't know really, but you get the idea." He told her "I want you to feel like you're welcome in my life."

Anne smiled and said quietly "I always feel that Gil."

The elevator dinged to open and Anne picked up the box she was carrying, the doors opened immediately into the penthouse, she stepped in and physically 'wowed' at the apartment.

"Gilbert!" Anne exclaimed looking around.

The apartment was huge immediately to her left there was a closed door and gradually along the wall three other doors were shut. Her eyes moved across the open planned room, at the far end of the room lay the kitchen which spread across the far wall. There was a kitchen Island just in front of the main wall with a double fridge freezer. Along the right wall to the outside was a floor to ceiling window, to which she could see there was a balcony the door at the other side to where they were standing. In front of the kitchen was the living area a huge 'L' shaped sofa a cuddle chair pointed towards the window the television against the wall beside them a bookshelf lay on the same wall.

Gilbert grinned and opened the door next to her "the utility room," he said he walked along the wall opening the next room "the spare room," he continued walking the next door opening, "the bathroom," he opened the last door "and the main bedroom." He looked across the room to a door which was right next to the elevator "That door takes you down the stairs, in case the elevator is ever out of order, the key for the elevator is also the key for the door." He informed her.

Anne swallowed looking around "its furnished, its huge!" she exclaimed.

"It belongs to the lambs." He admitted. "I live here, they told me I could have a roommate, but to be honest you know there are a few people I could spend 24 hours a day with."

"It wouldn't be in here! You'd get lost!" Anne exclaimed. "Although, it wouldn't be 24 hours a day Gil, you'll be at medical school most of the time."

"That much is true." He admitted as they went into the bedroom. "Although I'll be honest I think I am liable to get lost in that bed." He said looking at the king sized double bed.

She laughed and put her boxes down "So everything you've brought are clothes and books?" she asked him.

"My laptop, my mother's weekly 'care packet' which she promised to send every week." He sighed "it won't quite be home." He said quietly looking down sadly for a moment.

Anne looked at him sympathetically. She knew that feeling, when she left for university it seemed no where else could be home. She smiled and took his hand pulling him out to the window overlooking the city "But I think, apart from my own blue room back in 'Patty's place'..." she said with a smile wrapping his arms around her waist "which was cozy and charming," she admitted "something like this," she said looking out at the view of the city "isn't it inspiring Gilbert?" she asked him reverently.

He smiled looking only at her "Only you would find beauty in all things, to the cozy and charming to the big and inspiring." He said plainly to her.

"Its very different," she admitted "to the cozy and charming kind of inspiration, but inspiring all the same."

He looked up his chin resting on her shoulder over the view. "Its a shame you can't see patty's place from here, I think I would have liked to have seen it."

"Really?" she asked. "Oh I'm glad you can't." She said decisively.

"Why?!" he exclaimed.

"If you could see Patty's Place the likelihood is you'd be able to see Roy's mansion and it would be a constant reminder to me how I failed you, every time I was here."

He looked at her sadly and kissed into her neck "You never failed me." He whispered. He smiled at her sweetly as she looked at him and kissed him gently on his lips. "What time is Phil expecting you?" he asked her.

"Half past 4 for dinner at 6." She said to him "she wanted you to come too."

"I'm not one to turn down a homemade dinner." Gilbert said pulling away only far enough to take her hand and move them across the room back towards the elevator.

"Its Phil," she said with a smile "she's more likely to order in."

Gilbert chuckled "then a free meal." Before he continued "then you'll stay there and I'll come back here all on my own." He said almost sadly.

"Its only overnight." Anne said to him gently "and I will be off back to Avonlea in the morning and you'll go to medical school." She said pressing the button for the elevator.

"I can't believe I left it so late coming back." He said with a chuckle "Well I can, when I have a girlfriend like you back home." He sighed "are you sure you can't stay a few days to settle me in?" he asked her.

"I really can't Gil. Andrew is expecting me in the bookstore tomorrow afternoon, I'll be exhausted going in the morning." She said softly as the elevator doors opened. "But it'll be worth it to spend every little moment I possibly can with you."

They walked into the elevator and he slipped his arms around her again "and its much appreciated." He said with a grin to her.

"Ummm." She said sighing satisfied. "You like this don't you?" she asked him looking to his arms around her.

"I love it." He said grinning widely. "I'm finally able to do it, don't think I'm giving up on doing it easily." He said looking at her adorably.

"I'd never ask you to." She whispered to him as they slipped their lips together.

"Good." He whispered as his phone buzzed. He brought it out reading it over her shoulder not willing to let go yet. "Oh." He said looking at his phone disappointed.

"Oh?" Anne asked.

"It's Christine, asking when I'm back in town." He said confused. "I don't get it she's in her Junior year now, she has plenty of friends." He told her.

"She probably wants to get her claws into you." Anne whispered.

"Anne I told you..." he started.
"I know your intentions love," she told him. "And as far as your feelings go I believe you there was no attraction, but I am telling you I know what hers were." Anne looked to him and said "invite her over." Anne said.

"What?" he asked her.

"Yes, today in fact, you'll see what I mean." She told him "and we can set her straight." Anne suggested.

He sighed and looked at her "alright."

'I'm back now, fancy a catch up?' he typed and showed Anne to which she nodded her approval.

'sure' she almost immediately replied. 'Did you take the penthouse?'

Anne looked to him surprised. "She came and saw it with me." Gilbert said quietly typing a reply to the message. Her face fell slightly but it was enough for him to notice. "Anne..." he started

"No, just..." she sighed and tried not to make eye contact "I'm realising how much I missed out on, studying for MCAT, the results for it, graduation..."

"You were there for graduation, we danced remember?" he said to her tilting her chin to look at him.

"I was there in your arms and I felt so close to you again but you were there comforting me, I..." she took a deep breath and sighed again "I didn't even say congratulations Mr graduating-top-of-your-class and I happen to know by the way it wasn't just the top 5% for medical school, you were being humble again, you got top marks out of everybody."

"Anne..." he whispered.
"And I missed it all! I missed the studying I missed the hours, I missed the memorising and the worrying and the late night walks and the falling asleep on each other because we were so exhausted from the studying, I missed it all." She said. "And for what?! A bad relationship?"

"Hey!" Gilbert demanded. "Enough." He said softer. "We both know why, we both know the real reasons I will not have you pull yourself down Anne. We're here, yes, a few things are missing that we would have done together, but we made it anyway." He smiled softly "and aren't you glad?" he flirted "You're helping me move into my apartment."

She looked at him then wrapped herself up in him when his phone buzzed. He looked at it and nodded "she's coming at three."

He opened the door to find her there, a tight mouth smile twisted slightly as she said by way of hello "I heard someone got himself in an accident at the beginning of the summer." She said to him. He stepped aside as she continued to talk and walk "Tut-tut Gilbert Blythe, you'll give the rest of us daredevils a bad name, you always carry the ropes with you." She told him her fingers going along the back of the sofa before she sat on it. "I was concerned."

"Took away the danger element, I got foolish." He said plainly. "You didn't try to visit though, you can't have been all that concerned." He said taking a seat on the cuddle chair opposite her.

She shrugged, "Please you should know I have a terrible bedside manner." She told him as she bit her bottom lip she looked at him and smiled, his brow knitted as he noticed it as flirting but he said nothing at that point. "Besides you were in intensive care, they wouldn't let me in."

"You should have come with Josh and Mike, they came when I was down on the ward, they said they had offered to bring you."

She sighed heavily and pouted "You're being serious again Gilbert, it doesn't suit you." She told him plainly.

"Are you looking forward to your junior year?" he asked her.

"Sure, I suppose." She said with a shrug. "Are you looking forward to living up here? The lap of luxury for no work..." she trailed "well I suppose you did really earn it all those charity events you set up and ran for the lambs."

"It was my job as president to do those events Christine, and what do you care?"

"Took away time from more important things." She pouted again, Gilbert was surprised at himself, had she always flirted like this? "Mind you if this is how they treat all Alumni-President Lambs I suppose you can't complain."

He sighed before saying "I didn't do it for this!" he exclaimed "I didn't even know the award existed before the Alumni committee asked me to join them and told me about it."

"Well you should throw a party." She said looking around "its big enough." She commented "and of course..." she said standing up and wandering over to him sitting on the edge of the cuddle chair with him she leaned into him "escort me to my socials." She said with a smile to him.

He straighten uncomfortably before he said "well you should really check with my girlfriend about that."

She simply laughed before the bedroom door opened and she shot up of the chair and looked with eyes wide to Anne standing in the doorway a picture frame in hand. "You?!" she exclaimed in shock she turned and looked to Gilbert "Are you serious?" she asked him. "You give her the time of day after..."

She looked to Anne again and said to her "How are you Anne?" she asked her.

"Oh very well thank you, but you know you can't help but be well around certain company. But then you'll remember won't you?" Anne said sweetly and intentionally. Christine went pale in the face "Its funny." Anne said from the doorway before she walked across the room to Gilbert "but when we talked about it, it seems Christine you misled people as to the nature of your relationship, well not just people but in particular, me." Anne said as Gilbert brought out his arm to hug her in.

"Well I..." she started.

"I thought it very strange considering Andrew." Gilbert said frankly.

Christine took a step back her face going pale for a moment as Anne looked at her finger "My my!" Anne exclaimed, "you certainly are right Gilbert she's definitely engaged." Anne said looking at the ring. "Be sure to send our congratulations to Andrew." Anne said to him to which he nodded.

"I shall, I'll be sure to tell him we won't be far behind them down the aisle." Gilbert said with a grin to Anne to which she genuinely blushed for a moment. "Speaking of which I've not received a save the date yet?" Gilbert questioned.

Christine swallowed "we haven't set a date yet." She said not looking directly at the pair.

"Oh." Gilbert said with a sound of disappointment in his voice. "Be sure to send us one." He said.

"Speaking of us." Anne said to him looking only to him "You already have one of these in the bedroom, do you want this one out here?" she asked him giving him the picture frame.

He looked around for a moment before he settled on a side table, which he put the frame on the picture could be seen clearly across the room, a picture taken of Anne and Gilbert over the summer at Hester's Hill lay in the frame, the two sitting on a picnic blanket Gilbert's arm around her beaming the backdrop of the view from Hester's Hill behind them. "Picture perfect." He said with a smile as he turned around and looked to Anne for approval, to which she nodded "wouldn't you say Christine?" he asked her.

"Yes." She said shortly.

Gilbert looked to her and said carefully and deliberately "Are we making ourselves crystal clear?"

To which Christine's eyes flicked from Anne back to Gilbert "Yes." She said quietly, she turned for the door and said quietly "Goodbye Anne, and Gilbert." The pair remained silent until the door shut to the apartment and the door to the stairwell could be heard outside the apartment opening.

Gilbert fully turned to Anne pulling her close to him his arms wrapping around her. "I can't believe I never saw it." He told her gently.

"Its okay, you were otherwise preoccupied." Anne said to him her own arms reaching round him her hands tucking in the back pockets of his jeans.

"I didn't know, I didn't know she was flirting until just now." He said to her.

"Gil, its okay." Anne assured him. "I can tell by your reactions you really had no idea."

He shivered slightly holding her tightly "I would never have flirted with her." Gilbert said quietly and he pulled back to look at her face "I would have been quicker in flirting with Josie in high school." He said with a grin to her.

"You did." Anne said with a laugh at his face "remember?" she said "the time you took her to watch the cheerleaders and get her to fundraise for the school band."

A look of recognition came to his face "I did, didn't I?!" he exclaimed to which Anne laughed.

"Hey did you know Josie got her College diploma she's going on to get her bachelors in psychology and physico while Charlie does his Phd?" Anne smiled.

"She did it huh? I knew that was the plan, Charlie was telling me the night we started talking again." He acknowledged.

"They are down on Riverside."

"The accommodation for couples?!" Gilbert exclaimed a little surprised at first. "Well they have been together a while now I suppose." He acknowledged. "Good on them." He added.

"Yes, that's what I thought." She smiled.

Gilbert looked to her "I am so lucky." He said softly.

"Lucky?" Anne asked looking at him.

"Yes, lucky." He nodded bringing her closer "that you are not a jealous creature."

"You'll never know then the tortures as I've endured! I was eaten up with jealousy of Christine. Well until I knew you weren't together."

Gilbert looked genuinely astonished. It had never occurred to him that Anne could be jealous of anybody. "Why, Anne! I never thought you had it in you."

"Oh, but I have. I doubt you'd remember those early days, I got terribly jealous of you cosying up with Josie."

"I never cosied up with Josie."

"I thought you had." She emphasised.

"Well know this Anne, the only girl I ever wanted to cosy up with is you." He told her with a flirty bite of his bottom lip he looked up with lights in his eyes.

She smiled coyly whispering to him "I do love it when you flirt with me Gilbert Blythe." She sprung into a jump to land with her legs held in his arms. "Do it some more?" she flirted.

They pulled up in front of the Blake's home just in time for four o'clock as previously requested.

"Now remember," Anne said seriously to Gilbert as they got out the car "Phil is a married women now, she might not be the same old Phil as you remember."

Gilbert smiled taking her hand as they walked towards the door "From what I gathered from Jo she seemed not to have changed." He said to which Anne looked surprised "he came to visit me while I was down in the ward at Kingsport Hospital, he came every day."

Anne smiled and said quietly "Oh that's so typically him." She admitted "then hold on, did he not tell you that I wasn't with Roy, he knew, if Phil knew he did."

Gilbert smiled and knocked on the door "Funnily, you never came up love, it seems two men have more in common then the unusual taste in women they have." He said with a cheeky grin and a chuckle as she laughed.

The door swung open and a rather frazzled Phil appeared for a moment rushing a 'come in' before she disappeared again.

They stood surprised for a moment before Gilbert nodded and said "seems like the same old Philippa to me." He said to Anne which made her break into a chuckle. He brought his hand to the bottom of her back as the stepped forward into the house, where they entered Jo appeared at living room door.

"I think she means come in." Jo said with a grin on his face.

"I didn't think a take away could leave someone frazzled." Anne commented with a smile to Jo.

"Oh this isn't over a takeaway." Jo said.

"You don't mean to say she cooked!" Anne exclaimed to which Jo laughed.

"She's attempted." Jo said carefully shaking Gilbert's hand as he came in.

"Oh dear, well surely a cottage pie or a lasagne?" Anne asked Jo who shook his head.

"Or a Beef Wellington." Jo said with a knowing smile.

"But that's known for being difficult to make why would she start with that?!" Anne exclaimed.

"Because she is Phil." Jo smiled. "And I would settle for no less."

"How is she settling into her job?" Anne asked Jo.

"Very well, it seems the world of statics agrees with Phil." He said. "On my part I'm glad its for the government, its one of the top jobs in the city. Well paid and respected work." He looked at the pair and smiled widely. "So, Anne." He said looking at them he raised his eyebrows. "The last time I saw you, you were in a quite different state." He said with a smile to her.

She grinned as Gilbert and her sat his arm going around her, her hand going to his knee. " Yes, a very different state." She said quietly. She looked at Gilbert "I was quite distraught." She admitted.

Gilbert looked at Anne his lips played a smile.

"You know Gilbert she only had the sweetest things to say about you."

He nodded his bottom lip protruding "Ah so that's when you say nice things about me?" he teased "when I'm unconscious?" he said to which Jo laughed.

She was mocked offended holding her arms up "Did you not hear I was distraught!" she exclaimed.

"I'll be sure to mark it in my calendar." He said taking his phone out and bringing up the calendar as if he were to mark it.

"she was quite complimentary, Gilbert." Jo said with a smile to them both "she said you were the epitome of love."

Gilbert looked up, his mouth ajar for a moment "really?" Gilbert asked.

He received a nod from Jo to which he looked at Anne as Jo continued "that you were patient and kind, that you were humble and weren't easily provoked, that you saw the best in others that you were willing to endure many things in this world." Jo finished. "It was obvious she loved you very much."

Gilbert smiled and whispered in her ear "I try." He told her gently. He held her cheek and looked her in the eyes "I love you too." He told her sincerely, to which she nodded. Gilbert grinned at her before he said "You should know Jo, she may have over exaggerated my better qualities, I only ever wanted to be my best self around her, I'm afraid naturally I'm not quite so lovable." He said meekly.

"You should also know that Gilbert is far too humble for his own good." Phil said entering the room, with a smile on her face as she landed in Jo's arms.

"I've actually gathered that, a man of good humour and humility." Jo said with a look to him. "Have you finished preparing food?" Jo asked her.

"Well there's nothing I can do now for it." Phil said with a sense of defeat on her face "its dead already." She chuckled slightly before she looked over at Gilbert and Anne "and there's a sight I've longed to see." She said with a gentle smile to them. "I must admit Gilbert, I've never seen you look so at ease, so naturally happy before." She told him to which he started beaming his dimples showing in his cheeks "you suit it Gilbert." She said.

"I know, patience won the day." He said to her.

"and you Anne Shirley..." she started in a reprimand voice "suit him very well." She smiled. "I told him back in freshman year you belonged together."

"I know." Anne said with a grin to him. "I think we both knew it too." She said. "So Jo," Anne started "You're starting your final year in the seminary?" Anne asked.

Jo Smiled "I've been blessed to be the understudy of a Minister who regards me as an equal already." He said. "which is why I was so easily able to get into the hospital to see you Gilbert."

"Well I'm glad you came." Gilbert admitted "You have yourself a good man here Phil." Gilbert told her.

"Why does everyone find the need to tell me that." She fake pouted. "Would I fall for him if he were a bad man?" she sighed "does everyone think I'd choose someone awful to be with?" she asked.

"no never awful Phil," Gilbert said with a smile to her "but you chose someone very deep, spiritually, intellectually..." he said, "and I seem to remember you trying to choose between two men and one of them you didn't want to date because of his name!" Gilbert exclaimed.

"Wh-What?! Jo exclaimed in a chuckle. "Is this a side to you dearest Philippa I have yet to encounter."

"Oh poor Alex and Alonzo, we can not mock them!" Phil exclaimed. "they're both married now you know." She sighed "it seems I was destined for neither. She looked to Jo who looked intrigued "Well I couldn't marry an Alonzo could I?!" she huffed.

"That is why you wouldn't date him? Because of a name?" Jo asked.

"Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet?" Phil asked with a grin. "No that is the reason I gave for not wanting to date him." She said with a glare to the couple across from her. "These two were so wrapped up in each other first year, they dare not acknowledge that for the rest of us mere mortals the dating scene is just horrendous."

Anne smiled and said "Phil insisted on pretending to be something she is not when it came to dating back then," Anne said with a knowing smile "the first time I saw her she was checking out my boyfriend and his best friend, said that Gilbert was handsome and Charlie would be if it weren't for his eyes." To which they all laughed. "but then we got to know her, and I think she was looking at the shallow because if she liked them for such shallow reasons it lessened the chances of her getting hurt very deeply." Anne said looking to her.

Jo looked at Phil then back at Anne "Well I would have hated for my Phil to be hurt as deeply as you were Anne." He admitted "So I shall be glad that she liked for such shallow reasons and that it all came to naught, if it brought her safely to me."

"Here, here." Gilbert agreed taking Anne by the hand and kissing the back of her palm.

"Now where's my dinner?" Jo asked Phil with a grin on his face.

They sat down to the dinner where no one seemed to be eating much.

"I'm sorry about the beef and the wellington part." Phil said quietly.

"No no," Gilbert said looking at it again "I prefer my steaks, um..." he said not wanting to say it. "Blue."

"and the pastry is... well, you put plenty of butter in it." Anne said looking on the bright side. With that said the doorbell rang.

Jo jumped up and headed towards the door.

"Who's that?" Phil asked him.

"The Takeaway guy." He said.

"Oh thank god!" Phil exclaimed her elbow going on the table her hand covering her eyes, both Anne and Gilbert gave each other a grin in silent agreement.

Gilbert turned in his bed as he heard the buzzing of his phone for his morning alarm. He took a deep breath in sigh and reached for the phone sliding the alarm to snooze he fully intended on another ten minutes. It was then he saw the what's app icon to which he clicked on.

Ye old ball and chains: Hey Beautiful Man, I know you're still asleep right now and by the time you wake I'll probably be an hour into my journey back to Avonlea but I just wanted to tell you, you're going to be amazing today, go and wow them with just how wonderful you are. I'm counting the moments until I get to touch you again, but until then I guess video calls will have to do. Know I miss you when we're away from each other and I love you always x Love Anne x

He smiled at the message and pulled himself up to sit up in bed. He grinned as he typed "Thank you beautiful, the sentiment is returned love. BTW did you change your name on my phone to 'Ye old ball and chains?'

He stretched out his muscles ready for getting up and was able to quickly shower and headed down to the medical school facilities near the hospital. It was lunchtime before he had another look at his phone

Ye Old ball and chains: Well that's what I am now isn't it?

He physically laughed out loud as he read it before he looked around at the otherwise 'serious' classmates and he blushed into his sandwich. "There are many ways I would describe you my love but that is not one of them."

Ye Old ball and chains: 'well if you must change it to something can you make it more romantic then Anne please?' she wrote.

He rolled his eyes and wrote back "but I like your name."

Ye Old ball and chains: How about Lady Cordelia, or Princess Geraldine?

He sighed and rolled his eyes. "How about adored nimble nice enthralling girl?"

"?" she wrote back.

"Or how about an acronym of that?" he said with a smile.

"You're a bigger idiot then I thought." She wrote back.

"A-N-N-E girl, what a coincidence!" he chuckled as he wrote it.

"Are you seriously going to change it back to Anne?" she texted.

"Course I am, I love my Anne-girl." He confirmed. "Are you home yet?" he asked her before he changed her name on his phone to 'Anne-Girl xxx'

Anne-Girl xxx: about an hour ago I'm just heading back to the bookstore now.

Gil: Enjoy your first day.

He put his phone down beside him and smiled to himself. Being Anne Shirley's boyfriend was even better then he imagined.