I'mmmmmm back!

At least kinda! It has been so crazy since the last time I wrote, I have been so busy Potty training and buying a new car and its alllll been a little crazy!

I'm trying at least and this is the latest chapter, for those who remember the last...

love

Carrots x

"I'm bored!" Gilbert exclaimed three days later as he lay with the laptop on his stomach.

Anne smiled. "You haven't been bored in a long time!" she teased.

"Is this what people do?" he asked her with a grin, "I don't know how they take it."

"You've been studying a long time." Anne reminded him "You have five more months of this." She chuckled.

"Well, that last one is our honeymoon." He said with a grin "I doubt we'll be bored then!"

Anne laughed sweetly "No I doubt it." She concurred.

"How long since matching?" he asked her.

She laughed and looked round at him "Three days!" she exclaimed.

"Is this how it feels to live with me?" he asked her watching her as she turned around and started on her assignment again.

Anne chuckled "When I'm not studying yes." She agreed.

"I'm a bore." He sighed.

"No, stop you've wooed me already." Anne said rolling her eyes which made Gilbert chuckle "Or else a really hard worker, some people appreciate it as a personality trait." He sighed heavily "Why don't you go and see if we have any post?" she asked him, "it should keep you occupied for a couple of minutes." She said.

He nodded and stood up "I think I'll go for a run." He said taking action.

Anne smiled "I think that's a good idea."

Forty five minutes later Gilbert came back hot and sweating from his run.

"Good run?" Anne asked him.

"Yeah." He said with a nod. "and productive." He told her as he came over to the sofa with envelopes in hand.

"Oh?" she asked.

"Um," he said leaning over her and kissing her on the forehead as he gave her the envelopes. "I was running past the restaurant on Saddler's Street." He said "they were looking for a waiter to cover someone's maternity leave, or whats left of it, three months, It'll take me to the end of June, a few pennies saved up while we're still here and you're still on contract with the publishers. " He said with a smile showing her the form. "Work is good for the spirit." He said with a smile.

Anne chuckled "Do they know you're a doctor?" she asked.

"Well I would imagine it will come up eventually," he said "I fail to see how it would effect my ability to serve customers."

Anne smiled looking at him "You've not changed have you?" she said to him opening the first envelope "You're so willing to just work."

He shrugged "Its in my nature." He admitted "As long as I get to see you graduate it really doesn't matter about..." he looked as Anne's face changed as she read the contents of the first letter "what's that love?" he asked her.

"University of PEI," she said with a smile "an interview on Wednesday of next week."

He smiled back and nodded "I love it when a plan comes together."

"Don't speak too soon." She warned him.

Cornelia paced in front of them, clearly frustrated, much to Anne's, Leslie's, Owen's and in particular Gilbert's amusement.

"Isn't nice to be in love?" Anne asked her trying to hide her grin something Gilbert wasn't even attempting.

"It ought to be." Cornelia claimed, "Only why did it have to be a man!" she huffed "I like girls more." She said stopping suddenly "and yet here I am falling for a man, a man!" she exclaimed then glared at Gilbert when he burst into laughter. "And what is so funny Doctor?" she demanded.

His smile forced to a bit more sobriety "We can't help who we fall in love with." He said to her. "In your case its twice as complicated, there's more complexity to potentially falling in love with both sexes, and you've been quite open in saying you're bi rather then straight or plain out gay, did it not occur to you that since you were attracted to both sexes you might fall in love with a man?"

"I always saw myself with women." She struggled. "Its not to say I wasn't turned on my a muscle bound man, but actually liking a man, there's you, and the captain..." she trailed.

"Seems as though we need a title for you to like us, something for you to be impressed by." Gilbert teased.

"I like Owen too." Cornelia tried "Even if you are a liberal."

"Um, Thanks?" Owen questioned looking to Leslie who only giggled.

"I like your father." Cornelia defended to Gilbert, "though he is like you."

"He was here first I think its the other way round." Gilbert told her.

"All the same..." Cornelia said sitting down on the sofa in a huff "I can't believe I'm falling for a man!"

Anne still fighting a smile sympathised with her "Its frustrating when our hearts are intent on doing the exact opposite to what we would like it to do." She said with a smile to her fiance. "I did fall in love under protest."

"With good reason." Gilbert defended immediately then softened remembering the present company didn't know all the facts, his smile turned to a teasing one "I was an idiot."

Anne grinned then turned to Cornelia, "If you're so against falling in love with a man, then why agree to go on a date with him?" she questioned.

"Could you resist your doctor?" She asked Anne.

"She did, for several years." Gilbert said with a grin which received a glare from Anne.

"And Leslie you with Owen, did you not resist it?"

"Well, yes but then I was married." She acknowledged, "Its quite the reason to resist."

"Then you both can't know how I feel, I want to with all of me, I want to resist it, you saw the way he talked to me in that bookstore he's not afraid of me at all."

"The man is an animal farmer, if you can control on angry bull..." Anne almost laughed.

"Its really quite simple when you get to the basics of it..." Gilbert started, to which Anne shook her head and he realised "...oh right, that's not what you were looking for." Gilbert acknowledged. "You'd be no match for him!" Gilbert corrected himself. "Is that any better?" he whispered to Anne.

Cornelia looked towards the pair, "I can't believe you're leaving soon."

"End of June." Anne smiled sadly. "It'll be one of those bittersweet moments." Anne acknowledged.

"Can you do us a favour?" He turned to Leslie and Owen.

"Oh?" Leslie said surprised sitting up slightly "From me?"

"Keep an eye on Josh for us will you?" Gilbert asked of her. "He's staying here and I just want to make sure someone is on the look out for him."

"Are his parents not local?" Cornelia asked.

"No," Gilbert said shaking his head keeping back from critising his elders "they aren't."

Everyone picked up on Gilbert's dark tone and assumed there was a history to be told "I see," Cornelia acknowledged.

"Well I suppose if you must move there are worse people who we could form a closer acquaintance with." Owen said with a smile to Leslie.

"Is he excited to be starting at the hospital?" Leslie asked.

"He is." Gilbert said with a smile "I think we're all ranging in emotion from excited to terrified."

"Well we can take care of him." Cornelia added.

"Do you know who is moving into the apartment when you go?" Leslie asked.

Gilbert shook his head "The Lambs are actually looking at selling the apartment after we go, the board has bought the house on Coburg Road, specifically for someone to live there."

Owen sat up "I've not seen it advertised?" he questioned.

"Are you looking at moving?" Cornelia asked shocked.

Leslie nodded "not far but, we needed somewhere unscathed from..." She trailed looking sad.

"Do you think you could afford it?" Cornelia asked hopefully.

Owen nodded. "With the money from Leslie's apartment sale it would be a good deposit, over the half overall amount, we could put the deposit down and have a few months mortgage payments ready. I'll be writing of course..." he trailed.

"But I'm starting back at community college!" she exclaimed. Everyone looked surprised at the pair. "I want to be a midwife!"

"Leslie!" Anne exclaimed gathering her friend in her arms "Oh Leslie that's wonderful news!"

Gilbert looked at them surprised but delighted "Well I could talk to the alumi board, I still hold sway in the lambs, ex presidents always do, maybe they could do a private sale."

"I found it." Gilbert said coming in one day from his trip back to Charlottetown.

"You found what?" Anne asked him.

"Our nest." He said with a smile. "Its only five minutes from the hospital in the car three bed, with room to expand if we wanted to, and its only 140 thousand Anne, its a steal!" he said excitingly.

Anne looked to him surprised as he handed her the leaflet "but Gilbert we only have 5,000 saved up for our downpayment, we were looking at apartments to start with, not houses."

Gilbert sat and looked at her seriously. "Well..." he said quietly "mom and dad were going to leave it as a surprise for us for our wedding." He said quietly, "You see with dad getting older they decided to sell part of the farm." He started. Anne's head shot up as Gilbert's hands came up to calm her "Relax," Gilbert started, "it was 15 acres, which included the old barn which the farmer..." he emphasised

"Oh its staying farm land?!" Anne exclaimed.

"Dad wouldn't let go of it otherwise." Gilbert nodded.

"Oh I always liked your father!" she added.

"Sometime better then me." Gilbert teased her. "So, good farm land goes at a pretty price especially on PEI, it's not enough to pay for the mortgage, not that I would accept that anyway, and I offered to pay it back but dad insisted no, but they're giving us 10,000."

Anne's eye widened.

"It will still take us to the top of our range to begin with but once we're settled and even if I get to do a fellowship, I mean it wouldn't be plenty of money to spare for a while but..." he came and sat next to her "I just think it would be easier once we own our home, even if we decide to move closer to Avonlea one day owing is so much easier then renting and the landlord deciding our fate, it won't feel like home until its ours."

Anne listened carefully, knowing he had thought it through already and was excited about the place he had found. "Ours?" she smiled.

"Yeah, ours." He agreed.

"Which this place never was." She admitted.

"It has done us well." Gilbert acknowledged, "just I want something which is, us, you know you and me, and admit it Anne you wouldn't choose to live here."

"No." Anne chuckled "but I won't pretend to regret living here." She reflected "we've achieved so much while we've been here." She admitted "You're a fully fledged Doctor."

"And you a Master of Arts." He smiled. "You've become highly respected at the publishing house."

"Oh and all the doctors loved you at the hospital!" she said lightly with a laugh as she brought her feet up and snuggled into Gilbert's side as he sat back on the sofa relaxing.

"Your second book is about to be published." Gilbert smiled.

Anne laughed as he snuggled into her neck.

"I never imagined life could bring me so much happiness." He whispered to her romantically. "God sent you to me." He whispered even more gently which Anne smiled gently her eyes closing as he continued "He knew what I needed."

"You too." She whispered back before she reached for his lips and kissed him gently "You think you've found home?" she asked him again.

He nodded "I think I found us 'home'." He agreed.

"I can't wait to see it." She told him.