Anne stood next to Gilbert looking at the building in front of her.
"Wow!" Anne exclaimed.
"Yeah I know." Gilbert nodded. "What do you think?" he asked her.
"It was built 2009 right?" she asked.
"I know, its relevantly new, but I don't think its lacking in any charm, which is what a lot of newer builds lack." Gilbert started.
"That's not why..." she started but didn't get to finish.
"And it is small but we should really start small, and maybe as our income and family expand we can look for a bigger house then..."
"I wasn't..." she tried again but again he cut her off nervously.
"I mean really now, it'll be an investment, we have a small income we should be okay, its not forever but..."
With this Anne turned into him and gave him a kiss on the lips which quietened his frantic outburst.
She smiled up at him straightening the leather jacket she once bought him. "It wasn't a criticism, I'm actually impressed that it wasn't a brick building."
Gilbert smiled "You don't like too much bricks in houses."
"I know that." She smiled. "How do you?" she asked.
"I told you I know you." Gilbert smiled. "What do you think?" he asked.
"It looks charming." Anne replied. "Shall we look inside?" she asked him holding the key up. To which he nodded as they went to the front door.
She opened it directly into the living area, and open plan which lead through from a living area to a kitchen diner. She nodded gently looking at the titled floor which went throughout the living area. "Not bad for open plan." She nodded. "I like the floor but it will need a cosy mat for our feet." She smiled. She looked round surprised for a moment "that's the only window?" she wondered "that's lots of light for one window." She nodded.
"I know." He nodded.
"I like the wood in the kitchen, more traditional then a modern design." She said.
"I thought you'd like it." He nodded.
"Oh wouldn't it be beautiful if we got a wooden table right there?" she asked him sweetly.
"Its long and thin." Gilbert nodded. "No fireplace."
"Well we can't have everything otherwise we'd never move." Anne joked.
"I don't want you disappointed." Gilbert said quietly.
"Well, I've not been yet." She smiled to him.
He grinned before he told her "The bedrooms are this way."
"Marilla!" Anne exclaimed as she opened the door and hugged the older women "Oh I'm so glad you made it!"
Marilla smiled gently "I'm hardly going to miss it now am I?" she asked. "I'm just sorry the Blythe's couldn't come." She said practically.
"I do love my soon to be in-laws." Anne said carefully picking up the suitcase and bringing them both inside, "I am glad though that you came to my graduation." She said firmly "Its your success as much as mine." She said as they crossed the apartment.
"Stuff and nonsense." Marilla shook her head "its a testament to your hard work not mine."
Anne smiled "A testament I couldn't have made had it not been for the stability and the love you and Matthew provided." She said logically opening the spare room door, where they both entered in, where upon Marilla smiled.
"Cornflowers?" Marilla asked upon seeing them.
"Aren't they darling?" Anne asked, standing and smelling them "Smell them Marilla, drink them in!"
Marilla smiled at her briefly "You always put the strangest things in your room."
"Flowers are not strangers." Anne told her "they are all friends, although maybe I should have put the paper whites in here." She continued thinking "they are by far the friendlier flowers, but then these are so much more cheerful..."
"The flowers are fine." Marilla smiled. "A little odd in the bedroom..."
"Gilbert loves flowers in the bedroom..."
"Gilbert loves you..." Marilla interrupted
"Thats also true." Anne smiled.
"Speaking of which?" she asked as they came back out of the bedroom the case left in the spare room.
"He's at work." Anne smiled. "Although he should be home any minute, he said it would be about now."
Marilla rolled her eyes "Can he not just relax?"
Anne laughed "He says hard work is good for the soul." She smiled "I think his dad might have taught him that."
"And you Anne?" she asked.
"I handed in my notice already," Anne admitted. "I unlike Gilbert know how to be a lady of leisure." She grinned.
Marilla's lips upturned "I should hope so."
Anne laughed, "Well he couldn't be a man of leisure of he tried!" Anne corrected herself.
"How's your book going?" she asked.
"Actually its a surprise for Gilbert." Anne said.
"I think he knows you're doing a book." Marilla said dryly.
"I should hope so, no what I mean is, not that I'm doing the book rather the name I'm publishing the book in." Anne smiled "It'll be released the day of our wedding with a box sent to me a little early it means the name I'm publishing it under will be completely legal and legitimate." She smiled.
"You're publishing it under your married name?" Marilla asked to which Anne nodded with a huge grin on her face.
"Anne Blythe." Anne confirmed. "I'm going to dedicate it again to him and I'll sign it, he'll have my first signature as Anne Blythe." Anne smiled.
"You know how you're going to do it?" she asked.
Anne managed to giggle out "I've been practicing it since we got engaged!" to which Marilla rolled her eyes. "How are the twins?"
"Davy has settled on being a farmer." Marilla said with a smile.
"He chose the trade after all." Anne nodded.
"It is a relief in some ways, but its something I want to speak to you about." Marilla said to her.
"Oh?" Anne asked.
"Well its about the farm." She said. "when the time comes and I'm no longer here, I'm leaving the farm to you, Davy and Thea."
Anne looked wide eyed in surprise at Marilla. "but, we're not..."
"Family?" Marilla asked. "You must know you are now." She said quietly before she continued. "Now, Davy I believe will maintain the farm and as such the house, but the deeds to the property will be in all of your names, if one day you choose you could sell your third to Davy," Marilla said practically.
Anne nodded thoughtfully. "I hate the idea of 'selling' Green Gables to anyone is abhorrent to me, but that being said..." she said thoughtfully. "Until I can bring myself to it, I suppose I can trust Davy with my third to manage the land he can use it as his own to farm on, any changes of course I would want to be consulted until I sold it to him."
"Even with the farm working as it is, it'll be sometime before he was able to do that anyway." Marilla said practically. "Are you looking forward to coming home?" she asked Anne.
"We both are." She nodded. "I know we haven't been back much especially since I moved out here," she said slowly "but we have the summer with you before we move down to Charlottetown." She said systematically.
"Are you sure you don't want a proper honeymoon?" Marilla asked her "if its money you're worried about..." Marilla trailed.
"No, no no." Anne shook her head "truly Marilla we want to get settled and we don't have much time to get the things we want doing to the house done before he starts work and I go into university for my teacher training."
With that the elevator binged and the doors opened to Gilbert coming in. "Marilla." He said with a smile coming over to the sofa, Marilla stood and the two embraced. "I thought I'd make it back before you got here." He said before they pulled back and they sat back down, Gilbert sitting next to Anne with a quick kiss and his arm around her back as he settled.
"I only just got here." Marilla admitted. "How was work?" she asked.
"Well I won't need to go on the treadmill tonight." Gilbert smiled "One of the advantages of being a waiter is that you're walking around a lot." He smiled.
"Could you not work as a doctor?" Marilla asked.
"After my intern year I'll be able to pick up shifts outside of my work hours if I want them, during my intern year my work is still being checked over there is a much better doctor over my shoulder checking my work..."
"Gil-" Anne started.
"I'm not being self-detrimental, its the truth, and with good reason, these aren't case studies anymore, this is real people and real life, in my case little people." He said with a wide grin on his face. "I'd hate to have something go wrong with one of them."
"I can't believe John Blythe's son is a fully fledged Doctor." Marilla smiled.
"I just hope I don't disappoint anyone." Gilbert said quietly.
"Impossible." Marilla smiled. "Well with the exception of your Great Aunt."
Gilbert chuckled "well lets see I've been living in sin for these past two years at least. Heaven only knows what she would make of my life past that."
"I seem to remember your father saying she said you ought to have taken over the farm, that it was your responsibility as the heir." Marilla added.
"Yes she disagreed with my academic life." Gilbert nodded.
"Your father didn't agree." Marilla said to him firmly.
"I'm glad." Gilbert said quietly.
"He's very proud of you." Marilla remarked, then looked at them both "of both of you." She said with a smile, "as well we all should be."
Gilbert managed a blushing smile while Anne thanked her quietly.
"I'm being rude." Anne said breaking the lull "do you need a drink Marilla?" she asked her.
Marilla nodded her head and asked for a tea before Anne got up and went to the kitchen "So, Gilbert, work?" she said with a smile, to which he laughed. "Only another couple of days then we get to come home, with some money in the pocket." He said practically.
"My work would have seen to that." Anne said with a grin.
"Alright alright!" Gilbert objected "You know what they say about idle hands."
Marilla chuckled "the devils workshop."
"I inherited it I swear." He said with a smile "my dad could never be idle either."
Marilla nodded, "its true."
"You're encouraging him!" Anne teased.
"So says the women who got us both summer jobs, tutoring at the school." Gilbert retorted.
Marilla looked to Anne "fine one for secrets."
"Miss Stacy called and asked. The school is running it along with the summer school, it will be good for experience in the classroom, although its not teaching as such its tutoring, its for the high school students who are a few credits short of graduation."
"Oh!" Marilla nodded. "so you'll be seeing Davy." Marilla said, both Anne and Gilbert looked confused.
"But Coach..." Gilbert started.
"Oh, it was only his maths he failed in, its just the one credit he needs to make up, he's done well on the rest of his modules." Marilla shook her head. "Its nothing to worry about because I know he can do it if he only focuses."
"Will Davy graduate with the rest of the class?" Gilbert asked.
Marilla nodded. "He gets to go to graduation, will be part of graduation he just won't get his diploma until after he completes the maths module of it."
"Well," Gilbert said thoughtfully "he has that to look forward to."
"He wants both of you to see it." Marilla said with a smile. "He made me get me and you two a ticket."
Anne smiled "we'll be honoured."
Gilbert nodded "Well if he gets Anne or I in summer school, we'll see he passes."
"Davy wants to take over Green Gables." Anne told Gilbert.
"Oh?" Gilbert asked. "Well good for him, Green Gables and the property is a good size a good living for one person."
"Once its been cleared." Marilla acknowledged "a few of the fields haven't been worked since Matthew died." She turned the conversation back "so, does it pay well?" Marilla asked.
"Fine, considering we'll be doing it a month before we marry." Anne acknowledged.
"Have you any plans for your wedding yet?" Marilla asked her.
Anne's face lit up as she jumped up to find her folder.