A/N: This is the end! Thank you for everyone who has reviewed! I know it's short but I'm writing a sequel. Enjoy-Kiera

By eleven o'clock the next morning it was all over and Shane still hadn't arrived. Riley had been awake for fifteen minutes when the mid wife came in pushing the cot in front of her.

"Sleep much?" she asked.

"Not really."

This had been a surprise, after a long agonising labour Riley had expected to fall straight asleep but she just couldn't settle. The sight of her baby looking out at her with a white cap on made her smile and she gratefully took him.

"What's his name then?"

"Noah. Noah Shane Helms."

The mid wife nodded and promised to try phoning Shane again before she left. Noah was looking at Riley as if she wasn't really sure if he trusted her or not.

"Look at you. You know I'm going to tell you a secret but you can't hold it against me. When I first found out I was having you I thought it was the end of the world and I thought my life was over, but you brought me to your Daddy and we both love him very much."

Noah was still eyeing her suspiciously and Riley kissed him on the forehead.

"You're perfect and I hope you stay like this forever."

"Mrs. Helms, your husbands here."

Then Shane was at the door, looking tired, worried and excited all the once.

"Sorry, I had trouble and then I got home and there where all these messages on the phone and.."

He stopped talking and sat on the edge of the bed.

"If you cry I'll hit you." Riley warned. "Got it?"

Shane nodded.

"Shane, this is your son Noah, and Noah this is your Dad Shane. Say hi."

"Can I hold him?"

"Why not, he's half yours."

Riley passed Noah to Shane who carefully took him and looked as though he was terrified he would drop him.

"Sorry I wasn't here." He apologised without taking his eyes off the baby.

"It's ok, you're here now and just so you know, this is the part where you tell me that you're proud of me for going through thirteen hours in labour."

But Shane didn't say anything, what he did was kiss her. It wasn't the kind of kiss Riley had spent three months (which was longer then she would admit) hoping for, it was just a soft kiss on the lips but it made her stomach turn over.

"You're amazing." He told her. "Noah is amazing and now we're a family. We're not an ideal family or a perfect one, but we are one. Does that bother you?"

It didn't, it really didn't. What bothered her was that she was madly in love with Shane and couldn't do anything about it, but that was another story for another day. Today, only Noah mattered, tiny Noah who was now giving Shane the same look he'd given his mother. Noah was her reason to live and Shane had given her him, if it was possible she thought she loved him more for it, because she did of course love him and he loved her.