Green tried to stay calm and collected.................but she was failing. All of the children were acting like............children. Maybe for the first times in there lives.

The thought made Green frown.

She shook her head trying to clear her head.

She had placed Zarek and Zander to sleep not an hour ago and they were still sleeping.

Maximus and Patrick were trying to learn to walk and run at the same time. They were also failing miserably. Green laughed at that thought as she watched both of them.

Calel, Valerie, and Xavior were playing catch in the grass, along with Kaitlyn and Taban. God help her. She had three children that were 2 and two that were 3. The energy that they emited while just playing catch caused her to shiver.

Wyatt, Owen, Angus, and Rhoswen were trying to help Sibyl gather flowers. Sibyl had exclaimed that she never saw something so beautiful. Since then, they had gathered over twelve dozen.

Griffin and Francine had been pushing Quintin and Ulric on the swings.

Green looked to right. She smiled.

Leonardo....Leo.....had been drawing the scene of the little one's playing. He was very talented.....the drawing looking like the children.

Jean and Hope.......her spitting image at that age.......were staring up at the clouds.......making images. Green smirked. She had taught them.

As they had arrived she looked up and mentioned that a face always seemed to follow them. The girls had looked up trying to see what Green had. The girls had been extremely confused until she explained.

She looked over to Raymond and Shannon. Both of them were sitting in chairs. They were playing a board game. Raymond had been to hurt to really do anything. Green had told him that if he tried to do anything like run around and get even more bruised up she wouldn't let him play for 3 months.

Fortuneately.........the threat had worked.

Shannon had promised to watch over her twin.

Nia and Ian were setting up all of the furniture inside, while Ayden and Avery cleaned ahead of them.

Green looked up at the mansion. A villa. Broots had found the perfect place to hide a big family. Sicily.

The villa sat on a small hill that over looked the ocean. Beautiful rich trees surrounded the villa. A natural water fall ran from the top of the nearbye moutains and through the forest next to them. Fresh water.

Beautiful.

Another small building was to the side of the house. Broots had informed her that it was a pool house. She didn't know if the children could swim or not. She was determined to teach them all to swim...........like Mama had taught her.

Green flinched at the thought of her mother.

She shook her head and then looked to her left. Jamieson and D'Artaganan were sitting in chairs just watching the others....making sure everything was ok.

Green's brown furrowed in thought.

Since Jamieson and D'Artaganan had shown up...........Ace had dutifully done as Jamieson had instructed.....not talking back or anything of the sort. Come to think about it.................................all of the children had obeyed Jamieson when she had asked them to do something. She had tried to tell the children to do things......but had not really listened to her.

Jamieson smirked, but didn't turn to look at Green.

Green just studied Jamieson. Really she didn't look like her..........or Jarod. It was odd..........all of the children looked like her.........except for her. It was odd really.

Jamieson frowned at her thoughts...her eyes taking on a look of hurt........................and anger. She suddenly turned to Green.

"Yeah well who the hell wants to look like you!!I know I certainly don't! God knows your such a great mother..." Jamieson mouthed off.

For some reason.......something happened that neither Green nor Jamieson would have expected.............................Miss Parker retaliated.

"I'm YOUR MOTHER and their's. You had the chance to be there mother and rescue them.....but you couldn't! So deal with it!" Green said.

And the second that her resentment towards Jamieson formed into words, and came out of her mouth........................she knew she had just made.........a big......mistake.

The look that passed over Jamieson's face will forever haunt her. The hurt that she had caused her own daughter in that moment........she would never forget that look.

Jamieson had taken just a second to look at her before she ran into the house.

Green closed her eyes tightly and smacked her head against the chair backing.

D'Artaganan, who had just witnessed the scene couldn't believe what had come out of his mother's mouth. The look of hurt in Jamieson's eyes was reflected in his.

"How could you say that? You don't know her! You don't know anything about her! You don't know what she's done for us in the past!! You don't know a damn thing about her!!" D'Artaganan had exclaimed in a loud voice at Green.

Green watched as D'Artaganan ran after Jamieson.

Green again squeezed her eyes shut and then opened them to look out towards the children.

All of them had stopped what they were doing and just looked at her.

All of them had the same expression on their faces.

Hurt.

Slowly all of them went into the house.

Green just sat there as she heard the sound of the door click shut behind the children.

She closed her eyes and let a few tears fall.

She was already messing up.

Bobby was right. The children deserved more than her.......but there was no way in hell that she could trust anyone to take care of them.

She had to do this.

She had to make this work.

Green slowly reached into her pocket and took out a note. Jarod's note......to her. Her finger tips brushed on the paper as she held it gently in her hand....afraid she would damage it. She passed her other hands fingers over the top of the note as she leaned down to kiss the note.

This was what she had left of him.

Not even a notebook.

Just a note.

This was all that was left.

Green opened her eyes and looked at the peice of folded paper.

This note........Jarod's last wish............his legacy.

She stared off into space.

She swore to make it work.................to finish what Jarod started.

If not for herself or Jarod.............then for the family that was a part of both of them.

Green sighed and deep sigh.

She suddenly felt a kick.She had almost jumped out of the chair.

She immediately looked behind her to see if it was one of the children. No one.

Suddenly she felt another kick.

She looked down at her stomach.

Green smiled widely.

The baby was kicking.

She caressed her stomach.

She began to laugh.

The baby was reminding her of what she had forgotten to fight for. What the baby wished for.

Freedom.