Note: Emily of New Moon and all its characters and plot belong to L M Montgomery, not me. This is only a fanfic based on Emily and her life.

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'The sun is shining and the birds are singing outside my window,' Emily Byrd Starr wrote in there journal one morning. 'It perfectly reflects my mood this morning, so I am revelling in it. I can see the buds blooming in Lofty John's Bush (I persist in calling it that, even if it does belong to me by rights – there are too many fond memories there) and the trees growing up on the Tomorrow Road. In the distance I can see the Disappointed House, the dear friend it is to me.'

Emily put down her pen and turned her face towards her lookout's window in the New Moon farmhouse. But it wasn't the view that had caught her attention; it was the black motorcar coming up the lane. She turned back to her journal to quickly finish her day's entry.

'Teddy is coming; coming to find me. It won't be long be fore he won't have to anymore. We are to marry in the autumn. Finally we can be together happily.'

She stole a glance in her mirror, put a hand up to adjust her hair and then raced out to the garden.

The young man standing at the door of his car surveyed her as she came towards him. She wasn't really pretty, but she had a captivating beauty that caught and held him. Her jet black hair contrasted with her white skin and she was quite slim and tall. Delicate ankles and long lashes that covered her mysterious grey-and-purple eyes.

He himself was very tall, and exceptionally handsome. Dark hair, dark eyes and a small beard that made him look quite grown-up. He dressed with a sophisticated air and looked a little aloof. Though that was to be expected since he had been living in Montreal for a few years.

But he was a Prince Edward Islander to the core and he was back in Blair Water to collect his soon-to-be bride.

Emily threw her arms around Teddy Kent and held him tight.

"I thought you'd never get here!" she said. "I was afraid this was all a dream; it seemed too good to be true!"

"I've pinched myself black and blue, trying to wake up from this dream." He rolled the sleeve or his shirt up, displaying multiple bruises. "I haven't woken myself up yet, so I'm guessing that this is very real."

"It's times like this that it seems that the rainbow gold and the top of the Alpine Path can't be far away."

"'Tisn't at all far, dearest. Look where you are, and me…Well now it's time for me to tell you why I was called back to Montreal so urgently."

"Oh yes you must tell me!" Emily said, clasping Teddy's hands tight with her purple eyes shining.

Both Emily and Teddy were chasing rainbow gold, that seemingly unattainable achievement that is always out of reach. Emily was a writer. Ever since she had been a small girl, she had needed paper and a pen to help her through. It was impossible for her to stop; she would have died instead.

Teddy, on the other hand, was an artist. He had recently received an important letter from the art school where he had studied after leaving Shrewsbury High. He'd had to leave the day after he proposed to her; the day after they had left the past behind them. She'd missed him sorely even though he had only been gone a week.

"Well, you would never believe it, Emily," he said, studying his beloved face, as they stated walking down the Tomorrow Road, "but I've been asked to become a teacher at The School of Design in Montreal. I'll still have time to do my own work, but this means that we'll have a steady income, as well as it being in an area that I enjoy working."

"Oh Teddy, I'm so proud of you! You were right – the rainbow gold isn't far away." Emily paused and sighed. "Though it does mean that we'll have to leave Blair Water, and all this," she said, gesturing at the area around them. "I knew it would have to happen sometime, but it is such a sad occasion."

"But we will be back to visit. Remember the Disappointed House is ours now, so we are welcome here."

"Oh, yes. That was nice of Dean to give us that, wasn't it?"

"Yes it was. Especially since he considered me a rival. But we belong there, just us. As I always said, 'Toast and bacon and marmalade'."

Emily laughed. "What naughty little scamps we were then." They stopped as New Moon came into view. Her home, for now. She never had been able to let go of it, but now there was one thing that could drag her away from it. She smiled and looked up at Teddy. Resting her head on his shoulder, she sighed contentedly. "I love you, Teddy."