Thank you to all that read and all that reviewed! Um, Thanks also for explaining how confusing that chapter was. I'll do my best to fix it. Oh and I'll answer all reviews at the end of the story.

Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own that wonderful show Seventh Heaven. Then again, if I did, I don't think I could do half a good job as these people do on some of these scripts. Oh and Robbie never would've left.

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"Martin!" Kevin yelled, a little boy in his arms and Savannah holding his hand.

"Suze," Anna ran over to her, "I lost my tooth and the fairy gave me a dollar!" She showed Susie her missing tooth.

"Hold Jacob for me," Kevin gave Martin his son, "I'm running late to pick up Michael at day care and Luce at the hospital," He explained, She's in to find out why she's getting so sick. I'm telling her it's just the flu, but she wanted confirmation," He explained.

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," Jacob said to Martin, as if that was the most important thing he was ever going to say in his life.

"Exactly, but your mother hates apples," Kevin grinned.

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She looked around and sighed, of course no one was there to pick her up. After all, she was here unannounced. She was going to get a rental car, but decided to grab a taxi at the last minute.

Whether she was avoiding everyone or in a nostalgic mood, she didn't know when the driver was told to take her to the Promenade. She walked up and down, smiling at every little thing that she remembered.

Finally, at sunset, she knocked on the all too familiar door, nervous. David, with his shaggy yellow mop of hair and lopsided smile opened the door, and she hugged him, overcome by tears.

"David, was that Ms. Engle? I've been meaning to talk to her about a personal matt-" Eric walked up and stopped still in front of his daughter, surprised, "Annie! She's here!" He was smiling and hugged her after David, "I've missed you, Ruthie,"

"Ruthie?" David was shocked, "You've changed,"

She laughed, "So have you, David, now in eighth grade instead of second!" She laughed and hugged him again, "I told Sam I was coming home like two weeks ago. Didn't he tell you?" She asked her father

"Sam forgets everything," David explained, "He still thinks we go to the same school sometimes, " At her confused look, he explained, "I go to a boarding school and Sam goes to the public school, remember?" He frowned at his sister's lack of knowledge, "Wow, you've really lost touch,"

"Where's this school?" She asked, letting her father lead her into the living room

"Outside of Glenoak, about a few miles east, it's a boy's school," He explained, "I usually come home on the weekends and holidays,"

"Why do you go to boarding school?" She asked, confused

"I was asked and they offered a scholarship for a full ride all the way to high school," He shrugged, "My science project won first place in the entire state, remember?" He sighed," We need to catch you up,"

"Ruthie?" Annie came charging down the stairs and let out a cry for joy, "Oh Ruthie!" She embraced her daughter in a death grip and Ruthie soon needed oxygen, "Now everybody's going to be here! Mary, Martin, Robbie, isn't this wonderful?" She smiled so wide it looked like it hurt to Ruthie.

"Martin's here?" Ruthie chuckled, "That's so weird, because I was talking to some guy about Martin on the plane,"

"He's outside with Sam and Suze," David said, "I'll show you, if you don't know where the yard is?"

"I'm definitely liking that sarcastic vibe," Ruthie said, "Did you get that from Simon?"

"No, he got it from you, Ruthie," a new voice interrupted and Ruthie turned to find Simon's laughing eyes on her, the stupid earring still in his ear, glinting in the sunlight. She didn't know when she had ever been as happy to see her stupid brother.

"Ah Ruthie, you're turning into a regular Mary, disappearing for days at a time," He said, hugging her

"Are you still with that girl, Tulip or Clover, or Daisy, or?" She frowned trying to remember the name that always eluded her.

"Rose and I broke up," He chuckled, "Then came a couple more girls until I found Carrie," A silly grin came on his face, "She's out of town at the moment, but everyone's meeting her at Christmas for the first time, including you,"

"Well, at least you waited," She smiled and hugged him, breathing in the scent of Simon, old cologne and fresh, crisp, dollar bills. She would always smile when she spotted some kind of American money and think of Simon, "I missed you, Simon,"

"You too, Ruthie," He kissing her forehead, smiling, "Matt and Katie are actually here right now as well," He got a smirk on his face, "Matt won't believe you're here!"

"Who are you?" A little girl, on an older man's shoulders, asked loudly behind Ruthie.

"Hey Simon," Matt grinned, "Katie, that's a little rude to say to Simon's girlfriend," Simon choked and Ruthie rolled her eyes at his immature response.

"Sorry," She smiled, "I'm Katie Camden," and held out her hand

"Ruthie Camden," She laughed while Simon had a disgusted look on his face, "It's so sad, Matt, not knowing who your own sister is!" She hugged him, "I missed you too,"

"Ruthie?" Matt was surprised, "How are you?"

"Fine," Ruthie smiled, "How's Sarah? Still exhausted?"

"She's at home with the baby" He explained, "They're both sleeping right now and Katie wanted to play with Anna and Suze," He smiled, "Why didn't you call or give a heads up?" He asked

"I wanted to surprise everyone," She said, lying through her teeth. She just didn't have anywhere else to go, "How are you, with the baby and everything?"

"I'm doing better then I was with Katie here," She smiled, "I guess once you have doubts about fatherhood, it's hard to get them again," He laughed at his feeble attempt at a joke, "Do you mind holding Katie while I find out what happened to her teddy?" He held out his four year old to her, "She hates walking without it,"

"No," She laughed, "I think she's adorable, I do, but," She sighed, "I haven't held a baby, since-" She trailed off, "It's just hard,"

"I'm sorry. I forgot about that," Matt cursed himself inwardly, "It's been such a long time since Brady,"

She sighed, tensing as she usually did when Brady's name was said, "Anyway," She wanted to get the topic off Brady, there was always a long uncomfortable silence when someone brought Brady or Peter up, "Mary's coming as well?"

"Mary's already here, actually," Simon said, "She and Charlie came in late last night," He explained, "Robbie is coming by soon. They're just sleeping right now,"

"Not anymore," Mary went in the foyer with Lucy, "Charlie and I have been up since noon," She laughed, "Is that Simon's girl?"

"Seriously, that is just wrong," Simon said, "Mary, Luce, your baby sister, Ruthie," He pointed to her, "I was the only one who recognized her, how sad is that?"

"Well, you and Ruthie did share a room for a long time," Mary pointed out, hugging Ruthie, "Ruthie Camden! I was thinking about kidnapping you and bringing you home,"

That brought a round of chuckles.

"What'd I miss?" Sam came in at that moment, noticing all his siblings in the foyer, laughing, hugging, and all talking at once, "Is that Simon's girlfriend?"

A groan came from Simon again.

"It seems the seven of us have been reunited," David explained, holding little Katie "Ruthie traveled home for the celebrations," Matt gave Katie her teddy and she ran off, to find her friend and cousin.

"I told Sam I was coming home on the phone after asking if I could talk to David," She explained, "I wanted to hear as many familiar voices as possible and it was wonderful to hear Sam's again," She hugged her little brother, tousling his messy hair.

"That was you?" Sam had a faraway look in his eyes, "You were so vague and I assumed it was Lucy, so that's what I told Dad and Mom,"

"So that's why no one was expecting to see her," Mary laughed, "Wow, it's been what? Years since we were all together as a family, living under the same roof,"

"Yeah," Matt smiled, "A lot of memories, good and bad," He smiled at Happy, still alive, but much older and not much left in the old dog's lifestyle, "Remember when all Simon wanted was a dog?"

"And Mom found Happy," Many hands reached out to affectionally pat the aging dog. The vet had said that Happy had only one or two more years to live at the most.

"Now, all I want is," He shrugged, "To make sure Carrie and I are together," He scratched his cheek, turning a light shade of red.

"That's Simon Camden, a success story," Matt grinned, "Raised as a preacher's son with a bad boy lifestyle now a world famous director,"

Simon groaned, "Don't quote the tabloids, Matt,"

"I was just joking," Matt laughed, "What about you, Mary?"

She thought for a while, "I want to see Charlie more often," She admitted, "It's hard with Carlos and him in Puerto Rico and Robbie and I in Chicago," She looked at Lucy affectionally, "Luce?"

Lucy smiled, "I want to be a good mom to my kids, a good wife to Kevin, and a good minister to Da-my congregation," She leaned her head on David's, all of them now sprawled on the living room, "Dave?"

"David," Her brother corrected, "I want to research some more on Pavlov's classical conditions, and have the doctor look at my elbow," He pulled it up, showing a nasty purple bruise, "I think I have lateral humeral epicondylitis," Of course, everyone looked at Matt this time.

"Tennis elbow," Matt explained

"Inflammation and pain over the outer side of the elbow involving the lateral epicondyle of the humerus and usually resulting from excessive strain on and twisting of the forearm," David explained even further. Sam rolled his eyes and said,

"Mine is to figure out my math homework before the break is over," Sam said cheerfully, "Matt?"

"To save lives. Same as when I was in college," He took a quick check at David's elbow, "You skinned it a bit, put some ice and lotion on it and stay off of it for a day or so," He shrugged, "I'm guessing here, since this isn't my field of work,"

"I don't want to hear about that!" Sam was disgusted.

Matt rolled his eyes, "How about you Ruthie?" He turned to her

She sighed, "I want to get over everything bad in my life, Brady, him, everything,"

"It's been three years, Ruthie," Sam pointed out, Mary pinched him above the elbow for his lack of caring.

"But I can't seem to move on. I severed all ties. I wanted so badly to forget Brady and P-"

She halted, not able to go on. Happy licked her arm, before lying on the floor again. She took a lot of naps as she got older.

"It just wasn't fair, so soon after his death. I still want to be able to move on from them, but I also want to stay in contact with you guys and Mom and Dad," She sighed, thinking, "Brady would be about four now,"

"Ruthie," Lucy laughed, hugging her little sister, "No matter what happens, you are always part of this family,"

That two way hug turned into a seven way hug, with Sam complaining that Simon's earring was poking him in the back. That was when Ruthie figured out that Sam, at fourteen, was a popular kid and David was a genius, not her two eight year old twin brothers who did everything together.