Jack's smile fell, "Dad, she's your daughter, the one you gave up, and she's not evil!" Gem looked directly at her father, "I understand that it's probably hard for you to accept and I'm sorry, but I can explain to you why I have yellow eyes." So they all sat on various pieces of furniture around the living room, "Mutated eye color is uncommon, it occurs when just the right genes and eye color of the parents mix. In other words just the luck of the draw, Jack has blue eyes because when purple and green mix it creates blue, when those genes combined with your dominant blue eye it made his eyes blue. "But in my case the colors combined in a completely different way, each color chose the exact opposite of itself where yellow was the dominate color and voila', yellow irises."

That night when everyone else was asleep, the three of them stayed up to talk, "What are our plans now that we're back in the real world?" Gem asked. Ennis spoke up, "I'd planned to marry Alma as soon as I got back but now I don't know…what are your plans?" Jack and Gem looked at each other, "We're going down to Texas to rodeo", Jack said. Gem smiled, "But I have a plan, the rodeos only go on for half the year, so during the off season we can go up to Broke Back sometimes." They nodded, "That does sound like a plan, but what if you want to get married and have a family of your own?" Ennis asked. Gem shook her head, "It is highly unlikely that I can ever have children, that man damaged me too badly." Jack and Ennis's eyes widened, "That's horrible!" they said at once. Gem nodded, "But its ok, I've learned to live with it."

Early the next morning they said goodbye for the last time, each hugged the other tightly when they dropped Ennis off in town. The twins drove south together, trading as driver every 200 miles or so. They hardly talked because one would sleep and the other would drive. As Jack drove Gem slept, using his leg as a pillow. When they arrived in Dallas Gem sold a lock of her hair to a wig maker to pay for their first meals.

Every winter as promised, they would make their way to Broke Back Mountain, where they learned so much in one summer. That spring Gem received a postcard from Ennis, Alma was two weeks away from delivering their first child and he wanted them there. Gem's blood boiled as she wrote back, she had to be the one to tell Ennis that Jack would not be there because he was on his honeymoon in Mexico and asked if she could stay for a while.

Jack had become increasingly trying over the past two years, not only had he had to marry because he got a barrel racer pregnant, but because he kept forcing men at her, trying to convince Gem to get married herself. Lureen's father drove Gem down to Waterton, he may not have cared much for Jack but he treated Gem like a daughter. After he had coaxed the truth out of her about her back pain every time she rode he paid for the operation to have it corrected. He would even pay for her operation that would allow Gem to have children when she decided to get married. All of this overwhelmed Gem at first, this man had money she could not believe, and he was offering it to her!