Hey readers I hope you are still out there and enjoy this chapter. I'm sorry that it's been so long I have no excuses except that I have been going through a lot with work and life. But hopefully I'm back and for good. Like once again I hope you read this and like it.

Chapter 23…

2022

Naya is sitting the kitchen table with Lily eating breakfast. Lily is eating a bowl of coco puffs cereal and Naya is eating a bagel while looking through her phone.

"Mama, when is Mommy going to be back from her work?" Lily asks Naya, looking up at her with big blue eyes.

Naya smiles and rubs Lily's back. "She is coming home in a couple hours baby. I know she is been gone with Aunt Ashley working. I miss her too."

Lily smiles and nods at Naya. "You take me to school right now so when I get home I will see her okay?"

Naya laughs and watches Heather's clone get up from the table putting her shoes on and grabbing her backpack. Lily then stands by the door.

"I'm ready Mama, come on." She says putting her hands on her waist.

Naya gets up on the chair and loses her balance and puts her hand on her stomach from pain. "I'm coming baby give Mamma a second." She says hiding her sudden pain from her daughter. Naya moves slowly getting her coat and purse. They then leave for Lily's school.

-About an hour later.

Naya runs in the house dropping her purse at the door and sprints the bathroom. She falls to the ground and throws up in the toilet. After throwing up she gets up and looks in the mirror in confusion. "What did I eat?" she says to herself. She walks back into the kitchen and starts the clean up the kitchen from breakfast. She glances at the calendar next the sink and looks at the few months. She notices the dates Heather and her marked when they were doing inseminations since they started at trying to get pregnant again. The first two cycles had no success the last one was a little over a month ago. They did a pregnancy test and it was negative and she really never thought twice about not getting her period just assuming it was late. "Noo. It can't be or can it?" She goes into the bathroom grabbing a pregnancy test.

Minutes later Naya is standing in front of the mirror smiling looking at the positive test. She grabs her phone and calls Heather. "Hemo!" She says excitedly.

Heather who is driving in rush out traffic near LA. "Naya!" Heather says sarcastically back at her wife.

"Are you sitting down?" Naya asks.

"Um yeah for like two hours now in traffic does that count? My ass is killing me." Heather laughs back. "What's up? I really don't want any bad news I just want to come home to my girls and fall onto our bed."

Naya smiles, "This is for surely not bad news.."

"Fuck! Oh my god! Asshole!" Heather screams and slams on her breaks.

"Are you okay?" Naya says worried about Heather.

"Yes, there was just an asshole that came out nowhere, no what where you going to say?" Heather says then hears a beep in her phone. "Wait, hold one a sec." She pulls her phone from her ear and looks at it.

Naya doesn't hear Heather say that. "We are pregnant!"

Heather looks at her phone and sees it was an alert her battery is dying. She hears Naya thru her phone. "What!" She yells in the phone which is away from her face at this point. Just then car truck comes out of nowhere and slams into the driver's side of the car. "Oh my god! Naya!"

Naya on the other end hear the crash and screams. "Heather! Heather!" Naya turns white as a ghost not knowing where Heather is but she has got to get to her.

-About an hour later Naya runs in the hospital after finding her thru her gps on her cell phone. She runs up to the nurses' station. "My wife she was brought here. She was in a car accident. Her name is Heather Mmmorris- Rivera."

The nurse looks at a frantic tear filled eyes Naya and comes around the desk. "They just brought her in they are working on her."

Naya wipes her eyes, "How bad is she?"

"I don't know her condition I will check have a seat. I'll be right back." The nurse points the waiting room near her.

Naya walks to the emergency room and sits down starting to fidget with her ring trying to stay strong for Heather. Moments later a doctor and the same nurse walk towards Naya.

"Mrs. Rivera?" The doctor says to Naya. Naya nods and stands. "Heather is in stable condition; she is still unconscious and needs to be taken in for surgery. The accident shattered her hip and fractured her lower back when she was pinned in the car. She has internal bleeding but we have in controlled."

Naya starts to cry not realizing how hard hearing these things were actually going to be. "She's going to be okay though..right?"

The doctor exhales and nods, "Getting her up to surgery is the most important thing right now."

Naya nods trusting the doctor, "Thank you doctor. Can I see her?"

"Yes, come with me." The three walk down the hall and into one of the room. Heather is hooked up to machines and unconscious. Naya runs up to her and takes her hand.

"I'm here Heather. I love you. I know you will be fine, I know you."

The doctor and nurse look on at Naya talking to Heather. "Is there anything about her we should know any allergies or past surgeries? I did notice a scar from a surgery on her spin." The doctor says looking at Heather's chart.

Naya bites her lip wiping her tears again and shakes her head. "She doesn't have any allergies…the scar is from a surgery she had from a fall, she is a dancer and she had an accident a few years ago, dancing means so much to her…"

"Good to know thanks." The doctor looks at Naya and puts his arm around her. "She is strong we already know that, I will do everything I can."

Naya exhales knowing Heather is the strongest person she knows. The doctor leaves and nurse opens her hand to Naya showing she has Heather's rings.

"I got these to give to you. I didn't want them to get lost." The nurse hands the rings to Naya.

"Thank you." Naya grabs the rings and holds on to them tightly as the wheel Heather out of the room to surgery. "Heather I'm not going anywhere. I love you so much." Naya gives Heather one last kiss before the take her away.

About an hour later, Naya is sitting in the waiting room on her phone. "She is still in surgery mom I haven't heard anything. Thanks for picking Lily up. Yeah don't say anything to her right now. I'll call her a couple hours. Yeah I called Heather's mom already. She is going to come over if she needs to I just have to give her the update. Mom I can't lose her…" Naya starts to cry.

"Naya, Heather is not going anywhere. If I know Heather she is more worried about you right now. I finally got around to watching the new video you two did last month. You know your wedding one, which don't worry I still would like to talk to you about but that's another time. Heather's strength is defined in her vows to you. Just think of that right now. It will get you through this. I love you Naya. I'll be there with Lily just call when you are ready."

Naya nods trying to stay strong. "Thanks mom you are right, love you. Tell Lily I love her too. I will call you soon." She ends the call and curls up in the chair. She unclenches her fist and looks at Heather's rings. They have small amounts of blood on them and she wipes them off.

-A little over a month ago

Heather is getting the video recorder set up in bedroom while Naya is taking a pregnancy test. Naya walks to the doorway of the bedroom and Heather looks up at her.

"Well?" Heather says nervously.

Naya frowns and shakes her head. Heather pats the bed next to her and Naya walks over and lies next to her. "I really thought this was the time I just felt different. I felt familiar somehow. I can't explain it but it was just a feeling I had."

Heather holds Naya and kisses her softly. "It will happen Nay; I promise…I love you."

"I just hope we didn't wait too long, we aren't that young anymore."

Heather laughs, "I don't know about you but I feel young still, I mean I haven't opened my dance studio yet. We have lots of life left that's for sure. We will just try again in a couple months because I think that we might miss the window next month because I have to work with Ashley on that movie."

Naya pouts, "I hate when you go out of town, I mean you are just the glue around here."

Heather laughs, "What would you do without me huh?"

"Die." Naya says holding tighter to Heather.

Heather laughs and Naya then she pouts again, "Yeah I'm pretty awesome I know." Heather then tickles Naya. "So I was thinking about sharing our wedding story with everyone tonight."

"Oh lovely." Naya says sarcastically. "I mean I don't think hardly anyone knows that story. Hopefully it goes over well."

"Exactly, it would be fun sharing." Heather begs.

Naya nods and Heather starts the video.

"Hello everyone sorry it's been a couple months but Naya and I have been busy trying to get her pregnant and don't worry we will let you guys know when we do. We thought that we would tell the story of wedding tonight to make up for our long time away." Heather says.

"And I just wanted to say for the record before we start that the moral of this story is that Heather and I got married and mom when you watch this I hope you don't hate Hemo and me. We always wanted to tell you but yeah I'll be honest we were scared."

Heather laughs nervously, "That goes for me too mom. Okay some background its January a couple weeks before our huge wedding we our mothers have almost all planned…we love you mom's..anyways it has becoming extremely stressful for Naya and me. I was at home reading news on my phone. Naya comes storming through the door and falls to the couch next to me…."

2013…

"I can't take it Hemo…she made me go to another fitting, test even more cakes, and get this she made me look at candy centerpieces…I mean come on candy centerpieces. I swear this is supposed to be the best day of our lives. I think it's more hers." Naya curls up to Heather warm body on the couch.

Heather smiles and puts her arm around Naya. "I know what you mean I mean I'm totally thinking maybe it wouldn't be that bad if my mom went back to hating I was gay again. She called me five times today to go over who is RSVP'ing and seating arrangements."

The doorbell rings.

"Can you get the door and if it's my mom will you tell her I joined a cult." Naya says in exhaustion.

Heather laughs at Naya kissing her and gets off the couch walking to the door. She looks through the peep hole then opens the door. Dianna and Lea are standing there with two bottles of wine.

"Hey guys we heard from each of you how stressful your days were we thought this might help." Lea says showing them the wine.

Naya jumps off the couch, "Oh my god get inside before my mom calls and ruins this."

-A couple hours later the girls are all pretty much drunk and talking.

"I think you guys should just go to Las Vegas and get married. Screw the family. I mean they weren't there when you fell in love. I mean your mom didn't accept you guys till what like 5 minutes ago?" Lea says loudly.

"No shit! I agree Hemo, come on lets go." Naya says laughing and Heather gives the topic a lot of thought in her drunken mind but laughs it off.

"So speaking of sex…I want to tell you guys something..well Lea and I do that is.." Dianna says while Lea shakes her head no to Dianna.

"Wait when were we talking about sex? Did I miss something?" Heather says confused. "I mean we can don't get me wrong anything but wedding talk is cool with me."

Dianna realizes maybe this isn't the right time and shakes her head. "Nothing never mind."

-The next morning.

Heather is up early packing a bag in the bedroom. She leaves and brings it out to the kitchen and grabs some coffee and walks back in the bedroom up to a sleeping Naya. She sets the coffee on the nightstand. "Naya…"

Naya groans and opens her eyes. She clenches her head and grabs for her glasses and then her coffee she can already smell. "How much did you let me drink last night? What time is it?"

"Too much I guess and it's almost noon. Come on you need to get ready. We have to get going." Heather sits on the bed next to her.

Naya sits up and attempts to opens her glued shut eyes at Heather who is smiling at Naya. "Oh my god please don't say my mom is waiting for me out there."

Heather shakes her head. "No come on seriously get up Lea and Dianna are going to be here pretty soon."

"Okay…I'm so lost where are we going?" Naya says now looking at Heather.

"We are going to drive to Vegas and get married. Come on it will be fun. Let's do it!" Heather says with a big grin on her face.

Naya laughs hysterically thinking Heather is joking. "Baby good one!" She then realizes with Heather reaction she wasn't kidding. "You are serious?"

Heather nods, "Yes, Naya I want to get married to you just me and you; it's always been me and you for so long I want to share this last moment together alone. I mean then maybe the whole family wedding won't be as difficult because we will always have this…Marry me Naya Rivera?"

Heather smiles flashing her baby blues at Naya. "You can stop trying to convince me, and get off the bed I have to get ready, I'm getting married today!"

They smile at each other and kiss.

-6:00 pm.

The girls pull into Las Vegas. Naya is driving while the girls are looking at all the wedding chapels.

"Oh my god look Adele is in Las Vegas tonight. We should get tickets. Oh never mind she already started." Lea blurts out.

"I'm sure they are sold out. I mean its Adele." Heather says. "Plus I'd rather get married."

Naya smiles and leans over kissing Heather. "Yeah me too, but I'm come on it is Adele honey." Naya says and laughs.

"Naya drive to the Stratosphere." Naya looks at Heather in shock.

"Why?"

Heather smiles, "Because do it, no questions."

They all smile and Naya pulls up the hotel and they get out of the SUV. The valet takes the keys and girls grab their bags. They walk into the hotel.

"Dianna take Naya shopping for a dress." Heather kisses Naya who is speechless. "I love you see you soon."

"I love you more. What are you up too?"

Heather smirks at Naya and pulls Dianna and Lea toward her. "I need to talk to you guys." They walk off to the side. "I'll leave our room keys at the front desk make sure you guys get some dresses and meet us on top of the Stratosphere at 8:00." Heather says to Dianna.

Dianna nods to Heather, "Where are you guys going?"

"I have to make a few more calls, Lea needs to help me. And we have to get dresses too. Take care of her don't let her change her mind." Heather says nervously.

"Yeah I doubt that will happen but okay will do." Dianna looks at Lea. "Bye Lea." She says awkwardly to her. Heather notices and rolls her eyes at the two.

"Come on." Heather smiles one last smile at Naya and then her and Lea walk off up to the counter to check in.

8:00 p.m. in a small balcony chapel on the top of the Stratosphere.

Heather and Lea on waiting with the officiator.

Heather is dressed in an elegant red dress. Lea is wearing a black dress. "I can't believe what we accomplished in two hours. We should like win award or something." Lea says noticing Heather looking at the clock on the wall. Lea grabs Heather's hand. "She will be here. She is just fashionable late."

"I hope you are right. I hope she didn't change her mind about this."

"Impossible…you guys are meant to be…" Just then the door opens to the chapel. Dianna is standing there in a long black dress. Lea's mouth drops at the sight of her. "Hemo I have to tell you something…"

"Right now?" Heather looks for Naya.

"Yes…I'm sorry but I have to tell someone…Dianna..told me that she loves me."

Heather looks at Lea. "And?"

"What do you mean and?"

"Naya told me she saw you guys messing around at our engagement party Lea and I mean come on." Heather says continuing to look for Naya walking through the door.

"I love her but I don't think I can love her like she loves me."

"Loving her is the important part Lea. Don't forget that, everything else will just fall into place…" Just then Naya walks through the door. She is wearing a royal blue dress. The girls lock eyes and both starts to tear up. Dianna walks up next to Lea they sit down in the chairs. Naya walks up to the front of the chapel.

"It's about time." Heather says smiling at Naya. "I'm usually the late one…you look absolutely gorgeous."

"Thank you, I'm sorry I was late I couldn't find a place to park." The girls smile. "You look so beautiful Hemo. You sure you wanna do this Hemo?"

Naya waiting for Heather to say something instead she is quiet. Just then music starts to rise. The doors open again everyone looks at the door. Adele walks in and smiles at Naya and Heather.

"Are you serious? How did you do this?" Naya says to Heather.

"Ask Lea. She is amazing she did it for us. After this we need to help her with her feelings with Dianna." Naya smiles and looks at Lea. She mouths thank you to Lea. Lea smiles back and nods.

Adele walks up to them. "Ladies congratulations, Naya, Heather requested I sing this to you she says it's how she feels right now at this moment."

"One and Only" music continues and Adele sings to them.

-After the song the ceremony begins. They get to their vows.

"Naya, I just wanted to say thank you for giving me this chance to love you. I know that it hasn't been a perfect past but I promise you I will try my hardest to make it the best future we can get. When I look at you I thank god for you, you are my strength. I mean you say I'm the strong one but I'm only strong because I have you. All I want to do is make you happy because you are my life. I promise I will never give up on us and never leave this earth one day sooner than I have to because that would be one less moment I have with you. Thank you for never giving up on us. I cherish you Naya Rivera I vow to be the woman you deserve for the rest of our lives. Do me a favor trust me and I'll show you I'm worthy of your trust by never hurting you and worshiping our love..."

2022…

Naya is still looking at Heather's rings and smiles remembering Heather's vows to her. She knows Heather won't give up she promised her. She is then brought back into reality when she sees the nurse walking her way. The nurse sits down next to Naya. She grabs her hand and looks at Naya.

"Mrs. Rivera…"

Naya scared to death knowing this can't be good….

TO BE CONTINUED…