Chapter 20: EPILOGUE.
Disclaimer: For the twentieth time, I do not own the Fosters.
AN: This is it. The final chapter of "Shared", unless in the future I decide to write anything else for it. I will be writing more Jonnor stories after this one, but it will be brand new and unrelated to the events of this story. This chapter will explain what happens to Jude, Connor, Harry and Danny in the future, after the trip to Georgia. If anybody reading wants to borrow some of the things I write below and turn them into stories themselves, then consider this author's note my permission to do so.
EPILOGUE:
Jude and Connor:
Three months after graduating from Anchor Beach, with their parents and siblings help, Jude and Connor had finally saved up enough money to lease an apartment for them to live in together. It was a small apartment, with only one bedroom and bathroom, as well as a small kitchen and living room. The couple loved it. Sure, it was a bit weird to not live at the Fosters house any longer, but neither Jude nor Connor would have it any other way.
Both of them went to college at the University of California, San Diego. Jude studied to become a teacher, and Connor to become a doctor.
They obtained their Associates Degrees in 2022, then Bachelors Degrees with honors in mid-2026. That same year, Jude started teaching English at Anchor Beach with his mother, and Connor started working at the same hospital where he and Jude first became boyfriends. In 2031 they obtained Masters Degrees, and Jude decided that his mounting debt was not worth increasing to get a Doctorate Degree. Connor went on to obtain his Doctorate, reconnecting with Daria and Taylor in the process, renewing the friendship they had once shared.
In June of 2034, the method of artificial insemination that produced three parent babies (Three Parent In Vitro Fertilization) was legalized in the United States. After being married for eighteen years, Connor and Jude finally decided to start a family of their own. Taylor offered to be the boys surrogate, and after crying copious gallons of hysterically happy tears, the two accepted.
Nine months later their son was born.
Justin Jacob Adams Foster was born on March 24th 2035 at 5:36 pm, weighing five pounds, six ounces. He came into the world screaming his tiny head off. He was immediately nicknamed "JJ" by his giddy fathers. Callie was named his godmother, and Danny was named his godfather.
Shortly after his birth, the small family moved out of the small apartment and into an actual house, right down the street from Stef and Lena, and right next door to Harry and Danny.
They waited until Justin was four before they thought about having another kid.
They decided to adopt this time, and obtained a license to foster children. In true Adams Foster fashion, the next addition to the family was a set of twins.
Cody and Evan Richards arrived on their doorstep on January 9th, 2039. They were two rundown little three and a half year old boys who had been through hell. Their caseworker told Jude and Connor in advance all the things the two boys had been through, and that they would have to be patient.
They had been in the system together for a year and a half, and had been to three separate foster homes.
For the first week, both boys seemed terrified and Evan didn't say a word. After a week, they started to warm up to Justin when he offered them some of his favorite toys. Another week went by before they relaxed around Jude or Connor. After a month of living with them, Evan and Cody were relaxed enough around the family to act like children instead of prisoners of war.
On December 10th, 2039, the twins called Jude and Connor dad for the first time. Three days later, they sat the twins down and asked them if they would like to stay with them permanently. They two boys sobbed into their foster dads' arms as they accepted. On February 22nd, 2040, Cody and Evan Adams Foster were officially adopted.
Connor and Jude were sharing the life they always wanted, and they looked forward to growing old together, and watching their children grow.
Harry and Danny:
After his parents regained custody and parental rights over him, Harry changed his last name back to his birth name of Kennedy. After graduation, Danny and Harry dated for another two years before the two got engaged and moved into a small apartment together. The couple married on August 5th, 2020, with Jude and Connor as their best men.
Danny decided not to go to college, and decided to put his mastery of guitar and bass guitar to use and started a band instead. The band was called "Iron Will", and it was meant to be a sort of tribute to the thrash metal genre that had long since fizzled out with the exception of the Big Four. In 2023, the bands first demo caught the attention of Blackened Recordings, the independent label founded by the legendary metal band, Metallica.
One night at a gig in a club in downtown San Diego, the four members of the legendary band showed up to watch Iron Will play, prompting Danny to nearly faint in the middle of a song. They were offered a record deal, a contract for five albums to be released within the span of ten years. Danny shook James Hetfield's hand and promptly fainted like he almost did on stage.
The band released their first album, titled "Beat and Scarred", on July 10th, 2024. The album went gold within three months, and platinum by the end of the year.
Harry decided that he was going to be a writer. He went to the same college as Jude and Connor, and earned his Masters in English. His first novel was published and released to critical acclaim in 2027.
Not long after that, the couple suffered a near fatal blow, when a routine visit to the doctor turned into Danny's worst nightmare.
In a repeat of history, Harry was diagnosed with the same type of Leukemia that had killed Gideon Kennedy, his twin brother, and Danny's beloved first boyfriend. The doctors said that, unlike Gideon, Harry's sickness had been caught at a time when it could still be treated and that remission was possible if he was admitted to the hospital and immediately started treatment.
Nevertheless, Danny was inconsolable for days after the diagnosis. He refused to leave his husbands hospital bedside for any reason. At one point, he became so agitated with a doctor that he had to be restrained and sedated by hospital staff to avoid somebody getting hurt. Connor and Jude were with them every step of the way.
A year and a half after treatment had begun, on April 10th, 2029, Harry was told that he was in remission. The cancer was gone. When the news was delivered, Danny broke down into extremely hysterical sobs and clung to Harry for three full hours before calming down. He had been terrified that he would end up losing Harry the same way he had lost Gideon all those years ago.
Harry's cancer never came back.
A year and a half later, on September 11th, 2030 they adopted a little girl named Jessica. Jude was named her godfather.
Twenty two years later, Jude, Connor, Danny and Harry stood side by side, applauding as Justin Adams Foster married her.
Two families, bound by brotherhood, became one large family, instead of two close ones.
With the birth of their first grandchild, the family was finally bound by kindred blood.