AN: So this is the final chapter and I just want to say a very big thank you for reading this and every review I have makes me so happy. I thought this was a very appropriate place to end this story and I'll try and get some more done of Because you loved me and start some new stuff. Thanks again, I hope you have enjoyed reading and please review xxx.
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'You have to follow nature's law.'
She walked through the clinic to the kitchen where he said he would meet her. He stood there deep in thought, maybe he was thinking the same as her. How this was where he had kissed her hand all those months before. This was where she had turned her back from him because she was still a nun, because she was still unsure of what she wanted, of who she was. Now though she was completely certain, now she knew. It was almost as if it had been inevitable, like all along this had been planed, like this was what God had intended to happen. For the two of them to find each other.
"Patrick." She smiled and his face lit up seeing her.
"Shelagh." He held out a small wrapped up box to her. "This is from me, and somebody else."
She took it and ever so gently pulled the ribbon away from the paper. On unwrapping the paper she found a small message, only six words but those six words would change her life. "Please will you marry my dad..." She read aloud looking up at him.
Timothy had been more than happy to help his Dad propose to Shelagh, he wanted things to go perfectly for them so he wanted to help in anyway he could, so he'd suggested writing her a note. He could see how happy she made his dad and she made him happy too. Since his mother died it had been like their family was a jigsaw and a piece was missing, now they had found it. They'd found it in Shelagh. He got the impression she'd found her missing piece in them too. The real family she'd longed for was there waiting for her and all she had to do was accept.
The smile on her face and the adoration in her eyes was all the answer he needed. It seemed that unspoken gestures were their thing. He opened the box taking the ring from it. He took her small hand in his own and slowly slid the silver band onto her finger. He then brought her hand to his lips and he kissed it, promising her he would always love her. That she would always be certain that this was the right choice, they're on the right road and it could lead them anywhere. Together. They'd spent so long apart, so long hiding what they felt because it was forbidden, they'd spent too long fighting they're feelings and now, they had to make up for that.
She couldn't get rid of the smile on her face, she didn't even want to. When they told Timothy he'd been over the moon, seeing such joy in the young boys eyes made her heart swell, it made her think how he and his Dad were getting a second chance at a family. Something she'd wished for as a child after her mother's death, but that wasn't to be.
She'd found her new mother in Sister Julienne, the older nun had taken care of her from her first day in the order and she was grateful for everything she had done for her. She saw the midwives as her friends, almost her sisters. If she had learnt anything from those months she'd spent in the sanatorium to where she was now it had to be that family was a lot more than being blood related, it was about being there for each other and loving each other no matter what happens. So no matter what happened to them in the future, they all had each other, the way nature intended and they would always be together.