A/N - This chapter contains no real important events (aka it's a cute filler chapter). I still hope you all read. The idea has been in my head for the past couple days. I own nothing, if I did this would have been part of the story.

June 1985

To say Elinor Loredan was a protective mother would be an understatement. If Rubianna wasn't with her Elinor would worry herself to the point where she had to check on the girl but, Rubianna was only a year old so she didn't mind her mother constantly checking on her. Rubianna was one of the most gorgeous babies ever, especially if you asked Elinor, she had dark brown hair and beautiful blue eyes. She also had one of the best personalities, she loved everything and everyone. She even loved it when people read to her, which her parents frequently did.

At a year old Rubianna wasn't quite walking yet and while Elinor worried Elliot assured her that "everything will be fine."

"What do you mean everything will be fine? Rubi's a year old and still isn't walking yet. The development book I read said that most babies start walking around 9 to 10 months."

"You know books aren't always right." looking at Elinors shocked face he continued "Besides I was over a year old before I started walking and I'm perfectly fine."

"Are you sure?" Elinor asked in a sarcastic tone.

"Ha Ha very funny."

It was at that time that Rubianna, sitting in her rolling entertainer, came in the room smiling a mile away. She quickly caught the two adults attention. Elinor got off the couch and picked her daughter up. Almost two weeks previous Rubianna had begun talking and ever since it was hard to keep her quiet.

"Ma Ma Ma Ma Ma"

"Hello sweetheart." Elinor didn't know how she got such a sweet daughter "Elliot I have an idea."

"What?" he tried to sound clueless but he already knew what his wife was going to suggest.

"Why don't we try to get Rubi to walk?"

"We've been trying for weeks. I told you when she's ready she'll start walking."

At this Elinor sat her daughter down on the floor like she usually did when she wanted to talk to her husband. "I know what you've said but it can't hurt to push her progress along"

"Maybe it will."

"How?"

"I don't know, I was just offering up a different possibility of what might happen."

"You and your 'different possibilities'. Sometimes I think you say them to annoy me."

"Maybe I do. Maybe I don't."

"Well if you have no real arguments I think we can start."

Elinor looked down expecting to see her daughter but, nothing was there. "Where'd she go?"

"Who?"

"Rubianna, who else?"

"I don't know. Well she can't have gone very far."

At first Elinor and Elliot looked under the sofa and everywhere else around the library but Rubianna wasn't there.

"You don't think she could have been kidnapped do you?"

"Elinor how could she have been kidnapped? We've been right here the entire time. Maybe she just crawled out of the room."

As they walked out of the library they could hear Rubianna but they couldn't see her.

"Where could she be? I hear her but she seems to be ahead of us not behind us. And you put the stair gate up earlier didn't you."

Elliot didn't know what to say "Uh… Maybe I forgot."

"YOU WHAT? Are you saying that right now our child could be falling down stairs as we speak?"

Elinor didn't even wait for his response. 'maybe she hasn't even reached the stairs yet'. But as she got closer to the stairs Elinor realized that, that wasn't a possibility, she couldn't even see Rubianna.

Elinor didn't know what to expect when she looked down the stairs but she wasn't expecting what she saw. Rubianna was crawling down the stairs and as she reached the last one the girl stood up and began walking.

"Elliot, Elliot come look."

"What? Is she hurt? What's wrong?"

"Nothings wrong look she's walking."

The two looked down to see there daughter who was indeed walking she looked up the stairs, saw her parents and smiled.

"I told you she'd walk when she was ready." Elinor said. And as she did Elliot just rolled his eyes."

A/N - So did you like it? I hope so. Special thanks go to Merciful Heavens, another one of my reviewers, hope you liked it.