Hoss sat by the mantel, actually wasn't sitting but playing whit the toy solders what once had belonged to Adam. Everything was so perfect for him, all his family was around him. His pa was sitting behind his desk doing some paperwork; Adam was sitting in the blue chair reading a book. Marie, or ma like Hoss liked to call her, was knitting on the settee while Hoss's little brother Joe, who was four months old, laid on a planked on the floor giggling and making funny noises. Hoss was satisfied, he had gotten the perfect family he always had dreamed, even if Adam hadn't liked Marie at first, he had warmed up to her after an accident what almost took his life, Marie had cared for him all the while he was but on a bed rest.
Now everything was fine and Hoss happy.