A/N: Here you go 28th chapter. This one is also for Kitty O who asked me to right one chapter more chapter with Candy. Enjoy
Candy stepped out from the house, the sky was beautiful, all the stars and the full moon looked down to him, he could see the big bear and little bear and there in the tip of the little bear was the northern star. He felt that his time in Ponderosa was coming to an end. He had to say goodbye to this beautiful land, the one place he had ever called home.
He didn't turn around when the house door opened, he was sure that it was Joe who came to ask why he disappeared. When he was handed a coffee cup he took it, then he saw the hand, it was not Joes, he looked up, he would have never thought that the lost son Adam Cartwright would come looking for him.
"It is beautiful night." Adam said.
"Yeah, put every night on Ponderosa is beautiful." Candy took a drink from his cup; he didn't know what else to say to the oldest Cartwright son.
"This was the sight, the clear Ponderosa sky, which kept me going when everything else failed." Adam said solemnly.
"Yes, it has helped me alot to. Now, I must say goodbye to it." Candy leaned strongly onto the corral.
"Goodbye? Why? Pa and my brothers say that you are the best forehand the Ponderosa has ever seen. You have become part of the family. Why leave know?"
"Because the son I replaced has come back, I'm not needed anymore."
Adam frowned, looking at Candy with somewhat skeptical and angry eyes, "A replacement, do you know this family at all Candy, you are no replacement. You are needed here, pa needs you, as said before and I quota him: "Candy is the best forehand, who has ever worked on Ponderosa." You are a friend to Hoss, he needs someone like you. And Joe, you have been marvelous influents to him; you have done what I couldn't. And I need you."
"You?" Candy couldn't imagine how Adam Cartwright could need him.
"Yes, in this eight years I have been away, so much has changed, I need someone guide me thru all the changes."
"Why me? Why don't you ask your brothers?"
"Because my brothers wouldn't believe me, to them I'm still the same Adam who left, who knew everything about Ponderosa. So I need fresh eyes, someone who didn't know me before. And who would be the best choice if not the best forehand Ponderosa has ever seen."
Candy looked the eldest son of Ben Cartwright, if he was saying those things to just keep him there, but he saw only sincerity in his eyes, maybe he was still needed.
"Alright I stay and help."
"Good." And with that only word from Adam Candy felt that he belonged somewhere again, that Ponderosa was still his home.