Ok this is the end of the road for The Frontier. I am kind of sad to see it go but I plan on writing a sequel that will focus more on Ethan and take a guess? I am not going to tell you but I am sure that you have an idea. Hehehehe. Here come Elliot and Olivia's twins. I am so excited! The first part of this is written in Ethan's POV.

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters they belong to that damn Dick Wolf.

The rest of the winter was cold and snowy making it hard for the Stabler family to get in to town. It became so hard for them to get in to town that Olivia decided that it would be better for Ethan to go into to town and stay with granddad Percy until school was out. Ethan wasn't happy about it but he knew he had to obey his Ma or she would give him a whippin'. So he went to town and stayed with granddad. While he was there though he learned a lot about running a store and even helped out granddad a lot.

Finally about April spring decided to show up and begin to melt the snow that had the countryside buried. The weather turned warm and Ethan got to go back home. When he got there the saw that the babies in his Ma belly had really grown and that excited Ethan. He also saw that the cows were fat with their babies too and he knew that his Pa would soon be busy calving. April had to be Ethan's favorite time of year because it meant that school would be out soon. As much as Ethan liked school and liked seeing Emily every day he liked being at home helping his Pa even more.

One night at super after he had come home Ma said to him, " Ethan did you enjoy spending time with granddad in town?"

"Oh it was fun Ma, but I'm glad to be home now." I reply. I don't want Ma and Pa to get the idea that I should spend all winter in town with granddad. Though the older boys told me and Jack and Billy that livin in town made it easier to go and set and drink tea in girls sittin rooms in the winter. We weren't sure what they were talkin about but decided that we would figure it out someday.

"That's good to hear, son." Pa said. "I'm glad to have you home because I missed having your help."

"Yes, things are going to get busy." Ma said, with a small smile on her face.

"What you mean Ma?" I ask taking a bite of egg.

"Well you know in June the babies are going to be born." Ma says.

"I know." I say. I can't wait, last fall Emily and Oliver had a new baby sister and they both say that she was really fun to have around.

"Yes, Ethan once the babies are born Ma is going to have to have your help around here. You'll be in charge of the garden this summer."

I look up at Pa quickly, egg sliding down my chin. I take my napkin and wipe it away. "Really Pa? I get to take care of the garden for Ma all summer?"

Pa had stood up by now and was getting ready to go out and do the chores. He put his hand on my shoulder, "Yes son. You will be responsible for the garden and a few other things this summer. You will also have to help Ma with the twins once they arrive."

"Yes Pa." I say. I hurriedly finish my breakfast and then go out and saddle my horse and head to school.

--This switches to Olivia's POV here---

I watch my son go out the door and run across the yard to the barn. He is such a little man and reminds me of Elliot more and more each day. Someday he is going to make some girl a wonderful husband. I rub my swollen belly as I "waddle" across the kitchen the breakfast dishes in my hand. I look out the window at the new room that Elliot has been working on since the weather has warmed up. He had also been trying to convince me to move to town until the babies were born. I swear that he is the most worrisome man I have ever met. I told him flat out that our babies were going to be born at home.

I wash the dishes and sweep the kitchen floor and then go into the sitting room to sit for a while. I have been knitting blankets and little booties for the twins. I am sure that they are both little boys. I keep telling Elliot that that their both boys but he just laughs and says that we'll see in another month or so. I wish he would listen to me about this. I know I've already picked names for them too, since Elliot says he doesn't care what their named as long as they are healthy and happy. I have chosen the names of Caleb Daniel and William Joseph. I know Elliot will agree with me. I rub my swollen belly and smile to myself. I love them already as much as I love Ethan. I love Ethan as much as if he was my own, if I had bore him myself. He's also really excited about the twins. He's wanted brothers or sisters or a brother and sister for a long time. He enjoys spending time with Emily, Oliver and Alexandra Munch, even though Alex is only a baby. I often wonder what will happen between Ethan and Emily when they grow up. Will they fall in love or will they go their separate ways? Casey and I had a rocky start but we've since become friends. It was kind of hard not to when our husbands kept doing their best to throw us together and she softened some once she had Alexandra, we had a baby and pregnancy in common. That made things easier.

I hear Elliot come into the house. "Liv? Where are you?"

"In the sitting room dear."

Elliot comes into the room and I fall in love with him all over again. I rub a hand over my belly again. "What do you need dear?" I ask him.

"Nothing." he says. "I just wanted to check on you. I still wish you would go and stay in town darlin'."

"Oh, Elliot." I tell him. "I have already told you, the babies will be born here. I want you here."

"I know I just worry about you." Elliot says as he leans down to kiss me on the lips. "I'm going out to work on the new part of the house."

"Ok. I'll be here."

I hear him hammering away after he goes back outside and our day passes with out incident until Ethan comes home. He comes into the house only for me to discover that he has blood on his shirt and still dried on his nose and a black eye. "Ethan, sweetheart, what happened to you today?"

"Oh, it was nothin Ma." he says to me.

"Well it certainly doesn't look like nothing to me young man." I tell him. "So you might as well tell me."

"I got into a fight after school." Ethan tells me hanging his head.

"About what?" I ask. I can't have my son becoming a bully or gettin into fights.

"Well you know Bob Greene? He was teasin' me after school for always havin' lunch with Emily."

"So?" I say, it was not a question. "You know that your father has always told you not to let people teasing you bother you."

"I know." Ethan says to me. "But he also made a dirty comment to Emily. Pa always told me to not allow any man to degrade a woman."

"What did he say?" I ask. I would have knelt down to his level if I had been able to.

Ethan looks like he could cry, "He told her that he didn't understand why Emily had lunch with trash like me everyday when they could be sparkin' in the bushes. He talked about how he would lift her skirts and have his way with her really easy Ma. I had to do somethin'. I can't let anyone hurt Emily!"

"So what happened after that?" I ask him, smoothing his hair back.

"I hit him and he hit me back. He's older and stronger and he hit me in the eye and then the nose. It started to bleed and that's when Emily told him to go away because she was going to tell her father the sheriff. Then she tried to clean me up. She told me that she was glad that I stood up for her." Ethan said.

He never cried, he was too old for tears now and I understood that, but it upset me that this other boy would say things like that to my son and to the daughter of John and Casey Munch.

Elliot didn't say anything that night at supper when he saw Ethan's eye. He didn't say anything about it until after Ethan went to bed. "Did Ethan tell you what happened to him?"

I related the story to my husband and watched his face. "Ethan will be a good man someday. I'm sorry that he had to go through that but Bob Greene is just like his father. Fred Greene had gotten through life being a bully and he's taught his son the same lesson.

The next morning I watched as father and son shared a hug and then Ethan hugged me. I was never so moved in my life.

(POV's end here for a while)

The month of May moved quickly and soon it was June. Olivia had been feeling out of sorts for almost a week and of course Elliot had been worried about her. Ethan was out of school and had thankfully had no more run in's with Bob Greene. Elliot and Ethan were now working on the inside of the new room that Elliot had built for Olivia and Ethan's bedroom.

Olivia had walked out to the privy that hot afternoon of June 7th, when she knew. She knew that her water had broken and her babies were making their entrance into the world. She called out for Elliot a she tried to make her way back to the house, stumbling along in pain, clutching her stomach.

Elliot and Ethan were in the house, painting the new room with the window open to help it dry faster when he said to Ethan, "Where's your Ma?"

"I think she went to the privy Pa."

"Do you hear someone calling out?" Elliot asked.

"I think I do. Want me to go and look?"

"Yes." Elliot said.

Ethan ran out the door and found his ma, making her way across the yard. "Oh, Ethan, sweetie, go get your Pa. The babies are coming."

Ethan turned and ran as fast as he could back into the house, "Pa! Pa! It's Ma, she says the babies are comin right now!"

Elliot ran out the door to his wife. He scooped her up and carried her back into the house and up the stairs to their room. "Oh Liv. I knew this was gonna happen." He laid her down and lifted her skirts to see if he saw anything. He didn't see a head yet so he was sure they had a little time. "Ethan!" he called down the stairs.

Ethan came right away, "Yes Pa?"

"I want you to ride to town and get Doc Wilson, right now. Tell him your Ma is having the babies."

"Yes sir." Ethan says and goes out the front door at a run.

Elliot should have yelled at him for running in the house but the situation warranted it so he let it go.

Elliot went back to the bedroom with Olivia who was beginning to sweat and have labor pains. "Elliot, where's Ethan?" she gasped out. This was something that she didn't want him to see.

"I sent him to get the doc." Elliot said as he wiped Olivia's forehead and face with a damp cloth. "Think you can keep those fellers in until he gets here?"

Olivia smiled at her husband and touched his cheek, "I can't guarantee that, but I'll try."

Ethan rode as fast as he could into town and straight to the doc's office. He always hated going there because when he did the doc was usually poking him. He ran up the stairs and knocked on the door.

"Come in." Doc hollered. It had been a particularly quiet day.

"Doc Wilson, you gotta come." Ethan said, almost breathless.

"Ethan! What on Earth are you doing in town?"

"You gotta come to the ranch Doc. Ma is havin the babies!" Ethan said excitedly.

"Oh well yes, yes. I'll get my bag together you go over to the livery stable and have them saddle a horse for me." Doc said.

Ethan was out the door like a shot and ran to the livery stable. He waited while they saddled a horse for Doc Wilson and Ethan took him back over to Doc's office. The good doctor was waiting and threw his bag over the saddle horn. He and Ethan hit a lope out of town past John's office. John and Gordan were sitting outside and watched them go. "Mrs. Stabler must be in labor." John commented ideally.

"I didn't know she was pregnant." Gordan said.

"Yup, twins." John said.

Ethan and Doc Wilson rode into the yard just at things were starting to get interesting at the Stabler house. Olivia was starting to have hard contractions and Elliot was going out of his mind. He ran down the stairs when he saw Doc and Ethan come back in the yard.

"Doc, thank God you're here!" Elliot said, coming out down the stairs and out of the house.

"Elliot!" they heard Olivia scream.

"Ethan, son, take care of the horses." Elliot said and escorted the doctor into the house.

Ethan went and took care of the horses and decided that he would be better off stayin' outside. Or in the barn. He looked at Rusty, his dog. "Boy, Rusty, I thought havin' babies was like the little calves bein' born."

Elliot and the Doc were havin a lot of trouble upstairs. Elliot was as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. He was pacing the room, and Olivia was screaming that they were never having another child. He would go to her then and smooth back her hair, kiss her head and tell her that everything would be alright. The Doc was down below givin' a play by play. "We have a head now Elliot. Baby one is about to make his or her entrance into the world."

A minute later the doctor announced, "Well Elliot and Olivia, you have a beautiful baby boy. Here, here, Elliot hold on to him while I get little number 2 out."

Elliot took his second son and held him. He looked a lot like Ethan had when he had been born. Red, wrinkly, and lots of dark hair."

"Here comes number two." Doc said.

Elliot heard a cry, he had already calmed baby number one.

"Another boy." Doc said. He handed the second baby to Olivia and he began to root around, looking for something to eat. Elliot brought baby number one to Olivia too and he also began to root around.

She took down her night gown and allowed the babies to nurse. "I have names for them Elliot." Olivia said, kissing both boys soft, dark heads.

"What are they?" Elliot said, kissing Olivia's head and sitting down on the bed beside her.

"Well our oldest boy here, I want to name him Caleb. Caleb Daniel. And our youngest boy, I want to name him William. William Joseph."

"Aww, that's nice Liv. I like them both. I'm going to go tell Ethan that he's a big brother and let you rest ok."

He kissed Olivia's head and then went down the stairs. Doc was cleaning up his tools and hands. "Thank you Doc. I only have a little money but I can have Ethan kill a couple of hens to give you."

"Elliot, I know you're a good man, I know you'll raise good boys, all three of them. I helped your first wife bare Ethan, so I was please to help your second wife have these boys. You just give me what little money you have and forget the chickens."

"Thank you Doc. You're welcome to stay and rest as long as you need to. I'm going out to tell Ethan."

"Alright." Doc said.

Elliot went outside and called for Ethan. "Ethan!"

"Yes Pa."

"Your Ma had her babies."

"She did?" Ethan asked.

"Yes, she did. Two boys, so you'll have two brothers to watch out for now."

"Really. That's good Pa."

"We named them Caleb and William."

"Can we call William just Will?" Ethan asked. There was already a Billy at school and they didn't get along so well so he wouldn't want to call his brother Billy.

"I think Ma would be ok with that."

Ethan and Elliot went back into the house and Olivia called down to them. They went up and Ethan was in awe of his baby brothers. "There so little Ma." He said.

"Yes they are." Olivia said. She was up and about now, fixing the bed and getting the babies settled in their cradle. They wouldn't sleep in their new room until they were older and didn't need as much care.

"Doc said before he left that he would tell your Granddad." Elliot said. He was holding Will as they had decided to call him.

"Ma how are we going to tell them apart?" Ethan asked. To him both babies looked exactly alike.

"Oh I'll figure out a way." Olivia said.

Three Months later

It was September, the twins were three months old and Ethan was turning ten. They were having cake and Percy had come out to spend time with his great grandsons. The twins were starting to show their differences now. Both had their father's darker hair but Caleb was blue eyed like his father and older brother and Will was brown eyed like his mother and great grandfather. When their eye color changed to its permanent color, Ethan had been in awe and said to his mother, "Well now we can tell them apart, huh Ma."

Olivia had laughed at that and was so proud of all three of her boys.

Elliot was proud two, he had three fine sons, who would hopefully someday take over this ranch and make it grow and prosper. His greatest dream was for the three boys to take it over together. He would like to have had a daughter as well but that was a decision for his Liv to make because she was the one that had to carry them for nine months not him.

The Stablers were happy and content and ready to start a grand life together on their ranch. They did not know what the future held for them they could only hope to prosper, grow and continue on their journey down the road of life.

Ok this is the end of the road. I am going to write a sequel that is more Ethan/I'll let you guess. Let me know what you think. Should I post it or not? Your reviews will dictate! So push the button PLEASE!