A/N: So sorry it took me so long to update this story. Here you go with the last chapter!

Disclaimer: Nothing is mine.


'Little Ivy and the Tooth Fairy'

Ivy had, at the age of eight, the unfortunate luck to still be in the possession of all of her baby teeth. All the other kids in her class had lost at least one, but no matter how many apples she ate and how many times she fumbled with her teeth, none of them came out. They stayed stubbornly in her healthy gums.

One day, Lisbon found Ivy sitting in the kitchen, and it took her a while to register what she was seeing - it was definitely her daughter, sitting on a dining chair, facing the door which lead to the bathroom.

"What are you doing, sweetie?"

Ivy raised her hand. "Shh."

Lisbon rolled her eyes and leaned against the kitchen counter, her curiosity piqued, wondering what kind of scene would unfold before her.

"Now, Daddy!" she yelled suddenly, and the once opened door was slammed shut. Ivy gasped, reaching for her mouth with her hands, and Lisbon instinctively grew worried - even if Jane was involved, because she knew that Jane wouldn't want any real pain to be bestowed upon their daughter. Yet when Lisbon tried to assess why the girl had a look of pain on her face, all negative emotions left, to be replaced by sheer happiness.

Jane choose that moment to barge through the door, heading straight for Ivy.

"So?"

"It came out!" She gave her father a high-five, and showed her mother what the two had been so excited about - her first extracted baby tooth, already opening her mouth to show the final result. Lisbon knew they weren't supposed to force the tooth out, but a quick inspection told her the entire tooth was out, including its root. Lisbon couldn't help but smile at the girl's obvious glee written on her face, even if she was feeling a little anxious herself to see so much blood.

"Now I will get money and I can hopefully finally buy those galactic Nike shoes I want!"

Nobody forced her to pay for her own shoes, but she had insisted on it, wanting to have something that she had paid for herself, so she could feel proud showing them off to her friends.

She ran to the sink without saying anything else, cleaned off her newly extracted tooth and rinsed her mouth, then ran to her bedroom.

Lisbon turned to Jane, who was smiling at her.

"She could have pulled out half of her tooth and we would be sitting at the dentist office right now."

He nodded and shrugged. "I took a risk, I admit. But it was only hanging loose with a couple of threads, so really, what was the worst that could happen? I looked at the situation and judged that the risks were basically non-existent."

She looked at him a little longer, not really angry with him, just wondering what had caused him to do such a thing, knowing that it might hurt their daughter. But, she should have known that he knew the entire situation from all angles, to rule out any possible damage being inflicted. He always knew what he was doing.

"Okay." His smile returned, after it having dropped when she nearly accused him of putting Ivy in direct danger. "How much is she short for those shoes?"

"Fifteen dollars, I believe."

"That's a lot to give as Tooth Fairy money."

He nodded, stepping towards her. "We could just give her the shoes."

"She will be very disappointed, seeing as she has been saving for them for months."

They heard that Benedict had started crying in the distance, and just before either of them moved to soothe him, Ivy walked past.

"I'll get this."

Lisbon looked back to Jane, who seemed to agree with her without her needing to utter any words.

"Or we could give the remaining money as a reward for being so good."

They both knew that this was something their humble little girl would accept, but just barely, after having stated a couple of times that 'it was not necessary' and 'I would have had the money in a month', but secretly she would be celebrating.