Author's Note: I'm sorry to say that I'm ending this story here. It's not going to end w/ a bang, but I feel it should end. Summer is drawing near & it's time for vacation. I've started on a new project & I feel all my attention should return there, I guess. Please feel free, if you like The Morganville Vampires, to check out my latest. As well as check out my profile for the book series, too. The link is in my profile. Thankies for understanding. I'm sorry for holding you off so long.

15 years later, a pregnant Fran walked through the door. Her heels clicked against the floor of their new mansion, even after all these years – she felt so lucky to have the husband she did. He'd saved her from her mother when she needed saving. It's un - telling where she would have been if she'd had went back. But her mother stood in front of her, and she'd tried to forget everything her mother had done to her. Mostly, it had worked, but every now and then, a silent memory crept up on her and she couldn't take it. She wanted to run, but it was her mother, and she was pregnant.

"Honey, you like the new mansion?" Maxwell interrupted her thoughts. "A place to start our own memories, yes?"

"Yeah, it's a great place to start a family." She smiled brightly to herself. "I just wish- ahh, never mind."

"No, say what you were going to say, sweetheart."

Fran looked down, sitting down on one of the steps. "It's just, the whole time, I've only thought about one thing," she sighed. "I love my mother, I mean. She's my mother. Every family has it's faults. But I can't help but feel, what would it be like if we would have moved out here without my parents."

Maxwell sat down beside her, he knew exactly what she was talking about. "Sometimes, we have to let the past go, to move on into the future. We all have to do it some point in our lives. It's apart of human nature."

Fran smirked and chuckled. "A part of life, huh? Well, I wish that part of my life had never happened. I'll never be able to let that go. I would never done this to our kids. A parent shouldn't do that to a child."

"Freida took care of you, I took care of you. You had other people, you never needed your mother in the first place."

She nodded her head, "I guess your right, but she's my mother, ya' know"?" Fran let her head fall back and rest against Maxwell's chest. "I love you, honey."

"I love you, too."

Author's Note: It's pretty much over now. 15 years later. I know it wasn't the ending I should have gave you all, but I couldn't think of anything else. Since Spring Break, I've not had any ideas. But since I totally quit watching 'The Nanny,' I feel I should move on to a new fandom. I'll be working on 'The Morganville Vampires,' for now. Please check that out. Thankies. ( :