Hello all! Just wanted to say yet again thanks for reading and reviewing! Hope you'll continue to do so even the smallest ones!! Glad you're enjoying it so far! The final chapter will soon be up! Oo and beware, this chapter is a very 'mushy' Archie and Edith chapter. I just had to write it. Oo and to here Carroll Actually sing Whispering, be on the look out over on my you tube account a video will soon be posted, and you just have to hear it! Anywoo on with the story!

Archie and Edith stayed in California for two more days and then left back to New York to begin packing. The days left in New York were going by fast, but the family was able to keep up. Only two weeks left until the move.

It was getting dark and was almost dinner time as Archie sat out on the front porch. It was quiet until Archie heard Edith talking to Stephanie.

"Now you finish setting up the table, and I'll be right back."

"Ok."

The sound of the front door closing seconds later is what followed the conversation.

"Archie?" Edith called and he looked over from where he was sitting.

"Oh hey."

"Dinner's ready." she said smiling

"Yeah, ok. I'll be right there." Archie told her, but she could tell his mind was somewhere else, and she had a pretty good guess of where it was. Instead of going inside she decided to stay a bit longer. Edith took a deep breath as she walked over to the column in front of Archie.

"Oh my, I'm really gonna miss this house." she told both herself and her husband.

"Yeah I know what you mean." he simply said to her, there was a pause before he went on, "You know what I was just thinking of?"

"What?"

"Remember a few years back when I painted this here porch?"

Edith nodded, "Oh yeah when you would paint it every night cause them pills youse was taking when…"

"You know a simple 'yes' is a good answer too." he told her frowning and then continued, "I was thinking I coulda waited just a few more years and then they would have had to do it."

Edith shook her head.

"We've been here for a long time huh?"

"Yeah."

There was a small silence before Edith spoke up, "But I'll never forget the day we moved in. What you said to me when you carried me across the threshold…it's something that I think of each time I walk through it."

"Well that's a good thing considering what is was I told youse."

"Yeah,"

"Watch your head Dingbat or you'll know your brains out." The two said while smiling at the memory.

"Oh my, I hope that young couple will have a memory like that." Edith shared with him referring to the newly wed couple who would be renting 704 Hauser.

"Yeah, cause with this back of mine, I don't think we're gonna no memory like that in California." Archie told his wife shifting in his seat a bit uncomfortable, about how he admitted he was getting older.

Edith smiled and then her smile grew even more as another memory entered her mind. "Oh Archie do youse remember that carving you made here on the porch?" she asked excitedly, "It said 'A & E Bunker forever and the for in forever was a number four. And we thought it was so clever." She added as she walked over to the column on the left side of the column she was standing by.

Archie watched her, he had been fearing this might happen. He continued to frown as he got up and followed her, "Edith that carving ain't here. It's on some tree in some park." He told her softly, afraid of her reaction when she realized she was wrong.

The doctor had said some of her memories would be lost or mixed up, but up until now she didn't seem to have lost one part of her infamous stories.

"Oh no Archie, I remember you did it on the first night we had here." She said never doubting herself.

Edith took her eyes off Archie and over to the column. Her smile dropped as she saw the smooth piece of wood, "It ain't here."

Archie simply stood there not knowing what exactly to do. Edith frowned running her hand over the flat surface, while racking her brain for an answer.

"Hey Edith," Archie called as he placed his hand on her upper arm, she turned around to face him, "Maybe it ain't this here stroke. Maybe it's just whatdaya call old age." He said trying to help, Edith didn't say anything she just looked at him and then sighed as if saying, "Thanks for trying but it's no good."

Archie pondered for a minute then finally came up with something, "Hey I know somthin' not even some stroke can take away from youse." He told her before wrapping his arm around her waist and grabbing her hand. "How to dance." He finished with a smirk.

Edith smiled as she slowly went back to her old self. "But we ain't got any music." She pointed out

"So we'll make our own music." He said still with his smirk. He really did want her to forget about what had just happened and he knew this was one way that would do it. He slowly leaned his cheek against his wife's as they swayed and then he softly began to sing.

"Whispering while you cuddle near me,
Whispering so no one can hear me,
Each little whisper seems to cheer me
I know its true, there's no one, dear, but you.
Whispering why you'll never leave me,
Whispering why you'll never grieve me,
Whisper and say that you'll believe me
Whispering..."

He sang and with each word his wife's smile grew more and more.

"That I love…"Edith chimed in but before she could sing the last word, Archie cover her lips with his own, not wanting to hear her singing that word because of the fact that he knew it would be sang in her high-pitched voice.

Only a few seconds into the kiss, Edith pushed away from her husband and walked over to the far left column on the porch.

"Hey I know it was rushed but it wasn't that bad." Archie declared looking at her.

"No it ain't that Archie." Edith told him turning her head to look at him as she continued she turned back to the column and smiled. When she turned back to look at Archie, her smile seemed to have grown. "It's here!"

"What?"

"The carving it's here! Look!" she shrieked as she grabbed his hand and pulled him to where she was standing. And sure enough there in the column, covered in paint looking faintly readable, was the carving.

"Jeeze look at that." Archie breathed, still shocked.

"I didn't really forget, I just mixed up the columns." Edith went on, "That other column over there was the where youse hit your head after that new years part two years ago!"

"Geeze look at this thing here, covered in so much paint youse can barely read it." Archie shared as he continued to look at the old carving.

"Yeah, but it's still there. Just like we're still together." Edith told him looking over from the carving to her husband, slowly he did the same. Her smile continued as he gave a small smirk himself as they continued to look at each other.

"Aunt Edith!" a small childish voice was heard ruining the moment.

Edith looked over at the house before answering, "Coming Steaphy!" she then turned back to Archie, "We better go eat." she told him before walking ahead to the front door, Archie however stayed where he was at.

Noticing Archie wasn't behind her, Edith turned back to see him scratching the paint off the carving with his hand.

"Ain't you coming?"

"Oh yeah, yeah I'm coming." he told her taking one more look at the carving before following her into the Hauser home.

Well there you go! Chapter 18 of As Time Goes By! Thanks for Reading! Hope you liked! Please review! Until Next week! Have a Nice Day!