AN: Hello dear readers, I'm sorry that I'm once again late with this chapter but as this is going to be the last chapter of this story I wanted to make sure that it was going do justice to it and not just be some really crap poorly written ending. Thank you to all of you who have sent me reviews, added me/this story onto their favourite/alert lists.

Disclaimer: I sadly do not own Morganville Vampires, Rachel Caine does.

Chapter 19

Five Months Later

Claire's POV

I really love how my life has now turned out. Sarah and I have now left the hospital with no health worries and Shane and I have more or less got her into a set routine as well. During the day is alright as Shane id there to help me but in the evenings can be hard as she really like to use her lungs to wake me and Shane up. I really do believe that when she grows up she will be a daddy's girl, which I know that Shane will love, as she will either be screaming because she will want feeding or a change or because she wants Shane to cuddle with her. I don't mind that really as it is only ever in the evenings when that will happen and it then means that I can go back to sleep and I really like my sleep.

I have now also been told by Amelie that I will now no longer have to work with Myrnin ever again. Shane was really happy when I told him the news and I can't remember a time when I ever saw him so happy, well maybe once or twice.

Flashback

I've called over to Amelie's office this morning as she has apparently has something important for me to know or hear at least.

When I arrived I was shown straight her to Amelie who also looked happy to see me.

"Hello Claire."

"Hello Amelie." It seemed weird to me to be in here.

"Please have a seat. So I'm guessing that you would like to know what the reason is for you being asked to come here."

"Um, yes please." I am feeling quite nervous right now as the next few words that are going to come out of her mouth could have any sort of effect on me.

"I'm aware that you are now coming to the end off your maternity leave and so I have news for you that I am hopping will make you happy. I have decided that you will no longer have to work with Myrnin."

"You mean that I'm now allowed to either stay at home always or I can now get a job at somewhere else."

"That's exactly what I mean."

I was speechless to be told that and I just could not believe what I had heard as well.

After leaving I was still even in a bit of a daze and even when I arrived back home. Shane of course noticed this and became worried about me.

"Claire, please don't tell me that something bad has happened to you."

"No not even close. I've told something that you are absolutely going to love." I know that I was dragging this out and it could be seen as mean but I was having fun with it.

"Claire will you please just tell me what is going on and keep me in suspense any longer." I could see that he was dying to hear what I have to tell him.

"Okay, as you know I've just come back from speaking with Amelie and she has told me that I no longer have to work with Myrnin if I don't want to, and I told her that I would like to stay at home instead."

"Are you serious, completely and honestly serious?" He looked so shocked and surprised at this.

"Yep, I'm serious." He then swept me up into his arms and started to spin me around as well.

"I'm so happy to hear you say that. I have wanted to hear you say those words or words to that effect for so long now."

To see the smile on his face brightened up my day so much more knowing that he will now no longer have any fears about me now going to work each day and being in close proximity with a vampire.

End of Flashback

It's great having all of this free time. Shane is also now at home always as well as he could never decide on a job but it is great to have him at home with me as well. He will willingly help me with the housework or will always be ready and able to give Sarah what she wants and needs if I am too busy at that moment.

Life just now feels great. I love every moment of it and I do really believe that as long as Shane and I are always together we can handle anything that will come our way.

Shane's POV

I don't think that I would have ever believed I could feel as happy as I do right now.

Claire and Sarah are now both homes from the hospital with no health problems at all. I do think though that if the doctors would have told me that Sarah did have any health problems I would find it hard to believe with how loud she can be when she uses her lungs each and every night. Sometimes I don't mind it as she likes to have me hold her in my arms and cuddle with her which I like as she is now my baby girl (and I think she will be the one that I will really struggle with when it come to boys, I'm going to hate seeing my daughters with boys but with her it will be the worst) but there are times when I will just wish that she would let Claire and I get a full night sleep.

Hopefully that will be someday soon. Then again I do hope that even when she reaches the same age as Abigail and Ethan she will still want to get hugs from me.

I'm also really happy about Claire no longer having to work for that psycho, as I like to call him, Myrnin. I will now no longer spend days in fear; worrying about what she will be made to do today and even if she will be walking back through the door at the end of the day. I now cannot even believe that I had at one point nearly made it so that I would never even get to see her walk back through the door and hold her in my arms when she does regardless of where she had been that day.

I was such an idiot but I do firmly believe that today I'm getting the chance to change that and make it seem all better and give us a new start as today Claire and I are renewing our wedding vows. Our friends and family have been having fun with this as they have been treating it as a proper wedding in that Claire is having all of our daughters and Eve as her bridesmaids and Michael and our sons, I have not been allowed to see the dress that Claire will be wearing. They have also made Claire leave me last night, evil people. Then again maybe this will just make the day that bit more special and the reunion even sweeter, especially as the children are staying with Claire's parents tonight giving us the house to ourselves.

Okay, now that I am stood at the altar waiting for Claire to arrive I am feeling the exact same way that I did when I married her the last time. I'm not the most patient of people and so something like this is never a good thing for me as my brain will then want to come up with all of these different scenarios of things that could go wrong and then that can make me start to panic.

Not long after however the music began to play and I first saw Alyssa who we decided was to be the flower girl, followed by Abigail who was carrying Sarah so that all of our daughters could walk down the aisle and then Eve appeared once again in the position of maid of honour. When she reached the altar the music changed and I saw Claire then walking through the doors looking even more breath taking than she did the last time. I felt like I could barely breathe when she was then stood right in front of me. It's going to be great fun when it comes to me having to recite my vows which I had to write myself.

"Claire, when I first met you when you were only sixteen and my first thought was that you were going to be needing someone to look after you and protect you and that I could only manage to do that by becoming you friend or as a brother like figure at a push. But then I got to know you and it made me realise that there could be no one else out there for me to be with for the rest of my life. You have given me five fabulous and adorable children who I could not love more than I do. You have made me now realise that regardless of what we go through and all of the hassle that I put you through we will always find a way to strive through and always be together, forever. You are all I need."

I could see that I had made Claire start to cry, something that I did not think that I would do.

Then it was her turn.

"Shane, to me you are just so perfect. You were the perfect boyfriend, then fiancé and now you are the perfect husband and father to our lovable children." She had to pause at this point due to the tears. "You have made me feel so loved and though there are times when you will drive me insane I could never ask for a better life, as long as you are right there beside me through it all we are going to survive as a couple. I will never need or want for anything else so long as you are going to be right there beside me through it all." After she was finished speaking I was I didn't think that she could speak again and so I guess that it is good that then all of the talking parts are finished.

When we were allowed to finally kiss I pulled her tightly into my arms and managed to hold back on kissing her unlike last time as I knew that there was children present and I would hate if I was to be the reason for then being 'scared for life'. I wiped away Claire's remaining tears and began to lead her from the church.

My life has officially become perfect and I never want for it to end.

And they all live happily ever after, for better or worse, till death they do part.

The End

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