Sorry this is so late! I have been in school. I am graduating in may and will resume my writing.

I found this in my computer when I was getting ready to write this chapter!

THREE YEARS LATER

Lisa's hands shook as she put another pin in Julie's red hair. "You ready?" Lisa asked, tearing up slightly.

Cassie looked from Julie to Lisa. "Lisa, she is getting married, not dying."

Lisa smiled. "I know that, but that means she is all grown up."

"I just did everyone's makeup. Please don't cry and ruin it," Lou chastised.

"We can only try, but I will not make any promises," Julie said with a smile, but her thoughts lingered on her adoptive father who had died in a car wreck two years prior.

"Lisa, can I talk to Jack for a moment alone, please?"

"Yes, I will go get him," Lisa replied, and left to summon her husband.

Several moments later, Jack knocked on the door frame and gazed at his step-daughter. "You look amazing," he said admiringly.

"Thanks," Julie said with a wide smile. "Jack, I want to thank you. You have been like a second father to me. And since dad passed away and Dan has no interest in even attending, I was wondering if maybe you would walk me down the aisle…" "I would be honored," Jack answered heartily, and pulled Julie in to a warm embrace. "

Thanks, Dad," Julie whispered.

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Amy looked at Lou. "I don't know why we can't not cry on happy days," she said.

Cassie wiped away tears. "Yeah, I think it's a girl thing. Julie is crying and she is the happiest soon-to-be married person on Earth."

"Everyone cries on their wedding day," Lisa added, "I did, Lou did, and Amy, in six months, so will you."

Lisa was referring to Amy's engagement to Ty.

"I won't cry," Amy insisted. "Oh, you will," Lou asserted.

Julie chose that moment to walk out of the room, her face stained from tears of joy that had made a mess of her mascara and blush. "Lou," she called sheepishly, "can you please fix my make-up?"

"See," Lou said to Amy pointedly, "you just can't help it."

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Three hours later, Julie was dancing with her new husband, David. Lisa took Jack's hand as she watched her daughter smile with happiness as she danced. Jack glanced at her. "Julie wants me to do the father-daughter dace with her," he said.

"So do it," Lisa encouraged, smiling as the newly-married couple's dance ended and Julie took Jack's hand.

Lisa smiled tearfully at the sight of the two of them as they danced, as naturally as if they'd always been father and daughter. Later, she took David's hand and allowed him to lead her to the dance floor. "I am only going to say this once, but if you ever hurt Julie-"

"You will sic Jack on me," David finished her sentence with a grin. "Jack talked to me earlier. He said that if I ever hurt Julie, then he would have to kill me."

Lisa laughed. "He is right. He has six hundred acres, a shovel and a shot gun."

"Can I cut in here?" Jack asked, taking Lisa's hand while Julie took David's.

"Jack, did you threaten my new son-in-law?" Lisa asked innocently. "Oh, I just gave him a talking-to,"

Jack smiled slightly. "Yes… A 'talking-to'…" Lisa's tone changed a little.

Jack recognized her tone as an indication that she was in pain. "Your hands?" he asked softly.

"Yeah," she replied with a small grimace. "But let's not think about that."

"How about we just dace, then," Jack suggested, and let Lisa spin out on the dance floor. He kissed her cheek when she twirled back in. Julie chose that moment to rush up to them, her white dress trailing behind on the floor.

"Mom; Dad," she gushed.

Lisa, surprised by Julie calling Jack 'dad', looked at her. "What?"

"I need you two for pictures in front of the barn!" Julie grabbed both their wrists and dragged them over to the cameraman. "Um, let's get a picture of you two together, and then one with the bride," the photographer instructed as he pointed to Jack and Lisa. Lisa and Jack smiled as the photographer snapped several pictures of them. After that came some shots of Julie and them together. Lisa couldn't help but think that she had a husband that loved her and a daughter who had finally accepted her for who she was. She could finally know at night when she lay down in bed that she kept no secrets from the people that mattered to her… and it was picture perfect.

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Well that is it. It is over. I have another story in the works so in a short time 'Blind Faith' "The Wall" or 'Faith' (I have yet to decide) will appear and I can say that for once it will go in to Jack's past more… I hope to know what you think about this story. Until the next adventure's story, Libby