They continued on to Friendly Falls, and when they reached the edge of town Newton and Buttercup turned back into nonverbal newts. Linda and Ned picked them up and continued on to the Flemings' house. Linda went to the door first and rang the doorbell.

Mrs. Fleming, or Sharon, opened the door. It was obvious that Ned's death took it's toll on her, since she looked pretty old for her age. Ned's dad Eric soon showed up as well.

"Linda, what are you doing here?" Sharon was surprised.

"Yes, we heard a rumor that you were engaged to Rusty." Eric agreed.

"It was no rumor, my parents arranged it because they have financial troubles." Linda explained. "But that's not why I'm here. I have unbelievable news: it turns out I was wrong about Ned's death."

Sharon and Eric paled.

"I ran away after finding out about the engagement, and during my trip I found Ned suffering from amnesia. I restored his memory, and we confessed our love for each other. I then brought him back."

A.N. Eric and Sharon still didn't know about Newton, and Ned decided to keep it that way.

Linda then moved away from the door a little, revealing Ned.

"Mom, dad." Ned didn't know whether to cheer or cry.

"Ned..." Sharon and Eric couldn't believe it, but there was no doubt that this man was Ned.

Ned, Sharon, and Eric immediately hugged, sobbing with joy. Eric and Sharon then invited Linda inside. Linda followed the Flemings into their home, and Ned told his parents how he survived in the woods all these years. Linda and Ned then revealed that Linda had proposed to Ned, and Ned accepted. Eric and Sharon were so happy, and agreed to the marriage. After all Linda had not accepted her engagement to Rusty so it did not count.

What they didn't know though, was that Rusty had been walking to Linda's parents' house when he saw her return with Ned. He didn't know it was Ned at first, but the man had looked so familiar that he assumed it. And then when Linda and Ned looked at each other lovingly before going towards the Flemings' house, well, that confirmed it. Furious, he ran back home to get something.

Later, Ned and Linda decided that only Ned's parents should come to the wedding, since Linda's parents might try to stop it. Key word was 'might', there was still a chance that they would allow the marriage, but neither Ned nor Linda wanted to take that chance.

Ned also got dressed in his dad's clothes, since he now felt awkward wearing only vine-pants. His dad's clothes didn't exactly fit, but they were good enough for a trip downtown to get him some clothes of his own.

Hours later Ned and Linda left, since Ned had decided to also look for a career so that he could support them after they got married. But, Rusty had come back around this point, and instantly pulled Linda aside while aiming a gun at Ned's chest!

"So Fleming, you're back." Rusty glared.

"Yeah, I'm back." Ned glared back, though he was understandably scared of the gun. "Linda found me and our love for each other cured my amnesia."

"Well you won't stay back, Linda is mine and I will do anything to keep it that way." Rusty moved his gun a little closer to Ned.

"Even commit murder? You'll get arrested for it." Ned pointed out.

"As long as Linda's my wife I don't care." Rusty replied coldly.

"You should care about this: nothing will ever make me love you, and as long as I don't love you I will never be your real wife. I'll never be your wife at all." Linda glared to Rusty.

"Yes you will, even if I have to hold you at gunpoint at the altar." Rusty retorted.

"Rusty, if you kill Ned then you might as well kill me too. If you hold me at gunpoint at the altar, I'll just go ahead and say no and let you shoot me. I despise you with all my heart and soul Rusty McCabbe."

This caught Rusty off guard, causing him to lower the gun a little. Newton, who was in the pocket of Ned's temporary shirt, saw his chance. He leapt out of the pocket and bit Rusty on the nose! Rusty, really caught off guard now, cried out with both pain and shock and ended up shooting the sidewalk.

"Get this thing off me!" Rusty yelled, about to pry Newton off his nose.

Ned beat him to it, and grabbed Rusty's gun as well. He didn't aim the gun at Rusty though, instead he merely opened it, released the bullets, and tossed the gun aside.

"You're going to pay for that Fleming." Rusty almost growled. "I'll get you and your little newt too!"

"I don't think so!"

Startled, Rusty turned around and saw a cop. Then, to his embarrassment, Rusty saw that there was a crowd of people along the block. Now defeated, Rusty let the cop handcuff him and lead him away. He still gave Ned a death glare though.

After that, the crowd found out that the man that Rusty was going to shoot was Ned Fleming. They couldn't believe that he was alive, but Linda told them that she'll tell the press the story later. As for now, they had some business to take care of.

Ned was able to get some new clothes, using his parents card, but found it hard to get a job. Finally, he decided that he and Linda should move out into the country and own a farm. If nothing else that would support them food-wise.

During their trip downtown, they ran into Doogle and Anklo. Ned was overjoyed to see his best human friends again, and Doogle and Anklo couldn't believe that Ned was alive. Ned, Anklo and Doogle ended up spending a week catching up. Linda and Ned's parents took that week to prepare for the wedding. Ned then spent another week hanging out with his parents. Doogle and Anklo spent a day of that week each getting a tux for the wedding.

Ned's parents entirely paid for the wedding, which was doable since it was a small wedding. Just Ned's small family, Linda's parents, Anklo and his family, and Doogle and his family. Linda's parents completely agreed to the wedding, even though it wouldn't help them financially. As long as their daughter was happy they were okay with it, since they always did care about their daughter. They just had to wise up to the fact that money doesn't buy happiness.

Doogle was the best man, and Newton and Buttercup were Ned's boutonnière. Though I don't think it could be called that in this case, since they were in Ned's pocket instead of a buttonhole. A pocket-tière maybe?

There was no honeymoon after the wedding, Ned and Linda didn't need a grand trip to celebrate their new life together. All they needed was each other. Besides, they would have to leave Newton and Buttercup behind and they didn't want to do that.

Instead, they found an inexpensive farm near Friendly Falls and fixed up the place. There were four bedrooms in the farmhouse, which worked out nicely. One was of course for Ned and Linda, while another would be for Newton and Buttercup. The remaining two were for future children, so they had only been fixed up, no paint or decorations.

Linda and Ned's room was simple, though did have all their childhood toys. Ned picked up all his old toys from his parents after the farmhouse got fixed up. Other than that the room had the usual furniture, and family photos on the dresser. For decoration there was a painting of a bear family hanging on the wall that was to the left of the bed. Oh, and a bookcase full of comics and their old childhood books.

Newton and Buttercup's room was a little more decorated. There was a bed for them when they were anthros, a large bowl for when they were nonverbal newts, and a special tank for their future little ones. Now that Ned was back Newton was ready to be a father, and Buttercup couldn't wait for them to be parents. Other than that there was a bookcase full of the great literature works.

Newton and Buttercup did have little ones, though I'm not going to tell you all their names because that would be a really long list... The oldest male and oldest female were named after Ned and Linda though.

Ned and Linda also had two kids of their own, a boy named Dave and then a girl named Celia respectively. Dave and Celia took after their parents, which was a good thing. They also adopted some of Newton and Buttercup's children as their own pets later on. Working together, Dave, Celia, and their pets took over Ned and Newton's role of making sure that problems were solved in the town.