AN: A HUGE thank you to those of you that read and reviewed. It is greatly appreciated and you make posting anything worth it. I sincerely hope you enjoy this last bit.
They do move in together a week after returning home to Willoughby. Miles bitches the whole time he helps them pack and unpack a wagon full of Charlie's stuff but he's there none the less, along with Aaron and Priscilla.
After that, Miles winds up staying on their (ugly, puke green) couch a few nights a week when Rachel gets to be too much for him. They've all tried to help her but she refuses to let them, refuses to see there is anything wrong with her or how she treats those around her. Rachel finally just stops interacting with people, she stays at Gene's practice most days to help out where she can.
Eventually Charlie and Bass clean up her old place and give Miles the key. They love him but Jesus they can't handle him living with them half the week. Especially since anytime they so much as shift on the bed he yells out a reminder that he's still in the house and doesn't want to hear that. Neither have seen him look so touched as when Charlie handed him that key, until Bass comments that it'll be nice to walk around naked again and Charlie has to step away to keep from laughing at the disgusted look on her uncle's face.
Life settles peacefully for their small family for the most part. Its not perfect.
Eight months after coming home, Aaron and Priscilla have a miscarriage. It breaks everyone's heart but it also brings them all closer together. Bass is more understanding then Aaron thought him capable of and the two men forge an unlikely bond through the grief.
Rachel still tries to cause trouble whenever she does happen to see Bass. He ignores her, knowing that she's literally mentally ill gives him much more patience with her.
Charlie and Bass do fight. A lot. About almost everything. And they put Miles in the middle, who after the first fight (his daughter's blue eyes staring up at him, wide and tear filled, ripping his heart to shreds) wisely takes Charlie's side in all arguments, even if he agrees with Bass.
Even through the fighting and the pain, there is a genuine and deep love between them. They let that love guide them through the good and the bad. Never losing sight of what brought them together in the first place. Loss. They know that they could lose any member of their small family for any reason at any time. They could lose each other in a heart beat, and so they cherish each other for as long as they can. Never taking for granted all that they've over come and all that they have.
They love each other fiercely, passionately and without reserve for the rest of their lives.
AN: And there it is, the end. Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed it! I have a few more Charloe stories that will probably be getting posted soon(ish) but no definite timeline on those right now.