Chapter 16

Ten years later (A/N: This is the father's only chapter, there will be a mother's only chapter, too. No worries.)

Zach's pov:

My daughter Jacqueline Goode have the most beautiful, long mahogany hair and eyes like her mother's that seem to change with the setting and they make me think of my wife. I see her playfulness in them. She's small yet, only ten, but she has the skills of her mother, she loves to disappear.

She runs into our room early one morning, "Mom! Dad! I got a loose tooth!"

"That's great honey," Cammie says into her pillow, still asleep.

"Daddy, can you knock it out for me like last time?" She begged.

That definitly woke Cammie up, "You knocked her tooth out last time? I thought that was the kid at school who..." a guilty look passed over me and Jaci's face.

"Well, Gallagher Girl..."

"Of course you did," Cammie muttered.

Jonas's pov:

My daughter Samantha Petersen is the smaller than her mother was, but she is just as beautiful. She's skinny and her long blond hair touches down to her waist and she has bright blue eye that seem to sparkle like her mother's but Liz says she has a spy in her. Like us, like all of us. She says she's going to be good, really good. I think so too and for once that worries me.

"Dad, can I go over to Roslyn's house?" Sam asked with a front tooth missing in her smile.

"Elizabeth, what do you think?" I asked.

"I told her she needed to ask you if she can. Macey wanted the two of them to go to the beach," Liz told me. "They go all the time."

"I guess I could take you," I rolled my eyes. "Come on Samantha." I took my daughter's hand and lead her to the the car.

I couldn't help but smile at her when she sat in the front seat beside me, smiling and singing along to some song on the radio. I wanted the moment to last forever because one day we would tell them about the Gallagher Academy and the truth about this life but until then we would be okay.

"Sam," I said.

"Yes, daddy?" Her bright blue eyes stared back at me in question.

"Don't grow up too fast."

She nodded, obediently, "Okay dad."

I stood beside her as I knocked on the door to Macey and Nick's house.

A small girl with long dark hair like her mother and bright green eyes like her father. "Hi, Sam." She nodded at me, "Mr. Petersen," she smiled at us. "We're just going to the beach today. Jacqueline and Katelyn might be coming too," she informed me.

Grant's pov:

My girl looked so small as she ran down the stairs in her bathing suit I had personally okayed her to wear after she'd gone through all of her tiny bikinnis that I forbid her from ever wearing again.

So much like her mother... She has long dark hair and coffee skin. Her eyes are like mine though, a deep blue. She makes me smile when I see her so I drove her up to Nick's house where his daughter and the other girls were going.

"Hey, you two," Nick said. He smiled at both of us, "Dad's are have'in a beer, want to come in." I glanced at my daughter and smiled.

"Sure."

Nick's pov:

My daughter skips over to me with her long, dark flowing hair hanging down in her eyes and gives me a hug, "Dad, we're going to go in the pool now."

I nodded, "Okay."

All of our daughters were in the pool when I turned to them and said, "Do you think they'll be ready for this life?"

Zach nodded with certainty, "Yeah. They'll be ready."

We peered outside at our daughters, they were growing up. They seemed so small and innocent then.

Who knew what would happen when the time came for them to be spies? None of us were as innocent as we once were.