Hey guys! We're getting close to the end of this fic, I'm excited and kinda sad. Let me know what you think of this chapter.
"Jessica?!" Spencer said terrified. "What do you want?!"
"Isn't it obvious?! I'm going to kill you" she said as she laughed evilly.
"You don't want to do that" she said panicking.
"Yes I do, without you around Toby will realize we belong together" she said.
"No, you're wrong" Spencer said. "He'll never love you, I'm sorry but that's the truth"
"Such a sweet little baby" Jessica cooed. "I wonder if she is as invincible as her older brother and sister"
"What are you….the accident….that was you?"
"I figured after the accident you'd never forgive him and he would want to start over again." She said "but no, your little brats survived and it brought you two back together and what's more you were pregnant, I did not foresee that."
"Maybe that means we're meant to be" Spencer said.
"No Toby and I are going to be together and if you make this easy I'll take good care of your little rugrats." She said "hand Sophie over"
"If you think I'm giving my baby to you when you have a gun in your hands you're sadly mistaken." She spat.
Just then Andrew walked in.
"Give her to me Spence" he said "I'll make sure nothing bad will happen to her"
"Yeah but you're going to let your crazy girlfriend shoot me" she spat.
"Just hand her to me, it's the only way I can ensure her safety. "
Spencer nodded kissing Sophia.
"Mommy loves you baby" she said crying as she handed her to Andrew.
"There, Sophia's safe" he said.
Then the gunshot rang out.
Spencer flinched and closed her eyes as she waited for the pain of being shot to hit her. A millisecond later she heard a blood curdling scream that wasn't her own. She opened her eyes to see Jessica on the floor with a gunshot wound in her leg. Jessica aimed for her again and a second shot rang out and she dropped the gun as a bullet hit her hand. Spencer was stunned until cops began flooding into the home.
"Police! Nobody move! Hands where I can see them!" one yelled as another pulled Jessica to her feet and then onto a stretcher where she was restrained and read her rights.
"You set me up?! You set me up!" she yelled at Andrew as he walked over to her and handed her back Sophia.
"Spencer!?" she heard someone call to her and looked up to see toby pushing his way into their now crowded kitchen.
"Where are the kids?" she asked worriedly.
"With your parents" he said holding her and the baby tightly in his arms.
"You set this all up?" she asked.
"Andrew came to me and said he wanted to help us and I was tired of our family living every day in fear so I had to give her some bait she couldn't resist." He said with a grin.
"Well, once again you're my hero" she said kissing him.
Spencer and Toby decided to take Sophia over to Spencer's parents' house so that they could have some much needed alone time.
"This house is haunted" Spencer said sadly later that night.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"I used to love this house, we had good memories in this house, but now? The miscarriage in our bedroom…..and after, me balling my eyes out over pregnancy tests in the bathroom, the fights, the separation, you walking out on us and the house being filled with sobs, and your crazy ex secretary trying to kill me, now that's all I see. The tragedies that have befallen us here. I'm never going to be able to see anything else. "
"So well buy a new house" Toby said as if it was the easiest decision in the world.
She laid her head on his chest and closed her eyes.
"Let's just enjoy that our children are safe and that we're here together" she said.
*Six Months Later*
"Where are we going?" Spencer asked as she buttoned up her coat and pulled on her gloves and hat.
"You'll see" Toby said with a smile as they got into the car. They drove for a while until Toby pulled into a vaguely familiar driveway. She looked at toby with big eyes.
"This is the house I showed you, the one you said was too expensive" Spencer said.
"Yes it is" he said with a smile. "It's been on the market for a long time and I thought we could tour it again and if we liked it, I could maybe talk them down on the price"
It hadn't changed since the last time they toured the house. Spencer loved everything about the house from the big kitchen to the den where Toby could work from home.
"It's perfect, it has all the space we could ever need" she said.
Toby smiled
"I want to go home!" spencer snapped. "We can't afford it and you bringing me here when you know I love this house and you know we won't be able to buy it is cruel!"
"Let's just finish the tour, huh?" Toby said pointing her to the finished basement, which besides the window seats in almost every room was her favorite part of the house. She had prattled on for an hour after the first tour about all the possibilities for it. As they walked down spencer saw the bucket of champagne sitting where spencer had suggested they could put a mini bar. She grabbed the card next to it.
Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Cavanaugh,
Welcome home!
Spencer looked at him with her eyes wide.
"You bought the house?!" Spencer asked.
"I told you when we got back together that I was going to give you everything you wanted and I meant it" he said simply.
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Until next time my lovelies...