You're Not in this Alone *The final book in the We'll Carry on Series*

And then the earth stood still

Gerard's Point of View;

My heart stopped, it just fucking stopped. Something that I had been begging for, for months just occurred in front of me and I had no idea how to react.

My stomach churned with violent butterflies moshing in the pit of my stomach as my heart began picking up it's broken pieces and beating again. She looked at me and I looked at her, and in that moment time stood completely frozen.

She was scared, you could tell by the weariness in her eyes and the way the bolted around the florescent room until the finally settled on my hazel ones. I had fallen in love all over again, but this time it was like a truck running me over. Oh god, she was beautiful, scared, but beautiful. I couldn't phantom words at all.

I just stared.

The doctors rushed in, pushing me carelessly out of the way. I didn't fight them. I was in too much shock to fight them. Our eyes never drifted apart, not for a second.

"She's responsive, I have vitals on her." A red headed nurse said to the hustling doctor, running around her.

"165 over 82, Doctor Keith." The tall brunette said monotonously.

"Good, good. Her eyes are dilated." Doctor Keith noted as she checked her reflexes.

"Remarkable, simply fucking remarkable... it's like we never lost her." She said in awe of my wife.

"She was never gone." I stated almost inaudibly with a stupid grin on my face.

"I guess you were right all along, she did have something to fight for." She smiled at me.

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Stormy's Point of View;

it happened in an instant, like thunder taking over my body. The ground beneath me shattered and I was left falling into oblivion.

This was it, after all this time, this was how it would end, like a bolt of lightning coursing through me. Just like that, and I was gone.

I felt my body tense and everything move in fast forward as I felt something I hadn't felt in what seemed like forever. I gasped for air, the sweet oxygen overtaking my lungs.

I opened my eyes.

The light was blinding and he was intoxicating. His eyes were the first things I landed on when I woke up. He was scared and timid, but there was a certain fire in his eyes- A fire that I haven't seen in a long, long time. They removed the tubes and wires from me, declaring me a living, breathing miracle.

I fucking felt like it. Right now, though, I was focused on him as my ring became heavy and I became aware. I was alive, and he was my husband still and she was my little girl.

He moved past the bustling nurses and came to me, gripping my hand in his own as our daughter followed closely behind him. In that moment it was just him, me, and our own little human, Bandit.

"You're awake.."
"I-I guess I am." I smiled at his laugh. Oh how I missed it.
"H-how? How are you awake- No, alive?" His eyes searched mine, as if looking for any sign that this was a dream, but it wasn't.
"You, I'm alive because of you and Bandit. I held onto you both as tight as I possibly could and you pulled me out of the dark. You were the light I needed." I smiled down at Bandit, who was peeking around Gerard's leg with a large smile spread on her face like butter.
"Mommy?" She leapt into my arms, crying on my chest as I combed through her mousy curls. Soon Gerard joined us and the nurses left the room, me breathing on my own.

Eventually, Frank, Lindsey, Audrey, Ray, Alicia, Mikey, Jamia, and Christa all joined us in taking me home, not just for a week, a month, or even a year, but forever. My final wish had been granted. I got to watch my family grow, my Bandit grow old, and for the first time I realized... I'm never in this alone.


End.

**Thank you guys so much for sticking by me through this trilogy, it was definitely a special project for me and I am saddened to see it end, but I felt that this was the right time. If you guys have any questions or comments or want to know what happens to Stormy, Gerard, and Bandit or any of the others, please feel free to contact me!
If you guys have any requests for more stories, let me know. As always, Never let them take you alive and this is S signing out.
I love you all.<#3**