Matters of the Heart (Rucas Adult AU)

Chapter 16 - Epilogue - 18 Months Later

A/N: The final chapter.... it was never meant to be long, it's actually only 1,500 or so words of pure fluff.... I wanted the fluff in the end. By the way, when I started writing this story I hadn't expect it to end in a word count over 100K I usually write shorter works, well if 70K is short... I have no idea. Okay now off I go to finish the plans for Season 6.

Thank you for taking this journey with me!! I'll be writing Season 6 until May, and hopefully working on some other things.

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"Matthew sweetie stay still," Riley whispered as her son squirmed on her lap as they watched Maya and Josh stand at the altar. The little boy was restless, ever since he started to learn to walk he has had the urge to run off in any direction and Riley couldn't keep up with him and wear heels at the same time.

Riley and Isadora had become close friends with Maya over the last eighteen months, they had been in the delivery room with Riley and Lucas as their son was born. They named him Matthew Cornelius Friar, using Riley's maiden name and her father's name for their son, Matthew had been Lucas's idea and she had loved it so much that she made it his first name. Riley and Isadora were both Maids of Honor for Maya and they held a bachelorette party in their apartment where the three of them just hung out and talked instead of doing something crazy, like going to a strip club or to Vegas like the guys had.

For the three of them it was something they had never really experienced, it was something so normal, just girls hanging out at a sleepover. Riley and Isadora never really had that chance, whenever they hung out they always had Farkle and then Charlie, but to have a typical girls' sleepover was something they cherished. Now Isadora was working, and Maya had her job at the gallery, Riley had her family and her law degree, and she worked with Lucas as a part of his legal department. They all had lives but they also had each other, they had their friendships and their family.

Her little boy squirmed in her lap again, he started reaching out towards Lucas who was standing next to Josh and Zay as they watched Maya and Josh getting married. Riley had to sit down and hold onto her son because he was normally calm when she held him but all of the attention in the room was getting to him.

"Da," he yelled out towards Lucas and the room was so quiet before everyone burst out laughing.

Lucas smiled down at them and waved over at them before slowly stepping down from where he was standing and walking over to where they were sitting and kneeling in front of his son.

"Hey," he said to his son before kissing the little boy who giggled but held onto his father and leaning towards him. The three of them stayed there as the wedding went on in front of them, Riley smiling at her little family, as they watched their extended family grow just a little bigger in front of them.

Lucas smiled up as his sister got married to one of the most honest men he had ever met, in the nearly two years since they had all met he had gotten closer to every one of his new friends, closer to his new family, and even closer to Riley who was an amazing person. The day their son had been born he couldn't believe that he had gotten so lucky, even after everything that had happened seven months earlier. Their little boy was born on the fourth of July as the fireworks went off on the east river next to the hospital room. He was the most special part of their lives and as he grew in the last year Lucas couldn't help but love him even more.

At first, he had nothing but fear in his heart that he would end up like his step-father, just because that had been the environment that he had grown up in. Riley had told him otherwise several times, but the fear had always been there.