A/N: As some of you know, October is my favorite month of the year. October is for my favorite holiday, Halloween, and there's mine and my mother's birthdays in October, not to mention Cartoon Network's birthday, even if this fan fiction submission is for a Nickelodeon program and not a Cartoon Network program. I also thought that this would be a good time to input the final chapter of Childhood Friend Romance now, I know some of you will miss me writing this story, I will too, I ended up liking it a lot better than I thought I would when I first came up with it and found Rugrats in Paris on Netflix. Also, some of the last chapter's elements are based on the emotions and reactions that my family I endured earlier in the summer when my dear Aunt Cindy passed away.

She had been a godmother to me and my brother before he turned 18 and I became an adult myself and will be 20 in a few weeks. I would also like to thank my many reviewers for this story, you all kept me on my feet to encourage me and keep this story going. The more reviews I get, the more that I feel confident enough to write. Even if one of those reviews was very unflattering, but I can't report since it was a guest review... You know who you are. Also, thank you to TheUnknownAuthor who inspired this chapter and made it possible. Credit goes to him...or her... I'm not really sure if that writer is male or female, but thanks anywya, dude.

Many thanks to celrock for being a good friend to me lately and adding in more reviews and Jesse J. Barrow for 'grading me' on this fan fiction with chapter reviews. It is very much appreciated. I am also pleased to say that this story should be released soon on my other online accounts such as DeviantART and Wattpad, so keep your eyes peeled for such edits and stories.

Finally, I would like to thank Arlene Klasky and Gabor Csupo, though I have no idea how to pronounce Gabor's name, him being Hungarian and all. But I like to thank them for creating such characters we all come to know and love. From my brother's words, that man is a genius for bringing us not only the Rugrats, but also The Wild Thornberrys, Aaaah! Real Monsters, Duckman, and Rocket Power. There may be more, but that's all I know. I think maybe also As Told By Ginger. For if it not been them, this story may not have been possible. I apologize for my very long author's note at the beginning, but it is very important. Thank you all, and Read & Review.

35 years later, somewhere in Los Angeles, California, a laboratory filled with gas. It was all fanned away, and the clearance of gas revealed a man in a white lab coat. The man checked himself in the mirror to make sure he was okay. He adjusted his glasses and cleared some dust from the part of his face where his freckles were, and re-adjusted his tied back messy orange hair. The man looked around his lab, and realized the mess he had made, he began to clean up, and once he finished, he looked at the medical degree he had hung up after finishing top of his class in Kingston school of pharmacy, named for Dr. Charles Crandall Finster. It had been about ten years ago on this day, he'd begun school there, and about 34-35 years ago exactly, his birth mother had succumbed to breast cancer.

A lot had occurred with the Finsters since then. Chas had moved on and about a year and a half after Melinda's passing, he'd found love again in the form of his new wife, a Japanese woman known as Kira. Kira helped the boys to finally get over their loss, and adopted Chuckie as her own. She helped fill the void that Melinda's unfortunate passing had left. As Chuckie learned more about his birth mother, he learned how she died, and that lead to him wanting to learn more about breast cancer. Chuckie had just finished his newest anti-biotic. As a Pharmacist and Scientist, his dream was to find a cure for breast cancer. His test subjects were two women who were suffering from this disease, and risked dying from it as well. Kira herself was one, and the other was Chuckie's wife, the mother of his children, Nicole Finster (née Boscarelli). Chuckie was not only about to relive the tragedy of losing a mother, he was possibly going to see the tragedy through a husband's perspective as well. Being that two of Chuckie and Nicole's three children were girls, he was determined to make this work. He had to, for his step-mom, wife, daughters, and his late-birth-mother. It was his mother who he could not fail. Never. Chuckie was the only one who could save them from having an early death like Melinda.

He took the anti-biotic, and handed it to the two women.

"Here you go, within the next few days, go to your doctor and have them examine you. Hopefully, the medicine's effects will kick in and do it's work." He explained

The two women took the anti-biotics, and in their minds, prayed for the best.

"Your mother would be so proud of you, honey," Nicole said. "She's probably smiling down at you right now." She then kissed her husband in gratitude.

Kira walked up and wrapped her arms around him as well. "Just know that even if this doesn't work, never give up. She looks down on you knowing you can do it. And we all know as well. She may have died, but she's not gone. You make us all so proud. And if this doesn't work. I'll at least get to meet the woman who gave me such an amazing boy to call my son just as much as hers."

"It can't fail." Chuckie replied to his adoptive-mother "I know it won't, and I promise I'll find a cure if this isn't it, I'll work myself to burnout if I have to. I know it's my destiny to cure cancer. A doctor told my mom the day she found out she wouldn't make it that her son could possibly be the man who finds it. That has to mean something."

A month later, on September 13th, 2025, on what would've been Melinda's 66th birthday...

"And the Nobel prize in Medicine, is awarded to a man for his hard work that resulted in finding a cure for breast cancer, a disease that took his birth mother, and nearly his wife and step-mother. The award goes to Dr. Charles C. 'Chuckie' Finster!"

Chuckie stepped up to the stage. He was applauded by millions, but a handful stood out from the crowd. His life-long friends, Tommy, Phil, Lil, Dil, and Angelica, his wife, Nicole Finster, his three children, Melinda, Valerie, & Christian Finster, his father, his step-mother, and above all, he saw someone who only he could see. He saw Melinda. He saw her in spirit. He saw her clapping and cheering. He saw her crying tears of joy and pride. He saw her thanking her widower and his second wife, for caring for her son so he could grow into the amazing man he was. He saw Melinda. He saw his mother. She died, but she never fully left the earth, and with Chas, Chuckie, and his descendants, she never would.

The End

A/N: (From TheUnknownAuthor)

For those who are wondering where the names of the OCs came from. Nicole was Chuckie's crush during the first season of All Grown Up! Melinda Finster II is named after Melinda, Christian Finster is named after Chuckie's maternal grandfather, and Valerie was just picked at random. I'd like to thank PerkyGoth14 for allowing me to contribute to this story.

A/N: Thank you all very much for reviewing this story and I'm sorry and sad to say, but this story is now over. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to work on some other fan fiction projects and maybe some suggestions if you all would like me to write for the Rugrats again.