The End

A year later

Connor stood outside the painted door, leaning against the doorframe as he waited for it to be opened; if he was honest with himself he was slightly nervous and would rather not have come. He knew he still had a slight crush on Abby and he was unsure whether this was going to do something to make him push her and Stephen away, or whether it would make no difference to their relationship. He had never been entirely sure where he stood with Abby before, and still wasn't now. He was broken out of his musings when the door opened and he was greeted by a smiling Abby.

'Hey, Con!' she said, wrapping her arms around the student and kissing him on the cheek.

'Come on in,' she said, standing to one side so he could walk past her into the house, 'Stephen's in the lounge,' she told him, 'I was just about to get her out of her cot; go on through and I'll be in soon.'

She closed the front door and walked through one of the doors off the hall; Connor watched her disappear and then made his way along the hall into the lounge, his mind starting to wonder if it was too late to walk back out of the house. When he entered the lounge Stephen stood up, smiling at the student.

'Hey Connor,' he said, clapping the student on the back and steering him towards a chair, 'How's the course going?'

Connor shrugged, pulling off his coat, hat, and gloves, 'Not too bad, just been given another paper to do, but it shouldn't be too hard,' he grinned at the other man, 'It's on the habits of dinosaurs from the Permian era.'

Stephen chuckled, 'Well that's one era we have a bit of knowledge about.'

Connor laughed, noticing Stephen's face softening he looked to the door and watched Abby waking in, a pile of blankets in her arms. Connor could see the difference in Stephen's face as he looked at his wife and daughter; his whole countenance softened and it seemed, to Connor, to be a completely different side of Stephen that he was seeing now, there was a look in Stephen's eyes that Connor had never seen when he looked at anyone else; Connor knew that Stephen would do anything for Abby and their daughter, knew he'd protect them with his life, and Connor just wished he could be in Stephen's shoes for just a few hours.

'Do you want a cuppa?' Abby asked him, Connor shook his head.

'I'm alright thanks, I can't stay that long I've got a lot of stuff that I have to do and Cutter's waiting for me to get to the ARC,' he replied; Abby nodded, bouncing the bundle in her arms as the baby started to gurgle.

'Do you want to hold her for a bit?' Abby asked him, Connor paused for a split second before nodded.

'Alright'

Abby smiled at him, 'Come on, Becky, let's introduce you to your Uncle Connor,' she said to the precious bundle in her arms. Connor's face lit up as the phrase settled in his brain and he held Becky in his arms, looking down at the small child that squirmed a bit in his arms before settling down, gurgling happily. Abby walked to perch on the arm of Stephen's chair; she smiled at her husband before turning back to Connor.

'Con, we have something to ask you,' she said, linking her fingers with Stephen's when he took her hand.

'What is it?' Connor asked them, looking up from the small bundle in his arms. Abby smiled at the student.

'Would you be Becky's godfather?'

It took a few seconds for what Abby had said to sink in, 'Me? What about Cutter?'

Abby smiled at him and looked back at Stephen, 'We're hoping to have another baby on the way soon,' she told him, 'We agreed that we'd ask you first to be the godfather of our first child,' Abby smiled at Becky, grinning a toothless happy smile up at Connor, 'And Becky seems to agree her Uncle Connor's the best one for the part.'

Connor looked from Becky, to Stephen, to Abby, and grinned, 'I'd love to' he told them. Stephen grinned at him.

'Thank you, Connor,' he told the student, an arm wrapped around Abby's waist.

Connor had never been sure before how Abby had really felt about him, but now he felt he knew where they both stood, and how he had really felt about Abby for all this time. They loved each other as brother and sister; and he wouldn't have it any other way. Not for the world.

A/N: Oh my god I can't believe I've actually finished a multi-chaptered fic! It feels nice that I've actually finished it but at the same time I feel kinda sad... Thank you to everyone who has stayed with this fic right to its completion, I love you all! Especially since it ran away with me a little bit at the end...

Thank you to everyone who has reviewed on this fic, personal thank you's coming up in a minute. I would like to ask everyone whose reading this if you would review just one last time and tell me what you think about the story in general and whether you're happy with the ending or not. I may post another one shot with a quick look into the future... you never know... I did actually have a plan for another part to the epilogue in mind but I decided not to put it in... Anyway onto my personal thank you notes to everyone who reviewed:

Hedwig Junior: Hi! Thank you so much for both of your reviews! I'm glad you enjoyed the previous chapter, and that you did like Claudia's parts, I thought I could make her into a semi comic character in one or two of the chapters just because the first two had been so depressing! Hope you enjoyed the rest of the story!

Rin: Thank you for reviewing three times! I'm glad you enjoyed the fic so far and I hope you liked the ending. I always thought Connor and Abby were more really good mates than actual relationship characters, if you know what I mean, so I hope you liked the last chapter! Thank you!

CJ: Thank you for your review! I couldn't have them mad at each other forever, what did you think of the last few chapters? Did you like them?

SalwynHi, thank you for your reviews! Are you a Nightwish fan too? I love them! I can't wait until I can see them in March! After I'd listened to the song a few times I said to my friend 'This would make a great Stabby angst one shot' and then it progressed, lol! I hope you liked the last chapters!

Lov3is4lif3: Heya! Thank you for all your reviews, I love your picit's great! I'm glad you enjoyed the fic so far and I hope you liked this last chapter too! Thank you so much for staying with it the whole way through!

PrimevalcrazyaliceHeya, thank you for your review! I love the Stabby pairing, it just seems to work! I can't wait for the next series, hopefully they get together soon. Damn Helen and her meddling! Have you heard the song before? If not check it out it's amazing! Thank you for your review!

Well that's all my personal thank you notes done and now all that's left is to say another big thank you to everyone whose read every single chapter to this fic and to say, for the last time:

Ciao for now!

Starsword

P.S. Check out my other multi-chaptered Primeval fic, I'll be concentrating on that one more now!