Chapter 10 - Family not by blood, but by choice.

I got pulled out of my slumber by myself being shaken. "Ally. Ally, babe. Wake up". My eyes slowly flickered open to find Robbie right in front of me with a generally happy smile. After we'd had our dinner the night before Mary gave us some blankets and we went over to the rest of the load of people, cuddled up together after some making-out and fell asleep in each other's arms.

"What. What's wrong?", I asked sitting up and looking round the room thinking something bad had happened. But in that case then why was there a smile on Robbie's face?

"It's over", he said looking at me amused.

I furrowed my eyebrows together in confusion, "What's over?".

"The war of the two worlds", he told me. "I don't know what happened but they're all dead, every single one of them".

"Really?", I asked excitedly my eyes lighting up and a smile making it's way onto my face. If this was a joke then it was cruel. He nodded. "So does that mean we can go to Boston now?". Again he nodded giving me a happy peck on the lips.

When we eventually made our way out of the basement after bidding Mary, Bill and the others farewell, I saw that what he'd said was true. All the machine had collapsed on the ground, making the ground dent where they'd fallen so heavily.

We weren't too far from Boston so we made it there in no time. At first I was limping beside Robbie with my arms around his shoulders for support but I eventually became tired and Robbie carried me on his back the rest of the way. Everything was going so smoothly with the surviving people walking all around us. No one talked, I think we were all just so glad it was over…finally.

Like I was saying, I was all going so smoothly until we'd just gotten through the white tunnel. The machine got up off the building it had collapsed upon, Robbie didn't want to risk anything and become running to his heart content without a word being uttered other than a grunt or a pant here or there.

We eventually made it to his grandparent's house, we didn't get half way down the street before the door swung open and a young beautiful pregnant woman ran down the steps to the house and towards us with tears of joy running down her face. I'm guessing that was his mom. She embraced him in a hug and took a step back to look at me in confusion when she realised I was on her son's back. "Who's this?", she asked her son in a welcoming tone.

He looked up at me. "Mom, this is my girlfriend Ally. Ally this is my mum".

She got me down off her son's back and gave me a bone-crushing hug. "Happy to meet you Ally". Well at least she accepted me. She put her arms around the both of our shoulders, "Come inside". When she saw me limping she looked at me with concern, "What did you do?".

"I broke my leg", I told her. "Fell off one of those machine's arms when Robbie saved me". She nodded then praised her son for helping me and being the hero once again, she told me he always like helping people and that he was a good boy.

"Mom are Ray and Rachel here yet?", Robbie asked hopefully.

She shook her head with a sad expression, "No". He looked down so disappointed, I felt bad for him. She gave him a weak smile, "I'm sure they're fine Robbie. I'm sure they'll be here soon alive and without a scratch on them".

When we went I got introduced to his grandmother, grandfather and Tim (Robbie's step dad). They were a very nice family, also very welcoming. They welcomed me into the family immediately even before they found out I had no one, and all my family was either dead or missing.

All that time Robbie's mom stood by the window staring out at nothing, hoping to see her ex husband and daughter come down that road any moment. Her eyes lite up when they did. She didn't say anything but rushed to the door. I stood up to look out the window to see Rachel running towards her mom Ray also in the distant. "What's happening?", Robbie asked me.

I turned to him with a smile on my face, "It's your dad and Rachel, they're here".

His eyes widened as he walked to the front door to see if I was telling the truth. I slowly walked up behind him. I'd hardly got there when he ran to his father and embraced him in a manly hug. I'm glad Robbie had stuck to his word and made up with his father, I knew they loved each other dearly but just didn't like showing it, hopefully now they would.

The family reunited in the middle of the street giving each other a group hug. I smiled at them leaning against the doorway realising how much I missed my family. I hardly had time to think about it as Ray poked his head out of the group, "Come on Ally! You're part of this family now". He held his arm out to me. I ran towards them with a smile engraved on my face. I got in-between Ray and Robbie, opposite Rachel. They were right, this was the closest to what I had that was family. It was one of the times I felt truly accepted and happy. We may not be blood-related but we're family by choice and heart. As I looked round at the members of my family I realised something, maybe everything was going to be okay now.