Several years later

Well a lot has changed in the Gold household. For one they got a new member of the family. Belle French became Belle Gold and legally adopted Bae and Hannah. Bae and Hannah continued to grow like weeds. Bae excelled in school and was the smartest one in the class; his teachers loved him and never wanted to him to move up to the next grade. Hannah grew up and is now at the age of twelve which means hormone hell for Adam. Bae is fifteen and starting high school in the fall. That's not all that's happened; there were also two additions to the family about nine years ago. Young Bria and Lucas entered the world on June 18th. Belle got pregnant with twins after a couple years of trying. After many negative tests and a few miscarriages, Belle had started to lose hope of ever having a baby. Imagine her surprise when she found out she was pregnant with twins and she carried them to term. The doctor wasn't going to take any chances with them and ordered Belle to have a C-section. While the operation went underway, Adam held Belle's hand while they waited to hear the cries of the first baby. When they both cried, so did Belle and Adam. Adam kissed her forehead through the surgical mask and told her who much he loved her…

"Belle, where are you?" Adam called. Belle shut her diary that she always wrote in, in third person for some reason and threw it under the bed. She went out to the hall and met Adam. "Where were you?"

"In our room. I was writing." Belle said. Adam shrugged and wrapped his arms around her. "You know I hate that you got that rubber tip on your cane 'cause now I can't hear you when you sneak up on me."

"That was the whole point of getting it dearie."

"Well one day I'm going to rip it off." Belle said swinging her arms around his neck. He kissed her sweetly.

"Oh my God, really?! Your room is right there!" They turned and saw Hannah standing behind them. Belle laughed and took her arms back. "It's not funny Mom! You and Dad do that all the time."

"One day you'll find someone you love and you'll be doing that and then your father will be behind them and start beating them with his cane."

"So now I know not to bring anyone home. Anyway, I came to ask you if I could sleep over Henry's tonight." Belle and Adam shared a knowing smile. "Stop! We're just friends!"

"Yeah and your mother was just my student. You can sleep over if you sleep in the spare room."

"What kind of sleep over is that? Emma has no problem with us sleep in the same room. All three of you even said that we slept in the same playpen."

"Yeah when you were two and you didn't have a chest. Your father was young man once they only have three things on their minds; sex, girls, and how to put the two together." Belle said walking away. Hannah sighed loudly before going into her room to pack for her night. Adam leaned against her doorway of her room.

"You know your mother only looks out for you."

"Yeah okay. Well, I don't really have to listen to her it's not like she's really my mom." Adam grabbed his daughter's arm and turned her toward him.

"What?"

"She's not really my mom. I know that. So does Bae, he's just too scared to actually say it."

"She's your mother." Hannah ripped her arm away from him and pulled an article out.

"Adam and Miranda Gold welcome their new daughter, Hannah home after being in an incubator for four weeks. The couple is proud to call themselves the parents of this baby girl. Who is Miranda?"

"No one you need to concern yourself with."

"She's my mother. Who is she?"

"Belle is your mother. I don't know how you got that article but give it to me right now."

"No tell me who is she!"

"No one!"

"Tell me!"

"Your mother who didn't want you! Okay happy? Miranda is your and Bae's real mother. She's in jail because she tried to kill Belle and me after she left the three of us for another man!" Hannah looked at her father as tears welled up in her eyes.

"She didn't want me?" She asked in a small voice.

"No and when she told me that I told her that you don't need to her to because I love you enough for both of us."

"If my own mother didn't want me why does Belle?"

"Because Belle has a heart of gold but that still doesn't matter because she has a heart to begin with. Miranda doesn't nor will she ever."

"She really loves me, not just because she married you?"

"She loved you before she and I were even together. Your first birthday was a happy day for three reasons; the first being that you had made it to a year, the second because I proposed to her that day, and the third because you called her Mama."

"I did?" Hannah asked with a light in her eyes.

"Yes. You looked right at her and said 'Ma'." Adam smiled at the memory. Hannah smiled thinking that she called Belle 'mama'.

"Was that my first word?" Adam's eyes filled with tears.

"No. You said your first word the day I came home after my accident. When I came in I held you in my arms and you smiled at me and said 'Pa'. I encouraged you to say it again and you said 'Papa'." Hannah smiled and leaned into her dad's side. "That was the happiest day my life."

"I'm sorry Papa." Adam wrapped his arm around his daughter and kissed her head.

"You're allowed to have questions. I knew that question would eventually arise that's just not how I expected it to."

"Aren't you always telling us to expect the unexpected?"

"Yes and it's always easier said than done." Hannah smiled and hugged her father. She got up and took the article throwing it in the trash bin.

"I don't care who that woman is. Belle is my mother always has been always will be." Adam smiled. "How did you guys meet?" Adam smiled and held in a laugh.

"Come here I'm going to tell you a story. Better call Henry and tell him you won't be sleeping over tonight. Go get your sister and brothers I'll tell you all the story." Hannah beamed and raced out of the room phone in hand. Adam decided to comfortable it was going to be a long night.