This is the last chapter, thank you so much for sticking with me and reading the whole story. It's the first long fanfic i've ever wrote and the views and your reviews have made it worth while!

What happened at the end of chapter 5:

"I wonder what his first word will be" Mary said, looking down at her little boy who was nearly asleep in her arms.

"Mama, no doubt" Matthew answered "He loves you so very much, I don't see how it could be anything else." He added, watching as Mary stroked George's arm.

I hope you enjoy it!x

Chapter 6 (EPILOGUE):

Another year had passed since everything had happened. George was now nearly two years old and Mary had just given Matthew their second child; a beautiful little girl who, apart from the fact that she had Matthew's blue eyes, was the spitting image of Mary.

"What shall we call her?" Matthew asked as he laid next to Mary who was cradling their newborn baby.

"How about Rose?" she asked after hesitating.

"Rose…" he repeated, looking down at his daughter. "It's perfect, it suits her." He replied, pressing a kiss to Mary's lips before turning his attention back to Rose.

"… and because your mother has been so good to me, helping out with both births, I thought that maybe we could use her name as a second name." she said, shyly, turning to face Matthew. "What do you think?"

"I think… that mother would be overwhelmed. It would certainly make her very happy." He answered.

"Rose Isobel…" Mary whispered to her daughter who was fast asleep in her arms.

Matthew couldn't have felt happier, he was so proud of Mary and so grateful to her for giving him two beautiful children.

Matthew pressed another kiss to Mary's forehead before whispering to her "I'm so very proud of you, my darling, I love you".

Mary felt overwhelmed by the whole situation and a tear rolled down her cheek. She now had a son and a daughter, she felt so complete. She never thought that she could be this happy.

"I love you too my darling" she whispered back with the biggest smile on her face.

Just then there was a knock on the door. Cora walked in with George by her side.

"How are you feeling?" Cora asked her eldest daughter as she walked into the room.

"Just a little tired" she replied, smiling at her mother.

"George was feeling rather left out, so I brought him up, you don't mind do you? I can take him back downstairs if you want to rest." She said.

"No it's fine, let him stay" Mary answered.

Matthew got off the bed and walked over to his son. "Would you like to meet your baby sister?" he asked, reaching his hand out for George to take.

"I'll leave you for now then" Cora added, smiling fondly at her daughter.

"Oh, mama, would you send Isobel up? We have something we would like to tell her." Mary said.

Cora just smiled and nodded before leaving the four of them alone for the first time.

Matthew led George to the side of the bed where Mary and the baby were.

"Look George, this is your baby sister, Rose." Matthew told his son, gently stroking Rose's head.

George stared at her for a while and then looked up at Mary and smiled. "Baby?" he asked.

"Yes, this is your baby sister." Mary replied, smiling back at her son.

The little boy reached out for his sister and gently put a hand on her foot, standing on his tip toes trying to get a better view of her.

"You must be careful, George, she is very small." Matthew told his son whilst lifting him up onto the bed next to his mama.

He reached out again and this time he touched her little hand and turned around to look at his mama to check that he wasn't doing anything wrong.

Mary looked up at Matthew and smiled, seeing how good George was with Rose made her feel so very happy, she felt like she could cry.

Matthew smiled back at her, whilst keeping an eye on their son. He didn't think that George would act like this straight away, seeing as he was very close to Mary, he expected him to be a little jealous, but he wasn't, which made Matthew feel so proud of his son.

Just then, there was another knock at the door. This time they knew who it was.

"Come in." Mary said, raising her voice a little.

Isobel entered the room and the sight of the four of them together made her smile.

"How are you both?" she asked, walking over to them.

"We're both fine." She answered.

The older woman kissed Matthew on the cheek before bending down to admire her youngest grandchild.

"She is beautiful" she said, smiling at the little girl. "She has your eyes" she told her son.

"But the rest of her is all Mary" he added "She's perfect".

"Have you chosen a name?" she asked, standing up straighter and looking down at Mary.

"Well, that's the reason we asked you to come up" Mary began, "we have chosen a name and we wanted you to be the first to hear it." She looked up at Matthew and he smiled at her. "We've decided to name her Rose Isobel".

"Oh my dears! I can't tell you how happy that makes me." Isobel said, tears of joy running down her face. "Thank you!" she added.

Matthew took Mary's hand in his and squeezed it. She looked up at him and smiled.

"You helped bring her into the world, so it's only right." Mary added.

Isobel bent down and kissed her daughter-in-law on the cheek before kissing her son's cheek again. Turning her attention to her grandson who had been watching them from the bed she asked "And how do you like having a little sister?"

George smiled shyly at his grandmother. "He's taken it a lot better than we thought he would" Matthew said. "He has been brilliant with her".

"I'm glad to hear it." She replied. "I'm afraid I must be leaving now, it's rather late and I don't want to keep the chauffeur waiting". She said, not really wanting to leave her grandchild.

"Thank you for everything today" Mary said, giving her an appreciative smile.

"Yes, thank you Mother" Matthew added, kissing her on the cheek.

"It was nothing, really… but thank you for naming her after me. It means a lot." She answered before hugging her grandson and leaving the room.

"That went well" Matthew said, looking at Mary who just smiled back at him.

Just then, baby Rose sneezed.

"Bwess you" George said straight away, staring at his little sister.

Mary's heart nearly melted, she looked up at Matthew who was giggling. Mary couldn't get over how sweet her little boy was. Matthew sat down on the edge of the bed next to her and put his arm around her. Mary rested her head against his shoulder and watched her two children with love, pride and fascination.

It was Rose's first Christmas and she was now three months old. It had been snowing all week so this Christmas was a very white one.

Mary and Matthew had been looking forward to Christmas this year because it was their first Christmas with Rose.

All the family was gathered downstairs for luncheon, including Violet and Isobel. The children were upstairs in the nursery having their lunch before they could come down and open their presents.

"I can't wait to see George's face when he opens his model plane." Mary said, getting more and more excited.

"Neither can I." Matthew replied with a grin on his face.

"Is Lily excited?" Mary asker her youngest sister.

"She has done nothing but speak of Christmas for the last couple of weeks!" Sybil joked.

Everybody smiled and laughed and carried on eating their Christmas dinner. Later on, once they had all finished eating, Nanny brought the children downstairs in to the library.

"Lily, come here darling" Tom said, reaching out for his daughter who ran over into his arms.

Matthew took Rose from the nanny and George walked next to him over to where Mary was sitting, by the fireplace.

"Hello my darling!" she said, smiling at her son. "Happy Christmas".

Matthew sat down beside her and placed Rose in her arms. Mary bent down and kissed her daughter on the forehead. Rose stared up into her mama's eyes and smiled.

Suddenly they heard laughing and turned around to see Lily opening her presents with a big grin on her face which made everybody smile.

"Would you like to open your presents?" Mary asked her son who looked up at her and nodded, a big smile on his face.

Matthew passed him a few presents and they watched as he opened them one by one. When he saw his toy plane, his face lit up and he looked up at his parents and thanked them both.

Mary watched him, she was glad he liked his presents. He then walked over to her and kissed her on the cheek and thanked her for all his toys.

Once he had opened all his presents, Mary opened Rose's for her.

"What's this Rose darling?" she asked her daughter as she showed her the little brown teddy bear with a tartan bow around its neck.

The little girl reached out for it and chewed on its ear whilst making gurgling noises. Mary watched her with a smile on her face, she loved her so very much – and George.

"Do you think she likes it?" Mary asked.

"I think she does rather!" Matthew laughed as his daughter slavered all over the poor teddy bear's head.

Mary laughed at her before opening the rest of her presents which were mostly dresses from Cora but then she found a little present that she hadn't seen before and when she opened it, she found a little silver bracelet, placed in a little pale pink box that read 'Rose' on it.

Mary looked around the room wondering who the beautiful gift could be from and as she did, she noticed that Violet was staring directly at her with a smile on her face.

"Granny, is this from you?" she asked.

"Yes dear, I had my maid collect it from a jewelry shop in London the last time I was there." She replied.

"It's lovely, thank you granny" she added. "Look Rose, Granny Violet has got you this bracelet for when you are old enough to wear it."

"It would look lovely with the navy dress I got her" Cora said, smiling at her granddaughter.

"It would." She said "Thank you, both of you." She added appreciatively.

After both their children had opened their presents, Mary passed baby Rose over to Matthew and went to get Matthew his present.

"Here, I hope you like it" she said, handing him a little box that was perfectly wrapped.

"Darling, you really didn't have to" he said, taking the present from her hands whilst smiling at her.

Mary watched him open it. Inside the box, were two silver cufflinks engraved with George and Rose's initials.

"Thank you, my darling" he said, smiling down at them before leaning over to kiss her.

"You're welcome, I hope you like them." She replied, smiling at him.

"I love them, you couldn't have gotten me a better gift." He answered.

"Good, I'm glad" she began "You know, you're rather difficult to shop for" she joked.

He smiled fondly at her before handing her her gift. They had told each other no gifts this year seeing as they wanted to spend their money on presents for the children instead but they had still bought each other a little something.

Mary stared at Matthew as he handed her the gift.

"What? Did you really think that I wouldn't get you anything?" he asked, grinning at her.

"You didn't have to" she replied, taking the present from him.

"I wanted to." He added.

Mary opened the present and smiled when she saw what it was.

"Perseus and Andromeda" she whispered as she ran her finger over the antique book cover.

"Look inside" he whispered back.

She did as he said and opened up the book, on the back of the cover, she found a few handwritten lines. She looked up at Matthew and smiled.

"Read them" he said softly.

She looked back down at the book and read:

"Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

Mary, my darling, my heart belongs to you.
I love you more than words could say.
Yours forever, Matthew."

After reading these words, she felt so overwhelmed that she didn't even know what to say, a tear ran down her cheek as she turned to face Matthew. Their eyes locked and he knew exactly what she wanted to say and he knew that his present had pleased her, and that's all he needed to know.

"I love you" she mouthed.

He leaned over, making sure not to squash Rose and put his arms around Mary before pressing another warm kiss to her lips.

Later on, after everyone had opened their presents and were settling down in front of the fire, Matthew whispered something to Mary and left the room. When he returned, he told George and Lily to follow him outside. Mary and Sybil followed with Rose.

"Come along, I've got something to show you" Matthew whispered, reaching his hand out for George to take.

Mary gave Matthew a knowing grin.

"Put your coat on darling, it's quite cold outside" Mary told her son.

Once they had got wrapped up, Matthew took George and Lily outside.

"Look what I've found" Matthew said, pointing towards something that looked little hoof prints in the snow.

"What are they?!" Lily asked, crouching down next them and touching the tracks with her fingers.

"Well they look like reindeer tracks to me!" Matthew said, making both children's faces light up.

"Reindeer tracks?!" Lily asked.

"Yes, they do look like reindeer tracks to me." Mary said, pretending to examine them.

Lily looked up at her mama, shocked. "Mama, are they really reindeer's footprints?" the little girl asked.

"It looks like it, your papa thought he heard them outside last night." Sybil told her daughter, trying to keep a serious expression on her face.

Having heard what her mama had just said she looked at George who looked shocked.

"Why don't we go see if you can find the reindeer?" Matthew proposed.

As soon as he did, they both jumped up and ran into the large garden.

"Wait for me then." Matthew shouted after them.

"Don't be too long." Mary shouted after him.

"We won't, I'll just take them for a short walk." He replied before catching up with the children.

Later on, Mary and Matthew were getting ready for dinner. Matthew hadn't been back from his walk very long. He walked into their bedroom where he found Mary sat at her dressing table, putting on her favorite perfume. He walked over to her and kissed her before walking over to the bed and collapsing on it.

"You were gone a long time." Mary said, turning round on her chair to face him.

"They didn't want to come back until they saw the reindeer" he replied, sounding quite exhausted.

"How did you get them to come back then?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I told them that the reindeer must have already gone back to the North Pole but that we might see them next Christmas." He replied, pushing himself up into a sitting position.

"Ah" she replied "You do realize you will have to do this every year now my darling" she joked.

"It was worth it, just seeing their faces" he added.

"I suppose it was" she replied, smiling at him and then turning back to face herself in the mirror. "I can't decide which necklace to wear, what do you think?" she asked him, showing him both necklaces.

"Oh, that reminds me, I got you another present." He said, getting up from the bed and picking out a thin box from one of the drawers.

"Matthew, you already gave me a present, you really didn't have to get me another one." She said, smiling at him.

"I wanted to my darling." He said, walking over to her and handing her the gift.

She looked down at the box and gently opened it, revealing a beautiful diamond necklace with matching earrings.

"Oh my!" she exclaimed, looking down at the jewels.

"Do you like them?" he asked.

"Matthew, they're… they're perfect!" she replied, running a finger over the necklace.

"I'm glad you like them, they belonged to my great grandmother, I've been wanting to give them to you for a long time but I wanted to wait for the right moment." He said "maybe you could wear these tonight?" he suggested.

"I'm speechless" she said, picking up the diamond necklace. "Do I have to put it on myself?" she asked cheekily.

"Let me" he said, smiling at her in the mirror, taking the necklace from her hands and placing it around her neck before fastening it and pressing a kiss to the back of her neck, just underneath the necklace.

She took her other earrings out and replaced them with the diamond ones to match her necklace. Afterwards, she stared at herself in the mirror and admired her new jewelry.

"Perfect." He whispered into her ear.

Feeling his hot breath so close to her skin made her shiver.

"I love you Matthew" she replied softly, turning around to face him.

She stood up and put her arms around his neck, before kissing him tenderly.

Matthew put his arms around her and kissed her back. "I love you too" he whispered against her lips.

Mary and Matthew were outside, enjoying the beautiful spring morning, Mary was sat in the shade in front of the house, Rose was in her bassinette next to her mama whilst Matthew played in the grass with his son, George.

It was a perfect morning, everything felt so perfect and Mary couldn't help but smile. But, in the back of her mind, she had been thinking about something that she had been wanting to do for a long time now, she had just never had the courage to do it before…

"We'll play again later, I need a rest first!" Matthew told his son as he walked over to Mary.

"You look like you had fun" Mary joked.

"Yes!" George exclaimed running up to his mama who stroked his head when he arrived next to her.

Mary smiled fondly at her son.

"I'm going to ask Carson for a drink, would you like one?" he asked Mary.

"Oh, Matthew, wait a minute, I wanted to discuss something with you that has been troubling me for a while…" she began.

"What is it?" he asked sounding a little concerned as he sat down next to her, impatiently waiting for a response.

"I've been thinking about this for a while now and… I think that I would like to go back… to where we had the accident." She finally said, looking away from him and staring into thin air.

"Mary, are you sure? I don't want all our old memories to come back, it was a long time ago now, do you really need to go?" he asked, not quite understanding why she wanted to go back.

"I need to go back there, for me. I haven't been able to get into a car since, Matthew!" she said, raising her voice a little and turning to face him. "You always say that you need to face your fears, don't you?" she asked.

"Well yes…" he replied.

"Well then, that is what I intend to do. I'm going back there, Matthew, with or without your support, but it would be nice if you were there too, it did have a big impact on your life as well, did it not?" she asked, raising an eyebrow.

"You're right" he answered, reaching out for her hand. "We could walk down there after luncheon if you like." He suggested.

"Perfect" she replied, looking into his eyes.

After luncheon, they set off down the driveway, they had decided to take the children with them. Mary was pushing Rose in her beautiful laced pram and Matthew kept George by his side.

As they got closer and closer to the site, memories were going round in Mary's head. Seeing that she was turning a little paler, Matthew took her hand in his, looked at her and gave her a reassuring smile which she then returned.

Neither of them really spoke a word on their way there. Mary couldn't really think about anything but the accident and Matthew had no idea what he could say to her to make it all better, so he decided not to say anything but to be there for her, by her side in case she needed him.

As they approached the crash site, Mary stopped walking and just stared at it for a moment.

"Are you alright?" Matthew asked her, squeezing her hand tighter.

She took a deep breath, turned to face him and nodded slowly nodded her head, giving him an appreciative smile.

She swallowed and set off walking again until she was stood in the very place the accident had happened.

She looked around, she left the pram with Matthew and walked down to where the car had fallen on to its side, just off the road. She then walked over to a tree they must have hit and found a slight dent in it where the bark had fallen off when the car had hit it. She ran her fingers over the dent and then lifted a hand to her mouth and tears began rolling down her cheeks. Not wanting her children to see her crying, she turned away from them.

Matthew couldn't bear to see her like that. He walked down the slight hill with their children and put a hand on her shoulder.

George couldn't understand why they were there and what was happening but he knew that something was wrong because he could hear his mama crying.

Matthew turned her around and took her in his arms, pulling her as close to him as he could.

"It's alright my darling, it's over now, it's over." He whispered in her ear.

"Thank you for coming with me, thank you for just being here." She whispered back.

"But Mary, where else would I be?" he asked. "I'll always be here for you, to support you, to love you, never forget that. As long as I am alive you will always be safe because I will look after you and love you until the last breath leaves my body." He told her.

"I love you so much." She said, pulling away from him and pressing a kiss to his lips.

"And I love you." He replied, returning her kiss.

Their attention was suddenly diverted to their son who had just started giggling. He was looking and pointing up at two squirrels that had made a little home higher up in the tree.

Mary and Matthew both looked up with their son and watched the little animals. Mary turned to her son and hugged him. He always knew just how to make her smile.

"I love you too darling." She whispered to her son.

"Love you Mama." He replied, kissing her on the cheek.

"Shall we head back?" Matthew asked.

"Yes, we wouldn't want to be late for dinner now, would we?" she joked.

The four of them set off walking back to the house, the sun was just setting which made the sky appear pink and orange. Mary felt warm and safe, she decided to put everything behind her now, it was over. She was happy.

George ran ahead in the grass and Matthew put his arm around Mary as she pushed their daughter's pram.

"I'm glad we came here today" Matthew began, turning to face Mary as they walked. "We can put it all behind us now and look forward to the future." He said, smiling at her.

"Talking about the future, I need to tell you something" she began, watching her son playing in the grass in front of them.

"What is it?" he asked, curiously.

Mary stopped walking and faced Matthew. "I'm pregnant!" she whispered with a big smile on her face, causing her eyes to sparkle.

"Oh my darling, that's brilliant news!" he exclaimed, taking her into his arms and spinning her around.

Mary couldn't have felt happier, she felt so grateful, she had the most wonderful husband supporting her all every step of the way, the sweetest little boy, the most beautiful baby girl and now she was about to have another one. She felt like the whole thing had just been one big dream and that she would wake up one day, she couldn't believe how perfectly happy she was.

As they walked through the gates to Downton, Mary turned to face Matthew.

"Thank you" she whispered.

"What for?" he asked, facing her.

"For giving me everything I have ever dreamt of, for making me believe in love, for standing by me through the hardest of times, for loving me and for being you."

THE END!

I really hope you enjoyed my fanfic, i loved writing it. It would really mean a lot if you left a review after reading, I love reading them. I hope you liked the ending, I wanted to make the last chapter as good as i could.

The poem I used in this chapter (in Mary's book from Matthew) was from Hamlet - Shakespeare.

After this fanfic, i've decided to write another one and will be posting the first chapter this week as i have already started writing in and i have a lot of ideas!x
I just want to thank youngfree for giving me a few ideas for this last chapter, it really helped! - Merci !:)

Thank you so much again for reading, you've really encouraged me to carry on writing :)