Sorry that it's taken me so long to post this chapter. MY last laptop broke and it's been hell without it. But I finally got my new one! So the original chapter for this was on my old laptop and it's lost but that's okay since I totally went a different way with this.

I'm going to end this story with this chapter since I don't want to drag it out.

I thank you for reading and everyone who has reviewed or will. THANKS! EvaC

Chapter 18 LAST CHAPTER

The man sat there in his hospital bed and prayed he would be able to pull off that he didn't remember anything as he watched the door being opened then his friend stepped in followed by his wife who had the twins standing in front of her ever so gently making them walk into the room.

The man stopped himself from looking away from the four knowing he was waiting for Usagi to come in. If he looked away they would know he was lying, he repeated in his head.

"Hey your back! Who are these boys? Are these my sons you told me about?" He asked hoping his voice sounded surprised.

"Yes." Mamoru's mother said as she gently guided the boys forward while her husband stepped back to stand by the wall and he just studied at his friend.

The boys looked to their father as they each wondered if Mamoru's parents were playing a joke on them. Together they looked to the door that was being opened again this time by Mamoru who was holding Usagi's free hand since she was holding the baby tight against her chest with her other hand.

Usagi refused to look at her father while thinking that she didn't want to be there but she convinced herself that the sooner she came then the sooner she could leave and never see the man again. She also told herself she was doing it for her brothers.

'Don't look in her eyes'. The man's voice rang out in his head.

"I thought you said I had three kids?" Her father said looking to his friend who smiled.

"That's my son Mamoru and he's married to Usagi and that is their baby. We are grandfathers." His friend said.

Usagi's father looked away from him then back telling himself over and over that he would pull it off.

Usagi moved her eyes to look at the man locking onto his pale face. It looked like he was going to pass out Usagi thought.

"A grandfather…..okay." He said before looking down again proud with himself as the stupid smile, he had worked on before, formed again.

Usagi and Mamoru exchanged a look, surprised by how the man was acting and sounding. Each wondering what had happened to the strong man who would get after Usagi over anything that he thought she had done wrong.

Where was the man who wouldn't even let her near him, gone too they wondered.

Usagi looked to her brothers after noticing that they both took a step backwards.

"That's not Daddy." One of the twins suddenly said before he ran out of the room.

His father looked up and watched as the other boy ran out then Mamoru's mother left the room.

Usagi looked to her father after the boys were out and really looked at him.

Feeling Usagi's eyes on him the man looked at her giving a silly grin before looking to a wall.

'Keep the grin yes keep it in place for a few more minutes'. His mind said.

'Now play with the blanket in front of you and she might leave. The sooner she leaves the sooner you can relax and die.' The man thought not noticing when his head started nodding in agreement.

Usagi leaned closer to Mamoru before she pulled him to the door leaving the room. Both sighing once they were out.

Usagi closed her eyes being glad to be out of that room with that man who was her father but in a way wasn't.

The man never realized when his body sagged after Usagi was out of the room and the door was closed but his friend did notice just as he had noticed everything that his friend was trying to hide. The nervous looks toward Usagi and the sad looks when the boys ran out. Yes his friend had noticed.

Usagi stood there and thought about that smile as the man had looked at her and her body shivered. Usagi had been scared of the man before but that smile he had, made her feel like her worse nightmare was coming to get her.

"We want to go home now!" The twins said looking up at Mamoru's mother before they spotted Usagi and ran to her each wrapping their arms around her and holding her body tight.

"Boys it's going to be okay." Mamoru's mother said more to herself as it hit that they shouldn't have brought them so soon.

Mamoru's mother walked back to the room while Mamoru helped Usagi walk to a waiting room so they could wait until his parents were ready to leave.

"You remember Usagi. I can tell."

Mamoru's mother heard as she walked back into the room seeing her husband beside the bed looking at the other man who was looking away.

"No."

"Yes you do. I saw your eyes. You might not the boys but Usagi you know her. Your eyes gave you away."

"No."

"Yes. Lie if you want but I can tell."

"Shut up and get out. I don't know what you are getting at and my head is hurting!" Usagi's father just about yelled before he covered his head with a pillow.

Seeing his wife, Mamoru's father walked to her and grabbed her arm before leaving the room.

"What was that about?"

"He knows who Usagi is. I would bet my life on it. I saw how his eyes got when she walked in and each time he looked toward her. Glancing at her trying to not be seen and give his act away."

"Maybe he had a flash of something when he noticed her."

"No… Hey take them home. I'm going to stay awhile and talk to the doctor." The man said before giving a kiss to her head and walking away.

"I will then I'll be back."

"No I'll call you when I think you should come get me. Don't bother wasting time here right now. Go take care of the boys."

"Okay I will but you better call." The woman called before she walked to the waiting room after her husband gave a wave.

Mamoru's mother gave a half smile then walked to where he and Usagi where at. Mamoru was standing in front of Usagi as the twins, who were sitting so close to her that they were almost on her lap, where looking down. Usagi looked up after she spotted Mamoru's mother.

"We are going to leave now." She said holding her hands out for the boys.

"Where's Dad?" Mamoru asked helping Usagi to stand not surprised that the boys stood at the same time as her.

"He's going to stay and visit. I'll come back and pick him up later. But I want to get these two home." Mamoru's mother said as she led the way out of the room.

Usagi and Mamoru followed behind them with Usagi glancing to her father's room one last time being thankful that she had visited that once now she wouldn't have to come back.

She looked forward and watched as the boys just about ran out of the building and she didn't blame them one bit.

As they left the building, Mamoru's father found a nurse asking her to find the doctor before he walked back into the room his friend was in.

Seeing his friend with blood dripping from his mouth, the man yelled out for help before he ran to the bedside just in time to see his friend pass out. He stepped to the side when the hospital staff ran in and over.

"Doctor what's wrong with him?" Mamoru's father asked after the doctor checked his friend over a few minutes later.

"It seems he's bleeding inside, something must have ripped. I wish he would have said something. I'm going back in. I might be able to stop this before it gets worse." The doctor said stepping beside Mamoru's father and they both watched as the staff pushed the bed out of the room.

Mamoru's father took hold of the doctor's arm and held it before the doctor could walk away, the doctor looked at him.

"Doctor, do what you can to save him." Mamoru's father said then let the doctor's arm go after the other man nodded his head before he left the room also.

Mamoru's father followed behind walking slowly stopping at the operation room door and watched as it closed.

"You stupid fool. I saw what you were trying but your eyes gave you away. You were always lousy at lying. You really thought you could get away before telling Usagi you are sorry. I don't think so. I'm not going to let you off that easy. If you die in there then so be it. But if you live….I will make sure you tell her sorry for everything. Then we will let Usagi decide if she forgives you but you will right the wrong you did." Mamoru's father whispered before he walked away and went to the waiting area.

Two hours later found the man sitting and waiting in a waiting area for his wife to show back up. He stood to greet her when he saw her walking to him.

"Is he still in the operating room?" The woman asked before letting him go and sitting down as her husband did.

"No he's in recovery and hasn't woken up yet. The doctor said he was able to find all the rips and has fixed them and once again it's a matter of waiting and seeing if he wakes." The man answered.

"What the hell was he thinking?" The woman asked remembering when her husband told about the bleeding.

The man looked to his wife then out the room before saying, "He wants to die. He was hoping he would die. The doctor said he is paralyzed from the waist down."

"What! I thought they said he would walk later."

"Not now. The bleeding inside and some other things have messed that up."

"Will he try to kill himself?"

The couple looked at each other each with their own thoughts.

"No he is a coward." The man said before looking away again as his wife shook her head hoping her husband was right.

And her husband was correct.

Their friend did wake up and once again remembered everything which upset him but he didn't try to do himself in, he was a coward but he was placed on suicide watch for some time since his friend didn't trust him anymore.

After that day and remembering how his sons had acted, the man didn't ask to see his children again not wanting them to see him that way. When he was moved from the hospital to a rehab center he went alone refusing to even see his friends.

He knew he wanted to learn how to live with his handicap and his demons on his own. And his friend gave him the time alone knowing they had to let him do the contacting when he was ready to face the truth about his past and even Usagi's.

The truth about the family in which Mamoru's father had found out months later and told Usagi alone then everyone else, shocking them.

His friend had always hidden the truth about Usagi's true parents.

For the man wasn't Usagi's real father, you could call him her stepfather while he was married to her mother, but in reality he was her older brother.

That knowledge came out after her mother's will was read. For Usagi's mother had been married to his father but left the older man for her stepson.

But the older man never knew and Usagi's "Brother" had found out after his wife told him the truth that he wasn't Usagi's father. It was then that he started to hate and turn against Usagi. Even going so far as to make sure their father never learned the truth so he acted like Usagi was his child.

He did all that he could so the older man wouldn't find out even threatening his wife to keep her quiet and the woman did stay silent knowing she was happy with her new husband who showed her the love she had craved for.

The man was glad when Usagi told how she was pregnant and it gave him the excuse to get her out of his life since he didn't want to share in their father's money. He never dreamed that his best friend's son would have turned out to be the baby's father and Usagi would show back up in his life.

The man never knew what her mother had done, the one secret she had taken to her grave. For Usagi's mother had left her share of the older man's money which was more than half of the inheritance, money her second husband never knew about, to Usagi since she knew her sons would have their own father's money in time.

Everything came out into the open and now the man Usagi had always thought of as her father had to face the fact that she knew the truth and he had to live with the fact that Usagi had more of their father's money.

But he never had to worry about Usagi ever going to visit him for she never did. Nothing he did now would ever change her feelings for him. He had been wrong in keeping the knowledge about her real parents a secret.

She couldn't hate her mother since the woman was gone. But she would hate her brother for many years to come.

Mamoru's parents learned that Usagi's real father had never known he was really her father and had hated his son for taking his wife from him. His hatred never was aimed toward Usagi but to his son and what he had done but his son had always twisted the man's words around to suit him since he never wanted the man to know the truth about Usagi knowing that their father would have taken Usagi and given her everything.

Now the man had to not only worry about learning to live in the wheelchair but now his biggest worry was Usagi taking him to court thinking she was going to do it once she turned of age.

What the man didn't know was that Usagi really wasn't going to at least not for everything and that was only because of her little brothers, her little nephews who she would make sure were never without.

But why let her older brother know that Usagi would think. Make him sit and worry Usagi would say with a smile as she would over look her true father's papers with Mamoru who was more than happy to help her run her father's company.

And Mamoru was more than happy to rub the fact that he was going to be vice president to Usagi's older brother who wouldn't say anything as he would look out the window hating his life like never before.

If only he would have told the truth then maybe things would have turned out better for him. Now he was stuck knowing that the company he had worked so hard to get away from his father was under Usagi's care since she had more than seventy percent of it. He also had to face the fact that Usagi was in charge of his well being since the court ruled in her favor that he wasn't in any state of mind to take care of his own life.

The court's ruling turned in Usagi's favor sooner, thanks to him changing her birth certificate and Mamoru, his parents and Usagi wouldn't be telling the truth.

Usagi would be in charge of her older brothers money controlling everything that he wanted or needed until her little brother came of age and could take over for her when it came to their father, a man that would have to earn their trust back since they remembered how Usagi had been treated. And Usagi, their older sister/aunt, was making sure they had all they needed and wanted and most of all made them know they were loved and she would never change how she felt for them.

Many months after the truth was out and everyone was trying to get on with their lives, Mamoru stood and watched Usagi as she sat at the kitchen table.

He stood there for the longest time just watching and admiring her. For someone who had been to hell and back Usagi was doing better than he would have been if he had been in her shoes Mamoru thought.

Watching her over the last few months on how mature she had gotten Mamoru was proud and he couldn't wait until she found out that he had gotten her father's house back for her and that they and their son would be moving into it before the week was over.

Mamoru smiled when he thought about how happy Usagi would be as he walked over to her and picked up the book she was studying glancing at it then to her when she grabbed it back. He knew he wanted her attention to be on him at that moment.

"Mamochan stop I'm studying."

"But why? Are you ready to go back to school already?" Mamoru asked knowing he really wasn't ready for her to go. Who would bring him his lunch Mamoru wondered.

"I'm studying for this test that if I pass then I will be done with school. I will have a diploma sent to me. If I pass." Usagi answered as she reached for her pencil and started to take notes.

"That test where you are done totally with high school?" Mamoru asked glancing down to their son who was beside Usagi's legs, sitting up chewing on a rattle before he started to hit it on the floor.

"Yes dear." Usagi said the annoyance clearly in her voice.

"But why now. I thought you were looking forward to going back to school. Not that I don't mind." Mamoru said before sitting down beside her.

"I was but…I need to be done now." Usagi said glancing to their son then back to the book.

"Why?" Mamoru asked laying his head on her shoulder as he looked at her face.

Usagi looked to him as he lifted his head and looked back.

"I'm pregnant." Usagi said watching Mamoru's eyes widen.

He looked from her to their eleven month old son then back to her.

"WHAT!" Mamoru yelled standing up so fast that the chair fell back.

"Well I think I'm pregnant. You never do use protection with me." Usagi said looking up at him before she looked away.

"My parents are going to kill me for sure this time!" Mamoru moaned.

Usagi looked back and saw his eyes roll up then he fell to the ground.

Usagi ran to his side kneeling down and tapped his face ever so gently.

"Mamochan!" She called.

She looked when Little Mamoru crawled over and started to hit his father's head with the plastic rattle.

"Da Da Da." The boy said over and over with each hit.

"Honey don't hit your Daddy…..Mamochan I'm playing. I was covered. I made sure of it at my doctor's appointment soon after Little Mamoru was born."

"Mamochan…." Usagi said again when she didn't get an answer.

She yelped when she found herself across Mamoru's chest since he had pulled her to him.

"You silly woman!" Mamoru mumbled as he smiled.

Mamoru rolled so she was under him and kissed her as his arms wrapped around her body pulling her closer.

And as they kissed their first born bonked their heads one at a time taking turns with the rattle only stopping when the kissing stopped. Mamoru picked him up and carried him out of the room talking about how they needed to let Mommy study.

Mamoru smiled thinking as he walked down the hallway that he hoped Usagi would pass the first time since he wanted her home to continued to bring his lunch to him and be there waiting when he arrived in the evening.

Usagi sat back down on the chair and picked up her book glancing to the pages then back to the door that Mamoru had just walked through.

"I'll wait a few more days and tell him again that I really am. I mean nothing is a hundred percent and he's like a rabbit…hee hee so am I!" Usagi mumbled before smiling and reading trying to absorb everything she could. She wanted to finish and past that test before the new baby started showing.

Usagi looked up a few hours later when her brothers walked in and went to her after they arrived home with Mamoru's father who had taken them to visit their father.

The man was still in the recovery home.

"Hi Usagi."

"Hi guys how is everything?"

"Good." The two said at the same time.

"How was the visit?"

"It was okay….He's doing better and they said he might get to leave at the end of the month."

Usagi looked to the boys then nodded her head before she looked away.

The twins stood up and left the room while Usagi just looked down. She looked up when Mamoru's father sat down beside her and took her hands into his.

"Don't worry Usagi your brother…Damn it's still hard to say that… He isn't going to be living with you. I know you need more time to get use to him again." The man whispered.

"But we live together, all of us in this house. I'm sure I will see him the house isn't that large." Usagi said with her voice above a whisper.

She looked up at the man who was smiling.

"You and Mamoru and your son will be moving into your own place. I think it's time you two had more privacy. The twins are doing better and my wife and I are around for them." The man said while wondering if Mamoru had told her about the house yet.

Usagi just looked at him the surprise showing on her face.

"We won't make you deal with him ever again. If it wasn't for your brothers we wouldn't deal with him but we can't keep the boys from him." He whispered smiling after Usagi did.

He stood up and looked down still smiling and said, "Any ways, having another baby will be tiring on you as it is. And I think it will be better for you to have more privacy."

Usagi felt her face start to burn and she looked down.

"Did you tell Mamoru?"

"I did and he passed out so I told him I was playing."

Usagi looked up at her father-in-law after he turned her head up.

"Tell him in a few days. He needs to know. The sooner he knows then we can tell my wife."

"I'm going to tell him before the week is over after he's calm again."

Usagi smiled after the man did. He then left the room.

Usagi sat and thought about what the man had said about her brother. She still hadn't forgiven him but she wasn't about to stand in the way of her brothers having their father in their lives.

"I don't care about him getting out and coming here. I need to figure out how to tell Mamochan before I start showing."

"Our own place I can't wait!" Usagi then exclaimed as she stood up and walked out going to find Mamoru.

Later that night Usagi laid in Mamoru's arms thinking about how to tell him about the new baby.

"You surprised me earlier playing that trick on me." Mamoru suddenly said.

"It wasn't a trick." Usagi mumbled.

"I wish you really were. I want another one." Mamoru said as he leaned up and over her body looking down at her acting like he didn't hear.

"A…..another one?" Usagi asked surprised in the change.

"Yes I want a lot of kids"

"How many is a lot? I thought you would only want one since you're an only child."

Mamoru smiled and adjusted his body so his weight wasn't all on her.

"I don't want any siblings. I like being an only child. But I never said that I didn't want heaps of kids. About five or six! Yes six! Half dozen!" Mamoru said looking down to her stomach.

"How many!" Usagi exclaimed trying to sit up but she couldn't move really well since he was leaning over her.

Mamoru moved his hands and held her down and looked into her eyes.

"We will worry about Junior and this one first then talk later about the others. I really should give you a few years next." Mamoru said. He had moved his left hand down and covered her belly but moved it back up when he started kissing her.

Usagi's eyes had flown open but closed as it hit that he knew she really was pregnant. She wondered how he knew. Her answer came when Mamoru whispered in her ear that he had learned to watch and learn her body language.

Remembering always.

Mamoru had after all put Usagi first and had promised that he would think of her needs first always. And he did.

And Mamoru got his wish for the kids having the six he always wanted with the promise that he would stay home with them to care for them while Usagi went to work taking care of her father's business with help from her little brothers.

The End