a/n: well, this is it, thank you again, so much for all of your support.

Epilogue:

"I can't believe it" she whispered as she looked at her father.

"You look beautiful" Logan told her honestly, "I can't believe you're getting married, my little girl"

"I'm all grown up" Ava smiled as her mother approached her.

"These are yours" Rory handed her a set of pearls, the same pearls that Shira had gifted to Ava when Rory and Logan got married. "From Grandma Shira and Grandpa Mitchum"

"They're beautiful" Ava smiled, putting her hand across her chest as Rory did the clasp up.

"We're so proud of you" Rory told her, "And your Mom and Dad would be proud of you too"

Ava had become a doctor, she was a general surgeon working through her residency at New York Presbyterian Hospital, she was very much living in Paris' footsteps. Much like both of her mothers, she had graduated top of her class from Chilton, but unlike both Rory and Paris she had done so with the support of her younger brother Nate, and her younger sister Amelia.

Rory had given birth to Amelia when Nate was 2 years old, and unlike her pregnancy with Nate she had not had experienced any symptoms after her pregnancy.

Rory had spent all of her waking hours when she was not at work trying to teach her children the importance of working hard, and appreciating all of their opportunities, most importantly she had taught her children the value of giving back.

"Can you believe this?" Rory smiled as she watched Amelia present her older sister with a wedding gift.

"Seems like just yesterday it was us" Logan laughed as he looked at his wife.

As Logan and Rory both walked their daughter down the aisle, waiting for the man she had met when she was just 17 years old, their 28 year old daughter was getting married. She was surrounded by her family, and friends at a ceremony in Martha's Vineyard where Logan owned the Huntzberger compound. The ceremony was intimate, it was a lot like Rory and Logan's wedding where only friends and family were present.

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"Can I have this dance?" Logan extended his arm to his wife as they stood in the tent which had been erected to host the reception.

"Do I really have a choice?" Rory smiled as she pressed her body close to Logan's, her brown hair was greying, and she had more wrinkles, but they were still as in love with each other as they ever had been.

"You look beautiful" Logan whispered in her ear as he held her close.

"Did you think we could do it?" Rory asked as she watched Ava with her husband at the head table, Ava was laughing as she kissed him gently, and stood up. "All those years ago, when she got into the accident and you brought me to the hospital. Did you think in that moment, that this is where we would be all these years later?"

"No" Logan laughed, "But I'm glad this is where we ended up"

"So much for wide open space" Rory rested her head on his shoulder, "Thank you"

"For what?" Logan asked her, slowing their pace.

"For stepping up, for being a husband, and a father"

"Excuse me" the dance was interrupted as all three Huntzberger children stood in front of the microphone, it was Ava speaking, "I would just like to say thank you to my parents for this amazing evening, and thank you all, for coming" she smiled.

"Without our parents" Nate smiled as he saw Logan holding tightly to Rory in the middle of the dance floor, "None of us would be here today, obviously" he laughed, "But seriously, without Mom, and Dad, Rory and Logan Huntzberger, we wouldn't have grown up knowing what it was to love, and what it meant to have a great love, a love worth fighting for"

"So, my siblings and I, just want to say thank you, Mom, and Dad for showing us that love can conquer anything" Amelia smiled, she was the spitting image of her father, "Thank you for showing us that no matter how much we had, all that mattered was coming home to a family who cared, and being the best people we could be. Because of you, our big sister, Ava has found the love of her life, she had found a partner who will love her every day for the rest of her life. In sickness and health, in good times and bad, and we all believe that we wouldn't demand that for ourselves if we hadn't had two parents who were sickeningly in love with each other"

"Like Amy and Nate said" Ava smiled, "You taught us how to love, and for me, you taught me that blood, or no blood, a parent is someone who loves their child unconditionally. There is not a day that goes by that I don't thank God that even though I lost my parents at such a young age, my Aunty Rory took me in, and she loved me until she became my Mom, and soon, there was a man who loved my Mom, and who loved me, so eventually he became my Dad, and I got this amazing family, this amazing group of people who loved my unconditionally, and I just hope that in my marriage, and in my future I will have as much love, and as much happiness as my parents had. Thank you, so much for giving me the opportunity to be me"

The entire room erupted into applause and smiles at the end of the toast which the Huntzberger children had prepared as a way to thank their parents.

Rory smiled as Logan kissed her temple gently.

"We did it, Ace"