So, last chapter, this is more of an ending than a chapter, so it's really quite short, sorry :/ I just wanted a nice, happy ending ;)
I hope you have all enjoyed reading this as much as I have writing it! :) 3 xx

'Elle, Maddy, breakfast's ready!' Called their foster dad from the kitchen, where he sat with Lottie, helping her do her pancakes.

'Ok, just coming!' Elle called back, putting the final touches to her make-up and straightening out the creases in her new uniform.

She grabbed her bag and made her way across the modern, open plan apartment to the kitchen, where she grabbed a plate of pancakes and began to devour them.

'Mmmm, these are so good!' She smiled as she finished off the last few bites.

'Well, I'm glad you like my cooking...'

'I still can't believe you're our foster dad! Isn't it going to be a bit weird for you? It certainly is for me. Not that that's a bad thing!'

Matt smiled. 'Well, after Sam Kelly, you 3 should be a doddle!' he said, and laughed. 'Gosh, she could be such a nightmare! Good kid, but sometimes really quite crazy...' he reminisced.

Elle walked back into the kitchen area to wash up her plate, and Matt followed. 'Mr Wilding?' she asked.

'Please, Matt! Only 'Mr Wilding' at school, ok!' he said, smiling.

'Ok, Matt. I just wanted to say thank you. For taking all 3 of us, and keeping us together.' Elle said quietly, and smiled.

'It's ok, I wouldn't want you to get split up, no-one does. Just, I might need a bigger apartment if this becomes a long-term arrangement!' he said, winking, and Elle laughed.

'Right, come on then, time to drop the monkeys off at their school and head off to ours, yeah?' Matt said, tickling Lottie as he lifted her out of her seat, and the 4 of them made their way to the apartment car park, as one happy family.

So after all the amazing feedback, I've decided I will definitely write another fic, and will try to continue with these characters, but as a sequel. (which, believe me, had not been my original plan, but you're all just too lovely and persuasive!)

The only slight problem I have is that, mostly, my ideas come to me during daydreams, procrastination or otherwise finding ways to avoid revising for my A-Levels. (Which, thankfully, are now over for this year!) Mostly, my writing style is therefore 'free-write and then refine ideas into chapters that make sense' if you get what I mean!

Which means I may have to wait until a new idea strikes me.

Luckily for you, I often get my initial ideas from actual characters or episodes from the show, like, this one was loosely based from Sally Froggatt's plot line, where I thought about other possible endings, and then thought about some of my other favourite characters, e.g. Sam, and it a spiralled out from there... Unfortunately, it took several months to refine the plot line in my mind, then a few weeks after that to actually start properly writing it, so this could take a while... but if you guys want more, I guess I'll have to watch more episodes for inspiration, so watch this space ;)

Only bit that really annoys me is that you can't watch series 5 on YouTube (or on the internet anywhere...), which is where I've got to...

But if anyone has any particular requests, bright ideas, or any other general feedback, I really would love to hear it! (one last time?)

I have a few ideas, but they need a lot of developing before they could even be considered a story...

Bye for now, hope you enjoyed this as much as I did :) xxx