EPILOGUE

Ten years later…

“Ryden August Keen! If you do not get off of your sister this instant I swear to god I’m going to let your father jettison you into space when he gets home!” Angel snapped at her oldest son angrily. He was way too much like his father for her sanity…

Ryden smiled charmingly, and reluctantly removed himself from where he’d been sitting cross-legged on his younger sister’s back. “Sorry mom…” He mumbled with patent insincerity.

“Don’t apologize to me, apologize to Seren and don’t let me catch you-.”

The holo doors slid open and her words were lost in the sound of five rambunctious children running to greet their parents at the door.

“Kiernan, Honey… Where the hell is my useless husband?” Angel snapped, noticing for the first time he hadn’t joined the other two.

Honey and Kiernan’s twin boys hung happily off their parents as Keen walked slowly through the door.

“Where the hell have you been?” Angel snapped waspishly.

Keen merely smiled charmingly at his wife and placed his daughter, who’d thrown herself into his arms upon his arrival, back down on the ground. “I was just-.”

“Chasing after the bounty on some rat bag who actually knows you! Are you whacked? We’re supposed to be dead, remember? We all died in a tragic space crash, remember? What are you thinking, hunting down one of your old war time buddies?!”

“It’s a million dollar reward Angel.” Kiernan interrupted to point out.

Angel rolled her eyes. “And when this con of yours tell the IPF who brought him in…?”

“The wanted poster says dead or alive…” Keen murmured with a smile, knowing his words were guaranteed to set his wife off. Even after ten years she still managed to entertain him. There wasn’t a day that went by when he had ever thought of her as boring…

“Niklas Keen! Did you just threaten to kill a man!? Again!? And in front of your children too!” Angel was enjoying her righteous indignation almost as much as Keen was enjoying goading her.

“What a shrew you’ve become Angel baby…” Keen muttered dryly. The fact that he was obviously trying very hard not to laugh only fueled Angel’s rage.

“Being married to you has made me this way!” She hissed back with a sparkle in her eye.

“I’m gonna marry Ryden!” A small voice piped up suddenly.

“Trillium Blake!” Honey gasped at her daughter in shock. “You can’t marry anyone! You’re only six years old!”

“How about me mommy? Am I old enough? ‘Cause I wanna marry Serenity.” Jared, one of Trillium’s older brothers added.

“No! You can’t!” His twin brother protested. “’Cause I’m gonna marry her!”

Honey stared at her boys in amazement.

“Things are getting weird.” Kiernan muttered, not really surprised by his boys though. They’d always made their affection for Serenity abundantly clear.

“Jared, Jaryn,… you can’t…” Honey trailed off uncertainly. First her daughter and now her sons. Maybe the children were all spending way too much time together.

“That’s okay auntie Honey, I don’t mind.” Serenity assured her. “I think I’d like to marry them.”

“What?” Angel gasped. “You can’t marry both of them!”

“Ya, you two boys can’t share a wife.” Honey informed her twins with mock seriousness.

“You can if you live on Athosia.” Kiernan murmured with a raised, suggestive eyebrow.

“Be quiet dearest…” Honey muttered back with a smile.

“If we marry Seren and Tri marries Ryder that would be nice though wouldn’t it? Mommy?” Jaryn asked innocently. “Then we’d all be together, forever.”

“Now there’s a scary thought…” Kiernan muttered.

“Be quiet dearest…” Honey repeated.

Angel had to smile at the twins though. It would be nice. They’d all been through so much since building their new lives together ten years ago. She couldn’t imagine a time in the future when they’d be separated.

“You don’t wanna get married anyway Seren my pet. Look what it’s done to your mother.” Keen informed the small blonde solemnly.

“Ha! Ha!” Angel snapped. “Your daddy’s just trying to distract me from the fact that he’s been making death threats. Again.”

“Angel baby?” Keen whispered, pulling her into his arms.

“Ya?”

“Shut up.”

THE END

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Author’s note: well, there you have it! The very real end… Ppl asked for it so I posted the epilogue… See, everyone lives happily ever after. The IPF assumes Angel is dead and that so are Keen and Kiernan. Angel and Keen have a boy and a girl, named Serenity and Ryder while Honey and Kiernan have twin boys named Jared and Jaryn and a girl named Trillium. I didn’t like the epilogue because it seemed kinda cheesy- like too much of an extreme happy ending but… I always felt all along that things could only end happily for these couples… They’d been through so much

Thanx a million to everyone who actually took the time to review. It means soooooooooooo much to me! Now that this story’s done I guess I’ll just have to concentrate on “A Murder of 6” and “Destine” Wish me luck! Hee hee… BYE BYE!