I've attempted to do the third one in this series for a long time but I think I finally have it. Review if you want the story to continue

Prologue

Four years.

That's 48 months, 208 weeks, 1460 days, 35040 hours, 2102400 seconds.

Alex

A lot can happen in four years. You can get engaged to the boy you love more than anything in the world and find out you're pregnant with his child. You can get married in a cute little chapel and have a baby, who is everything you ever wanted but never knew. You can attend art school like you've always dreamed; buy a house with the white picket fence and have a dog in the backyard, yapping as your son chases it around. You can believe that the fairy tale ending is possible because, hell you deserve it after all you've been through. You can believe that the sacrifices you've made will make it all worthwhile, and that you'll live happily ever after. Because you've seen miracles happen before, you know magic exists everywhere around you and the happy ending is possible.

You can watch all of your hopes and dreams die in a single moment, burn to the ground right in front of you.

You can lose everything.

Justin

A lot can happen in four years. You can win back the girl you're meant to be with and love her fiercely. You can get down on one knee and ask her to marry you and she can make you happier than you ever thought you could be. You can attend medical school, pass with honours and learn to save lives. You can feel like your own life has meaning because of the work you do and the people you love, and that you never needed magic to feel the holes in your life. You can learn you never needed it to feel special because you have everything you could ever need. You can move out of the city, find a quiet little place where you hope one day you can raise a family of your own.

You can appreciate what you have so much more when someone you love loses their everything.

You can realise you can't save everyone.

Christian

A lot can happen in four years. You can get over someone you thought you'd never get over. You can meet a girl on the street that becomes very special to you. You can become an uncle to a little boy you absolutely adore. You can act on your passion for justice and become a police officer. You can love spending time with your brother, nephew and sister-in-law and being a part of a family, something you've never really had before. You can love being human, love the feeling of growing up, moving forward instead of always being fixed in the same spot. You can look back on your life as a mythical creature fondly but regret the mistakes you've made in the past and rectify them by standing for fairness and righteousness while defending the city.

You can be left to pick up the pieces of the family your brother left behind.

You can be left feeling utterly empty.

Mason

A lot can happen in four years. You can ask the most beautiful girl in the world to marry you and by some miracle, she can say yes. You can find out she's carrying your baby and not find enough words to describe your elation. You can get married in a small ceremony while the people you have grown to love watch. You can feel your newborn baby wrap his tiny fingers around one of yours and wonder how you could have possibly made something so tiny and precious. You can fulfil another of your dreams and become an architect. You can enjoy being able to spend full moons with your wife and taking your son to the park. You can feel excited instead of apprehensive about the future, because there should be nothing stopping you two growing old together.

You can sacrifice yourself to save your son and wife because they've given you more than you could have ever asked for.

You can disappear forever.