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This is my first fanfic in a loooooong time, so sorry if it's not one of my best. Read/Review/Enjoy!

Don't read if you haven't read Beautiful Redemption!

The words written in italics below are from the back of Beautiful Redemption

Summary: After the events of Beautiful Redemption, Ethan, Lena and their friends start to rebuild their lives. Together.

A Seer's moons, a Siren's tears,

Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears,

Incubus graves and Caster rivers,

The Final Page, The End Delivers

Beautiful Beginnings

As Lena and I made our way over to Ravenwood from Greenbrier, I couldn't help but think about the other Ethan Wate. The one lying in his grave possibly in the family plot in His Garden of Perpetual Peace. My ancestor Ethan Carter Wate had died trying to protect someone he loved: Genevieve Duchannes. I hoped his grave was marked with a stone. I couldn't bear the thought of him being laid to rest in an unmarked spot because he deserted his regiment, then I wondered if he would ever return home now that Angelus was gone, since the guy did take Ethan's soul when he tried to break the Curse.

As we made our way through the old stone wall surrounding Greenbrier, I looked back and saw Genevieve smiling. Lena noticed I'd stopped and turned to look at me. Everything ok? She Kelted. God, I'd missed that. I smiled.

Just saying goodbye to Genevieve for now, L. I sent back, turning back to Lena. She smiled and waved at Genevieve as we left Greenbrier and walked up the steps to Ravenwood. I reached up and touched the Caster symbol over the door and we walked into the house.

"Uncle M? Gramma?" Lena looked around and her family came through the living room into the front parlor. "Ethan!" Ryan's excited shout brought me back to the moment and I picked Ryan up before she could knock me on my back. "Hey Chicken Little," I said, using the nickname I'd given her months ago, "how have you been?"

I set the twelve-year-old down and she smiled up at me. "We really missed you, Ethan," she said. I ruffled her blonde hair and laughed. "I missed you all, too." I replied.

I looked at Aunt Del and Uncle Barclay, Macon and Gramma. I couldn't stop the tears from flowing even if I wanted to. "I miss her," I said. Macon nodded his head in agreement. "Amarie knew what she was doing, Ethan," he said, throwing an arm around my shoulders.

I sighed.

Amma had traded her life for mine and now she was one of the Greats and I was home.

While everyone was talking, or thinking in my case, because all I could think about was the fact that Amma had left me, no one noticed that Genevieve had managed to appear in the doorway to the living room. I looked up when I heard her Kelt my name, then she 'spoke', Ethan... I need you to come back. Then, as suddenly as she'd appeared, Genevieve was gone. She'd probably gone back to Greenbrier.

Lena and I looked at each other and turned toward the rest of the family. "Genevieve wants us to go back to Greenbrier," I said, looking around the room. Ridley walked over to me. "What does she want, Short Straw?" She asked. I rolled my eyes at the stupid name. Ridley had been calling me that since the first day I met her. I shrugged. "She just wants us to go back to Greenbrier," I said.

Aunt Del stood up from the couch. "Well," she said, "let's not keep her waiting." She led the way out of the house and we walked back over to Greenbrier.

What we saw when we walked through the hearth of the stone wall made me stop dead in my tracks.

"E-Ethan Carter Wate?" I was shocked beyond belief.

A/N: Not bad. Better than the original version I'd posted. Read, review and enjoy!