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Epilogue

"Here's to us.
Here's to love.
Here's to us.
(Wish everybody well.)"

~Halestorm

I still visit the Phantasm.

It's been years since I met Edward and years since we've escaped.

It's also been years since Izzy and I finally melded into one person, though it still feels off in my head when I can't talk to someone; I've actually taken to splitting into Izzy and Bella while in the Phantasm.

I can't help it. I missed my other half.

Initially, after burning the mansion, we'd thought getting to Barrow would be easy – a few hours at the most before we were walking through a police station.

We got lost.

Twice.

And then, there was the matter of explaining to the police what had happened to us – without giving away the fact that we were witches. It was a unanimous decision to stick with the story of, "Yes, they thought we were psychics. Can you believe that? Those loons."

Eventually, we all got home.

Elizabeth welcomed me into her family with open arms; she even kicked Edward out of his own room and he slept on the couch for the next year until he went off to Columbia for college.

Together, Alice and I told Elizabeth everything about Heidi, Renee, Charles and Marcus – not to mention the Phantasm.

After Alice and I graduated from Albany Academy, we took a year off before college to go to our ancestral homeland of Ireland. Edward was very reluctant for me to leave, but he understood; he stayed at Columbia and waited for me.

In Ireland, Alice and I found not only evidence of our ancestors' magic, but cousins. We all visit Ireland during Christmas, now.

Between us, Alice and I have a fully documented record of our roots that we've shared with everyone who was with us at Denali, as we all still keep in touch.

Nicole and Seth moved to New York city.

Emmett and Rosalie finally got together – and stayed together – and they live across the street now.

Carlisle and Esme moved to Canada but visit every few months. I've come to look up to them as my surrogate parents.

Edward waited until after I graduated from college to propose.

We were married not three months afterwards.

And now, as I lay here in labor, waiting for ice chips from my darling, very scared husband, I think about the news we got four months ago.

Twins.

Renee had said it wouldn't be possible but it was.

It took a long time, but Rosalie had finally found a way to reverse whatever Carlisle had done to us with the injections – she now has three boys who are exactly like Emmett.

Alice and Jasper also just had a baby – they have a daughter named Heidi.

Another contraction hits me just as Edward walks into the room meekly. "Are you going to curse my balls again, sweetheart?"

I grit my teeth. "It's not your balls that I have a problem with, dear, it's your fucking penis that is my issue right now," I spit in spite of myself.

I wanted to be nice to him.

Really, I did.

But I couldn't have any pain medication because of the injections from my time at Denali so I was doing this the natural way.

Sometimes, I really hated Carlisle.

Edward winces and hands me the ice chips. "I love you, too, baby."

He's such a good man.

It isn't until hours later than I'm crying tears of pure joy.

Our twins are beautiful – a little red and with scrunched up faces, but beautiful.

We named the boy Charles, after my father who saved Edward's life.

And our daughter is named after Renee and truly looks like the spitting image of my own mother.

As I run my finger down my daughter's delicately sloping nose, I suddenly have a vision of myself in the Phantasm, teaching my toddlers how to see their own futures – just as my belated mother taught me.

People say that time heals all wounds.

That's true.

But time also brings the future forward.

And my own future is bright.

~END~


A/N: And…that's the end. Voila.

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