I promised myself this would be finished before I left the country and so help me it will. Tomorrow I leave for DC to start my journey to live in Japan, so my brain is a liiiittle sideways, but I've been figuring out the epilogue all week and I really want to say I did this. So thank you all for your favorites and love and reviews for this story (thanks Dominosowner for reviewing last chapter :D) and I'm glad you liked it!

I have more in store for Jack and Claire and various points on their timeline together, so please if you like what you read put me on Author Alert! There will definitely be more in the future!

Let's do this.

The Fall

Epilogue: Parents in Stereo

-((One Year Later))-

Lex Martin sat alone at a picnic table on the edge of Windswept Falls, quietly watching the sun set over the majestic twin waters.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" her brother, Cliff, said as he sat next to her at the picnic table.

"Every time," Lex whispered almost to herself before turning to him with a smile. "Take a picture of me?" she said as she got up and walked closer to the edge, where her family took a different picture on that fateful day more than ten years ago.

The moment she walked near the edge, a 'crack' resounded through the air, and Cliff disappeared from view; she was falling once again, falling-

"Do you really think this is going to scare me now?" Lex said to the open air in the now engulfing darkness as she continued to fall.

"I know you're there," she continued, talking into the darkness around her, "You're just not strong enough to talk to me," she surmised. "Or afraid," she added as an afterthought.

Suddenly, Lex was falling faster, almost as if the darkness was angry at her response.

"It won't work," she said loudly, imagining her Mom and Dad next to her, protecting her from the gloom. "Because I know I'll always have someone there to catch me."

"Lex! Wake up dear!"

Lex slowly opened her eyes, looking up at her bedroom ceiling. Another failed attempt at a nightmare, she mused, snuggling deeply into the blankets. He's just never going to give up is he?

"Lex! If Papa's taking you to school today, you better be down soon!"

Lex groaned softly. That's right; today was Wednesday. That meant no easy flight to school, and she had to wake up to be driven there.

Bracing herself, she ripped off the covers and sat up, mentally preparing herself for the school day. It's almost Easter Break! she encouraged herself, just a few more days...

-((Downstairs))-

Lex hurriedly grabbed some waffles and picked her bookbag up from the living room floor.

"Let's go Lex, or we'll never make it there in this traffic-" her father said, already opening the front door of the house.

Lex followed right behind him, looking out the front door. "Papa, watch-"

But it was too late. Her father stepped out the door straight onto a patch of ice on the front step, which had mysteriously formed there despite the mild climate. Lex immediately clapped a hand over her mouth to stifle her giggles as her father picked himself off the ground. However, instead of ranting and raving as Lex would have expected of him a year ago, he just smirked slightly and bent to pick up his briefcase.

"Jack, you scoundrel," he muttered with a chuckle before turning to Lex as if nothing happened. "Ready?"

Oh Dad, I think you're wearing off on him..."Ready!" she said, following him out the door.

-((Later))-

After a dinner featuring some fresh plants from Lex and Claire's new garden in the backyard, Lex found herself reluctant to do her homework, just like any high schooler.

Just think, she thought to herself, after this it's Thursday, and then we have Good Friday off! Thank you Easter, she thought cheerily, almost distracted from the dreadful math problems in front of her. I hope Uncle Bunny does a good job at hiding the eggs this year; last year was way too easy, even for Molly...She looked down at her math paper. All she had succeeded in doing was drawing small Easter eggs around the border of the paper.

Shit, this sucks.

-((Still Later))-

Lex didn't even look up from her paper as she heard the sound of her bedroom window opening.

"Sorry I'm late!" Claire said as she breezed through the window, "Your Dad is all in a tizzy about Easter; he is convinced that this year is the year for the blizzard of the century in the Northeast on Easter Sunday." She gave Lex a kiss on the cheek and sat down on her bed.

Lex pulled away from her homework. "Uncle Bunny would definitely not like that," she agreed.

"I know, and I'd rather not see them fighting again; it happens too often. Although Jack swears it's all in good humor..." she looked away for a second, lost in thought about Jack and Bunny's strange relationship. "Anyway, I managed to convince him to bring the blizzard tonight instead, so that way Easter might make it out alright."

"I wish I lived in the Northeast," Lex muttered, lamenting the lack of snow days in Arizona and Utah.

Claire laughed before changing the subject. "So anyway, I'm here now! How was your school day?"

"Oh you know, boring as usual. I'd much rather hear about Dad and Uncle Bunny. So is Dad making the blizzard right now? Can I help?" she asked, growing more enthusiastic with the thought. "Mama!" she called down the stairs, "Can I go with Mom to the Northeast for a few hours?"

"Did you finish your homework?" Lex heard this question in stereo; both Claire and Jill asked at the same time.

Lex barely kept from rolling her eyes. "I just finished," she called down the stairs while at the same time directing the answer to Claire.

"Then bring your bookbag, and I'll just take you to school in the morning," Claire said, standing up as Lex hurriedly grabbed her schoolwork. "I'll be in Utah tonight Mama!" she called down as an afterthought, no one in her family even blinking at the strange sentence.

"Shall we?" Claire said as Lex piled on her back.

"Let's. If I can't have a snow day, at least someone can," she said, and the two flew out into the night.

And so although Lex lived with double the houses, and double the parents, and double the chaos, she also felt double the happiness and love.

-((The End!))-

Yeah kinda long for an epilogue but I thought it was cute. So Yay! Happiness! So thank you again; let me know what you think!

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~freaky-hanyou