Epilogue:
10 years later
"ready or not here I come" shouted Mary, she followed the sound of giggles to find her son hiding behind a tree. "hmm I wonder where James is?" whispered Mary she smiled as she heard him giggle. "I know is he behind the tree?" she heard him suck in a large gulp of air. She quickly pounced and grabbed him from behind. They both fell to the ground laughing and James wriggled out of his mothers reach and stood up wiping the snow off his torso "quickly, we still have to find Anne, Claire, Alice, Jeremy and daddy!" he counted off the people still left in the game and she smiled. He was the eldest and turned 9 in the fall, their second was Anne who was 7, then they had Alice who was only 5, then Jeremy who was 3 and finally Claire who was 1 and a half. She counted in her head , 5 children 6 if you counted Francis she loved being a mother and Francis loved being a father. She stared at her son as he ran to find his siblings. Mary rose from the ground and stared at her swollen belly and her 6th child. Mary raced after her son to see he had found Claire, Alice & Anne and she assumed Jeremy would be with their father, she watched as Anne clinged on to her younger sisters, she loved carrying them around the castle. The children quickly ran around to try and find their father and Jeremy. She watched as they searched laughing when Alice started looking under small rocks convinced they had some how fit. As she looked out at all her children and noticed a blonde curl emerge from behind a large log, she smiled to herself and directed her children to where the log was. They quietly approached the log and jumped on to their father, Jeremy who was sitting next to Francis looked startled but quickly joined in on the fun. Claire stood next to the ruckus and clapped her hands in encouragement. Mary came and scooped her up. "mama, we pay gen" Mary nodded her head and smiled at her youngest daughter. And kissed her on the head. "I want kiss too" screamed Alice suddenly aware that her youngest sister was getting more attention than her "me too!" screamed Anne and she reached down and kissed all her children "I want a kiss too mummy" whispered Francis in her ear she smiled and put Claire down on the ground and turned around "of course, how could I forget about my amazing husband" she leaned forward and kisses him it was a soft kiss full of happiness. She leaned backwards and rested her head on his forehead "I love you" she whispered "I love you too" he whispered back and they sat down on a large rock and watched their children frolic around in the snow and chuck large snowballs at each other, she had scooped Claire back up and she rested on her mothers knee Francis grabbed Jeremy and did the same and they watched their family enjoy the last moments of Winter.
The End
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