Epilogue
'Declan, are you ready yet?' I yell upstairs to my son and soon after that he storms down the stairs right into my arms. And I lift him up with a loud groan making him laugh. He is still growing and it feels like yesterday that I went to pick him up at court.

And today, almost four years later we in a very different world. Me, Dimitri and Declan. I never thought this would happen. We both gave up our guardian titles and our files disappeared. For two years we lived the perfect live with the three of us.

It took us a while to fall into parenthood and it took Declan a while to see us as his parents. But I would never forget the first time he actually called me mommy. We explained to him that we weren't his first parents and we will do just that in the future. But we also tell them that we see him as our son and he will always be our son.

Declan and Dimitri hit it off the moment they met and I think that Dimitri carried him around for the first six months that we had him. Until both me and Declan had enough of it. Dimitri was just so happy to be a father and wanted to spend all the time together that they could.

We moved to England when Declan was two. We wanted to be closer to Dimitri's parent and to my father. But we, I, still wanted to live in a county were I could speak English. So we settled for England and are living just outside London.

When Declan was two years old the whole moroi world changed, again. Somehow Tasha became queen after the suspicion murdering of Tatiana. She promised a perfect world for both Dhampirs and moroi. A world where moroi and dhampirs would fight together. The truth couldn't be further away from that.

First it was perfect and the moroi world was growing again. The future became brighter for the dhampirs and even Dimitri and I were discussing on going back. But Tasha wasn't the person we all thought she was. She became mean and selfish. Everything she did was for her and no one was becoming better of it.

The age where dhampirs graduated was thrown back to a shocking sixteen years. More dhampirs were sent into the world to hunt the strigoi before they could attack. But it appeared that strigoi were forming groups and there weren't dhampirs that came back.

Tasha locked herself into her own little palace and for the past three years no one has seen her face. Even Christian who went to live with her aunt again left her after six months of enduring her torture. He actually came to live with me, Dimitri and Declan. Our own weird little family.

He was sick of the way his aunt acted. She couldn't care for anyone in the world except for herself and unless she got what she wanted no one was safe around her. She had wanted Dimitri by her side and it appeared that even after he denied her so many years ago that she was still after him.

It was due to that that Christian stood on our front porch one late afternoon. Tasha had sent him to look for Dimitri and convince him that he should dump me and to start a live with Tasha. We had feared for a while that our lives weren't safe anymore.

But Christian hadn't told anyone where he was going and no one besides him knew where we lived. We had offered him a home and he had took it. We raised Declan with the three of us. With Dimitri and I being his parents and Christian as his uncle. And somehow it worked out perfectly.

My memory was something that was lost forever and even after all those years my body wasn't back to perfect. I could walk most of the times but there were these moment where I had too much stress or had done too many things that day my legs shut down. Literally.

It was because of that that I had to stop working and I was now a full stay home mom for Declan. Something he loved very much. Both Dimitri and Christian worked at the local high school. Both working five days from morning until late afternoon.

Declan and I made sure that we had dinner ready. Something that Dimitri had learned me and it had took us many nights before I was capable of making something that was actually eatable. We were a pretty boring family and we were fine with it.

'You remember what we are going to do right?' I ask him as I take his little hand in mine and lead him to the car. He nods his hands as he jumps around me.

'Picking up daddy and Chrissy.' He says and I chuckle. Declan is still having trouble with some words and one of them is Christians name. He finds the name to long and decided to name his Chrissy. Something I like to teas Christian with.

'Yes and then we are going to have dinner together. Do you remember why?' I say to him. Opening the car and tilling him into his seat on the backseat.

'Daddy's biwthday.' He says and I nod. Today is Dimitri's birthday and he is turning thirty-nine today. My husband is becoming an old man. I love to tease him with that.

'Yes, do you have your present for him?' I ask him and he holds the picture he drawn for Dimitri up. Showing me that he has taken it with him.

'Daddy's going to love that.' I tell him and place a kiss to his cheek before closing the door. It doesn't matter what he is drawing, Dimitri will love it the moment Declan gives it to him.

Declan plays with his cars in the backseat while he babbles a little. The drive is only filled with Declan voice and I enjoy those moments where he is talking to himself while busy with the imaginary world where he is playing in with his toy car.

When I park the car before the school Declan is already bouncing in his car seat because he sees his father walking towards us. And I make my way out of the car and helping Declan out of his seat before setting him down so he can run towards his father.

I lean against the car watching as Dimitri scoops Declan up and peppers him with kisses. He takes the time to watch the drawing Declan made and after that the two of them made their way towards me. Tonight we will have a dinner with just the three of us.

He gives me a lingering kiss and only pulls back because Declan is pulling on his pants while giggling. The boy doesn't like it when we kiss. He picks Declan up and places him back into his seat. I make my way over to the passenger seat.

We make our way over to our favorite dinner and I feel the butterflies forming in my stomach. Because it isn't only Dimitri's birthday. Tonight I will tell him that I am pregnant.

Thanks to everyone who has supported me during this story. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read every chapter and hopefully enjoyed it. This story, together with In Omnia Paratus, was my first multi-chapter fanfiction and I wasn't alway happy with every chapter I posted. And I wasn't alway happy with the way I put the words on paper but it helped me grown as a writer and I have learned a lot how I have to plan my stories. So thank you all.

- Lisa