Beyond Reasoning
Chapter 21
Epilogue

I guess time flies when your having fun. Well what I mean by that statement is that it's been two years since that fateful day back on Earth which brought me to Gunsmoke. Two years that I truly can't believe where granted to me in all my life. Everyday, wither I want to or not I awaken to see Vash standing there in the kichten or walking in as breakfast is being made. It really brings joy to my heart as I realized that the love of my life was not on Earth but here on Gunsmoke. Anyway other things have happened in the past two years too I should inform you about.
After Meryl, Milly, Matt, and Wolfwood got back there was a big hop ha about Vash and I getting together. I guess Milly won this bet to see how long it would take for us to get together. Though Wolfwood and Meryl would not give us their time frames about our coupling and Matt said he did not want to participate in such a stupid thing but later he said that after hearing what Meryl and Milly told him about Vash he thought that the outlaw would have said something quite sooner then he did. We both had a chuckle over the ordeal.
Milly and Wolfwood are already having their third kid. I couldn't help but laugh over the one dinner when they told the group of us, Meryl, Matt, Vash, Knives, and I. That they where expecting a third. Well all took it with great pride of course, being an unoffical family to the kids. Meryl and Matt have their first one on the way which means a whole handful for me to really deal with. I laugh about it every day thinking about all of it. I knew Milly and Wolfwood, if given the chance, would have had a big family and now I get to see it happen. Of course with the two couples expecting I get a whole lot of babysitting time in with the two children Milly have. It doesn't bother me a bit and Vash always has a blast with the children. Knives also seems to have warmed up to them. Sometimes I'll walk in a room and he'll have a rattle in his hands waving it in front of the toddler with this goofy grin on his face, just like Vash.
The gang and I have had a talk about what exactly I could be as well many of times through out the two years. Vash calls me his guardian angel while Wolfwood laughs saying that I would die before the day was out if I was indeed a guardian angel to him. Meryl and Milly both really don't know what to think. Milly though has said that I might be a female version of what Vash and Knives are: plants. Knives disagrees with that saying that there can't be any way that I could be a plant as a joke insult of course. What ever the case may be I've found that my eye site which had went back to 20/20 when I entered Gunsmoke has improved greatly over the two years after the wedding insodent along with my hearing, which had always been keen before, and my reaction time. Sometimes I find myself catching things even before they've fallen just like Vash can.
One day we went a few miles out into the desert and I showed them officially how big my wings where since ever time before that they had opened in unwanted times, like the shower one morning. I didn't know what to believe when I saw them standing as tall as they did for the first time. The wings where about four times my height and spanned quite a distance across.
Admist the fighting that he always seems to get himself into and the troubles that he accedently causes I've grown really close to the outlaw. If we're granted a nice lazy sunday afternoon we'll spend it on the porch of the house Meryl gave him wrapped up into each others arms while Knives either spits joking insults at us or heads off to his job he took a little while after we all moved there. We'll talk for hours about our lives, him about Rem, and me about back on Earth. There has been no sign that I will be taken by to Earth any time soon. After hearing that voice, I knew I wouldn't ever be but we still take it one day at a time. I told Vash about the voice and he almost broke down crying. He told me that it had to have been Rem who helped me and him. What ever or whom ever granted me such a sweet gift I thank them everyday, even though some days I'd rather kill the blonde then look at him.
Also we've figured out something with in the two years. Only time will tell if our hunch is right but what ever I am has caused me to to stop ageing. Knives was the first to suggest such a thing when he told me that though the two years he's seen and been in contact with me that he hasn't seen any change in appearance, like one would. Small suttle changes to make a big difference over the years. Vash also agreed after that as well. Then Vash said it didn't matter to him if I where like him in living outside of time because either way he would love me till my or his dieing day..which could be forever. As long as I'm with him for the time, I can see no problem with that.
So now I sit like every sunday on the porch of the house wrapped up in his arms, staring out at the big town that hurries by us. Glancing up I see his somber face. Sitting up away from him I begin to worry. I hate seeing that face upon him..it scares me because most of the time when it does show up our lives are threatened once more.
"..Vash..is everything ok..?" I ask placing one of my hands on his shoulder earning a glance from him who just keeps staring at me. That's when a small smile comes on his face as he rubs the back of his hair a bit.
"Everythings fine, why do you ask?" He asks me in response to my question.
"..You just seem really serious.." I say feeling a hand of his clasp the arm that was against his shoulder.
"..Well I was thinking that's all." He said grinning a bit.
"About what?" I ask leaning back into him and getting wrapped up in his arms again.
"About the two years I've spent with you.." He said quietly taking my hands into his.
"..And your so serious about that?"
"Nah.." He laughed. "I wasn't serious about THAT."
"Then what was it?" I asked frowning at how difficult he was being with such a simple question. Though living with him for two years has made me learn patents that you wouldn't believe.
"Well.." He began removing a hand from our embrace and reaching for something behind us. "I was just serious about this..." He brought it back and clasped between his pointer finger and thumb was a small band of gold with a diamond inlayed in it. Blinking I stare at the ring trying to figure exactly what was going on. Vash so serious abo..ut..a...ring...My eyes began to grow wide as I figured out what exactly was going on with this. He couldn't possibly be asking me..."..Will you marry me Candy..?" He then said quietly still holding me. Tears began to welt up into my eyes as I took the ring from him..my hand starting to shake uncontrollably as my vision became blurred with tears. Slowly I began to nod knowing that I had wanted this too. That's when i felt a hug from behind me as Vash leaned his head on my shoulder happily. Placing the ring on I began to return the hug extatic at what had just happened.
Though life had given me a road to travel very difficult in the past..now..now everything seemed so wonderful. In his arms I felt that nothing could touch me. As long as I'm beside Vash I can be happy everywhere life takes me.
And that's all I truly need.
The End

"..It's almost time.." An old man's voice broke the silence in the endless abyss that he sat in the middle of hunched over slightly. His eyes clouded over, loosing them early in his development. He knew things that nobody had even said out loud, a gift given by God to him. He knew about the silent battle that was about to unfold on the desert planet. He knew the truth and actually had started the motion toward the ultimate goal that he and a few others knew of and a few others who wished to stop it. No...it wasn't the end to anything, only a pause to the true goal.
Only time and her choices would tell if they would succeed.