This is it, boys and girls. The very end of a story that has basically consumed my life for a good year and a half. I put a good portion of my heart and soul (and my sanity) into this story.
I'm kinda glad I finished it before 4x4x04 aka the day of klainer hell so we can all just stay in this little mindset where Kurt and Blaine are together forever.
Right now, I'm watching the Avengers and I just love this movie so mu-mu-much. I could only watch this movie for the rest of my life and be perfectly fine.
AND NOW THE EPILOGUE *ACTUALLY SHEDS A FEW TEARS*
Heaven is a strange place. Anna concluded this after about the first ten minutes, of which she spent staring at the golden gate that seems to wrap around…what? A span of area that reaches past the horizon and far beyond.
It's a combination of the clouds filled with angels that she had come accustomed to believe and field of plain, green grass littered with small houses.
She's still look sixteen, both a curse and a burden, but her injuries are gone. Her uniform is replaced with a simple white shirt and a flowing white skirt that makes everything almost too bright for her eyes. Everything's white and clean and fresh and it seems like everything is just a bit too sharp-looking for her taste but it doesn't deter her from going on.
Throughout time (or whatever, since it doesn't seem likely that time even reaches this part of the universe) she's come across some old friends, greeted them before going back to her own thing. She hasn't come across Everett, though she suspects that she never will.
She spends most of her time reading the books that she's missed in the past. Heaven has a lovely library; everyone should visit it if they have a chance.
It's a simple day (or what is considered 'day', when the giant ball of light that isn't the sun hovers over them before disappearing) when one of the angels comes over to where she is reading. The angels seem to have almost bleak faces, fading into each other and having no dignified feature. They're not human like, more like a blank canvas for Him to test faces on.
"Miss Matthews, there's a new arrival looking for you. She says that she knew you?"
Anna looks up from her book before dog-earing the page (it doesn't matter because they return to a pristine condition afterwards) and following the angel. Her heart is racing (don't know how) because if it's who she thinks it is, then-
There at the entrance now, the high golden gate arching high above their heads and people are flowing in like a flood, as always. The angel takes her to the side where there are quite a few stragglers. The angels always ask people if there is anyone specific they would like to see first before they enter. Most answer 'God', which the angels can't allow, and others answer with names of relatives, children, friends.
It strikes her no 'real' surprise when she sees a short, strawberry-blonde teenage girl awkwardly wringing her hands. Of course Christina would choose to be sixteen again.
Anna spots her soon and sprints towards her.
"Hello, Christin-"
"Anna!" She rushes forward and practically tackles Anna, wrapping her arm tightly around the other girl. Christina shudders against her, wet tears dripping down to stain Anna's shirt.
"You're here, you're actually here." Christina mumbles into her shoulder.
"Yeah, I am." Anna whispers back. She wraps her arms around Christina and pats her back while the other girl cries.
Christina calms down after a few moments and Anna takes her off to where one field of grass starts.
"I missed you."
"I missed you too." Anna says. "So…how'd you die?"
"Cancer." Christina says curtly. Anna can tell that she doesn't want to talk about it. It's completely understandable. One needs a certain amount of time to shake of feeling of dying off.
"So…this is heaven? It's… what I expected."
Anna laughs. "This is how you expected heaven?"
"Well, I expected that it would be what I wasn't expecting."
"Expecting the unexpected?"
"Exactly."
Anna laughs again and it's like they're sixteen again and studying in the North Corridor at Dalton Academy and everything is fine. Everything is like it's supposed to be. Life and death have combined to this one fine moment in existence and it makes Anna's insides churn in the best ways.
She wraps her hand around Christina's wrist and starts to drag her towards the direction in which her mansion-size house for the rest of eternity is.
She won't make Christina to love her, doesn't expect her too, but she still loves Christina. Has and always will, through the rest of eternity and beyond and nothing is going to change that.
Anna had spent 50 years alone before Kurt and Blaine had come along her path and then another allotted amount of time traveling around heaven, mostly by herself.
She wasn't going to let Christina go, not this time.
THE END.
Author Notes:
That's it. That's the end. The end of a story that started from me asking 'Where the hell were Kurt and Blaine during 'Comeback'?' Try as I might, the idea bugged me and then I derped and wrote something that spiraled into some awesome
Thank you all for everything.
