So, here is the last chapter filled with fluff and tooth rotting happiness.
I would like to say a big thank you to all of you who have prompted, read, reviewed, favourited or followed this story it means more than I can possibly say. I am leaving the Wonderland fandom for a while but when the muse comes for me again I will be back.
I wish you all a happy 2016.
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A Collection Of Stars-
Chapter 25-Dreams of a Contented Man
Will reflects as a married man on his life with Anastasia and his sons. Final Chapter.
If someone had told Will that this was what his life looked like all those years ago, before Wonderland, without his heart, after Wonderland, before Ana came through that portal he would have laughed his head off. He would have howled and howled and howled and then cried for a few hours and then drank the rest of the night away. Now however…now…
Now for the first time in a long time his life was good. His life was better than good. His life was perfect. He and Ana were still living in their apartment with the boys who were now in their teenage years. Matt was now in his Senior Year, tall, lanky and looking just like Will had done all those years ago with the same cocky attitude and appreciation for the other sex. His main girlfriend seemed to be Allison Mills-Hood the daughter of Zelena and Robin (much to Robin's irritation) and he and the rest of his friends had settled down into near normality including the relationship between Lacey Gold and Neal Nolan (he wasn't sure who was more horrified at that David or Rumplestilskin). Even Jack was happy and healthy just starting High School.
Cyrus and Alice had had another baby after Hailey. It had taken some time as they had painfully suffered a miscarriage shortly after and then Alice had suffered more infertility. Having just given up when Hailey had turned thirteen she had been shocked to realise that she was pregnant. Including a horrific pregnancy in which she'd been in the hospital for a several months and Cyrus was busy looking after Hailey for the better part of that time she finally gave birth to another baby girl that she decided to name Eleanor or 'Elia' for short.
It seemed for the most part that for the first time since the curse hit Storybrooke, the town had managed to settle down into near normality much to the delight of the older residents (Grumpy and Granny) there had been no curses, no monsters and no evil plans for nearly three years something a shocked Emma had told them, was a first.
Ana was still working for Regina and he was still working at the Rabbit Hole though now he and Cyrus were managing it rather than working at it and both pulling in a steady pay check. Even at forty with nearly fifteen years of marriage between them and an even longer relationship Anastasia still had that soft gaze that had attracted him to her all those years ago and that long blonde hair that he still loved to wrap his fingers around when she slept next to him. She had been most upset when she saw the streaks of grey forming one day even though Will's own hair had more salt and pepper in it that hers did and it had never really bothered him.
One day she broached the subject. It was at some festival thing and everyone, their kids and their dog was in play. Lacey and Neal had slipped of somewhere and Allison, Matt, Hailey and Liam Jones were drinking something out of mugs that Will for the sake of his sanity (and eardrums) didn't investigate. He imagined that was Killian's running theory as well considering he was shooting his son rather suspicious glances. Henry and Roland had shot off somewhere and presumably to hold their own party (The Mills-Hood ones were stuff of legends) while Jack was with some of his friends engaging in what looked like a rather vicious game of soccer, and everyone seemed to be having what looked like a good time. He looked around at the people that had slowly over time become his family. Alice who had saved his life on more than one occasion and Cyrus who had had his back more than once.
Killian, David and Robin who were always up for a good laugh, Regina who had taken Ana under her wing, Belle who had been a friend (although Ana couldn't look at her without gritting her teeth most of the time) and her husband the Dark One (who was still the Dark One and apparently proud of it) Emma and Snow who had been strong and supportive of them each in their own different ways and finally the woman stood by his side since the very dawn of time, the woman he had married, the woman who had ruled a country, took on a rebellion and given Will some of the best years in his life.
Anastasia. The Red Queen.
His Red Queen.
His woman, his love, his wife.
"No regrets?" he asked carefully wrapping one arm around her. She turned to look at him her eyes wide and still the same shade of that blue that pulled you in and didn't let you go.
"No regrets" she said simply leaning back into his shoulder like she had done at Alice and Cyrus's wedding. He kissed the top of her hair softly and wondering (not for the first time) how long he would really last if this woman was to suddenly leave him all alone in the cold.
He nodded to himself tucking Ana back into his side feeling happy again. Whatever happened now they would deal with together the two of them.
No regrets.
None.
For the first time in his life Will Scarlett was a contented man.
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