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The Angel's Queen

Epilogue: Their Love

Tifa sat in the warmth of the sunlight as she nursed her daughter. She watched with a loving gaze as Seraphim ran around the garden with his younger brothers, Aemilius and Evander, playing with wooden swords their father had made for them.

They truly were his children; full of his strength and energy and warrior ways. They were naturals at the sword and both parents were proud of them. They looked like him as well, with their gleaming silver hair, though the twins had Tifa's crimson gaze.

Tifa watched over them as they laughed and played, taking in their joy as her own. She then turned her gaze down to Demetria, her three-month-old daughter. Demetria would grow to be a true beauty one day. She wore her mother's dark waves upon her head and was blessed with her father's mako eyes. Secretly, she was Daddy's favorite, as she was his only daughter. Though, in all actuality, he loved them all equally.

Sephiroth went out to the garden to join them, carrying a glass of lemonade for Tifa. He handed it to her with a kiss on her head and then bent to kiss the baby. With a bright smile, he took the infant from her and cradled her against his chest, rocking her gently as he stood behind Tifa. He cooed to the tiny princess in his arms and sang of his delight in her.

Tifa was awash in rapture. She and Sephiroth had been married for ten years up this point, happily allowing each day to pass by gloriously. They'd made themselves known in the village and were well liked by the people. They'd had a simple but beautiful wedding in the public garden they had, and allowed all the villagers to attend. Tifa sent out invitations to all her friends and every one of them showed up. Except Cloud. Or…Tifa thought at first that he didn't, but at their reception she noticed a glinting light from a nearby hill. She knew it was him. He came, though dared not come any closer. Then her cell phone vibrated in her purse.

"Hello?"

"Hey."

"Hey."

"Congratulations."

"Thank you."

"You look beautiful."

"Thank you."

"I have to go now."

"I know."

"Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

That was the last time she'd ever hear from Cloud again. But he came…she doubted it would happen, but it did. He actually cared enough about her to come to her wedding.

Now she sat in perfect harmony. Her friends visited her often and she was constantly kept on the go with the children and constantly, though happily, regaling them with tales of her adventures as a member of Avalanche. But at night, while the children slept, Sephiroth would come to Tifa and spread his wing out over her and she would be entranced by his touch and surrender herself to him completely. He was her angel and she was his queen.

OMG! I can't believe I actually finished this thing...it feels crazy! I really didn't want it to be over! I'm gonna cry...I wanted to stretch it out further, but I didn't know how to without it getting redundant. Oh well...Anyways, I hope everyone enjoyed it and had a great time reading it. I love this story with all my heart and I'm actually thinking about taking the general concept of it, changing the characters names, and turning it into one of my original tales. I have steadily growing collection of short stories and novellas I've written and I think this may become one of them. In truth, I had no idea what I was doing when I started this fic, the prologue was nothing more than a drabble, but it was sexy so I decided to try to make a story out of it...and really, I just made it all up as I went along. All I knew that was going to happen in this was Vincent was going to be Sephiroth's father and Tifa and Sephiroth would end up together...other than that...I just prayed that I'd get ideas that would flow in those directions.

Next I'd like to thank everyone who commented and stuck with this to the end. I couldn't have done it without you guys. You all helped tremendously and kept the desire within me to continue. So thank you all so much for your following and your wonderful esteem-boosting comments. I hope to have you all follow me into my future stories and continue to inspire me to complete them.