Disclaimer: I do not own WOWP…. Long author's notes at the bottom. *yawn* :P
Epilogue
She did let him leave with minimum injury. Well, she was trying to. It's not her fault that he couldn't see her extended leg and tripped!
She did cause minimum damage to his things. She just stole all his story books, sparing his robots. (And maybe she cut off one chord from each robot. But come on, he's a geek. He will figure it out and fix it…. After freaking out for hours. Hopefully.)
When the rest of the family and friends gave him gifts, she decided she would have to give something too. Pushing the naughty thoughts aside (Why freak him out on the last day of home?) she decided to just drop twelve cockroaches in his room.
"ALEX!" he yelled her name a hundred times, and grumbled to his parents for a hundred minutes, refusing to sleep in his room unless every single cockroach (and possible other creepy-crawlies too) were discovered and removed.
Their parents began to scold her immediately. She pointed out that they could fix it with just a flick of her wand. Of course her mother had to be paranoid about 'magic destroying their normal lives' and blah! So in the end, Justin had to bunk in her room.
Which was horrible, because she had planned to sleep the pain through. Instead, he held her in his arms, close to his heart, and the stupid sobbing began.
"Hey, don't cry." He whispered softly. "Do you want the last thing I see to be your crying face?"
"No." she sniffled, snarling back. "The last thing I wanna see is your crying face."
He chuckled sadly. "I will miss you too Alex..."
When Justin and Zeke left, Harper switched to all black and white clothes in longing for Zeke. (For two days, Alex had freaked out, thinking Harper was going to grab her to some stupid silent movie.) Alex refused to do anything like that. She was not going to change her style statement for Justin. Period.
"Hey…" he whispered, leaning his head against the phone so that it rested on the crook on his shoulder.
"Hey…" she whispered back.
"I just called to check your progress. How much of the apartment you have burned down do far?"
"Hey!" Alex yelled in protest. "I am not planning to burn down my house! The only thing I wanna destroy is your room."
He had scoffed and laughed it off at the moment. But since this was Alex, the fear and panic set in within an hour, and he called up his mom, specially insisting to protect his room.
Pffft… Like that can stop a devious wizard with a creative mind!
When he came home for his first vacation, it had been a rainy day, and she had been more snarky than usual. (Sometimes she thought she was the sun-cheer witch or something. Really!) The whole family had gone to receive him at the airport. (She had tried the 'I'd rather sleep all day than see Justin's dork-face', but than only made her mother glare harder at her.) The moment she saw him, looking all grown up and all sorts of less-dorky, she ran up to his arms. He whirled her around in his arms. And as romantic and cliché as it had been, and even though it earned them weird looks from the people around, they just didn't care.
What they did care about was their mother 'aww'-ing in the background. They quickly broke apart after that. Why spoil the reputation?
"Thanks for ruining my happy days." Alex snarled, smiling at him.
"Oh, don't thank me yet." He snarled back.
Theresa huffed. "You guys are hilarious! Just say that you love each other!"
"NO WE DON"T!"
He had decided to go to the same college as Zeke. They even shared the same apartment.
Unfortunately, Harper couldn't get into the same college as Zeke. So, she dragged Alex to the same college as her, and despite her whines, protests and threats, her parents forced her to keep going and not drop out.
"Zeke's talking to Harper again." Justin texted her. (They found out that dating using texts was actually quite easy. No one ever found out who they were talking to, or what they were writing. It was easier to keep the secret.)
"I know. I can see Harper on the phone. Duh!" she texted back.
"Hear what they are whispering?" he asked.
"Yeah… gross." She texted back, wondering why cell phones didn't have a 'scrunch face in disgust' special smiley.
"How about you treat me the same?" he texted again, adding a wink smiley.
"Ew. Grosser." She texted back playfully.
(They made love the first time when they went home for vacation two months later. And she will admit it- when it comes to this; Justin is definitely not a dork.)
When the Wizard Competition took place, Max had won. Everyone stared in wonder, but no one ever suspected a thing.
(When Alex Russo conjures up a mud pool and makes Justin Russo fall, and when Justin Russo in turn traps her with roots, it does look natural. Her plan- of course!)
Losing their powers never made them feel normal. They were not normal people.
"So…." She trailed, fidgeting in her bed in the old Russo apartment. (It was totally her mother's fault that she hated holidays. Why cook all of Justin's favorite dishes, instead of buying her favorite junk foods?)
He lifted his glass-rimmed eyes from the book, and arched an eyebrow at her.
"How about California?" she asked.
He shook his head, turning the page.
"Okay…. Then, Florida?" she asked again.
He sighed, and put the book down. "Alex… we need to find a place far away…" and then he frowned. "Though I have no idea how we get there."
She rolled her eyes. "Justin. We can just use the IPP!"
He shook his head again. "They will track us down."
"Not if I leave blackmail letters for each one of them." She reasoned.
He glared at her.
"Fine! Fine!" she held up her hands in the air. "Do whatever the heck you want." She yelled, storming out of the room.
"Fine." He gave in within five days. "We will use the IPP to get to Japan."
"Why Japan?" she asked lazily, digging her black painted nails. (Maybe he just gave in. but that doesn't mean she isn't going to take revenge on the soft skin of his back!)
He looked down at the ground in shame. "I kind of picked a job in robot building…"
She chuckled. "Wow. Never thought I'd see the day when your geek-stuff would come in handy for me…. So, when do we leave?"
"Now."
She stared at him in disbelief. "But Justin, I haven't packed my things…."
"Don't take your things." He commanded. "I want us to leave all our past behind."
She bit back a sob. "So… we won't say bye to mom and dad?"
This time, he stared at her in disbelief. "Alex. We are running away!"
"Good point." She mumbled under her breath.
"This is it then." He whispered, looking at the lair one last time.
She looked away to hide the tears in her eyes. "Yeah, this is it…"
"Alex." He whispered softly. "In case, you know, something goes wrong…. Just know that, I will always love you Alex."
She gave him a soft smile in reply. "I love you too, Justin. Always."
Her eyes nearly bulged out of her skull when they landed in Japan. What was Harper and Zeke's brand new car doing there?
"I kind of borrowed it from Zeke." Justin explained. "But, you know, without asking him."
A gasp escaped her lips. When did Justin get sneaky?
"Come on in!" he insisted, opening the door. "We need to drive far away before they figure out we are gone."
Alex overcame her initial state of shock, and slowly crawled into the front seat. Stealing her best friend's dream car was not something she had wanted to do, but really, Harper deserved this.
After all, all of this was totally her best friend's fault to begin with!
(A/N: this has been such an amazing journey for me. Angst is my thing; I never even thought I could write comedy. Lol. Thanks for sticking by me in this journey :) I hope I could entertain you. Thanks to reach reader for the 27320 hits, 469 reviews, 105 alerts and 78 favorites. This specially helped me convince my mother that I should give my dream of writing a try. So, here's a heart-felt thank you from my side. Thank you, for letting me find myself :)
My next 'big' story will be angst, as I already said. On second thoughts, I decided to name it 'Holocaust'-"You searched for every single emotion in every corner of my heart, found them, and killed them all, brutally. Like the massive holocaust." Prologue will be up anytime.
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