A/N: So, this is the last chapter of Falling into Shadows and I hope everyone liked it! I would love it if you left me a review or PM to tell me what you thought of the whole thing! I will also be going through and doing a complete edit. For those that are also reading The Housekeeper's Daughter, I will now hopefully be updating that more regularly.

Thanks to everyone who's reviewed, favourited and followed my story throughout, I really appreciate it! And thanks to SouthKentishTown for helping me when I've been stuck and to Maricella, Wolf and AngeliqueBouchard1972 for reviewing the last chapter ;)

The next morning, the Collins' received a visit from the Sherriff, informing them that an anonymous source had phoned in and told them all Carolyn's plan and what she had done the night before on Widow's Hill and leaving them no choice but to let the Sheriff arrest Carolyn and take her away. Angelique was the only one to realise who the 'anonymous source' had been, for she caught a glimpse of her the very next day and very purposely gave Barnabas a kiss on the lips. She knew Vicky had done it to impress the vampire and get him back, but Angelique wasn't letting him go that easily.

Elizabeth was quiet after Carolyn had been arrested and Angelique did her best to comfort her. However, the woman blamed herself for what her daughter had done, she blamed herself for refusing to understand Carolyn, for refusing to come to terms with her werewolf side, for not keeping in touch after she ran away. And no one could persuade her otherwise, even when Angelique told her that if she hadn't sent a werewolf to bite Carolyn or tried to kill their family, then none of this would have happened.

A few months later, Carolyn was found guilty of kidnapping and attempted murder and was sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The last time Angelique ever saw her, she was kicking and screaming bloody murder as they forcefully dragged her from the stand in court. Elizabeth never got over it after seeing that, however hard her family tried, and eventually she wasted away, an empty shell of her former self.

However, it still came as a shock a few months later when she jumped from Widow's Hill, leaving Collinsport to be plunged into grieving. Elizabeth had been a well-loved woman and nearly the whole town turned up at her funeral, relieving her memory together.

Clarisse, on the other hand, healed quickly, and was soon back to school, with no visual wounds of what had happened. However, that was until it got to night-time. It seemed that, emotionally, her experience had scarred her and it was no wonder with what she'd been through. Although that didn't make Angelique not hate hearing her daughter's screams in the night from the nightmares; it ripped her heart every time. She never cared what time it was when she and Barnabas ran to her room to wake her, she didn't mind how long it took for Clarisse to cry it all out on her shoulder, she was there for her, both of them were. Eventually, they brought in a physiatrist to help her, and even though the dreams did not disappear entirely, they definitely became fewer.

One thing they made sure of though, was to commission a portrait of the small family all together to hang in Collinswood Mansion, which was now home to all three of them. Clarisse wasn't very pleased at the prospect of having to stand still for hours on end while some random stranger painted them, but her parents were insistent. They never told Clarisse, but part of the reason was to ensure her safety, so that if she were ever killed, she could come back to that time, as they all could.

It was a couple of years later when Clarisse started to show her powers. First, it was the smashing of the antique vase when she was angry, next, the candles lighting themselves when she was excited. Angelique didn't know whether to be happy or concerned until her daughter set fire to her curtains when in a tantrum. She realised she was going to have to teach her to control her powers before something really dangerous happened, or something occurred in public. So, once a week, she taught Clarisse how to use her newly found powers carefully, something Clarisse wasn't too happy about as she found her mother was a strict teacher and set her homework too, just when she was starting to get a lot from school. However, when she complained, her parents only told her that it was for her own good and refused to listen to any protests she made. In the end, Clarisse just got on with it.

Aside from everything else, Angelique and Barnabas were happy. They had no more threats, no more trouble, and they could both have their daughter, for Vicky never reappeared after Angelique's little show. Soon after the incident, the two united their fishing companies to form 'Collineaux Cannery' and became very successful, for as Angelique had once said, 'We are two big fish in an itty-bitty pond', meaning that now they had double the customers and fishing boats and there was no need for hypnotising the fishermen.

So, all was well in Collinswood Manor and soon they were celebrating once more. A wedding, but not Angelique and Barnabas', for Barnabas had had enough of his girlfriends dying or betraying him, Angelique was just grateful to have him and they came to the decision that they had a very long time to make their vows. No, this was the wedding of David and his girlfriend, Tess, Angelique's secretary. Angelique had made up for snapping at her that day by paying for her wedding dress as an apology and her and Barnabas' wedding gift. It was a beautiful, a snowy white with big, puffed up sleeves and a large, satin skirt that pooled around her feet. She looked beautiful in it as she walked up the aisle on her father's arm, smiling brightly at David as she reached him.

And so that's where we leave them, David and Tess at the altar, gazing lovingly at one another, Clarisse, Angelique and Barnabas in the front row with their arms around each other, and Willy sitting to their side, dressed in a very smart suit (for Willy) with his hair greased back and looking very smug with himself.