*Epilogue*

I decided in the end to take Ben to the biggest ballroom in the castle; as I believe that this would give me enough room for me to do my transformation. All the way through walking here Ben kept questioning me on what we were doing but I just kept telling him to wait. I had decided that something like this wasn't something that you tell someone - you show them instead.

"Mal please explain what is going on?" he begged as I locked the ballroom doors behind us.

"Ok" I nodded as we both began to walk into the middle of the room, another reason why I had decided to use this room was that the tables and chairs had been packed away and pushed to the edges of the room - giving me the space that I needed. "Well after I saw that photo of you I ran out and vomited into a plant pot-" I started.

"I know" he sighed. "Bobby told me" he added as he pursed his lips together.

"Did he tell you what happened after that?" I questioned; as I hoped that this wasn't the case.

"No" he said as we stood in the middle of the room.

"Something broke within me" I advised as I took a couple of steps backwards from him and put both hands up in front of me to tell him to stay where he was.

"What?" he quickly asked. "Mal are you ok?" he urged.

"Yes" I nodded as I took a few more steps away from him. "Let me show you what happened" I stated and I watched as he nodded at me. "There is actually a little surprise for you, which I think you will like" I smiled as I remembered mine and Ben's egg.

"Ok" he answered in confusion.

"Bear with me" I stated and I watched as he nodded at me. I slowly closed my eyes and balled my fists up at my sides and I started to will my body to transform. I didn't know if it was going to work. But I at least had to try - otherwise I was going to have to revert to plan B and just tell Ben what had happened.

I smiled to myself as I began to her the familiar ringing in my ears and my body started to heat up. The ringing became louder however as I knew what was coming I was able to make sure that I braced for the pain and not drop to the ground. I opened my eyes to feel my eyes burning bright green and I saw a very confused look on Ben's face. I smiled at him as I threw my head back and gasped as dark purple smoke formed around me. My body started to tingle for a few seconds before I felt the familiar eruption burst within me and I changed into my dragon form.

"Mal?" I heard Ben say an when I looked down I saw that he was in a state of utter shock. "Wow!" he exclaimed as I nodded at him. "Now I can see why you wanted to be down here" he said in shock, and I laughed at him. Noting now that Ben wasn't scared of me I then moved my right wing and revealed our egg to him and I watched as his face dropped again. "Mal is that?" He asked as he started to walk towards me.

"Yes" I said to myself as I nodded and I watched as Ben stood still and looked up at me.

"What was that?" we both said together and we both looked at each other in confusion.

"You can hear me?" I asked in my mind.

"Yes" I heard his voice say without him uttering a word.

"Hmm" I purred. "I wonder why this is happening" I thought.

"Let's leave that for another time" he dismissed as he eagerly looked over to our egg.

"Want to have a closer look at our egg?" I chuckled.

"Yes" Ben thought and he quickly walked up to our egg. When Ben was stood in front of our egg I then opened my wings fully and wrapped them around him and our baby; so we could be somewhat away from the world.

"Hello baby!" Ben exclaimed out loud. "I'm your Daddy!" he added happily as he slowly stroked our egg. "Mal this is amazing" he advised as he looked up lovingly at me.

"I know" I thought back to him as I started to feel my magic drain. "Ben?" I thought to him.

"Aha?" he said out loud.

"I know that you are enjoying this but I need to stop, this is draining me" I quickly told him.

"Oh" he stated. "Sorry" he quickly.

"Don't be" I dismissed as I took a deep breath and I started to feel my magic flow from my body. I relaxed my body slightly and I felt the pressure start to ebb away from my chest. I threw my head back again and the same dark purple smoke surrounded me as my body began to burn once more. The very familiar ringing in my ears got less and less and I closed my eyes tight as I felt myself change once more. When I opened my eyes I saw that Ben was stood in front of me with a large grin on his face.

"Mal" he stated as he pulled me into a very tight hug. "That was amazing!" he exclaimed over my right shoulder.

"I thought you would like that" I replied as I pulled away and looked up lovingly at him.

"I loved it!" he told me. "Anyway-" he started which made me pull one brow up at him. "I know why I could hear you" he advised.

"Why?" I urged.

"We are soul mates" he grinned. "I have read that a shape shifters like yourself can only talk telepathy with their soul mate" he explained.

"Hang on I want to try something" I advised.

"Ok" He nodded.

"I love you" I thought as I looked at him. I thought that it hadn't worked for a couple of seconds before I watched as a smiled spread across his face.

"I love you too" he thought back to me, causing me to giggle.

"It looks like we have made a bond" I said out loud.

"Yes" he also answered out loud. "And I wouldn't have it any other way" he said happily as he cupped the right hand side of my face with his left hand.

"Me neither" I agreed.

"Let's get back to bed" he stated as he nodded towards the doors. "Tomorrow we leave for our honeymoon" he revealed eagerly.

"Really?" I questioned slowly. In all honesty I knew that we would have a honeymoon at one point; but given the fact that Ben had just got out of hospital I thought it would have been postponed. But the looks of it I was very wrong!

"Yes" he confirmed as he broke apart from each other.

"It would appear that my husband is full of surprises" I teased as he slid his right hand into my left.

"Of course wife" he smiled. "I can't wait to see what you think about what I have planned for you" he advised as we started to walk towards the doors I had just locked moments before.

"I can't wait my love" I answered lovingly. As we left the ballroom I felt like I was on cloud nine; I had everything I wanted and more! A loving husband and a baby on the way. I couldn't wait to meet our little one; I loved them so much already. Even though they were a surprise to both me and Ben we both loved them endlessly. And now that I had found my place in the world I was never going to give it up and I was very eager to see the life that the three of us were going to have.

Hey guys,

I hope you have enjoyed this part of our series, I did initially intend to just post six chapters but I then pushed through and finished the full story. I got right into it and decided that it wasn't fair to me or you to make you wait for the ending of this story.

Thank you, as always for coming on this journey with me. It means a lot that you are still seeing where I am taking our Beastie King and Dragon Queen.

The next part of the series 'Learning to Love: Beast's Redemption' is going to be posted straight after this. I am over the moon that my new posting plan has worked! This means you are getting to read these chapters quicker, which is something that we both want.

I await to see what you think of this part of our journey together.

Much love,

RaInBoWsKuLlDrOpS

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