As promised here's the ending. Thanks to all those who reviewed



Chapter 5: Happily Ever After?

^^^No more pain (no more pain, no more pain, I'm tired of hurting)
No more game (tired of your playin' games with my mind)
No drama (no more drama in my life)
No more, no more, no more, no more
No more tears (no more tears, no more cryin' every night)
No more fears (no more waking me up in the morning with your disturbing
phone calls)
No more drama, no more in my, in my life.^^^

As Rommie looked on through tear filled eyes, Trance suddenly exploded, NO! He's not gone. I won't let him be. He can't leave me, Trance dropped the paddles to the floor and started sobbing.

She put her now ungloved hands on Harper's face, one hand stroking his cheek, No Harper, you can't leave me! You can't leave me.! I love you Harper! So if you leave me it would be really unfair because I will never get to tell you.

Trance let go of Harper's face, clenched her fist and beat Harper on the chest. She hit him again and again, and again, all the time wailing, No! You can't leave me Harper! Not now! I love you! You can't leave me!

She gave Harper's chest one final beat before finally succumbing to the sobs and sinking to the floor. N-no! He can't be gone...he can't be, this wasn't the way things were supposed to happen...no.

Rommie started to walk over to her grief strickened medical officer when something in her senors stopped her cold. She always kept watch on her crew's vitals and only moments ago there had only been four but now suddenly there was a faint fifth signal! (A/N: I know you are sitting there doing the math and saying, wait there are six other crew members that Rommie should be keeping vitals on, but rememebr she always said that she could never get clear readings on Trance.)

Her eyes went wide as realization hit her.

She ran over to Harper and screamed happily, Trance, I'm reading a pulse! He's alive! His heart's beating again! Whatever you did worked! He's alive, Trance! Harper's alive! He's going to make it! Trance did you hear me, you saved Harper!

Trance shot up and stood there in shock. She couldn't believe it, she wasn't going to lose him. All this hit her so heavily that she became very dizzy and fainted, Rommie catching her before she hit the ground. All she could think about as darkness overcame her was, *Harper's going to make it. I didn't lose him.*

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When the darkness consumed Trance she felt peace. She saw images of she and Harper living happily. She saw them walking down the corridors of the Andromeda hand in hand and with Trance's tail around Harper's waist.

I love you, Harper, Trance said to Harper. He looked at her, smiled his sweet smile, his blue eyes twinkling in the light, and said, I love you, too, Trance, always have. Then he looked straight into her eyes and suddenly yelled, Trance, wake up. Trance, come on, wake up! Then Trance's peaceful world was abruptly shattered by a bright light.

Trance opened her brown eyes and saw Rommie staring at her. Wh-what happened? Where am I, she started. Then the memories of the day's events came flooding back to her.

Suddenly her eyes went wide, she bolted up out of her bed and screamed, Harper! Where is he!? Is he Ok!? Please, tell me he's Ok!

Rommie put her hands on Trance's shoulders to balance her, her little bolt had made her dizzy again and she began to wobble.

When she steadied Trance and got her back to her bed, Rommie smiled and said, Trance, why don't you look for yourself.

She then pointed to Trance's right and when she turned her head she saw Harper sleeping peacefully in the bed next to her.

Harper's ordeal worked you up so much that you fainted but I caught you and laid you here. When Harper's vitals returned to normal, I went to check on you. When I saw that you would be Ok, I figured you could use the rest so I left you. Harper's going to be fine. I woke you up because I believe he will wake up within the next few minutes and I thought that you would want to be with him, Rommie said as Trance got up and took a seat next to Harper.

Thank you, Rommie. I really did want to be with him when he woke up, Trance said.

Rommie just nodded and said, I informed the others of Harper's condition. They will be in later, after you have had your time with him. Well, I'll leave you two alone.

When she left, Trance took Harper's hand in hers and just stared at him.

She began running her purple fingers through his spiky blonde hair. Since the first time she had met Harper, his hair had always looked like he had just walked out of a monsoon. She loved his hair, his smile, his eyes, and every single thing about him from the first moment she'd laid eyes on him.

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She remembered coming on board with Beka to meet the crew and when she was first introduced to Harper he was under a console. He was singing some old earth song very off key, but that wasn't about to stop him from singing. When she got her first glimpse of him she remembered being very nervous.

His reaction to her was the most memorable, though. He climbed out from under the console turned around and said nothing. She had figured that he had never seen anything like her before.

He stood there with his mouth open until Beka finally said, Trance Gemini, this is Seamus Harper, the ship's engineer and don't worry he isn't usually this....well, quiet. Harper snap out of it. Yoo-hoo, Harper, Beka said as she snapped her fingers in front of his face.

With that he snapped out of it, smiled the smile that Trance would come to love so much, and said, Sorry, I've never met a purple pixie before as pretty as you. Well, in fact I've actually never met anyone like you, period. Nice to meet you Trance.

Trance blushed and said, Nice to met you, too, Seamus.

Harper smiled again and said, You can call me Harper, all my friends do and I'm sure we'll be good friends soon.

Harper was right because from that moment on the two of them had been very close friends.

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She felt like he had felt the same way for her as well. He had never said anything, but she just knew these things. She had never told him because she was afraid that his feelings for Rommie were clouding his feelings for her, but since his return from the Maggog World Ship she could sense his feelings for her growing.

The ironic thing was that the day she had decided to tell him about her feelings, was the same day the test results had come back about his medication stopping. When she had found out about Harper, she had about died. It broke her heart to know that she was going to lose him, but now she wasn't, at least not right now any way.

For that she was grateful. As Trance ran her fingers down Harper's cheek she felt Harper squeeze her hand. She smiled the biggest smile she had ever smiled as Harper slowly came to. She watched as he took in a deep breath and opened his goregous blue eyes.

The first thing Harper saw as he opened his eyes was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in his life, his purple pixie.

Hey babe, he said weakly as he tried to sit up. He abruptly stopped when he realized it would be too painful to sit completely upright. He was still sore from the surgery.

So he settled for something in the middle. Well, I'm going to take a wild, off the top of my head guess, and say that it worked, he continued with a smile.

Trance just looked at him for what seemed like an eternity and finally said, It did work, but Harper you gave me the biggest scare of my life. I thought that I had lost you, Harper. I really did.

Tears started coming to her eyes and this worried Harper, who squeezed her hand to try to comfort her and said, Well, Trance, babe, I'm still here aren't I? I'm not going to leave you that easily.

Trance let the tears flow as she said, You scared me so much, Harper. I thought that I had failed you and that is something that I hate doing to someone I love. I-- Trance stopped suddenly when she realized what she had just said. She couldn't believe that she had just blurted that out.

She looked at Harper to see his reaction to what she had just said. All he did was smile. He scooted up further. He was so shocked at what she had just said, he had no clue that she felt that was toward him. He thought that his love for her would go unknown.

*God why isn't he saying anything. Harper, please say something* Trance thought as she waited for Harper to say something.

Finally the silence was broken. Trance I never thought you would say that. Now that you have, I know that--that you feel the same way I do. Trance's smile returned as she scooted closer to him and shyly replied, You do? He squeezed her hand and said, I have ever since the first time I saw you. I've never seen anyone as beautiful and sparkly as you.

Trance scooted closer still as Harper continued, When the pain finally took me all I could think about was that I would never get to tell you how I felt.

Harper, when you died, I died inside because I thought that I was never going to get the chance to tell you that I loved you. I thought that I had lost you forever. Then when you came back to me, I realized that I needed to tell you how I felt before I really did lose you forever.

Trance was slowly calming down. She could see the twinkle in Harper's eyes returning. She was so grateful for not losing him. She would have died if she would have lost him. Well, she wouldn't have died exactly because death doesn't come all too easily to her people, but nonetheless she would have lost a very large part of herself.

Harper smiled once again and said, softly, Trance can I please have a Sparky? I haven't had one in three days and I'm in desperate need of one. Trance giggled and said, I see that your already getting back to your old self.

When Trance returned with the Sparky, she saw that Harper had finally sat completely up. She walked over to him and right as she bent down to hand him the Sparky, Harper leaned in, gently put his hand on the side of her face, and pulled her in for a kiss.

When their lips met, it felt like magic for the both of them. How they had both longed to do this. They kissed passionately for minutes, until finally Harper broke away to get a breathe and said, I've always wanted to do that, and he kissed her again.

*God how I've wanted to do that for so long. I always knew that it would feel this good* Harper and Trance both thought when they broke their kiss for the second time.

He was so glad to be alive and to be able to tell Trance the way he felt. He was so happy to finally not be able to feel those monsters crawling around inside of him. What he felt now was a feeling that he never wanted to go away....love.

For the first time in his life he felt love and true happiness. He knew at that very moment that he had finally fulfilled the promises he had made to his mother and cousin. He knew that as long as he could help it he and his Purple Pixie were going to live happily ever after.

After about an hour together the rest of the crew slowly started coming in to see Harper. Trance never left Harper's side and never let go of his hand. Tyr came in first.

When he came in, he said, I see that my stories and lessons finally paid off, boy. I am glad to see that you have survived because now those lessons and stories won't have to end. You may even have your own to tell, now.

Harper just smiled and said, I'm really happy that I am alive to hear those stories or well, pretty much anything else for that matter.

Tyr actually smiled at that comment. He was pleased to see that the fire had not died in Harper and he believed that it would never die in the young man. After Tyr left, Rev and Dylan came in to see Harper. They were just as happy as Tyr. When they left Beka came in.

She burst right through Rev and Dylan nearly knocking them down and ran right to Harper yelling, Thank the Divine your Ok, Seamus. I thought that I was going to lose you and that would have really sucked because I would hate to have seen Tyr try to fix the Andromeda, let alone my Maru. Man, that wouldn't have been a pretty sight.

Trance could tell that Beka had been crying and was only cutting up to try to hide the fact that the tears were trying to return. Beka hated to show too much emotion and when she was going to, she would do anything to keep herself from showing it.

Trance believed that Beka thought that if she showed her true emotions that she would be showing weakness.

Harper finally broke in and said, Well, boss did you think I would leave the Andromeda in the hands of someone like Tyr. I mean he may be a superior being, but when it comes to the Andromeda he's a superior klutz. It takes the expertise of a super genius like me to keep this ship a goin'.

When Harper had finished, Beka realized that he was holding Trance's hand. She had never seen these two show this kind of feeling toward each other before. She had felt like they had this feeling for each other, but never thought they'd confess to it. They looked so happy together and she was really glad that they had found each other because they were what each other needed to survive.

After staying for about twenty minutes, Beka figured she would leave the two love birds alone for a while. When Beka had finally left, Trance sat down beside Harper's bed.

He was healing very nicely and would be up and about in a couple of days. The ordeal of almost losing Harper had, in Trance's mind, matured her, but to what extent she did not know, yet. Harper then motioned for Trance to get in the bed beside him.

At first Trance was hesitant, but then realized that she wanted to be as close to him as possible. She gently climbed in beside him. When she was in the bed she snuggled up against him. When she laid her head on his chest she could hear his heart beating.

She was so glad that his heart was still beating. She was so comfortable in his strong arms, that in a matter of minutes she and Harper were both peacefully asleep. Rommie was the last to come in and when she saw Harper and Trance asleep in each other's arms, she had the lights dimmed and softly whispered, Good night and sweet dreams. She knew that Harper and Trance's live had just gotten so much brighter. She exited smiling, leaving the two sweethearts to their dreams.
The End

Well, ther you go, it's all over, so this time I want some constructive critacism because I'm writing another story and I need to know if I'm writing the characters correctly. So review away!