AN: Last chapter (and then the epilogue) I told you guys it wasn't likely to be happy. But, I what I didn't tell you was that it was also to be bittersweet. And Remember, EPILOGUE IS STILL TO COME!!!!!!

Swimming in the Sea is by Gaelic Storm. I took away parts of the song-cause I couldn't understand it all, and a little is changed from their original song. I had to listen to the song to figure out the lyrics.

Btw-yes, Mavis and Jack DID die. And this IS AFTER they died. And they ARE five.

Much love.

Chapter 8

Swimming in the Sea.

*when I was five, we'd get up at four*

"Jack!" five-year-old Mavis called to her sleeping brother, "Come on, get up! Sleepy head, you'll miss the dawn, come!" She called when Jack didn't move she ran and sat on him. Jack grunted.

"What?" Jack said, half-awake.

"Silly, you'll miss the dawn! Lets go." She laughed and ran out side with Jack quickly following. They ran past Mary, who was laughing at her two children. They ran toward the beach from their small home on the beach, no one else lived within a mile all around, but they didn't know that.

//Long drive up the coven shore//

It was almost pitch black out but the sound of the ocean led them truly to their destination.

"Look, it's so pretty." Mavis said, pointing at the gold rising sun. "One day, I want to go and sail to the sun and dance in it." Jack grinned.

//Our holidays have come by fast //

"That would be fun. But why wait! Lets go!" Jack grinned. They ran to the cold morning waters that lapped gently on the shore, bringing all sorts of fascinating objects. Mavis and Jack gasped as the cold water swallowed their legs to their ankles. But they still waded deeper and deeper in.

//Happy to be, Swimming in the sea.//

Mavis laughed and threw water on Jack. Jack gave a growl and picked Mavis up and carried her back to the shore.

//White faces in the morning light//

"Your safe, lady." He jested, giving a mock bow.

"My hero." Mavis jested back. Jack closed his eyes and grinned, Mavis took this chance to tag his shoulder.

//I see to see my sister cry. Sea side, we side, we soon all beside //

"You're it!" she cried and took off running, back into the ocean.

"Hey, no fair!" Jack cried, grinning, and ran after her. They chased each other laughing all the time, pretending a war that they would stop or save.

//And every war, shall get by in time//

for a long while, until they both fell down on the sand at noon. Jack and Mavis looked up at the skies watching the shapes drift over the blue sky.

//We dream of sailors and pirate ships.//

"Look at that one!" Mavis said, pointing at the cloud, "It's a ship, a pirate ship."

"When I grow up, I want to be a pirate. To sail the all of the three oceans!" Jack cried, "and you will always be my friend so I have someone to play in the sea with, someone who understands me."

"How about I be the captain, and you will be by my side. Or better yet, we be a team. We'll be the best pirates out there!" Jack grinned,

"We will never be rushed, never be anything bad." Jack replied.

"OR we could be sailors. But that's pirates same as same, I think." Mavis said. Jack shrugged his shoulders.

//And that rocky shore, was a magical place for adventures and more.//

"I don't know, I don't care either. Come on, let's go look for buried treasure along the rocks." Jack got up and started running to the coves to look for the buried treasure that only existed in their imaginations.

"Arrrr." Mavis yelled to Jack waving a stick in the air. "Wait for me. And you forgot your sword." She waved another stick up in the air, "what if we run into them lubbers, huh." She said as Jack took the 'sword'.

"That's right. We can fight them away." Jack replied grinning. They laughed as they ran through the caves and smacking at invisible enemies, playing pirates and treasure hunters.

//Hey, by the water by the foam.//

Mary smiled from the house listening to their sweet laughter echo to their home.

Mavis and Jack, laughed and played along the sea, sometimes swimming, sometimes running, always pretending. Once they were in the Bermuda Triangle and riding the whales across the ocean, once they were climbing a grand mountain (only in truth it was a five foot tall rock) and Jack proclaimed that he was 'King of the world' and Mavis laughed and climbed up the same rock and sat down beside him.

//Happy to be, swimming in the sea//

"Then I will be twin sister and friend to the king of the world. Which makes me queen, doesn't it?" she asked

"I think so. I hope so, I wouldn't want some stiff necked old coot to be queen with me." Jack replied.

"But then, I wouldn't want to have the world. Then everyone would ask you for this and that and you would have no time for your self, for imagining and playing."

"Then I suppose I wouldn't want to be king." Jack said after a moments thought. He sat down. They looked at the ocean in silence for a small while. Then Mavis through seaweed over Jack's shoulder and jumped down, giggling.

//Swimming in the sea.//

"Hey!" Jack yelled and through the seaweed down and ran after her, back into the sea. Swimming in the sea, all day long.

Mary called her children in a t sunset for dinner and they ran inside to eat, then tell stories as they fell asleep. But that was alright, they would come back again to swim and play again tomorrow, and all the days after.

Because they were home. As little children, smiling and laughing and innocent and free.

//Swimming in the sea.//

Innocent unfettered and free.

Forever

And home.

AN: If you know the song, Swimming in the Sea, by Gaelic Storm, pretend its playing and pretend all the lyrics are there.

Btw-They are in heaven. You might say that Mavis killed and so did Jack, but, it is by God's grace alone that we are saved-not by our deeds. So they went back to when they were innocent and to heaven. The home for our spirits when our bodies die.

Epilogue is coming.

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