Here you go - the final chapter. I know it's short, and I couldn't do much to it, but whatever. Heartfelt thanks to all my reviewers, whose ranks now include my dear friend and "Tia" Jackie...took you long enough! Love ya much and (hopefully) see you in August. And without further ado... - MKR
Chapter 12: I Just Love a Happy Ending
[Harmon and the fairies get inside the castle and up to the tower, where Sarah lies on her bed. Harmon slowly walks towards her and gives her a faint kiss on the lips. Sarah awakens, sees Harmon and begins to smile]
Sarah: Don't I know you?
[inside the throne room, everyone awakens, too]
Albert: Oh, ah, forgive me, Frank, the wine ... Now, you were saying?
Frank: I was? oh yes, well, after all, Albert, this is the fourteenth century.
Albert: Yes, you said that a moment ago.
Frank: Well, to come right to the point, my son Harmon says he's going to marry ...
[Frank is interrupted by a fanfare, or to be more precise, by the first notes from the 'Sleeping Beauty Waltz'. The fairies watch the scene from a balcony, as Sarah and Harmon appear arm in arm, walking down the stairs from above.]
Albert: It's Sarah, she's here!
Frank: [wipes his eyes, mouth open] and Harmon!
[Sarah and Harmon knee down before the throne. Sarah then fondly embraces her mother]
Frank: [to Harmon] What does this mean, boy? I don't ...
[Sarah kisses Frank on the cheek]
Frank: But, but, ...
[Sarah and Harmon start dancing]
Frank: [shakes his head] I don't understand
[on the balcony, Jaclyn sheds a tear]
Anna: Why, Jaclyn, what's the matter, dear?
Jaclyn: Oh, I just love happy endings.
Anna: Yes, I do, too. [notices that Sarah's dress is pink] Oh, Pink? [swings her wand] Blue! [the dress changes to blue]
Choir: I know you,
I walked with you
Once upon a dream
Madelynne: Blue, huh? Oh, that Anna. Pink! [the dress changes to pink]
Choir: I know you,
The gleam in your eyes
Is so familiar a gleam
[The castle disappears around Sarah and Harmon, and they keep on dancing in the clouds. All the time, the dress keeps changing its color from blue to pink and back]
Choir: And I know it's true
That visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you I know what you'll do
[Sarah and Harmon kiss each other. The storybook fades in, showing the exact same scene, and is slowly closed. The storybook says "And they lived happily ever after" below the picture. Still, the dress changes its color]
You'll love me at once
The way you did
Once upon a dream
The End