Anna watched the scene before her. Megan, now a beautiful fifteen year old girl, sat cross legged on the rug with a book in her hands. She was looking more like Anna every day, which was also scary considering her taste for adventure, and inability to ignore her curiosity. She had longer hair than Anna's, letting it fall in soft rich curls down to her waist. Her eyes still glittered like she was seven years old though, showing that her youth was still full and she hadn't grown up fully.

Megan was reading the story aloud to two smaller children. Anna smiled as she watched Megan with her younger brother and sister. Danielle and Velkan were five years old now. Though Anna was misfortunate enough to loose the baby that Dracula killed, her and Gabriel had been blesses three years later with the arrival of their twins.

Velkan was a quiet boy; his blonde hair and blue eyes made him look like an angel. He only spoke when he needed to unless he was with his family and never spoke to anyone he didn't know, which made him awful to take to places. He was very well behaved and polite for a five year old, and he never ceased to amaze his parents for putting up with his sisters. He was named, for obvious reasons, after Anna's late brother.

Danielle was much louder. She was curious, much like her older sister, and tried to copy Megan in everything. She had blonde hair and blue eyes like her twin, but let her own hair grow past her shoulders, wanting it to be the same as Megan's. She was polite, like her brother, and loved riding in front of Megan on her horse when hey went for rides in the forest, whereas Velkan always stayed close to his mother.

Anna felt a strong pair of arms wrap around her waist and smiled. She leaned back against Gabriel's shoulder, resting her head there while she watched her twins listen to their sister's story wondrous expressions.

"…and they all lived happily ever after. The end." Megan finished, leaving the book open in her lap, as she looked at her brother and sister. "Well, did you like it?" She asked them.

They nodded. "It needed more fighting though." Velkan argued. He liked his action stories, liking the intensity and the drama.

"No, more love." Danielle smiled. She was the opposite with stories, liking the happy endings where the hero won his girl and rode off into the sunset.

Megan smiled to herself. She tried to think of a story that would make them both happy; One with action, one with romance, where the hero won after a desperate struggle and finally found his true love after searching everywhere for her. She looked around her for inspiration, and found herself looking at her parents as they watched her, smiling. They were bathed in sunlight looking like …

"Angels." She whispered. She turned back to the twins and got their attention once again from their squabble about the perfect story. "I've got a story with action and love in." She told them. "It isn't in the book, but I'll tell you anyway."

They moved closer to her and she told them a story her mother had told her. They watched her wide-eyed as she told them about the angels who fell in love, and built a fountain. She told them about their struggle with the devil, who separated them, and the hero went to find her, but they lost their memories, and they searched forever to find each other.

Only Anna and Gabriel knew that this was more than a bedtime story. Gabriel kissed Anna's cheek as Megan told the story, not missing out any details, after hearing the story so many times she knew it by heart. However Megan had soon grown out of hearing stories at night, and by the time the twins came along, they hardly ever seemed to stay awake long enough to hear a story of such length. Now, they guessed they would demand it again.

"Did he find her?" Velkan asked in amazement. It was the only love story he didn't pull faces at, which Anna thought as quite an achievement.

Megan nodded. "Yes, he did find her, and they lived together in a big castle for the rest of their lives, and God watched them from heaven, keeping them safe until they returned to be angels once again."

The twins stared up at her in awe as she finished her story. Anna walked over with Gabriel and sat on the floor on either side of Megan. Gabriel raised his eyebrows. "I've got a story" He told them, looking out of the window to see that the sun had set long ago and the darkness outside had reached its peak. "Once upon a time there were three children who wanted to go to Rome, but the night before they stayed up too late and they slept through the day and missed the journey."

Velkan frowned. "What kind of story is that?" He complained. "Megan's was better."

"It's a story that tells you that you have to go to bed or we won't be going to Rome tomorrow." Anna completed. She watched as the children scrambled up to their rooms, including Megan, with such speed that she half expected to see steam coming from underneath their feet as they ran.

She laughed to herself and then tried to stand up, only to be pulled back down by Gabriel. She made sure that when she fell, she landed in his lap. He wrapped her up in his arms and kissed her fully, letting their tongues dance around each other. When they broke apart, she kept her arms around his neck, holding herself close to him.

"I love you." He told her in a whisper.

She kissed him gently before replying. "I love you too."

They stayed on the floor talking about sweet happenings and their love for a while, a long while. Only when they realised that they would need some sleep before they set off Rome by horseback did they move and go up to their own room. As Anna started to rise, she was caught once again unawares by Gabriel, who swept her off her feet and carried her up the stairs and into their bedroom like they were two newlyweds. There, they lay in each others embrace and slept until dawn.

Well, that's it. Final chapter. What did everyone think of it? I loved writing it, I'm temped to write a follow up about Megan's life, but I will be concentrating on some other fics first for the Matrix trilogy and Underworld. Hope you enjoyed it!

Sam.

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