Disclaimer: See first chapter

Notes: This is the epilogue people, I'm sorry I can't continue it any longer. I might touch it up late on or write a follow up, but a lot of the inspiration for this story left, and I'm literally buried under school work. I hope you enjoy this.

This chapter is dedicated to all who reviewed thank you so much. You helped me finished this story, so thank you and I hope this epilogue is worth the wait.

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The wind howled outside of the makeshift hospital as though it was an outlet for the young woman's pain. The brunette nearly screamed as she suffered through yet another painful contraction. The blonde haired man beside her gritted his teeth as he felt the not-so-fragile bones in his hand being crushed by the seemingly delicate one gripping it.

"You damn bastard!" Max screeched, "How could you do this to me?"

The transgenic female doctor assisting them with the birth of their baby smiled reassuringly at Alec, "Don't worry. All females hate the ones who knocked them up when they give birth. Max'll probably calm down, once this is over."

"Like hell!" the fiery brunette raged. "There will be no sex, ever again! EVER! NONE! Do you get it?"

Alec blanched at the thought and asked the woman cautiously if she was sure, the doctor only smiled bemusedly and turned to Max to ask her to push again. The glare Max gave the pretty transgenic named Tawny could have flayed skin from bone.

It had been difficult the past few months, very difficult, but they had worked it out. They had worked it out for their child, for them, and in their sheer stubbornness not to give up on the other now that they had finally found them. This wasn't to say they hadn't fought, they had. Oh, had they ever! But they had worked it out- even if their tempers had been explosive at times they had never walked out on the other. And they were stronger for it.

Alec was brought back to the present moment by hearing Tawny say, "Okay, now one last push, so push really hard!"

It didn't hurt so much anymore, his hand that is, it had gone numb. Instead Alec was overcome with concern for his beautiful fiancée. She seemed to be I so much pain; he really wanted to save her from it.

A baby's wails pierced the air with a set of strong healthy lungs inherited from both parents. Tawny tenderly wrapped the child in the soft blanket and handed the baby over to the woman who had born the beauty.

Alec watched stunned as his family, his life, his reasons for being were brought out right in front of him. Max looked up at him softly, her fingers now returned to a gentle loving grip on his hand, as he helped, to his sudden attention, her hold the baby, their baby.

"Congratulations." Tawny told them both before she exited the room at a rush to share the news with the eagerly awaiting, residents of Terminal City, "It's a girl."

"What do you want to name her?" Max asked him tenderly, the mahogany pools of her eyes shining with love.

"What about Duvessa?"

And in that moment when their eyes connected over their newly born child, they knew that no matter how hard it got, they would never be separated again.

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Well, that's it. For any who are wondering, Duvessa is an Irish name that means dark beauty. I thought it would be especially appropriate considering that the show (and her mother in a way) is dark angel.