A/N: Wow I didn't get as many "I HATE YOU!"'s as I thought I would... Though I think I might have lost a few readers... Well, to answer the reviews I've gotten:

Anamay -- Well, I'm glad YOU don't hate me... I hope this apeases Caren at least a little.

MisoGirl -- Because I like to keep you guys guessing.

Fuoco Annerito -- No. But I had been planning on her coming precariously close. I decided to kill her the day before I wrote it. As for killing me... Well, you might want to hold off on that if you want to read my next fanfic...

raspberrysorbet -- What was his answer? Read and you'll find out.


It had been a year since she had died. A year since he had last felt any emotion. The others didn't know that he couldn't feel anything. Why? Because he had gotten very good at faking it, but he hadn't done it for them. He had done it for Ai Ami. He had done it fore their daughter. Speaking of whom, she had been giggling up a storm for the last few minutes. She was supposed to be taking a nap... Frowning he went go see what was keeping her up.
A few months after the funeral Duke Zaizen had revealed that Ctanna is Pandemonium's reincarnation. And that they needed her down in Pandemonium desperately. So she had – reluctantly – gone with him. But she was no longer a Devil and so couldn't make the next generation by herself anymore. That was where the Apostles – Joshua, Azmaria and Helen included – came in. Every Devil Pandemonium had ever birthed was sterile. But exposer to an Apostle's powers fixed that problem, which is how Aion had gotten her pregnant with Chrono and Sebastian. Zeke was down there with them, protective of his wife and two remaining children – especially where it came to the Duke – though he did come by often to check up on Chrono and Ai Ami.
His brother and Shader were, at the moment, out of town on a tour of other martial arts classes and Rizel was running a very successful business, so she was gone so much that he was essentially alone with his daughter in the house. But it didn't bother him. They had lives of their own to live after all just like him. His life just happened to be his daughter. Besides, he knew it was still to painful for them to be reminded of her almost constantly.
Opening the door he found her laying in her crib still giggling happily, feet alternatively kicking and being grabbed by her small, chubby hands. Seeing him she reached out to him and said, "Pa!"
One of the things that she could do because of her non-Human blood was talk at birth. She was working on walking, though she had already gotten the hang of standing up in her crib as she was doing right now, bouncing up and down, wanting to picked up. Smiling, he obliged.
"Who were you talking to?" He asked.
"Mama!"
He blinked, not sure how to take that. Had her Spirit come back to check on her child or was there something going on that he didn't know about...? And why hadn't she stayed long enough for him to see her? He missed her so much...
Chrono picked up the house keys and pocketed them. He had gotten used to Rosette's daily to nightly visits. He knew it was her because he had heard her voice more then once as she talked to Ai Ami. Though it still hurt that she would never let him see her he was glad their daughter could now her mother.
He went out the door, locking up behind him. He was still essentially alone with Ai Ami. The others didn't mean to leave him alone so much, but their lives had gotten so busy, and there were to many reminders in the house of the friend they had lost. Genai was a rising athlete, Viede a diplomat. Rizel's business was about to go international and Shader and Sebastian were starting a dojo now that they had finished their tour. His mother, Zeke, Helen and the Apostles were still down in Pandemonium. Apparently they would be done in a few months and would be coming home. Even his mother, though finding someone to take her place as the ruler of Pandemonium hadn't been easy.
But right now he had to go pick up Ai Ami from kindergarten. He could have taken the car Rizel had gotten for him but he preferred to walk, it let him think with out risk to pedestrians. Not that he had much to think about at that moment...
As he approached the school he noticed a blond woman squatting in front of Ai Ami. He couldn't see her face from his angle of approach approach, but that wasn't a problem when his daughter ran over to him excitedly, shouting, "Mommy's going to live with us!" and the blond woman turned around to watch the girl with a smile.
Rosette...
Their eyes met and they stared for several long moments before Rosette ran over and wrapped her arms around his waist, crying onto his chest.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be here sooner... I wish I had been aloud to see you before now! Oh, God I've missed you."
Slowly, it sunk into his head that she really was there, hugging him, and when it did he returned the embrace fiercely, half afraid that she would vanish.
"How-?" He tried to ask, but his voice betrayed him.
"The angels... They brought me back. It took five years because they had to make some changes."
"Changes?"
"Yeah." She looked up at him beaming, "To make my life span match your's."
He blinked down at her stupidly for several moments, then, grinning honestly for the first time in years he picked her up and spun her around, setting her down after a moment with a solid kiss on the lips.
Off to the side Ai Ami shared her parents' grins, but for a slightly different reason. Her father would smile for real now. No more would she see those fake ones he plastered on for her sake. She would get to see his real smile.
The others were going to get a pleasant shock when Rosette phones them to give them an earfull about leaving Chrono and Ai Ami alone for so long. If they could tell it was her voice screaming at them...
Now I imagine that you would want to know why Rosette had not been aloud to see Chrono while she was going through the changes. The answer is quite simple actually. If they had been aloud to see each other it would have made the wait unbearable and heart breaking. That was not what anyone wanted for those two. They wanted to give them that "happily ever after" ending they had been denied in their first life. The ending they deserved to have after everything they had gone through.
So she hadn't been aloud to see him.
As for why they had let her see Ai Ami... Well, from their perspective it would have been downright cruel to deny her the right to her child, so they had taken her to see Ai Ami as often as possible.
A/N: Here's hoping to hear from you guy's when I post the prologue for my next fanfic! Tell me what you think of this epilogue please!