Thank you for everyone who has stuck around this long. Sorry to cut back so much of the story, but the reason I have spent so much time between updating chapters is because it has been very difficult for me to write in my current circumstances. If I can't write daily, I find myself losing my character's voice and the plot becomes needlessly complicated and monotonous—which if I'm not excited about the story, I wouldn't expect any of you to be either.

This has been a crazy journey in my quest to meaningfully add to Stephanie Meyer's world, and the way my story was panning out, it would have gone on another twenty or thirty chapters. Anyway, I will leave things here just to kind of tie things up for you guys. I may revisit Iris and Edward to finish my other storyline out someday, but as it is, let's just say that the story ends here for now. This was their natural ending/beginning anyway, and I stubbornly refused to recognize it at first because I loved writing these characters so much. I hope you guys don't hate me for doing this. Lol If you're big mad, hit up my PM and I'll tell you how it could have ended.

P.S. If you're a little late arriving and have no clue what I'm talking about, welcome, and I hope you enjoyed my story. You missed some crazy stuff which has now been cut out. ;)

Happy Reading!

Epilogue

Nursing school came and went, and the years passed quickly as I worked along side Carlisle in the hospital. The family had moved multiple times over the last thirty years—Madrid, Vancouver, London, Hawaii (mine and Thea's favorite), and Auckland. Sometimes the whole family was together, sometimes not, but we always found time to catch up with one another at any rate, and suddenly, it was a snowy night in Denali just minutes before the start of the twenty-first century.

In the next few years we would be moving to Forks to check on Bella and the gang. If our services were deemed unnecessary, we would leave before we caused any damage.

"Iris, why are you narrating our life in your mind? We're going to miss the fireworks." Edward broke through my train of thought.

"Hah. I didn't realize that I was, but we've had a good life, you know?" A really good life. Sometimes it felt like five fucking lifetimes...but in a good way. I continued gazing at the stars twinkling down from above.

"Well, I can only thank you for gifting me with this incredible life." He answered sincerely as he laid beside me, pulling me into his arms so that my back pressed against his chest. He propped himself on one elbow and rested his chin on my shoulder as he hummed to himself. I recognized the song as "Yellow," by Coldplay. I grinned at the tune and the memories of our wedding and...after...in Bali.

"Yeah, whatever would have happened to you without me?" I asked sarcastically, anticipating his smart-ass reply.

But he didn't respond the way I expected him to at first. He rolled me to my back, and I watched as his brows knitted together and he took on a faraway expression, his eyes darkening mildly. His mind had obviously gone to a morbid place. Just as I was about to ask, he looked back to me, letting out a lighthearted chuckle and replied, "Certain doom, I'm sure."

I wasn't so sure about that. Things were pretty good at the end of Breaking Dawn for he and Bella..."Oh, I don't know. You seem to be destined for a happy ending even if I had never arrived. It was my life that was worthless without you, without our family. When I came here I was a mess. I was immature, selfish, and full of chaos. Now I'm—"

"Just full of chaos?" He chuckled, leaning over to kiss me on the temple. Hey now! Ok, fine, you have a point. I am a little ADHD sometimes..."a little?" He asked playfully with a sideways glance at me and a smirk.

"Whatever, a lot." I retorted, sticking out my tongue. "But you love me anyway." I kicked my feet out and giggled when a pile of snow landed on his head. He shook out the crystals in the perfect impression of one of those shampoo models.

"Inexorably." I smiled warmly again at his reply. It was the same word he had used the first time he had confessed his love for me.

He then met my eyes with such intensity, and must have seen something there in mine as well because he unexpectedly wrapped me back into his arms, kissing me full on the lips this time so that even in my un-living state I was gasping for air.

"Thank God that you're here with me. There would certainly never be a time that I would celebrate your suffering, but when that monster attacked you back in your world, weakening your body and mind enough for you to travel here, I was given the most precious gift. I was given you, my partner, the mother of my child, my love, my life." His eyes were smoldering with passion and conviction from the truth and vulnerability of his words.

"Even with my ADHD?" I asked playfully. Good God, way to ruin a moment, Iris...

He rolled onto his back, raising his hand to pinch the bridge of his nose with a sigh as he full on laughed. I moved to stand, but he dragged me back to the ground once more, ruffling my hair. "Yes, even so. I took you as you were when you arrived to me back in 1931. I, of course, take you as you currently exist, and will take you however you will be in our future. You are my sun on a gloomy day, my northern star on the blackest night, the melody to my harmony—"

"Your everything?" I questioned with a smirk at his cornball declaration, but the sincerity of his expression sobered me.

"My absolute everything." He spoke the phrase so purposefully and with such reverence that a small gasp escaped my lips. Still after all this time, I couldn't believe that I was here...in Twilight world with the love of my existence.

"Won't Alice be upset if we miss her party of the millennium? She worked really hard on all those lights..." I trailed off as I got lost in his amber eyes.

"She'll survive...We'll catch the next one." He whispered into my neck as I laid back deeper into the snow.

"Sure...the next one."

And he ravished me into the subsequent millennia.

~THE END~