Hey again! Very short epilogue here to end the story out, since the whole thing takes place during one day. I felt it only appropriate so...enjoy! (though it is short)

P.S. Would a duck eating a chicken be considered cannibalism?

Disclaimer: I don't own MD:TAS. If I did, I'd be rich


EPILOGUE

Duke relaxed against the doubled pillows, feeling…content.

Today had felt more like a day with family, and that made the ex-thief happy. And just like he had told Wildwing, he had gotten to thank the others and spend another day with his teammates.

Though it was a little odd, Duke took his arm out of the sling again, looking at the signatures on it. For some reason, it comforted him to see the different taglines from each of the different team members.

Maybe Wildwing was right; maybe they had become more of a family in the past year than they thought.

I mean, c'mon, they bring dinn'ah every night and eat with me, Duke thought, smiling. Tonight's dinner had been a favorite of his since they all had been to Earth: baked potato soup with a chicken salad filled croissant (sounds odd doesn't it? Duke thought it had too, considering it was a bird as well, but the second he had tasted it after arriving on Earth, he fell in love with it.)

So they had all come together again that night, joking, laughing, Mallory almost screaming at Nosedive for whatever prank he had pulled on her again, etc. And Tanya had taken the ex-thief's temperature again and proclaimed that it was down to one hundred, as opposed to the one hundred and two degrees he was at earlier that morning.

Besides feeling better physically, Duke felt better emotionally. He wasn't one to normally wear his heart on his sleeve, but sometimes it was all one could do after the kind of stuff someone had been through. And he was glad that Wildwing had told him what he had about the trust issues during the Falcone incident and how the leader thought they had all become a family after arriving on Earth. It made the former bandit feel better about his own issues.

So Duke put his arm back in its sling, lay back on the pillows, falling into a deep sleep while feeling the happiest he had in a long time.