A/N: I've already updated tonight, and it's 2 in the morning, but I want to get this out and finished before it slips away. So enjoy, and know that this is the last chapter of Bridge to the Past! I have enjoyed writing it a lot, and hope you enjoyed reading it as much!

Disclaimer: I don't own Bridge to Terabithia, though I do believe it is a timeless story.

Chapter Fourteen: The End

Jess's POV

"Jess, the Queen said to stay with you through the necklaces," May Belle said. "She says she's going to use the connection the necklaces have through time to work the spell."

"Alright, May Belle," Jess said, glancing at Leslie. To her, he said, "Don't worry, Les. The spell isn't painful or anything. You just feel dizzy."

"Jess, she's starting the spell," May Belle's voice came through the locket, as did the murmuring of another, regal voice. Queen Islanzadì.

Jess and Leslie started to feel a little weightless, and non-existent wind began to lap at their clothes. Their fingers linked at the spell slowly took effect. As before, the wind lifted the pair into the sky.

"Jess!" Leslie's voice was scared and worried. Jess rubbed soothing circles into the back of her hand.

"It's alright, Leslie!" he said over the noise. "This is supposed to happen!"

May Belle's voice floated through the locket again, "Jess! Leslie! Is the spell working?"

"Yes!" they both cried as they began to spin in the air. The sensation that they were being sucked through a very tiny hole in thin air by their feet washed over them.

May Belle's voice saying, "See you in a few, guys." was the last thing they heard before unconsciousness over took them both.

May Belle's POV

The sight of her brother and Leslie being seemingly sucked through a microscopic hole in thin air, unconscious, was the last thing May Belle expected to see that night.

But the sight of their intertwined fingers made her smile.

"They will be unconscious for a few minutes," Queen Islanzadì told her and Foster.

Foster stepped forward and bowed to his Queen. "Thank you, My Lady, a million times, thank you."

The Faery Queen inclined her head, but a rustling in the woods caught the three's attention. Nerida stepped from the bushes surrounding the little treehouse's clearing.

May Belle glared at the blue faery. "You have no right to be here. Be gone," she said. Foster shifted towards Jess and Leslie, who were still unconscious on the forest floor. They both looked fifteen, for the first time for Leslie.

Nerida sneered at May Belle. "I'm not scared of you, runt."

Islanzadì stepped forward. "Then maybe you are scared of me, instead."

Her tone was menacing, and Nerida shrank but stood her ground anyway.

"No, I am not… Mother."

Mother? May Belle watched the Faery Queen flinch when Nerida said that. Nerida was Islanzadì's daughter?

"You heard the young Lady Queen, Daughter. You are not welcome," Islanzadì said. Nerida took a step towards both of them. May Belle glared harder, but the water faery didn't even glance her way again.

It was a silent stare down between mother and daughter. It felt like forever stretched between the two, but really barely a minute passed.

Suddenly, Nerida lunged forward, grabbed May Belle, and pressed a dagger to her throat. May Belle screamed.

"Take a step towards me, and the girl dies," Nerida said, glancing between the four conscious and unconscious faces.

Islanzadì tsk-tsk-ed at her daughter, and pointed the scepter she had used to finish the spell for Jess and Leslie at Nerida. The water faery's eyes widened.

"You wouldn't," she said, pressing the knife harder to May Belle's throat. The girl whimpered as a trickle of blood rolled down the blade. Nerida's eyes were wide with fear now, and they darted around her, looking for an escape route.

"Yes, I would." Islanzadì said, "You made a horrible choice the day you joined the Dark Master. I won't stand for you to ruin all these children have done for Terabithia. Believe me, I will do it."

The Queen shifted towards her daughter. Nerida, now terrified, pushed May Belle away and rushed off into the trees. The Queen watched her go.

"We have to go after her," May Belle said. Her voice was hoarse. "She's still a threat."

"We will," the Faery Queen assured her, "But not now. Now, go attend to your brother and his friend. I shall return to my palace to gather a search party to send out after my daughter."

May Belle started to say something, but a groan form the ground cut her off, and she rushed to her brother's side. When she looked up again, the Faery Queen was gone.

Foster was gently shaking Leslie, and the girl stirred. Jess opened his eyes.

"It worked?" he rasped. May Belle nodded.

Jess's brown eyes squinted. "May… Your neck is bleeding…"

She put a hand to the small drop of blood left from Nerida's knife. Shrugging, she murmured, "I'll tell you later. What you need to know now is that the Faery Queen is sending a search party for Nerida, and you and Leslie are home, safe."

Jess's eyes widened. He sat up, blinking at the dizziness, and turned to Leslie. She was grinning like an idiot up at him.

For a minute, they just stared at each other. Later, they would find that by saving Leslie, Jess had altered the future. Leslie didn't die, so the Burkes never moved. Leslie would fit right in in this time, but there was a lot for her, and Jess, May Belle, and Foster, to learn about the changes the future had.

"You did it, Jess," Leslie said from her spot on the forest floor in Terabithia, "You saved me."

A/N: Alright! The End! Hope you liked, enjoyed, all that jazz, and I hope no questions were left unanswered. I tried to add anything in that last long paragraph that I knew I wasn't going to cover in a chapter or anything so no loose ends were left in reference to Leslie coming back.

Anyway, thanks for reading, I really enjoyed writing this, and I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I did!

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