Author note: Okay, this is unfortunally the last chapter. I have had enormous fun writing this story and reading all your wonderful reviews, but this is the end for this story. I hope you like this last chapter as much as the others. Enjoy!
Goodbye
"What happened here?" Grissom and Sara turned towards the four women that stood in the hallway, looking through the hole were a door used to sit. Sara motioned for Piper, Phoebe, Paige en Aelithe to come in. "We had two visitors."
"By the looks of it, they were demons." Phoebe said, inspecting the scorch marks on the doorframe.
"You are right, they were both demons." Sara said, walking to stand next to Phoebe.
"So did you vanquish them?" Paige asked, taking a seat on the couch, as Piper, Phoebe and Aelithe also turned to sit.
"No, we didn't vanquish them, we helped them."
"You helped them? Then how come your door is gone?"
"Well Marlon didn't have the patience to knock." Grissom simply said.
"Marlon? Is that the name of the demon?"
"Yes, of the male, the female was called Marlin." Grissom answered. Phoebe looked at him surprised: "As in Debbie Marlin?"
"Yes, turned out she can turn into anyone. She and Marlon love each other, but didn't understand it, they thought they were cursed."
"Why didn't you vanquish them?"
"Because they were here to find the advise or help of the Guardians of Love." Grissom started.
"We had to do our job, we had to tell them about Love, make them understand." Sara finished. Aelithe sat forward: "You mean to say that you understand your responsibilities as the Guardians of Love?"
"Yes, we had quite an interesting afternoon. We had a visit from the Angel of Death."
"He didn't come to take one of you away, or make you understand Death?" Piper asked, remembering the times that they had met the Angel of Death.
"No, he came to tell us about our responsibilities as the Guardians of Love. Love and Death both know no good or bad. It was his job to tell us, he also gave us the Book of Eternity." The shift was complete, the students had now become teachers, Sara and Grissom were more knowledgeable on the Power of Love and their responsibilities then the Halliwel sisters and Aelithe were. Grissom showed the book to the Halliwel sisters. They leaved through it, pausing on the page decorated with their own images.
"This is so weird, seeing myself standing in this book." Paige blurted out.
"You are right. Could you tell us what has happened?" Piper asked Grissom and Sara.
"Okay." Together Grissom and Sara told them what had happened after they had gotten back home from a long shift. They told them about the Angel of Death and what he had told them. They told them about Marlina and Marlon and how they gave them advice. "They had just left five minutes before you came." Sara closed the narrative.
"Wow, you've had a busy afternoon." Phoebe gasped.
"Yes, but everything is all right now, except that we have to replace the door and make up a story to explain what happened. Maybe an experiment gone wrong?" Sara suggested, with a sideway glance to Grissom, who scowled: "My experiment never go wrong, you are mistaken me with Greg. Beside I never experiment with explosives in the confinements of my house."
"Okay, but we have to find a plausible explanation." Sara laughed, quickly turning serious again.
"We have the Clean-up Crew here in Las Vegas." Aelithe said.
"The Clean-up Crew?" Grissom asked, clearly asking for an explanation.
"Yes, a group magical creatures, who clean up the mess left behind after a fight. They will be here soon. They will clean up and repair your door. No one will see a difference." She explained.
"But what about our neighbours, if they heard anything they would have called the police."
"The Clean-up Crew, will take care of those too. They rarely slip up." Aelithe reassured Grissom, who nodded.
"Aelithe, when we have questions can we call you. The angel of Death said we could, but I rather have your permission." Sara said, turning to Aelithe.
"Of course, I think I am also going to call on you, to help me cover something for the police. If it is necessary of course." Aelithe saw the apprehensive face of Grissom. He realised what he was doing and quickly made amends: "Yes of course you can call us. It is just that I will have to get used to covering up. I don't like unsolved cases and covering things up. Just give me some time, because I do understand that in some cases it might be necessary."
"Well maybe you can help solve some of those crimes, that can not be solved by the non magical police." Aelithe suggested.
"You do try to find out what has happened? You don't just cover up?" Sara asked slightly surprised.
"Of course I try to find out what has happened. The most cases that could possibly could make their way to the non magical world, are possibly dangerous and often something has gone wrong in those cases. Sometimes it is a vanquishing gone wrong, sometimes it is a sign something is shifting in the magical world and sometimes it is someone overstepping his or her boundaries. In all those cases we have to know what it was to respond to it." Aelithe explained. Sara and Grissom nodded. For a few seconds everyone was silent, they knew what was coming, but no one felt the need to speed it up.
Piper stood and returned the Book to Sara: "I am glad you got the Book of Eternity, it will help you in your new roles as Guardians of Love." Sara stood also and accepted the Book: "Thank you Piper."
"You are welcome, however it is for me and my sisters time to say goodbye and return to San Fransisco. I wish you and Grissom all the luck and love in the world. Please know that you can always call on us when you need to."
"You can always come and visit us here. Thank you for all your help, trust and patience." Sara said, as she laid the Book on the table and hugged Piper. The others also stood and hugged Grissom and Sara. After everyone had hugged each other and had bid everyone goodbye the three sisters stood next to each other: "Blessed be."
"Blessed be." Sara, Grissom and Aelithe returned the wiccan greeting. Amidst a cloud of bleu lights the Halliwell sisters disappeared back to San Fransisco.
Aelithe turned to Sara and Grissom: "I am also going to go home, I will hear from you. Oh look the Clean up Crew have already fixed your door. They are very discrete." Sure enough the door was back in its place, the scorch marks were gone and everything looked as if nothing had happened. Grissom guided Aelithe to the door and closed the door behind her.
A salt and pepper haired man and a brown haired woman were walking in a park, they softly talked to each other, holding each others hand. He then raised his hand and picked something out of her hair, a small blue butterfly fluttered from his hand up to the sky. They looked like two ordinary people, nothing special, no one would guess that these two people held the Power of Love and guarded it.
Author note: I have a very fague idea for a sequel, but it is still very fague. Hopefully in a while I will write a sequel with the csi team or something I don't know yet. I hope you liked this last chapter, please review, pretty, pretty please? (I am looking adoringly at you, batting my eyelashes.)