AN: I had a good idea in my head when I thought about this chapter, but it was way more difficult when I actually had to write it. I had twisted feelings about releasing this, so let me know if you like it or not.

Diana woke up, she felt soft grass under her. Where was she? She plunged her sword deep in the archdemon's head, the bright light...Is this death?

She tried to stand up, expected to feel pain, but felt none.

Looking around, she saw that she was standing on a field of grass, filled with flowers of all kind of colors and trees, she saw a sea in the horizon and a warm sun being high set in the sky. She did not recall being in a place like this.

If this is death, it's more pleasant then I thought it would be, she thinks.

She lay herself down and looked up in the blue sky, not knowing what to do. She thought what had happened minutes before she sunk the blade.

Wynne, Leliana, that they were dead was to big to comprehend. She wondered if they could be close by, or if they were in their own world now.

She let herself cry, just a little...

"Now why do you look so miserable?" She heard a very familiar voice chuckling.
Diana looked to her side, and saw Leliana.

She was glowing, more beautiful then ever. Her red hair was nicely tied in a knot, and she was wearing a golden small dress.

A flashback appeared in her mind, a dead body, a head getting torn apart, crunched and lifeless. Yet she is here...

"Leli?"
The bard lay herself next to her, grabbing Diana's hand, she started to cry, knowing this can't be real.

It was like she read her mind,

"why would it make it worse if it wasn't real?" She chuckled.

"Don't worry it is." she continued making the Warden more confused.

"I'm sorry....I couldn't reach you in time..." Diana's voice faded.

Leliana waved her apology away, "I should have been more alert! At least when I got here, I could go back to my pretty looks, just imagine me walking here, with no head, and a crippled body."

"At least it would have been a view." Diana joked, getting a punch by her friend on her shoulder. They both laughed and hugged each others in the grass.

"So I'm dead to aren't I?" She asked.

"No, you're in the fade, with us..."

"us?"
"yes, Wynne wants to say hi as well you know, before you wake up."
"Wake up?"
"Yes..."
"How did I survive?"

Leliana sighed, making her friend more nervous.

"I don't know..."

Diana remained silent, and listen to the birds singing in the trees, it had been a long time since she had heard that. It was soothing.

"Can you come back?" She asked the bard, holding on to the last hope, even if she knew the answer was going to be...

"No, I can't, and if I actually could, I would literally look like a wandering headless corpse. I have a feeling you would run away everytime you see me." She chuckled.

"I know I just...I can't lose you again. You say I will wake up, what if I don't want to...This place is amazing, no death, no despair, no darkness...."

"Of course you want to wake up! You have Zevran! You two love each other!The assassin has given his heart to you, and you have given yours. Why don't you want to go back to that?"

"Love...love is a tricky thing, isn't it? Yes, I love him, but can you really see a future with us? What will happen when the passion dies, the fire gets burned out and leaves a mark, never to be lit again?"
"Oh, stop sounding so dramatic! Passion and love are two separate things, when you combine them, like you two have, the fire as you describe it, will burn more strong then before, and that fire can't die...He loves you, at this moment, he is holding your hand, not leaving your side. He looks for signs for you to wake up so the aching in his heart can stop." She paused and looked in Diana's eyes.

"and as for the future, why do you need kids, marriage to be together? You are a Grey Warden, destined to have a traveling life. One Zevran would be more happy to share."

"That's true I guess. It's not only that, Zevran will be able to cope if I die, with whores for company..." Leliana interrupted,
"He will lose something he treasures more then life itself. Love. Diana, the most important thing in life is to love and be loved in return, these are feelings no one can take from you."

Diana fell silent, Leliana chuckled and grabbed her hand, and they started to walk along the shores, of the endless blue sea.

"So what is this?"
"Your paradise..."

Leliana all off sudden had a harp in her hand, trailing her fingers on the cold hard strings, beautiful music emerging from it. It had been a long time since Diana had hear her friend play or sing, she always loved it...and realized this will be the last time she'll ever here it. Tears fell from her eyes, as Leliana sang.

"So what are you going to do?"
"Oh, me, I will sing and dance until I can't no more. I will not be here when you leave, I will go to my own haven, that's filled with fashion, dresses and oh, shoooes. Wonderful shoes!"
"Can't forget the shoes, can we?"

"Never!"

"So when we die, do we all go here?"
"No..."
"But..." She was getting more confused by the second.

"I can't tell you, I'm sorry."

"Oh, you are no fun!" She chuckled.

"Look at it as a surprise." Another familiar voice said behind them.

She turned and saw Wynne.

"Wynne!" Diana ran and hugged the mage.

"I can't believe you did that!" feeling more tears running down her cheeks.

"I had to, child." She said with a firm voice, ending that discussion.

She didn't want to let go of Wynne, and just stood their having her motherly arms wrapped around her, while she silently sobbed. Leliana hugged Diana from behind, they were all crying.

"hush, child. Its not so bad, being dead I mean." She said, caressing Diana's face.

"I don't...I don want to be without..." she said sobbing against the old woman's robes.

"We will always be with you," Wynne said, placing her hand on Diana's chest, "in there, and in your memories. Those will never fade away. You have life that awaits you, and your body is actually starting to wake up."
"Wha...What?"

"Time passes faster here then it does in the real world. You've ben unconscious for five days..."
"Really?" Raising her eyebrows.

Wynne nodded,

"We do not have much time." She grabbed Diana's shoulders, and Leliana held her arm around her.

"Just know we both love you very much, do not feel guilty for our deaths, we would have followed you to whatever end! Live your life well, and know we will always be with you in your heart! Farewell my friend" Diana felt the world around her getting smaller and smaller, and saw everything diminishing, and dissappear around her.

"No.." she whispered, "I'm not ready, don't make me.." She cried, everything went dark and she did not feel the warmth any longer.