Endymion startles awake when he hears Usagi's wails. He sighs and looks out the window to see the moon high in the sky. It had almost been a month since Usagi's birth and he was still not used to her irregular sleep schedule. He sits on the edge of the bed and runs his fingers through his hair before standing and walking over to crib. Gently he lifts Usagi and tries to calm her. Her diaper was clean and she had just eaten so he knew there was only one thing that would calm her down now.

He pauses slightly at the ornate doors, as he always does before entering this room. The door opens slowly and quietly, almost as if it didn't want to disturb the sleeping beauty. The only sound in the cavernous room was Usagi's cries who, not only looks just like her mother but seemed to inherit her famous wail as well. There, in the middle of the room, was an ornate canopy bed made of dark mahogany wood. Pink silk sheets covered the bed and the canopy was made of pure sheer fabric as if protecting its sleeping queen from the world. Serenity herself looked as though she were a sleeping angel. Her golden hair surrounding her like a halo, and dressed in a pure white long nightgown with her hands folded on her stomach a small smile set on her lips.

Pulling back the sheer curtain Endymion sits delicately on the edge of the bed and slowly places Usagi so she is lying with her head on Serenity's chest, her ear right where Serenity's heart is still beating strong. As soon as Usagi hears the calming heart beat of her mother she calms down immediately. When Ami had first suggested this idea to Endymion he was vehemently against it, mostly because he could hardly bare to see his beloved like this. But now he almost looks forward to this time. When they are like this it almost like Serenity was awake and they were spending time as a family. He moves his hand to rub Usagi's back as she grabs onto Serenity's nightgown and snuggles her head into Serenity's chest.

"I wish you would come back to me Serenity." Endymion says voice soft. This was the first time that he talked to Serenity, usually finding it easier to just sit in the silence waiting for Usagi to fall asleep. "It's hard to do this without you. She just seems to get bigger every day. Soon she'll be able to lift her own head, and then she'll be walking, and before you know it she'll be a young woman. And she's going to need you. I don't know how to raise a teenage girl. Sure she'll have her aunt, your friends, and her grandmas but she'll want to talk to her mother. And I need you too. She's going to look just like you Serenity, even now it's almost eerie how much she does. And I don't know how to handle that. I don't know that I will be able to look at her without feeling the gaping hole in my chest. Because that's all I have without you Serenity, just a gaping hole where my heart should be."

Endymion leans down over Serenity and the now sleeping Usagi and places his forehead against Serenity's. His shoulders shakes as he tries to hold in his sobs and the tears that he has been holding in since the night at the cave drip out of his closed eyes and drip onto Serenity's cheek absorbing into her skin. He opens his eyes and gives Serenity a soft kiss on the lips softly saying "I love you". He sits in silence, listening to the sounds of Usagi's breathing for a bit longer before picking Usagi up and walking towards the door.

Serenity felt almost weightless in the fog that always seemed to surround her. She could never get over how peaceful she felt here, but every once and a while she would feel a pressure on her chest that made her feel as though she was forgetting something. As if there was somewhere else she was supposed to be. But the pressure usually went away for a while and she would resume her existence of peaceful weightlessness. This time was different though. When she felt the pressure she also felt as though she was being pulled toward something. She follows the tugging feeling through the vast mist.

She eventually reaches a crossroads. Two doors stand before her. The door to the left is a door made of flawless wood. In the door is a carving of a tree full of life of leaves even the smallest details carved into the door. And as if by magic the branches of the tree seem to be moving as if being hit by a small breeze. The door to the left is drastically different. Faded planks of wood, the varnish peeling off, make up the second door. This door looks as though it has lived through so much that the wood is beaten and yet the door is still standing sturdy. She reaches out to the door and slides her fingers across the door slowly feeling the rough texture of the wood. She reaches out and places her hand on the rusted door knob turning it slowly, completely forgetting about the perfect door five feet from her, the tugging feeling getting stronger as she slowly opens the door and is bathed in a pure white light. Without hesitating for even a second Serenity takes a step through the door.

Hearing a slight rustling Endymion stops his movement toward the door. Slowly, so to not disturb the sleeping infant he turns around. Stretching her arms above her head as if she had just wakened up from a nap was Serenity. She gives Endymion a sleepy smile.

"Hello Endymion." Endymion slowly walks to the bed and places Usagi onto the middle of the bed before grabbing Serenity and pulling her up to him in order to give her a searing kiss pouring all the love he had for her into this one action. They break away when they hear a soft giggling. And turn to Usagi who is reaching her fists up toward her parents with a smile on her face.

"She's never laughed before." Endymion says in awe of his daughter as Serenity breaks his hold from him and gently lifts Usagi. In her mother's arms Usagi gives her a toothless grin as joyful tears streak from Serenity's eyes.

"What's her name?" Serenity asks as Endymion comes and wraps his arms around his wife and daughter.

"Usagi" He answers in a soft voice, watching as Serenity stares at their daughter for the first time. A wide grin crosses her face and she finally greets her daughter.

"Hello Usagi."

AN: So here you go, the last chapter...but never fear there is still an epilogue to come. Hope you enjoyed!