A/N: Here it is! The final chapter of Changes! Hard to believe it's been so long since I started this,but it's finally done! This is probably my biggest project, so I really hope you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for all your reviews, I enjoy each and every one of them.

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~Diana

P.S: Oh yeah, had a question for you guys...just out of curiosity, how do you pronounce Madeline? Do you pronounce it Madi-line or Madi-lynn? I'll tell you how I pronounce it afterwards, but I want to see what you guys think...ok, ciao!

Edgeworth opened his eyes. He was lying on the floor in the hallway outside the elevator. A shadowy figure was leaning over him. "You're awake!" a familiar voice said. He tried to push himself up, but a wave of dizziness washed over him and he fell back down. "Don't try and move too fast," the voice said, placing a hand on his chest to prevent him from moving any more. "You've had a shock." The figure sat back on its heels, looking around at the dark hallway. "Power must've gone out." There was a clap of thunder and the person jumped. Wait….thunder?

"Madeline?" he said quietly. "Is that you?"

The person laughed and leaned over him again, revealing familiar gray eyes behind a curtain of long black hair. "Of course," she replied. He pushed himself up into a sitting position and her face swam into view, those beautiful gray eyes glowing with life. He pulled her closer, kissing her almost desperately; he had to convince himself that she was real. When he pulled away, she looked at him in confusion and faint amusement. "What was that about?" she asked.

"I just…missed you."

"Missed me? You were only unconscious for about two minutes."

"I-I was?"

"Yeah, there was this huge flash of lightning and you just…fell. I was so scared."

So none of it really happened, he thought in relief.

"Why?" she asked curiously. "What did you think happened?"

"Let's not talk about it."

"Ok then," she said, giving him a strange look and standing. He followed suit, falling into step beside her as they made their way down the darkened corridors of the courthouse. They arrived in the parking garage, getting into Edgeworth's car. Before Edgeworth started the car, she put a hand on his arm. "Seriously though," she said. "You scared me a little. What happened?"

He sighed. "You're going to think I'm crazy."

"No I won't," she replied as he started the car and pulled out of the courthouse parking garage. "Is it really that hard to believe?" One look at her gray eyes, so filled with concern, and the whole story spilled out. She listened in silence, looking thoughtful. "Wow. It affects a lot of people's lives when the past is changed, doesn't it?"

"Do you believe me?" he asked as they arrived at his apartment building.

She thought for a second. "I think you had a hallucination of some kind. I don't think you really went to an alternate universe. I mean, that's crazy, right?" She laughed a little and got out of the car. He chuckled half-heartedly.

As he made to open the door, something moved in his pocket. Sticking his hand in, he pulled the object out. He looked in shock at the silver Magatama sitting on his palm. It glowed with a faint inner light as he tilted it toward the light from outside, noticing tiny writing around the circle in the center of the gray gem.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

He climbed out of the car. The sky was still covered with clouds, but the rain had stopped for the moment, making the world look fresh and clean.

"Are you coming?" Madeline called from the door to the apartments, smiling. As he looked around, he realized that this was his life, his calling, his destiny, his new ending, and he wouldn't change it for anything in the world.