Hey, Butterflies! I bring you the very last chapter of Remember Your Promise. It has been a great pleasure to share this story with you all, and I am deeply honored that you all read the story all the way through. Thank you all so much. I love you all so incredibly much. Here's the last chapter, "Epilogue."
Disclaimer; The Secret Saturdays belongs to Jay Stephens and Cartoon Network.
Trigger Warning: Self harm mentioned.
That New Year's Eve was seven years ago. I am now twenty and in college, studying to be a clinical psychologist. My goal is to be to others what Dr. Cooper was to me. I have some time before I am anywhere near earning a doctorate, but I am in no rush.
After that New Year's Eve, I began putting my life back together. I said goodbye to the Saturdays and moved in with Mom and my little brother Alexi Jonathan, who Mom revealed was actually Dad's son. We live in the house where I grew up, which was nice, although it just didn't feel right without Dad. Mom and I try our hardest to make Dad a part of Alexi's life, but it's hard because he will never know what Dad's laugh sounded like or the way his strong arms would pick me up when I was little. Alexi will never know his father, which breaks my heart, but he looks almost exactly like him. He has Dad's black hair and strong build- or at least he will have Dad's build once he hits puberty and if he decides to start working out. Alexi has Mom's brown eyes, and his accent is the most interesting one I've ever heard. It's a combination of Russian, English, and American. I think it's cute, but he gets mad when I tell him that.
Munya, or really Uncle Derek, is doing well. He still looks like Munya, for he hasn't been unable to undo the damage Argost did, but he has a job designing prosthetics, and he seems to love that. His designs are really cool, despite not quite looking realistic, but they are able to function like the natural body part. However, Uncle Derek does struggle with accepting what happened to his fiancée, Jordan Beeman, all those years ago. He still thinks about her and misses her terribly.
And Mom and Uncle Derek were right about Argost coming back. When I was sixteen, I got a call from Drew saying that they found Argost. Uncle Derek had pretended to be Argost's loyal servant long enough to trap him. Although the Saturdays were unable to stop Argost, I heard that Dr. Beeman was, so I am grateful that Dr. Beeman was the one with my powers who had to face him instead of myself.
I've fallen out of personal contact with the Saturdays and their friends, but Mom still calls them from time to time. They started their own cryptozoology organization, and they seems happy with that. Mom gave up on the Secret Scientists and became a high school physics teacher at the local high school.
And as for me, I've gotten better. I have since stopped cutting, although I have times when I relapse and scratch myself pretty badly. My scars are fading slowly, but not all of them. But I am no longer ashamed of them; they show that I survived those hard times. And I wouldn't change that for the world.
At the end of the day, all the promises we've ever made, broken, forgotten, remembered, or kept have shaped who we are and the world around us. And that's something I'll remember.