Epilogue

Thorn (Four days later)

I opened my eyes slowly and blinked a couple times before sitting up in my bed. I rubbed my head a bit as I looked around my room confused. I couldn't remember much of what happened after I had finally killed Electra; I could remember horrified purple eyes, hearing Kierran call my name, and my vision going dark. I sighed heavily as I tried to remember more but it only made my head hurt more. My door opened as I held my head and when I looked up a woman I recognized but couldn't place a name to her face looked down at me shocked.

"Puck!" she called out and a moment after my dad and Kierran was in the doorway looking down on me.

Kierran hurried to my side and pulled me into a hug, whispering in my ear, "Thank god you're alright." I closed my eyes and hugged him back as tightly, feeling an overwhelming sense of gratefulness. "I was so scared you'd never wake up," Kierran whispered again.

I pulled back and looked at him confused. "What are you talking about?"

"Akantha, you've been in a coma state for four days now," my dad said, using my real name.

I looked between the two confused. "Wh-what do you mean?" I hesitated.

"Um, you fainted after you killed Electra," Kierran said carefully. "When we had you examined—by doctors each from a different court—they found that you over exerted yourself by using too much glamour."

"They said it was possible that you may have done some damage to your body by using both of your glamours when you weren't ready to," Dad added.

"Since I woke up, that means I'm okay, right?" I asked.

"We don't know that actually, we wanted to send for the Iron court doctor as soon as you woke up to make sure you'd be okay," Kierran explained.

"Why the Iron court doctor?" I asked. "No offense."

"He knows the most about the clashing of glamour," Kierran said.

"Oh," I muttered, nodding a bit.

The nurse that was there that saw that I was awake was a Seelie fey, she stepped forward after Kierran and my dad left to check on me until the other doctor came.

It wasn't until the next day before the Iron doctor came. I wish he came sooner though because no one would let me out of bed until after he looked at me. Thankfully, it didn't take him long to check my body functions and stability, and I was out of bed as soon as he was done.

I was in the middle of stretching my body when Kierran and an Iron I didn't know came into my room. I looked back at them over my shoulder, and instantly froze. The man that walked in had the same purple eyes from my memories. "Who's he?" I asked rudely before realizing it.

Kierran gulped and looked at the purple eyed man. "Um, Thorn, this is the Iron general, Glitch. He was, uh, E-Electra's father..."

I felt like I literally turned into an ice statue at that. "O-oh..." Shit, I added silently.

Glitch sighed and held up a hand. "It's alright, I'm not here for revenge or anything," he reassured me.

"I'm so sorry...I had no idea you were even there, let alone her father," I apologized quickly.

"No, I understand she was dangerous and that may have been the only way to stop her," Glitch replied calmly.

Sighing I asked, "So, then why are you here?"

"Actually, I just wanted to talk to your doctor..."

"Why?"

"It's nothing you need to worry yourself about." Glitch nodded to me before moving to leave the room as he saw that I was the only one there.

I looked at Kierran for an explanation when Glitch was gone. Kierran shrugged as he said, "He thought that in some way it was his fault you fainted and wanted to reassure himself it wasn't." I only nodded as I thought bitterly, Of course he didn't want to owe me anything after killing his daughter.

"Oh, and Thorn you might want to get dressed in something really nice," Kierran said. "All the court rulers want to talk to you."

"Excuse me?" I asked.

"Well...Oberon and Mab are uncomfortable with your visions, and I think Mab believes you were working with Electra..."

I sighed and fell back on my bed. "You have got to be kidding me..." I grumbled.

Kierran had grown silent for a moment before I was hearing his foot steps and then seeing him standing over me. I looked at him curiously, thinking he was going to tell me something, but no. Kierran suddenly dropped so he was on top of me, only his arm length separating us. He slowly lowered himself until he was close enough to press his lips against mine. I kissed him back, our kiss being soft and sweet. It was as if we were telling each other how much we loved each other, missed each other. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled Kierran closer to deepen our kiss, Kierran's hand tangling in my hair to do the same. Our kiss became more passionate but sadly didn't last long.

"You need to get ready to meet all five rulers," Kierran panted as he pulled away.

"I'm even meeting with your dad and Titania?" I whined.

Kierran smirked with a nod. "Yep, have fun."

I sighed and later was dressed in a light green dress—one of my fanciest dresses—in a big room surrounded by each ruler of each court. Oberon and Titania were in the middle, Mab was on the right, and finally Meghan and Ash were on the left. They were all discussing me as a threat or a benefit for the Nevernever. They were worried because I knew of the war and the outcome of the entire war if Electra won. Mab thought I could be lying and was working with Electra the entire time. Oberon believed I could be dangerous if left alone and wanted to imprison me, Titania agreed with Mab though. Meghan and Ash were the only ones who believed I wasn't a threat. Sadly, they couldn't convince the other three until I agreed to work as the official Summer seer and to report all the visions I have.

My dad was known as the Summer trickster and I had become the Summer psychic. My boyfriend was born as the Iron prince and his two cousins were the Winter prince and Winter princess. I was starting to feel like all of the people I knew had a court label, even Hanna was the Summer slut.

After they were finished worrying about me, the real issues were discussed. Since all the courts came together to fight against Electra the courts met again, but this time the rulers were accompanied by their generals, heirs, and any right hands; including my dad and I. My dad because he had been at Oberon's side for such a long and me just in case I had a vision about their choices. They wanted t discuss a peace treaty between the three courts and to abolish some laws too. The peace treaty they wanted was to get rid of the walls between them; making it possible for Summer and Winter to go to the Iron realm, to let the fey live where they want—so a Summer fey could live in Tir Na Nog if they wanted—and to even let fey fall in love between courts. The Iron realm was finally safe for other faeries, so Meghan wanted to let them come to their kingdom and wanted to let the Iron fey go to other realms safely. With that discussion they expanded to let others move to different realms. Meghan and Ash both made big deals about letting different fey choose who they loved. As they expanded on Meghan being half Summer, Ash being a Winter, and Kierran being all three and human; and they had a happy family. With that the peace treaty was made.

At first, it was as if nothing was different but slowly faeries were moving to different realms—a lot of them moved back after a couple of days—and then marriages between all kinds of couples, even same court ones, were popping up every where. I was part of it too.

I walked into the living room when I had just woke up to find Kierran and my dad talking. It looked as if it was a serious conversation but went dead silent once I walked into the room. I looked between the two as I said, "What are you two talking about?" My voice was full of suspicion as I leaned against the wall.

"Noth—" Kierran tried before Dad interrupted him.

"Kierran here was just asking for my blessing."

Both Kierran and I jumped at that and looked at each other with wide eyes. Kierran's eyes moved from me to Dad and back again. I was just standing there as I waited for my thoughts to catch up with that statement. It took me a moment before asking Dad, "Well, did you say yes?"

My dad looked back at me with a smirk. "Weeell...of course I did, who do you think I am?"

I smiled and looked back at Kierran, holding my hand out towards him as I asked, "So where's my ring?"

Kierran laughed as he walked to me, taking my hand and pulled me to him. "Who said I got a ring yet?" he joked before pulling out a thin wood ring with a blue gem and a silver design in it. He smiled at my dumbfounded expression before pushing the ring onto my finger softly. It was the prettiest ring I had ever seen even though it was so simple. "I was hoping you'd like it," Kierran started. "I made the ring myself and thought long and hard on how to do it."

"How did you make this?" I asked.

"Glamour," Kierran answered. "The wood from Summer, the silver carvings was Iron, and then the gem is actually frozen blue liquid by winter."

"How'd you do the silver with Iron glamour?"

"Truthfully Iron fey can control more metal than just iron if they're strong..."

I smiled and hugged Kierran tightly, kissing his lips lightly. "So does that mean I'm moving to the Iron court?"

Kierran laughed and nodded. "Hell yeah."

"No!" my dad argued, making Kierran and I laugh once more.

We wanted the wedding to be small, but that wasn't exactly possible when your groom was technically the prince in each court. Practically every realm altogether would be at our wedding it seemed. The problem was that Kierran didn't know if he wanted to get married before or after his little sibling was born. Meghan was only a couple months pregnant though, nowhere near having the baby. It looked as if we would have quite a while before the wedding.

While I was planning the wedding one day I was surprised to get a visit from Kiri though. When I opened the door I was shocked to see her taller, prettier, and older. "Kiri?" I asked unsure.

She nodded, her longer hair falling in front of her. She quickly flipped it back and looked at me. "I wanted to speak with you, and maybe help me with all this hair...and I was wondering if you have any dresses I can barrow..." Kiri said, almost shyly.

I chuckled and stepped aside so she could walk in. "So, you decided to let yourself age finally?"

"Izo doesn't like having a child-looking wife," Kiri muttered as she stepped in.

"Izo? As in General Izo of the Winter court?" I asked shocked.

"Y-yeah..." Kiri hesitated.

"So, how old would you guess you are now?" I asked. She was about 13 previously and she's really 29, but she didn't look that old.

"Well...I would say around 23?" Kiri answered.

"Great, now you're older than all of us and look it too."

Kiri was able to smile at me and moved towards my room. She was wearing armor only and her hair had grown all the way to about the middle of her back. I never expected it to grow so much, but I guess it was as if ten years had gone by. I chuckled as I followed her though and stood next to her by my closet.

"What are you laughing at?" Kiri asked.

"You're still shorter than me," I said, chuckling.

Kiri glared at me. "Shut up..."

I laughed more but started looking through my dresses. I quickly found a silver one that reached to the middle of my shin, and since Kiri was shorter than me that was best. She was still flat chested so that would be a problem, but otherwise I was pretty sure it would be a good fit.

"So why do you need another dress of mine?" I asked finally.

"I need to get fit for my, uh, w-wedding dress," Kiri answered. "And I don't want to be standing naked as they measure me..."

I starred at Kiri for a moment before I started to laugh. "Are you serious? You're only borrowing it for that?"

"Don't laugh at me! I hate being naked in front of people, okay?" Kiri yelled. "Izo and I haven't even been able to get that far because of me..."Kiri's cheeks were red and she was looking down slightly, some of her hair falling to cover her face.

"I didn't need to know that," I started calmly, "but when Kierran and I finally...um, we weren't doing it for the fact of doing it, we wanted to feel all the love and passion we felt for each other. Granted that we were worried about dying the next day..."

Kiri sighed and plopped down on my bed. "Izo and I will probably never have a moment like that, unless another war happens."

"I'm not talking about the war, what I'm trying to say is you should wait until you feel ready."

Kiri looked at me and smiled a bit. "I appreciate this, Thorn."

I tried not to laugh as I said, "Now let me see that adorable blushing face again!"

"Shut up!" Kiri yelled as she took the dress and ran to a different room to change. I was laughing the entire time.

When Kiri came back, I helped her make the dress look better and fit more comfortable. I was right that the bust would be a problem, but the rest was practically fine. To make it fit perfectly I ended up filling the front of her dress with stuffing. Kiri's cheeks being as red as roses made it all the more fun. I'm really starting to turn into my dad, I thought annoyed.

Afterward, Kiri let me sit her in a chair in front of my mirror and work on her hair. She didn't want it so long but she wasn't sure she wanted to cut it either, except her bangs; they had to go back to normal (Kiri's words)

"Maybe you should have your hair professionally cut after I'm done," I suggested.

"I will, except you have to cut my bangs," Kiri said.

"Why?"

"Because I'll have to do a favor if they find out how badly I need them short."

I shrugged. "Alright, I understand that."

Running a brush through Kiri's long hair as I was trying to think of what style to do it, I knew I couldn't cut it but had to try and make it look short, which I also knew would be difficult. Kiri wouldn't want it to just be in a ponytail or bun, I might have to actually play with it a little though. As I was trying to think of a hairstyle for her, a vision clouded my mind.

Kiri was dressed in the silver dress I gave her, but it had been tailored to fir her perfectly. It even complimented her figure very much. She had Izo at her side in all his armor, but he only stood by her as if a bodyguard. It looked as if they were at a ball—at first I even thought it was their wedding, but I could tell by how they were only standing next to each other that it was not. They seemed nothing like a couple, actually.

The imaged changed to after the ball—I didn't know how I knew that—Kiri and Izo was in a different room, alone. Izo was talking to Kiri silently with a flirtatious smirk and she was giggling at whatever it was he was saying. Izo tilted Kiri's chin up and was leaning forward, but right before his lips could reached hers the imaged changed again.

Izo and Kiri were still in the same position, but Kiri's cheeks were bright red and Izo looked as if he was trying not to laugh. I was distracted though by the setting they were in and then I realized Kiri was wearing a gorgeous white wedding dress. As a bishop (priest, I'm not really sure which) cleared his throat and looked between the two, both the Winter's lost all emotion in their faces and looked at him. He sighed and waved a hand for them to continue, Izo kissing Kiri quickly and softly.

I blinked as the vision disappeared from my eyes. The first think that crossed my mind was how interesting Kiri and Izo's relationship was. They acted unemotional and distant, maybe even cold, in front of others and as soon as they were alone they acted like their true selves.

"Thorn? Thorn?" Kiri's impatient voice finally reached me. I didn't even know how long she was saying my name.

I looked down at her through the mirror as I said with a smile, "Oh sorry, sorry, what were you saying?"

"Your eyes were just silver," she said.

I sighed as I thought annoyed, Right... "Yeah, that's been happening since I killed Electra..."

"Really?" Kiri asked.

I nodded and continued combing her hair. I didn't know why my eyes changed when I had visions after the war ended, I would stop breathing too—freaking out Kierran—but other people didn't notice it. I didn't know what to do with Kiri's hair either.

"What was your vision about?" she asked before I could decide. "If that's okay to ask..."

"Actually, I was shown the manner of yours and Izo's relationship,"I answered.

"What?" Kiri turned around in her seat so fast to look at me I pulled some of her hair out.

I chuckled. "Well...if I saw you two together in public I'd be worried about your relationship."

"What do you mean?" Kiri asked as she sat back in the chair, a blush forming over her cheeks already.

"You don't act like you're a couple in front of others, but alone you do."

Kiri nodded slightly as she said, "You know how the Winter society works..."

I nodded also saying, "I know."

I pulled Kiri's hair back lightly and held it as if I was going to put it in ponytails but instead I wrapped one of the parts around the other to hold it. I left the rest of the hair hanging, but after looking at it for a moment I pulled her hair down. I didn't like it and continued with my brush as I attempted to think of something else. At the same time as I was thinking it, Kiri asked, "You have no idea what you're doing, do you?"

"No, not really," I admitted. "I don't want to give you something plain but I also don't want to give you something huge and queen-like."

"What are you talking about? Mab always has her hair straight down."

"Titania never has her hair straight down, but that's because Mab's hair looks like the most expensive and beautiful silk and Titania's looks like a dead rat." I pushed Kiri's hair over her shoulder as I said, "Like yours."

"The silk or the rat?" Kiri growled.

"What do you think? The silk of course."

Kiri blushed once again—she's a lot more timid than anyone would guess. "Just cut my hair already," she hissed, or at least tried.

I smiled as I said, "Okay, okay..." I moved to in front of Kiri and combed her bangs into her face. They looked almost as long as my hair. I swayed them to the side before I took out my dagger and swiped. Kiri's bangs fell against her forehead and down to cover her right eye once again. They looked choppy and cute as they slanted to the right.

I stepped to the side to let Kiri look at them herself in the mirror. She starred at herself for a moment—I was worried she didn't like it—but her smile was the happiest I'd ever seen her when it came to her hair.

"Maybe, if you can't think of anything, I could leave my hair down," Kiri finally said, her hair still laying upon her shoulder and helped her bangs frame her face.

"That's a great idea," I said with a smile.

Kiri glanced at me, blushing slightly and suddenly got up. "I better get going, I have things to do," Kiri said and grabbed her armor. "Do you mind if I change back first?"

"Of course not," I answered chuckling. "But that means there was no point of me stuffing the dress to fit."

Kiri blush seemed to deepen before going back to whatever room she went to before. After she was out of my dress and in her armor, she used her glamour to hide her dress before leaving. I watched her leave while thinking, I can't wait for her wedding.

Since I had to report my visions to Oberon—though I didn't tell him every detail—he had to tell Mab about Ion and Kiri since it was about her people, and her granddaughter at that. Three months later when Izo asked for Mab's blessing she immediately accepted. I was actually the first person Kiri told, but their actual wedding was a month later.

Every noble and royal family—which was few—was invited to come from every court, including Kierran and I of course. It was a traditional wedding unlike human weddings that Kierran had shown me. There was white decorations all around the ballroom and even Kiri looked like a gorgeous ice sculpture, probably the prettiest I'd ever seen her. Her wedding dress dragged on the floor and complimented her figure more than any dress of mine ever could. Her hair was up in a beautiful bun with some hair free of it and laying over her shoulder, her bangs untouched. It looked as if she wasn't planning on cutting it anymore, I thought She also had a veil to cover her face that looked like a spider wed with snow fallen on it. Izo was—as usual—in his armor, but his suit looked more new and shiny then in the war.

The ceremony was long but very elegant and when the priest finally said they may kiss, it was the same as my vision from before. Kiri's face looked brighter than they did in my vision but Izo's smirk was still filled with laughter and—well—domination. I was surprised though when the priest didn't clear his throat though and Izo kissed the already embarrassed Kiri.

As Kiri and Izo came to talk to us during the reception, I was shocked to see Ion with a girl on his arm. Not just any girl but the tailor woman that had measured me for Izo. Elith was dressed in a pretty teal layered dress with an empire waist and Ion was in a matching teal with silver suit—he even had a ridiculous cape. Ion suddenly met my eye, but I couldn't tell what he was thinking as he bowed his head and lead Elith away.

Later on, Kiri's wedding had given me a lot more ideas and plans for my own wedding. Kierran and I had finally agreed to wait until Meghan had her baby so that his little sibling could be either our ring bearer or flower girl, so I still had about four months until Meghan would be do. I thought planning every little detail was a good way to distract myself too.

Before I began intense planning of our wedding Kierran and I had moved in with each other to a small house on the border of the Iron court since it was finally safe for me. Also, Kierran was still the heir to the Iron crown—which annoyingly made me the next Iron queen. I wasn't excited abut being a queen one day, but I was just happy to be with Kierran. I wouldn't have to report to Oberon anymore either—maybe.

As I was planning my wedding, I kept running into problems involving our colors and my dress and then Kierran's suit—he wouldn't tell me directly if he wanted a modern human tux or prince-like faery suit, thankfully I knew him well enough to decide on the human tux. When Meghan finally had Kierran's little sister, my wedding was perfectly to my standards, all I had to do was fit my new sister-in-law as our flower girl.

Kierran's little sister was a small gray eyed little girl like Ash, but I had a feeling as soon as I saw her that she would have Meghan's fair blonde hair too. Meghan and Ash, though, took one look at their daughter before naming her Aria. She was so small and fragile looking I didn't dare holding her, and I seemed to know why on my wedding day.

It wasn't until two months later that our wedding was ready and happening. I was dressed in a light green dress with blue fabric draped on the skirt and sleeves going down to my elbows. To make the dress look better Elith, the one who made my dress, decided to add a silver belt around my middle and gave me a silver necklace too. Sadly, my veil wasn't as beautiful as Kiri's but I still loved the light fabric to cover my face.

When I was finally able to walk down the aisle with my dad on my arm and Meghan and Aria throwing flowers ahead of me, I watched Kierran with pure happiness. Kierran's suit was a light gray color with a blue tie, darker than the blue on my dress, and a light blue under shirt. Many people kept telling me that we wouldn't look good together, but all the gasps that filled the room when we finally reached each other begged to differ.

Our ceremony was way shorter than Kiri's and Izo's, and neither of us was embarrassed to kiss in front of other people like Kiri had been. As soon as we started dancing as the reception started, it was a whole different story. Kierran held me so close and almost as tight that it surprised me and even embarrassed me. It was as if he was saying he would never let go of me now that I was finally his. I looked up at Kierran and smiled, it seemed to calm him down too and he loosened his grip. Our dance was flawless after that.

As everyone was enjoying themselves, Meghan suddenly came up to me, asking me if I could take care of Aria and putting me in her in my hands before I could answer. Meghan was gone before I could refuse, and I was sucked into a vision before I could put her down.

In my hands wasn't Aria anymore but a little boy who looked like her, except he had bright green eyes like me. I quickly realized it was my son that I was rocking to sleep. He looked so cute and small, and I already loved him so much as I starred down at his sleeping face. The image quickly changed though.

I wasn't holding him anymore, but instead I was watching him play in the castle yard in the Iron court. He was running around and I felt an urge to tell him to be careful, but before I could he stopped for a second and then came running to me. A small poisonous snake had followed him to me and was getting ready to attack when I whipped out my hand and an ice dagger killed the snake. I hugged my son to me, but for some reason my future self seemed perfectly fine while I was beginning to realize something.

The vision suddenly stopped and Kierran was standing in front of me with Aria in his arms now. I didn't hesitate before I said, "Our son is going to have the sight."

Darkmina: I'm sorry I ended it like this, but I truthfully didn't know what else to do after this point to end it.

Puck: Of course you didn't, this is why I didn't want you to write this.

Darkmina: *glares at Puck* .bat.

Puck: *nervous* ha...ha...ha...just kidding...

Ash: You were just told.

Puck: Shut it!

Dakrmina: *sigh* Anyway, if any of you want to see the drawings I have of these guys including: Kierran, Thorn, Electra, Kiri, Light, and Ion just say and I'll send you the link or something when I get them done, hopefully before the end of this month. Thank you and I hope you enjoyed this story!