A/N: Here it is… The end of Echoes from the Past. I want to give a huge thank you to everyone who reviewed and read this story. It gave me inspiration and the reviews/favorites made my day. :~) I hope you enjoy the epilogue! Please review and tell me your thoughts! Song for the chapter: Requiem for a Dream by Clint Mansell (link on profile).

Epilogue: Come Sail Away

Chris POV:

At first, it was excruciatingly painful to try and live my life knowing Sara wasn't there. I'd find myself constantly turning to talk or share a laugh with Sara, only to realize she wasn't there. The knowledge always dug a hole in my broken heart.

It was a year before I truly began to live again.

I'm sailing away,
Set an open course for the virgin sea,
'Cause I've got to be free,
Free to face the life that's ahead of me,
on board, I'm the captain, so climb aboard,
We'll search for tomorrow on every shore,
And I'll try, Oh Lord I'll try, to carry on

After I graduated, I moved away, hoping I could find a different me in a new town, at a different sort of school: college.

I look to the sea,
Reflections in the waves spark my memory,
Some happy, some sad,
I think of childhood friends and the dreams we had,
We lived happily forever, so the story goes,
But somehow we missed out on the pot of gold
But we'll try best that we can to carry on

But the sight of the ocean did nothing to help me, as all it did was remind me of Sara.

"I want to live near the ocean… I want to be able to snorkel and take walks on the sand and to swim in a crystal clear ocean. I want to live in Hawaii!" Sara told me, her eyes bright with excitement.

"Hawaii is gorgeous." I said, capturing her lips in a kiss. "I wouldn't mind living there."

"Hello?" A voice jerked me out of my memory. "Sir? Are you alright? I realize the Hawaiian coast is gorgeous, but you've been standing there an awfully long time."

I turned slowly, meeting the eyes of a beautiful woman. "Sorry." I told her, my voice rough and uneven. "I was just lost in memory." She smiled, perhaps understanding more than I had let on.

Several years passed and I found myself falling slowly in love with the woman, Roxanne. I knew that I could never love someone with my whole heart again, but Roxanne eased the pain of Sara's passing. I proposed to her on a moonlit walk, and she accepted.

I grew older with Roxanne, sharing a life with her that I had always believed I would have shared with Sara. We had two daughters: Sarah and Allison.

I found myself happy, and I was elated. The years flew by, and suddenly Roxanne was dead, dying peacefully in her sleep. My daughters had long since moved out and graduated college. Me? I was an old man, patiently waiting for my death, to get to see Sara again.

A gathering of angels appeared above my head,
They sang to me this song of hope and this is what they said,
They said come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me lads,
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me,
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me baby,
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me

I died when I was ninety years old, ten years after Roxanne's death, and countless years after Sara's. I died in my sleep, waking up in a place that most certainly wasn't my bed.

"Chris!" Someone enveloped me in a hug with familiar pale arms.

"Sara?" I asked, shocked to see her. "Sara!" I hugged her, squeezed her with every fiber of my being. "I've always loved you." I murmured into her red hair.

"I know." She replied. "I've been watching you. It's about time you got here!" She joked.

I smiled at her. "I love you!"

"And now you have all of eternity to tell me that." She grinned and brought her lips to mine in a kiss.

I thought that they were angels, but much to my surprise,
We climbed aboard their starship, we headed for the skies
come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me lads
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me
Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with me...

A/N: There you have it! I hope you enjoyed it… This chapter wasn't one of my favorites, but I thought it was a good ending for the story. Please review!