Ok, everyone! This story is finally over! Yay me!

Thank you all for reading me! I know this is very different from what I've been doing so far, but I had this one story in my head, and I just couldn't get it out.

And I'm sorry it took me longer than usual to finish it. College is been driving me mad, and I barely have time to myself anymore... But, hey! I just discovered God is a woman, and she luvs me! (meaning, I passed my last test with flying colors!). Anyway, you get my point, right? And to celebrate, here's the epilogue!

Again, thanks for reading, and for your wonderful reviews!!

After all I put them all trough, I thought a nice, cute family moment was a nice, rewarding way to close this story. I really hope you like the ending!

Enjoy!

Epilogue

By the time she finally reached the house, dawn was starting to break in the sky.

She had been driving for the past three hours, on a drive that should take any normal person at least two more hours than that. But, she was no normal person, so of course she was able to make that distance in a shorter period of time.

She knew she was going to get scold for driving all night, instead of staying at her hotel until morning and then make her way home in daylight, like she was supposed to do. But she had been away for four days already, and even though she had been staying at a five stared hotel, with a really big, comfy bed, it still wasn't hers.

It lacked the warmth of her own, not to mention the nightmares always came back.

She was able to sleep, but she was never able to rest, to really rest, whenever she was on the road. The nightmares wouldn't let her. They weren't as bad as they used to be, and she was really glad she was finally able to move on and actually sleep through the entire night.

But they always came back to her whenever she was away from home. So, getting home as soon as possible was only logical.

Besides, she knew they had some guests staying at the hotel, and she didn't really like being away on times like this. It was completely off season, and her guests weren't normal tourist, but a movie crew shooting some scenes on the woods up in the mountains.

So right after a nice dinner with her brother and his new, happy, beaming blonde roommate slash girlfriend -she had laughed hard at that one, thinking it was about damn time those two moved in together, after fooling around and going out together for over six months-, she had humped into her car, and made her way home.

She parked her car and got off, and the moment she took her suitcase, the front door got open, and a black haired woman stepped out, smiling at her.

"You're early" she simply said, holding the door for her to enter the house.

"Yeah, well, I miss my girls" she simply answered, smiling back at the black haired woman.

She looked down on her, as she kept on softly caressing her small, cute, five months pregnant belly, and the tall blonde woman winced at that "Sorry for making you stay here, Rei" she apologized.

"Oh, please, it's nothing!" Rei exclaimed, waving her hand at her "A time away from Jadeite is always welcome!" she added, jokingly, as they both made it to the front desk, where Rei soon took her place behind it "You have Hikari, you know what I mean, right?"

Haruka chuckled at that "About being pregnant, or about needing a time off your husband?" she asked, amused.

She had met Rei upon first moving in with Banken. He and the woman's grandfather were close friends, and Rei had been extremely helpful and friendly with the tall, pregnant teenage girl, when Banken had practically forced the car racer to finished high school.

So on those long five months she had spent in bed during her pregnancy, Rei had willingly helped the tall blonde girl so she could take the tests later on and get her diploma. Which she did, about three months after Hikari was born.

They became good friends, and Rei always said she was Hikari's godmother, even though non of them were catholics. And of course, Haruka had been Rei's maid of honor. And now the black haired woman was happily pregnant, and she had been helping them with the hotel every now and then. Specially when she was out of town.

Haruka felt somewhat guilty about that. The woman offered her help without getting paid -although the blonde had tried to-, and to top it off, she was pregnant! But Rei would only say she was more than happy to help, to be around the crazy little girls that danced around the house once they were out of school, and -her favorite excuse as of late- she also got a time off her extremely preoccupied, ridiculously overprotective husband.

"Well, you know him. He's been treating me as if I'm made out of glass!" she complained, sitting on the chair behind the desk, and going back to her net surfing she had been doing previously.

"He's excited about becoming a daddy, don't be so hard on him" Haruka said "So what about our guests?" she asked

"Oh, they're fine. Some of them are happily getting fat thanks to Makoto" she joked "They're out right now, shooting some night scenes or something... And everything's fine, and everyone's alright" she said, before the blonde could ask anything, already knowing the questioning routine "The girls went to bed right after catching your interview on TV"

"Hey! You're back!" came Makoto's voice from down the hallway, and Haruka looked up at her, surprised upon finding the brunette up so early "I wasn't expecting you until midday" she said, holding the blonde.

"You have flour in your cheek" Haruka said, amused "And in your hair, too. What are you doing?"

Makoto laughed lightly, waving her hand "Oh, I had the weirdest dream about swimming in a pool of chocolate and strawberries, and when I woke up I just had to make a chocolate and strawberry cake!" she explained, as if it was the most obvious, rational explanation.

Haruka look at the clock on the wall, raising her eyebrow at the brunette girl "At six in the morning?"

"I couldn't go back to sleep, and I absolutely had to try this one recipe" the girl answered, trying to get the flour out of her cheeks.

"Sure, whatever" Haruka said, rolling her eyes "You really are a food freak" she murmured, taking her suitcase, and making her way to the staircase "Oh, by the way, Nephrite says hi" she added, winking at the tall brunette girl and laughing at her redden cheeks.

"Hey, stop being so mean, and go to bed already!" Rei scolded her "You've been driving all night, and it's still way too early!"

Haruka laughed at the other woman's scolding, but decided it was no good arguing with her. Rei did have a reputation because of her bad temper. Which only got worse with her pregnancy... But Haruka knew she was right. She had been diving all night, and she was tired.

So with no more than that, she went up the stairs, walking down the hallway and putting her suitcase down on her bedroom door, and she hesitated for a moment.

She wasn't laying to Rei when she said she missed her girls. She did. Terribly. Being away from them was always the hardest part about being a car racer. And she wanted to check on them before going to bed herself.

She decided to put her luggage away first, so she opened her bedroom door, only to be welcomed by the most loving, heart touching sight ever, and a soft smile played on her lips at the cute scene in front of her.

Well, at least now she didn't need to go to the girls' room to check on them...

Hotaru was laying on her stomach, face buried under the pillow, a leg hanging off the bed. Her sleeping shirt had rolled all the way up, exposing her back.

Normally, the black haired girl would be tangled in her own sheets. But right now, the sheets were being claimed, almost completely, by a small human ball laying right next to Hotaru.

With almost her entire little body resting on the pillow -Haruka's pillow-, laying on her side, hands in fits resting under her chin, Hikari was sleeping wrapped around by the sheets, face nuzzled against Hotaru's shoulder. There was a soft smile on her lips, as a slender, delicate, feminine arm was resting upon her waist, in a protective, loving embrace.

With Hikari nestled against her chest, her arm around the blonde little girl, and resting on her side, with her own head occupying the part of the pillow Hikari was not claiming, Michiru slept peacefully.

The sheets covering her lower body, and one perfect long leg peeking out from under the dark fabric. A long, soft leg, from an equally soft, warm body that the blonde racer had missed so much.

A body that was currently wrapped around one of the blonde's t-shirts.

Haruka softly chuckled at that. Michiru always slept on the blonde's t-shirts whenever they were apart because of Haruka's races or because of Michiru's concerts.

Considering the three of them were curled against each other, on Haruka's side of the bed, it looked pretty crowdy in there. But Haruka wouldn't have it any other way.

She walked up to her side of the bed, gently guiding Hotaru's leg back into the sheets, and rearranging them so she was tucked in as well. She then bent down, slowly lifting the pillow from the girl's face and softly kissing her forehead, brushing away her black, velvet like bangs.

Hotaru stirred in her sleep, not waking up, and then just turned around, now laying on her side, facing the blonde little girl right next to her, and making Hikari turned around as well.

And the tall car racer smiled again at that, seeing her daughter's sleeping face, as she turned around to lay on her back and vaguely rubbing her closed eye with one tired hand, before turning around again, now cuddling against Michiru's chest.

And the small movement was enough for the aquamarine haired goddess to wake up. Blue eyes looked down at the little girl, smiling sweetly and sleepy, before she realized there was someone else on the bedroom, looking down on her.

So she looked up at her then, blinking away the sleep in her eyes, before a soft, gentle smile came to her lips.

"Hey" she called out to the tall blonde, slowly trying to sit up in the bed without waking up the girls right next to her.

Haruka smiled at her, bending down and kissing her lightly on the lips.

"Hey" she greeted back, before getting back up and started to undress herself to get in the bed as well "I like the welcoming party here" she said, her voice a husky whisper.

Michiru smiled at the comment, looking down at the sleeping girls beside her, before looking back up at the tall woman, as she took off her pants and then sat down on the bed to take off her socks.

She crawled to her, hugging the other woman, her body softly pressed against Haruka's back, kissing her neck "Please don't tell me you've been driving all night" she said, while still pressing her lips softly against the blonde's neck.

The blonde smiled, turning around to capture Michiru's lips in a deep kiss "I got home sick" she said, breaking the kiss and looking at her deep blue eyes.

"Ruka" Michiru said, in a scolding tone of voice, and frowning "You should have waited 'till morning to make the trip back, and take a good night sleep. You know that"

Haruka tilted her head at the words, smiling warmly and lovingly at the younger woman. Michiru was always taking care of the car racer, making sure she rested well before and after her races, and scolding her whenever the blonde skip launch or dinner just so she could be home earlier than expected.

Not that Michiru didn't want her tall blonde home. But she wanted her home safely, and healthy too!

"You know I can't sleep without you there" she simply answered, her hands going around Michiru's thin waist "You spoiled me"

"Oh, I see, so it's my fault now" Michiru said, rolling her eyes.

But then she smiled at the blonde woman, laying back on the bed, and guiding the blonde down with her "Welcome home" she softly whispered "I missed you"

Haruka smiled at that, kissing the woman's long neck, and hugging her from her back, spooning her. She rested on her side, a hand supporting her head as she looked down at the woman beside her, and at the sleeping girls.

"I missed you too, Michi" she whispered back, before capturing her lips and kissing her deeply "I love you"

"I love you too, Ruka" she answered, whispering, before letting her head fall back into the soft pillow. Her arms going around the little blonde again, holding her close, as she felt the tall blonde woman hugging her.

Haruka looked down on the sleeping girls one more time, and then at the aquamarine haired woman she was holding in her arms, and smiled, kissing her long soft neck gently, and letting herself fall into the pillows.

The smile never fading from her lips.

She had finally moved on. She had walked away from the living nightmare she had been trapped on when she was younger. There was no way for her to know what tomorrow would bring. But one thing she knew for sure. Right now, on that one moment, she had it all. She had her career, she had her friends, and she had her family. And there was nothing she wouldn't do to be able to enjoy moments like this. With Michiru's warm body pressed against hers, breathing in the sweet smell of her skin and her curly hair brushing against her face, and hearing the soft breathing sound coming from the deeply asleep girls, she could finally let dreamland take her over.

Everything that mattered, everything that meant anything to her, was right there with her. Yes, she had it all.

She was finally home.