Leo and Erin walked through the graveyard in silence. It was a warm summer morning but Erin shivered despite herself, the graveyard was quiet and eerily calm. The leaves on the tress rustled in the gentle breeze creating shadows the flickered across the path in front of them.

"I'll e over here if you need me," Leo said as he nudged Erin towards her fathers grave.

He watched as the girl slowly moved over to the small tombstone. He'd found it in a state of disrepair a few days ago and had made an effort to tidy it up before Erin visited it.

"Hi dad," she mumbled as she crouched down and set the small bunch of roses she had picked out for him, on the grave "I'm sorry I've not come to see you before, I had no idea where you were,"

Leo looked on as she mumbled a few words to the gravestone, a small tear trickled down her face but she hastily brushed it away.

"Are you okay?" he said as they walked back to the car

"Yeah," she said gently "I'm okay now,"

"We'd better get back home, we've got to set up for your party, birthday girl," Leo smiled at her.

Erin rested her head back on the seat and stared out of the window deep in thought. As she took account of her life, she realised how much things had changed. Erin had moved from being surrounded by people but not having a real family to being surrounded by people who loved and cared about her. Although no one in her new family were biologically related to her, she felt more close to them than she had to her bloodline. Things weren't perfect in her life, there had been many changes, some for the better like meeting Nate, some for the worse, like meeting Nora and some she wasn't sure about, like Leo proposing to Janet.

But as Erin looked out of the window she knew no matter how scary things got, that she always had a safe place to go, whether that be in a book, wrapped up in her duvet or held closely in the arms of Nate. Erin realised that now because she had a sanctuary to go to when things got tough, she wasn't scared anymore.

She no longer feared a world that had once seemed so lonesome and frightening to her. She didn't doubt that the world was still full of nasty and horrible things but she had a small place in her heart to go when things got to much.

Erin had found love, friendship, family and had found the one safe place she could always go to no matter what.

Erin had found her sanctuary.

Author's note: And there we have it. I got quite emotional writing that last chapter! I have some Erin one shots and a short multi0chapter fiction about a grown up Erin which is coming up if you want them.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reviewed, it means a lot to me and I know I was rubbish updating this so for you to stick with this, is really great and it's nice to know that people enjoy reading about Erin as much as I enjoy writing about her.