Epilogue

Friday October 31st, 2036
The Isle of Avalon
5:40 p.m. (local time)

Smiling to herself, Sara looked out over the festivities celebrating the New Year. It was hard to believe sometimes, the changes that had been made since that Samhain Elaine was made Chief Priestess, nearly thirty years prior, but then she would look out at the world around them and the evidence would be there for all to see.

After Elizabeth and Nick were married, she and Elizabeth had started the work that would bring Avalon back into the world. She had taken over as Lady for Caillean when she died a few years after, while Elizabeth focused on preparing the world. It had been neither easy nor a fast process, but within twenty years they had accomplished the feat. Today Avalon was, while perhaps not as popular or respected as Christianity in the eyes of many governments, it was acknowledged, accepted, and growing in strength.

In their personal lives things had grown as well, she and Gil had three children together, besides the girls. Well one of the children they had raised was Billy's child; he had stood by her in her decision to grant him a child after his death. Dierdra and Catriona were both Chief Priestesses now, leading their own tribes. The son born from Billy, named after his father, was a high druid serving in Vegas, while her and Gil's son Michael had followed them into science, but he too followed the faith. Their youngest, Elaine, was a High Priestess preparing for her marriage to the Druid she had been Virgin Huntress to. Gil had never accepted the faith as his own, but he supported her to this day, and they had married as planned less than a year after Nick and Elizabeth.

Nick and Elizabeth had three children, their eldest son, a child of the Beltane fires; William, or Bill as he was called... it made things interesting over the years, especially with Bill and Billy being best friends. Bill had followed the family tradition to Avalon and was a High Druid already, well on his way to being the next Merlin. Then there was their only daughter, Serena, she was a High Priestess living in Boston while attending school, she shared the "Six Musketeer's House" with Amanda. And their youngest son, Nick Jr., he had been the surprise child and of course was named after his father. Nicky was a CSI like his Dad and the others, while also a follower of Avalon. He lived in Vegas still, the second generation Stokes to work at the Crime Lab.

Nick and Elizabeth had moved to England after Nick retired from CSI with his twenty years, Sara and Gil were already there with their children thanks to having to live on Avalon as the lady. He had retired without a moment's hesitation to follow, and to be able to learn everything about Avalon and its mysteries.

The years had been good to Nick and Elizabeth though; their children were spoiled rotten by their Aunts and Uncles, be they from Elizabeth's side or those from Nick's that still acknowledged him. He never regretted losing his mother, brother and two sisters when he chose Elizabeth, in the end as the years went by, more of the family left behind would leave to follow those who had moved west, to get away from the intense beliefs of Jillian, Joel, Daphne, Maryanne and their spouses. Now it made family reunions in Vegas rather...crowded when the Stokes clan all got together. Aubrey's house had nowhere near enough room to hold them all as it had been the first time Elizabeth met them.

Then there was the other side of the family, the one formed so long before at Harvard. Jasmine had eventually met the woman of her dreams and they settled down in Atlanta, adopting a little girl named Amanda. Mandy was a doctor like both her mothers, living in Boston with Serena where she worked for the University hospital, and newly engaged. Juli had settled down as well, though she and her husband never had any children, content to spoil all her nieces and nephews instead. And, with thanks to the Goddess, Rebecca had finally, finally, found the man of her dreams. They had been married nearly twenty-five years, and had the most children in the group, two sets of twins and a single. The girls were so much like their mother it was scary at times, and left the four 'aunts' together grinning as they watched Rebecca have to deal with some of the antics she had put them through over the years. Then there was Elaine, she had passed fifteen years earlier, having remained in Vegas as she led the local tribe until the day she died. She was buried in Boston near Billy.

The gang in Vegas had their own lives now as well. Catherine and Warrick had ended up together after his wife died; they never married though. Greg had settled down and had a son and a daughter, both gaining his energy. Jim had passed in the line of duty nearly twenty years earlier, and then there was Lindsey. She had traveled to Avalon after she finished school and stayed there, making her way up the ranks as it were. When she was old enough, Sara had stepped aside and

Lindsey became Lady of the Lake, a title she still bore today after nearly a decade. She had four children from the fires, but had never married.

"You look lost in thought," Elizabeth smiled as she joined her 'sister'.

"Just thinking about everything that's happened," Sara shrugged as she glanced at her before looking down at those gathered around the fires as they stood on the Tor. Glancing over she saw the small cemetery that had formed around the spot that held the body of the Lady Viviane from centuries before. The freshly dug grave gave her a moment of sadness before she smiled, knowing she would see Gil again in a future life. It was as it was suppose to be, they lived and died, and they would find one another again, just as she would find Billy again.

"Did you think, that day you left Vegas and called me, that we might be here all these years later?" Elizabeth asked after a few minutes.

"No, then I wasn't thinking of anything beyond getting away from the pain. I'm glad though, for the choices I made. For the results they've produced. The Goddess has been good to all of us."

"That she has," Elizabeth agreed softly. "Fifty years Cass, fifty years since the day we met in this life. You know I'd never change a thing."

"Me neither," Sara smiled as she closed her eyes and thought back.

"And who be ye six?" Elaine asked the group at the front of the class.

"The Six Musketeers," Rebecca announced. "One for all and all for one."

"One for all and all for one," the other five echoed as they laughed.

"Until the end of time," Sara agreed after a moment. "Until the end of time."