A/N: The date of this epilogue is correct for my alternate history, as explained on my profile (Bella may also be a little out of character; I'm not entirely sure). Barbie

Epilogue

Two years later

Bella

I sat curled up in my room, looking through an old journal. I stopped at an article I had glued in about an attempted airline hijacking. I read the article, then read it again, more slowly. I had glued it in because I liked stories about "angels unaware," but now…

Seven angels. Surely it was little beyond credibility that one angel could handle up to four humans; for five they needed additional forces. It should have been four, or eight.

And now that I thought about it, the names seemed just a little too angelic. Maybe it was just me, but I thought if angels were going to appear as humans, they'd use ordinary human names. Not John Smith, maybe, but nothing that would bring angels to mind.

I looked for a few minutes at the one photo that had accompanied the article. John Michaels, the caption said the passenger's name was, but if I squinted, the blurry, out of focus figure really looked an awful lot like Carlisle.

I still believed in angelic rescues, but in this case, I couldn't help thinking vampires might be the better explanation.

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I left the journal open on the kitchen table; when Edward came his attention was immediately caught by it. "Ah. You…guessed, then?"

I nodded.

He picked up the journal, looking at the picture. "None of us realized someone had gotten that photo of Carlisle until it was already in the paper; fortunately Alice told us no one would pick up on it."

"Even I didn't, really," I admitted. "I mean, I guessed it first, and then I could see it was Carlisle. Edward…why did you get involved?" There had been hijackings since then that had gone unstopped.

Edward sighed. "Alice 'saw' it," he said quietly. "'Saw' that it was more than just a normal hijack attempt. They were going to fly those planes into buildings…kill hundreds of people…" He shrugged. "We had to stop it." He turned toward me, frowning suddenly. "Bella…this was before we met; why do you have the article?"

I grinned. "Because I like stories about people who were probably really angels."

He gave me a crooked smile. "Well, we're hardly that…disappointed?"

"No. I guess since John Michaels is Carlisle, Elizabeth Michaels must be Esme, and since George Gabriel was alone, that's you. Which were the others?"

"Emmett and Rosalie were Micah and Helaina Raphael; Jasper and Alice were Angelo and Celeste Harper."

"Raphael isn't really the name of an angel…" I mused.

"He is in the Apocrypha. And since there are only two angels mentioned by name in the Bible, we had to get a little creative. Personally I thought Angelo and Celeste 'Harper' was a bit much, but Alice liked it and it wasn't worth making an issue of."

I giggled as I caught the pun for the first time. "I kind of like it," I admitted. "And Celeste fits Alice, somehow."

"Who would you have been?" he asked suddenly.

I blinked. "Um…I can't think of anything offhand that goes with Gabriel."

He grinned, pulling me to his side. "Just as long as it's Gabriel."

I smiled. "Did you really think it would be anything else?"

The End

A/N: "Angels unawares" refers to the Bible verse that says, "Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." (Hebrews 13:2, KJV) Barbie

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