Dear Reader:
Here is the end. I hope that it touches you and makes you joyful, and that you remember it for a long time.
I thank you all for all the wonderful reviews, favorites, follows, and for the fact that you are actually reading this right now. I had no idea this story would be this popular, and I just want you to know that I appreciate every review, favorite, and kind word I get about this and all my other stories. Truthfully, you encourage me through all of that, as I try to encourage you through my writing.
I thank The Scheming Turtle for being my Beta reader through this entire story.
I thank everyone who gave me a quote on love for this story, even if I didn't use it.
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Epilogue
Where there is love there is life.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Hungary sat in the pew, admiring the wedding decorations. Seated in an aged church , Hungary gazed around at the beams holding up the ceiling, the weathered stone walls, and the ribbons and flowers arranged along the pews for the occasion. She smoothed her long, brown hair as her green eyes swept the enormous room in awe. Suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted as Seychelles asked, "May I sit here?"
"Sure!" Hungary answered with a smile as she admired Seychelles' semi-formal dress that she was wearing for the event. As Seychelles sat beside her, Hungary also noted all the other semi-formal clothes that the other nations in the room were wearing. After all, everyone who knew Belarus simply HAD to be here today, and they all simply HAD to look their best, and indeed they all had.
"So, what do you think of this event?" Seychelles probed as she studied Hungary's facial expression, "I would say it's the wedding of the millenium."
"I completely agree with you," Hungary whispered, unsure if she should speak loudly or quietly in the building as she replied, "I mean, who would have thought that Russia could convince Belarus to marry Lithuania, much less Belarus actually staying with Lithuania and loving him!"
"I know, right?" Seychelles exclaimed quietly, also unsure of how loud she was allowed to be here as she added, "And when she announced at the world meeting that she was married to him for the past year and was staying married to him... I thought I would just die of shock right then."
"Oh, no, I thought I would die of shock when she said she was having his baby," Hungary enunciated with a dramatic wave of her hand as she recalled the day with amazement still in her eyes.
"Oh... I completely agree with you," Seychelles breathed, her dark eyes filled with mixed emotions as she spoke, "I... I still can't believe it."
After that, Seychelles leaned against the back of the pew and breathed a heavy sigh as she tightened her black ponytails slowly.
"Well, I guess we better believe it, because there he is," Hungary sighed as she pointed to Russia, who was holding his three-month-old nephew in his arms happily.
For a few moments the two women smiled and admired the child silently.
"I must say... Lithuania and Belarus had a very adorable son together," Hungary whispered into Seychelles' ear with a grin.
"Yes, he is so cute! I just want to hold him and take him home with me!" Seychelles cooed, wishing she had a nephew somewhere to hug.
"Still... I can hardly believe they had a son together... I mean... Belarus... and... Lithuania... just... I just... can't.. believe it... yet... there he is," Hungary added, still barely believing the story she heard concerning the contract and the marriage.
"Well... I am not sure if anyone can... except for Belarus and Lithuania," Seychelles agreed, also surprised by everything she heard.
"I honestly think the only people happy instead of shocked were Russia, Poland... and... probably Latvia and Estonia... " Hungary recounted as she thought about that remarkable day.
"Israel seemed glad, and surprised," Seychelles offered, also remembering the strange day.
Slowly, Hungary turned her head and gave Seychelles an icy stared as she mumbled, "I don't care what Israel thinks... and if she is here, don't tell me."
Remembering that Hungary... didn't exactly like Israel, Seychelles decided to not tell her that she saw Israel and her brother Judah walk into the building earlier and changed the subject with, "Where did you get that lovely dress?"
"Oh this?" Hungary perked up as she smoothed the wrinkles in her dress, "I had it sitting in my closet for a long time, actually."
At this point she saw Austria and straightened up in her seat. Austria walked down the ailse, and when he saw her he stopped, offered her a slow nod and sat in the pew in front of her calmly. Before Hungary to lean over and talk to him, she spotted Lithuania walking down the aisle to the altar, wearing a tuxedo.
"Ah, there he is!" Seychelles remarked as she saw him walk by her.
"I suppose he was getting ready," Hungary added as she noted the way he adjusted his low ponytail quickly while still walking.
Before Seychelles could add anything, Latvia approached them and greeted, "Good afternoon! I trust you had a good trip here?"
"Yes, we did," the two women replied.
For once, Latvia's blue eyes were relaxed and his hair looked neat, and he didn't shake with nervousness as he smiled back at them and nodded happily. After looking at his watch he walked down the aisle and greeted the other guests there.
At this point, Hungary decided to simply watch the others in the room while waiting for the ceremony to begin. Meanwhile, Estonia zipped around the room, helping to arrange all the last-minute things while also ensuring that Latvia was doing his job and greeting the guests and ensuring that Lithuania was comfortable. He examined his watch. Seeing what time it was, he sped back to the hallway and searched for Belarus. Thankfully, she also knew what time it was and found him first. After that, Estonia rushed back to the sanctuary and informed Lithuania and the minister. Soon, the room was quiet, and the wedding march played. All of Europe, Asia, and many other countries turned to watch as Belarus strolled down the aisle, garbed in a simple yet breathtaking white, long-sleeved gown. The ceremony had begun finally. On that day, as the world watched in amazement, Lithuania and Belarus renewed their vows, on their second anniversary. Because he chose to love Belarus, to love her unconditionally, Lithuania finally won her heart, for love gives way to love.
~THE END~
If you want to know why Hungary doesn't like Israel, read Healing Wounds.
By the way...
DO NOT SPOIL MY STORY IN A REVIEW! I DO NOT WANT TO SEE ANY REVIEWS ABOUT A WEDDING SCENE OR HOW BELARUS STAYED WITH LITHUANIA, PLEASE!
Please... please... please... please?
Please, leave me reviews, let me know if this made you laugh, cry, jump up and down, pine for more, or if you just liked the quotes I picked for it-PLEASE DO THAT!
Please, let me know what you think, okay?
By the way, if you want to know where I got the quotes from, they were from quote garden, brainy quote, people, and even some from dictionary . com.
Speaking of which, here are some more quotes on love that I couldn't stick here but wanted to or admired:
[Ninja Canada gave me this one]
From the dream by Theodore Roerhke
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
She slowed to sigh, in that long interval.
A small bird flew in circles where we stood;
The deer came down, out of the dappled wood.
All who remember, doubt. Who calls that strange?
I tossed a stone, and listened to it's plunge.
She knew the grammer of least motion, she
Lent me one virtue, and i live thereby.
She held her body steady in the wind;
Our shadows met, and slowly swung around;
She turned the field into a glittering sea;
I played in flame and water like a boy
And i swayed out beyond the white seafoam;
Like a wet log, i sang within the flame.
In that last while , eternity's confine,
I came to love, i came into my own
[I think Ninja Canada also gave me this one]
"I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart"
Marc Wambolt, Poems from the Heart
[Canada gave me this one too]
"In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful."
~ Alice Walker
[And this one]
"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
~ Benjamin Franklin
[She gave me a lot of quotes-I think she also gave me the Audrey Hepburn one, by the way.]
{Arthur Kirkland's Scones offered me these two, by unknown authors}
Love is like a rose; it looks very beautiful on the outside; but there is always pain hidden inside.
Love means exposing yourself to the pain of being hurt. Deeply hurt by someone you trust
{Krasavitsa gave me this and another quote which I did use in the story}
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. -Harry Emerson Fosdick
{These are from Brainy quote . com}
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
-Oscar Wilde
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
-Max Muller
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
Aristotle
We loved with a love that was more than love.
Edgar Allan Poe
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau
A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.
Honore de Balzac
{These are from Quote garden . com}
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
~Albert Einstein
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
~Charles Morgan
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.
~Ovid
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
~Erich Fromm
When love is not madness, it is not love.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
For you see, each day I love you more
Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
~Rosemonde Gerard
Forget love — I'd rather fall in chocolate!
~Sandra J. Dykes
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
~Mark Overby
Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.
~Author Unknown
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
~Michael Leunig
Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde
Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.
~Laurence Marks, M*A*S*H, "Love Story," original air date 7 January 1973, spoken by the character Hawkeye
A baby is born with a need to be loved — and never outgrows it.
~Frank A. Clark
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
~François VI de la Rochefoucault
The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands.
~Quoted by Alexandra Penney in Self
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
~Jean Anouilh
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it,
A song is no song 'til you sing it,
And love in your heart
Wasn't put there to stay -
Love isn't love
'Til you give it away.
~Oscar Hammerstein, Sound of Music, "You Are Sixteen (Reprise)"
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
~Lord Dewar
Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.
~Rabindranath Tagore
'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.
~Lord Byron
Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
~Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
~Cher
Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.
~Ursula K. Le Guin
Love is staying up all night with a sick child — or a healthy adult.
~David Frost
While duty measures the regard it owes
With scrupulous precision and nice justice,
Love never reasons, but profusely gives,
Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all,
And trembles then, lest it has done too little.
~Hannah More
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
~Robert Browning
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds.
~William Shakespeare, "Sonnet CXVI"
It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken.
~Marguerite de Valois
Love... Its eternal goal is life... No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence. ~Smiley Blanton, quoted in Woman's Home Companion, 1956
A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love.
~Mother Teresa
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
~David Byrne
You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
~Dr. Seuss
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
~Zora Neale Hurston
An old man in love is like a flower in winter.
~Portuguese Proverb
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May?
~James J. Walker
Love is the poetry of the senses.
~Honoré de Balzac
We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.
~Marie Ebner Von Eschenbach, Aphorism
Love is a game that two can play and both win.
~Eva Gabor
Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.
~Author Unknown
Be everything with so much love in your heart that you would never want to do it any other way. ~Amrit Desai
A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. ~Erich Segal
True love, to whom my heart is prey,
How dost thou hold me in thy sway,
That in each day I find no fault
But daily wait for love's assault.
~Pernette du Guillet
True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self. ~William Butler Yeats
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. ~Leo Tolstoy
Okay, I think that's enough love quotes. I hope some of these at least made you grin, because I know they made me grin.
THANKS FOR READING!
The pioneer with a heart for people and a thousand stories to tell
COMING SOON... HOPEFULLY:
I may write a Hetalia Cardverse! story. Not promising anything, just saying... so keep an eye out for a cardverse story by me.