Author's Note below.

Epilogue

Wish

February 17, 2019

A lot has happened, Journal. Since the accident, I wasn't able to tell you anything.

Let me start by saying that I saw Jack again. After the car crash, I teleported into this radiant field where everything is just so beautiful. It's almost like I am in paradise. I didn't know where I was so I walked and walked until I saw a plane in the middle of the field. Jack stepped out of it and I ran into him and pulled him in for the tightest embrace. It's been awhile since I recalled the scent of my friend.

We sat by the field and talked about everything. I told him all about my guilt. I begged for his mercy and forgiveness. I lamented how he could have lived a happy life if I had only been nice to Ned. Jack shook his head and told me, "I would've died any other way. If it's a person's time to go, then he must go." He told me that none of it was my control.

When it was his turn to speak, it's like the weight of the world went off my shoulders.

"Christian, thank you so much for taking care of Leila and Jaclyn. I love my girls even though the three of us haven't been together in the flesh. You know what, bro? You are better than you think you are."

That's when I made a promise to him.

"Promise me one thing, Christian. You must live your own life. You must be happy. You have a wonderful woman! Don't deny her motherhood. Just be happy, that's all I'm asking."

In that moment, I knew my life had changed. Jack told me to be happy and so I will be.

He asked one more favour, "Fly with me?"

"Sure thing," I replied with no reluctance.

We went inside the plane and we were co-pilots. We flew the horizon together and I got terrified when he maneuvered the plane towards the sun.

"Jack, what are you doing?! Jack!" We're gonna get burned if he keeps on going.

"Just look at the sun, Christian," I did and by the next time I blinked, it's Ana's face I saw sleeping in the hospital room.

I watched her sleep and realized how lucky I am to have her. I never told her this but us seeing each other once more in that CD store was never an accident. She crossed my mind a million times in the course of her absence. The day came when I couldn't contain it any longer. I hired a private investigator so that I may know where she is. My heart clenched upon knowing her impoverished state. As bizarre as it may be, I used it so that I get to be with her.

The thing is accidents don't exist at all. Everything's meant to be. We were always meant to find each other.

I changed my life so that I may change hers.

TEA is gone and GEHI is here. I am finally the master of my ship.

Then, Ana and I remarried in Amsterdam. It was just the two of us in a place that holds one of our dearest memories.

It didn't take long before we conceived.

There were too many thoughts jumbling in my head. What if I won't be a good father? What if I will ruin everything? What if my child wouldn't love me? Or what if I wouldn't love my child enough?

But when Ana holds my hand, she tells me that it's never going to let that happen.

So when our son was born, I did nothing but cry. I am in my late thirties holding my baby for the first time. His piercing cries echoed through the delivery room and I kissed my exhausted wife's face over and over again. She's everything that I could ever wish for but I couldn't ask for more. That's when I thought I will make her greatest wish come true but how?

As I was holding my crying son and whispering how Daddy is always here for him, Ana asked, "What are we going to name him, Christian?"

I remembered how we talked on the rooftop of my previous company and she managed to make my wishes come true in a way that ten million paper planes flew above me. I decided I'll make her greatest wish come true too.

"Oscar, his name is Oscar."

My wife has finally won her Oscar.

Author's Note:

Thank you for the amazing support I've gotten for this fanfiction. This story was never meant to come out. In fact, this was an original. If I didn't clean up my desktop, I wouldn't have remembered that I've written this one. Thank you for all of your reviews and follows and favorites. Thank you for letting my updates me a part of your day.

Disclaimer: I do not own FSOG trilogy.

Another note: I hope you aren't tired of me because I just released the first chapter of my new fanfic called "The Secret Keeper" and you can go ahead and check it out. If you have loved my previous stories, I'll hope you will love this one too.

Again, Thank you!

Margo.