vrupd.1992: yeah I know it was cliché. Sorry. It was literally the best I could come up with in the time I had (seriously there are so many lectures I can use to think about my fanfics). Pitch didn't fight back because Elsa had whacked him with a metal pole. He was probably knocked out.

vrupd.1992 & Shashoom: yeah sorry about it being rushed. This chapter may make you feel the same way actually (I don't know). It's because I have been so busy and haven't had a lot of time to think about things and I was also suffering from writer's block and suffering from I should be doing my assignments lol. I hope you both like the ending. This is always how I planned on ending it and it may seem from a jump from the previous chapter but that is explained (well I hope you get the explanation). I hope you liked the ending and if you felt the ending was rushed to, I'm sorry.

Snowman: hopefully this answers your questions and this should finally answer your question on the ending. No it's not happy. It was never actually going to be happy. I was aiming for bittersweet.

Chapter 16: Epilogue

Six months later

Anna walked into the coffee shop and ordered her usual coffee. She only had to wait a few minutes before the barrister served it up. She took a sip and turned around and nearly walked straight into the person behind her.

"Anna Winters?" the person said.

Anna looked at who was speaking and got a pleasant surprise.

"Mrs Mills," she said.

Mrs Mills was Anna's favourite teacher at her old school. She had also been an old friend of her father's and mother's and was often popping in and out of their house. Anna was happy to see her.

"I haven't seen you since graduation," she said.

"Yeah it's been a while."

"Shall we?" Mrs Mills said gesturing towards the table next to them.

Anna and Mrs Mills took a seat down and the barrister brought Mrs Mills her cup coffee.

"So how's the sister?" Mrs Mills asked. "If I remember correctly she wasn't at your graduation was she? It was only you, your boyfriend Kristoff and your Aunt."

Anna took a long sip of her coffee before she sighed.

"It would be kind of hard for her to be there considering we had her committed seven years earlier."

Mrs Mills chocked on her coffee.

"Committed?" she spluttered.

"My parents never told you the truth about Elsa," Anna said sadly.

Mrs Mills shook her head.

"When my sister was fifteen she was diagnosed with schizophrenia," Anna said fiddling with her cup of coffee.

Mrs Mills looks at her stunned.

"So that's why she was like the way she was," she said finally.

"Yes."

Elsa had gone to the same school as Anna and had also been in Mrs Mills classes. Mrs Mills would often try to include the very quiet and muttering to herself Elsa to take part in a range of activities but would often fail.

Mrs Mills was staring into space for a while before she decided to change the subject.

"So what's new with you?" she asked.

"Well I'm married," Anna said.

"Congratulations! Who's the lucky man?"

"You remember my boyfriend Kristoff? Him."

"Oh he's a great man," Mrs Mills said.
"We're actually expecting our first child in six months."

Mrs Mills lit up.

"You're pregnant? Congratulations!"

"Thanks."

Anna drained the last of her coffee and got up from her seat.

"Sorry, got to dash, I'm off to visit Elsa."

"Tell her 'hi' from me!"

"Will do."

Anna excited the coffee shop and got into her car and drove off.

Jack was looking for his wallet. He couldn't see it at all. He had thought he had put them in his jeans' pocket but apparently not. His sister came into the room.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Looking for my wallet," Jack replied.

"You mean the one that is sitting on your bedside table?"

Jack looked at where she was pointing. Sure enough, sitting on his bedside table was his wallet. He couldn't believe he had missed it. Jack grabbed it and pocketed it before scooping up his keys.

"You're off to see Elsa?" Pippa asked.

Jack looked up at her and he could see a few tears in her eyes. Jack nodded.

"Okay then," she said before she left the room.

Anna drove until she saw a familiar wrought iron gate that was open. Anna drove her car along the road before she came to a stop at a parking spot. Anna got out and headed out along the rows of stones that were around her. Anna came to halt at one particular one. It was her parents' grave. She stared at her before her eyes shifted to the one next to it.

It was her sister's.

She sat down in front of it.

"Hey Elsa," she said. "It's a nice day isn't it?"

Anna just stared at the stone. She still remembered the day that she was told the awful truth of what happened to her sister. Anna closed her eyes and remembered. She and Kristoff had been in the kitchen. It had been a couple of days since Pitch had been locked up for good. Everyone had been feeling happy with the world, well until they got the call.

"Yes?" Anna said when she picked up the phone.

"Anna, its Doctor North, can you and your husband come here straight away? It concerns your sister."

Anna felt her heart sink. What had happened now?

"Yes, of course," Anna hung up the phone.

Half an hour later, she and Kristoff were in Doctor North's office. He looked as if he had aged fifty years. Anna could tell something was wrong right away. She started to sweat. What had happened?

"I'm very sorry to have you here under these circumstances," North said.

Anna braced herself.

"I'm afraid there is no other way to say this but," North sighed before he continued, "I'm afraid that your sister died last night."

Anna felt as if someone had taken a mallet and whacked it into her body. She felt as if she was shattering into millions of pieces. Elsa was dead?

"No," Anna said shaking. "She can't be."

"I'm afraid so."

"You were supposed to keep her safe," Anna was yelling now. She was too upset. "You were supposed to have measures that stop this from happening."

"I know," North said. "I am very sorry."

"How?" Kristoff said. "Did she like…" he let his voice trail off.

North cleared his throat. He looked quite uncomfortable.

"She was, uh, found, uh, hanging in her room in the early hours of this morning."

Anna felt her stomach drop. Hanging? This can't be true, she thought. This can't be true.

"How did you not notice that my sister was going to do this?"

"It was very sudden, I'm sorry."

Anna didn't like the answers she was being given. She thought Elsa would be safe at the hospital but she was wrong. Perhaps she would have been better off staying with her. Anna had failed.

"This can't be happening," Anna said crying.

"I am so sorry," North said. "We have her processions gathered up, if you would like to take them?"

Anna nodded.

She allowed herself to be steered down back down to the office to collect Elsa's things. She couldn't even hold herself up. She was too distraught. She just wanted to collapse and cry. Anna didn't know how she even signed for the items but she did.

Nobody knew how to deal with it. It was so sudden. When Anna told Jack and his family, they all broke down and cried. Jack had collapsed and had broken down. They had buried Elsa the following week. It was a small quiet and quaint funeral. It was just them standing around the grave. North had even shown up to give his condolences. Since then, Anna didn't know what to do with herself. She had taken up numerous amounts of different hobbies to keep her busy and it seemed to work.

Anna continued to stare at the graves of her family. She started to cry again. If she didn't have Kristoff, she would probably be a complete and utter wreak but he had been her rock and helped her through that dark and difficult time.

"So you might want an update on things right?" Anna said talking to the grave. "Well nothing new has happened with Pitch. He's in jail for a very long time. In my opinion they shouldn't let him out. Oh and on a brighter note, I found out yesterday that I'm having a boy. Yeah they did have some problems with the imaging but they finally were able to tell us. Kristoff is super happy. There was always a part of me that guessed he wanted a boy. Oh and Mrs Mills says hi. You remember her? Yeah I always loved having her as my teacher."

Anna fell silent. She wished Elsa could respond but she, like her parents, was in a place where she was unable to.

Jack pulled into the cemetery. He noticed a familiar car that was parked not far in. It was Anna's car. Jack took the flowers from the backseat and headed towards his destination. He found Anna on the ground next to the grave. She looked up when Jack approached.

"Hey," she said.

"Hey," Jack said lying down the flowers on the grave.

"Daffodils?" Anna asked. "I always thought they are the friendliest flower."

Jack gave her a look. "Okay, you are just copying what Meg Ryan said in You've Got Mail."

"How you even know that Jack, I will never know," Anna said.

Jack gave her another look. "You made us all watch it last week."

"Oh yeah, that was a good day."

Jack took a seat next to Anna.

"Hey Elsa, it's me Jack," Jack said. "Nothing new is up with me. Just wanted to say 'hello."

They just sat there for a while before any of them spoke.

"I thought she was going to get better," Anna said in a hushed voice. "I thought that she would go back to the hospital and just get better."

"What actually happen that made her do what she did?"

"She had another episode. The voices took over."

"Weren't the meds supposed to help?"

"I thought so but it looks like they weren't," Anna said through her tears.

Jack remembered the last time he visited Elsa. He and Anna had just visited a couple of days before her death. He remembered thinking that something was off just like how he felt when he first started dating Elsa but he had pushed it from his mind. He now wished he hadn't.

Anna stared at the grave. Neither she nor Jack was speaking much. Anna had a funny feeling, that like her, Jack was lost in memories. She remembered the first time she visited Elsa. She did not want to go but in the end she was glad she did.

"I don't want to go," Anna was saying when she was zipping up her jacket.

"Be quiet Anna," her Aunt said. "She's your sister."

"Who nearly killed me."

"I know but we still have to go."

Her Aunt walked her into the car and drove Anna to the hospital. Anna felt a bit of a chill when they arrived. The nurse led them into a small room where Elsa was waiting. She wasn't wearing her dirty old clothes but she was wearing a clean white jacket and pants. Her Aunt and Anna sat down opposite her. Elsa looked like the way she always did, like she was in her own little world. She was staring at them with a blank look in her eyes.

Their Aunt tried to engage Elsa into some form of conversation but Elsa wouldn't respond much. Anna, herself, wasn't speaking much. She was too busy looking at Elsa wondering what was going on in her head. Anna could see her Aunt was getting tired with a one-sided conversation so they decided that it was enough for one day.

Anna was getting up when Elsa suddenly spoke.

"Thanks for coming," she said.

Anna was so shocked at this that she didn't speak. She looked at Elsa who was smiling slightly.

"You're welcome Elsa," their Aunt said. "We will be back next week."

They left. Anna was busy thinking about what had just happened. Elsa seemed so different yet the same. It seems like whatever they were doing at the hospital was working. Anna turned to her Aunt when they were driving home.

"Do you think she will get better?" she asked her.

"One day," her Aunt said. "Maybe one day."

Anna had thought that 'one day' referred to the day when Elsa had been released but that was just a fantasy. Elsa looked like she was improving but in fact she wasn't. Anna turned back to Jack who was looking into space.

"What are you thinking about?" Anna asked.

"Just the time when I first met Elsa," he said.

"Oh I remember that," Anna laughed. "Kristoff had told me you were quite taken with her."

Jack went red at Anna's words which made Anna laugh. It was nice to finally have something to laugh about considering all that has happened over the last year.

"I think it's time to go," Jack said getting up.

"I think I'll stay here a bit longer," Anna said.

Jack nodded and left while Anna stayed. Anna didn't know how long she stayed. She was just lost in memories of her times with Elsa. The good ones and the bad ones. It seemed as if everything was leading up to this moment. Eventually she picked herself off the ground dusting off the grass off her jeans.

"I'll see you next week Elsa," she said before she walked away.

A/N: so this is the end. I hope you all have enjoyed it. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, favourited, followed etc. THANK YOU SO MUCH =)