A.N: Hey guys!

Yes the epilogue is finally coming, I knew most of you had lost hope but you see I finally came around to write it J.

I really hope you will like it. As for me I CANNOT wait for Tuesday and Last Sacrifice. I long and dread it at the same time

Well please don't forget to review and tell me what you think.

Take care

Steffy

Epilogue:

27 years later.

"Ewww that is so creepy!" Said Jane with a 'I-am-so-going-to-need-therapy' look that I knew only too well since it was the same I had when I was her age.

Jane was Adrian and my third child and she also was the one that looked the most like me. She was about to turn 18 soon and I remembered that at that age everything felt like the end of the world.

"What is?" I asked confused.

"You and High Guardian Belikov used to date?" She faked a shiver. "That's creepy mom."

I sighed rolling my eyes. "Of all the things I just told you that's what stuck by you?

"What was your point?" She asked crossing her arms on her chest. It was just insane how much we were alike. Even physically she was my exact portrait except for her emerald eyes.

"It's by letting her go that I won her heart" said Adrian leaning against the wall.

I turned to him and my heart skipped a beat. After 24 years of marriage he still made my heart race. He was still a beautiful man and his graying hair made him even more attractive. I always thought Adrian would have been the kind of guy to refuse to grow old by coloring his hair but he didn't, telling me 'it doesn't matter for me to grow old as long as I have you by my side. I had everything I dreamed to have. The most fantastic wife and the most fantastic four children a man could dream of"

I smiled to him as he came to sit beside me on the sofa.

"Do you mind if I join you girls?" He asked after pecking my lips softly. "I was just kicked out of Mason's room, apparently I really sucked at video games and I'm not…I'm quoting 'challenging enough'. He is requesting the express presence of his mother."

I laughed shaking my head.

"I told him you'll be over soon and that he should be ready to get his butt kicked."

"You know me so well" I said squeezing his hand as it was exactly what I would have told him.

Adrian and I had four kids. I said they were our heart, soul, brain and body.

Tatiana, our oldest was the heart. She was 24 years old and married, ironically, to a Zeklos.

I had been a guardian until she was born, keeping an eye on Lissa alongside Dimitri and Liam. At first it had been hard for me to be by Dimitri everyday and I knew Adrian worried too, both for my proximity with Dimitri and for my own safety. After a while the awkwardness had faded, Dimitri had told me that he still loved me and probably always would, but he also recognized that I made the right choice by picking Adrian instead of him. I had seen hurt in his face when I got married or when I announced I was pregnant for the first time, but he never said a word and with time I saw the hurt fade and now we were colleagues and friends.

I stopped being a guardian after Tatiana was born, when I held her in my arms for the first time, it changed everything. I knew Adrian wanted me to stop being a guardian then but he didn't say a word, I thought I could continue but it was a lie. Once I became a mother everything changed and even if I loved my own mother I was not ready to make the same choices than she made.

We moved to New York after that, Adrian bought a huge house in Manhattan just by our 'spot'. He didn't tell me how much it had cost him and I, sure as hell, didn't ask.

We also decided not to impose them a world to live in. We taught them everything we knew about both worlds, took them for Christmas at the Court or we went for holidays with Lissa and Christian.

We kept them home during their youngest years, attending one of the best private schools of New York city, when they reached thirteen we gave them a choice. They could go to the academy and study in the Moroi world or stay with us here in New York and continue to study in the best private schools money could buy.

Tatiana had chosen the Academy, that's where she met Remy Zeklos her now husband.

Sam, now 22, was the soul of our family, the artist. He looked just like Adrian and he was also the one that was the most like him as he was sensitive and a dreamer. He decided to stay in the human world with us. He just graduated from Columbia in architecture. Our third child Jane was now 18 and we called her the brain. She also stayed in our human world and aced every single exam she ever took. She was accepted to Harvard pre-Med and that had been an issue for the past month or so.

Our baby, Mason, was now age 12 and he was the body. Mason was the only one of our four children that was actually considering becoming a guardian, he was also the one with more training skills. Dimitri liked Mason a lot and always took a an hour or two out of his busy schedule to train him each time we were at the Court and that was a great honor.

"Mom…to the point please."

"What your mom is trying to tell you is that we both know how much you love Lucas and we know how much he loves you but we are scared that, if you decide to go to Stanford just because you want to be with him, it might actually be a bad idea."

Jane was dating Lucas Dragomir, Lissa's son's who was two years older than her. It was actually funny as he was the picture of Christian, except for Lissa's jade eyes as much as Jane was my picture. It was like an alternate reality, where Rose dated Christian.

Lucas was now studying at Stanford but Jane's' dream since I could remember was to study at Harvard. The day she had been accepted was one of the most beautiful days of her life.

I looked around to the sketch Adrian had given me all those years ago. It was now framed and each time I looked at these two old people we were bound to become, my heart filled up with so much love.

"All I'm saying is that you have to do what you really want to do because it might not be now but in one, five, ten or even twenty years you might end up resenting the choices you made since you didn't make them for yourself."

"But it's hard…." she said with a pout that was my trademark when I was her age.

"Believe me it was excruciating to let your mother go but it was what I had to do. If you two are meant to be together you will still be in 3 years."

"Plus you don't see him all the time now."

She sighed. "Why do you always have to be so reasonable?" she said rolling her eyes. "Well," she quickly looked at the clock "I'm going to call my boyfriend. I still have time to decide" she added taking her blackberry out of her pocket and I knew right then she was in her world.

"She can be so stubborn sometimes" I said with a sigh taking Adrian's hand.

"Wonder who she got that from?" He said eyeing me. "I never thought we would be catalogues as ever being responsible." He added with a cheeky wink.

I slapped his arm gently. "We became adults…we became parents" I said looking at the drawing again

"Are you nostalgic?" He asked following my eyes.

"Sometimes." I admitted.

"Did you ever regret to choose me?" He asked suddenly serious.

"What? Where does that come from?"

"I wondered sometimes but now, since you are trying to get Jane to be careful…"

I laughed "believe me I regret lots of things but opening my heart to you that is something I will never regret."

He kissed my hand. "I " don't think I could have made it without you …I'm pretty sure I couldn't have lived without you"

"You remember what you said to me when I asked you what was going to happen to us after I accepted to marry you? You told me 'I don't know but it's going to be good?'"

"Yeah…" he said warily.

"You were wrong."

"Was I?"

I nodded "yes it has not been good." I kissed him softly. "It has been mind-blowingly fantastic." I whispered against his lips. "Let's make the next 27 years just the same."

"I couldn't ask for more. I love you Mrs. Ivashkov"

"Just as I love you Mr. Ivashkov."