Hello, Hello!And the final update for you. Yes, I sense many unhappy messages coming my way but hey, to begin with this was meant to end badly!;) Thanks to you who are still reading and reviewing this. Special mention now also to L.I.08 who always sends me these lovely messages filled with reviews!:) And negs, my butler in crime, who was willing to wait until after her trip to Italy to read this. I hope you won't kill me once you read this...lol R&R please!

Disclaimer: The characters aren't mine, I just borrowed them!

Epilogue:

I do wonder now if things happened that way because they were meant to be, but at times my cynical self still struggles with an idea as romantic as fate. But maybe you and I were meant to be...

I am so frightened sometimes, Niles, that I'll never be myself again. There are moments when I am fully in control, but they are rare and brief and pass so quickly that you don't notice, or occur when you're not with me.

But I want you to know, in case I'll never return, that there were moments when I remembered everything, and in these moments I wasn't surprised to find you by my side. I want you to know that this is what I need ... that all of me wants to be with you.

You see, this is how I fell in love with the butler, how we came to be. Dismantled or not, I've never felt more warm in my entire life.

But still, I'm scared that something unexpected might happen that could shake the delicate balance we've established...

There was a knock on the door that caused her to set her pen down. Closing the notebook, she rose to her feet, and walked downstairs to answer the door. And there, in front of her, stood a man she hadn't expected to see. "Maxwell!"