Last chapter! Well is an epilogue a chapter?
Ana Virgnia - Thanks a bunch! Glad you like it. I hate endings but if you liked it thats what matters :)
twihardandveryobsessed – Yeah, like I said, he's a weird guy when it comes to videos but I love his music ;)
*sigh* I knew the day would come when someone said this… I'm sorry but I really don't like Dan/Natalie. Sure, their siblings work but they're nothing like them. Plus I need facts to write a pairing. Ian has at least a little crush on Amy: Fact. Amy once had a tiny crush on Ian: Fact. Dan and Natalie like each other: Rumor. Sorry but nothing ever hinted that Dan had feelings for Natalie or vice versa. The only Dan/Natalie fic I have would be Randomness at a New Level and it's still mostly Ian/Amy and it only has Dan/Natalie cuz Evanescence456 co-authored and she likes them. If you like them I'm cool with it but I'm sorry I can't write one about them…
SqueakyDolphin6 – It's an okay movie but I kind of changed it. There are actually four guys that like her and she doesn't really know any of them but I had to adjust it to fit the 39 Clues. Plus I may have even changed the whole ending because I saw it months ago… Plus she's drunk when she gets the coins but I wasn't going to make Amy drunk…
SugarQueen8490 – Aha! I finally memorized the order of the numbers in your pen name without having to look!
It is his fault. There are better jobs out there that pay better and are less likely to give you diseases. When Ian dies we'll know why.
Broadway4eva – "I am worthy"? But does Ian really believe that he's worthy of Amy? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning…
The Girl of the Moon – Damien? VESPER? Hot? What? If you're talking about another Damien then forget I said anything.
Evermore… sounds familiar. I think it's on my list to read one day.
CloverThyne – yes there is an epilogue ;) I'll miss it too…
Chocolate luver 66 – Okay it took me a while to figure out your review but in the end I laughed. I know what you mean, people almost never finish their fics. That's why I vowed to finish all of mine. And I think I will do the Maximum Ride later ;)
Preacher: Do you, bookgirl39, own anything in this story?
Me: I do.
Preacher: If anyone objects to this ownership speak now or forever hold your peace!
All the 39 Clues characters: WE OBJECT!
Other people: *GASP*
Me: Okay! I'm sorry! I don't own anything! *runs away*
I'm going to try to use the lines to separate stuff but normally when I try that I doesn't work for one reason or another so bear with me.
Amy's POV (still)
Four years later Ian and I were in the park, under the stars. I'd really grown to love stars. We were on a bench trying to find the constellations.
"You know, it would be a lot easier if they actually had the lines on them like on the map." I told him, turning the map in all directions to try to figure out which star was which.
Ian laughed. "How would they get the lines up there?" he asked.
"Well that's why we have scientists! They would figure it out somehow." I told him.
"Love, I think they have more important things to do that draw lines on the constellations. Like curing cancer, studying planets and trying to teach monkeys sign language." he explained.
"How is that important? Why do we need t communicate with monkeys? If we were meant to talk to monkeys they would be able to talk."
Ian shrugged. "It's important to them. We all have different things that are important to us."
"And for them it's monkeys?"
"I suppose. The find monkeys, chemicals and rocks important. Like your brother with video games."
"What about you?" I asked.
"What about me?"
"What's important to you?"
Ian didn't hesitate. "My branch, Natalie and you are the three most important things in my life."
"Pick one." I told him.
He thought for a minute. "Family." he decided "Because that includes Natalie and you. Or at least it could."
"What do you mean?" I asked, clueless.
"It I could include you as family," he took a little box from his pocket "If you'd marry me. I love you, Amy Cahill. I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Marry me, love."
"Marry me, love." Three more words that back when I was fourteen I never would have thought Ian Kabra would say to me.
I smiled. "Did you really have to ask that, silly? Of course I will!"
What if I stutter? I thought. I couldn't mess this up. This was something I couldn't screw up.
*"Do you, Ian Kabra, take Amy Cahill to be your lawfully wedded wife to love, honor and cherish as long as you both shall live?"
"I do," Ian replied, looking me in the eyes "Forever." he added quietly so only I heard.
"I do. Forever." Yet another three words I never would have thought Ian Kabra would say to me five years ago.
"Do you, Amy Cahill, take Ian Kabra to be your lawfully wedded husband to love, honor and cherish as long as you both shall live."
"I do." I said. "Forever." I whispered back to Ian.
"If anyone objects, speak now or forever hold your peace."
No one said a word.
"You may kiss the bride."
"Mom, Maddy's bothering me!" seven-year-old Arthur begged.
I picked up three-year-old Maddy. "Stop bothering your brother." I told her.
"Art has choo-choos!" Maddy told me.
"Yes, honey, Arthur is playing with trains. But he doesn't want you to take them apart." I explained, taking her to her room.
"Why?"
"Because then they don't work when you take them apart." I set her down and gave her some toys to play with.
She touched my stomach. "Baby." she said.
I smiled at her and nodded "Baby."
We heard the door open. "Daddy!" Maddy said. I turned around to see Ian standing in the doorway.
"Hello, darling." he said, picking her up "How's my little girl doing?"
"Good." Maddy said, grabbing Ian's tie and pulling at it a little.
I took the tie out of her hand. "No, no." I said gently "Don't pull that. You'll hurt daddy."
She looked up at Ian. "Sowy, daddy."
He smiled. "Don't worry. It's fine." he set her down "Now go play."
Maddy walked over to her stuffed animals and took out a few.
Ian wrapped his arm around me. "And how is my other girl doing? Or would that be girls?"
I nodded. "They said it was a girl. And we're both wonderful."
"That's great!" Ian said.
I nodded and kissed him. Every time we kissed it felt like the first.
"Yuck!" Arthur said.
"Uck!" Maddy agreed.
We pulled back and laughed.
"Hello, Arthur. How are you?" Ian asked.
"I'm fine. I found a frog outside but mom made me let it go." he said, looking at me.
"Because frogs like to live outside with the other frogs." I explained.
"Then we can bring all the frogs inside."
"Arthur, we aren't keeping a frog – or multiple frogs – in the house. They don't want to be inside. If you want to see frogs you have to let them stay outside." Ian said.
Arthur knew he was defeated. "Then can I go outside?" I nodded.
"Another little girl." he mused, climbing into bed beside me later that night "I take it you have names in mind?"
"I was thinking Grace or Hope." I said.
"I thought so." he said.
"What does that mean?"
"That I know you."
"Well I would surely hope so. It's only been… what? Ten years? You should know everything about me." I said.
"Well everything you want me to know that is."
"Are you saying I keep secrets?"
"Well you don't tell me about the Madrigals." he pointed out.
"We're rival branch leaders. You know I can't tell you that stuff."
"I know, love." he told me, smiling.
"I feel bad that one day we'll have to tell the kids about the whole clue hunt thing one day. I wish they didn't have to be part of it." I told him.
"I do too but we're both branch leaders. They're the heirs, they'll have to know." Ian said.
"What will they do about that? How will they figure out who ends up leading which branch?" I asked "We have a son-"
"Who isn't evil." Ian pointed out, smirking. He would never let that go. I just ignored him.
"-and one – almost two – daughters, would one of the girls take Madrigals maybe?"
"No idea. I never thought about it."
"Well I don't want to think about it now. It's so far in the future. For all we know the world could end by then." I said "And I'm tired."
Ian smiled. "Goodnight, my love."
"Goodnight, my love." Three more.
OMN sorry times a trillion for the wait! I would like to blame my brother who bugged me while I was working, my friend Adriana and her sisters Daniellea and Farah who distracted me with their endless teasing about something I told them years ago, my book, Betrayed, that was sitting beside me the whole time screaming "READ ME" and Cookies_Revenge on Twitter who helped Betrayed in trying to get me to read it by tempting me with "Did you hear what happens to Heath?" and "The names of the people who die are on the tip of my tongue!" So thanks for worrying me! And lastly, I would like to blame my mother who was always there for me to threaten to take my computer away if I didn't read.
And then I'm just horrible with weddings so it's also my fault.
You know, I read something once that said "Love is when you wake up and he's there smiling at you." But I feel it applies for falling asleep too. That's where that last thing came from.
*I know nothing about wedding vows. I've never been to one. Well once when I was really little but I didn't even know the people (like my dad's friend I think) so it's not like I'll remember it. I only know the really basic stuff and even that I think I may have screwed up.
Interview!
Me: I'm predicting that we have a ninty-nine percent chance of Amy saying she hates this chapter even though we all know she secretly dreams of a life like that someday ;)
Amy: You're right.
Me: That you dream of a life with Ian?
Amy: No. I hate the chapter. But I do dream of a life like that one day. Just not with Ian.
Ian: I found it cliché and mushy.
Me: I never thought I'd hear Ian Kabra say "Mushy"
Ian: Just did.
Me: Say it again.
Ian: Why should I?
Amy: It is weird. That is yet another word I would never hear you say.
Ian: You have a lot of words you don't think I say, love.
Me: She's going to tell you not to call her that.
Amy: Don't call me that!
Me: Called it!
Director dude: CUT!
