Author's Final Note: Thank you so much everyone who has been reading this, from those of you who were here in the beginning, those who joined along the way, and even those of you reading it for the first time, long after this has been posted. There are so many things I want to say to everyone, but I won't take up space with this note. This has been an incredible journey and I'm sorry to see it end. Maybe we'll see each other again in the future if I decide to write another AVP fic. This has been my most successful fanfiction, but I think I'm done with AVP for a while.

Warning: Cannot say. Spoilers.

Disclaimer: We all wish right?

Haven: Epilogue

It had been quiet some time, but Lex couldn't still remember the horrors of that day when they returned from the hunt to find the ship infested with Kainde Amedha. It haunted the survivors, brave as they were, no one truly left the battlefield unscathed. Crusade's murder had upset the balance of order among the clan. Javelin was too badly injured in the battle to help Wrath lead the confused warriors, he was almost to badly injured to live. Once they had gotten the news out to the rest of the clan what had happened, word was sent to the Hish, Javelin and Xeira were sent to them.

And now Javelin was calling to see his 'granddaughter'.

Lex proudly presented the young pup. She was a few months old, had a human face, but was already growing small teeth. Her skin was dark, like Lex's, mostly smooth, but in places she had rougher, scale-like skin, mostly at the sides of her face, around her eyes, her shoulders and knees. She had small tubes of hair that would grow like her father's and while they were closed right now, she had Scar's muddy golden eyes.

"She is beautiful." Javelin trilled. Behind him, other members of the Hish looked on curiously at the Ooman warrior and her child.

Lex held her daughter closer to her again, Scar wrapped an arm over her shoulder. "How's Xeira?" Lex asked, though her eyes were on her daughter.

"Stubborn as ever. She still will not allow the other Hish near her." Jaevlin trilled as the Hish behind him shifted uncomforatbly. He was still too young to be part of their ranks officially, but his relationship with Xeira had earned him their respect, and some envy because none of them could get close to her at all. "And the ship? How have things adjusted."

"Well, Wrath's less stressed now that Tracks and Gash have been appointed as elders." Lex said.

"He still thinks they're complete idiots, but he's getting used to them." Scar continued.

"He misses you, and Crusade of course, but he's adjusting..."

"I will have to have you send him in once we finish." Javelin mused. "So how about the clan? How has the rest of it been doing since..." He trailed off.

"Tool took it really hard that Dart became a Bad Blood, he really admired him you know, he hasn't been the same, but Strike's been able to comfort him. Thug too, but he wasn't as strong as Tool. Ha. Imagine that." In her arms, Lex's daughter made a gurgling noise and small eyes fluttered open, and she began to softly cry. Lex rocked her gently to calm the pup. "Thug wasn't as strong as Tool. Who would have thought? Thug killed himself recently..."

"The rest of the clan is doing as best as can be expected." Scar generalized, "Those who were there that day have been recovering, the ship's repairs were completed. Straggler Facehuggers have all been captured and exterminated. Things are slowing going back to...normal." He hesitated to call this normal. Nothing would ever be normal. "Young warriors are being summoned to the ship to begin training for the Kainde Amhedha Chiva. Gluh'ave will be joining them."

Lex's head jerked up slightly, "Glaive? Your little brother?" She hadn't seen the young Yautja in so long. Was it really time for him to start training? How long had she been with the tribe if cute little Glaive was now ready to become a hunter?

Scar nodded, "Training begins at a young age to ensure that warriors are ready when they take the trial."

"Oh, well it will be nice to see him again." She lifted her daughter to face level and looked into her soft golden eyes. "And you would just love to meet uncle Glaive, now wouldn't you?"

The pup made a giggling sound, almost like an agreement.

"And speaking of the little one, I don't believe you ever told me her name.." Javelin reminded them, "Tell me, what did you pick?"

Lex glanced at Scar, then to their pup with a smile. "Haa'vin" Scare answered.

"Her name is Haven." Lex replied at the same time.

Haven yawned, Lex should set her down for a nap soon. Not that Haven wasn't taking a nap right there in her arms anyway, but Lex needed to put her down, she had to do a few things later.

"Haa'vin." Javelin repeated, "Beautiful name."

Lex smiled, picking a name had been hard, she and Scar had disagreed so often that it seemed impossible to come up with something, and in fact the little girl had gone almost a week without a name before Lex had awoken from a nap with a name ringing in her head. Haven.

She explained it to Scar. Haven: A place of safety or sanctuary; shelter. That's what their pup was. After all the pain, the suffering, the confusion they'd felt sense that day when Crusade was murdered, the clan was crippled and so much was lost, their pup was a symbol that life went on. She was their hope, their happiness: their Haven.

Javelin trilled. "Well I suppose you'd better get Wrath in here, looks like you three need some time together. I need to talk to him anyway."

"Don't wait too long to call again." Lex said. They said their good-byes, and were shooed out by Wrath soon enough and were on their way back to their own private rooms.

Lex laid Haven down and tickled her tummy to get a soft mewl of delight from the pup. Scar wrapped an arm around her waist, his mandibles brushed the back of her neck like a kiss. She turned around and hugged him tight. Scar was leaving on a hunt soon, adding to the collection of trophies they had. She wanted to go with him, but she had to stay to take care of Haven.

"I'll miss you..." She whispered.

"I will miss you too." Scar replied and reached behind her to tickle Haven much as Lex had a moment ago. "And little Haa'vin of course."

Haven sneezed and sobbed. Lex turned around and tended to her daughter while Scar shifted through his things, selecting weapons for his hunt.

There was another reason Lex wanted the name Haven for her daughter. It seemed a lifetime ago that she had entered the pyramid on Earth. Back then, she had never thought that she would have left earth behind to join a race of Alien hunters, she never thought she would feel safe among them. She never thought she would find a haven after that.

Lex wondered briefly what ever had happened to Sebastian, and how he was today, if he wondered what happened to her? She thought about the Ooman warrior Fisher, if he had ever found his own haven among the clan.

Haven opened her eyes and gurgled. Lex amiled and bent down to kiss her daughter's forehead and hummed an old song to calm her. Haven had a weak heart, but the medicine of the Yautja made it possible that when she was ready, Haven too could take the Kainde Amedha Chiva if she chose, but that was a long way away.

As Scar came up behind her and joined them, Lex could only imagine the adventures they would have in the meantime...

Fin