Well.

It's been a while, hasn't it? I feel kinda bad for making you all wait so long, but there was really nothing I could do about it. I had written this chapter, along with two others for my other stories, but my computer went haywire. I lost all the chapters and my backups. Then I went fishing for a month, and couldn't write. Now I'm back, but the fall rush has hit me. I'm prepping for my college courses, XC running season has started, and time is not something I have much of right now.

However. I am in the process of re-writing the lost chapters from my other two stories, Captain Hiccup and Running with Fate, and am hoping to post them soon. I'm doing my best. Thanks so much for your patience.

Guest reviewers… although by now you've probably forgotten what you reviewed about… :(

Guest1: So glad you like the story, and while this epilogue took forever for me to actually post, I hope you enjoy it. Thanks so much.

Guest2: Yes, I know… this epilogue was a long time in coming. Sorry, but here it is. Hope you like it.

jade: Aw, thanks so much, jade. Honestly, this story is not something I put much effort into… it was just an old story idea that I turned into a HTTYD AU. But I do love this story, and I'm so glad you do too. Thank you!

NatB.

Time: 2000 hours
Location: Roanwood, Montana
Coordinates: (46.8797 110.3626)
Date: May 30, 2017

The birds were singing in the trees, and running water combined with a soft, glowing sunset perfected the scenery for two people, moving slowly along a wooden bridge. It was deep in the forests of Montana, tucked away miles from any large city. It was a private estate that was far from lacking in rich luxury. The only problem was, the two people were not allowed to leave.

Henry and Astrid slowly moved across the bridge to the center, and there Henry paused to catch his breath, leaning on his crutches.

"It's been almost a full month, Astrid," he sighed, staring down at the stump of his leg, which would never grow back again. "And I still haven't fully grasped it, that I'm crippled for life."

Astrid wrapped her arms around Henry's back and kissed him on the cheek from behind.

"Well, Mr. Crippled for Life, you're still as hot as ever. I don't care about your leg - in fact, it makes you really look like a veteran."

Henry smiled, leaning his crutches on the railing of the bridge and turning to face Astrid.

"You're the greatest, you know that, Blondie?"

Astrid smiled. "You tell me that every other day."

"Well I'm telling you again." Henry cupped her face in his palms and kissed her deeply. "There. Was that a better way of saying it?"

Astrid smiled. "Much better."

"I love you, Astrid."

"I love you, too."

As the pair looked dreamily at each other, suddenly a jeep drove up on the road next to the bridge. Henry and Astrid spared a look at it, but had seen it many times before. It was the military people coming to bring them something.

"What do they want now?" Henry muttered, and he and Astrid watched as a man took a medium sized cardboard box from the jeep, got out of the vehicle, and walked up to Henry and Astrid. He showed them a military ID and said in an official tone,

"I was told to deliver this to you two personally. Orders." He handed the package to Astrid, stepped back, and saluted.

Henry saluted back, and the soldier turned and left, getting in the jeep and leaving just as abruptly as he had arrived.

Henry sighed happily, and placed his elbows on the edge of the bridge, staring into the flowing stream below. "Well, would you look at that," he laughed. "Military delivery service at its best. I never thought being alone for so long could be so fun."

Astrid laughed. "Well, this may not be so fun." She opened the box and pulled out a packet, filled with papers. "This is a note from high up. We have to decide what materials we want to requisition from the Colonel. It's nice when everything you want is brought right to your door, but we'll have to actually sit down and figure out what we need." Astrid giggled. "I wonder what the Colonel will say when he sees our request for new springs in the mattress."

Henry laughed. "If he complains he can go to hell. He stuck us out here in the middle of nowhere! He must know our only real amusement is in the bedroom."

"And on the couch," Astrid chuckled. "And on the counter. And in the bathtub – oh. This is interesting."

Astrid pulled out a packet from the box, and opened the envelope attached to it.

"What is it, Blondie?" Henry asked, bending down to look.

Astrid was reading.

"Oh well, get this, Henry. This note says that apparently the tourists are all coming up in this area soon, and we may be seen. Our dear Colonel Jorgenson sent us a present again. Check it out."

Astrid handed an opened folder from the box to Henry.

"Oh dear," Henry laughed, and pulled out the same things he had pulled out of a similar folder a month earlier. "Not again."

It was a marriage license and wedding rings.

"Funny, they're different," Henry commented. "They changed them up after they took the last pair from us."

"Uh-huh," Astrid told Henry. "And now we're getting remarried. Well, come on, Haddock, time to propose for the second time. Gimme my ring."

"I don't think so," Henry grinned. Then, abruptly, he raised his arm and sent the wedding rings flying over the edge of the bridge, into the running water below. The flashed in the sunset for a second before vanishing in the water forever.

"Hey, are you crazy!?" Astrid leapt to the edge of the rail and stared at where the rings had vanished. "What was that for, you -?"

"The Colonel has no business doing my job for me," Henry smiled, and pulled a case of his own from his pocket. With a wince of pain, he dropped to one knee and opened the case, revealing a ring of his own, which was even more beautiful than the one he had flung away.

Astrid gasped, covering her mouth with her hands.

"Astrid Hofferson," Henry said with a grin, "Will you REALLY marry me?"

"Oh my God." Astrid began to laugh and cry at the same time. "Did you just... oh my God...

"Yes."

All right, epilogue over, and now Twin Bullets has come to a close. My first completed FanFic, a milestone for me. Thank you to all of you who read and reviewed… you guys inspire me and you were the best, especially to thearizona for constantly telling me what's right and wrong about my military stuff. Also big kudos to my pal Foster117, Midnight510, tjjenkins, SharKohen, crazy Aussie friend TidePoolAngel, jlrdsr, demonic dragon balde, LunnaValley23, and my man Agent Khizar for staying with this story from the very beginning. Love you all, you're the best. :)

Over and OUT.

NatB.