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Epilogue
All he knew for certain, was that it had involved a beach.
It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining in the evening sky. Small drifting clouds added to the backdrop of the blue orange tinted sky up above. A fresh ocean breeze blew across the red hot, yet cooling sand. Preparing it for the cold night that was ahead.
It was a beach. A long, gorgeous, and untouched beach. Littered with all manner of sea shells,, and crabs of all sizes, and rocks sanded down with the passage of time.
Somehow this fantastic beach laid untouched by man to this day. Not even littered with the garbage of tourists, or of the litter dumped in the oceans.
It was a beautiful beach, with a beautiful sun, on a beautiful day.
Yet to the green man, sitting cross legged on a picnic blanket, it wasn't as beautiful as the pale face resting peacefully in his lap. Staring up at him with small, yet soft warm smile on her face.
"Tell me again how you found this place Gar?" She asked him quietly.
He smiled a little more at her voice. Gravelly, yet soothing, just like the beach around them. "I talked to the crabs on our beach, and asked them if they knew a place that was like their paradise." Beast Boy again answered for her.
Raven let out a soft sigh of delight, as she let her senses reach out far and wide around her. Truly letting herself go in the isolation that the island provided. She felt like she could extend all the way to the ends of the world, yet still be surrounded in the loving emotions above her.
"Those crabs must have had good taste." She said softly, as if in a dream.
"Yeah, but they cussed a little too much for my taste." Beast Boy said a little distastefully.
Raven let out a small laugh, and raised her head off his lap. Her violet blue tinted hair falling down around her face in a true expression of freedom. Beast Boy could only smile at her, as he raised a hand up to move her hair out of her face. Gently, like a mother cat would in licking her kittens.
"Have I told you how much I love it when you laugh?" He asked her.
"I think you might have mentioned it once or twice before." Raven said back to him softly, while moving his long gruffly bangs up from his forehead with one of her hands.
The two locked eyes in that moment, and slowly started to lean in. The moment seemed so perfect to them…
"Mommy! Daddy! Look what I found!"
Then it was ruined by a slap from reality.
A small pale green skinned, three year old girl, dressed in a small black dress suddenly jumped between them. Holding a very large, tan colored seashell in her small hands.
She had bright purple eyes, shining with the light of so many emotions. Her shoulder length, light violet, blue tinted hair shone brightly in the dying rays of the sun. Along with the small white protruding fang on the left corner of her mouth. She looked up eagerly at her parents, wanting them to inspect her latest find.
Beast Boy let out a sigh. "Victoria, I thought I told you to give me and mommy a few minutes alone." He said to his daughter sadly.
Victoria's bottom lip quivered then, and she looked sadly up at them. "Did I do somethwing bad again?" She asked sadly.
Beast Boy had a look of bewilderment on his face at that. His daughter sniffed, and he felt his heart break inside. '****! ****! ****! ****! I don't want to make my daughter cry! Dude, what do I do?!' Beast Boy thought frantically to himself.
Luckily, Raven came to his rescue. "No honey, you didn't do anything wrong this time… how about you show us what you found there." She suggested softly to her daughter.
Victoria smiled a toothy grin, similar to that of her father. "Okay mommy." She said before sitting down between them. She lifted up the large oddly shaped seashell to her mother, and they both started to examine it curiously.
Beast Boy calmed down from his inner panic, and let out a sigh as he leaned back. 'Okay, disaster averted.'
He watched the sight in front of him with warm eyes, as the two 'children' in front of him examined the seashell with childlike wonder.
He couldn't believe it had already been almost four years since the day Raven had first told him she was pregnant. She had been so afraid then, yet so much had happened in those four long years. From their growing closer through her pregnancy, to the Joker attacking, to Victoria being born, and everything that had came after that in the following years.
There was so much, that there could have been a whole book written about it.
Victoria raised the seashell to her ear. "Mommy, I can hear the ocean." She said excitedly, before she raised it up to Raven. She put it to her own ear, and her eyes widened in wonder.
"I think you're right." Raven said excitedly back down to her daughter. Who giggled in response.
Beast Boy let out another happy sigh. 'To think, we were both teens when this all started… we had to work so hard for our happiness… and damn, was it all worth it. Even if Victoria keeps on interrupting our moments.' Beast Boy thought to himself, as he watched mother and daughter interact.
Raven raised the shell again, looking into it to see if anything was hidden inside for her daughter. As she did so, the gold ring resting on her finger glinted in the light of the sun. Beast Boy smiled at the sight, and he stared down at the similar gold band on his left hand.
Though they had been married in demon and beast terms for years, the two had decided to also get married in legal terms. So as not to cause confusion when they went out in public with their daughter. He smiled even brighter at the memory of it happening just three days ago.
"Do ya see anywthing momma?" Little Victoria asked.
Raven had a look cross her face, then she somehow managed to magically reach into it all the way up to her shoulder. "Why, I think there is a…" She paused and then pulled out a… "... a silver blue glowing teddy bear!" Raven said excitedly.
Victoria let out a squeal of joy, and gripped onto her new cute little teddy bear. "I wuv it! I wuv it! I wuv it! I'll name him Victor!" She yelled excitedly, her attention now on the bear.
Raven looked up at Beast Boy after Victoria was focused on her new friend, and he was smirking at her. "I wondered why we had that teddy bear hidden in our suitcase." He whispered to her.
Raven smiled lightly at him, and leaned in close again. "Well her proud godfather didn't want her to forget about him. So he hid that present for her." She whispered back.
He smiled a little bigger, and seeing his daughter so thoroughly distracted, he quickly leaned in and kissed his wife. She also kissed him back, loving every moment of it.
"Ewwww! That's just nasty!" Victoria said in a similar tone of a certain half metal godfather beneath them.
Beast Boy separated from his wife, a twinkle in his eyes. "Oh, so that's what you're going to say when mommy and daddy show each other love! Eh!" He said down to her.
Before Victoria could move, Beast Boy suddenly had her in a bear hug, kissing the top of her head over and over again. Victoria let out a shriek of delight. "Daddy! Stop! Boys kisses have cooties!" She yelled at him.
Beast Boy laughed some more. "Then ya better hope I'm not contagious! Cuz here's some more!" He yelled happily as he kissed his daughter's hair over and over again. Victoria continued to shriek in delight. Raven was the one to lean back this time, a smile on her lips, and an eyeroll directed at the two.
"Be careful daddy, you don't want to gross her out too much now." Raven said sarcastically to him.
Beast Boy smirked, then he turned into a cute little green puppy. Victoria squealed in delight before she hugged her father close.
"Puppy!"
Beast Boy took the opportunity to lick his daughter's face over and over again. Making her squeal even more. Raven let out a content sigh at the sight.
'Sigh… they can sure be a handful, but they're an adorable little handful together.' Raven thought to herself.
The puppy suddenly jumped from Victoria's lap, and morphed back into her father. "I don't think you minded my cooties then, did ya?" He said teasingly down to her.
Victoria was confused for a moment, then she squealed in fright as she started to wipe off her face. "Gross! Now I got boy and dog cooties all ova me!" She said despairingly.
Beast Boy let out another deep laugh, and then he held his daughter close. "One of these days, I'm going to override what Vic has taught you." He said jokingly.
Victoria squirmed a bit in the hold, then surrendered to her father's hug with a giggle. Beast Boy continued to smile as he held her. He then looked up to Raven again, and smiled his sweet genuine smile.
Raven smiled softly back. 'Yep, he is definitely adorable.' She thought to herself.
Beast Boy then looked down at his daughter again, just in time to see her yawn. "Oh no, is someone a little tired out from their day?" He asked her playfully.
"I'm not sweepy-" Victoria was saying, when she yawned again.
Beast Boy got up from off the ground, his daughter hanging from his arms. "C'mon princess, the sun's setting soon, and we don't want to miss the view if you're asleep." He said to her, before looking to Raven.
Raven got up and folded the blanket with her powers, before putting it in the basket that had been beside them. The basket was then enveloped in her powers, and sent back to where they were staying.
"Do you want me to teleport us there Gar?" She asked.
Beast Boy looked down to his daughter, then at the beach. Something old seemed to click in his mind at the sight.
"Actually, I think I have a better idea."
He had had one hand holding onto Raven's pale right hand. While the other had been holding onto that of a blurry little girl. He didn't recognize her, but he knew he had loved her all the same.
Beast Boy and Raven were running down the beach, swinging their little girl between them with their hands. "Wheeeee!" Beast Boy shouted gleefully.
"Eeeeeeeee!" Victoria shouted out gleefully, the fun activity helping to keep her awake.
Raven and Beast Boy laughed, while their little girl let out cries of delight at her parent's joy. She loved seeing them when they were happy. It made her feel happy.
"Where did you get an idea like this?! The place we're staying at has to be four miles away!" Raven shouted to Beast Boy.
"Don't ask me about the craziness Rae! Just go along with the ride!" Beast Boy yelled happily back to her.
They ran across along that long sandy beach for some time, their bodies never seeming to tire. Their eyes set on the sunset in the distance. While the cooling ocean waves lapped at their feet.
Despite Raven's initial complaints, they had all been so happy, it was almost like nothing could make it better.
"More! Higher! Higher!" Victoria shouted to her parents.
"As the princess demands!" Beast Boy shouted with glee to her.
Raven rolled her eyes, but was smiling nonetheless.
With giant heave, after giant heave, Beast Boy helped to send his daughter up higher and higher between him and Raven. And with one particular big heave, his head looked up to Victoria, and then up at the sky.
It was almost like a dream, or a long moment suspended in time. When Beast Boy's eyes saw the two angels that accompanied them up above.
One was a blonde haired man, while the other was a brown haired woman. Both of whom were dressed in white robes, with the white wings, the glowing halos, and the loveliest of smiles on their faces.
'Mom… dad…' Beast Boy thought in wonder.
Outside his mind, Beast Boy felt his arm continue to swing a giggling Victoria, and a happy Raven continued to help with him. Yet in that moment, Garfield Logan had tears running down his face as he saw his parents for the first time in years.
'Mom, dad, I don't know if you two are really there, or if it's just my mind seeing things. But either way, I know you two will hear this, since you told me before you'd watch me for the rest of my life. Even when death would take you away.'
Beast Boy looked to the side, at his happy mate and cub. 'Mom, dad, I want you to know that I'm finally happy with my life. I'm happy with Rae, despite all our differences. I'm happy with our daughter, even though she tests me every day like I did with you two… heh, I guess that children really are a grandparents best revenge.'
Beast Boy looked back up again. 'I know that once before, I thought if I could turn back time, I'd save you both from the waterfall… but now, I think I can finally live with what happened. I may have lost you two, but I've found my family again. I really do love them, I love them so much... I only hope you love them as much as much as I do...'
During that whole time, he had gotten nothing but silence up above. And for a moment more, silence was all he got…
Then a voice, distinctly like his mother's, started to hum a melody into his mind.
It was a melody that spoke of peace, of comfort, of love and joy, and so many other things that couldn't be described.
It was a melody of life.
It was then, as his mother hummed it, that a memory surfaced in his mind. Of a three year old sleepy version of him, being rocked by his mom in a chair. She was humming down at him, and his father was behind her, humming along with her.
Beast Boy realized it. The song was not a song of words. It was simply a tune. A melody that captured the essence of nature and harmony.
It was a melody he had known all his life.
'Thanks… mom… dad…' Beast Boy thought in a choked up, yet happy moment.
Beast Boy smiled, and in the real world, he started to hum the song out loud. Though caught off guard at first by the melody, Raven soon joined in with it. Their running along the sand, and the swinging of their daughter, never ceasing. Yet for the small length of that peaceful song, that gorgeous melody of life, the family down below felt at peace.
The two angels turned to each other, and smiled. The true tune of life carried on down below them, just as they had wanted. The mother looked down at her son, love in her eyes.
"Nakupenda, my sweet grown Garfield." She whispered into the wind.
Then a cloud came in front of the two angels, and when it moved away, the angels had disappeared. Never to be seen again until that great day.
The two continued to run, while singing their tune. The beach laid before them, an untouched path towards their future.
The waves continued to lap at their feet. While the sun came ever closer to touching the horizon in the distance.
Though two didn't care now if they missed it.
For never before, and never again, would all three of them ever feel so close as a family. A family that had come together, despite what evil had tried to do. A family that went through thick and thin, yet came out smiling.
A family made possible, because of the action of one white stick.
Beast Boy took one look at his family, his happy, weird, yet loving family. And smiled as their beach home appeared in the distance.
"Nakupenda, my family."
For family, he loved most of all.
And for once
Despite all the odds.
Despite whatever came their way.
Their family would always stick together.
And end their story the best way a family ever could.
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Happily
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Ever
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After.
The End
Author's Notes:
I have nothing to say, except thanks to all those who read this. I know it's long, and a pain in the butt to understand at times. But I hope you all liked it all the same. I love you guys. And I'm really going to miss you all.
I only have one request for you all. Don't forget what matters most in our lives. You all may seem alone, but with family, you are never alone. These two have found their family.
What about you?
Till Next Time
Allen