Read at you own peril. This is my vision for their future. The beauty of how it ends is that you can completely imagine your own future for them. Yours might be different, so don't read unless you want to know.

As you can imagine, Edward produces the most fabulous diaper bag with an embroidered bee buzzing around on buttery black leather and lined inside with yellow silk. And Bella, realizing she belongs in a totally different world now, does choose to give it to Bee.

They marry a few months later in a simple justice of the peace ceremony in Chicago, and then they all converge on a private island off the coast of South America to have a lavish ceremony where Special Agent Swan is free to walk his daughter down the aisle and mingle with the Outfit.

Back in the real world, Charlie and Bella pretend to have a strained relationship for the world until he retires, but they also have many happy moments beyond the view of prying eyes. The Cullen/Swan professional bond remains and Charlie and Edward work surprisingly well together, which can mostly be attributed to how much Edward loves Charlie's daughter.

Edward and Bella have 2 children starting about 5 years down the road, both boys, who will follow in their father's footsteps, but I also imagine they take dance with their mom as kids. Bella spends her life as much removed from Mob activity as possible, while also staying tight with the Cullen family and some Outfit members. She teaches dance and enjoys her husband when he's not off whacking people.

I had actually seen the epi starting right after their sons' swearing in ceremony. Oldest (probably Masen) becomes Boss and second (possibly Anthony) Underboss. By this point, Demetri is dead (old age), and I see Emmett (And Rosalie, unofficially) shifting to the role of Consigliere for the nephews.

Aro is dead from some ridiculous stunt that didn't quite go his way, but the other two are alive and well, and Caius is still higher up in the pecking order, helping Emmett and Rosalie advise the new generation.

I know you guys wish for better for Rosalie and Emmett, but let me explain that. When we started this fic, Emmett had a toe in the mob world. As it progressed and the Miami situation pushed closer, he'd stuck his whole foot in. But part in and part out isn't good enough, so we needed that catalyst to put him completely in. At first, it was meant to be Rose's death, but I decided to keep her and take something else. It's perfectly cannon, and this is a mob fic. We're lucky so many we like are still alive at all.

So the Emmett you read in that "after" chapter is just a taste of the new Emmett. The construction thing was my example of how radically changed he is (Edward has always been that cold). He, with Rosalie by his side, is ALL in, completely dedicated to making sure his family never has to deal with something so troubling again by personally using his talents to stay on top of everything within his reach—and as we know, it's formidable. He's formidable. Over the years there were times Emmett was more Boss than Edward, but that was okay, Edward had a family he had to look after, and these brothers are close. Always have been.

Rosalie never had an official position, and she and Emmett never married, but she is family, both to the Cullens and to the Outfit. She and Emmett thrive in their newfound mission as the first line of protection. They also thrive in their position as Aunt and Uncle. They were never jealous of ExB's ability to have children, and why would they be? They were able to love and care for these kids as their own.

So now, 30 years later, Edward is ready to pass the torch to his more than capable sons and travel the world (not officially out, you never are) with his Bella, while Emmett and Rosalie stay behind and continue to share their wealth of knowledge with the new generation.

P.S. Garrett slowly worked his way under E's skin as his personal security and they've become great friends. He married Tanya about fifteen years ago, Bella's friend from before, but was never officially inducted into the Outfit. He's free to live his life as he chooses.

Riley is still with the Outfit and, so far, hasn't moved on from his love for Demetri. He was by his side as he passed.

Elizabeth Cullen only just passed recently. She maintained her distaste for the Cullen family business, and because of it, she missed out on sharing in the life of her beautiful grandsons. Though their relationship was strained, the Cullen brothers put on just the type of show that Elizabeth would've been proud of for her funeral.

****Maybe one day I'll write some of this or maybe a new charity will come along and I'll donate an outtake or maybe I'll miss these guys and just want to spell stuff out for myself. If I ever do write this ^^^ chapter, I'll replace this with that chapter. Other things, different outtakes, will post after this. And if I never post anything else, I still feel good with what I gave you :)

I will get TSB finished, probably 4-5 chapters left, but after that, IDK. I need a break from FF. I've been writing and posting steadily for 4 years straight, sometimes 2 stories at a time, and I feel stressed. I'm sure I'll write something else, but I'm not sure when or what.

I hope some of you enjoy my writing enough to take a look at RUSH when it comes out later this year or early next. It will be my first completely original fiction, and he's a man who could've never been a successful Edward. I like a bad boy, and RUSH is really bad.

Lots of love,

Fyre