Silent Night

By: Crazy-cherry

HI!!!!

You don't know the happiness I feel at this very moment when I say this is the LAST CHAPTER!!! (Jumping around my room.) Hahah!!! And I told my self I couldn't do it, boy did I show my self! (Wait… ooohh… heheh.) Oh yeah and a movie that I highly recomened you see is, The Phantom of the Opera, it is such a beautiful movie or good which ever you want to call it, but SEE IT its really good!!!

Well now I hope you like this chapter sorry though if its not as long as you'd like it to be, but I have a feeling you'll want to know the ending fast… well then lets get on with some reading…

Chapter 9: Ever After?

Syaoran helped his son get into the bath and scrubbed off all the ashes that had been sticking to his skin. Grading the soap he got from Tomoyo when she got back from the store he lathered a wash cloth and began to finish cleaning his son.

Looking at his son smiling at him he wondered what he had seen, and if he had spoken to his mother before she died. Trying to hide his tears for later, he dried his son's hair and wrapped him up in the towel and picked him up.

Xiao Ling looked at his father, wishing he would come back, he wished his father would dip him when he picked him up like he did before what had happened that now seemed like a bad dream and tomorrow his mother would walk into the kitchen during breakfast like she did when ever she got home late from a business trip.

"When's mommy coming home?" Looking to his father for answers,

"She's…" sighing he looked down at him and shook his head hoping he would understand, "not coming back." Chocking on his word he hugged his son closer to him not ready to separate from him for fear he'd loss him again.

Lying his head down on his fathers shoulder he began to fall asleep in hopes that tomorrow she would walk through the kitchen door.

Putting Xiao Ling down on the couch and placing a blanket over him he kissed his forehead then turned around.

"What do we do now?" Looking around he asked again only more desperate. "What do we do, I'm a wanted man in China for something I didn't do, my son will grow up without his mother and more than likely me, in jail for breaking out and then running from them for what almost a month and a half!" This time he looked at Eirol, but he said nothing and just kept his head down to ashamed to say anything.

"Be patient, everything will be okay." Tomoyo smiled at them trying not to cry. "I hope." She whispered to herself as she looked out the window he eyes looking over the overgrown backyard, the tree was still there, but needed a trimming itself, the flowers were still blooming and everywhere, she smiled when she noticed that the flowers that hadn't died were the ones Sakura and she had planted back when they were in grade school lilies and lavenders, her mothers roses were still going as well. A tear fell to the couch and then another, lifting her hand to her cheeks she felt the streams falling from her eyes; closing her eyes she tried to gain control of herself and when she felt she had gain enough back she opened them and continued to stare out the widow.

Closing her eyes she soon fell asleep exhausted from the days activates and from cleaning a house that would be their home for the next few days.

"What do you think happened, what went wrong?" trying to find what he had missed,

"There's nothing we can do now, but just stay quiet for a while and let it all sink in." standing up from the couch he walked to the kitchen wishing for those mornings his son had talked about; she would walk in nothing, but smiles and tell both of them good morning, but that would never happen again.

-9 Days later-

Syaoran sat on the couch with Xiao Ling on his lap looking at some of the books he had picked out from the library his grandfather had in his basement.

"I don't know that words to big!" Xiao Lings words rang through out the house as his father tried to teach him how to read and to catch him up on his studies that he missed like reading and math. Smiling at his stubbornness he tried again to show him how to sound out.

-Tomoyo-

Tomoyo sat a small café wondering what was taking so long they should have called her in for her debriefing already, and then after that she could just move back to her small apartment and forget about everything.

Sakura wasn't supposed to die she was supposed to meet her out side the factory with Xiao Ling, she was supposed to live. Sighing she put her hand through her hair wanting to kill Yoko and Xin if they hadn't ran then she could have been with Sakura when she went to find Xiao Ling. Shacking her head she slowly got up from her seat and walked out wishing she had the power to turn back time.

Walking past the park she saw the person she was waiting for waving at her with a smile on their face, Tomoyo grinned and went over.

-Eirol-

Eirol sat down at the kitchen table listening to Syaoran and Xiao Ling in the living room argue over a word Xiao Ling didn't know how to read. Standing up he decided to split the two of them up before they hurt each other.

"Ay, Xiao Ling why don't you go and play out front, but leave the porch screen open please." Walking over to them he took the book away from Syaoran and shook his head to stop.

"Yea! Bye daddy." Sliding off his father's lap he ran to the sliding doors and then out them leaving them open.

"You need to give the poor kid a brake its been what, three hours since you started to read that book and I think Xiao Ling read at least three out of five of the words he read right."

"It was four words out of Five." Grumbled out of Syaoran as he looked to the front of the room were Tomoyo had just walked in with someone, and Eirol shacking his head at Syaoran.

"Hello." said the man standing next to Tomoyo as she shoved him onto the couch and then went to the kitchen for tea.

"You are?" bit out Eirol as the man looked at him and smiled,

"Oh just a frined of Tomoyo's, and she did you no justice Eirol really you are very good looking and you don't have a boil on your noise." Smiling the man watched Eirol turn red from anger.

"Tomoyo, who is this person?" Eirol turned to the kitchen entrance waiting for her reply. "And why may I ask did he just compare me to a witch?" finally walking into the kitchen to make her answer him.

"Thought they could use some alone time, heh." The man laughed as Syaoran just looked at him like he was crazy. "Tough crowed" turning his head to the side and then to his watch like he was waiting for someone.

"Sorry it took longer than I thought I had to get someone to stop bugging me with stupid questions like, why I compared him to a witch, where'd he get that one?" looking at Syaoran for an answer all she got was a dull look from him. Sighing she knew that if Xiao Ling wasn't around then he just didn't care. Looking to the side quickly to hide her sorrow, she set down the tea and began to poor a cup for all of them.

"This is a colleague of mine um… his name is Sean he's the one that supplies me with my information on what's going on ,and also he supplies Sakura with hers and he's the one that gives us our assignments." Looking at her lap for a moment before looking up again, listening to Syaoran and Eirol's questions.

"What do you mean you and Sakura's assignments; was she working for you on one of your fashion shows and what dose this have to do with anything?" standing up Syaoran looked at her before sitting back down after looking at Eirol.

"We work together, along side each other she dose the computer nerd things while I go and do the acrobatics I guess you can say." Looking to the side for help from Sean only to find him nodding for her to go on, but before she could Eirol caught to her and trapped her.

"You, you're the one that screwed with my computer weren't you; you told Tomoyo to give me that bogus information about the factory weren't you?" smiling in triumph that he finally found out what had stopped him from finding Xiao Ling.

"I'm incredibly sorry, but you see we had received information that a woman not necessarily with the same looks, but a lot of the features matched up to what we placed out on the missing persons report we had filed for in Interpol to make sure that if she came up anywhere say an airport or in a morgue her finger prints would be under file and we'd be contacted directly through the computer before the person or persons questioning her identity would be and then be able to feed them the information needed as to not give to much away." Looking at the men she wondered if they understood what she was saying.

"So your Saying that all this time you've known where she's been and didn't tell me, and what the hell was going on at my house when they said they found her body?" trying to read the mans face for the answers, but received none.

"Well?" Tomoyo looked at him and decided to answer the question.

"The body was a fake it was planted by Hong Soy Jin as a decoy, to make sure that you would have less time to find her and your son, but in the end it wound up to where you both were looking for him. Soy Jin he, he did something to her to break her spirit and he did. Your son saw it and I watched it from a surveillance camera after the fact, I saw it when we found out which factory he was in." Tomoyo choked on her words as the tears came down remembering the video. Continuing she looked back at Syaoran only to find him with his head in his hands putting the pieces together of what had happened to her.

"Sakura was alive and searching for a little boy she believed was killed or still living somewhere, she believed that his father had killed him and his wife. You have to understand that she started to put the pieces together when she answered a phone call for the people she was staying with. The person on the phone was for an old man that resembled Soy Jin when some of our agents went out to photograph the place and to set up surveillance around the perimeter. We were able to find out information such as were the meeting was to be held and being Sakura she had tapped the phone with something she had made or possibly bought, but we have no knowledge of her ever leaving the area." Looking at the two men that were listening one with grief on his face as he stared at her and the other still with his head in his hands only know he was crying.

"You have to understand Sakura had no idea who she was we found her when the doctor she had been assigned to came back from a meeting with the one of the people she was staying with had acted oddly almost as if he never wanted her to remember. He reported it immediately to the authorities and when the information came back that she was a missing person that had been kidnapped a month ago he was contacted by us of course and we told him to offer her a hotel room and we'd set it up and make sure she was safe. Again being Sakura she turned it down and went back to the place. Though we thought it odd she would even after the Doctor had told she wasn't safe there…" Suddenly Syaoran stud up and looked at her with anger flashing in his eyes.

"You knew, you knew where she was and you didn't get her, you didn't get her away from that bastard that took her from me. You let her die… My Sakura… you let her die…" He slowly fell back down onto the couch and went right back to his same position only this time he was trying not to cry, trying not to let them see him holding in his agony, his pain. "No… No… Sakura…" Each word he spoke grew more and more faint tell finally he didn't say a thing and the only thing heard was Tomoyo's cries.

"I'll finish." Sean stud up and walked over to Tomoyo and handed her a handkerchief and whispered in her ear words of soothing in old English for only her to hear. (Not English as in hi how are you, but the language they speak in England. I honestly don't know if that's what they call it sorry.)

"The thing is we couldn't get to her without getting her hurt, if we had gone in and taken her from her bed your son would have been killed. Sakura had someone she contacted back at the agency that helped her gain information, but for the most part she pretty much was the hunter and gatherer her self. For some odd reason she remembered her sign in name and how to get into the mainframe and download information. Now it took us a while to figure out she was logged in because of the fire walls she placed up and she also placed herself up as a ghost so it basically hid her from us and being the computer generous she is well that wasn't too hard for her." Stopping when he noticed a flaw in his speech simply coughed and continued on.

"When we found out it was her on the other end we began a trace but again her fire walls blocked us from pinpointing her location, but we had found that she was in Japan somewhere on the coast line. Once that information was discovered our men went out searching for her. Back to where Tomoyo was, Sakura had answered a phone call for the man she was staying with, and when she heard factory in that conversation she started to place the pieces together. She had gathered information that confused her, she read the news paper clippings that said your were suspected to have killed your wife and that your son had gone missing at the came he was staying at, and that Syaoran had a soiled alibi for that day. She placed two in two and knew that he couldn't have killed his wife and in the same day taken his son out of camp." Stopping to let it all sink in for a moment before he let Tomoyo continue on about their last mission, and that's when Tomoyo stud up again some what composed.

"Once Sakura began to remember things our team met up with her and began plans for that night, I wasn't there she still didn't remember me so I wasn't allowed to go near her in fear that it might bring back more of her memories that night and make her incapable of working the mission." Stopping to place herself on the right track and not to get distracted by the images of her dear friend lying on the floor.

"Sakura was sent out on her own to try and find a way into the factory at the time she still didn't know much of who she was. We were counting on her getting caught, but once she set out over the perimeter she began to show signs of migraines on the computer read out of her vital signs. We didn't know what to think or why she seemed to have stopped on the thermal energy read outs we were getting from the satellite. We now know that she passed out from the migraines that ultimately were cased by the lack of some kind of pill which we believe was designed to help people that suffer from a type of brain damage which for Sakura had an effect on her memory she had received a blow to the head with blunt object so the medicine wasn't needed in her case but for some odd reason the doctor that saw her in the hospital felt she needed it, and now we can not locate this doctor anywhere. We believe that when Sakura passed out, she gained back some of her memory. Because of this, I believe Sakura panicked, and she has been in this kind of situation before, but with the added fact that she now knew it was her son she was supposed to save." Sighing she looked back out the window to the back yard.

She could see Xiao Ling running around in the now cut grass and flowers that looked as though someone had tried to trim them with no experience what so ever. Smiling when Xiao Ling waved at her and then kicked the ball he had out of sight from the window. Finally she began to finish what was part of her debriefing.

"When my team finally reached the area she was in, the bombs we planted had gone off, I ran passed her after Yoko and Xin." Upon hearing those names Eirol's head shot up and he began to speak, but was stopped by Tomoyo when she began again. "Sakura looked up so figured she was okay and I went on after Yoko and Xin both had run separate ways I reported it in and a man was on Xin I went after Yoko. When I caught up with her, she began to fight or attempted to fight me off however I managed to get her down and I hand cuffed her called in and reported that I had her and that she as subdued with about ten minutes worth of tranquilizer. I then left back to where Sakura was when I saw her, but she wasn't there I assumed she went to do what she needed but I was worried that maybe she was confused. Sakura may have been in situations like this before but nothing that her family was involved in and nothing that cased her this much physical and psychological as well which impaired her.

I found Sakura lying next to… lying next to a box. I checked for vitals but couldn't find any fast enough. I called in again and reported that she was down. Not dead, but down so that someone would come for her sooner rather than a maybe later. I continued on and found Xiao Ling with Soy Jin. Xiao Ling was backing up and when Soy Jin went to shoot him I fired first, at least three times. After that I picked up Xiao Ling and ran, I ran out of the building and I didn't stop at the meeting place I kept going until I reached the street I began to walk and that's where I bumped into Syaoran and Koryu, which is upstairs sleeping still, shouldn't someone wake him up?" Tomoyo looked around at the men sitting around her.

She smiled sadly at them and left to go wake Koryu up feeling horrible about what she had just told them.

"What I'd like to know is why Soy Jin targeted Sakura and our family back when her father was still alive?" looking at Sean for an answer he waited for the man,

"Sakura's father was trained in archeology or what in ancient relics as some say, he was placed on Soy Jin a man that owned plenty of stolen relics Fugitaka was one of the main men in our agency that knew what he was talking about when it came to history. He was placed on the assignment and then sent out. He was supposed to find the real for the fake relics and some how find out where he was getting them from. He became on of Soy Jin's most trusted men and was soon allowed into the back door trading which most know as the black market. Things went bad and before we had time to warn Kinomoto-san and his family they were already here, but he didn't die for nothing the information he got for us helped us to put Soy Jin away for a while, with that time we had gathered more information that's to Sakura, but not enough evidence that pointed back to him for the murders of at least thirty people and maybe more."

"Sakura's been in on this since her fathers death?" Holding in his anger he looked to the side so not to get up and hit the man.

"She's known about her fathers activities since she was a young girl in high school about ninth grad, since she found out she began to train herself heavily in math and electronics." After looking out side at the little boy that looked as though he was talking to someone was playing with his new ball.

"Is Xiao Ling going to have nightmares for the rest of his life about that place he was in."

"I don't think he will, I believe that he'll get better." Sean smiled at the man that was worried for his sons mental health.

"I think he blocked out what happened to Sakura, thank god." placing his head in his hands he sighed.

-Tomoyo-

Walking up the stairs she began to wonder when Xiao Ling got a ball because the ball he found the other day was flat and completely unusable. Shaking her head she walked down the hall to Sakura's brother's old room and knocked on the door before coming into the room. She found Koryu sitting on the bed looking down at the floor.

"She died like that, and Xiao Ling saw the whole thing, god that poor little boy and then to add to that Syaoran had to hear it." He looked at Tomoyo as she sat down next to him and smiled at him.

"You should have come into the living room instead of sitting on the stairs and listening."

"I … I couldn't see Syaoran hurting that much, I couldn't see any of you like that it's just to much. I'm sorry."

Nodding in understanding she left the room only to see Syaoran walk into Sakuras's old room, he looked at her and all he could do was look away with his head down like a defeated man.

"Xiao Ling is out side playing with the ball you gave him why don't you go out and play with him hmm." Her eyes widened when Syaoran looked at her and paled.

"I didn't get him a ball, Tomoyo what are you talking about, please tell me your joking?" His pale face searching and fear crossed is face as he began to run down the stairs.

"Maybe Eirol bought him one or Koryu." Puffed out Tomoyo as she ran down with him,

"No, I told them not to get him one yet I wanted him to earn it first." Rushing to the living room window he looked out it and saw his son kicking the ball. "Eirol please tell me you bought that ball for him." His eyes pleading with his friend to say yes.

Eirol stud up from the couch and looked up from the window and his face grew pale also, he shook his head, no. When Koryu showed up next to Syaoran he was asked the same question and his answer was the same as the rest of them.

Walking out into the back yard Syaoran looked at his son that was laughing as he kicked the ball back and fourth like he did back in China. Walking further out he searched the property with his eyes only; his son called out to him and he turned toward him Xiao Ling passed him the ball, once the ball reached him he picked it up.

"Daddy you're not supposed to pick up the ball in soccer member?" whined Xiao Ling as he dropped his hands down to his sides dramatically.

"Where'd you get this ball from?" straining his voice so not to sound mad or afraid,

"Um… I don't know…" both eyes of his darting from one corner of the house and then back to his father,

"Is there someone over there Xiao Ling?" Whispered Syaoran as he walked to his son fear being masked by his wanting to protect his only son and now his only happiness,

Walking to his son he pushed him behind him, by now Sean was smiling and the other three still looking through the glass looked petrified.

Syaoran began to turn in the direction that his son was looking, his mind felt like exploding as he turned. Once he finally saw who was sitting there smiling at him his heart began to race. He pushed Xiao Ling to go and pick up his ball. Once Xiao Ling began to walk to his ball the smile on his face dropped when he saw his father fall to his knees.

Tomoyo gasped as she saw Syaoran fall she attempted to run out there in fear that he was hurt, Sean stopped her by holding her arm and shaking his head. Eirol looked at her and then placed his arms around her to calm her down. What ever was going on Syaoran was supposed to do this alone, and he trusted Sean for some reason he doesn't know.

Syaoran looked forward and couldn't believe what he was seeing the person he saw, smiling at him that very person was gone never to come back, dead, just simply gone yet here; he was hallucinating about that person again. Falling to his knees he knew he couldn't be hallucinating when he saw the smile change on that happy face turn to worry.

Standing up slowly again, Syaoran walked forward and when he finally disappeared out of everyone's sight standing in front of the window all of them looked to little Xiao Ling that was now laughing at something, but when he saw their curious looks he just waved at them.

Syaoran put his hand on her face and felt the tears that came down from her eyes slide over his skin. "Never again, I swear never again." he shook his head as he said those words to her, pulling her to him.

Smelling her hair as he embraced her, he pulled away slightly to look her in the eyes only to find them shinning back at him. "I love you so much. God I love you so much. Please don't ever leave me, I don't know if I could survive with out you again."

Smiling, she placed her hands on his checks and brought his lips to hers for one sweet and tender kiss before slowly breaking away from him and smiling. "I promise never to leave you." She spoke softly.

Syaoran smiled at her before picking her completely off her feet and swinging her around in circles in the back yard.

Everyone in the window watching mouths dropped as they saw the person in his arms. Tomoyo began to cry and Eirol started laughing as well as Koryu. Sean smiled at Tomoyo as she looked at him. "She's a pretty good actress isn't she. eh?"

Tomoyo glared at him, "You knew this whole time! It was a set up!" Sean laughed and answered her, "We knew you'd stay to help her so we made sure that you would go after Soy Jin. Now get out there." Shoving her toward the door leading out side.

She mouthed thank you and left to the back yard to greet her dear friend, and everyone followed suit.

Rushing out to her they were still speechless, Tomoyo smiled at her before hugging her and finally laughed while she whipped her tears away. "I thought I lost my best partner in crime." She whispered and then let go for Eirol to hug her and then finally she turned around to Sean and hugged him, which didn't go unnoticed by Syaoran.

Koryu looked at the women standing in front of him smiled at her, and then looked at Syaoran. "Damn she's hotter than you let onto… hah." Syaoran stared at him with a glint in his eye and Koryu backed away slowly with his hands up. Eirol turned around and signaled for everyone to go back inside to give the Family some time to them selves.

Syaoran looked down at his son and shook his head.

"How long was she out here?' a hint of annoyance in his voice,

"Um… since Aunty Tomoyo got here with that man. She told me not to say anything!" whined Xiao Ling as his father picked him up and hung him upside down.

"Honest, hahahah… I'm telling the truth, Daddy!" Laughing he held on to his father's shirt as he was put right side up again.

"Okay," Smiling at the woman standing in front of him he reached out to pull her to him bending down a little he placed his face only a few centimeters from hers. "Welcome Home, Sakura."

The End.

Of my Gwad!!! I Finished a story!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so happy!!!

I would like to thank my Editor for everything, she's the best!!!

Also everyone that stuck with my story, and I mean everyone even if you didn't like it, it still means a lot to me that you read part of it!!!

I while be working on me next story after I plan it out much better than I did this one, it while probably be a while before you see it come up out because I want to work on getting all the character ties, and acts together!!! Well Thanks again for everything!!!

This is Crazy-cherry signing out tell next time!!!