-1AN: OK here it is the final chapter. Hope you enjoy and review!

Disclaimer: Once again, I sadly, own nothing.

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Epilogue

Alice's POV:

I stared silently at the living room wall from my place on the couch, waiting. If the vision I had just had was true, Erica would be walking through the door any time now. I couldn't bring myself to tell the others what had happened. This was one of the many times I cursed my ability to see what was going to happen. I hoped this vision had been wrong, but I knew deep down that it wasn't. It had happened. My brother had killed the one thing he had ever truly loved, and had followed after as soon as he possibly could.

I was broken out of my reverie at the sound of the door slamming. Erica rushed in, panic clearly visible on her face. The rest of the family was gathered around her listening intently to her account of the events that had taken place in the park. How my brother had killed a human, one he had seemed to know, to care for, and how he had fled with the body instructing her not to follow.

There was no doubt in their minds that the human had been Bella. They were unclear however on where he had gone. I was the only one who had ever known his true intentions should anything ever happen to Bella. I could feel all of their eyes fixed on me as I stared sadly at the wall, unable to meet their gaze. I felt a comforting hand on my shoulder and I looked up into Esme's grief stricken face begging me silently to tell her that her fears were unfounded.

"He's gone" I whispered. The finality of it slamming into us all and I knew that if we had the ability to cry, we would be. I rose from my spot on the couch making my way outside and climbed onto the roof to watch the soft glow of the Aurora Borealis. I stared intently at the stars above me, searching for answers I would never find. Why did it have to be this way? Why did they both have to be gone? They should have been able to be together, to be happy. But our kind didn't get happy endings, did we.

I stared at the sky for hours, lost in my grief. The night was deepening quickly, passing me by untouched by its effects. As I peered up at the endless points of light above me, suddenly a blinding flash entered the sky. It was beautiful, far brighter than any other star I had ever seen and all of a sudden my eyes clouded over. I was slammed into a vision stronger than any I had ever received.

I could see Edward, trapped in ice and enduring unbearable torture. Then all of a sudden a light stabbed into the darkness and then dimmed slightly. It was Bella, but she had wings. She was an angel. She was exhausted, covered in mud and blood but she stood defiantly in the face of his tormenters. She had come to rescue him. They were in an embrace and suddenly a light exploded freeing him and destroying all the surroundings.

My vision shifted then back to the stars, only I could see Edward and Bella clearly, talking to someone I couldn't see. I couldn't hear everything of what they were saying but one portion of the conversation stood out clearly. A strange voice was speaking as if out of nowhere for I could not see the source of it.

It said, "Your love has redeemed you of hell, but her defiance of Heaven cannot be undone. She chose to follow her own will, and turned from grace. The light of that city shall never receive you now, though your family may yet see it. The strength of your love has proven the worth of your kind to enter in. No more shall they be damned simply for being as they are. Those who strive as you did, and as your family does, to fight against their nature, against the monster they have become shall be allowed entrance."

The scene progressed though I caught only one more segment of the conversation. The voice again.

"Here is where you will stay. The light of your love shines so brightly it rivals that even of Heaven, so our Father has placed you among the stars as a symbol of hope to your kind Edward. A promise if you will, that they shall no more be forgotten. You will spend eternity within each others arms, the light of your love outshining the brightest stars in the heavens, a true testament to the power of love."

I saw Edward and Bella smile then and lean into a kiss. The light exploded from them and their physical forms melted away as the light from both their bodies fused together to form the brightest star in the heavens.

The vision faded then and I was left staring back up into the sky at the stars once again. The bright point of light I had noticed just before the vision glittered joyfully at me and I smiled. It seems as though things worked out for the better after all. Edward and Bella finally got their happily every after. They would be together for eternity now, and thanks to their love, all of our kind that strived to be better than we are would be redeemed in the eyes of heaven. I stood up then, running back to the house where my family waited.

I told them my vision, and of the star I had seen appear in the sky moments before, taking them outside to show them. We stood there for the rest of the night, keeping silent vigil as we watched their love burn brightly in the heavens, sending them our love and our thanks for their wonderful gift to us.

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AN: OK, there it is…the end of the story. I would like to thank all of you who took the time to read and review this. Your reviews really made me feel good about writing this. I am really glad that you enjoyed it so much. I hope to start posting my next fic soon. I have quite a few in the works right now so I am not sure which I am going to be posting first. Keep a look out for it though! Thanks again all of you!