Disclaimer: Hey I actually own the characters in here, Mark, Brianna and Evy! Everything else you recognize doesn't belong to me, sadly.
A/N: So, here's the epilogue. I personally loved it. It was so much fun to write. I want to thank ALL of my reviewers so far! You guys really made writing this story much easier. And keep posted for the Sequel!
Epilogue
3 years later
It was a warm afternoon. The trees were in full bloom and birds could be heard. The sun was shining and only a couple of white clouds penetrated the otherwise clear blue sky. A small girl was crouching down picking flowers with her right hand. In her left was already a whole bunch of flowers.
"Evy!", a woman with auburn hair and hazel eyes called from the porch.
The little girl turned around and smiled broadly.
"Auntie.", she answered. "I have flowers."
Brianna laughed as her niece struggled to keep the bunch of flowers in her hand. Slowly, Evy got up and hurried to her aunt. Her black hair lay curly on her shoulders and her brilliant blue eyes sparkled with happiness. She was wearing a knee-length pink summer dress. Her shoes lay forgotten on the porch.
"Come on, let's give those flowers some water, shall we?", Brianna asked as she took the flowers from Evy's hand who nodded gleefully.
Inside, Brianna helped Evy washing her hands and put the flowers into a vase.
The little girl went back outside to get her shoes. When she came back into the house, a man with honey-coloured hair scooped her up and tickled her.
"Evy's got dirty feet.", Mark said wrinkling his nose, but Evy continued giggling. "Where were you to get such icky feet?"
"Outside.", Evy replied as Mark put her back down. "I got flowers."
Mark laughed and took her to the bathroom to wash her feet. But Evy fell into the bathtub and so she got a full bath. When they went back down, Evy dressed in her pajamas, Brianna had already prepared dinner and together they set down at the table.
After dinner, Brianna wrapped Evy into a warm blanket and they settled down on a bench in the backyard. From there they would always look at the stars. Evy snuggled into Brianna's arms.
"Auntie?", she asked. "Where is mommy?"
Brianna tensed. It was still hard for her to talk about her cousin. She looked into Evy's eyes that resembled Dorcas' so much. In fact, Evy looked like a little Dorcas, except for the hair and the lips.
"Is she in heaven?", Evy asked.
"Yeah.", Brianna answered tears brimming in her eyes. "Your mom is in heaven."
Evy turned her face towards the sky and seemed to be thinking. Then she blew a kiss to the stars and said, "Hi mommy." Then she faced her aunt again and asked, "And where is my daddy?"
Brianna took a deep breath. How should she explain to a three-year old that her father was in prison for killing twelve people?
"You know,", she began. "when you did something bad that I send you to your room so you can think about what you did?"
Evy nodded. Last week she had broken a crystal vase that her aunt was quite fond of.
"Well, your daddy did something very bad.", Brianna continued. "And now he has to spent a long time thinking over what he did."
They sat in silence for a couple of minutes listening to the crickets. Then Mark came outside to put Evy to bed.
"We reading?", Evy asked her Uncle who nodded and smiled at her enthusiasm.
A couple of weeks ago, Evy had started to read some easy words and so they practised every evening. Brianna had contacted one of the teachers at the local Elementary School to check if that was normal for a three-year old to be able to read. He had told her that Evy seemed to be very intelligent and they should support that.
Brianna sat on the bench for a bit more. She could hear Mark opening the window and Evy' voice carried out in the backyard. She looked at the sky.
"I hope you're proud of your daughter, Dorcas.", she whispered.
Awww, don't you just love Evy? I do. Anyway, review please! I'm currently working on 2 stories. One of them is the sequel and the other one is basically Dorcas telling Sirius about her pregnancy. So keep posted for those!