A/N: What did you all think of Escaflowne? I assume you all watched it, like I suggested. Canaan was also EXCELLENT! Last chapter.

The morning after Gil and Alice ended, Gil was called away to the Nightray house on some urgent family business, and was gone for almost a month. Although the business was extremely serious from the family's point of view - a noble considering marrying a servant - it was almost a blessing in a way. Without that separation and distance, things probably wouldn't have turned out as well as they did, but instead would have become awkward and suffocating.

When Gil returned from his home, Vincent and Echo's wedding finally being permitted to go on, he found Alice and Oz asleep on a picnic blanket under a tree in the grounds, holding hands and smiling happily, while Alyss stood watching them, filling up water balloons from the hose pipe, undoubtedly for some sinister/hilarious prank on the happy couple. While taking his bags back up to his room, he decided that he would stop by Break's office and say 'hello'. What he heard walking past Sharon's study on the way to Break's office told him that Break was busy, and it would be best to say 'hello' later. Much later.

"Nothing going on between you, huh?" Gil muttered, almost running down to the kitchen for a drink of something strong to get that… out of his head. Looking out the window at the sleeping couple, he saw Alyss and Cheshire balanced up in the tree above Alice and Oz, each with an impossibly large pile of water balloons in their arms. It was a miracle they had managed to climb the tree. Gil smiled, and counted down along with the couple up in the tree.

"Three… two… one…" SPLASH! Gil laughed and laughed and laughed until Alice and Oz came back in, dripping and shivering. Smiling, Gil ran up to embrace the pair in a big hug.

Following that, everything returned to normal. Break still annoyed the hell out of Gil, Alice still called Break "Damn Clown", Sharon continued to teach Alice and Alyss about love, using her vast collection of books, Gil and Alice still called each other "Seaweed head" and "Stupid Rabbit", although with less spite, and everyone was able to continue smiling and laughing, because life was perfect.

A few weeks after Vincent and Echo's wedding, they received word of an illegal contractor, not unlike the first one Oz had come across (see episode 7) and they needed to go and confront him. Oz couldn't help laughing at the expressions on Gil and Cheshire's faces as he climbed into the carriage that would take them to Reveille, they clearly weren't happy about being made to sit next to each other.

"Where's Alice and Alyss?" Oz asked as he sat down. Suddenly, the twins burst into the carriage.

"Let's go!" Alice shouted, wild-eyed.

"Are you excited about looking for another memory, Alice?" Oz asked, smiling as she sat next to him.

"What? Yeah, whatever. Let's move! Come on!" Alice shouted again, and both twins sighed with relief when the carriage started to move.

"What's going on?" Oz asked confused.

"Well…"

"My books!" Sharon's scream cut across Alyss's beginning of an explanation. Looking out the back window, Oz could see flames in the window of Sharon's study.

"We had to do it!" Alyss exclaimed in self-defense, "If she tried to make us read any more of those books…"

"You burned Wuthering Heights! I hadn't even read it yet!" Sharon screamed, turning to face the departing carriage, paper fan clutched in her fist.

Oz couldn't help laughing as the mansion got further and further away. Yes, life was perfect.

A/N: This was a crap ending, but I just wanted to get this over with. Seriously, it's been going on for so long.

I'm sure you're all thinking "Why would she burn Sharon's books? Why specifically mention 'Wuthering Heights'?" Well, I just had a literature exam today, so I thought I would sacrifice some books to the god/goddess/deity of Literature as an offering for a good grade i.e. something that would get me into university. I specifically mentioned Wuthering Heights because I hate it with a passion and, since I can't burn it in real life, I thought I would burn it here instead. I'm sure if I'd read it by choice, I would have liked it, but having to study it was like having all your teeth pulled out.

Anyway, after a year and a half, I have finally finished! I had no idea that this would go on for so long, or that it would take this many random tangents and new plot lines! Thank you so much for all your reviews, and for sticking with this to the end. Thank you for putting up with the randomness of this, my consistently late updates, and the fact that everyone was massively OOC. I love you all!