A/N: Here's the last one. Thanks to Naynay1130 and Anonymous, my two reviewers. I hope you enjoy this one!

Ash's POV, at the wedding after Iron Knight

Heat beats fast/Colors and promises/How to be brave/How can I love when I'm afraid? But watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow.

She walks down the aisle towards me. The other fey, Iron, Seelie, and Unseelie alike, wait on either side, watching me, but all I can look at is her. Her aura shines bright and strong, emerald hope and scarlet love swirling around her.

She has been the one that has kept me going for so long now. It is her, her stubbornness and loyalty and bravery that enabled me to be brave myself. It is her that bolsters me to keep going, to not fear heartbreak, to not fear her leaving. Seeing her there, dressed in white and smiling, lets me continue, lets me not run away from something that I have been warned since my birth not to fall into. Because she loves me. She does.

Time stands still/Beauty in all she is/ I will be brave. I will not let anything take away what's standing in front of me. Every breath, every hour has come to this.

Seeing her there, beautiful and brave and amazing, causes everything else to fade away. And though time does not flow in the Nevernever, this is different. This is a snapshot in time, just us, and nothing else. I will never let anyone take this away. I am her knight, her chosen protector, and I will face any obstacle, overcome any challenge, to keep this, this moment here and now. Everything I have done - disobeying my queen and mother, almost dying in the Iron Realm, entering numerous contracts, undergoing the Trials, and earning a soul - it was all for this. It was all for her.

I have died everyday waiting for you. And all along I believed I would find you.

Ever since the death of my first love, I thought that I was cursed. I gave up on life, gave up on hope. The scars on my skin from fights I never had to enter, they are my battle wounds, saying that I fought for her, that I am worthy of her now. Because even when I gave up on everything else, I never gave up on love.

I have loved you for a thousand years. I'll love you for a thousand more.

Now, I realize there was a reason my relationship with Ariella ended. It was because of the one that stands before me today. Because I have been in love with her, before I knew that one like her existed. I have loved her, only her, since before I was born, and I will love her long after I die.