Epilogue: Is to Love and Be Loved in Return

 

            *Hiiro whipped his brow. The heat of the sun still plagued him. Yet now it was not nearly so hot.

            “Hiiro!” A familiar voice called to him.

            “Hello love.” He said without turning around.

            “I don’t feel very loved at the moment. I do recall you promising to help me raise your child.” She scolded. He smirked.

            “Did I say that?”

            “You did indeed, and you know it. Now come here and save me from these monsters!” She screamed and laughter was heard through the fief. Hiiro turned around to see his wife laughing and trying to scold four of their five children at the same time. The two twins were laughing and sitting on their mother, while their two older brothers tickled her. Their fifth child lay asleep in her blanket under the sun. Hiiro walked over and picked up the twin boys who had previously been sitting on Serena. She then sat up and recovered from her laughing. Taking slow, deep breaths, she tried to calm her racing heart. But it wouldn’t calm…

            “Hiiro…” She gasped.

            “Serena?” He stopped fooling around with his two sons and dropped them. Racing over to his wife, he knelt besides her.

            “Hiiro, I, I can’t… I can’t stop… my heart.” She clutched her chest in pain. Hiiro’s eyes knotted and he drew her into a close hug.

            “Breath Sere. We’ve been through this before. Breathe slowly and deeply. Hiiro, I, can’t… it, hurts…oh Hiiro.”

            “Serena, no. Stay here. You have to stay with me. Please. Serena, I need you, I ove you…” He pleaded.

            “Hiiro. Listen to me.” She gasped more violently now. “I love you. Go on. Raise our children.”

            “No. You’ll be fine. Sere…”

            “Hiiro. Don’t push them away. Don’t do what your father did to you. Hiiro, I, I lo…ve. . . . “ Her voice trailed off.

            “Sere! Serena! Serenity!” He called again and again. But it was too late. She had already ascended. He sat, frozen in shock, for a good hour. His children stood nearby, watching their father rock their mother’s lifeless body. The cry of a baby woke him.

            “Papa?” His youngest son asked. “The baby’s crying. Wake Mama up so she can feed it.” Hiiro lay his wife’s body gently on the ground and turned to his sons. I each of their eyes he could see fear and confusion.

            “Son. Your mother, she’s gone.”

            “Gone where?”

            “To heaven. She went to live with the angels.”

            “She can’t visit anymore, can she?” It was a rhetorical question. The children were old enough to know what heaven meant.

            “No son, she can’t.”

            “Papa. The baby’s still crying.” His oldest son pointed out. Hiiro reached over and picked up his only daughter. The baby immediately stopped her crying and giggled. Hiiro let a tear fall. Hugging the child to his heart, he stood. Taking her and the other four boys along with him, he began his trek home.

            “Papa? What about mama?” One of his sons asked.

            “We’ll let her alone for now. Your sister needs to be fed. Rachel will know what to do. Yes, Rachel will know what to do… she always does.”

            “Papa? Aren’t you sad?”

            “No. Serena is free.” Tears fell freely down his cheeks. “The pain will never fade completely, son. But she is happier. She is free. God bless, and God speed to the angel that was your mother.”*

 

 

~~~~Did I surprise anyone? I wanted to do something I’ve never done. Never killed off a main character before… makes for an interesting ending, huh? Do you guys like it this way? Or was it too depressing to see her die? I’ not changing this fic’s ending, but for future reference…~~~ THANKS FOR READING! –Vixen

 

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