A Long Hard Fought Journey (Completed)

Chapter 51: Epilogue

A/N:Sorry guys but this will be the last chapter of A Long Hard Fought Journey. I hope you enjoyed reading it as much as I did writing it. If you have time and would like to read more books I have written more and will have another coming out soon maybe 2 I don't know yet. Thanks for all the views and thoughts. I thought I couldn't do it but I did so do not ever say you can't do something because you can and don't give up. I've enjoyed writing it. A special thanks to my best friend bls2020 for helping encourage me to write this book because without her I would not have written one at all. Thanks and Enjoy this last chapter of A Long Hard Fought Journey.

Carson's POV

Hope is going to die and I am going to be left alone yet again. She is not even a year old yet she has not made it to a year,why her,why me,why April. Mary-Kate screamed out in pain. I had just thrown my phone into the van. I wonder what was taking this gosh darn ambulance so long. I noticed the line of traffic.  I ran to her,forgetting my first aid kit in the van. What's wrong,I said and all she did cry in pain and hold her stomach. I looked at it and it looked very tender. Something was wrong,the babies might die or endure trauma if this continues. She was conscious but I knew was in shock and enduring a lot of pain.Everyone else was wet but safe and looks as if they may survive. I ran to my side of the van and finally finding my first aid kit,went to run. At first I did not notice the speeding car and by the time I did I knew it was going to be to late. I could do nothing just stand there frozen in panic and fear. I knew I was going to die and the car was not slowing down and made the impact a lot worse. I was not scared of death and knew deep down that some day soon it would come and I would be with April again.I was depressed and Hope was the only thing that truly kept me here,I welcomed the warm loving arms of death.Carson,Mary-Kate screamed out over and over again before screaming my name and crying. She tried to get up and run to me but could not and was not supposed to she needed to be still.I could hear but not feel anything,my body was numb. The cars impact made me fly over it. They did not realize I was there until it was too late and they not only hit me but the van too. Hope,I realized and barely whispered as I felt the life leaving me and Mary-Kate's screaming. Mary-Kate take care of her for the next five months,I yelled one last time before taking my last breath and plunging into the dark sweet pleasant of death. Just then did the ambulance arrive. I stood over my lifeless body and watched as everything fell into place that cold and rainy day. The medics tried to revive me but I was too far gone. They sent several ambulances and took Jenna,Noel,Hazel,and Mary-Kate away. They pulled Hope's car seat from our van. She was still alive but barely and hardly conscious and they intubated her and connected her to dozens of things.I knew deep down she was not going to live and I was not a good enough father and did not protect her well enough. You were a prefect father and you did the best you could now we must watch,a vaguely familiar female voice said as I felt arms wrap around my midsection with a head on my shoulder. April,I questioned. We are together,she said. You forgive me I didn't,I said but she interjected,yes because you did nothing. We went into the ambulance holding Hope and Mary-Kate.We both knew that Hope was not going to make it. I cried a little but she comforted me with her small body hugging me close. It was challenging. We were correct in guessing. Hope died on the way to the hospital. She joined us and I barely recognized her she was older,was wearing a white dress and had brown hair with curls. I'm taking her she doesn't need to watch okay but you must be comforting to everyone else,April said. They held hands walking away as April told Hope that she was her mother. Mary-Kate lost both twins and they did a C-Section to remove them and repair her spleen.They kept the little babies alive but not alive alive because the babies were not matured enough. She cried when she gained consciousness with her husband pushing her wheelchair went to see them holding their tiny fingers as they unplugged the machines.The babies joined April and Hope. Noel and Hazel were in surgery and neither one made it. The injuries were to extreme. They joined April and then me for a while before returning with April. I had guilt tearing me up for a while and realized I did nothing wrong and had tried my best and hardest I let go of the guilt holding me back. Mary-Kate just cried she felt responsible. Jenna came out and had lost her baby too and Jenna was in a coma with a chance of never waking up so they let her go unplugging her. After everyone had died in that accident Mary-Kate was never the same. None of us were but we had family and were together. Bailey and her husband was all Mary-Kate had left and we all knew that she was depressed. A few years later another car accident on the way to the hospital took all three of their lives.Bailey,Mary-Kate and her husband all died on impact. Finally we were at peace and everyone was together.I finally met April's parents.I had been the paramedic that tried to save her dad the night of his accident but finally I met them both. It was Izzie,Joseph,Hazel,Leo, Noel,Mary-Kate,Jenna, Bailey,Alexis,Nic,Noah, Cassy,me,April,Kate,Izzie's Parents and Hazel,Leo,Noel,Mary-Kate,Jenna,Bailey,Nic,Kate and Cassy's wives/husbands plus all of their children and Jake their puppy.We are a family here but a chain of a family who does not exist on earth anymore. At least we are all together and at least we are all happy. I'm happy and so is Izzie and I'm happy we are here Izzie told me her story.She is glad to be here and no longer in pain.

The end.....