Flashback continued!

"All you have to do is submit yourself." Said Angela putting a hand on his shoulder. He was looking in her eyes and they were so intimidating so demanding that he couldn't move them away from there. It was like he was fixated on them as like she had some great powers on him. Such was the energy of Angela....aka life. It's always so tempting.

"Alright then, but how will they......they....come back or whatever? I mean....(chuckled nervously) this is all.....this is all crazy and totally non..... nonsensical no offense." He said while they were moving back to his room.

"I know...believe me I know more than you think I do, but please understand. It's important...it's urgent...and it's very very much needed. Do you understand?" She said when he was lieing back on his bed as his head started to hurt a little.

"I...I do...I do....but.....it's......" He couldn't say it as he was smitten by her as well.

"It's hard to believe that we are normal right?" Said the man from behind standing in one corner of the room leant on the walls where edges of two walls were meeting, with his hands folded up in his chest and a flock or two falling on his forehead as if they were to poke him there. He looked up with his narrow eyes to them who turned their attention immediately as he spoke.

"Yehaa...kinda..." Jaden said with yet quivering voice.

"Alright then...I'll show you something" the man with sass said while coming off the leaned position he was in and walking towards the bed. The lady immediately rose from her seat and stood on head-right of Jaden while the man came and sat in front of him. Jaden was noticing their movements.

He held his head and asked him to close his eyes. Jaden was sceptical at first but then because he was stared down by the man holding his bandaged head, he did close his eyes. Seconds later, he could see himself with his head still wrapped in a beige bandage, the visionary, which he felt was him only, walked out of the room and looked upwards where it was written COMA above the door. The visionary turned around and saw his wife and kid's retreating figure walking off the corridors. He followed them till the entrance hall where he found his wife crying over the reception counter asking for some discount or deduction as she was running out of her savings.
The receptionist kept nodding her head awkwardly only. Moments later they walked out of the hospital and the visionary ran .behind them to chase them or something but before he could walk out of the hospital, it all blackened and suddenly the view of pale Iris with a towel wrapped baby in her hands standing somewhere in front of him far far away from him which caused  Jaden to open his eyes.

"It's not what I want you to see, it's what's true and you got the privilege to see, you are fine right now talking and walking with us because of us.... otherwise your condition is much worse and will get more from now. So now if you can trust us, decision is yours Jaden Green" the man said withdrawing his hands back from his head and even stepping a little backwards from him. Jaden kept staring them and then at nothing for whole five-six minutes.

"Okay I'll sleep and just.......just don't let me know it's done or... whatever. And....and tell my wife..... Susy that I have funds on their names in my bank......it's enough for them until she finds another job so.....tell them not to worry. I'll sleep now okay" he said finally with a tear or two trickling down his eyes. Angela immediately held his shoulder and wiped his tears with another hand.

"You are doing something good, something really good and it always pays off. One way or the other okay. Have faith on God and us" she said cupping his face gently like a flower touching him.

"Who are you people?" He asked finally and she smiled a little warm one.

"You will know soon" and Jaden just nodding his head laid back to sleep.

Flashback ends! (First person narrative)

"And so we resumed everything back in the hospital" said Angela completing her story of manipulation and intimidation. I was so upset and heartbroken that they actually persuaded someone to kill for me and my child and so strongly that he even got on for it.

"Jaden were you literally out of your mind. And you two.....why.....why did you guys do it?" I yelled as I couldn't control anymore.

Everybody was shunned and paused for a moment staring at me with their unexpected faces as someone just slapped them out of nowhere while they were peeing silently. Awkward and unexpected.

What an idiotic instance though!

"You are not grateful for one single thing given to you, are you Iris Stevens? Everybody.... everybody here trying so hard to fix your mistake....your that stupid and most idiotic mistake in which this little innocent most creature was going to suffer as well.... everybody, us going all criminal and bending all the rules albeit we know what happens when we bend the rule of God and his council....him giving up his life for you and your daughter.... Derek...the man who knows nothing is now at such apogee that he wants to kill himself right now as he got to know you guys are dead....his life is shaken...and you are not a least bit grateful for the most wanted second chance you are given. How pathetic it is. Seriously Iris, being heroic is not required every goddamn time....get over yourself and think about it. Only if you were not pregnant, no one would have cared... Seriously! No offense but more than you...we want this child to not suffer like this...for their parents' fault. Luci was right.....it was all for nothing!" Angela yelled at same intensity and my mouth and eyes stayed open the whole time she yelled at me and the stopped and breathed and looked here and there.

I heard every single word she said and my heart which was more than happy now holding my baby, now started pricking me with the mention of Derek. He was there alone and as she said he wanted to kill himself....I knew why. I knew exactly why he wanted to kill himself now... because now he sort of believed in me and was regretting for not believing in me earlier. He wanted to sacrifice himself now but wasn't able to. My eyes were itching now with all the crying and wiping, yet it wasn't stopping anytime soon. I couldn't stop thinking about him now. I should have thought through it before blurting all the truth in front of him....I should have thought it would make him go crazy even more. What an absolute idiot was I!

"Yeah right finally!" Lucifer said with a scoff and I turned to him with my crying face like a little puppy pleads. I was pleading for what I had no idea...perhaps for asking him to stop mocking me at least once, or perhaps for sending me back down to my Derek.

"I'm sorry Ang" words slipped out of my mouth as I shifted my gaze to her who was looking everywhere but me.

"Look at me....please...." And suddenly my baby started crying, startling me to death again. Perhaps my tears would have fallen on her and woken her up or what....I needed training on motherhood too, anyways her crying took Angela's attention and she immediately looked at us.

"Wipe her face...what are you looking at" she said with  pitched voice, more like a command. I heard her and then immediately looked down and wiped my girl's face and started rocking her in my lap by straddling my legs up and down and started dabbing her chest slowly with my hands. She kind of raised her hands and yawned which was sooo cute I chuckled almost looking at her. Seconds later, she doozed off again back to her dreamland and I kept looking at her. How nonchalant and easy it is all with her. To live.

"I'm so sorry for that. I shouldn't.....I shouldn't have yelled like that." I said taking ahold of Angela's hand and she looked at me with her warm eyes again. I sighed in relief for I could feel that same love and warmth for me in her eyes again. She was more like a mother, sister, best friend... whatever for me. I needed her alot in my life.

"Alright you girls don't make a crying fuss over here... Iris pack your bags it's time for you to get down" said Lucifer instantly interrupting our overcoming lot of emotions.

"Aww...looks like someone wanna cry but can't huh...." Angela said in her teasing voice and I chuckled while Lucifer just rolled his eyes and let out a groaned snort.

"I don't want to cry. What's here to miss? Tad bit of dumbness? Nahhh I don't want that" he said dramatically and I just smiled my widest because believe it or not, I did learn mind reading a bit with him.

"By the way guys, how did you...I mean what's with my body? What happened to it?" I asked as it crossed my mind suddenly like current passes once you put the switch on.

"Well, remember when you were on the stretcher and everything froze for a second. That's when we merged you with your body and adjusted everyone's memory" said Angela flaunting her skills and ideas while my mouth automatically turned into an O while listening to her.

"Well well....you are one heck of a criminal" I said and she just laughed.
Among all these, Jaden kept silent listening to all of us. Randomly my eyes fell on him and I saw him staring the baby with his keen eyes, his face was upset. I could feel it.

"Jaden..." I called him out and like I disturbed him from stealing like a thief or what, he got jolted suddenly and then looked at me with a "hnn".

I kept looking at him until I felt his face getting relaxed completely, once it did, I said " I didn't thank you enough and I know I can't...for what you did for me...for us...but still......thank you very much Jaden. I always hated you for meeting you that day in the bar and liking you as well although I hardly like people...and then when you dumped me...kinda...I hated you for everything but the most.....the most for impregnating me.... Seriously the most for it. I didn't go out with anyone after you so it was easy for me to directly hate you. But, I was wrong...stupid and so wrong. You actually gave me the most beautiful thing in life I could have gained. I always felt like I dont deserve a good life of a girl, and that's why I kept whoring here and there but....this......this is precious and it makes ME precious....and now what you have done, in the end....it's unexplainable how I fell about you. (Tears started forming in my eyes and his as well) I can't.....I can't promise you happiness...for I have no control in it now....but....I.... I would make sure your family....your family's happiness. I would make sure of that. Trust me. And it's not even for you, it's for me...I need to do this to put that heavy weight of owing a life and feeling like a murdered, off my chest. I need to do that. So don't you think I'm being nice or like she said 'hero' again....I'm just.....selfish. And I'm sorry.. (I bursted into heavy tears, Jaden wiped his face but it was getting wet continuously) I'm sorry you had to........do that. I'm sorry." And I stopped talking and sobbed in my hands away from baby's face so to not wake her up this time, she will totally poop on my face for it.

"Shut up shut up please.....I don't wanna fall weak on my knees now...and give me my baby for at least till you are here" he said standing back like warrior who gets wounded and then get up from it. It was commendable. I wiped myself too and carefully picking up the baby, handed her to him. He took her in his arms and hugged her gently yet fully and cried I suppose.
I was getting too weak for all this. I stood up and went to Lucifer and hugged him.

"I'm so not going to miss you, you little sticky wet creature" saying so he just hugged me back which was what I was expecting from him.

"What mean people are you all, left me alone" cried Angela and I broke the hug from him and chuckled.

"Well...let me see what kind of baby iris have made" Lucifer said coming out of my embrace and moving towards Jaden who was rocking the baby in his arms silently. Lucifer went to him and took her carefully in his arms and I could swear say he was trembling while taking her.

"Um....I think.....I think I'll see her from afar..." He said giving up and forwarding the baby back to Jaden but before Jaden could take up I stepped up in between.

"No....you gotta take her...come on...." I said and moved to him and held his hands. He gave me his deadly glares but I shrugged my shoulders at him and guided him on how to hold a baby which I learned myself just few minutes ago. Quick learner! Score for me!

"Make her comfortable luci" said Angela from the bed adorning him while he was struggling with my girl. I chuckled when he was getting all confused with what to touch and what to not and his face could say he was scared he would hurt the baby any second by now. He was looking so cute.

"Stop calling me cute you pathetic woman. I would still make a better mother than you." Typical Lucifer snapped back at me still reading my mind. I just rolled my eyes and laughed again along with others.

Finally after few minutes of struggle, he managed to take her confidently in his arms and raised her up till his face to kiss her cheeks lightly enough to not wake her up. I felt another rush of emotions inside me the moment I saw Lucifer adoring my child and kissing her, be it because I was missing Derek and wanting him to do everything these guys were doing with her or be it because I badly wanted Lucifer and Angela to have their own child they lost. I couldn't hold myself up, he was busy straddling her and kissing her lightly while she was still snoring, I hugged him from behind and eyed Angela to join us. Lucifer was too busy with the baby that he didn't even notice when I hugged him. Angela got down too and hugged me from behind like we did that day in hospital when I got to know about their story. Jaden was gaping at our movements.

"Looks like you guys know each other from years....I wanna join too" and this definitely grabbed Lucifer's attention and he looked back at him clung to us.

"Wha...are we making human train now?" He said annoyingly when Jaden too joined us and hugged Angela lightly. We all chuckled and it was so loud that finally my nuisance making girl got up and started crying.

"Oh not in my hands...not in my hands you little....." And he started panicking just when my amazing daughter started crying and also peeing in his arms. We all were laughing so hard in that train hug only.

"Definitely Iris' daughter." He remarked and joined us in our laughter which added up even more.

Some time later

I was back on that end of the tunnel holding my girl tightly in my hands and with Angela Lucifer and Jaden standing right around me. We were on it's edge from where all we could see was immense light. I had to jump from there.

"Good bye baby....live a happy life and remember your father. Iris, don't give her my surname...it's ugly." Jaden said touching baby's cheeks lightly for the final time. I chuckled a little which also came out in a sad tone over his words.

"Live it Iris, live it this time." He said to me and I blinked with a beam assuring him that I will...this time. Not in my seven hells have I even slightly thought I would hear such from Jaden and meet him like this. But then again, nothing have ever happened with me lately which I have ever thought or expected about. Life, as we know it!

"Tell me once again how will all this work" I said nervously as it was very weird for me to do it all. I was convinced as dead myself.

"It's not rocket science you moron" Lucifer taunted in annoyance and I happened to just ignore him this time while my eyes were transfixed on Angela.

"Shut up. Listen all you have to do is jump from here and you will automatically end up in your bodies......once you will enter there, the time will be reduced back and you will gain life...it will be another unusual thing of the day so I don't think people will completely forget everything but... Who cares. Human believe what they see. So chill and jump okay! Go to Derek, he is waiting for you" she explained to me for the nth time now and I took a deep breathe after she was done...and holding the baby really tightly, that I also feared I would choke her but the fear of loosing her while jumping was overruling it so I let the former one go away, I closed my eyes tightly shut and jumped down the end.
For what felt like a whole minute I screamed in the way, I suddenly got bumped into something I presume was my body and then it all went sheer blank and black.

Next thing I know, I opened my eyes very slowly adjusting to the light again. Why does this keep happening? Why can't they just shut the lights of the room where im down in, I mean don't they know when a person gets back and opens eyes it's difficult to adjust to the idiotic sharp lights you have kept on. Swines everywhere!

I somehow opened my eyes fully after closing and reopening it quite a few times before, all I could see was a big light right above me. See, told ya!
When I looked straight I found Derek standing there cupping his mouth with his one hand and holding his same hand with another. What weird position, but I guess he was scared and impatient and....waiting for too long.
I moved my eyes on my sides and found people standing there looking at me like I was some mermaid found on the seashore. My head hurt a little and I twitched my nose and brows a little and tried to raise my hand and hold my head but found in halfway that it was attached with few tubes and pipes.

Gradually, things started hitting me and I started remembering everything...in details. I did remember basic stuff but not the major stuffs. The moment I remembered the last thing, which was me jumping from the tunnel with my girl, I immediately turned around to find my baby and check if she was fine. I woke up haphazardly from my place and looked here and there. Everybody got alert, Derek leaned on the bed towards me.

"Where's.....where's she? My.....my baby Derek...? Where's she?" I asked as my fear was increasing each second.

"Iris....you remember everything?" The doctor in my right asked in her weird voice with a teacher like tone.

"Of course I remember, I had a delievery not head injury...now tell me where's my child. Is she okay?" I said rudely to her and I think.....THINK I heard Derek laugh.

"She is fine.....very well breathing...and sleeping silently. She is perfectly fine, but tell me how did you know....she is a SHE?" The doctor used her Sherlock brain and caught me off guard with the question.

"Um...I.....I had a feeling it's a her..." I said nervously and then slapped myself for being such a fool.

"I'm sorry, you had a FEELING? And you were so confident about it....?" She asked again and of course.....of course it had to happen but I was so getting frustrated by her unnecessary interrogation.

"Oh come on I heard the doctor in a check up but I asked her not to tell me. Now will you please stop interrogating me and give me my daughter" I said in annoyance and finally appreciated myself to finally say the good thing.

"Yeah please...just check her up and let her rest, shall we?" Said Derek and that's when my mind travelled to him as well. I was finally seeing him. I had to talk to him and....meet him.

"Alright." The doctor muttered under her breath and asked the nurses to write down my status from the machines as she left the room. Next moment, the nurses also left and just when I turned to Derek to finally talk to him, I saw him turn away too.

"Derek.......where are you going.. ?" I said immediately and he stopped in his track immediately.

"I....I thought you wanted...to be alone...." He muttered silently and I could feel how tired and drained he was. Mentally, emotionally, physically...every ly I could think of. So tired.

"But with you..." It came like a whisper as I forwarded my hands to him like a child asks father to lift up or hug. He gazed me with his sleak eyes for a second and suddenly came rushing to me and hugged me tightly while sitting beside me. I hugged him back. He started stroking my hair down while I enclosed my fist with his hair tightly as if I would control him with my hands. I kissed his ears and buried my face again. He kept stroking my hair and now my back as well, up and down in order to relax me.

"I thought I lost you Ire....it was......it was dreading.... Seriously.....I didn't know I love you so much that it would become so suffocating for me to loose you.....so suffocating that I started hating the fact that I was breathing alive....I didn't want to....you have done one heck of a job on me....don't you ever......ever leave me. I'm suicidal."
Listening the last word I immediately broke the hug and held his face.

"Derek. It's a sin! Nothing can be more heinous...terrifying and criminal than taking your own life.....Derek....we have everything although at times we feel it's not worthy to struggle so much and what's the point....but the point is there's no need of a point. We are given a life, we ought to live it. We deserve it...owe it....and there's nothing in this world which means the end of the world....so...don't you ever...ever think of it. I might die someday, if not today....not tomorrow....but someday....you can't just let it go from you as well. Do you understand what I'm saying...never even think of it."

We paused for a moment and had an eye contact. I thought he was embracing my words and thinking highly hopeful of me.

"You did it, didn't you? It was not some story in my head, you did actually die...and it was the second time, wasn't it?" He said all these and my colour of my face just blew away. The moment when I was telling him all the truth was a different one as I was less in senses and more in fear and pain of dieing without telling him the truth but now...it was more embarassing, complicated and nonsensical to talk about it.

"Um.... yeah....but don't ask me details now, I'll tell you someday. It's an interesting story anyways" I said and hugged him again to avoid eye contacts and face contacts even. He didn't say anything to insist or something.

We heard a knock on the door which made us part away immediately. We shifted our eyes towards the door only to find a nurse in her mid thirties, wearing a pink track suit standing there holding my baby wrapped in a light pink towel. She was smiling, it was a beautiful smile. It reminded me totally of Angela and for a second I though it might be her disguised as a nurse as she was missing us but then I shrugged the thought away thinking it to be too cliche and filmy. Angela was straight, she would just freeze everyone and make everyone blind or what and come meet us. Anyways.

"Look who's here.....my little biilleell girl..." And giggles slipped from my mouth when I heard this manly man named Derek Woods, saying things like this that too in a made up cute voice which more sounded like Donald duck. He sounded so funny. The nurse meanwhile reached us and carefully handed the baby to Derek.

"She is totally you Ire....you are little mumma...little mumma.....my kushuoushupush babyyyy....say dadda...stop sleeping ya....wake up wake up wake up..." And he started tickling her and literally waking her up. I tried to stop him as I knew what happens when she wakes up but before I could stop, the damage was done already. She started crying so loud that even Derek got scared for a moment with her shrill voice. He looked at me with his scared face and then at the baby and I couldn't help but just laugh.

"You......(in between my laughs) you don't wake a baby up....Derek......" and I held my stomach as too much laughter was also giving me pains in my groin and lower abdomen. He kept trying to shush her down and straddle her up and down but she kept crying her throat out.

"Give me here...." I asked him forwarding my hands. He carefully handed her back to me and as Angela taught me to give the baby a comfortable position, I gently put her in my shoulder and tapping her back slowly and lightly I rocked her and hummed some random tune to her slowly. It did soothe her down and she slept after a little more yelling and crying. Derek huffed in relief while I laughed trying myself to be as silent as I could be.

"Never wake a baby...and Derek she is just hours old, she can't say dadda now..." And I chuckled again. He just rolled his eyes and mouthed WHATEVER as he was still scared of talking that his voice will wake her up again and she will start bellowing all around here.

"Where's everybody by the way?" I asked as my mind finally got out from me and my child and travelled to other people alive and involved in our lives.

"I'll just call and check" he said and raised from his place to leave the room but before he could, we heard another knock and everybody were already there peeping inside silently.
I put my baby down and made her sleep in my lap and looked upwards with a beaming smile at everybody.

"Iris my dear....how are you feeling now?" Jeremy said in his low voice as he came inside to me.

"Never been more alive" I said nodding my way.

"Is that a girl I see or a boy.. ?" He said with an unusual excitement I never witnessed looking down at my lap.

"A girl....prodigy if I say so" I said as smile wasn't going away from my face.

"Oh a girllll!" Surprisingly, everyone, Naomi Alex and Mr. and Mrs.Woods, purred in happiness and happiness. I laughed a little in overwhelming happiness and nodded my head excitingly.

"We lost a girl and there she is....back to us" Derek said looking constantly at my lap to the sleeping beauty I had. It was a privilege to have being a mother of a such. It always is a privilege until that child turns you down. Suddenly, the thought of my mother crossed my mind and it saddened me that she wasn't involved in my happiness. Had she been here, she would have turned this room into a baby room already with all her decorative stuffs made out of waste.

Mrs.woods went to Derek and hiding in his shoulder, cried a little, I presume remembering her daughter.

"No crying mama...please" I said and then stopped and my mouth dried as I realised what I had just called her and also that every pair of eye, except the sleeping little one, were transfixed on me. Again, like a mermaid found on seashore.

"I.....I mean Mrs.woods.....Mrs.Woods" I said nervously looking down, here and there.

"No no....it's better with mama.....you are a part of our family anyways after all you have done....for us....and of course, we can't let this cute little girl slip away..." To my very very surprise she said all this while holding my hand and sitting in front of me. I flushed red in hue with all the happiness suddenly coming my way so nonchalantly. I mean, was it even possible.
As they say, all the struggle becomes worth it someday. I don't know who says it though. I'm saying it!

"Doll" we heard a voice on the door. My mind stopped for a second and I was hoping for it and not hoping for it. I mean it was so vague and surprising and I was so unprepared for it. Oh I forgot to tell you, I felt like it was my mom because she nicknamed me doll seventeen years ago and I liked it for one year, but then I got matured and reaction changed whenever it was called out.

We all turned around to the door to see the person came in my mind the moment I heard.

"Mom" it came out like a whisper. I had no idea how she came up to know that I was here. Then, it hit my mind and I turned to Derek. He shrugged his shoulders casually and went to the door to escort her or what.

"Mrs.Stevens....please come in. Thank you so much for coming on such short notice. It's a pleasure to finally meet you." He said all these like he had mugged up all these lines since he was planning this surprise for me. I was screwed with the surprise to be honest. Oh, in a good way though, in case you start to think I hate my mother. I don't hate mothers now....in fact I feel I'm suddenly in a we-all-mothers-we-know-struggle club or something as I've suddenly started to feel how it must feel to be in my mom's shoes.

"You didn't even call me once. But anyways, it was my mistake. I shouldn't have shut you down like that. Oh you have girl now.....oh my baby have a baby now ........ (She wiped her tears sitting in front of me now, while I was still crying) you know what (sobbing a little) now you will know.....you will understand how hard it is to be a mother.....and how much nuisance a child can be......now you will stop hating me....you will see. Your girl will also annoy you like you annoy me." And I just hugged her. She stroke my back while I kept crying. I missed her so much, I went through so much I wanted to tell her but it was worthless to disturb her peace now.

"I.....I missed you so much mama......so much......" I said in between my sobs.

"It's fine....it's fine...." She said while stroking my back and hair, like she used to do when I used to come home crying, in high school, after being bullied or dumped by boys I liked or whatever. We were like companions since my childhood. I felt so good to finally have her back. So good. And she was right, I could now feel how much have I frustrated her.

"Alright alright.....now is the time to first feed the baby." We broke our hug as the nurse who brought her in commanded us in her most polite way.

"Yeah... We will leave" Derek said and I could see his face flushed a little. I laughed internally seeing him getting uncomfortable at such things.
Everybody came and tugged me or kissed my forehead or hair and went off the room. I was left alone with baby and the nurse who was now teaching me how to breast feed for the first time.

We woke baby up and then tried to make her able to feed from me. It felt so weird and a little painful at first but then eventually I got habitual of it.

More like twenty minutes or something, Derek entered the room saying "I can't stay much away from you two" and I giggled while baby was still having her appetite full. I was all covered now as the nurse taught me how to do it in public as well.

"Aww...you can come now, it's all good" and he came and sat beside me.

"Derek....I have thought of a name....can you call everyone...I wanna announce it." I said as I was heaping with excitement and I needed to let it all out. I thought of this name when I was going for Cathy's funeral and I was so proud and excited about it.

"You did....I'll call everyone but tell me first..." He said and I laughed.

"No go and call others...." I said pushing him away with my hands. He went away with a frown and then came back with everybody.

"What's the name....we will change it if we won't like it...I'm telling you...it's not yours alone..." Said Mrs. Woods and I nodded and giggled.

I looked down at my baby who was silently feeding from me. It was so unnatural yet so familiar thing. It felt like I was born to feel this. They say, the baby hears and understands if mother talks to it while she is feeding it. I decided it to be the best time to tell her the real meaning and motive behind her name. To tell her what she really meant for me.

"So...it's Ava. Ava Stevens Woods. Ava....means life. It's latin though. But LIFE which she is. She is the ray of life for me...she rejuvenated me.. gave me hope and a strong lifetime reason to live.....live happily and hopefully with her. She is the reason I gave up from life...I gave up from hope and everything...but when I realised.....she was the one I wanted to live for. I can't explain how much you mean to me baby, more than a child means to a mother probably because.....you....you little thumb sucking girl taught me how important life is and how important is to live it. So Ava.....Life. "

I said and everybody stayed silent for a minute while I kept looking at her and wiping my face for nth time.

"It's perfect" Derek said and everybody said different things all together that I don't understand a single one but I could easily deem they all were happy with it.
It was a fresh new start with my ray of life, my ava.

In all the happiness and joy we were all in, my eyes randomly fell on the door where I saw Angela and Lucifer, one inch apart to each other, standing there looking at us with their beaming warm smiles. I owe it all to them.

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Longest chapter of all time. (6k)

So this was the end of it. I hope I have done justice to it. I love the name Ava though!

It's been a humble, amazing, spooky, enhancing, loving and supportive journey for me to write this story. It's a success for me and my conscience as it came out more than better than I expected or planned it to be. I thank you all for whoever reading it and giving their time in it. Those who are giving their reviews and opinions. Those who are sharing it with their friends and suporting me write more. I love you all and can't thank you all enough for it and as I'll definitely miss writing Iris and Derek and Angela and Lucifer....I'll surely plan for a bonus chapter.

Lots of love, life and hope to all of you!
Signing off
Shruti!