I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming support that you've shown me and this story. When I came up with the idea I never imagined that it would get this kind of support. I hope that you will revisit my story and read it as many times as you want, even if it's really long.

This is the last chapter. I've been thinking about a story involving the children of the people living in this camp. Believe it or not the camp is an actual real place in Utah. I use to go there when I was little and had some of my best memories there. It's changed a lot in recent years but I just used the camp of my memories to base the story off of. The camp is called Aspen Grove. If you google Aspen Grove Provo it's a beautiful place.

Thanks again for all your support and I look forward to hearing what you think about my 8 years later.

Epilogue: 8 years later

The sun rose and its morning light fell into the kitchen where I worked over a stove making breakfast for my sleepy worker.

Ian was always the first to arrive in the morning basically dragging himself up to come and eat before he went to work. The kids would drag themselves in after their father just as tired. Connor James Brandon, we call him CJ, would close his blue eyes so much like his fathers and fall asleep at the table. Wesley Jared Walter would copy almost anything his brother did even though his brother was two years older than him, he did his best. His gray eyes would droop and he'd fall asleep just like his brother.

Of course my last and final child would stand at the top of the stairs and shout "Daddy" until Ian would get up and get her. She could be me, at 3 years old, with cute little blonde curls and cute little freckles. Though I couldn't hide that I was happy she got her father's eyes. But she had little silver specks in her eyes that sometimes made her look like a soul. She was my little pride and joy, the little girl I hadn't thought I would have. James 8. Wes 6 and little Kimberly Melanie Britney O'Shea as my little 3 year old. Of course we either call her Kim or KMB for short. But nothing beats the way she looks at Ian when he comes home, grabs her in his arms and yells "Kimmy" before kissing me and going upstairs to shower.

Ian works so hard in our little community. The adults will mostly go to the field and work to grow the food or report to stations to make repairs or check on things that might need updated. It kind of reminds me of the way the souls operate. Everyone works everyone pitches in and everyone eats and reaps the rewards. Ian is one of the men who is always working in the fields to grow the food and will occasionally be one who is recruited for trips into the woods to cut down more trees. And will be one of the first to volunteer if there's a house that needs built.

Our community had gotten bigger than the 37 of us in Jeb's caves. There were some homes built but after finishing the 6th one they decided to just build some apartment cabins. What they did was actually to transform some of the cabins they'd left alone into small apartments.

Even though the houses had kitchens so we could feed our families before work, they still served breakfast for everyone else who didn't have kitchens. And several times a week I'd wake everyone earlier and take them to the meeting hall which was our new eating area and meeting room. There has yet to be a tribunal or any sort of meeting that requires everyone to be in attendance but the option is there. There's a conference room attached to the hotel that we use for smaller meetings and that is usually where we plan our raids and things.

Raids have become different since I became a mother. I didn't go on a raid until CJ was at least a year old and even then it had been a small raid. Taking CJ out was never an option. Everyone agreed. But over the course of the years I tested it out. The first test was when Connor got sick. I wasn't sure if it was just the flu and I wanted to take him to a healer. Ian couldn't come with us naturally but he did come with us laying in the back of the car. I took him into an 'Instant Care' facility and told them that my son was sick and I wanted him to be healed. They ascertained that my son was human and while they were a little surprised they didn't seemed alarmed. When I told them that I hadn't given him up as a host and that I was raising him to be a wonderful and caring member of our society they didn't question it. That made it easier when other kids in our community got sick.

We now have a larger school class than you would expect.

It seems like as soon as I had CJ and people settled in, there were people getting pregnant left and right. First was Mel. She was totally excited while Jared was furious with her for going off her birth control. He was even more shocked when they found out they were having twins. Jamie and Rory now 7 were a handful but Mel wasn't as diligent as she should have been. A year later both Mel and I had kids within days of each other. 6 year old Damien definitely keeps Mel on her toes. But apparently things cooled down after a while, she decided to have one more and had Wanda, which made me tear up, who is now 3. Same age as Kimmy.

But it wasn't just Mel, many of the other women in our community started getting pregnant. Lily met someone from Nate's group who made her feel happy again, Paige and Andy had two kids a girl and boy, Doc and Sharon had 4, Lucina got pregnant again with another boy, even Candy and Lacey had children though I pitied the man who coupled up with Lacey.

Pretty soon we had a whole bunch of kids now under the age of 7 growing up near each other and learning human things from some of the women and one man in our community who serve as teachers while I, Burns and now Sunny serve as the alien history teachers.

Kyle eventually gave up on Jodie, conceding to defeat that she was gone but was happy to take Sunny in her place. Kyle and Sunny had one child of their own. Surprisingly Kyle ended up fathering a little girl who, in Ian and Sunny's opinion looks a lot like Kyle and Ian's mother. They named her Jodie which I thought was amazingly sweet. When they tried again, this time wanting a boy, they got twin girls. Ian teased Kyle for a few minutes about it before remembering I wanted a girl. Sunny turned out to be a wonderful mother. She told me often she was sort of relieved not to have boys. "Boys are so ruff and violent." She told me "Your boys hit, pinch, bite and scratch while my girls just want to color and have their own dolls."

It was true my boys were ruff but they were gentler with their sister and we're fiercely protective over her. And I couldn't really talk. I was just as protective over my precious Kimmy.

I loved my family very much. Once a week we would turn on our TV and watch some movies that we'd found on a raid years back. Classic old movies from some sort of family friendly company. Most of them were animated but a few were not. I didn't like them at first because in one a hunter was ordered to kill a young princess by her evil stepmother. But others like a small boy wanting to save an injured dragon from being killed so he learns to ride it and they became friends, those were the kind of movies we would watch as a family.

The movies had been found in digital and physical copies on a raid a little after Connor was born. Everyone was super excited, there was all kinds of movies ranging in so violent and scary I haven't wanted to see them to black and white movies that were not as exciting as I thought they'd be.

I usually only let my kids watch the movies that were labeled G or PG and only if I'd seen them and approved of them.

One night CJ, Wes and Kimmy had come into our room because they'd had a nightmares, got scared or thought there were monsters in their closet. Ian and I let them sleep in our room and I let them crawl into bed with us. We had a really big bed so it was a good fit. As I laid there looking at my Ian, Connor and Wes sprawled out arms on top of each other's and legs kicking one another, and my little Kimmy who was curled into my side her head laying on my chest I couldn't help but feel like I was the luckiest girl in the universe.

With this being the end of this story I want to thank everyone again for all the support and love they've shown the story. I read every single review and I love the feedback.

I may post a preview on here of a follow up story if people would be interested. Let me know.

Thanks and I hope everyone has a great day.