A/N: The final chapter! I hope you all enjoyed the story! Would love to hear if you've read it, so please feel free to leave a review! Thanks :)

Chapter 30: The End


Danny started walking again, opening his mouth to speak as they went, but when they turned the corner, he found Patrick staring into the dangerous end of Matt's stun gun.

"Oi! Matt!" Danny called out. "Wasn't it enough you shot me? Now you're after me brother as well?"

"Brother!" Abby asked incredulously as Matt lowered his gun in surprise.

Ethan whirled around and faced Danny with a smile that Sarah did not like the looks of in the least.

"Danny, so you came after me again at last." He said sarcastically. "And Sarah, it's good to see you too."

"Where's Charlotte? Where's Emily?" Sarah demanded.

Ethan shot her a glare, "Dead," he replied. "Charlotte didn't make it, and it's All. Your. Fault." He stepped toward her, raising a gun and Danny immediately stepped between them.

"Patrick, put that down now. You know Sarah wasn't to blame."

"I was," he heard Sarah choke out behind him and he longed to comfort her, knowing that she was indeed blaming herself.

"Oh, but it was." Ethan continued, "Hers, and yours, and Emily's. Emily I've already killed. Seems I have my chance for revenge on the two of you now as well."

Danny heard Sarah gasp with horror over the thought that both the girls were dead, but Abby also saw their reaction and moved closer to them whispering for their ears alone, "Emily's not dead. Ethan thinks she is, but Matt rescued her."

Sarah breathed a sigh of relief, but Danny was too focused on his brother's coldness. Emily had been right then. There was something seriously wrong with Patrick. Oh, he'd known it all along, but hearing him brag about killing Emily, hearing him threaten Sarah… "What happened to you, Patrick?" he asked sadly. "You need help. You can get it here."

Ethan released the safety on the gun, but Matt was on him instantly at the action, pulling the trigger on his EMD and knocking Ethan to the ground. "Sorry, Danny, but his gun has bullets."

Danny nodded stepping toward his brother's unconscious body to disarm him. "I know. I've seen what he can do and we can't take any chances with him. Emily and Charlotte, they warned me. I tried to talk to him back there on the other side of the anomaly but he doesn't get it. He needs to be locked away, permanently, as he's a danger to others, but I can't bear to lose him for a third time. He's made me choose between himself and Sarah, and I choose her. Please just… take him away. I don't want to see him anymore. It's too hard, but do get him some counselling and treat him gently."

Matt nodded and called Becker to join them. Danny turned away as they handcuffed Patrick and made arrangements to return him to the ARC. Danny felt Sarah take his hand in a gesture of comfort and he quickly pulled her to himself, kissing her ear in hopes that her hair would hide his suddenly watering eyes from everyone but her. He knew they'd understand, but he still didn't want them to see.

Matt was giving orders to the others. He said that he'd take Sarah and Danny back himself now that Ethan had been found. He wanted Abby to stay with Connor and Becker to back them up in case more birds came through. Danny barely heard the orders though. He had too many thoughts, too many emotions, about too many different topics at the moment, so he pushed them all out of his head to deal with them one at a time later on and focused solely on the comfort Sarah was giving him.


"It's peculiar," Danny whispered to Sarah as they sat alone in Lester's office, "How an hour of questions and reunions can be so much more exhausting than running from terror birds for half a day."

"I think the adrenaline in the Terror Bird scenario has something to do with that," she chuckled.

They'd been thoroughly questioned by both Matt and Lester, as well as a third person named Phillip by now, and they'd also been very warmly greeted by the young girl behind the voice they'd heard in the ear pieces earlier. Jess informed them that she knew them well since she'd read their files and greeted them as long lost friends.

The door started to crack open again and Danny groaned, dreading another interview. However this time he recognized the face that peered around the corner as a dear friend. "Emily!" he grinned.

Sarah turned around and when she saw the dark-haired woman before them, she jumped from her seat to give her a hug. Emily looked at them both in surprise. "You two aren't mad at me?"

Danny frowned, "Should we be?"

"Well I didn't exactly hold that anomaly open for you, did I? And I've done a pretty bad job at controlling your brother too."

"Patrick can't be controlled," Danny spoke bluntly. "It's not my fault, nor yours, no matter how hard it is to accept. And I was the one who made the decision not to follow you through that anomaly. What did happen though, might I ask, when you got through to this side?"

"Charlotte was too sick," Emily answered, moving around the desk to sit across from them in Lester's chair. "We ended up in a theatre and she died before we even got out of it. Ethan got mad and when the ARC team showed up, he hid somewhere. I didn't see where. I didn't know they were the ARC at that point and I tried to get back through the anomaly to you, but Matt followed me and dragged me back. He didn't mean any harm by it; he's a good guy, you know. Anyway, we were attacked by a tree creeper and Matt saved me, I suppose, as the next thing I knew I was waking up in a hospital and he was there. At that point my mind was solely on finding Ethan. It wasn't until much later, after the anomaly had closed, that I put two and two together and realised that this might be your time, but it was too late to do anything just then. I never did tell them I'd seen you. I suppose I should've but I was worried they'd blame themselves for locking the anomaly and even more worried they'd be angry with me for not speaking up sooner. If there was any way to go back for you of course I'd have brought it up, but there wasn't so…"

"It's okay, Emily," Sarah forgave her instantly. "I'd have died out there if it weren't for you and especially Charlotte. You did your best."

Emily nodded, looking relieved. "I've told them now of course. I told Matt the whole thing while Lester was questioning you."

"Speaking of Matt," Danny asked, "How do Sarah and I fit in with the new team? I'm assuming that Matt has taken my job now."

Emily glanced at her hands a bit awkwardly and then shrugged, "Yes, he has, and I don't know actually. He's worried, you know, that you coming back will mean a loss to his job and, no offence, but we can't afford to lose him. I can't say more than that."

"So you're suggesting that Danny step down?" Sarah asked, suddenly angry.

Emily shook her head quickly, "No! Not - not completely, but without saying more, it's critical for Matt to be leader right now."

Sarah was glaring at Emily and Danny tried hard not to smile about the fact that she was being so defensive of him as he reached for her arm, "Sare, let's not worry about this until tomorrow, yeah? It might not be a bad idea for us to take some time off. I want to see my parents again and travel up north to see my sister Lisa and then find a place for us to live and maybe get that dog I was talking about."

Sarah relaxed and looked at Emily. "Sorry," she apologized a bit sheepishly, "I shouldn't get so worked up before anything's official anyway. To be honest, everything's a little overwhelming right now and I don't think I even want Danny or myself going on any missions straight away. We need time. Is there any chance we can get some food and a place to sleep now?"

Emily smiled at her, "Do not worry, I understand. I'm sure everything will work itself out eventually. And Lester's working on the food and lodging as we speak." She stood up and gave them each a quick hug, "I will go bully him into hurrying up the process. I'll see you guys soon."

As soon as they were alone again, Danny leaned over and gave Sarah a quick kiss on the lips. "Thanks," he told her earnestly, "For sticking up for me."

She smiled and went to respond, but they were interrupted as Lester stepped into the room, followed closely by Abby and Connor who were carrying large plates of Chinese food.

Sarah and Danny exchanged grins as Danny spoke up, "That sure the hell better be for us."

Connor chuckled and nodded as he put a plate down in front of him while Abby handed one to Sarah.

Lester sat down across from them and nodded to the food, "Dig in then. When you're done I'll take you over to the company apartments and in the morning we can discuss your pay for while you were gone and your position with the company and all that jazz." He handed each of them a key. "Sarah, I've given you room 310 and Danny you're in 407."

Before either of them could react, Abby shook her head vehemently, snatching a key out of Danny's hand and handing it back. "They'll want to share a room," she said pointedly to Lester before glancing understandingly at the couple who stared at her in surprise. She continued, "And have one of Becker's men stand guard outside the room will you, so they can get a good night's sleep without worrying about setting a watch."

"And make sure they have a CD player," Connor added, "I've just burned them a CD full of nature and wildlife sounds."

Danny and Sarah smiled gratefully at their friends, but all Danny replied was, "I sure hope you didn't include any Terror Birds on that CD."

Connor laughed, "Don't worry, herbivores only."


The next two days went by like a whirlwind for Sarah and Danny. The stream of questions were never ending and other than at night when they excused themselves to the company apartment, they found it hard to really just be alone together. And despite all of the reunions, they'd suddenly found themselves having to say another goodbye as well when Emily had made the decision to go back through the anomaly after learning that Sarah's horse and buggy had been her own time in the Victorian age.

When they did retire for the nights, they were too exhausted to really talk and just curled up together in bed, holding onto one another but not discussing anything. When Danny woke up on their third day back, he found Sarah sitting on the edge of the bed combing her hair with the comb he'd made her, tears streaming down her face. Immediately he moved to her side and gave her a hug before taking over the job of fixing her hair.

"It's too much," she whispered. "I almost want to go back if it's going to be like this. Phillip wants to talk to us again in a couple of hours and I just want to find our own place and get settled in."

Danny nodded, but remained silent until her hair was tangle-free. Then he put the comb down and stood in front of her, taking both her hands in his. "You're right, Sare. And to be honest, I don't like this Phillip guy. Maybe it's all the meetings, maybe not, but I just get a bad feeling about him."

"Me too," she admitted.

"Well we're both usually right, aren't we? Let's skip this interview. Let's skip everything for today and get done some things that we want to do. There's a couple of places I think we need to go. We'll sneak out now and if anyone asks, we're grabbing some breakfast and coming back. They won't question it."

Sarah smiled and nodded, pulling one of her hands from his to wipe her tears with the back of it. "That sounds brilliant," she agreed and she got up to go get changed into a dark green sundress that Jess had dropped off for her the night before.


An hour later, Danny buried his face into Molly-Spratt's fur to say goodbye while Sarah knocked on the door of a young Taylor Craig's complex. They'd had Molly-Spratt in their care for almost two years now, and Taylor hadn't seen her dog for three, but he knew that she was the rightful owner, and she'd been a good one. Besides, they'd promised each other, Sarah and Danny, they'd return the dog when they got back. It by no means meant he wasn't going to miss the little fur ball.

The door opened and a man looked out at them, "If you're selling something, I don't want it." He said quickly.

"No, no!" Sarah said quickly, "we're here to see Taylor. Is she home?"

The man shrugged and turned back inside, shouting, "Taylor! People here for you."

"Thanks Dad!" she yelled back, "Be there in a minute."

The man grinned at Sarah and Danny, "Never get tired of hearing that. You know I've been her stepfather since she was nine and it's only this year as she started calling me Dad instead of Steve."

"And I'll stop again if you keep getting all mushy about it," came the voice of the fourteen-year-old as she stepped around from behind him, rolling her eyes.

Steve let out a chuckle as he excused himself, leaving Taylor to attend to her guests. "Who are you?" she asked.

"We're travellers through time who spent the last two years overcoming all sorts of obstacles and fighting off all sorts of creatures to bring you your dog." Sarah teased with a grin.

Taylor looked puzzled for a moment, but then she caught sight of Molly-Spratt and Sarah had to cover her ears as the girl squealed, "Spratt!"

Spratt squirmed in Danny's arms and gave out a playful bark as Danny reluctantly handed the dog over. Taylor buried her face into the dog's fur just as Danny had done earlier. After a bit, she looked up with a grin. "So, I take it you guys work with Nick and Stephen then?"

Danny froze, unsure how to tell the young teenager that they'd both passed away, but Taylor saw the look on his face and figured it out on her own. "Oh, right," she mumbled, looking at Spratt to try and her tears, "I guess it's pretty dangerous job, yeah?"

"Yeah, I guess it is," Danny replied gently.

Taylor nodded, "Right, well anyway, did Nick tell you that he promised I could work with you when I finish school? I still want to. It's pretty exciting what you do and all. I've been learning martial arts and sword fighting as well as studying up on historic eras and animals. My friends think I'm insane, but I'll be ready."

Danny chuckled, "Yeah, you'd be good at it, but you'll have to add military training to your list. New rule, or so I'm told."

"Got it," Taylor nodded. "I'll join the army or something right out of high school and get a bit o' training in. See you guys in a few years then?"

"See ya," Sarah promised.

"Thanks again, for rescuing the dog," Taylor grinned. "I dunno what I'll tell Dad since he thinks Spratt's dead and all…"

"You'll figure it out," Danny smiled, "Consider it practice for the PR part of the job. Take care of her, will ya? Don't be letting her run through any more anomalies."

"Got it," Taylor replied.

Danny and Sarah turned to leave, but as they did, Danny called back over his shoulder, "Oh, and Taylor, just a heads up that your dog might answer to Molly now too!"


"Maybe we should just give someone a quick call," Sarah suggested as they climbed back into the car.

"Why? Then they'll just get on our case to come back into the ARC."

"They might be worried about us, and hopefully they'll understand. Either way, I can always just hang up and turn the ringer off after."

Danny shrugged, "Call if you must then."

"I'll just let Abby know," Sarah decided, switching on her mobile. She glanced at in and then grinned. "See, I told you, they'd be worried. I've got thirty-one new messages, and I bet you've got as many." She didn't bother to listen to them though as she rang Abby.

"Don't tell them where we're going," Danny hissed at her as the phone rang, "Just that we are fine and not coming in."

Sarah nodded at him in agreement.


"I don't know what to say," Sarah whispered to Danny as she clutched his hand an hour later. "How do I even begin to thank her, to apologize, to say goodbye?"

"Don't," he whispered back as he placed the bouquet of flowers he was holding on the ground beside Charlotte Cameron's tomb. "You can't, Sare. And you don't need to apologize. You aren't to blame for her death."

"But she died so I could live," Sarah whispered, not bothering to wipe the tear that fell from her eyes. "I feel like I should say something to her."

"And me," Danny responded. Then, noticing the question in Sarah's eyes as she turned to him, he continued. "If it wasn't for the fact that I knew she was caring for you, I would have. I might not have known what I was doing, but I'd have done my best and I'd have got the smallpox too."

"Not necessarily…"

"There's a pretty good chance though, isn't there?" He let his own tears fall too, too grateful to Charlotte for saving Sarah to be ashamed of his emotion. "We both owe her everything," he said, "but it's too late to repay her. I suggest we live life to the fullest so we don't waste what she died to save."

Sarah nodded and then edged closer to him so she could rest her head against his arm as they stood. "I wish I'd known her better," She said. "Even your brother knew how special she was."

"I just wish he knew that we ain't so bad either."

She squeezed his hand a bit tighter, "He might get better yet, Danny. He might. Lester will get him the best help. You'll see."

Danny nodded and pulled her hand up to kiss the back of it. "C'mon, Sare. We should go get something to eat."

She nodded and placed her own bouquet of flowers beside Danny's. "Thanks Charlotte," she whispered, "for everything."

"Rest in peace," Danny added. Then they both wiped their tears and slowly walked back to their car.


"I feel so… rich," Sarah said with a laugh as she pulled some money out of her wallet to pay for their hot dogs at the park vendor. Lester had been unable to get their bank accounts and documents updated yet to say that they were, indeed, alive, so he'd paid each of them out two years worth of wages in cash.

Danny chuckled and held the hot dogs for her as she sorted the change back into its proper place, before handing one of them back to her. "No kidding, eh? Mind you, money aside I think I feel rich just in the fact that we're buying a lunch instead of hunting for it."

"So true," she agreed, "The baths, hair cuts, and clean clothing really feel luxurious, don't they? Still, I can guarantee I've never had this much cash on me before in my life. I almost feel nervous about it, so I do rather hope that Lester gets our identities sorted soon and we can get it into a bank."

"Yep," Danny replied, taking her hand. They strolled through the park while they ate, talking and joking about little things and acting as though they had never left home. It felt right. Sarah thought it was the first time since they were back that she'd even really had the chance to just relax and enjoy herself and grow accustomed to London as their home again.

When their hot dogs were done they tossed the paper wrappers and Danny changed his hand position so that his fingers were interlocked with hers, staring at their joined fingers as he did. Suddenly he frowned, "You're missing something."

"What?" she asked, asking more what he was talking about than what she was missing.

"C'mon," Danny said, giving her hand a tug. "I saw a jeweller's away back south. I wanna get you a proper engagement ring."

Sarah's eyes lit up, "Really? Now?"

"Yeah, why not? We've both agreed ages ago we want to marry one day, we should make it official, don't you think?"

"I'd like that," she replied, reaching up to give him a quick peck on the lips.


They spent the next hour and a half trying on different rings. There were a few shops and Danny wanted Sarah to try them all to make sure they got the right one. They finally found one that she fell completely in love with: a thin golden band engraved with leaves and three flowers made from garnets with diamond centres going across the front. Danny purchased it as the cashier congratulated them and asked if she wanted to wear it out of the store.

Sarah reached for it, but Danny shook his head and took it before she could. "No, let's go somewhere nice and I'll give you a proper proposal," he said.

Sarah laughed a bit as they exited the shop, "It's a bit late for that, don't you think?"

He shrugged sheepishly, "I'll admit I went about this whole thing backwards in the past, but it doesn't mean I can't do the proper steps, even if they aren't in order."

"Alright, but I don't want to wait forever, so if you're gonna propose, you'd best do so now. Where're we gonna go for this?"

Danny glanced back at the park but it was a bit too crowded for his liking. He shrugged, "Let's just walk until we find somewhere, okay?"

She nodded and they carried on until they came to another much smaller and more private park. They glanced at each other and Danny smiled, "Here?"

"Anywhere," she answered, thinking it cute that he looked so nervous, despite the fact that he must know she was going to say yes.

Danny guided her to sit down on a low brick wall that was encircling a flower patch. Then he fiddled nervously with the ring as he sat beside her, "Sarah Page," he whispered, I am so in love with you, and I always will be. If I was perfectly honest, I'd say I loved you even before we got stuck in the past." He dropped down on one knee in front of the wall as he slipped the ring on her hand, "Will you marry me?"

Sarah nodded, surprised to find herself crying once again as she pulled him back up to kiss her. "Of course I will, Danny," she replied when they pulled apart. "Of course I will."

They stayed there for a long time in silence, just cuddling and kissing, but after awhile, Sarah suddenly asked, "So when was it?"

"When was what?"

"You said you loved me before we went through that anomaly. When did you fall for me?"

Danny pondered for a moment, considering, and then grinned at her, "I guess the first time I really realised it and let it sink in was the moment you showed up and stopped Sir William from chopping my head off with a sword. But I also realised at that moment that I'd loved you for awhile already, I'd just been too busy to pay attention. What about you?"

Sarah laughed, "Oh, I knew the moment I fell for you. It was when you grinned at me and told me to trust you because you had an honest face."

Danny laughed and flashed the same cheeky grin at her as he had then, "Wow, I didn't realise how great a line that really was. In fact, at the time I was surprised it had worked when you let me wander off on my own."

Sarah chuckled, "Well, I've trusted you ever since."


They went out somewhere posh for dinner that evening. They'd decided that their engagement was means to celebrate. They ordered some champagne as they talked about the near future and what their plans were.

"I definitely want to go see my family," Danny told her. "I'm thinking we could do a couple more of these silly meetings with Phillip and all tomorrow morning and then request some time off. We could go tomorrow afternoon to visit my parents and then head up north to see Lisa for a week or so."

Sarah nodded, "Sounds good to me, though I'd rather skip the meetings myself."

"Well, I would too, but I guess we should go anyway. I'd like to find out more about this Phillip character myself before I decide to trust him."

"Yeah," Sarah agreed, "His face isn't nearly as honest as yours."

Danny laughed, but then turned serious again a moment later, "How much time are we going to request off?"

"Six months at least. I'd like to find us a proper house to live in, and of course, we want to get married."

"I was thinking we could do that while we were up north. A private wedding, just me and you, and maybe immediate family…" Danny suggested, sounding both nervous and hopeful.

"That's really fast," Sarah commented, "but I do like that idea, a lot."

"So we're agreed?"

Sarah nodded and leaned across the table to kiss him. "Agreed."

Danny smiled at her, "And then, we can get a dog?"

Sarah smiled back. "We can get a dog," she promised.


Sarah smiled as she woke up the next morning feeling genuinely happy, much unlike the previous day. This time Danny was up before her and she watched in silence for a little while as he fiddled on a laptop that Connor had loaned them.

"This thing is amazing," Danny said, glancing at her when he sensed that she was awake. "You can look up so many things on here."

"Danny, it's the internet. It's been around for a long time, not exactly new technology here."

"I know," he smiled as Sarah climbed out from under the covers and came to sit cross-legged on the edge of the bed beside him, "but I've rather missed technology. Think of how helpful it would've been in the past where we could have just typed in something like, 'What creatures live in the Permian era?' Anyway, I'm learning all sorts of amazing stuff today. Did you know that currency in Ethiopia is called the birr?"

Sarah raised her eyebrows, "I did actually."

"Of course you did. Okay how about this one: Did you know that Green Lake in Austria is a park for half the year and a lake for the other half?"

Sarah sighed, "I mean, I kinda..."

"Never mind," he interrupted laughing, "It was new information to me at least. Not all of us have memorised every fact about every location on the planet! But this one will definitely be new to you and I think you're going to like it. Did you know that volleyball was invented by early Israelites?"

Sarah swatted at him, "Get out! It does not say that."

"I swear it does," Danny protested with a grin, turning the screen to her as he read. "Historians have found engravings that depict early volleyball tournaments played amongst Israelites and also early Egyptians. In Egypt it was a game played by men of high position, but in Israel where it originated, men, woman and children alike often partook in the game."

Sarah burst out laughing. "I don't believe it," she said, reading the article along with him. "That is way too funny!"

Danny nodded and shut the lid of the laptop closed, putting it aside. "Yep, I've been waiting to show you that all morning. We made history, Sare."

"We sure did," she replied, glancing at the camel statue on her nightstand. "I'm glad we're home, but now that we're safe and sound and can look back on it, it was truly a great adventure. I've never regretted stepping through that first anomaly with you."

Danny smiled and reached for hand, playing with the ring he'd bought her. "Ready for the next adventure then?"

"I am," Sarah responded earnestly just before they kissed.