So, we will never know if Ted would have been beaten to pulp in jail by the other prisonners until the end of his life...

Or if Joyce would have been Bertha The Mad Cow's bitch. Or if Dawn's death would have schocked her enough to awake her conscience (in the way: to plead guilty voluntarily, to accept without a word the worst sentence and to beg for forgiveness).

I know. It's stronger than me ;)... I always hope to see the big bad punished.

But it's a beautiful ending :)! Beginning sadly, but ending with light and hope.

I am curious to read your other works!

Author's Response: asume that what was said about punishments in Chapter 13 is what actually came to pass. I was going to write the funeral and Joyce, but I wanted the epilogue to be light, and not deal with the darker aspects of the story itself. Thank you so much for your kind words through this journey though=)