Disclaimer: Timeline is mine, Alesha & family are mine, plot is mine, Anything else belongs to JW/WB/Fox/ME etc etc etc!
Rating: PG14
Spoilers: Say everything and I cover myself
Distribution: Yes, I like to see my name in lights! But LMK
Thanx: You guys for your patience with Destiny Corrected.
Author's Notes: This takes place about 35 years after Destiny Corrected but in the same timeline/universe Alesha writes a letter
Dedication: Colin Tarrant...you inspired this and you'll never know it

Dear Mom & Dad

I can't believe that it's nearly twenty years, to me it always seems like yesterday. I didn't think I would ever stop crying. I hadn't seen you for two weeks – our lives had been that busy. I never got the chance to say all the things I should have and wanted to. I can't believe that it has actually taken me this long to write down everything that I wanted to say. I think that after all this time I am finally coming to terms with what happened.

I hope you both know how much I love you. Even though you are gone that is never going to change. You were such a big part of my life. To some people that would sound funny, of course they were a big part of your life – they were your parents – but you were so much more than that. Yes you were my parents, but you were also my playmates, my friends, my confidants, my shoulders to cry on, and my teachers. That makes it sound as if I was an insular child who had no friends; I wasn't. I led a full and happy life. I had friends and they were important to me, but when it came down to it the people I considered my closest friends were you.

I admired you, I still do. You two went through so much together, so much to be together, and you never gave up. Anyone and everyone could see how much in love you were. You taught me that love was a precious and special gift, not to be given lightly. It was to be nurtured and treasured, but that it also had to be free. It was a lesson I learned well.

You told me all about my heritage, you never hid anything from me. The daughter of a vampire and a Slayer. I cherish the gifts you gave me. My strength, my tolerance for pain, my 'spider sense'. Even the yellowing of my eyes has proved useful! If I want Anne and Liam to go to bed I just glare at them and they run!

I am so sorry that you never got to meet your grandchildren, they are little miniatures of you except that Anne is dark and Liam is fair. Peter says that they are both going to be heartbreakers and I think he is right.

Peter and I are still together and very happy. In this day and age that in itself could be considered a miracle but I am not at all surprised. Who drummed it into me at an early age that when you meet your soulmate you have to work at it, but that the rewards make it all worthwhile? You were so right. He loves me for who I am. He supports me, guides me and I do the same for him.

I am still in contact with Aunt Willow, Aunt Tara, Aunt Cordy, Uncle Xander, Uncle Wesley and Uncle Oz and all my cousins. Even Uncle Spike pops round occasionally for a mug of blood and a gossip! Giles has been dead for fifteen years now. He took your loss deeply. We tried our best but he was never really the same. He blamed himself however many times we told him it wasn't his fault. I expect you two gave him a damn good talking to when you met up again! I know that he was hoping to see Jenny again. Please God let him have had his dearest wish.

I'm crying again now so I think I will close. Peter is collecting the kids from school and I don't want them to see me like this.

However much I miss you I am happy that you are finally together in a place where there are no more 'big bad brewin' evil's' to fight. You have earned this time together. Be happy and be at peace.

I love and miss you guys so much.
Alesha

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