To Join The Black Parade

TJTBP - Epilogue.

Oh my gosh it's over.

And I finished it in 11 days.

I have no life.

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Epilogue

A long, long time later. Like 60 years. Not like it matters to them anyway.

I mean really.

They don't age in the Black Parade.

I'll shut up now.

Gerard's POV

We all waited, hands by our sides, standing by the float. Even though the fake Frank had already left to his doom, real Frank had yet to arrive.

The other guys had come at their own pace. Ray had come about 15 years later after a car wreck. The others had come at their own pace, dying from old age. Frank was the youngest of us.

And I just got word that he died today.

Mikey was to my left, Bob and Ray to my right. The Black Parade, who had abandoned the fake them and I after destorying the float. We were alone, but they came back when Ray passed for some reason.

Frank. He was coming.

I hadn't seem him in what was now 62 years.

Mikey looked over at me and smiled. I didn't have to change me face at all. It was already in a ridiculous grin.

"Chill, Gerard. You look like a madman." Ray laughed at his own remark.

"I can't. I'm excited to see him," I basically shouted.

"We got that by how you're jumping in your own shoes," Bob said calmly.

"Oh." I stopped bouncing.

I straightened up my uniform a bit. It had a billions layers to it. Then suddenly three guys playing a snare emerged with white masks covering their faces out of the black hole people came out of after they died.

He was here.

I couldn't help the grin on my face, but I hid it. It didn't look very proffesinal, after all.

To my disappointment, the guy who walked out wasn't Frank. It was an elderly, frail-looking man with grey hair that was almost gone. But I noticed something. Slowly, his features grew younger and younger until he was a different person.

And that person was Frank Iero.

He had on suspenders and khakis with a dress shirt, your typical elderly outfit. I smiled at him and we all stepped down from the float to greet him. I decided to go last.

"Great to see you, man," Ray greeted, pulling him into a hug. Frank laughed and hugged him back.

"He shows," Bob chuckled, and Frank shook his hand, pulling him into a hug.

"The light of the group is here," Mikey cheered, and Frank hugged him as well.

I couldn't help my grin growing on my face ever so slowly. Frank locked eyes with me and suddenly the serious look in his eyes brightened. He walked over to me and I pulled him into an extremely tight embrace. I hugged back. "It's good to see you again, Frank."

"And it's a relief to see your face again. I went insane after you died." He laughed warmly. He looked goofy in his old guy clothes, so I walked him over to the back of the float and pulled out a uniforn. He smiled at it, and disappeared behind the float to get dressed. Minutes later, he came back in his uniform. That brought a huge grin to my face.

Frank was finally here.

After 60-something years.

"Gerard, we know you're just bouncing in your skin to say it."

I knew immediately what Mikey meant. I turned to Frank. "Welcome to the Black Parade."

~*~

Whoa.

It's over.

Well, that's it.

Bye...

Did I get you?

Nope? Dang.

But this really is the end.

And they all got kicked out by the younger generation and went to Heaven instead of Hell.

Yaaay.