Shot in the Dark: A Mick Mars X Ozzy Osbourne Story

Chapter 73: In the End.... A Shot in the Dark Epilogue (Mick & Ozzy)

-Mick-

So now you KNOW.... this whole shot in the dark tale. The tale that started off with being thrown off that Kiss tour in 83', thrown on to a tour with my husband: Ozzy Osbourne....and it is THAT tour the led Ozzy and I to here. Of course, starting on in 83' we weren't THE ONLY ones who took a shot in the dark at love. Nikki Simmons-Sixx very much nearly forty years after the fact agrees with me. Ozzy and I? The lies, the pain.... the truth, brutal heart break, second chances.... finding one another, the birth of our twins.... the painful experience from my pregnancy with them, the aftermath of their birth....and the quadruplets.... haunts Ozzy and I even after all these years. The point, the ultimate point is....it was beyond worth it. Always will be....

My children I share with the infamous Prince of Darkness have thrived, Robert, Azalea, Angel and Michelle have a band.... a highly successful rock 'n roll band naturally. Johanna is an artist, designing and drawing...all kinds of mediums for artists...Rock artist in the business. Les Paul designs guitars and is a producer/manager for his brother and sisters. To think, way back when I had thought even for a MERE moment, that I couldn't be a mother.... but I'd never have hurt my husband like that. NEVER.... all our children are thriving, we have grandchildren.

And I---

"Firefly.... Mick.... oh darling...." Carefully I feel Ozzy wrap his arms around me. I KNOW.

I feel the tears fall and then shaky, but gentle hands cup my face as they have for so many years....

"I know.... I'd said...even after all these years.... WHY me.... though I well know the answer.... I mean Ozzy.... it's..." I stammer tearfully.

"I get your meaning firefly....i take you in... drove you out, had you hypnotized.... but I found my way back to you, we found our way back to each other. I found my heart....and I find myself still falling for you more every day.... every day my love. All the lies, the heartbreak.... your sacrifices carrying our children....i mean fuck....it means everything...because it gave me LIFE...YOU...our children and grandchildren." A gentle and long kiss follows....

-Ozzy-

I must kiss my Alien...My ALIEN. My firefly....i can never picture anyone else at my side...since we met...it's ALWAYS been him even when I didn't see. Taking a Shot in the Dark, he and i....the Simmons-Sixx clan, it's amazing.... truly how far we've all come....and we share grandchildren together. We are all forever entwined.

"Do you think I did the right thing? Retiring.... i said it.... meant it...but...I..." I trail off afterward.

"Yes, but I know you.... you will try and do whatever it takes Oz to get back out there. Both of us, can hardly move..." Here Mick smirks. "Except where it counts of course." He continues, "Our retiring doesn't mean that, we won't make music...kick ass, take the world by storm or ever play on a stage again....i love you Ozzy...I love you...." Mick is of course so fucking right.

"Grandkids are coming.... I thought I'd surprise you. Nick and Angel, with their brood....3 kids. And then our other grandchildren....so surprise my firefly...everyone is coming.... Kiss is 'retired' from the road...and i..." I cut him off gently, touched beyond touched.

"You never cease to amaze me Ozzy....forty years....and if it hasn't changed by now...then it bloody well wont...." I smile and my husband looks as if I have given him gold. Those fire-eyes burning brightly....so very brightly.

Many things over these past decades have been said about me, what matters MOST to me is my husband, our children.... our grandchildren, living and loving.... THAT is what matters and means the most.

I'd have my life....no other way...no one else at my side but my husband: Mick Mars-Osbourne. I did right in the end by him and it's made my life so much fuller, richer than I ever could have imagined. If I regret anything.... it's in the beginning, the lies.... being blind.... hurting him, the hell I put him thru with that and his pregnancies....and STILL he loved me, loves me still.... I'd go thru it all over and fucking over if I had to....i would.

"Ozzy.... when where they are coming again?" Mick's tone is curious, and I know that look in his eyes....

"Oh, we have plenty of time firefly..." I purr catching on quiet quickly and another thing that hasn't changed after all these years is our love for each other...that FIRE. I pull him to me, being mindful of his back and mine....and everything around me, disappears...but Mick, my beloved firefly....

A/N: I know it's a bit short this ending.... but I thought it was a fitting send off for Mick and Ozzy and so ends this shot in the Dark tale. So much more to come from my future works! Stay tuned!