Into the Unknown

A/N: I know, crappy title, don't worry gonna keep this short. This is what I think happens after Wirt and Greg get out of the Unknown, and back to their lives. Some romance? Maybe some drama? Who knows, might just be a one shot. She a week after they get out of the hospital, and getting ready on the Sunday before school

Wirt PoV

The hospital wasn't so bad. The only thing was that they wanted to keep us for 24 hours for 'observation'. Which was their saying for poking us, prodding us, and pumping some not so good tasting tasty bubblegum flavored medicine. It wasn't so bad though, the Dr. told us to stay home from school and take it easy. Not that I'm complaining or anything, but, it's gonna take a lot of catching up to do. Greg was estatc, but I shouldn't have worried. Sara visited me every day after I first woke up.

She's great. She brought me my school work in the hospital, and kept at it when me and Greg were released to go home. My mom and step dad were mad when they heard that we nearly died running from the cops, but after seeing the official report, and a generous reimbursement from the local police department, they forgave us easy enough, saying that we had a bad enough experience as it was without a grounding. Boy do they don't know how right they are.

Even though my brain is telling me that the Unknown was just a dream, my heart is telling me otherwise. And given the fact that Greg remembers exactly what happened too, I think that the Unknown was a real place, and we went there, somehow, and came back. I don't know how, and I have several theories, and I wanted to get them down, but I can't find my tape recorder, so I'm writing all this down in a spare notebook I have. I haven't seen my recorder since-

"Wirt!" I was interrupted by my mom calling me from down stairs. Pausing my thoughts on paper, I let the pencil hover and call out, "Yeah mom?!"

"Sera's here! Do you want me to send her up?" Blushing at the thought, but knowing that nothing will come of it, say, "Yeah! S-send her up!"

I hear the door closing, and hurry to finish my thoughts. Just as she opened my bedroom door I say, "Done!"

She asks, "What's done?"

Looking up at her, I blush again and said, "N-nothing. Just a dream journal that I decided to start up."

"Oh, really?" She looked over my shoulder, and I hastily closed it, even though nothing is in it besides those three paragraphs. "What? Is it private dreams?"

She laughs as I blush and splutter out, "N-no! No n-noth-nothing l-like that! I haven't really started on it yet. It's not filled."

"Then why won't you let me see it?" She asked sweetly. Not in a sarcastic way, more like she's just overly curious.

"A-aren't dream journals suppose to be kind of, I donno, private?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right," she said smiling at me.

Grinning back, I ask, "S-so, what brings you to my neighborhood?"

"Wirt, we live three houses away from each other."

"Right, right."

"I actually wanted to come and talk to you..." she pulls something out from her coat pocket, and my breath hitches in my throat, "about this," she finishes. She pulled out my tape recorder. And in the recorder, I can see the tape with the title, for Sara, written in my hand writing.

Immediately thinking about my journal, and the sentence I finished before she came in, I haven't seen my recorder since the last time Sara came to visit.

Getting sweaty, I get up and start pacing. Then I stopped in front of my bed, turned to the window so I wouldn't face her, and asked, "How much of it did you get through?"

"A-all of it."

I sighed and sat on my bed, putting my head in my hands. "And?"

"And what?"

Sucking in a breath, I look up and meet her eyes. "And what do you think? Of me? Of the tape? Do you think I'm a creep? You think I'm a creep don't you?" I finished in a huff and let my head drop into my hands again.

I heard her unzip her jacket, and then she sat right next to me. I stiffened immediately, my back going ridged, and she placed a hand between my shoulder blades, making me even more tense.

"I think it's sweet."

My head shot up, and I looked at her directly in the eyes. "R-r-really?"

"Yeah! I mean, who else can come up with stuff like that! Not the entire football team put together I bet! Your special Wirt, special in a way that's good." She paused and we just smiled at each other, my face most definitely on fire, but I relaxed and sat up a little straighter. "Did you mean it though?"

"Mean what?" I asked already knowing what she was going to say.

"The little message you put in the middle of it."

"Um... I put a lot of stuff on that tape, you're gonna have to be more specific," I said, still playing stupid.

"Look, here, " she got up and reached for the recorder on my desk. She sat back down next to me rewound it, and pushed play. An clarinet piece of stairway to heaven played, "No, not that," she muttered and fast forward. She pushed play again, and this time my voice spoke out, Hair dark as night, skin rich as coco-"No, not this either," and fast forward one last time before playing again and saying, "Here it is!"

"Sara, if your hearing this than this means that either you laughed yourself to death over the whole ridiculous thing that I threw together, or that you found it really sweet, or you and your friends are laughing at this, but, I want to say something. Ok, here it goes, I'm imagining you in front of me right now, so, this is from the heart. Sara. I love you. Ever since we met in kindergarten I think. It might have just been a school boy crush, guess it still is, heh heh, but, I've loved you ever since we were kids. I have always, always loved you. I think started when Jake Remudy was being mean to me during snack time, way back when, and then you came and told him off. He crushed my gram crackers, and ran off. I started to cry, but you sat down with me and shared your animal crackers with me. I remember looking at you through tear streaked eyes and thinking, this girl is an angel. And ever since then, I had a crush on you, and then last week, it happened again. I fell, and you picked me up before I had a chance to fall down the stairs and break my neck. So, just to reintegrate, thank you.

And I love you.

She stopped the tape there, and looked at me. She had tears welling up in her eyes, and both of our faces were on fire, blushes apparent on my fair skin, hers tinged darker on her coco colored skin.

"W-well?" She asked. "Did you mean it?"

Looking her full in the face, steeling myself against whatever she may say, I say, "Yes."

I didn't have time to react before she leaned in and kissed me full on the lips. Surprised at first, heart kicking into overdrive, and about to hyperventilate, I push all that out of my mind, as instinct takes over, and I melt into the kiss.

Breaking about after a few seconds, minutes? Could have been hours for all I know at that moment, I say, "Wow. Just... wow. Even better than I imagined..."

Sara giggled, leaned in and gave me another kiss. This time ready for it, I put a bit more force into it, and, with all my strength, pull away.

"Into the Unknown..." I say.

"What does that mean?"

My mind flashes to the Halloween night, a wondrous land filled with surprises, and a dark being covered in shadow. "It's something I say when I'm about to head into unfamiliar territory."

She giggles again, pecks me on the lips, and says, "Well, let's head in together."

To be continued...?

A/N: Don't know if this will be a think or not... what do you think?