Set after 2x12, 'Island in the Stream', mostly Wade's point of view, but that might change. It's one-shot but I may add a few more chapters.

So that is my first fanfiction ever. It's a bit short, I know. I'm Italian so I apologize in advance for all the grammar and syntactic mistakes that may be in the text, it's not that easy for me to write in English but I've tried;) all kind of reviews are welcome! I still don't know if I'll update more chapters, but I already have a draft on an idea of what to write next.

I hope you like it. Have a nice day:)

"Did you, uh... Did you really mean what you told George and Tansy?" Wade asked her as they were walking back to the plantation, hand in hand. It had been a funny night, after all. Well, George's mother could surely be a moron, but anyway they managed to get over this, even making things clearer between the two couples. Wade and Zoe, they had come up stronger than before, and it had partly been due to George's mother.
Zoe stopped and turned to him. They locked eyes, smiling at each other. Wade chuckled, trying to break the tension that was growing bigger and bigger as he was waiting for an answer he wasn't sure he wanted to hear. After a while, Zoe opened her mouth and he got back to breathing normally. Her voice came out so sweet he was like hypnotized by it.

"Yeah, I guess I really meant that" she admitted, looking over his shoulder, as she was feeling a little self-conscious "you know, like you once said, I had this picture in my head of how my life should be, and I kept waiting for it to be like that. I waited for so long, I did everything I could just to have the kind of life I thought I wanted and deserved. I've been expecting the charming prince to come to me, without noticing the ones I had in front of me. But then, I guess, I just realized, or maybe I've heard it on TV, I don't really know, that every day I spend waiting, is a day I'll never have back, so... it all changed, inside of my head. Now I know I'm not the girl from New York, not anymore. Of course I will always love the Big City but now here is my home. My heart belongs to Bluebell." She took a breath, moved closer to him and started talking again, only this time she was whispering "actually, my heart belongs to you".

He squeezed her hand and went in for a kiss, but then suddenly froze as his lips where a centimeter from hers, and rested his forehead on hers. He cupped her cheek, that was hot and red with embarrassment.

"I'm so happy with ya, Zoe."

He closed his eyes and pressed his lips on hers and they kissed like never before, like there was no tomorrow.
Then, with a smile on their faces, they continued their way to the plantation standing close to one another, Wade's arm over her shoulders. When they arrived on the front porch, he took his arm away and slowed down, as he watched her begin to go up the stairs and then turn around, looking for him in the dark. He hesitated, then hopped on the step below the one where she was and she almost cried because he scared her. Even like that, she was a little smaller than him, and he clearly loved that, it made him feel as he would always be able to protect her from everything. He searched for her big brown eyes in the dark and once he found them, he just couldn't look away.

"Wade..?"

He didn't answer. Instead, he raised his right hand and moved a strand of hair from her face to behind her ear. He took in how gorgeous she looked. How an amazing woman she was, how handful and neurotic and sometimes too bossy she could be. And right there, he knew. He understood something that before then wasn't so clear in his mind. It all just popped up ahead of him, it was like a giant, bold, underlined writing that was shining brightly in front of him. And now he couldn't ignore it. He should just spit it out.

"I..."

But then again, he was not going to tell her that he loved her. He would have had to be gone crazy before he did that. What was he thinking?

"You what?"

Rather than saying something stupid, he decided he would keep his mouth shut and instead, he just went up the remaining porch steps, grabbing Zoe's arm as he passed her. Once he was on top, he turned around to face her.

"Uh, nothing... Ya comin' inside, Doc?"