PK Love
AN: This story can be traced to one event that encompasses the creation of this story. Recently, I beat the SNES JRPG classic Earthbound after much skepticism and loved it to pieces. Upon completing it, I delved to the lowest of the low and looked up Ness X Paula fics, because, confession time, I LIKE A CUTE ROMANCE. (Probably a good time for you to check my profile and find out I am indeed male. It's tragic I know.) In Google searching 'ness x paula', Google tried completing it with 'ness x paula pregnant', which I thought would be totally adorable, so I gave in. And found.
Nothing.
OBVIOUSLY enough people wanted Paula to be pregnant that it was a commonly searched tag, and yet it totally bare. I was honestly disappointed in the FF community and their lack of pure post-sex dobo fanfiction, so to rid the world of this abomination, I give you.
PK LOVE
Late June in Twoson was always the prettiest time of the year, plenty of flowers budding and beautiful children running around in the park, laughing merrily as they played. Paula couldn't help but smile to herself as she watched them play; fondly looking back on the time she spent with the preschoolers at Polestar. But she also looked forward, to the future, and her future children that she would get to watch grow, laugh, and love all the same. She thought about her future family with Ness, now her loving husband, and their baby girl on the way, the thought making Paula involuntarily put a hand to her stomach. The love she had for the child was unconditional before it was even born, and made everything around her seem that much sweeter, but what made today even better was the fact it was Ness and her's ten-year anniversary. Ten wonderful years together, and she couldn't help tearing up at the thought.
"Ma'a,m is… everything alright?" A vaguely familiar concerned voice brought her back to Earth and she looked up, the sun blocking her view of whoever the worried citizen was. She laughed weakly and wiped her eyes, brushing the hair out of her face. "Oh no, I'm… oh yes I'm fine thank you."
"You know, it's not safe for such a pretty lady to be alone in Burglin' Park." Said the man and sat down next to Paula.
"Jeff!" she exclaimed and threw her arms around the wiry young man, the hug made slightly awkward by the bulge of her tummy. Both blondes blushed brightly as she pulled away and Paula mumbled an apology. All Jeff could do was laugh at bit and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder, saying "Oh ha ha it's fine Paula. It's been awhile." He warmed up to her quickly, as she was looking rather radiant all grown-up and in her pregnant form. "I haven't seen you in so long!" she said brightly, "Why are you here, this side of the river?"
"I heard there were some appliances I needed to fix, now that you two are hitched." Jeff said with a sly wink. "Come on, let's get you home. It's a surprised." So he helped Paula up and they walked through the park to his car. It was more than a car though obviously, with a gleaming silver exterior and what looked to be rockets coming out the end, windows tinted, giving the whole ride a very sexy look. But was most intriguing was how the entire vessel hovered off the ground, levitating. "Wow, Jeff, when did you get this?"
"Oh, I just fixed it up recently. Dad and I worked on it together, ya know…" he looked down at the ground shyly, a bit embarrassed by the looks and attention he was getting. He looked up to see Paula giggling at his nervousness and she said "I love it, Jeffy." using a nickname from their travels together in their childhood, before Giygas. They both got into the car and Jeff began the glide back to Onett. During the ride, he hesitantly referred to the baby, asking "So… is it the first or are there more at home?" Paula laughed pleasantly again and put a hand to her tummy, rubbing absentmindedly before answering his question. "Oh, she's going to be the first. Ness made me wait a while after the marriage to have kids, wanted a few years to be together and fix up the house, though between you and me Jeff, I could've started that night. He's always so sweet at least, been pampering me endlessly since we first got the news, and I swear sometimes he's almost too much." But she said this with such a bright smile Jeff couldn't help but laugh a little to himself.
"Oh, and all the renovations to the house are finally done!" she said suddenly as they pulled up to the driveway. "You'll really love it Jeffy, it's so much better now than when us three first walked in" Paula reminisced as the craft came to a stop next to the sea-side cottage. "It still looks the same from the outside and everything but wait until you see what we did with the living room!" She nearly leaped out of the door as Jeff chuckled behind her and locked the car. "It's just big enough for-" She stopped short, having just thrown open the door of the house to the entire cast of her childhood adventure.
"Surprise!" they all shouted, from the Mr. Saturn's to the Runaway Five, the grown-up Polestar kids to a few Tenda. They were all crammed into her humble house, with Ness standing in the middle, just smiling his dazzling smile. Jeff came up behind her and put an affectionate hand to her shoulder, saying "Happy anniversary, Paula" as many of the guest began filing out of the packed house out into their yard, each patting her back or saying a kind word as they passed, congratulating the lovely couple. Finally, only Ness was left standing in the doorway with that smile of his, emerald eyes sparkling with pride. Paula stood stunned for a moment until throwing her arms around Ness's neck, giving him a passionate kiss before pulling back, still in his arms, stammering "Oh honey but… ho… wha..?"
"I see how you look at the old scrap book love", Ness replied, never losing his smile. "I thought maybe you'd like to see everyone in person again. For old time's sake." The smiles on both of their faces could not be suppressed.
The rest of the afternoon was spent catching up to old friends and making new memories. It was filled with dancing, eating, music, playing, fireworks, and even baseball, for Ness's sake. Gifts were given out as well, a new non-stick frying pan, a diamond band for the lady, a dapper cap for the man, and hamburgers and Skip Sandwiches for dinner, with all the favorite sauces and condiments. (Tendakurat was even brought just for the Tenda.) Poo was able to teleport by for a while, taking leave from being king just for the night to see his close friends again. The four heroes posed for pictures together, laughing and joking like old times. A toast was given by Ness's father to the new baby and for all the people of a new, peaceful world, which had nearly everyone in tears at the end of the night.
Soon though everyone had to go, so without too much ado, the sea-side cottage was quiet and peaceful once again, its sole occupants sitting together on the couch, overlooking the ocean. Ness put a protective arm around Paula and she laid her head on his shoulder, taking his hand in hers and their eyes shimmered against the sunset. … hon. Paula thought to Ness. Yes? he replied, having learned how to talk with his mind even before they were married and living together.
What should we name her?
Ness sat silently for a long time; so long that Paula sat up and said "Hon?" again, out loud. He simply smiled at her and kissed her, with a hand to her stomach and another in her hair, stroking her soft cheeks. This lasted until he pulled away slightly and said "I still have something for you." And got up, heading toward their room upstairs. Paula grinned and got up as well, retrieving her present to him as well. They both met back at the couch, Ness with box in hand, Paula with a scrapbook. Ness handed Paula his present to her, saying "I wanted this to be for our first child, no matter who or what it was." smiling as she took it. Paula looked at him lovingly before taking the lid off the box.
Inside was Ness's old baseball cap.
A single tear fell from Paula's eyes and onto the blue bill of the cap, shimmering in the evening sun. "Oh Ness…" she sighed as the waves of memories flooded back into her mind; of the first time she saw that hat, locked away to be sacrificed until her hero came and saved her. She knew from that moment she loved him, and that she would stand by him through anything, even battling pure evil. The adventure had not only brought them together but kept them together, making their destinies intertwine, forever. Time had only made them grow stronger together, and all this was symbolized by his old baseball cap, which she thought he had gotten rid of long ago after that ordeal. Drying her tears away, Paula managed to get out "I have something special for you, too, sweetie", handing him the scrapbook.
"The scrapbook?" Ness looked at his wife confusedly.
"Not the scrapbook. It's a new one. An us one." She opened it up to the first pair of photos, one of Paula and Ness sitting together at his house, just a year after their first meeting. The next was a bit later, when they went to prom together. Turing the pages, Ness began to realize with each passing image that it was a book of picture of Ness and Paula, from childhood to college to their wedding and beyond. By the end even Ness was close to tears, when he realized it was almost half empty. "I left room for picture in the future, pictures of our life together Ness. I want to put the War Against Giygas behind us now. I was always looking at this scrapbook love, not the old one from before. Before all this. I'm so glad to have seen everyone today, which was very sweet of you. But it's over you now. Let's leave it that way."
So closing the scrapbook, but opening a new part of their life, Ness and Paula kissed one last time and left their presents on the couch and went up to their room.
"I love you, Paula."
"I love you, Ness."
