Willow could barely contain her excitement. Almost a year ago, her mom and her aunts all left on a space ship, and today was the day they were scheduled to come home. Willow had to take care of her father the last few months as he had fallen into a deep depression. He horribly missed his wife.

And, well...she missed her mother...

Finally! I can't wait! M-O shook with anticipation, I'm so sick of seeing WALL-E so sad!

"Eve...Eve..." WALL-E smiled wide as he gasped, "Here they come!"

The dot in the sky got bigger and bigger, making a loud sound as it touched base. After several seconds of billowing smoke, the door opened and a shock of white flew out, grabbing WALL-E and kissing him passionately.

"Eeeevvvvve..." WALL-E sighed weakly.

"Mom!" Willow was also swept up and kissed.

"Oh! I missed you all so much!" EVE gushed, "I'm finally home! I can't believe it!"

Willow cried out, "We missed you so much, Mom!"

We have so much catching up to do! M-O exclaimed.

Willow watched as Nos and Fletcher wrapped their arms around Aya, Nos' wife and Fletcher's mother. Then, someone else emerged from the pod after all Willow's aunts had filed out and greeted their loved ones.

He was about five and a half feet tall, resembling the design of an old school astronaut. His eyes were solid white rectangles on his black helmet-like screen, and he was white, decorated everywhere with red and blue. Stasis beams held his limbs in place, while small off-handed lettering decorated his chest on the left side;

V-GR

He serveyed the area with mild interest before heading over to EVE. A bright smile lit up his face, "Hey, Eve! Is this your family?"

"Sure is!" EVE replied cheerfully.

"I'm Wall-E!" WALL-E shook the new robot's hand, "Eve's husband."

"Awesome! My name is 'Vee-Jur'." V-GR turned his attention to Willow, "So this must be your daughter! Eve talks about you both a lot, you know."

Willow had yet to say anything. Only then did she manage a weak, "Hi..."

"What?" V-GR laughed, "Eve! You didn't tell me Willow was shy!"

"Huh? She's not..." EVE was slightly perplexed, "She's not shy at all. Not even a little bit..."

"Cat got yer tongue, huh?" V-GR winked, his eye-form squashing down, "It's because I'm so handsome, isn't it?"

Willow's head floated downwards.

"Wil?" EVE asked skeptically, "Are you okay?"

"Huh. She was fine until we got here." WALL-E remarked, "Wil?"

"Uh...I-I'm fine..." Willow mumbled.

V-GR flashed a grin, stooping down so he was at eye-level with Willow, "It's because I'm so irresistible, isn't it?"

Willow's arms fell to the ground.

"Ugh! V-Gr!" EVE playfully shoved him, "You're such a flirt!"

"Come on!" V-GR scoffed, "You know you love me!"

"Oh stop!" EVE laughed, "You went on this mission just to be surrounded by girls!"

"And if I did?" V-GR's eyes flashed blue as he laughed hysterically, under assault by his dear friend.

Willow found that she couldn't stop looking at V-GR's smile. His eyes curved up in an almost cartoonish way, and his mouth added something like a delicate feel to the curve of his chin. It was...cute.

"Haha...well, I'd better get back to the station. See you guys later!" His eyes softened as they lingered over Willow before he ran off.

Willow still found it slightly hard to think.


Willow lay on the floor of the truck, lost deep in her own thoughts. V-GR was on her mind. She was extremely curious about him, more curious than she'd ever been in her life in fact. And that's saying a lot because she was curious about literally everything. She always wanted to learn, about the world, its history, his inhabitants and all of its nature.

And yet...nothing was more curious to her than the nature of V-GR's smile...

"Hey, Willow." EVE sifted through her husband's assortment of things, "What's wrong? You don't seem like yourself today."

Willow spoke softly, "...nothing's wrong..."

"Huh?" EVE stopped what she was doing to hover above her daughter, staring down at her with obvious skepticism, "You aren't acting like yourself. Why is that?"

Willow blinked, but didn't reply.

"You were like that ever since..." something clicked in EVE's mind, "Wait a minute..."

A wide, mischievous smile spread across her mother's face, "Ohhh...Willow, do you...?"

"I have to see him again!" Willow sprang into the air, "Tell me about him, Mom! Tell me all about V-Gr!"

EVE giggled good-naturedly, "Okay! Calm down! I'll tell you everything I know."

Willow sat down attentively.

"Okay. Where to begin? Well, V-Gr was built by a new roboticist as a personal project before he realized he could sell the technology to Buy n Large to help pay off his student loans. V-Gr was intended to be an astronaut-bot, seeing as no humans are quite fit enough to be in space for extended periods of time."

Willow soaked up all this information like a thirsty sponge.

"He was deployed with us due to his experience with space travel. He knows when to be serious, but he can be so obnoxious! And he's the biggest flirt this side of the horsehead nebula! Honestly! Only two of the Eves are even single!"

Willow clasped her hands together, fingers interlaced. Her father had told her the story of how he had met her mother and how they fell in love a million times, but she had never thought about it in this light before. Was she feeling the same way WALL-E had when he first laid his eyes on EVE?

"I can tell, Wil. You really like him." EVE replied, "You should go talk to him again."

"But will he be busy today?" Willow slumped, "What if he doesn't want to see me?"

"No. He would love to see you." EVE pat her daughter on the back, "And besides, after his check in with the station, he has the rest of the day off. He told me he'd try to relax at the park today. That would be a good place to look."

"I-I don't know, Mom..." Willow looked back down at her still-entwined gray metal fingers, "I was so nervous...it was weird! I don't think I've ever been nervous about anything!"

"I think you've been nervous once or twice." EVE said, "Regardless, he's really friendly. I mean, if you feel like you're too nervous..."

"N-no way!" Willow jumped to her feet (treads), "I-I'm gonna talk to him! No guy could ever make me more nervous than flying through the air with a jet pack! No way!" Willow sped out the door, "I'll be home by ten!"

EVE watched her go with fondness.

Well... EVE smiled warmly, There she goes...

They grow up so fast...