She was running. Her feet slammed down with each frenzied breath and her heart pounded like the motor of a racecar.

She counted the houses and street signs with practiced ease and made a left turn down an old alley that was often referred to as the ' vendor hot spot.' It was messy with plastic everything schroon about and only a few homes. She continued running, once again counting.

'four, three, two, one!'

That's was where he stood, his hands both clinched tightly to a single sheet of yellow tinted paper.

The teen girl skidded to a stop when three feet away. She gasped and leaned forward to catch herself on her knees then proceeded to inhale heavier than that Krew guy that talked to her Dad a lot.

She caught her breath and finally spoke.

"So, did you? Are you?"

The teen boy vaguely handed the paper over to the girl. The girl snached it and read with viger as the boy cupped his face with his hands.

"No, no! That's not fair! She can't do this. You have rights!"

The boy didn't answer. He only let out a single sob. It saddened the girl to see, he hardly ever cried. It also confused her. How was she to help in such a situation. She didn't have a say in any of it. Not one.

At first, the girl shuffled awkwardly from foot to foot. She crinkled the paper in her hand and thought. Then she did the only thing she could think of.

She took a step forward and wrapped her arms around him. Her head laid on his chest and her right hand rubbed his back, like what her sister always done for her. She then started to hum a strange toon.

He immediately latched on and used her shoulder as a tissue. His sobs grew. She continued to hum and started to sway to and fro.

"I d-d-don wanna go."

"I know."

"I wanna stay with dad and you."

"I know."

He pulled away. His brown eyes were still swimming, his black hair a total mess, and his face red and blotchy.

"Is that all you can say?"

I studied him for a single moment.

"No."

He laughed harshly. "Then what else?"

"I'm going too. You will never loose me Kaden! Never!"

He first laughed some more, as if what I said was some sort of joke. He soon stopped however, because of the look of determination I wore. He shook his head.

"No, no you can't go. You need to stay…"

"And do what Kade, call you? Ask you about your day over the comm when I could ask it to your face. Hell no! I'm going. It'll take me a while, but I am!"

"Tamantha! Why bother? The only way you can go is if your dad says yes, which he won't. Plus, there is no more king Damos! He's gone! We will have no rights!"

She growled and placed her hands on her hips while she gave him her 'mom look.'

"I've got connections, thank you very much! So I will have at least some."

"But…"

No buts, mister! I'm going too, and that's final!"

There was a pause in which neither teen moved, each staring the other down to try to assert dominance. Then Kaden pulled her into a bone crushing hug and gave her a sloppy, but passionate, kiss.

"Oh god, how do I love you Tamms!"

Tamantha returned the hug and snuggled into his chest with an almost smug satisfaction. "Don't know."

They hugged a while longer before Kaden suddenly remembered something. He pushed Tamantha away and told her to wait for a second before he ran into the little house his father owned. He came back out with a small disposable camera.

"This was meant for when dad and I won, but now." He took a deep breath before continuing. "Anyhow, that doesn't mean we can't use it. Right?"

"Right!"

The teens pressed their cheeks together and smiled, each trying to smile wider than the other. They then both hissed cheese.

I smiled at the two kids in the picture. Each looked happy despite the obvious tragedy that had befallen them. Each looked so young too, so alive!"

I whipped away tears and too a deep, calming breath.

"WAAAAAAAAA!"

"Damn!" I sighed. I placed the picture back in my dresser drawer and got to my feet.

Bam, crash. "I've got it!"

"Not again." With one last fleeting look at the photo, I shut the drawer and ran out of the room with a mental note.

Don't clean out a drawer when you know for a fact that it has heartfelt memorabilia inside with a baby in the house.

Hello to all who read this!

Now, this is something I came up with just as I tucked myself into bed. You know, that strange pop with the light bulb? It's just before Kaden and Tamantha moved back to Haven from Kras, and maybe some future! Dun dun DUUUUUUUN!

Anyway, I just wrote this for fun, thought you all may like it, hoped really. Have a nice day and night and rest of the week. Oh, and don't get ran over by a semi. I heard that hurts. Bye!