Reunion

The silence was kept until Talho spoke. "How old is she?"

"A couple of months, or so we think, unfortunately we haven't had a calendar to keep track of time." stated Renton. "Although we have been keeping track of how many days it has been so that we could check when we found civilization again."

"Would you mind if I held her?" asked Gidget as she walked over to Eureka.

"I don't see why not." she replied as she gently place the child in her arms.

"Aww, she's got your hair." cooed Gidget.

"Let's just hope she doesn't end up acting like her father." added Holland jokingly.

Hey, what's that supposed to me…" began Renton until he found himself being slapped on the back by Matthieu. " Do you mind, that still hurts."

"Sorry but congrats anyways."

"Yeah," whispered Moondoggie, "I guess all that stuff we told you came in useful."

"Wh-what," stammered Renton, "stop it brother!"

"I'm not your brother! But I'll let it slide just this once."

"Sorry." said Renton as he scratched his head.

"By the way, where are the children?" mentioned a worried Eureka.

"We figured it would've been hard for them on the Gekko so we explained everything to Axle and left them with him." responded Holland.

"That's a relief, can you take us to go see them?"

"Sure thing, let's get back to the Gekko first." On the way back, Renton and Eureka rode in the back seat of the 606 but were still asked questions like where they have been, what it was like in the control cluster, and what all they had done in the past year. When they got back, Mischa was waiting in the hangar while holding baby Charles.

"Renton, Eureka, take care of what you need to and then I want to see you two in my office." she said as she handed the child to Talho and walked out, totally unaware of the child Eureka was holding.

"Hey Renton," exclaimed Hap, "we had to turn your room into a closet again but don't worry, all your stuff is in a different room." he continued as Renton helped Eureka out of the LFO. "Now I'm sure that both of you are hungry so why don't you go eat then you can ask someone about your new room.

"Thank you Hap." said Renton as he jumped down next to Eureka.

"Let's go, I am pretty hungry." she said as she began to pull him by the arm towards the dining room.

"Okay, I'm coming." he chuckled lightly. "It has been a while since we had anything decent to eat." was all he managed to say before being pulled out of the door. Even though the door was closed, he could still hear everyone laughing in the hangar.

Once they got to the dining room, Eureka asked, "Why don't I make us some podaj soup?"

"When did you learn how to make that?"

"Hilda taught me how shortly after you rescued me from Charles and Ray."

"That would be great, here I'll feed Sophia." Eureka gave him a look of confusion, "They have some baby food here, probably for Holland and Talho's baby, I'm sure they won't mind if we use some."

Eureka's face lit up, "I didn't notice their baby, I'll go see her later."

"Alright, hey here's a calendar on the fridge, let's see, Sophia was born ninety-five days ago so… ah here it is, May fifteenth."

"Hey isn't that the day…"

"Yeah it is, the day I first met you." he finished as he sat down and began to feed Sophia.

"It seemed so long ago though, I still feel bad about destroying your room."

"Don't worry about it, besides, if you had never come and needed help with the Nirvash, I probably wouldn't be here with you, Sophia, and everyone else."

"You're wrong. I know we would have met even if Holland hadn't decided on going to Bell Forest."

"Yeah, you're right"

"Well, the soups done." After she brought the two plates of soup and placed them on the table, she took a seat next to Renton where she then planted a kiss on his cheek. "I love you so much."

"Yeah, we'll always be together. Well looks like someone's done eating." He placed the food on the table and then held her over his shoulder and gently pat her on the back until she let out a satisfying burp. After he lay her down for another nap, the two teenagers began to eat their soup while they talked about needing to get some new clothes for themselves and Sophia, not to mention getting a crib. When they ere done, they washed their dishes and decided to go see Mischa in her office.

"Why do you think she wants to see us?"

"Probably to check up on us, I mean, we have been gone for about a year."

"Yeah." When they entered her office, they found her going over some documents. A look of shock came over her face when she turned around and saw the child.

"Eureka, wha… who?"

"Oh we haven't introduced her to you yet. We would like you to meet Sophia."

"My she looks adorable. If I may, I'd like to run some tests."

"Can't it wait until later? We're all tired and would really like to get some sleep." replied Renton

"I understand, at least let me get a blood sample from you three for me to study."

"Alright." Once they finished, they went looking for Renton's new room. They soon found Holland in one of the hallways. "Hey Holland!"

"Yeah, what's up?"

"Would you mind showing us where my new room is?"

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot about that, alright follow me." They walked around until they came to a door.

"Hey wait, this is Eureka's room."

"Wrong, it was Eureka's room. Now it belongs to the both of you." When the door slid open, the two teens just stood there in awe at what they saw. The bedroom was now similar in design to Holland's but it had all of Renton and Eureka's belongings in it.

"How … why… when?" was all Renton could get out.

"We knew we would find you but we didn't know when, so we did a little redecorating for when you returned. Of course we didn't expect her at all." he said glancing over at Sophia.

"Thank you very much Holland." smiled Eureka.

"Yeah, well, the bathroom's over there, there's the closet, the TV remote's in the drawer next to the bed. I have to get back to the bridge if we're going to Bell Forest." After he left, the lovers entered their new room.

"We're going to have to buy a new crib when we get back. After we see the kids of course." he chuckled. "Do you want to take a shower first or should I?"

"You go ahead." she said as she took a seat on the bed.

"Alright." As he took his shower, he reflected upon the past year, "So much has happened." he mumbled to himself as he touched the jewel on his head. When he finished, he dried off, and after leaving the bathroom; he found his cherished angel asleep on the bed with Sophia beside her, so he got dressed and walked over to her and placed a kiss on her cheek. Next thing he knew, he was fast asleep next to her.

The next morning, Renton awoke to the sound of the shower running. "Eureka must be taking a shower.' he thought. As he sat up, he noticed that someone had left some baby supplies on the couch. "Hey Eureka, did someone come by this morning?"

"Yes, Talho came by with her baby and she dropped off some diapers and stuff we could use. Did you know that they had named the baby Charles?"

"No, I didn't. I wonder why they chose that name." The shower stopped as he said that. She walked out with her wings folded over the towel that was wrapped around her body. Sophia was also wrapped in a towel, just smiling away. "Here, I'll change her while you get dressed."

"Thank you," she said as she handed the child to him then walked over to the closet, "maybe Holland felt sorry for killing Charles and Ray while protecting us."

"Yeah." he replied as he finished drying Sophia off.

"Hey, they still have all of our clothes." she said as she pulled out her old dress and his old pants and jacket.

"I'm glad they did, our clothes look like they're ready to fall apart." She laid his jacket and pants next to him while he finished getting Sophia dressed. As Eureka was getting dressed, he couldn't help but gaze at how beautiful she looked. When she glanced over at him, he quickly turned his blushing face in the other direction, causing her to smile.

"Lets go get some breakfast, I'm getting kind of hungry."

"Ok, what would you like?" he asked as he finished putting on his jacket.

"How about some scrambled eggs?"

"Sure, that sounds good to me." When they got to the dining room, they were surprised to see everyone had helped to make a huge breakfast. There were eggs, waffles, fruit, and other stuff as well. "What's all this for?"

"Well, we all we all decided to make a proper welcome home feast for you." answered Hilda.

"Go ahead and grab some, it's pretty good. After all, we had to learn to cook for ourselves once you had left." added Hap, causing everyone to laugh.

Everyone except Renton and Eureka had finished eating, but at least everyone had cleaned up their own plates. "I feel kinda bad just sitting around doing nothing. Why don't we help out around the Gekko until we arrive at Bell Forest?

"Alright, let's go." After they cleaned up their plates, they made their way to the bridge.

"Huh, you want to help out?" pondered Holland after hearing what they had to say. "That's fine, we still have a while before we land. Let's see, there are some boxes in the hangar that can be mover into storage. You fine with that Renton?"

"Sure." he said as he walked out.

"What about me?" asked Eureka, not noticing that Talho had walked up behind her.

"Eureka," she spun around surprised, "come with me, you can help me tidy up around here." As they walked to Holland's room to get started, Talho asked, "Do you mind telling me?"

"Tell you what?"

"How he saved you, what else." she answered as they walked into the room. "You can tell me while we clean, so I'm sure Charles would love to play with Sophia."

"Alright." she said as she put Sophia in the play area with the other child. "Well I don't remember much from when I was inside of the control cluster but I do remember being in a grassy field with flowers, and instead of the moon, I saw the Earth instead." she started.

"What? The Earth!?"

She nodded to confirm this, "I remember walking around, wishing that I could see Renton at least one more time. I soon had a strange feeling, like someone calling out to me, so I looked up and that's when I saw him slowly falling down to the ground." she said as she put up some old issues of "Ray-Out", pausing only to look at the issue with him on the cover, which caused her to smile.

"What happened next?"

"Well, he didn't want me to leave, but I couldn't go back with him either. He told me that he would give up being a human since I was going to give up being a coralian in order to protect the planet." She started to cry. "He also said that no matter what, we would always be together. And that was when we shared our first kiss."

"Are you ok?" asked Talho as she scooted closer to the girl.

"Oh Talho, I love him so much, I don't know what I would do without him." she cried as she broke down on Talho's shoulder.

"It's alright, I don't think he would ever leave you." Eureka just nodded as her pouts softened up. "Now come on, let's finish up in here so you can go rest up before we get to Bell Forest, and don't you worry, I'll keep an eye on Sophia for you both."

"Thank you." was all she could say as they continued to pick up.

Once Renton was done with moving the boxes, he decided to go lay down for a while. As he entered the room, he noticed Eureka already laying down reading a book. "Oh, Renton, welcome back." she answered as she placed the book on the side table. "How was it?"

"Geez, I had forgotten how hard working on the Gekko was." he said as lay down next to her. "Hey, where's Sophia?"

"Talho said that she would watch her so that we could rest up before we arrived."

"Well, I'll take her up on that offer." he answered as he closed his eyes.

"Renton, I love you so much."

"I love you too Eureka." And with that, she fell asleep in the arms of the man she loved with all her heart.

A few hours later Matthieu awakened them. "Hey you two, wake up. We're landing now." They both got out of bed and hurried over to the window to see the sun setting over the horizon of the crummy little town where they first met.

"It seems like forever since I left this place, I wonder how Grandpa is."

"We'll find out soon, as well as how the kids are."

"Hey Matthieu, is the Gekko still at war with the military?"

"Nah, after the second summer of love, everything calmed down relatively quickly."

"That's a relief." sighed Renton as the Gekko landed on the runway of the tower.

After the ship was stored in the hangar, everyone rode the elevator down to the city. "Hey Renton," said Holland as they descended, "you go on ahead of us, we're going to replenish supplies while we're here. Last time I saw Axle, he had rebuilt the garage in the same place as before."

"Thanks a lot." When the elevator stopped, Renton, Eureka, and Sophia headed of towards Garage Thurston while everyone else headed off towards the market.

Meanwhile at the Thurston residence, Axle and the three children were eating dinner. "This is really good." said Linck, the youngest of the three.

"I like it a lot too," said Maurice, the eldest child, "thanks Grandpa."

"Don't thank me, your sister made most of it." said Axle, pointing over to Maeter.

As they ate, a knock came to the door. "I'll get it!" exclaimed Maeter.

"I'll get it, you sit down and finish eating." replied Axle. As he made his way towards the door, another knock came. "I'm coming!" he yelled. 'Who can it be at this time of the day?' he thought as he turned the doorknob. After he opened the door, he just stood there, frozen, as if he had just seen a ghost, or two.

"We're back Grandpa."

"Hello again Axle."

Ch. 2 End

AN: Okay originally this story was going to be just one chapter but a few people wanted to know more of what happens so I'll try and continue the story. I'll get new chapters up as soon as I can but don't expect me to keep up a schedule. Anyways, enjoy!

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