Theme: Love

This was very hard to write. Not a lot of personal experience to draw from so my imagination has been on burn out. Then, this came to me in a vision. I love the sky at night when away from the city.

Simple fluffy goodness. enjoy. (Oh, and yeah, I know in the movie Megamind is roughly the same heiht as Roxanne (Tho he does look taller in his cell during the 'Is it a puppy' scene) but I think there is someting to be said for a man that is slightly taller than his love. ^_^

He loved that time of the month when no moon shone in the sky. The stars seemed so much brighter, even with the light pollution from the city on the other side of the bay. Despite everything that had happened, they had never taken down the fake observatory. He had even built his own telescope and installed in the middle of the room. Most of the control panels had gone and the alligator pit had been dismantled. Only the control panel for the Death Ray still remained and although eh satellite itself had not been decommissioned as such, the weaponry would not be used for it's intended purpose ever again.

He stood on the platform on the outside of the dome, face tilted towards the heavens, his cape swishing in the slight breeze. He was still standing this way when Roxanne emerged from the dome, smiling when she saw him. She walked over to him and wrapped her arms around him, sliding one arm against his back underneath his cape. he closed his eyes as he turned to nuzzle his nose into her hair. His long arms snaked around her as he pulled her closer into his side.

"How long have you been out here? You're freezing!" She said as she nestled her head in the crook of his neck.

"Not too long." He murmured into her hair before he looked back up at the sky.

"Anything interesting up there?" She tried to see what he was staring at but couldn't see anything that looked out of the ordinary. She could hardly see the stars anyway, to her the sky looked like a muddy brown sea with a few sprinklings of white dots. The lights from the city were so bright it was like a cloud of light hung over everything.

"You know how people think they can look up into the stars and predict the future?" He asked, his tome somewhat whimsical. She knew what that voice meant, he was all but lost in his thought but he knew she wanted some insight so he was letting her in on his thought process.

"You mean with horoscopes?" she asked receiving a nod and a smirk in response.

"It's a complete load of rubbish. The stars don't predict the future, they tell stories of the past. Even when you look at the sun, you are really looking about 8 minutes into the past. A vast majority of the stars you are looking at are hundreds of years in the past. Which means..." He paused, closing his eyes as he took a steadying breath. Roxanne pulled away from his slightly so she could see his face but remained in his arms and with hers around him.

"Which means," He continued after a few minutes, "I can still see the star that gave light to my home planet." It was barely a whisper yet it was enough to nearly break her heart. She stood there with tears pricking in her eyes as she watched him stare into the past.

The thought struck her that he wanted to go back. He wanted to be with them, his people, where he wouldn't have to hide away and where he would never have had to set off on his path as a villain. He could have been everything he ever wanted to be. Normal. Suddenly Roxanne was filled with a bizarre sense of jealousy, how could she ever hope to compete against his own people?

"Would you like to see it?" He asked her suddenly as he turned to look at her, the look on his face was one of pure hopefulness and Roxanne couldn't bring herself to say no so she smiled at him and nodded, hoping that her inner thoughts were not playing out on her face.

"Come with me." He said softly as he took her hands in his. He walked backwards into the dome, gently pulling Roxanne in with him. After kissing her quickly he released her hands and skipped over to a control panel on the edge of the giant telescope. a few moments later it whirred to life and it's angle lifted. After a few moments it stopped and Megamind squinted into the viewer. A serene smile spread across his face as he pulled away and turned his shining green eyes at her. He silently held out his hand for her and she took it, allowing him to pull her gently over to him.

"Look in here," He whispered as if any unnecessary noise would shatter the calm, She swept her bangs out of the way and looked into the viewfinder. His hands drifted from her shoulders down to her sides and came to a rest on her waist. He leaned in close behind her so that his mouth was rite by her ear.

"Can you see the cluster of 5 stars to the right of the view?" He breathed against her ear, he could feel her nod so he continued as he nuzzled against the side of her head gently, "There is a single yellow star to the left of those 5, do you see it?" She pulled back from the viewfinder slowly and tuned to look at him.

"Home?"

"That is the star my planet orbited, yes." He said carefully as his eyes drifted over her face, "or at least it was. I've never been able to figure out what happened to cause it to collapse into a black hole with no warning."

"You miss them don't you?" She asked quietly as she felt his hands move around to her stomach, encircling her in his arms once again. There was a sadness in her voice and what he thought was a slight hint of fear. She was hiding it well but she was afraid of his answer.

"Yes and no." He sighed as he pulled her close, "I miss the opportunity to learn more about them, to be with my own people. I miss the life I never got to have." He sighed as he closed his eyes feeling her tense in his arms.

"But," He continued after a few moments, "I was only there for 8 days before they sent me away. I have thought time and time again what my life would be like if that star had never collapsed but every time I do I come back to the same conclusion." He took another deep breath as she closed her eyes tightly against the words that were about to come, "I would give it all up in a heartbeat if having that meant I didn't get to be here with you."

She was suddenly looking him in the eyes again, tears shining in her own as she looked at him in shock. She shook her head slowly as she turned in his arms and placed her hands gently on his face, stroking his cheeks with her thumbs.

"No, you can't mean that, I don't want you to say that just for me." She said as she rested her forehead on his shoulder. Gently he took her head in his hands and tilted her back again so he could look at her. He smiled at her adoringly as he placed a gently kiss on her forehead.

"I can, and I do." He whispered, "Roxanne, I am glad of every horrible and tragic thing that has ever happened to me in my life because every step of the way they were leading me to you. I just wish we had seen it sooner."

"But-" She was about to say more when he silenced her with a kiss. It was a weapon he used on her regularly and it was one that she truly wished he had discovered he had years ago. Every time their lips touched all thoughts went out of her head and as far as she was concerned the whole would could just go and jump off a cliff just so long as she could stay right there with him.

"If someone offered me the choice between going back to my planet and my people and staying here with you, I'd choose you, instantly and every time." He bent slightly to rest his forehead against hers as he gazed deeply into her eyes. An Idea struck him suddenly and he pulled away from her but took her hands in his. "Come with me." He said again as he pulled her excitedly along with him back onto the platform outside of the dome. He turned her to face out over the lake.

"Now close your eyes." He breathed into her ear. She grinned in response and hiccupped through a small giggle and she nodded that she would. Suddenly, all contact was lost and she became aware of just how cold the midnight air was. He was gone for a few minutes, his voice occasionally drifting out to her, requesting that she keep her eyes closed and that he would be there in a moment.

Eventually she felt his warm hands slide back around her and she felt the material of his cape wrap around her, shielding her from the cold breeze. His nose was nuzzling into her hair again and trailed down to the top of her ear.

"Ok, open." He breathed into her ear as he took a deep breath.

Slowly she opened up her eyes and was greeted by more stars in the sky than she had ever thought possible. She had never really been out of the city before and definitely had never been anywhere where the sky wasn't obscured by light pollution. She glanced over to the city to see it in almost complete darkness. There was one patch of light, filtering up from between the tall buildings and she thought she could see the coloured lights of the traffic signals. Unable to look away for too long she turned her face upwards again, she felt like she could see forever, and in a way she guessed she could. The stars seemed to go on forever and she could even make out a couple of the more common constellations. The twinkling light they were giving off reflected magically from the rippling surface of the lake giving the whole view out into the darkness of the vast lake a magical sensation.

"Oh my..." She gasped, unable to put to words what she was seeing and feeling, "It's beautiful!"

"It cant compare to you." He said as he looked down at her. The blush that spread across her cheeks brought a grin to his face as he places a few feather kissed on the back of her neck, "I love you," he murmured between kisses, "More than anything in the world."

"You, what?" She asked breathlessly, she had just been thinking to herself that he had no idea what his touch was doing to her, but then again, maybe he did.

"I love you, Roxanne Ritchie." He said as he looked her straight in the eyes, "I think I have for a very long time."

She opened her mouth to say something but couldn't find the words, instead she just grabbed him by the collar and pulled him down into a deep kiss. He smirked against her mouth as he pulled her close up against him and bent her over backwards slightly. He could feel the wetness of her tears against his cheek as he could feel her shudder against his body. He pulled her tighter against him and turned her around to press her back against the side of the dome. She gasped as she pulled away leaving him space to trail wet kisses down the column of her neck and made his was to her pulse point to kiss and lick against the sensitive spot.

"Megamind," She whispered into the still night air as he gently traced his teeth over her shoulder, "Oh god I love you. I love you." She was about to say more when his mouth covered hers again as he chuckled into the kiss. Eventually they pulled apart, both of them panting for breath and slightly dizzy from the rush of emotion. She was about to say something else when the lights of the city flickered back to life.

"Did you..." She asked as she nodded in the direction of the city. He turned to look over his shoulder and grinned, wondering to himself where that 15 minutes had gone.

"Errm, yeah. sorry." She chuckled as he turned back to look at her, "I left the traffic signals on, and the hospital and emergency services didn't loose power. Just other commercial and residential buildings, just for 15 minutes. I wanted to show you how the sky was meant to look." She smiled at her, looking slightly worried about her reaction. Wasn't switching off the city's power supply still considered to be rather evil?

"I programmed the Brainbots to keep an extra lookout for any trouble and there was no surge when things powered up again so there shouldn't be any damage." This time she was the one to shut him up by kissing him. After she pulled away he looked slightly cross eyed, his train of thought effectively derailed.

"Well, it was a very romantic, if incredibly grandiose, gesture. And it was beautiful, thank you." She said as she stroked her hand down his cheek and smiled into his eyes.

With that he hugged her against him again and buried his face in the crook of her neck. He heard her whisper something about heading back inside as the night air was dropping in temperature rapidly and a shiver wracked her body despite their earlier activities. With a smirk he swiftly bent down and swept one arm under her legs, lifting her up against him drawing his cape up with her. She giggled prettily and rested her head against his shoulder as her hand rubbed at the leather covering his chest. With a grin on both of their faces they disappeared back into the lair, leaving the city behind them to wonder what could have possibly have caused such a bizarre blackout.