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Prompt: Hush

Note, this is an AU and might be revisited in later prompts.

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Horus stopped to catch his breath, yanking one of his thick work gloves off to wipe the sweat off his forehead while trying to find his girlfriend in this little park. Situated right next to her favorite 'snack shop', it only had a pair of benches and one small picnic bench table to its name, alongside its several bushes and few flowering trees.

Sure enough, there she was, sitting on their preferred bench, a bottle of juice in her hands. The redhead stopped for a second to admire her. Dressed in an oversized purple sweater with black pants and flats, she had her blonde hair pulled back in a loose braid and, to his joy, she was wearing the dull amber pendant he'd given her for her birthday the month before.

Sparing a minute to wish he'd had the time to shower and change before meeting her, Horus stepped forward to her, "Peak! There you are! Where've you been -"

She startled him into silence by practically jumping at him, her slender arms wrapping tight around his middle as she buried her face in his chest. The sound of her crying scared him, making the teen return her sudden hug tightly. He'd ran here straight off his shift at the amber reactors because the message she'd left for him on his personal communicator had sounded urgent. Added in to his worry over not seeing her for the past week, Horus felt he was hitting a breaking point.

He moved the both of them so they were sitting back down on the bench before freeing on hand to gently tilt Peak's head up to look at him. Wiping a few tears away with his thumb, he softly said, "Peak, darlin, hush, it's okay. Now, what's wrong?"

She snuffled and gulped a couple time, prompting him to find her discarded bottle of juice, which thankfully still had its cap sealed on. Handing it to her, she finally opened it and took a few hesitant sips before shaking her head and reaching under the bench to pull out her orange purse.

Opening it up, Peak dug around inside it for a minute before finally pulling a folded up piece of paper out and handing it to him. Confused, Horus opened it and scanned what it said, feeling his brain stall. Blinking, he looked up, took in the sight of the park's flora before him to reset himself and looked back down to re-read the paper. Licking suddenly dry lips, he asked her, "Is this true? Peak, are you really..."

His girlfriend nodded, trying to dry her face off with some tissues she'd also located in her purse. Taking another quick sip of juice, she squeaked out, "I've been feeling off all week and I had today off so I went to Medical for a check-up and that's what they gave me when they told me the results."

Horus nodded in a distracted way, reading the paper for the third time, "Does anyone else know?"

The blonde hesitated when she answered, "I think a lot of the dragonators and dragon caretakers suspect it, since Storm hasn't let me ride her the whole time and she kept trying to get me to stay the in dragon's maternity ward," she took another sip before going on, "I think Father suspects something too. He was asking me several pointed questions yesterday about how I was feeling and what's been going on lately."

Horus nodded again, "Well, this changes things."

Peak shot a horrified look at him as he moved off the bench, opening her mouth to say something only to close it in confusion when Horus went to kneel on one knee before her, clasping both her hands in his. Staring straight into her blue eyes with his own brown ones, Horus asked her, "Peak, I haven't gotten the ring yet and I still need to talk to your father, but would you be mine, now and forever?"

She went red and squeaked out, "Horus, if you're asking me to marry you because of the baby -"

He shook his head and cut her off, telling her, "No Peak. I'd already been planning to ask you on our anniversary next month. This just bumps everything up a bit. Now, darlin, will you be mine?"

Peak started to cry again, but she was nodding affirmatively and managed to choke out a 'yes' a few times. Horus sat back on the bench and pulled her into another hug, letting Peak cry herself out this time. Finally, she pulled back and re-accepted her juice from him, taking a long drink to finish it off before she tried speaking again, "Thank you Horus, thank you so much."

He gave her a little squeeze with one arm, a broad smiling coming onto his face, "Hey, didn't I tell you before? I'll always be here for ya Peak."

She used her sweater sleeve to dry her eyes, a weak smile coming onto her face as she moved to give him a quick kiss on the lips. He returned it briefly, letting her pull away when she did to snuggle against him with a sigh.

They stayed like that for a while, Horus actually almost falling asleep on her before Peak pulled away and tried to get him to stand, looking more than a little nervous. Blinking, he let his new fiancée pull him to his feet, asking, "What's wrong?"

Peak gave him another weak smile, shifting a little in place before she bent to quickly gather up her purse and empty juice bottle, "Well, about speaking to my father..."

A cold sensation hit his heart then, but Horus ferociously stomped it down before anything could show on his face, "Yeah?"

Peak bit at her lower lip, "You see, because of my condition, they had to put in for a change of schedule for me through the Dragonator Office."

That cold sensation turned to a cold, sinking one but Horus bravely strode forward, saying, "And you want your family to hear it from you first before they find out from a report?"

She nodded, a look of nervous relief coming onto her face, "I'd have to tell them today. Z'neth checks the schedule arrangements every morning and that'd be one of the first things he'd see."

Nodding, and knowing full well that he was basically walking into the lion's den, Horus offered his hand to her, "Well, let's go ahead and do that first. Uh...think I got time to clean up before we go though? I came here straight from my shift."

The sudden happiness on her face as she giggled and nodded made this all worth it, even though Horus knew full well what Peak's family could likely do to him and that included the wrath of his boss Ulrich, who as Aaron's best and oldest friend, was practically Peak's uncle.

But still, it was all worth it, especially when Peak gave him another hug and kiss, telling him that she loved him.

"Love ya too darlin."