The results are in, You all loved the Broppy moment from the last chapter. If you loved that scene then you will all explode during this one. I actually had to hold back on the Broppy scene in this chapter so the scene didn't become like Fifty Shaded of Grey.

BTW I will never do a Fifty Shades of Grey adaption, anybody who asks will get a angry PM from me filled with a lot of swearing and angry emoji's

Branch's Journal August 31st 2050

It's been a year to the day when I first arrived to Eden, never would I have dreamed how far I would progress in such a time. No longer am I going to bed each night wondering if I would survive another day, no more am I locking my doors and spending my days in hiding, no longer am I scared. My life has meaning again, I am happy, I am active, I found love. Me and Poppy has grown closer then I ever thought possible. When she first broke into my bunker last year and told me all this stuff about Eden I thought she was a crazy idiot who must have had a mental breakdown and started believing in a fairy tale in order to cope with her breakdown. She was annoying and drove me crazy and I never thought we would be nothing more then mere acquaintances looking to achieve the same goal of survival. But something changed over the course of a short time. The more I got to understood this girl, the more I saw myself in her, my crazy balanced out her crazy and I saw that we made a great team.

Her son and sisters have taken a liking to me too. The twins idolize me, they have a giant poster of me and my band from back in the day, and I might be crazy but I think I saw one of them kissing the poster where my face was one night. I think they are jealous that I am with Poppy instead of them, buts that's the life of a member of a boy band. Every girl with a ten year of age radius wants to get in your pants.

Winter clings onto me like I'm his real daddy. I think he actually considers me his father, considering Creek never shows him any affection. He draws pictures of me, drags me out when I'm trying to take a nap to play fetch and even wants me to read bed time stories for him most nights. During my birthday a couple months back Winter, who just recently turned four drew a picture of him with me and Poppy. He was in between the two of us and was holding onto each of our hands. He then asked shortly afterword if I ever planned on marrying his mom. I hadn't ever thought of it at that time. I told him maybe someday when the time is right but not yet. Will I someday marry Poppy? Maybe, quite possibly. Right now though I am just enjoying a life I never thought I would ever see again, I life without fear, without death, without war.

Grandma, if you are reading this from up above, which I know you are because you always was nosy, I want you to know that I still miss you but I am happy. And that you was right about me over everything. Love you Grandma and I will see you again, just not yet.

By this time in their relationship Poppy had given Branch a key to her house, which he always kept tucked away in his hair for safe keeping. After his latest journal entry Branch walked over to Poppy's house and unlocked the key to Poppy's apartment. All of Poppy's friends improved of Branch and Poppy's relationship and considered the two of them soul mates. Peppy wasn't quite okay with the relationship at first considering his dislike for Branch's music but overtime he eventually warmed up to him, even though he still didn't like that they often spent the night together.

As Branch walked into the house he heard the sound of the shower running, a smirk forming across his face Branch slowly walked to over to the bathroom and saw all of Poppy's cloths laying in a giant pile of the floor. Unable to control himself Branch quickly undressed himself as well and opening the shower door he joined Poppy in the shower. Poppy's back was turned to him as she faced the shower nozzle to wash some soap off her face. She didn't notice Branch's presence until he grabbed her from behind, twirled her around and planted a kiss right on her lips. Poppy's eyes widened in surprise at first, not realizing that Branch had even entered the house let alone got in the shower with her, but after a couple of seconds she relaxed, closed her eyes and sank into the kiss. Branch pressed forward and pressed Poppy's back against the wall as he went deeper with the kiss, their chests both pressed against each other as they made out in the shower, the hot water pouring on their bare skin.

After fifteen minutes of love in the shower, Branch lifted Poppy off her feet, Poppy wrapped her hands around Branch's shoulders and her legs around his waist. Branch wrapped one hand around her back and another on her butt and their licks were still locked as Branch carried her out of the shower, not even bothering to turn the shower water off as he carried her to her room, leaving their clothes on the floor, and plopping her on the bed. Poppy giggled as Branch leaped on top of her, landing directly on top her as he started kissing her lips then making his way to her jawline and neck. Branch's then grabbed Poppy and rolled over so she was on top of him. Branch's hands wrapped themselves over Poppy's breast and Poppy closed her eyes and started moaning as the two of them made love, starting with Poppy on the top, and Branch on the bottom before they repositioned a couple times and eventually ended up on the floor, a result of having too much of a good time.

After forty five minutes of making love the two of them laid in bed, Poppy resting her head on Branch's chest and Branch stroking his hand across Poppy's butt, both of them were still naked not having got dressed yet.

"You Branch know how to entertain a woman." Poppy giggled as she laid on top of Branch.

"Comes with years of practice."

"Oh so I'm not the first woman you've done this with?"

"Oh yeah, I was a celebrity before the war remember? One night stands use to be a common thing. Sometimes I would entertain two women at the same time."

"You certainly were a wild one back in the day."

"Well back then I was young and stupid. Now I'm older and slightly less stupid."

Poppy laughed at that remarked and kissed Branch before cooing and laying her head back down on his chest, stroking her index finger across his abs. "So were any of the woman as good as me?"

"Are you trying to set me up?" Branch laughed

"Well that depends on how you answer." Poppy smirked

"Well in that case no." Branch replied " Although, back then we wasn't doing it because of love, but because it was fun. Back then we did what we wanted without the fear of consequences. It was a fun time then. You though are the first time I actually did it because out of actual love."

"Ah, I'm special"

"So," Branch replied "I know you were forced to have sex with Creek back as a prisoner, but did you ever do it before then out of love?"

"Well I once had a pretty feisty make out session with a boy back in High School. We actually was able to strip down to our underwear and might have actually gone all the way if dad hadn't just happened to barge in the room right then. You should have seen the look on his face when he saw what was going on. He grabbed his cane and started swinging it at the boy and chased the boy out in the street, still in his underwear and carrying his clothes in his hands. I don't think I ever heard my dad scream out as many profanities as he did that night while chasing that boy out, while swinging his cane at him."

Branched burst out laughing imagining Peppy chasing out a half naked boy down the street. "I bet that was the end of that relationship."

"Oh you know it, and I was grounded for a month afterword. But as you said back then I was young and stupid."

"Well you seemed to have gotten over it just fine."

"Oh yeah, after all, I got you now don't I?"

"Yeah, yeah you do. And I'm not going anywhere." The two of them kissed one last time before the two of them fell asleep in each other arms.

Poppy woke up in the middle of the night feeling something funny in her stomach area. Making sure she didn't wake up Branch she got up and walked quietly to the bathroom. Finally turning off the shower water, which had been running the whole time thanks to their little session, Poppy stepped over her clothes that was still on the floor reached down under her bathroom sink and pulled out a pregnancy test kit. After running the test Poppy looked down at the result and gasped, it read positive. Poppy couldn't believe it, she was pregnant.

Poppy was asleep when Branch woke up at six the following morning. Getting dressed Branch left a note on Poppy's dining room table explaining that he had left and would be back later. He had been awoken by a text from Gristle that his "extreme defense system" as Gristle called it was completed, now it just waited on Branch's approval.

"We went all out like you requested." Gristle explained as he walked Branch across a hallway in one of the main building in Eden. "We didn't hold nothing back, land mines, trap doors, booby traps, and of course..." Gristle punched in some numbers on a keypad and a large metal door opened revealing a dozen armored tanks.

"Whoa," was all Branch could say when he saw the tanks.

"Each tank is made to fit five trolls," Gristle replied. "The body of the tanks are made with some of the strongest metal on the planet so piercing them would be near impossible. With them being a five man tank each tank has five heavy powered machine guns, placed on all four sides of the tank as well as on top."

"I'm impressed," Branch replied

"Oh you haven't seen anything yet," Gristle gloated "We also have machine guns placed at the entrances of Eden that will go off immediately if any unregistered bergen comes within ten feet of the facility. We have put each bergen that works here in Eden in it's system so that only the bergens that work for Chef will be targeted." Gristle then took out a Ipad and showed Branch more of the defense system. "Land mines are placed all throughout the camp, they will only be activated if a threat is detected so no child playing soccer or anything sets them off. Many of the building have death traps set up that included a trap door that leads to a floor of spikes, a wall that will open up and shoot venomous darts, and my personal favorite, a wall that shoots out fire." Just like the land mines they will only be activated in case of a threat and is created to detect enemy bergens in order to avoid friendly fire."

"And how about the Atom bomb?" Branch asked

"Placed in the back of Eden, kept far away from any other structure. Once activated it will blow up Eden and everything else within a ten mile radius. I surely hope we don't need to use this thing though."

"I hope not either, which is why it will be the absolute last resort system."

"So what do you think?"

"I like it, you did well Gristle."

"Good because I had to pull a lot of strings in order to get some of the other bergens to agree to help me on this, as well as make them swear to secrecy about it. But I promise on the slim chance that Chef ever does find this place, with these weapons by are side she will be walking straight into a trap."

Four hundred miles South in North America, Chef was leaning over a table looking over a map of the rest of the United States. Many of her trusted Lieutenants was with her going over places they had searched for the missing trolls. Despite it being a year since they last saw Branch and Poppy, and two years since the trolls escape from her prison camp, Chef was still working hard as ever to track down the trolls.

"There have been some rumored sighting of some trolls over in Boston and Cleveland as well as in Philadelphia." One Bergen Lieutenant replied pointing a stick at those places on the map. "We sent some soldiers to search those areas but each time they came up empty."

"What were the trolls reported doing during those times?" Chef asked

"According to witnesses they were raiding shops, cleaning many businesses out of thousands dollars worth of food. The interesting thing is that all of these reports were around the same time.

"A supply run perhaps?" Chef suggested "Wherever Eden is it must have limited supplies for them to risk being out in the open like that. Were there any other similar sightings around a different time frame?"

"Well a few months later there was sightings in Pittsburgh and other surrounding cities. About a three to four month time frame between the attacks.

"Were any of the trolls Poppy or that Branch that traveled with her?"

"We have their wanted posters strapped all across the country, have them at the top of the most wanted lists and offered a one million dollar reward for their capture and not one of the trolls described fits them. Where ever they are hiding, they are not coming out."

Chef was silent for about a minute as she pondered over the info she was given "When was the last troll sighting?"

"About four months to the day General. What are you thinking?"

The trolls will probably be making another supply run soon, And when they do, we will be ready. Tell Troopers in every state to set up base around popular grocery and convenient stores. We must sat up traps for them. Poppy might not have given out the info we needed, but another one might just spill the beans."

"Very well General." The Lieutenant nodded and saluted Chef before walking out of the room. Chef smirked evilly as she glared down at her map.

"Run, run, little Poppy, because I don't need you to find where you are hiding. All I need is for one of your other troll friends to sell you out, then you and every other last troll in Eden will finally be mine again.

Fun fact, the shower sequence was one of the first scenes for this story that I created in my head, right after the scene of Branch burying his grandmother in the woods. I know it is weird that those were the first two scenes I made for this story but I am a weird person.