Author's Notes: Wow, I'm really on fire today with these. This one came to me from a sudden stroke of inspiration when I was staring at the list of themes, trying to find one to fit the previous oneshot. This one is a bit different than my other oneshots. In fact, it reads a bit more like a poem. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Ben 10 or the quote at the beginning.

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"Sometimes you fall in love with the person you least expect to."

~Anonymous

33. Expectations

She was the kid who always followed the rules.

He always broke them.

She was the one who got compliments, who had parents who would point at her proudly.

He had nobody to say good things about him; his parents had thrown him away.

She was thought of as perfectly normal.

He was the freak living on the edge of society.

She was expected to go to Princeton, Harvard, Yale; one of those elite Ivy League schools.

He was expected to drop out of college, maybe even ditch high school.

She was expected to go on to do big things; business, politics, medical work, any other top job.

He was expected to do bad things forever; rob, kill, and sell people out.

She was expected to find a good, proper husband who would provide her with everything a family could ever want.

He was expected to never be able to commit to a relationship.

But they both beat expectations.

She broke a few rules to do what was right, only the small ones but still rules.

He stopped breaking as many rules and started to help enforce them.

She was grounded by her parents when they learned of her nighttime excursions.

He earned praise for heroic work.

She had her own powers, her own secrets of alien heritage.

He found people who didn't think he was a freak or a monster.

She attended a good college, like expected, but she stayed away from the elite Ivy League schools.

He ditched college, like expected, but went to a training academy instead.

She went on to study space and beat up aliens.

He became a hero, an officer of justice.

But most extraordinary and perhaps least expected of all, they found love in each other.

And without the other, the expectations would have slowly fallen into place.

Instead of disintegrating into the past.

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A/N: The title should be self-explanatory since it's talking about expectations. If you haven't guessed it, it's Gwen and Kevin. I'd love to hear what you thought about this.

Twilight Phantom Dragon