I'm back Jimmy fans! Missed you all! Hope you enjoy this chapter. Love, Katie

I don't own Jimmy.

Unexpected

"Neutron, you are such an idiot!"

He sighed and ran his hands through his hair. Could this night possibly get any more messed up? His head felt like it was going to rip open.

"Cindy, it would be great if you could just stop yelling and listen to me."

"I don't need to listen! This night has been a disaster."

"If you'd just let me explain."

"I don't want to hear your lame ass excuses! First, your hovercar broke down and it took you an hour to fix it."

"It was an unexpected mechanical failure."

"Then when we get to the restaurant, we discover that our table has been given away. And now the hovercar has been stolen!" She hissed.

"That was also unexpected."

She growled at him.

"You are such an idiot!"

"Yes, I do believe you said that, Vortex."

"How could you be stupid enough to turn off the anti-theft alarm?"

"I told you, it's possible that they just figured out how to deactivate it. It's not that complicated."

This was the wrong thing to say. She turned to him and her eyes were simply blazing with fury in the moonlight. Her bottom lip was quivering.

"Take me home this instant."

He nodded. He couldn't believe how wrong everything had gone. He'd taken her to their favorite restaurant, given her a romantic hovercar ride, and had everything planned out, he'd even practiced the 'speech' on his father.

This was now the sixth time that he'd failed in asking her to marry him.

But as the moonlight danced in her hair as she stepped out to hail a cab. He made up his mind and decided that he wasn't going to fail again. So without any further hesitation he called out.

"Cindy!"

To his great surprise she turned around as he ran up to her.

"What?" She hissed.

"I was trying to impress you."

Her lips twitched. "You failed with flying colors."

"Cindy, please."

She growled and then promptly started to poke him in the chest with her finger.

"This is our first real date since you went up to space and you had to screw it up don't you? You are a disaster magnet, you always have been. I knew from the very moment I met you that you would be the most distasteful and arrogant little prick! I knew that you were bad news; I knew that you were the end of me! God, I am such an idiot! I should've kept my distance! One of these days your little inventions will destroy the world!"

"Cindy! Stop yelling!"

"No! I will not stop yelling! I'm mad at you!"

"You really should listen to what I have to say!"

"What could you possibly have to say to me?" She hissed.

"Cindy, I want you to marry me!" He yelled it out way louder than expected and she blinked stupidly like she'd been hit over the head.

A second passed.

Another second passed.

Obviously she was going to kill him by giving him a heart attack. Finally, the intense glare returned to her face.

"Are you freakin' kidding me?" She hissed.

"No! I kept trying to ask you," he added as he moved a little closer to her.

She sighed.

"You are seriously messed up, what kind of a guy plays with a girl's emotions like that?"

"No, Cindy I mean it!'

"Well, it's not all that surprising that you give me the worst night of my life and think it's funny to play games with me. I don't know why I let myself fall in love with you in the first place! I seriously think I got hit over the head with something when I was a kid."

Later, he tried to figure out why in the world he hadn't just left. For some strange reason while she was bashing him he found himself extremely attracted to her. Maybe it was the way her eyes were blazing with intensity unmatched by the hottest flame, perhaps it was the way her lips were moving at a thousand miles an hour, maybe it was the way her perfect tongue was moving at speeds incomprehensible to normal human beings. That's when it occurred to him.

He had to shut her up. Before she had time to fight, or utter a word of protest he was kissing her fiercely. As soon as his lips touched hers, his life flashed before his eyes. He expected her to pull back any moment and slap him senseless.

But, she didn't so he quickly took advantage of the moment.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out the box and popped it open in front of her.

She was completely silent as she covered her mouth with her palm, her face as white as a ghost. He silently prayed that this wasn't a bad sign.

"I've had it in my pocket for ages now. I just couldn't wait anymore."

"You had to pick tonight?"

"I've tried to ask before, but things kept going wrong, as you said yourself I kind of attract disaster."

A small smile crossed her lips as he closed his hand over the box. He noticed that she was trembling.

"Cindy, what's wrong?"

Tears were now slipping down her cheeks. After a second she reached forward and snapped the box shut.

He had his answer.

Unexpected as it was, he had it.

"I understand," he whispered. He was putting the small box back into his pocket when she reached out and stopped him.

"You dork," she laughed.

He looked at her confused, but she merely smiled.

"If you want an answer, you'll have to ask me properly."

He smiled as he sank down to one knee and took her hand in his own.

"We have been many things through the years, Cindy. Enemies, friends, lovers, fighters, but the one name that you have yet to assume is perhaps the most important. And so I humbly ask that you, Cynthia Aurora Vortex will do me the honor of being my wife."

For a moment, she just stood grinning stupidly. Then she threw her arms around his neck, and the force of it nearly knocked him to the ground, they swayed a little as she pressed her lips against his. When she pulled away his head felt fuzzy from the simple lack of air.

"Yes, of course I will marry you." She paused for a moment. "But, I get to tell people that you proposed in a really romantic way."

"Was there something wrong with my proposal?"

She smiled softly as she brushed her nose against his. "I guess not. It was totally unexpected, badly timed, and sort of awkward, but that's just you, James Isaac Neutron." She paused for a moment as if to make a point. "And I love you for it."

For a moment he wasn't sure that he heard right. This evening had been full of twists and turns, and Jimmy couldn't help but laugh at the irony. It had been a complete disaster, but now he realized that he couldn't have planned it better.

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