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The rest of the term seemed to go quickly for Anne. She was busy organising, sorting and working. She found it hard to believe that it had been two years since she left university and just how much she had accumulated, she stood amid the chaos then Davy started to walk by her room then stopped and looked.

"Are you okay Anne?" he asked her.

Anne looked up and looked at Davy "I'm fine Davy, I just can't believe I have to sort through all of this." She told him.

Davy looked to her seriously and asked "Are you really going to be moving in with Gilbert?" he asked her.

She took a deep breath and nodded "Yes Davy, I am."

He looked to the floor and asked "will you miss me?"

Anne's face flashed in concern then she beckoned him into the room. He came in the room and they sat on Anne's bed. "Of course I'll miss you." Anne confirmed.

"But you'll be living with Gilbert, will you ever come back home?" he asked her.

"Of course I will." She told him. "Gilbert has his mam and dad here and I have Marilla and you and Dora." She swallowed and said to him softly "You're like the brother I never had." She told him.

"You're the sister I never..." he slowed realising what he was saying "no, that's not what I mean..." he tried.

"I know what you mean." Anne laughed. "and you know there is a spare room in Kingsport, I'm sure I could convince Gilbert that a young boy might benefit from the experience..." Anne trailed.

"Oh boy I sure would! Gilbert won't mind he likes me!" he exclaimed. "I love the island but I haven't been off it since Marilla adopted us!"

"Nothing changes you know Davy, and we'll be back to see you at the summer and in the winter, when we can."

"Are you going to marry Gilbert?" Davy asked her. "I'd sure like you to."

Anne grinned, "Maybe, if he wants me to, one day." She smiled.

Davy nodded his head, stood up and looked around "You better get this place tidy, Marilla will go crazy if she sees it like this."


Gilbert's time wasn't going quite so fast. He felt as though it had come to a standstill on several occasions. He had taken to carrying only his tablet to class with him, he'd record the lectures take notes as he was there and continue the notes once he got back. Although they would skype with Anne, there were days on end he would feel as though, they hadn't spoken hadn't seen each other. The news that Anne would move in soon, it seemed was a double bladed sword. He was of course looking forward to the time he wouldn't have to say 'goodnight' and then be alone, he was looking forward to spending forever with her. It was in the meantime which bothered him. He barely slept as it was and then when he was in the daze between awake and asleep he'd reach over for her (obviously subconsciously dreaming she was there) to find an empty bed beside him. If he was being honest, he hadn't been this frustrated since high school! The time he had been in New York and she had been with Roy, there was a definite break, she wasn't his to have, there was no chance of it ever happening, or at least that's what he'd believed at the time. Now, she was his and most of the time he was a prisoner in his own apartment, in Kingsport, because she wasn't with him.

"Gil!" Josh exclaimed snapping his fingers in front of his friends face which snapped Gilbert out of his gaze.

"Um?" he asked.

"Class dismissed man." He whispered to him. Gilbert shook his head slightly picking up his tablet and books. "it's a good job you have the classes recording on there." Josh told him "I think you phased out about ten minutes before the end."

"Really?" Gilbert asked swallowing. "I can't say I noticed." He said quietly.

Josh chuckled for a moment at his friend "You seemed a million miles away." Before he looked at Gilbert then said "or maybe just 250." He teased his friend.

Gilbert scoffed a laugh and said "No, I'm right here, only about six months into the future." He replied. "I've got to snap out of it, otherwise I'll need to repeat this year, and I don't know if my scholarship would cover that somehow."

"You could daydream yourself through the next semester and still not have to repeat." Josh told him. "You'll be fine." Josh said distracted for a moment by two girls walking by, though Josh could see that both girls were checking both boys out the same couldn't be said of Gilbert. He had barely noticed the girls which was particularity surprising considering just how much they were staring. Josh shook his head at his friend and just how far gone he was on Anne. "Are you ready for your turn hosting the studying tonight?" He asked Gilbert changing the subject.

"Sure thing." Gilbert replied. "When I told my mom it was my turn to host 'next week' she sent out some extra, biscuits and cakes." Gilbert smiled at the gesture of his mother. "She used to do the same thing when Anne and I used to study together, biscuits were made cakes were baked, I can't tell you the number of times my mother forced Anne to take home food." Gilbert chuckled "I can just imagine Marilla's face," Gilbert laughed at the idea of sending more food to Green Gables, "luckily most of time there was Davy so it never went to waste." He looked to Josh and said "it's not just Anne I miss."

"You miss home." Josh observed "That's cool." He admitted "I sometimes wish I did." He said he head shaking "I couldn't wait to be out of mine." He admitted. "Well, the cooking won't go amiss with five hungry men."

"Um," Gilbert wondered then said "I doubt the gastroenterology will be productive to a hungry stomach." Gilbert chuckled which made Josh laugh.

"Prehaps not," Josh smiled. "Hey how did you do on the head and neck test?" Josh asked him.

"94." Gilbert told his friend.

Josh sighed heavily, "Man do you have to humiliate the rest of us quite so much?" he asked Gilbert "81." Josh told him.

"That's not too bad." Gilbert told Josh "You're being hard on yourself."

"Yes but I'm going to be a surgeon, I can't go in telling them I graduated second in my class." He teased Gilbert. "Especially to an internal medicine doctor." He shuddered "Come on! Josh exclaimed "come to surgery with me." He smiled.

"You sound like Christine." Gilbert said rolling his eyes.

"Ah Christine!" Josh smiled "Its a shame you weren't into her." Josh remarked, "though I do like Anne more as a person, I don't think I could have listened to Christine talk for too long." Josh assessed.

Gilbert took a deep sigh "I don't see what the fuss was about Christine anyway." Gilbert told her.

"Did she get married yet?" Josh asked Gilbert.

"No." Gilbert admitted. "I'm in touch with Andrew too, we're still very good friends, both alumna of the lambs..." he shrugged "We are still quite young to get married." Gilbert admitted.

Josh shrugged back "too true." He said as they entered their next classroom. "Anyway..." Josh teased again "try not to daydream this time."


It was nearing the end of the term for Gilbert but he would have a third term this year, lasting six weeks and most of his summer, they were expecting it and they knew it would happen, but it didn't make it any easier for them to be apart. So, Anne had taken fate into her own hands.

Anne smiled as she brought her bags up the elevator. She was determined to surprise him with this news, she had left Avonlea at five in the morning, her bags were already packed in her four by four she set off for Kingsport arriving at ten giving her plenty of time to unpack her bags and set settled in before Gilbert would come home at six. The elevator binged on the ground floor and a women with brown pixie hair and big brown eyes.

"I recognise you." She said to Anne. "But you're just moving in? Or out?" she questioned.

"In, technically," Anne replied smiling "I've been visiting my boyfriend for two years and we decided to move in together so..." she smiled around her.

"Oh, your boyfriend lives in the building, which floor?" she asked.

"Oh the Penthouse, his name is Gilbert." Anne admitted quietly.

"I always wondered what the Penthouse was like." She said. "I don't know if I've ever seen him though." She admitted.

"Well he's in med school so he keeps himself to himself and he works hard..." Anne explained.

"You're boyfriend is a doctor?!" she exclaimed.

"Soon." Anne smiled. "Hey why don't you come up with me, I'll show you around the place." She said.

"Inviting strange women up to the apartment?" She asked.

"Oh right," Anne said shaking her head and putting her hand out to shake "I'm Anne, Anne Shirley."

The women broke into a smile and took her hand "Cornelia Bryant, apartment 4a."

"See we're no longer stranger." Anne smiled. "And I like your name." She admitted.

"Oh, I don't, I longed for a nice and simple name, Jane, Mary, Anne." She said with a smile to Anne which won Anne over instantly. "I would love to come up and see the apartment and get to know you a little better." She said. The elevator opened on the fourth floor where they shut the door and Anne put her key in the elevator.

The doors opened and both Anne and Cornelia went into the apartment. "Wow!" the women exclaimed. "This is twice the size of my place!" she said "which shouldn't surprise me since you have the whole floor to yourselves." She smiled, putting the box down she saw the fireplace and a picture frame so she went over to look. "This is him isn't it?" she asked pointing to Gilbert in a picture of Anne and him, to which Anne nodded. "I recognise him now, though you two have been together a long time!" Cornelia commented.

"Not two years yet." Anne commented, when Cornelia looked confused at her then at the picture Anne admitted "we were best friends before we got together, in high school, early college, we went to everything together, we were hard to separate." Anne admitted.

"Then what took so long to get together, you look like the perfect couple!?" Cornelia asked.

Anne smiled sadly and looked at the picture, it was the same one he had in the picture frame all along, he arm around her they had posed for the picture and smiled as it was taken that particular one was taken the night the Irvings had got together. "Misunderstandings and misgivings, missed chances and missed opportunities," she said quietly then said "but all fixed now!" she tried brightly. "What about you?" Anne asked her. "Do you live with your boyfriend? Girlfriend?" She questioned.

Cornelia smiled and said "Either actually." She said with a shrug "and neither at the same time." She admitted. "which is a shame, you'd think I'd be able to get at least one!"

Anne shrugged and said "well the general population is a little slow on the uptake I'm afraid." She admitted "I only dated one other guy before I got together with Gil and that, was not a healthy relationship. Worse two years ever." Anne said shaking her head at the memory.

Cornelia looked and asked "So why weren't you with Gilbert those two years?" she asked her, "was it before you met him?"

"No, it was during in college, we um, we didn't talk for nearly two years." Anne admitted quietly. Cornelia looked amazed at her as she said quietly "as I said worse two years." She cleared her throat and asked "So, um, what do you do as a living Cornelia?"

"I'm a nanny believe it or not." She grinned.

Anne smiled widely and said "really?!" she asked. "that is awesome!" Anne exclaimed.

"Yes, a nice family but they live next door to a family with eight children." She admitted. "They never seem to care for their little ones and they are so little and sad looking..." she shrugged "so I make the dears clothes." She said to which Anne smiled and nodded. "I love the little things!" she admitted.

"You make clothes?" Anne asked her.

"My mother taught me all the old trades, knitting, crocheting needlework and dressmaking, she said it would do me good one day." She laughed as she reached for the puck.

"No don't touch that!" Anne exclaimed about the puck which made Cornelia jump. "Sorry," Anne admitted "Gil just doesn't like his hockey stuff played with."

Cornelia rolled her eyes and tutted "Just like a man."

"Oh, no Gilbert isn't." Anne defended, "its just his stuff." She said softly. "He's a sweetheart about everything and anything, well you'll see when you meet him."

"You're going to take it that far? You like me that much?" she asked Anne.

"Yeah." Anne confirmed. "Yeah I do."

Anne was still unpacking when Gilbert came into the apartment at six.


"Anne?" he questioned looking at her in amazement as she sat surrounded by books by the bookshelf.

"I was hoping to be finished by the time you got back." She told him.

"What are you doing here!" he exclaimed happily coming over to her and kissing her on the forehead before settling himself beside her.

"well, I know you have a packed term coming up, with having a summer term this year, and I didn't want to wait." She told him "of course I will if you want me to but, how about we start our forever now?" she asked him.

He looked to her amazed and asked confused "but wait, how, we need money to..." he started.

"Well I already have the money for my tuition fees, and with the course being full time but me not actually being in the university full time hours, the publishing house, which published my book offered me work on the publishing team as a commissioning editor, I have a lot of night time dos and day time work too but, it means being here, all summer with you, I already confirmed the two weeks you have off as holidays so I get to come home with you then I'm already here in September ready to start my masters." She smiled looking at his amazed face "So what do you say Gilbert Blythe, can I move in with you?" she asked him.

"Today?!" he exclaimed his smile full "Yes, please! Yes!" he said finally reaching over the books and kissing her deeply.

When they did pull back Anne said to him "I had to move some of your stuff around the bookcase." She told him quietly.

"I don't care." He said going back in for another kiss.

She chuckled when he pulled back "But I remember you complaining about Charlie..." she started.

"You are not Charlie!" he exclaimed kissing her again, lying her on the floor.

Anne chuckled into his mouth and blushing she muttered "Thank God for that!" she quipped.

This made Gilbert chuckle too as he pulled back he bit into his bottom lip trying to control the laughter. "He's um, not my type." Gilbert laughed as Anne burst into giggles, "Far too high maintenance."

"Oh you don't like high maintenance?" she questioned with a grin on her face.

"Like you are?!" he exclaimed, "One of our first dates were..." he blushed stopping mid sentence.

"Gil?" she asked. "What?"

"Um, nothing, we um, we weren't dating, I don't know what I was thinking." He said shaking his head.

"When?" she asked as he sat up between her legs kneeling.

He shook his head "When we were away, in Ottawa."

Anne looked up at him and gave out a short puff of air. "Oh, Love." She whispered sitting up and pulling him a little closer "Well," she shrugged "maybe it was." She said finally wrapping her arms around his middle. "Can we call it pre-dating dating?" she said to him.

He smiled kissing into her hair sweeping it back off her forehead. "Those days got me through a lot you know." He whispered. "My best friend." He said sentimentally.

"You're mine." She whispered back.

They sat there for a few moments in silence, hugged in on the floor, before he swept her up in his arms "So you were my pre-dating girlfriend?" they laughed, his bottom lips protruded he nodded and looked to her saying "sounds about right."

She giggled as he lay her on the sofa then lay on top of her, instantly his lips lightly grazed her neck which made her chest expand into him and her resolve melt away.


Gilbert rolled his eyes a bit annoyed at his phone ringing in his pocket. "hello?" he answered a bit frustrated, there was a pause where his face fell and he jumped up off Anne who was still lying under him on the sofa "No, no, I, um, I wouldn't forget Josh, I'm just running late." Gilbert said bare butt he walked around clearly confused he was looking around "no, no ten minutes." He said hanging up the phone "I completely forgot..." he told Anne, "I have a study session down at the library." He tutted still looking confused. "Where the hell did they go?!" he exclaimed.

"What?" Anne asked innocently, in a likewise state.

"My boxer shorts!" he panicked "I can't go to my study session commando!" he quipped which made Anne giggle for a moment.

"Well they came off the same time as my bra, and we threw that over..." she said pointing behind the sofa "there." She pointed at the unseen area to her.

He walked over and found his boxer shorts "Thank god for that." He muttered.

She smiled looking up at him "I'll make sure I've finished the bookcase by the time you get home." She told him.

"Hey," he said zipping up his jeans and reaching over the back of the sofa taking her face softly in his hands "take your time, make yourself..." he smiled widely just at the thought "...at home!" he exclaimed ecstatically. "Will you need any help unpacking?" he asked her.

"We'll see when you get back." She said practically to which he slipped his t shirt over his head then nodded his fingers playing the curls back off his face. He walked over to the lift pressing the button for it then picked up his bag. "Hey, your my live in girlfriend now aren't you meant to say something about me not going?" he asked her.

She play sighed heavily then fluttered her eyelashes at him "Oh Gil, please, don't go to your study group, stay here with me!" she fake flirted.

He laughed at how fake she was being before he said "I can't babydoll." He said with a shake of the head "If you want me to make the pretty pennies for the lifestyle you've become accustom to I have to go." He said to her.

She laughed as the elevator binged and opened. "Okay, bring me back something nice!" she exclaimed. He chuckled entering the elevator, the whole day had turned around and somehow, this had become the best day of his life... so far.


Gilbert arrived at his study session at the library just in the nick of time to start.

"Where were you?" Josh whispered to Gilbert who he could tell was fighting back a grin.

"Just at home, I told you I was running late." He whispered back.

"You late?" Josh asked him. "Come on Gil, you don't expect me to believe that."

Gilbert looked to Josh with a grin on his face.

"Oh Anne came to visit?" he asked.

"No," Gilbert told him which received a confused look "to stay."

Josh looked up his mouth dropped for a moment "She's moving in early?" Gilbert smiled widely and nodded. "I've never seen a man smile over loosing his bachelorhood."

"You need better friends." Gilbert told him, then the two of them looked to each other and chuckled, before they turned their attention to the studying.