Later on that night on the ship….
Fives was too fidgety. He wanted to see Ariel. He couldn't wait anymore.
Sneaking off he heads to the medbay. Arriving he finds the girls asleep.
"No. No don't. Hurts. Dad. Fives." Ariel cries in her sleep.
"I'm here Ariel. I'm here." Fives takes her hand massaging it with his thumb.
Ariel tightens the hold of his hand and snuggles it. She wasn't going to let him go anytime soon.
Fives fell asleep leaning against the bed. He just wanted to hold her a bit longer.
Ponds came in seeing this. A small smile on his face as he places a blanket over his brother.
'Better hope general daddy doesn't find out.' Ponds chuckles to himself getting back to work.
When Kelp came in though he decided to take it a bit further. He placed Fives on the bed with Ariel. The two snuggling into one another.
"What are you doing?" Ponds whispers hitting his arm.
"Oh come on. It's just a bit of fun." Kelp chuckles.
"General Fisto is going to kill him." Ponds warns.
"Echo is planning to come in early in the morning to 'sneak' time with Nora. He'll wake them up beforehand." Kelp takes a photo for a bit of fun later on. "See ya." He heads off with a wave.
'Really.' Ponds sighs with a small chuckle then goes back to work.
The next morning…
'I wonder if Ariel will like these.' Kit looks at the tray of porridge and some other breakfast stuff.
Then he sees the young couple snuggled next to one another. He places the tray down then coughs to wake up Fives.
"Sir?" Fives looks at him tiredly.
"Mind explaining this?" Kit looks at him with a stern expression.
"Explain?" Fives looks at him confused.
Fives looks over to his left to find Ariel snuggled next to him. It took a second then it clicks.
"Sir!" Fives jumps up at that saluting. "T-this isn't what you think." He glances down at the floor.
"Fives?" Ariel rubs her sleepy eyes finding him standing there.
"He was just leaving." Kit motions for him to go.
"Sir." Fives nods heading off.
"Dad please forgive him. Please~" Ariel looks at him pouting a bit.
"Oh I have." Kit smiles over at her. "I'll invite him to join us for dinner when we land. But I want to hog you for one more day. Can I?" he sits on the edge of her bed.
"One more." Ariel smiles softly at that.
"In that case, I brought breakfast." Kit motions to the tray with him.
Nora woke up to the noise and said "What happened?"
"Well…" Ariel is a bit red as she explains.
"What?" Nora looks ready to hunt down Fives.
"I thought I was supposed to be the protective one." Kit raises a brow.
"It's a best friend thing. And if anything ever does happen, Mace would go so overprotective I'd never get to see Echo, so please be careful for both our sakes." Nora pleads.
"Nothing happened. I didn't even know he was there until I woke up." Ariel looks down red faced.
"Sigh, sorry I freaked. Still getting used to a lot after what happened." Nora hugs her plushy.
"It is a lot. So, you're calling him Mace now?" Kit smirks.
"It feels a bit weird calling him grandpa and gramps might not work." Nora raises a brow.
"Gramps?" Ariel tries to picture that, not sure how well it fits.
Kit chuckles and smirks "I don't know he might like gramps."
"Be nice." Ariel pushes his arm with a scolding tone.
"Okay, okay, I'll be nice." Kit smiles hands up in defense.
Then they heard the door open slightly. It was Echo looking around "Oh Nora you're awake. How are you feeling?" Echo smiles glad to see her better.
"A lot better. Boy do I have a story for you." Nora smirks.
"Nora!" Ariel calls embarrassed.
"He'll find out from Fives later anyway." Nora chuckles.
"I know but…" Ariel plays with her hair a bit.
"What happened? Is everything alright?" Echo sits on the bed holding Nora's hand.
"Well you see…" Nora and the others then explained what happened.
At the end Echo flushed and said "Oh."
Nora had to laugh and snuggle him "Oh Echo." Echo calms at that and hugs her back.
"I heard we'll be going to Atlantia instead of Coruscant sir. What for?" Echo looks over confused.
"We decided it was in the girls' best interest to get away from Jedi business and get a break." Kit smirks.
The girls looked surprised as well.
"Are you sure dad?" Ariel looks at him a bit worried.
"I have to face them at some point. They should know the news by now and probably would want to talk to me. Pluss, it will be a good place to heal up you girls with their healing methods." Kit nods.
Echo seemed to stiffen a bit "Um sir will Prince Lee-Char be there?"
"Why would you ask that? And I'm not certain." Kit raises a brow.
"Um…" Echo isn't sure how to respond.
"Fives is jealous of him." Ariel adds.
Kit laughs "Poor boy, I was much the same with your mother whenever a prince or something came up to dance with her and I couldn't do anything or be discovered. It drove me crazy." Kit was trying to calm down shoulders shaking.
"Really?" Ariel looks surprised.
"Oh yeah it was hard, but I found a way to help me deal with it." Kit smiles.
"Mind telling our boys how to handle it? Milo keeps flirting with me and poor Echo's still learning how to deal with it." Nora pats his shoulder.
"Nora!" Echo shouts.
"Fives had misunderstood Lee and I also, we're friends that's it." Ariel sighs a bit heavily.
"Haha, sure. I'll tell you boys the secret before we land. Though you may want to check on your brother. I sort of scared him pretty bad." Kit smirks.
Echo sighed at that and said "Sir yes sir." He gave Nora a peck on the cheek and headed off.
With Fives…
'Dead. I'm dead.' Fives sighs as he looks over his data pad.
When Echo found him, he said "Hey Fives there you are."
"Hey, see Nora?" Fives looks over at him a bit worried.
"It was a little weird with general Fisto there." Echo flushes.
"So… you know?" Fives flushes a bit.
"They told me what happened." Echo nods.
"He's going to kill me!" Fives sighs heavily at that idea.
"Actually, he's not mad at you. I think he figured nothing happened and just wants to have Ariel to himself today." Echo shrugs.
"Really? That's good." Fives relaxes a bit at that.
"Though we will be seeing him before we land. Sigh, the girls told him about our jealousy issue there." Echo flushes.
"Why?" Fives lifts a brow at that.
"It's my fault. I was asking if Prince Lee-Char would be there, you know, be prepared for your sake." Echo sighs.
"What did he say?" Fives looks a bit worried.
"He said he had to deal with the same issue when he was dating Ariel's mother but found a way to deal with it." Echo thinks back.
"Really?" Fives looks surprised at that.
'It might help to know how.' Fives ponders.
Then Kelp walked by and smirked "Hey Fives woke up nice and cozy did we?"
"You?! You did it!?" Fives points angry.
"What ,didn't Echo wake you up before the general…" Kelp starts but Echo was shaking his head. "He didn't? Then that means the general…" Kelp looks over at Fives "How are you still alive?"
"Why you…" Fives chases after him.
At that Kelp ran as Fives chased after him.
Echo shook his head at this "Guess General Fisto's commander is a prankster."
"Oh really how so?" Echo stiffens as he looks back to Windu there.
"Um sir I…" Echo starts but.
"Don't worry, no ones in trouble. I just want to know why Fives is chasing Kelp around the ship." Mace pointed at the scene.
Echo sighed once more and explained.
Once done Mace nodded and started to walk off "Sir..?" Echo was confused.
"I just need to tell Kelp that he better never try that trick with Nora. I might kill and ask questions later." Mace nods.
Echo pales at that and said "I see sir." He then walks off quickly to the controls.
Mace chuckled at this 'Poor boy, but I have to make sure there's no funny business going on.' And then walks off to stop Fives from killing Kelp.
Arriving on Atlantia they're met with a small welcome party this time. Just the Tonn family.
Grandpa looking at Kit scolding. And with the father's look of 'so it was you.'
'Fives if I looked at you this way sorry.' Kit sighs to himself.
"It's been a long time." Kit bows to them slightly.
"I'd say we have a lot to talk about. But for now, we need to bring these girls in for treatments." Grandma motions for them to head in.
With that they head in. A bath was drawn for Ariel. She let her fins out seeing the burns affected them as well. The saltwater stung but felt nice.
'So good.' Ariel leans back soaking into the water.
Nora on the other hand was being wrapped in seaweed while getting air steamed to get the fever out. 'Sigh, this is wonderful.' Nora sighs as she feels all the pain go away and her body take in the warm sensation. She wasn't going to want to move for a while.
Kit looks around the familiar halls a bit. He stops at a photo of Aqua sitting on a rock with her fins out.
"Aqua…" Kit looks at her sadly.
"So you can cry." Milo looks at him leaning on a corner wall.
"Milo…" Kit starts.
Milo pins him to the wall with anger in his eyes. Kit not even trying to fight him.
"Why?! Why weren't you there? Where were you when she needed you? When she called out in pain? Why weren't you with her? With Ariel?" Milo glares at him.
"I was sent on a different mission. I…" Kit starts to explain calmly.
"Why didn't you tell the council? Why didn't you leave them?" Milo cuts him off shouting furiously.
"If I told you would you believe me?" Kit looks at him calmly.
Milo looked ready to punch him until Fives stopped him.
"Let me go meat droid!" Milo shouts furious.
"If you do this Ariel will never forgive you." Fives looks at him sternly, not letting him go.
Milo gritted his teeth then pushes Kit to the wall hard before breaking free of Fives and heading off.
"You okay?" Fives helps him stand.
"You shouldn't have done that. He has every right to be angry." Kit says calmly.
"No he doesn't." Fives says with a snap in his voice.
"What?" Kit turning to him surprised.
"THEY got to mourn in public and private. But you… you had to hide and keep it all in. Facing that pain every day and never being able to say." Fives explains with a pain in his eyes. "Those that get to say outload don't get to burst out in anger." He looks down sadly.
"Fives…" Kit looks at him softly.
"Sorry for speaking out of turn sir." Fives clears his throat rubbing his misty eyes.
"No." Kit shakes his head slightly. "I appreciate that. But can we keep this from Ariel? I don't want her thinking she has to choose between families." He pats his shoulder lightly.
"Sir." Fives nods about to head off.
"Fives." Kit tosses him something.
"Sir this is…" Fives looks at the shell surprised and happy.
"You can give that to her at dinner. We're going to Cove so dress casual nice." Kit heads off with a hand wave.
"Yes sir." Fives smiles at that.
Meanwhile….
Echo was helping with patrol with Ponds as he checked over a to do list of what needed to be done and a few regulations he wanted to keep up to date with.
Mace came in to find him doing this in the room the troopers would be sharing and says "What are you doing?"
At that Echo jumps and said "Sir, just checking over what still needs to be done and checking over the new regulations."
Mace raises a brow "You should be resting, and more new regulations?"
"I like to keep busy and reg reading tends to calm me." Echo stands stiff.
'I went too far with that threat.' Mace sighs and says "Echo you can relax, this is shore leave. I may be protective, but you've never given me a reason to have to use my threats have you?" Mace raised a brow.
Echo seems to calm at that, shoulder slacking a bit "No sir."
Mace nods "So you find the regulation book relaxing. I've never heard such a thing." Mace has to smile.
Echo shrugs at that "They tend to help keep us safe. Like what to be wary about on certain planets. New weapon protocols, so as not to accidently hurt each other. The only protocols I've started having issue with are the personal protocols…" Echo stops wide eyed 'Why did I say that?'
Mace then raised a brow "Personal protocols?"
"Um the ones that include us not having attachments outside the military sir." Echo flushes.
Mace nods at this "I see. I can understand why you would start doubting them, you did break one. But what else do those protocols involve and why do they keep adding to them?"
"Well you see…." Echo then started showing him the personal protocols and Mace, well let's just say he was disgusted he didn't know this. 'Are we that restrictive to our men, have we become slavers….'
Mace looks over at the young man who told him all this as if it was business as usual and for them it was. 'I need to have a talk with the council and Kit. He might be able to help.'
Later on with the girls….
"Oh I feel so much better." Nora stretches as she looks over the outfits that the Tonn family provided.
"Me too." Ariel stretches a bit. "Hey look, they're healing already." She sees her burns healing.
"I'm glad to see that they're better." Nora looks over smiling sadly.
It was true, Ariel was better now, less wounds. A few bruises but mostly better.
"Hey, this wasn't your fault." Ariel places a hand on her shoulder.
"I still feel bad about it." Nora looks away.
"What's the matter Nora? Talk to me." Ariel looks at her worried.
"I just, don't know what to do. How can I protect you all from such a monster?" Nora leans against the drawer.
"WE protect each other. Because we're friends and family. Okay?" Ariel places both hands on her shoulders with a soft smile.
Nora takes a breath and nods as she goes back to picking an outfit and then said "Oh that's right Echo's hero cake. Maybe we'll buy it at the restaurant. Imagine they're faces." Nora chuckles.
"That would be amazing." Ariel giggles.
They both laughed at that planning on how to do this.
With the guys…
"What exactly is casual nice in Atlantean wear?" Echo looks on uncertain at the clothes.
"How should I know?" Fives looks even more panicked.
'Should I dress up more since I'm giving her rings?' Fives ponders. 'Wait a minute! I'm not proposing.' He shakes his head a bit.
"I guess we could wear the shirts and pants but leave out the wraps or as much puff." Echo shrugs.
"Guess that could work." Fives ponders.
So they got to work on that.
Echo put on puffy light tan pants, boots, and a wavy white shirt with small purple markings with a small slit in the middle.
(Five's outfit: it's the same as Echo's only with black pants and blue markings)
Then they heard a knock on the door. Kit came in and said "There you two are. Sorry I never got time to tell you both what I did to help keep calm when other men went after Aqua." Kit chuckles.
"We'd like to hear it sir." Fives nods a bit nervous.
"We really do appreciate it. So what did you do?" Echo looks pleadingly.
Kit smirked and said "Okay so first I had to remember that Aqua loved me and I knew that, but it could be hard to still stay calm under all those wandering eyes." Kit rolled his eyes at that then said "But one way to help is making eye contact when you can, they say the eyes are the windows to the soul, and trust me you can see a lot about a person in those eyes. And when you make contact with those eyes you know they love you." Kits smiles at those memories.
'That's true.' Fives flushes with a smile recalling the love in Ariel's eyes.
"It will help when we can't be with them. And it's hard to not see how someone really feels through their eyes. Thank you general." Echo nods.
"One more thing boys." Kit smiles.
"Yes sir?" They both ask.
"On leave it's Kit okay? I let Ponds and Kelp do the same so no need to worry about being exposed. I'll see you all later." Kit pats their backs and heads off.
The two looked at each other shocked. 'Did that just happened?'
With the girls…
"I don't know. Isn't this too much?" Ariel twirls around a bit in her outfit.
(Ariel's outfit: a light purple belly shirt with off the shoulder white silk sleeveless/ white belt with a white sheer outer half skirt/ dark purple skirt/ black sandals/ light makeup/ white headband with a light purple gem in the middle of it)
"I think it looks cute. Pluss my outfits a bit extravagant as well." Nora flushes at what she had on.
(Nora's outfit: Light teal shirt and skirt. The shirt is a belly shirt pointing down with a white edge. The edge of the skirt was white too. White sandals. And around the waist was a sort of upside-down white lutes with light teal edges and a small curve in the middle. Light teal teardrop gem earrings, and a silver choker with the same gem in the middle and three metal like petals going down from it.)
"Thanks." Ariel smiles softly. "Yours is pretty too."
"Thanks. I hope I didn't overdo it. But it's been so long since we've been out with the guys." Nora flushes touching the crystal necklace, she really wanted to have a good time with Echo after so much time apart and with what almost happened 'I hope that never happens again.' She sighs at the thought.
With that they head off to meet the others for dinner.
'Wow.' Fives felt his heart almost stop at the site of Ariel. 'She's an angle. No other word fits.' He watches her come down the stairs gracefully.
'She really is her mother's daughter.' Kit pictures Aqua's spirit walking alongside their daughter, a smile on her face at watching over them.
Echo was struck still as his heart pattered on. 'Oh wow, keep steady Echo. She really is something of a vision.' Stares on smiling.
'I guess I over did it.' Nora chuckles.
Mace had to shake his head 'Of course they do this. Oh no I know that look.' Mace looks at the two young men.
"Close those mouths boys." Mace instructs the wide eyed and jaw dropped two.
"Sir." They clear their throats doing just that.
"Shall we?" Kit and Mace hold their hands out for the girls.
"Yeah." The two nod, taking their hands as they head off.
With that they head off to the restaurant. It has a nice clear blue floor like walking on the ocean and lights that look like shells. A very French feeling place to the girls.
As they sat down, they had their guys on one side of them and then their master on the other. The guys looking really stiff at the moment.
'The poor guys.' Ariel couldn't help giggling at this a bit.
'Really they can't give us a break can they.' Nora sighs internally really wishing she could have time with Echo. 'Though I did promise Mace we get to know each other.'
"Hey Fives, why'd you shave?" Ariel looks over at his baby like face, a bit attracted to it.
"Oh well… We were going to a nice place, so I thought… does it look weird?" Fives stumbles on his words then looks over at her a bit red.
"A bit. But I kinda like it. It's so smooth." Ariel giggles stroking his smooth skin where the prickles were.
"The food should be here soon." Fives takes her hand and places it on the table.
'And your dad looks ready to murder me!' Fives looks over to see Kit giving him a stern look as he sips his water.
'Poor guy is still scared of him.' Ariel sighs but places her hand on his.
Fives jumps a bit at that seeing Kit trying hard to keep his anger down. But looking at Ariel he can see her love and wanting to be near him. He relaxes a bit at that, smiling at her.
Mace is giving Echo a warning like look. 'Maybe I'm overdoing it…..Nope, you where that age once and look what happened when no one was watching you.' At that Mace let his glare grow stronger.
Echo is stiff from all this, not sure what to do with General Windu glaring at him.
'Come on Echo you promised.' Nora looks at him pleadingly. She really wanted to be with him, but he needed to make the first move this time.
At that look Echo remembered his promise and his fears mostly subsided as he put an arm around her and let Nora snuggled up to him.
Nora smiles as she thinks 'That's what I'm talking about.' She rewards him with a kiss on the cheek.
Kit has to hold in his laughter. 'Oh boy Windu looks like he might just blow.'
'I wanna snuggle too.' Ariel leans her head against Fives shoulder.
'Ariel…' Fives smiles softly at her.
Windu glared for a bit more but Echo never lets go. And then Mace just smirked as he looked away.
Everyone looked on shocked thinking 'What?!''
'Okay Mace what are you playing at?' Kit raises a brow.
Before more can be said the waiter comes up. Everyone ordered they're meals at that. Turns out both Nora and Mace were fond of root beer and meats. Ariel and Kit both order a type of shrimp meal.
"Strange I always thought you'd be a vegetarian with your fondness for animals." Mace chuckles.
"I could say the same about you, don't think I haven't seen you stare at the bugs and birds in the garden." Nora chuckles.
Mace almost flushes at that.
Kit chuckles "Mace has always been a lover of nature. Never wanting to take a life if it was unnecessary. But he loves meat."
"I'm surprised you picked a shrimp like meal." Ariel looks at him surprised yet smiling.
"Blame your mother, she got me addicted to this gumbo when we were teens." Kit smiles softly at the idea.
"Really? I can't wait to try it then." Ariel smiles at that idea.
"What do you boys usually prefer for meals?" Mace raises a brow.
At that the two look at each other, they understood, but also it was a strange question.
"Is something the matter boys?" Kit frowned at their fluxed emotions.
"No ge… I mean Kit. It's just not something we're asked much about." Echo looks on wide eyed.
"Or had a reason to say. Not like it matters." Fives adds.
"What do you mean?" Mace frowns this time.
"Well we do have preferences, but we'll eat anything really if it means surviving. So, we're not all that picky about our food." Echo shrugs.
"Not like there's any call for it." Fives does the same and sips his drink.
The two Jedi look on shocked 'Why haven't we noticed this before?'
Had the war changed them that much? If it was a settlement they would have been upset by this and tried to help them, but they're own soldiers… They didn't even notice. The girls saw how tense things were and decided to help.
"They do have preferences, like Echo likes sweets a lot." Nora smiles at him as he flushed rubbing the back of his head.
"Fives can't stand sweets. He prefers spice or it being a bit bitter." Ariel smiles over at him.
Fives is a bit red at that sipping his soda. Ariel looks at him lovingly, wanting to help with everything in her.
"Though it'd be nice if they all could get more variety in their food. I know it may be hard to get nice meals for all your battalions but at least some diversity would be nice." Nora looks on with big eyes.
"Just basic meals would help." Ariel looks at them with big eyes.
The two flinch at this 'Those looks.' At that they knew when it came to the troopers the girls would not fight fair with them.
'Is it strange I'm proud of her?' Kit smiles softly at her.
'They really are something.' Mace does the same.
"We'll see what we can do." Mace nods to the girls.
"I can promise the others will be just as ready to help." Kit nods.
As music starts up Ariel's eyes beam. Kit sees her look and sighs with a smile.
"May I?" Kit holds his hand out for hers.
"Yes." Ariel takes his hand.
The two dance for a bit. Kit twirling her about. Ariel feeling a bit like a little girl playing pretend with her father.
Nora was excited about the prospect of dancing too and was going to ask Echo but then saw how Windu seemed uncertain about something. She kissed Echo's cheek then went up to Mace "Hey did great grandma ever teach you to dance?"
Mace was surprise and said "Nothing like this but, it be an honor to dance with you." At that the two headed out to dance as well, Mace was a bit shaky but Nora helped him understand the steps and how it worked.
Nora had to chuckle at this 'I think this is the first time I've ever seen him nervous about something.'
"May I cut in?" Fives taps Kit's shoulder.
"Dad." Ariel warns seeing him about to say something.
"Alright." Kit places her hand into Fives.
"I've missed holding you close." Fives whispers.
"I've missed you too." Ariel snuggles into him as they twirl about.
"Ariel… I really am sorry about what happened. I wish I could take it back." Fives looks at her lovingly.
"I'm sorry too. But please believe me when I say there's nothing between Lee and I besides friendship." Ariel looks at him lovingly.
"I do." Fives leans forward kissing her lightly.
Nora had gotten Mace to calm down and said "There we go see, one two three four, one two three four."
"I'm surprised, where did you learn to do this?" Mace had to smile.
"I took some classes and it was fun. But I've always had my own sense of dancing since I was old enough to finally understand rhythm." Nora chuckles.
"It took you a while." Mace frowned.
"It just took me a bit to understand what dance really was. My sister and my mother helped with that." Nora chuckles.
"Excuse me sir. May I." They looked back to see Echo standing stiff.
Nora smiles as Mace rolls his eyes but hands her over and says "I'm leaving her in your hands trooper. Watch it." Mace glares.
Echo nods as Nora chuckles as she goes into his arm. Echo smiles at that and they sway about.
"Nora I just wanted to apologize for how I acte…." Nora kisses him, surprising him.
"No more apologizing. You've done more than enough of it and after what you did. How can I not know you love me?" Nora looks at him lovingly.
Echo looks into her eyes so full of love. 'The general was right, you can see they're love in those eyes.' Echo felt himself pull Nora closer as the two swayed about more.
"Just don't scare me like that ever again." Nora nuzzles close, a bit teary eyed, remembering what happened.
"I'll try but I could never let anything happen to you. Not ever." Echo kisses the top of her head forgetting that they were being watched as they swayed about.
With the masters…
Kit sighs heavily watching them.
"Something wrong?" Mace looks over at his friend.
"It's nothing, I just… I wish I could have gotten time with her when she was little. When I would have been the only man to mean something to her." Kit watches the couple with a soft smile.
"I would have liked to know my child or children as well. To have held them." Mace looks at Nora a bit sadly.
"I'm sorry Mace, I at least got to hold Ariel before she was taken away." Kit looks at him a bit sadly.
"That couldn't have been easy for you either." Mace shakes his head a bit. "I didn't know about them and get to wonder what they were like. You. You on the other hand believed she was dead for twenty odd years." He places a hand on his shoulder.
After dancing they sit back down. As they sit a waitress brings over a cake for them.
The cake was put right in front of Echo who looked on shocked "Wo, um sorry ma'am but I think there's been a mistake we didn't order this." Echo pointed at the cake. 'Though I wish we did.' Echo almost drooled at the sight.
"No mistake." The woman shakes her head. "The princess and her friend asked for it." She looks over at them.
"What?" Echo flushes as he looks at the said girls.
"This is our way of saying thank you for saving us. Saving me." Ariel smiles at Echo.
"And keeping me from Dooku's clutches. You're our hero Echo. So, we got you a hero's cake." Nora kisses his cheek.
'Hero cake!?' Fives looks shocked.
"What, hero. No I….I." Echo flushes at those words never hearing himself be called that before. The girls chuckle at his shock.
"I'm happy for you." Fives shakes his head a bit patting his shoulder.
"Alright then. Let's eat." The girls cheer lightly.
After eating they started on the way back. When they were back Fives took Ariel to the garden.
"What's this about Fives?" Ariel looks at him confused.
"I… I wanted to give you something." Fives takes the shell box out of his pocket.
"Oh Fives." Ariel looks at the box smiling with love in her eyes.
"You said I should be the one to place it on your hand." Fives slips the pink glass ring on her hand.
"I love it." Ariel pecks his lips.
"I love you Ariel. I always will." Fives kisses her back.
"I love you too." Ariel hugs him, snuggling into him.
Nora and Echo saw the two had sneaked off and the two smirked as Echo took Nora's hand and they headed off.
"Where are we going?" Nora whispers.
"I library I found here last time. No one goes in there accept to clean." Echo smirks.
"A library and you didn't tell me." Nora glares but smiles.
"There wasn't time." Echo reaches two doors and opens them.
Nora gasped at how large it was and then Echo grabbed her hand and they rushed to a small reading corner with a couch and fireplace.
"Oh this is romantic." Nora chuckles.
Echo flushes but she had a point, it was. The two then sat down on the couch as Echo brought out a book and said "I remember you telling me about the Zoro books ,some of the gray jedi where able to help get me one."
"Gasp, really. Let's hear it." Nora gushes.
"Wait you want me to read to you?" Echo flushes.
Nora smiles flirty like and says "I want to hear that handsome voice of yours." Nora snuggles up to him and lays out on the couch as she waits for the story to start.
Echo flushes more at that but then smiles "As you wish amour." He puts an arm around her as he begins to read.
The two were so comfortable just in that small quite corner as the world of Zoro came to life for them that they fell asleep in that library.