Chapter 7 - The Remedy (Final Chapter)
After about a month, Leela decided to return to the hospital to see how Fry was getting on. Walking through the ward, towards his bed, she first noticed that Fry seemed much better than when she last saw him. He was sitting up comfortably against his pillow, with what looked like the most amazing ear to ear grin on his dorky little face.
As she walked closer, he finally caught sight of her. "Hey Leela, great to see you!" he called over to her. He was in a very happy mood indeed. "I've got some cool news for you, Leela. Sit down next to me and I'll tell you."
"Well, what is this cool news?" she eagerly enquired, as she sat on the edge of his bed to listen to him. She seemed to have the strangest feeling that he somehow had a real big surprise to tell her.
"You're in luck, you really don't have to take care of me anymore, as I've found somebody else!" he blurted out chirpily.
"In just one month... that was quick!" she exclaimed. "Who is it... a nurse, or someone you met here, at the hospital?"
"Nope... go on, guess again," he urged her, wagging one of his hands around, for her to continue.
"Gimme a clue... is it somebody I know?"
"Yep... in fact somebody we've both known for a very long time." Fry had given her one of the best clues she could possibly have gotten from him, but she seemed to be slacking in her detective work.
The guessing cyclops tried desperately to think of any females that they'd both known for a very long time. The only one which came to mind, was... "Amy...! You're dating Amy?" Her question came out loud, adding a surprised look on her face, as if she'd seen a ghost from the past.
Fry broke out in laughter, as he'd never gotten one over Leela before. "Wrong again," he laughed out loud, still urging her to carry on guessing.
Leela, though, was fed up and wanted to know now. She began sulking, and huffed out, "Ohhhh... I give up... I'm sick of guessing."
Fry finally decided that he ought to show her the dozen red roses that his lover had sent to him, as there was a card on the flowers that could give her another clue. "Read the message of love on the card, Leela."
She searched deep into the red blooms, when she at last found a tiny little heart-shaped card inside, hardly big enough to write a love message. It just about managed to fit the little limerick squashed on the inside of it. It read:
There was once a cutie named Fry,
Who married a witch with one eye.
His wife has now gone,
For his life was a con,
But waiting in line, here am I.
As Leela read the card that Fry's secret love had sent to him, his sweetheart seemed to be becoming more and more of a mystery to the cyclops with every clue. Mind you, she felt a sudden anger for whoever it was, as that person had called her a "witch"!
Just as she sat there, still totally confused, scratching her head, and trying to play Sherlock Holmes to find Fry's new love, she began to hear the clanging of metal shoes on the vinyl floor from behind her. She knew who had arrived, even before she'd turned to look around.
"Hi, Fry," announced the cheerful robot. "Have you told her yet? Hey, have you, have you?" asked the enthusiastic tin can.
"Not yet, Bender... but now you're here..." Fry turned his head, from facing the robot, back to looking into Leela's giant eye. "Leela, you don't need to wait any longer." He embraced the shiny metal robot and kissed him on what were his lips, confirming to her that this was his one true love.
"I bought you a box of chocolates, Red, and I've also written you another love limerick," Bender affectionately told his love.
"I'll read it later," replied Fry. "But for now, come and sit by me, and we can snuggle and cuddle up close."
Fry then turned, to look at the now shocked Leela again, attempting to explain his new relationship to her. "You first put the idea into my head months ago, during one of our marriage fights, when you screamed at me that I was so close to Bender that I should marry him. I'm afraid that the quote simply stuck into my head, as we both just got closer and closer."
Her eye almost popped out, as she gawked at the two robosexual studs, although it wasn't altogether that unusual, as they had always being quite friendly with each other since she'd known them.
As Bender stuck his arm around Fry, to squeeze his lover's body ever closer to his own, he had to make a stand, not just for himself, but for all machines in the 31st century. "What, are you prejudiced against robosexuals or something?"
"Not prejudiced, just wondering how you do it without a wiener, that's all," she replied.
Bender and Fry weren't going to tell Leela their biggest secret, but they did have another big secret to tell, and since she was here...
As they both grinned at each other, Fry suddenly pulled his hidden hand from under Bender's shiny metal butt. "Look what Bender got for me, Leela."
He shook his left hand, straight in front of her massive eye, so she couldn't miss the large diamond ring which was sitting where his previous wedding ring had been. She wondered why she hadn't noticed it before.
Bender looked extremely proud of himself. "I stole it myself... from our local jewellers!"
As the two lovers warmly embraced, the stunned cyclops looked on, bemused, deciding to make a quiet exit and leave them to it.
The End