Title and Author ; Brewing Storms - Chapter Ten (huge milestone!) - Becky

Disclaimer ; I'm going to say it one last time for this particular story - I own nothing. Sadly.

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They were sitting in the middle of the room, boxes, dust, and the contents of their lives sitting around them. And as usual, they were talking.

" Y'know, we really should get back to moving this stuff."

" Mmmm-hmmm. It's not my fault you keep the junk though."

" I have to remind you about the time you moved in then? About the time when I agreed to help you pack? About the amount of junk you kept?...And keep?" She was teasing him, a playful smirk on her face.

" Yeah, well. I'm a packrat, what else can I say?"

" Nothing. You don't need do." She leaned across, kissing him gently on the cheek.

An activity that would usually be stressful, or an annoyance to do, was seeming to be fun to them, for one reason - they were doing it together, as cliche as that was.

" Yeah, well, I s'pose we should really," he began pulling himself to his feet, ignoring the twinge in his back, "get on with this."

He turned to her, offering her his hands. She accepted, pulling herself up to a standing position to face him. They turned their seperate ways for a moment, until something caught her eye.

A small blue box was sitting on the floor.

"Hey, what's this?"

He turned to her, ignorance plastered across his face.

" Oh, yeah. I found it, I was meaning to ask you about it."

" Well you didn't. It's probably just some junk."

" Oh, you mean *more*? Maybe you should open it."

" Nah, it's junk, I can tell you."

He looked at her, searching for words.

" Just open it, yeah? If not for you, then for me?"

" You open it, if you're so curious Dr.Carter."

" Nu-uh. You, *Mrs.Carter*." He seemed to exaggerate the 'Mrs', as if telling her something. Something that she ignored.

Her fingers played with the outer-lining of the box, his form growing closer to her. She looked at him, eyeing him with curiousity, and then with a teasing and meaningful smile, she opened the box, hoping to prove him right - that it was some pointless junk that she was wasting her time with. How wrong she was.

Inside was sitting a small, delicate band, a diamond in the centre of it, and two smaller ones surrounding. From her mouth, she let out a gasp, as his arms pulled her into a hug.

He lowered his head against her ear, and whispered.

" Happy anniversary."

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Author's Notes ; This is the end of an era. Well, maybe not an era, but a carby fanfiction at least! I've rather enjoyed writing this, and to think that the first chapter was intended to be nothing more than a standalone. And d'you know why it wasn't? Because of you. All of you. And your reviews - of which I am eternally grateful for. Thankyou, really. Without those I wouldn't be here writing a final author's note for the huge milestone for me, that is chapter ten. My thanks is enormous. Anyway, now I'm going to completely contradict you by asking for a few more reviews for the ending chapter, and my apologies for the lack of content of it, and for the possible overload of fuzziness. Is anyone still reading this? Probably not. Anyway, let's just roll around to the end with a few more thankyou's...

To you all - Thanks! I mean what I say ; without you, none of this would be here!

To rae - because although you're probably not reading this, my thanks for you is grateful! For everything. And I mean *everything*.

To Brookestar - Again for your fantastic words in your reviews! You're great - and you are on my favourite author's list! You are the queen of carby fanfiction from what I can gather, and from what I've read!

And again to everyone - I apologise that I haven't mention the load of people that I want to, but I'm really bad at names!