Dedication: To Speciall Ed, Cagalli-01, Futuristic-dudette, ILoveMyGojyo and Chelseaquzom. You liked this enough to say so/put this on your favorite list or even both!
A/N: This is kind of rushed I know, but I'm being buried under a mountain of homework, so I didn't have as much time to spend on this as I would have liked. But it's done, and it's just as stupidly fluffy as before.
Aurora Borealis
"Leela, I need to give you something."
"Huh? Who?" A sleepy Leela asked.
"Leela, wake up! I know you'll love this when you see it properly."
Leela managed to open her sleep-deprived eye, and gasped at the sight she saw before her.
"So, do you like it?" Fry asked nervously.
"Wow! I love it!" Leela took the locket out of it's display box, holding it up to the sky in part of the alley that wasn't lit by the garish orange glow of the street lights.
"Thank you!" She said as she saw it glisten in the starlight."It's beautiful!" She turned to him and flung herself at him for such a forceful hug that Fry was pushed into the side of a dumpster.
"Wait, Fry," She asked, pulling away. "How much did this cost? I don't want you to be broke just to make me happy."
"Money? Who cares about that? I've got everything I've wanted. Someone who'll love me for who I am. All the other woman have left after about twenty-five minuets of conversation. I think the record was 33 seconds. Anyway, you've worked with me for 10 hours a day for 4 years, and you can still look at me without spitting or gagging. And if I live too long, I'll just find change off the street, save it up and find a suicide booth."
"Are you sure? I could return it and give you the money back. I don't want you dying young an account of me either."
"Meh. I wasn't expecting to live this long anyway."
"Uh, Fry? I love the locket and everything, but why did you have to take me out of bed at 3:45 this morning and drag me half way across town just to give it to me?"
"You'll find out soon, come on."
As he was dragging her... wherever, Leela's mind was working overtime to try to figure out how Fry was being this nice to her. The normal Fry was very loud and socially inept. This new Fry was a caring, gentle and sweet man, with whom she could fall in love with.
In fact, she had.
xXx
"Okay, we're here."
"This is work. You took me to work?"
"Yep, but this is the only place I could find a spaceship."
"Spaceship? Ooh, where are we going?"
"Hyperion."
Leela looked puzzled.
"What, you don't remember...?"
xXx
It was as if stars from every corner of the universe came together in this one place, shining light for only them. The sky seemed more light than black. The glaciers shined, refracting light into beautiful arcs. The aurora borealis on this planet produced was spectacular. The atmosphere made deep purples and reds that gave the place a strange but glow.
Perfect.
Leela's face lit up, the glow from thousands of stars back-lighting her, accenting her natural beauty.
"Oh, my God, Fry! This place is just so beautiful. So romantic." She smiled.
"And it gets better. Come here"
He offered his hand out to her. She took it, and was swept away by him, Fry gliding her gracefully towards a waiting sleigh. When the mammoth started on it's run, Fry took her other hand and held them both tight.
As they rode on they sat close together, taking in the wondrous sights they saw around them.
"Oh, it's just so magical. I've dreamed of a place like this, before you woke me up so early this morning. You were here and we were..." Her voice faded out. She looking slightly embarrassed and a small smile being unsuccessfully surprised at the corner of her mouth.
"I think I have a vauge idea of what you were dreaming of."
He tentatively leaned over and kissed her softly at first, to find out what her reaction would be.
From the way she kissed him back, he knew the answer.
The End? Or TBC?...