The Love That Matters Forever

The next morning, at 9:23 am, Fry woke up from the bright sunlight from his window. His left arm was wrapped around Leela's shoulders, as she faced the different direction of where Fry was. When he stared at her, it looked exactly like the story he saw off of The Professor's what-if machine. He smiled down at his sleeping girlfriend, and stroked her purple hair. They were nude underneath the blankets, but their silence stayed golden. Leela finally woke up to the feeling of Fry's fingers through her hair. She turned to him slowly, smiling.

"Morning." she whispered.
"Morning. I didn't wake you up, did I?" Fry asked.
"Well, I needed to get up anyway." Leela replied.
"Oh, okay." he said as he stood up and stretched.

"By the way, could you hand me my shirt?" Leela asked.
"Sure." Fry replied as he picked Leela's shirt off the floor and gave it to her.
"Thanks."
"I hope our next mission is another vacation." Fry said as he put his pants on.

Leela laughed.

"Yeah. Maybe this time we wont get sucked into a black hole." Leela replied as she put on her boots.
"Hopefully." Fry said.

They heard a blabbing sound. As they turned to the door, they spotted Nibbler. The little animal was smiling and looking at the two.

"Now, Nibbler, you're coming with us. The last time we left you here, we couldn't find you." Leela said.
"Yeah. We were worried about you." Fry said.

Nibbler didn't hang his head like Leela expected him too. He just revealed a solemn expression. He wanted to tell them about their mission to find out who the culprit was, but he knew what they had just done last night.

"I must wait... Any minute now... Leela will find out she is pregnant... That way it will be easy to find the culprit..."

At the conference table, Fry sat very close to Leela. Not because of her safety, but because of last night. He knew that any time now, she would be pregnant. And he wanted to be ready for her at the time.

"Fry, do you need more space or something?" Leela asked.
"No. I'm just... just... thinking about your safety." Fry lied.
"You're thinking that I'm pregnant, do you?"
"No, I um, well... I uh... You see... you thought, uh... I, uh..."
"It's okay, Fry. You can say yes if you want to... Because you know I am."

Fry looked up to her... and smiled. He took both of her hands in his. She smiled as well. The love that they shared overnight brought an important gift towards the both of them; a little girl. And they were happy about it.

"Ah, geez, get a room." they heard Bender say.
"We already did." Fry said.
"Well, if you're planning to do it again, give me a call."

"Good news, everyone!" they heard the Professor exclaim once again. "It seems the people from Epsilon 7 have notified that the brown sugar that you sent them has been overatedly out of place. Not to mention a independent moron may have taken part of the brown sugar in order to fill up his ship fuel."

"How's that good news?" Leela asked.

"They would let one of you go back to repair the incident for free future sight. And it seemed that since you and Fry finally have figured out your future, the people have got something to tell you."

"Really? Huh. I wonder what it could be." Fry said to Leela.

Nibbler gave himself a determined look.

Fry and Leela didn't take Bender with them, but Nibbler sure wanted to go. Because somehow it had something to do with his Nibblonian friends (Which I've learned that the male's name is Ken and the female's name is Fiona). As they arrived on the planet, nobody was technically there. Nibbler urged Fry and Leela to follow him to the same puddle they used to find Lily. They followed the little rascal to the same pink water.

"Do you think we should go down there again?" Leela asked.

"I guess so. They said they got a surprise for us. And Nibbler's just trying to make us follow him. So we might as well look inside our future even more." Fry said.

Both Fry and Leela put their hands into the water, but nothing happened. They waited a little more, but still nothing.

"... Do you think we made a mistake?" Fry asked.
"Who knows." Leela replied.

Soon enough, the water started to change color. But it wasn't the pink and purple color they witnessed before. It was turning gray and dark. They had no idea why, or how, but something was terribly wrong. Suddenly, Leela moaned with pain. She clenched her stomach, while she sank into the ground.

"Leela! Leela, what's wrong?" Fry asked as he grabbed her.
"I... don't... know..." she breathed.

"Oh, Lord... Lily..." Fry thought.

The sky also turned black, and filled with gray clouds. Fry had no idea what was going on. But he focused his attention on Leela. She was squirming in pain, and he didn't know what to do. He stood up and walked towards Leela's back. He suddenly yelled to the skies,

"What are you doing with her? I don't know why, but we never done anything to disturb you! If you wanna hurt somebody, don't let it be Leela! Nor Lily! Take me instead! Just leave Leela and Lily alone!"

"Fry, no..." Leela said through the moans.

"Yes, Leela. I love you. More than my life. And I don't want anything to happen to you or Lily. So if there's somebody that'll sacrifice his life for you, it's gonna be me!" he yelled up at the skies.

The gray skies concealed a blue lightning bolt that almost fired straight at Fry's arm. He dodged it, but only made a short cut at his shoulder. The wind blew hard. Before the lightning bolt could fire again, something appeared in front of Fry and Leela's eyes. Fry kneeled down and touched Leela's shoulders. The pain in her stomach quickly stopped, but it looked like it wasn't over yet. They found out it was a ship. It looked pink, and somehow familiar to the both of them. Nibbler yelled out his own blabbing. The ship landed, and two little furry creatures appeared out of it.

It was Ken and Fiona. Fry and Leela couldn't believe that there were more creatures like Nibbler. Nibbler rushed up to the two, looking very astonished.

"Why didn't you come sooner?" Nibbler asked.
"The wind blocked our path. Is everyone okay?" Ken asked.
"Slightly. The storm has increased too early. We must help Fry and Leela now!" Nibbler exclaimed.

Fry heard what Nibbler said, and helped Leela up. Her stomach still ached when she got up, which brought her back down. Fry picked her up with both of his hands, and ran up the ship. Leela wrapped her arms around Fry's neck.

"Just hang on, Leela. We're almost there." Fry whispered.
"Hurry! Hurry!" Nibbler yelled.

Fry ran inside the ship, and so did Nibbler. The storm grew violent, but it didn't stop them from leaving the planet. The ship finally took off, and zoomed towards planet Eternium. Inside, Fry rested Leela on a nearby bed inside a room, which seemed like a hospital bed. She looked a little tired, but couldn't stop letting go of her stomach. Fry sank on his knees, and squeezed Leela's hand.

"It's okay, Leela. Everything's gonna be all right. I'm here... I'm here..." Fry whispered.
"... Fry... your shoulder..." Leela whispered.
"It's okay, Leela. You're the one I'm worried about."

"I think you need to let her rest. The pain in her stomach didn't hurt the baby, but it may have hurt her." Nibbler said to Fry.

Fry didn't even think about asking how Nibbler could talk, because his attention was focused on Leela. He leaned to her and kissed her. She kissed back, for what may be her only strength.

"If you ever need me, you just tell me, okay?" Fry asked.

Leela nodded. Fry slowly stood up, and walked towards the door with Nibbler.

"Fry?" he heard Leela whisper.

He turned back to Leela, who was smiling at him.

"Thank you... I love you." she said.

"I love you too, Leela. You just rest. You'll probably feel better in a few hours."

She nodded again. Nibbler walked out first, which made a time for Fry to take his last gaze at Leela before he closed the door. No matter if he wanted to know how Nibbler could talk, he still couldn't get Leela off his mind.

"Fry, I know you may seem a little concerned of why I can talk. But I can tell you a perfect reason why we are taking you to our planet." Nibbler said.

"Fine. What is it?" Fry asked anxiously.

"I shall tell you soon after Leela wakes up. You both need to hear this, loud and clear. And you need to know why that storm wanted to kill you in the first place..."

TO BE CONTINUED...