( Hi! This be ze sequel to 'Yume', or 'Dream', and it's much happier than that chapter, honest! )

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It was summer in the garden. The sun shone through the trees, offering shade from the heat of the day, and the sprinklers hissed in the background, giving the many and varied plants some respite from the sun's rays.

Mwu sat on the grass in the full glare of the day, but it was if he never noticed the heat. He was too busy planting flowers to add even more colour to this garden. The flowers were marigolds, their orange-brown shade perfectly reflecting his wife's eyes. They had been bought as a surprise, and he wanted to get them planted before Murrue found out.

I hope she likes them...

Occasionally, Mwu would tip his head back to move the hair out of his eyes, and pause to wipe sweat from his brow. But he kept working, imagining the smile on her face when he showed her these flowers. The thought made him smile as well, and he began to whistle softly.

In the kitchen of their house, Murrue was helping her two little girls make a drink for their father.

After much discussion, Stellar had decided that Papa would really like some cream soda, and three-year-old Lily had nodded firmly in agreement.

Stellar had poured the soda, and Murrue was now adding a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.

"Can it be a bigger scoop, Mama? Papa must be really hot out there!" chirped the nine-year-old, dancing about the kitchen.

"Sure, sweetie. But how come Papa's been out there all this time? What could he be doing?"

Stellar grinned. She knew exactly what Papa was doing, but she alsoknew it was a surprise.

"Uhhh...maybe he's sleeping?"

Lily giggled. "Yeah! Papa's sleeping!"

Murrue raised an eyebrow, but said nothing. Whatever Mwu was really up to, she would find out eventually.

"Okay, it's ready now. Your cola's here too, Stellar." The girl beamed, grabbed the glass her mother handed her, and charged out into the garden. Murrue sighed, picking up Lily.

"Hey, slow down with that glass! You'll hurt yourself!" she called, following her daughter out into the garden.

"Don't worry, Mama, I'll be fine!"

Setting her youngest child down, Murrue told them to go and get their father, as his drink was ready.

After the children had raced off to find him, she stood slightly in the shade of one of the trees, relishing the shade, and the feel of a light breeze blowing through her hair.

She smiled as she felt a light kick, no more than a flutter, and pressed a hand to her stomach.

You like the shade better too, little one?

Mwu was absorbed in his work, planting the last flower in a sunny hollow underneath one of the trees. He never noticed the two girls sneaking up behind him until it was too late. All of a sudden he felt an ice cold object slither down his back underneath his grey T-shirt, causing him to yell out loud.

He stood up, flapping his arms around, trying to get whatever it was away from him. Stellar and Lily kept at a safe distance, giggling loudly.

After the ice cube they had shoved down his back had been removed, Mwu suddenly lunged forward and grabbed the two girls by the waist, one under each arm.

"Funny, huh? You asked for it!"

He ran with his daughters to the nearest sprinkler, and held them under the water spray. They shrieked as the cold water hit their skin, and squirmed as hard as they could to try and escape. Mwu just laughed.

"Stop it, Papa, stop it!" giggled Stellar. "We helped make you a drink, Mama's waiting!"

As he walked through the garden with Stellar, Lily in his arms, he could make out Murrue waiting for him near the house.

"Come on," she called, laughing, "the ice cream's going to melt!"

Suddenly, Mwu remembered seeing something like this before. In a dream...

Then it hit him. The dream he had had, ten years ago, when he was still Neo, before he regained his past and his true self.

I remember it now. The voice in the dream said I would have a happy future, and they were right...

It made him smile. He remembered that the dream had alsocaused him to smile upon waking back then, even though he hadn't been sure why.

Murrue had also remembered that dream, almost at the same moment her husband had. But the realization didn't make her smile. The pain and sadness she had felt in that dream hit her all at once, still as fresh as it had been ten years before. He was alive, and I didn't remember. I saw him and could do nothing about it...

Despite the dream being true, and the happy future she had been promised coming to pass, it still hurt her.

Sinking to her knees, Murrue began to cry softly.

"Mama!" shouted Stellar, running towards her. "What's the matter?"

Murrue shook her head. "Nothing, sweetie. I'm all right.."

Mwu had also rushed forward when he saw his wife's distress. Setting Lily down gently, he knelt down beside Murrue and took her into his arms.

"What's wrong, sweetheart? Is it the baby? Are you in pain?" he whispered into her ear, stroking her hair to soothe her as she sobbed into his chest.

"N-no, I'm okay" she hiccupped. "Just...remembering something sad, that's all..."

Mwu helped her to her feet. "Are you sure you're all right?"

At her nod, he kissed her on the cheek, muttering in her ear. "Please tell me later.."

Lily tugged at her dress, nuzzling into her mother's neck when she was picked up.

"Mama stopped crying now?" she asked.

Murrue kissed her youngest daughter. "Yes, Lily, Mama stopped crying." Walking into the kitchen, she brought out the cream soda and handed it to Mwu.

"Stellar and Lily helped make it. They thought you would like it." she said, smiling again, even though she was still a little sad.

What's past is past. The dream came true, and I don't have to be sad anymore, because I have him with me again.

Later that night, after the children were in bed, Mwu and Murrue were sat in the garden, enjoying the coolness of the evening as the sun set. Mwu stretched out a foot and lazily pushed the hammock swing they sat in to and fro.

"So, now will you tell me why you were so sad earlier?"

Murrue sighed and looked up into the twilight sky, seeing stars twinkle overhead.

"I was remembering a dream I'd had, ten years ago. Stupid as it sounds, it was a dream of the future, of today, in fact. But I'd forgotten about it."

Mwu sat up and stared at her in surprise. "You had a dream like that too?"

Murrue blinked. "Yes. You mean you..."

"When I was on the Girty Lue, my ship in the Alliance. When I was Neo. I saw this, all of it, but I couldn't move or speak, only watch. I did feel happy, though. I knew that one day there'd be a happier life waiting for me, even if I didn't remember it when I woke up."

"It made me sad said Murrue softly. "I could see you, and hear you, and I knew that it meant you were alive somewhere, but I wouldn't be able to do anything about it, because I would forget. I tried so hard to call out, to get you to hear me, but I couldn't..." A single tear dripped down her cheek.

Mwu reached out and wiped the tear from her face. "Please, don't cry anymore. After all, the dream came true, and that happy future's our present now. There's no need to be sad."

Pointing with his foot, he indicated the marigolds he'd planted that afternoon. "Look, this should make you smile. Your flowers."

"My flowers?" Peering into the darkness, she saw the orange-brown flowers dance in the evening breeze.

"Oh, they're beautiful! You planted them?"

Mwu grinned at her delight, happy that she was smiling again,and pulled her into his arms. "I hoped you'd like them..."

The two sat there for hours in each other's arms, watching the moon rise, coating everything in their garden in silver. They talked quietly, enjoying the other's presence and warmth.

It was so peaceful and still, that when the baby kicked again, they both noticed it.

"Soccer player" Mwu said, laughing, as he patted his wife's stomach.

"If he's a boy. Although girls can play soccer too..."

"I kinda hope he is a boy. I'd love another daughter, but I'd like to know what it feels like to have a son. That's something else the future can show us." he said, kissing Murrue gently.

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