A/N: This chapter took me so long to write, but here it is, Chapter 4! I personally like this chapter. Please read and review, feedback is much appreciated.

Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Wreck-It-Ralph, the rights belong to Disney.

The Magical Bond Between Two Hearts

Chapter 4

An Unexpected Friend

She could not believe that she had so much courage inside. The words just sort of came out, one at a time, as she told him her name. She smiled back at him when he stuttered back her name. When Lucy smiled she thought that the very large person standing before her would think her weird. But when she looked at the smile on the giant's face, Lucy thought that something had sparked; as though she felt something come alive again after the nine long years of loneliness and solitude.

For a moment the two of them stood there, staring at each other not knowing what to do. Then Lucy found herself taking a step forward towards him, forgetting the knotting fear that had welled up inside her.

"What are you?" she asked him nervously.

"Well..." he started, "...I'm a game character just like you, I suppose."

"A game character?" Lucy asked confusingly.

"Yeah, you know... the people that are inside the game...that live in the arcade. You know, people like us."

Lucy stared dumbfoundedly at him taking in the words she had heard. "So, um... Ralph right?"

The giant nodded his head slowly.

"You...were at the party right...at DDR?"

He nodded again not saying a word.

"Were you...I mean when I was in that fight...did you...?"

Lucy found that she could not finish her sentence, and that her head was slowly sinking downward. Maybe this was not the right guy...was I wrong?

"Yes I did."

Startled Lucy slowly raised her head again to find that he had knelt down to her eye level, and apparently had gotten closer to her. He smiled gently at her his cheeks giving off a red glow. "I wonder why he does that?" Lucy wondered.

Looking at his soft brown eyes she realized that no words could give her the answer: she knew it was this guy, Ralph, that saved her.

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Ralph felt his heart pounding the whole time as they exchanged warm glances at each other. It took him a great amount of energy to keep back the blood flowing to his cheeks, but he could not contain all of it. As he knelt down to the girl's level, Ralph noticed that she was looking rather strangely at him.

"What are you doing?" she finally asked, her big eyes blinking.

Ralph gave a confusing look, for he did not know what she was talking about.

"Your face..." she said, suddenly putting her face closer to his. Ralph could barely contain the red in his cheeks now.

"Um...w-what about it?" he replied weakly trying to control himself from being this close to her.

She blinked again and stared at him, until she cautiously moved back from his face. Relief went through his mind as she backed away from him.

"Sorry...I didn't mean to get so close but...your cheeks were red." she apologetically explained.

"Oh, this? It's alright really, you don't have to apologize." he quickly replied, "It's just...a little warm in here that's all."

Lucy's curious eyes did not waver. She again gave a warm smile back at him, a relieved expression crossing her face. Ralph smiled back, putting his hand on the back of his head.

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"So, anyways..." he continued after some silence, "...I just wanted to see if you were hurt at all, I mean the way that guy threw you..." he shuddered to think about that fight.

"Well..." Lucy then remembered the pain from being thrown so hard from the fight. Her hand flew up to the back of her head, where she remembered it was bleeding. But when she felt her head, there was no more sign of trickling blood anywhere. I guess it healed up on its own.

"Oh, your arm! It's all bruised up." Ralph exclaimed worriedly.

Lucy looked down at the arm she used. He was right, it was all bruised up. "Must have happened when Archer grabbed me." Lucy thought. She looked at Ralph and saw that he extended his big hand out to her.

"Here, give me your arm."

Lucy shook her head and cradled her arm away from his hand. "You're not going to do something bad are you?" she asked.

"No of course not." he responded gently, "The only thing you need to worry about me is losing my temper. So please...give me your arm. Trust me."

Lucy's mind was swirling with uncertainty, but somehow she knew that he was telling the truth. Her arm slowly reached out to his giant hand, then hesitated. Finally she let him take her arm. She then felt a sudden sensation that she had never felt before: blood boiling in her cheeks.

RIIPP!

Lucy looked up to see Ralph holding and wrapping a piece of cloth around her arm.

"Wait, that's from your shirt. You ruined it!"

"Ah, it's alright. My shirt was a mess anyways." Ralph calmly replied.

She looked at him curiously again. First the cheeks, now his shirt. It was like something weird had taken over him ever since he set eyes on her. The both of them remained quiet as Lucy's arm was tended to by Ralph. Then Lucy remembered that his hands that were helping her, were in fact, giant hands. She looked closer at the hands, her curiosity getting the best of her.

"Your hands..." she muttered. Ralph looked up at her, but Lucy didn't seem to notice.

"You mean my wrecker hands?" he asked finally.

This time Lucy looked up to see Ralph staring at her, staring at his hands.

"Uh, yeah!" she exclaimed to loudly, "I...well didn't mean to stare, it's just..." She felt her face get extremely warm.

"Just...what?" she heard Ralph ask as she turned away her face.

"Well, there just so...BIG." she quietly muttered.

She felt a sudden tug on her arm, signaling that he had finished wrapping her arm. She raised her arm up to her to see that the cloth from Ralph's shirt was now wrapped tightly around her upper arm, almost up to her shoulder.

"Thanks." she found herself saying to him.

"Um...you-you're welcome." he replied bashfully.

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The girl smiled back at Ralph as she lowered her arm to her side. Her eyes still looked curiously at his big wrecker hands, the hands that he used for wrecking the Niceland building. It was his job after all.

"So, what game are you from? I've never really seen you around before." Ralph asked her.

Ralph regretted what he said when Lucy's expression changed from a warm smile to a sad, glum stare. She sank down into the bench that was behind her, lowering her head.

"I'm... not from any game anymore." she whispered glumly.

At first Ralph thought that she was playing. When Lucy looked up though, Ralph felt the red in his cheeks wash away completely. The look in her eyes was serious, he realized that she meant what she said.

"I'm sorry." was his only reply as he sat down next to her.

"No...it's okay." Lucy responded smiling, "It's not anyone's fault but mine..."

Ralph gave her a quizzical look, but Lucy was looking away at him not taking notice.

"What does she mean...her fault?" Ralph wondered.

Before he could ask her though, she suddenly recovered from her glumness and was now looking directly at him again with her big eyes wide.

"Heh, look at me, blabbering on about nothing...I want to know about you. So what game are you from?" Lucy asked excitingly.

At first Ralph was taken aback. No one ever asked him what game he was from, especially a girl for that matter. Suddenly he recalled what Calhoun had said before: You won't know unless you try. Ralph breathed in a huge sigh and for the first time in his life: was trying to talk to a girl.

"Okay here goes... I'm from the game Fix-It-Felix Jr. And Fix-It-Felix Jr. is a game that has been at Litwak's Arcade for more than 30 years now. The goal of the game is to fix the Niceland building, because that's the name of the game. The main guy is Fix-It-Felix Jr., and he's nice as good guy's go..." Ralph paused, taking another deep breath.

"So...what part do you play?" Lucy asked after a while.

"You can do this...she has to know who you really are."

"Well...I'm..." the words were stuck in his throat. Lucy waited in anticipation.

"I'm the bad guy." he finished. Panic was spreading all through his nine foot body, waiting for the reply from who he thought to be the kindest girl he had ever met.

"That's it. I blew it. She's going to say that I'm not the right guy and leave. It's over. I BLEW it."

He waited for her voice to say it, but instead he was astonished. Instead what he heard was something that he had never thought someone would say at all.

"What's...a bad guy?"

Lucy gave him the most curious look that he had never seen a young girl like her do before. It was the curious look of not a young lady...but a child. He had never seen someone that had the expressions of a child. "Then again..." Ralph contemplated, "Vanellope would be the only one who would give him looks like that, except she would be begging me to go with her somewhere I don't want to go. Or racing."

"Ralph?" Lucy's curious voice snapped Ralph back into reality, as he realized she was waiting for his answer.

"You...don't know what a bad guy is?" he asked unsurely.

Lucy shook her head.

"Well...a bad guy's...someone who is not the hero, you know, a villain and...he is supposed to foil the good guy so that...he can get what he wants."

Ralph found it hard to explain his title to her, fearing that she would still get up and leave him, never to see him again so to speak. But Lucy was listening to every word of it without any anger or judgment, but with the same child-like curious eyes that grew wider the further he explained.

Then without realizing it before, Ralph noticed that it was getting late. Really late. Quickly he rose to his feet, leaving Lucy with a surprised look.

"It's...it's getting pretty late now a-and I had better get going home now!" he shouted loudly.

Ralph realized that he said that too loudly and look back at Lucy. She didn't seem to mind, instead she gave a small smile.

"Okay." she replied as she also rose to her feet, "I guess you're right, it is getting late."

Ralph suddenly felt the blood coming back to his cheeks again, just like before.

"Well, I guess I better be going. Goodbye...Lucy."

He extended a hand out to Lucy for a handshake. She was so small to him, almost like Vanellope was, but Vanellope was only a kid compared to her. Lucy extended her hand and took his. In his grip her little hands were warm and soft as they shook hands. Then with that, Ralph turned and started to walk home.

"RALPH WAIT!"

He jumped as halfway to his gate. He turned back and saw that Lucy was running toward him. He stopped to let her catch up, and when she finally got to him he got down to his knees to see her better.

"When...when can I see you again?" she managed to say out of breath.

Ralph smiled down at the girl, "Tomorrow of course!" he exclaimed, "I have to know more about where you came from. I mean, you didn't give me much to go with."

"And, you've got to tell me more about you too, you know!" she replied happily.

Ralph chuckled, realizing that he also did not tell her much about him either. He heard Lucy giggle softly, probably realizing too that she had to tell him her story.

"Tomorrow it is then." she gleefully responded.

He gave a nod, then carefully got to his feet. He and Lucy both smiled at each other, Ralph taking one last look at her. Then turning he started again to head home.

"Ralph?"

He turned his head to see Lucy's warm smile.

"You know, you're the first person who has ever talked to me ever since I got here." she said warmly, "I think...you're a good friend."

And from that moment, Ralph knew that Lucy was someone special.

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And Lucy knew from when she look at him the first time, to when he waved goodbye as he entered his portal home, that Wreck-It-Ralph was someone special.

Having made it back home on the right side of Game Central Station, Lucy did not care now what had happened at the party, or what had happened between her and Archer. As Lucy wrapped the cloak around her for warmth, she slowly drifted off into a warm slumber. For the first time in 9 years Lucy dreamed happy dreams that night, while in her thoughts only one thing was clearly there:

"Tomorrow I get to see him again...I get to see Ralph again."

A/N: Chapter 4... right now my favorite chapter that I've written. Oh I said this again! But still this is a good chapter in my opinion. But that's just me, what do you guys think? Reviews are helpful and much appreciated. I'm working on the next chapter now, so it might take a while to finish it, because of me being a novice writer and such. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Will try to update soon.