A/N - Forgive me, just one little added fillip.
Disclaimer: Hart of Dixie own I do not.
Coming Up For Air Epilog
It was a sunny midday Saturday in Bluebell, Brick had recovered from his hangover and gone on his football trip, Lemon was taking a well-deserved day off, and Zoe had stopped in to the Rammer Jammer for a cheeseburger and fries on her lunch break. While it was cooking, Wade was behind the counter getting her napkins, flatware, and iced tea when he saw Rose walk in, who immediately saw Zoe and lasered to her as if she were magnetized. With a grin, Wade sauntered up to the table with her things.
"…got to tell me everything," Wade heard Rose say.
Zoe gaped at Rose, laughed, and glanced up at Wade, blushing the deepest, prettiest red he had ever seen. Wade set her things down, smiled at them both, pulled out a chair and spun it around so he could prop his arms and chin on the back, and sat down.
"I'll tell her," Wade said as Zoe continued to stare wide-eyed at him. Rose very nearly squealed with delight, and actually did clap her hands together, before she pulled her chair up close to the table and hunched over conspiratorially.
Wade sat still for a minute, as if thinking, then he held out his hands in front of him, about a foot apart, fingers out, like he was holding a basketball.
"It's like…you know what happens when atoms go through black holes? Or end up at the core of the sun? The pressures and temperatures are beyond imagination, atoms are crushed together so tight, at millions of degrees, matter literally doesn't matter, atoms become liquid and gas and solid almost at the same time, things get mushed together so much that things become other things, it's down where you get your heavier metals, iron, lead, gold, platinum, and your more complex elements…" as Wade spoke, he moved his hands closer and closer together until it looked like he was trying to crush an imaginary golf ball, "…it's a lot like that."
Zoe nodded solemnly. "Only different. And with humans."
"And chocolate," Wade added, "Oh, gotta go ladies, orders up," and with that Wade stood up, kissed both Rose and Zoe on the forehead and went to get Zoe's cheeseburger.