The remaining embers of the fire faded away into ash as the sun started to peek its way across the horizon, Mike paid no heed to the dying fire. His MP40 lay close to his side. He paid no attention to that either, no, his attention was focused on something else entirely.

Mike was sat with his back to a grizzled looking oak tree. His back protested at the amount of hours he had been sat in that position but he dared not move a muscle. He looked down to chest to see a top of brown hair tucked underneath his chin. His left arm was curled around her protectively as she snuggled into his chest. Despite having been awake for two days he never had felt more alert and awake. Her safety was worth more to him than a few meagre hours of sleep.

He knew the Wehrmacht would be out in force looking for them, he was thankful that he was able to put at least a few hours of distance between them and themselves, it was the only hope they had right now. To escape. To be free. To be together.

But for the moment he just wanted to bathe in her glowing presence. Last night was something akin to magic in Mike's eyes, they kissed in the glow of the fire. In the shade of moonlight and in the warmth of the rising sun. it seemed like the universe exploded with delight at their unification. Never had he felt so whole and complete.

And now simply looking down to her peaceful face was something he knew he wanted to wake up to see everyday for the rest of his life. She is so beautiful he thought to himself, her delicate almost angelic like features, the shortness of her hair, he could not wait to see what her hair was really like when it grown out a bit. He would be surprised and thrilled to see it was naturally curly.

She shifted slightly and her face buried itself further into his chest. He gently placed a small kiss on the top her head and he sighed he knew the peace was not going to last forever. He chanced a glance at his watch and saw it was a little before six. He gently nudged her, not wanting to startle her.

"El?" he said shaking her, she let out a small groan and with what he assumed was a pout heard her say "5 more minutes" before her fist clutched to his shirt like a lifeline, the look on her face was something he could only describe as cute. He sighed, she was going to be the death of him.

He shook her harder.

"El, c'mon we need to get going" he said glancing around the trees as he did so always keeping an eye on the surroundings. She let out a soft moan before sitting up from his chest and blinking open her eyes tiredly before they settled on Mike, a small smile played on her lips as she leaned towards him and placed a gentle filled kiss upon his lips. They slowly inched their lips apart by a mere fraction. They rested their foreheads together. Breathless and tingling all over, no kiss would ever lose that feeling.

He kissed her forehead and El closed her eyes in something that could only be compared to bliss and contentment. He gently lifted her to her feet before reaching down and plucking his helmet from the ground and placing it back onto his head. Securing the straps with a look El came to recognise as a grimace.

He slapped a magazine of ammunition into his MP40 and they marched off through the woods, he kept El behind him as they trudged through the undergrowth and weeds of the woods, finding their stolen bike nestled in several overgrown bushes. Settled herself into the sidecar as Mike started the engine and they were soon off once more they cut across country to avoid the roadblocks that would most certainly be in place.

The Switzerland border was only an hour or two's drive and Mike wanted to cross the border as soon as possible, Mike knew when they reached the border they would have to ditch the weapons and the insignia's of the Wehrmacht. Something crossed his mind however.

"El, did you want to come with me?" He asked, he thought he should just at least make sure. She looked at him from the sidecar with a mixture of confusion and worry.

"Yes Mike, I will be with you wherever you go" El said like it was the most the simple thing in the world because to her it was.

"Good" he said with a small smile to himself. That was good. The ride continued in silence for a few more minutes before she was asked another question.

"That day at the gate, they day I first saw you, how did you know my name?" he asked curios. She looked at him with brows furrowed like she couldn't really understand it herself.

"It was whispered to me" she said with a soft, shy voice, it was barely audible over the sound of the bikes engine.

Mike was nonplussed at her answer, was it fate, was it some sort of destiny, he wasn't really sure, but nevertheless he was glad it did.

They rode on silently both Mike and El were now lost in their own thoughts on the other, wondering what lay ahead, she closed her eyes and suddenly she found her minds shooting through a tunnel that were lit up with multicoloured lights until she found herself looking at a scene that stopped her heart.

She was looking at herself and Mike slightly older sat in a house that was not familiar to her, but that wasn't what stopped her heart, it was the bundle of cloths and fabrics that her future self was carrying. A small hand extended from the bundle, a tiny hand and it reached up to her face as a small squeal emanated from the bundle, she looked on with tears in eyes before she felt herself being dragged back through the multicoloured tunnel and back into the real world, she glanced at Mike who hadn't realized her slip into the world of foresight. She felt herself smile in what would be the first of many similar smiles in her life. She felt something whisper to her from the deep imaginings of her mind.

Forever.

(A/N) I'm so sorry to everyone on how long this chapter took to write as well as the shortness of it, been a lot going on lately I ain't found the time to write lol

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