Title: Sharing Secrets

Pairing: Willie Loomis/Maggie Evans

Fandom: Dark Shadows

Theme: #14 Radio-Cassette Player

After Maggie had finally relented to being Willie's friend, the two had begun spending quite a lot of time with one another with the hopes of becoming better acquainted. Maggie had suggested the 'brilliant' idea of sharing something with each other that no one else was sure to know, but more surprising still was the fact that Willie had actually agreed to go along with it.

He had been pleasantly surprised to find out that Maggie was secretly a hopeless romantic that was most likely the biggest bookworm to ever hit Collinsport, yet he wasn't so sure as to what she would think of his little confession.

Unearthing a small tape cassette player from within his jacket pocket, Willie then explained to his curious onlooker, "I know that this'll sound awful odd an' all, Maggie, but back in my conning days with Jason, we made a 'Long Lost Tape' of The Beatles with the hopes a' earnin' a buck or two."

Maggie threw her head back in a delighted laugh before teasing, "What, and you boys actually had folks fooled with your rip-off tape? People must be a whole lot dimmer around here than I actually thought!"

Willie smirked, yet he modestly shrugged his shoulders in response. "Yeah, believe it or not, we did fool 'em, but why don'tcha just listen to it an' see for yourself?"

"Alright, shoot" Maggie agreed, leaning in toward the blonde as he dutifully switched the cassette player to the 'on' position.

When the music began playing, the young beauty started to laugh – who doesn't when they first hear "Yellow Submarine"? – but after a few moments, Maggie couldn't help but freeze, her dark eyes softening as she turned to Willie with a new and amazed look within their glittering depths.

"Your voice" she began, by now completely enthralled, "it's…lovely."

Willie released a loud and boisterous laugh at this remark, only to immediately realize that she was being sincere. "Wait a minute" he began, completely floored, "y-you're actually serious?"

"Well of course I am! Why on earth would I lie about a thing like that?" Maggie demanded, considerably offended by his insinuation of her inability to tell the truth. "By this point in our friendship, Willie, you should know that if I say it, I mean it!"

"Oh…ok… I-I mean…wow" the servant mumbled, his cheeks now a delicate rosy hue. "Who woulda thunk it that some stupid heist would make ya think I'm actually good at somethin'?"

Maggie smirked. "Willie, I actually think that you're probably pretty good at two things…"

"Yeah?"

Before he could stop her, she had already pulled him in for a sweet and tender kiss, his mind whirring a mile a minute as he felt himself melting into the softness and beauty that was Maggie Evans.

Just when Willie was about to deepen the kiss, however, Maggie pulled away with a pleasant smirk upon her face before returning smugly, "Yep, I was right! You are good at two things!"

A/N: Oh, the fluff, the fluff! It BURNS!!! lol