Taz woke up feeling warm. Very warm. She rolled over, but felt strong arms around her waist. Memories flashed back to that night. Up clings on when he's drunk. Taz mused silently, remembering when She and Jasper had slid some alcohol into Up's work out smoothie. He had clinged onto the pair of them in the gym and they had to wriggle away from him.

Taz paused, still thinking back to Jasper's death stung.

As she rolled over again, this time she wriggled down and slid out of the bottom of the bed. As she pulled herself up, she noticed she was stark naked. She bent down and reached over for a t shirt and some shorts. She paused as she slipped it over her head. It was Up's, an old Atlanta Falcons jersey. She pulled on the pair of black shorts and climbed back in to the bed. As she climbed in, she noticed the pile of beer cans on the floor by the sofa.

"Rick, Kit and Kian are out of town until tomorrow, its Kit's moms birthday." Up explained.

"So why are we at de Trader Joe's?" Taz asked.

"They want us to feed the Data-dog, but I don't know what they eat."

"Seriously?"

"I never had one."

"We had one." Taz sighed. "He was called Pepe."

"Well then you can help me." Up wheeled the cart over to the pet food area.

"Well jou need eyes, dey have kibble in the kitchen back at de house."

"Oh." Up grinned and then picked up Taz and placed her into the cart and started wheeling her around.

"Dis is degrading jou idiota." Taz leant against the back of the cart as they wandered around the store. The only things that were in the cart other than Taz was a box of Eggs and some Milk. As they headed towards the checkout, Up made a detour and then appeared with two six packs.

"Up, Jou know I'm a lightweight."

"Well, we might as well have some fun whilst my brother is visiting his Mother-in-law..."

Taz realized how they did have "fun" while they were gone. She slid up between Up's arms. His arms moved her closer towards him.

"Your warm." Up sighed.

"Your Awake." Taz grinned.

"My head really hurts." Up sighed. "Last thing I remember was we were in Trader Joes."

"Nothing else happened exept you got drunk and I dragged you away from the beers at 1 am." Taz sighed.

There was a silence.

"If we didn't have to go back to the academy in three days, I could lie here forever." He grinned.

"What are you saying?" Taz held her breath.

"I love not having to work out every day." Up sighed. Taz traced his abs with her fingers.

"Yeah.."

As they got back to the house, Taz showed Up the boxes of Kibble.

"Feed him after a walk." Taz walked to the closet and reached for the lead.

"Taz?"

"Yeah?"

"You want help reaching that dog lead?"

"Nope." Taz jumped and grabbed the blue cord. She clipped it to the collar and looked at Up as she pulled her space suit on. "Jou coming?"

"Yeah, hang on." He pulled his suit of the hook and watched as Taz suited up the Dog and then they walked out of the door. As they left the air pocket, They ran across the tall grass and soon reached a clear lake, like the one at the academy. It was in its own air pocket and the three of them were able to un-suit there. Taz began a game of Fetch with the dog as Up looked on from behind. Taz fell over the dog and started laughing like a maniac. Up grinned and picked her up. They walked back to the house an hour later, and Taz fed the dog before she cooked food.

She burnt the food. Up ran in laughing at the smell of charred food and moved the pan off the cooker.

"I should have cooked something else."

"What was it?" he poked the contents with the spatula.

"Nothing, it was just pasta" Taz murmered. Up laughed.

"I would have thought you would have cooked tacos, or something."

He ducked as the frying pan flew over his head.

"Okay, lets do cooking with Up and Taz!" He grinned.

"Yes, chef." She smirked.

"Taz, are you sure nothing happened...?" Up asked as she sat in the kitchen eating breakfast.

"What makes jou ask?" Taz asked, the fruit loops sticking in her throat as she tried to swallow.

"I woke up naked..."

"I wasnt Naked, actually this is what I fell asleep in." Taz lied, nodding to the falcons jersey she was still wearing.

"Thats.. my football jersey."

"I've only ever seen jou wear it once." She grinned. "And dat was two days ago."

"It suits you." He grinned and poured a bowl of fruit loops for himself. "Keep it."

"Thanks."

Taz sighed as they sat on the sofa in the basement, watching the Karate Kid on the TV. Up cracked out the beers around the half way point, and they were drunk outta their minds.

"Taz." Up grinned as she climbed off the sofa towards the tv to take out the dvd.

"Si?"

"You hurt my face when you climbed off the sofa." Up complained.

"Well den, I better kiss it better den." Taz sarcastically retorted.

"Okay then." Up smiled.

As Rick, Kit and Kian returned, Taz remembered vaguely that night. The last thing she remembered from then was the feeling of her pulling the green tank top she was wearing so hard to get it off that it ripped. The next two days passed quickly and soon they were sitting in the pod on the way back to the academy, Up not remembering at all and Taz not going to tell anyone.

Exept if the unthinkable happened.

Which it did.

a/n: OOOHHHH THE SUSPENCE. Btw, the next chapter is a 2 month timeskip :P