I don't know why its only two stories this week... I've been very busy with family matters... and my other half was working from home for two days which is always nice... So I didn't get a chance to really sit and work on these, but its something at least!

A week later Gilbert got the all clear from the doctor, his cheeks finally had some of their old colour back he practically pounced out of bed and got dressed as quickly as he could. He shocked his mother on the stairs.

"Gilbert! Where are you going?" his mother asked.

"Do you really need to ask?" he told her grinning with a glint in his eyes.

"Gilbert she was only here yesterday, she said she was coming in an hour just wait you don't need to exhaust yourself going all the way up to green gables." She tried to warn.

"Oh ma the doctor said light exercise was fine, it's only Green Gables it's not that far and I simply have to see Anne, I..." He trailed not wanting to reveal too much of his heart before he knew for certain this time. He kissed his mother fondly on the forehead and happily whistled his way down the stairs and out the house.

The walk seemed longer then he remembered. He supposed this was only natural, he had no real exercise for such a long time after all but he knew the trip would be worth it. He came to the edge of Green Gables where he met Anne who had stepped out and was heading his way slightly before she looked up and noticed him there.

"Gil!" she exclaimed surprised. "What are you doing out of bed? I was just coming up to see you!" she said to him as they met.

"The doctor gave me the all clear this morning you couldn't have stopped me coming out for a walk I thought I'd surprise you." He said with a grin and outstretched hand which she took blushing slightly. "Shall well go to Pixie's Orchard? Doesn't it feel like forever since we have been?" he asked her.

She blushed and agreed yes it had seemed like forever, their little haven away from everyone else, and he was right it wasn't too far so it wouldn't tire him, she knew his mother would kill her if something happened to Gilbert now! They walked silently to their old haunt taking in the beauty of the day. It truly was in Gilbert's opinion the most beautiful day he had seen in a long time! The greens and reds were so vivid which only made the beauty beside him look more enchanting to him. They entered Pixie's Orchard and sat beside each other hands intertwined their backs against the old fallen tree.

"This hasn't tired you too much has it?" Anne asked him.

He shrugged, "Na, I'll be fine, just lets rest here a while, have some time together." He said leaning into her "Just you and I." he said gently bringing his hand to her face stroking it.

She blushed at him slightly. "Hello." She said quietly.

"Hello." He returned smiling bringing his face in line with her for kissing.

"I've missed you." She whispered to him gently.

He smiled widely. "I've missed you too." He replied equally as gently. "Let's see what we can do to rectify that." He finally brought their lips together, quickly moving from slow kissing to a more frantic pace.

"Gil…" She said breathlessly, "slow down." She said concerned for him.

"I can't…" he breathed back kissing her deeply again. "Oh please don't make me…" he breathed kissing her again.

For a few minutes he met no further objections. She enjoyed his caresses, on her lips in her mouth down her neck at her ear, she likewise returned the affection.

"Emmm, Gil, oh Gil we need to slow down! You'll get worn out."

He smiled keeping close to her "then we'll make a bed from the leaves and we can sleep here the night." He said, he looked into her eyes "How about that Anne? Natures bed?..." he kissed her ear and whispered in it "You and I?"

She blushed and made eye contact again "You've not changed." She whispered to him her hand running down his shirt.

"Do you think?" he asked her, "Maybe I'm just trying to make up for lost time." He said sadly.

"Gil." She whispered holding his face gently.

"Its okay." He said to her she shook her head "hey, no, don't." he said finally establishing eye contact again. "Don't do that. I know now, I know why. Do you have any idea what it means to me? How much you love me."

She let out an exasperated sigh "But I almost ruined us by being so stupid, I almost killed you…"

"Trying to protect me." He said bringing her closer to him.

"I shouldn't have tried to hide what I was doing. I knew it broke your heart. It broke mine, but I couldn't see another way."

"No, maybe you shouldn't have hidden it. But there's no point wallowing in the past about it." He looked at her with a small pout and loving eyes "We just need to learn from our mistakes and move beyond them, its not like I haven't made any mistakes the past six years." He sighed "I love you for it." He pulled back for a minute "If you were still in love with me the whole time, what was going on with Roy? I mean the guy proposed to you."

Anne sighed moving back slightly "Roy, Royal." She sighed. "We met he started to pay romantic gestures to me, that night when I first met Christine I told him I couldn't return his affection, at least not immediately, I explained briefly I had a relationship with you but we'd recently parted ways and it had seemed so final that I didn't want to get involved again so quickly."

Gilbert looked in amazement, "I thought…" he said quietly, "That night, I…" He trailed remembering his feelings, the way he had thought she had fallen in love with someone else, the pang which hit him upon learning Roy's identity, the untamed jealousy which had risen within him, how bitter and mean he had been to Anne, the way she had tried to explain it wasn't as he thought, the way his jealousy had burned all evening until he got back to his dorm where it had escaped through… tears mostly. His behaviour! "Oh Anne, my love I'm so sorry for…"

"Don't apologise for something which has already been forgiven." She said stroking his curls again gazing into his eyes. "We made up remember? Well after we made up he started advancing our relationship again, I objected at first, but I had convinced myself I wasn't, or hadn't been in love with you and maybe if what we had wasn't love maybe whatever I was experiencing with Roy was… There was nothing not to love about him… well except…" she trailed.

"Except?" Gilbert asked genuinely wondering.

She looked up into his eyes "well he wasn't you!"

He smiled smugly for a moment "Not me?!" he said. "Well…" he blushed kissing her again. "Oh Anne this is so…" he started before kissing her again. "This is…" again their lips met his hands rushing to her hair. "let it down." He whispered reaching round her hair as if he could do it himself.

She giggled and moved away for a moment finding the clasps and pins in her hair. "What about Christine?" Anne asked him. "I know you didn't propose but you were a couple, when did you break up with her?"

Gilbert looked perplexed at her. "I was never with Christine."

Anne looked at him equally perplexed "What are you going on about? Of course you were with Christine, you were with her all the time… she talked about turning you into a good husband…" Anne trailed her hair now half out she paused.

"For someone else." Gilbert tried to defend.

"And she flirted outrageously with you." Anne continued pulling her hair down.

Gilbert paused. "Flirted?!" he half questioned half exclaimed, he slowed down… "Is…" he brow furrowed "Is that what that was meant to be?" he shook his head "But she's been engaged the whole time!"

Anne looked to him with a surprised expression, then sighed "I'm sorry Gil, but everyone thought it."

"Did they think?..." he trailed looking half scared "… that I flirted with her?"

"It seemed you were in a relationship with her, I wouldn't say flirted just that we all thought because you were in a relationship…" Anne said her hair finally loose behind her

"No never!" he exclaimed bringing his hands into her hair, his breath caught his body started to shake. "never ever… anyone else but you." He shook. "She isn't even my type!"

Anne laughed "Your type?" She said bringing herself to him.

He grinned, "YOU KNOW my type Anne Shirley!" he laughed back looking at her lovingly. "How could you think?..." he trailed.

"But the way she spoke to you… like you were her puppy on a lead…" Anne trailed.

"Exactly why I didn't like her!" he defended.

"Well why did you put up with it if you weren't in love?" Anne asked him logically.

"I promised her brother I would take care of her." He said holding Anne closer. "A promise is a promise."

Anne laughed exasperated! "Gilbert Blythe!" she said stroking into his curls again. "Always the gentleman!"

"Well now you know I was in no way in love with Christine… What about Roy, you tried to make it work with him… was it ever like this?" he said holding her close.

"No! No, no no no no!" she looked at him. "He was very formal in his wooing." She smiled, "not like pulling a girls hair or daring her to swim with him." She said with a smile.

"So you were never like this…" he said trailing holding her close, kissing her lightly "…with Roy?" he asked her.

Anne giggled. "No." she answered honestly. "it was never like this." She said stroking his chest again. "He never held me like this, or kissed me, there's only ever been you."

A relief spread over his face she had never seen before, quickly followed by his lips on hers. "Mine, Mine! All mine!" he whispered between embraces.

"All yours, I always have been." She whispered back

He smiled and looked into her eyes. "I need to know an answer to something Anne, something, I know you've answered but it's still like a dream, I want to make sure it's real, I need to know it's real." He said as he sat her on the fallen log, Anne looked at him wide eyed and confused, he looked into her eyes as he knelled before her "Anne, do you still love me enough, to consent, one day, to be my wife?" he asked her.

"I've never stopped loving you enough… I have been in love with you as long as…" she took a deep breath "Yes!" she whispered. "If you'll still have me, yes!"

"Still have…?" he trailed, he sat up so his head was equal with her as he leaned into her, "I want you more than anything! I need you more then I need the air to breathe." He kissed her gently. Before a smile spread on his face, "My fiancée!" He exclaimed. "My fiancée!" He repeated. "My… my…" he trailed his words failed him as the joy spread to every extremity in his body.

"Fiancée!" she reflected back. She kissed him gently on the lips. "we need to slow down Gil, I don't want to make you ill again, your mother will kill me, fiancé or not." She said with a smile.

"My mother…" he trailed. "Believes us engaged already." He whispered.

Anne blushed. "Yes, I know." She paused biting her bottom lip "but you've been in bed the whole time." She smiled. "I was lucky she let me visit you every day."

"I'll say! I'm not even sure how you managed that one." He told her holding her close to him caressing round her cheek with his nose.

"She thinks you got better because you could hear me." Anne said to him.

He looked at her and brought their mouths together. "Who says I didn't?"

She laughed, "Come on Gil, even you said you thought I was part of the delusions."

"I felt…" he paused trying to explain, "pulled. Pulled towards the delusions, away from the things I wanted and loved but then when you were there, or at least the memories we've talked about it felt pulled towards those too, well just because its you… I've never felt pulled in so many directions and I didn't know which one was real but I figured you were…" he blushed slightly and stopped what he was saying. "… my home." He finished whispering it.

She smiled and came down to sit on his knee. "I am your home, just as you are mine." She kissed him again. "I can't stop kissing you."

He smiled, "then don't."