Narrator's POV:

Mikel arrived with Skarlet at his old viewing spot at the Octo canyon.

"Hey Mikel, where are we? This place seems familiar."

"I pretty sure it does. Watch out for your headache again. - ", he said with a smile. "-This is the Octo canyon, where the Octarians live."

Skarlet's head started to itch a little, but since Mikel warned her it was much easier to bear.

"But don't worry we wont head down to them, instead we're going somewhere else."

"Where? Do you have sweet spot you want to show me, or is there another sweeeeetspot that we're going to visit?" Skarlet snuggled a bit closer to his neck, while being carried in her Octo form.

"Could you please....... Ugh, never mind, look we're here." Mikel pointed near a cliff.

Skarlet shifted to her side, to watch over Mikel's shoulder and immediately was awestruck. From this viewpoint you could see across nearly the whole vast canyon. With its Tentacle rock formations, huge waterfalls and a few small floating islands.

Something about those islands bothered Skarlet, it must be her memories again, but as much as she tried to remember, there was still nothing.

Mikel noticed her gaze: "Ah those islands really do look pretty floating around here. I'm always amazed how you Octarians are able to invent such awesome stuff! Sadly, there is nothing on those few islands here, but Drew told me that there are more in this canyon, than just the ones here."

While thinking about what history she had with the Octo canyon Skarlet's head started to hurt more. "Uff I just can't remember what was it but I'm sure that it has to do something with my past."

"Alright, alright, that's enough no need to stress yourself out, I just thought that your memories might return if we just came here."

"Well that didn't go as planned right? Now what are we going to do I'm getting bored.......grumble..", Skarlet put her tentacles on her eyes, as her color went from pink to red, because of her bottomless stomach.

"Hahaha, well glad that I came prepared with what I wanted to do originally." Mikel pulled out a blanked from his jacket and put it down on the rocky ground. Then he took the still embarrassed Skarlet from his hood and set her down. "Skarlet tell me something. Have you ever heard of a picknick?" "As this happened quite a few times I'm not surprised if the answer is still no. But damn she missed so much."

Skarlet, which already turned back into her Octoling form, shook her head and then tilted it while puffing her cheeks: "Nope doesn't ring a bell. Could you stop asking me these weird questions and tell me what you're meaning with a picknick?"

"Fine by me, a picknick is when you go outside with someone else and have a good time, while eating snacks or lunch out in the open. It's what I've actually planned in the beginning, before you came up with the whole date thing." "Which already made me curious. You always seem to remember such small phrases the moment you want them. Man, this is giving me a headache now."

"Wait so I was sitting on our meal the whole time?"

"Ha, you could say it that way." Mikel smirked, while handing over a sandwich to Skarlet.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER? I WAS STARVING!", Skarlet snatched the sandwich out of Mikel's hand and furiously started eating it.

"Hahaha it's nice if my cooking skills get appreciated, hmpf she's even eating more than I do."

Skarlet was already finished with her sandwich and stared at Mikel with puppy eyes "Miiiiiikel do you have some more? I'm still hungry."

"Please stop looking at me with such eyes that's super effective against me!" "No worries, I've made enough.", Mikel smiled while handing her a few more.

"Ha! I don't know from where I got that trick but it seems to work on him!" As soon as she got her next share, Skarlet started digging in again. This time however she noticed Mikel staring at her with a smile. "Hm? He's not staring normally... maybe he likes it when I'm enjoying his food? I wonder how he would react if he gets something from me~"

"It's really nice if someone enjoys the little things you can do, even if it's just making some food", Mikel thought while smiling. "I wonder if she'll be still able to enjoy everything when she regained her memories. Seeing her amnesia, she must've had some terrible events in her life.......... Like me." His expression changed into a determined face: "I'm going to make sure she gets some good memories, while she's here, so she can cling on those when she remembers her past. That's how Grizzlo, Marco, Isa and even that smallfry Andrew helped me. You need to have a bright side in your life."

"------eey, HEEEEEEEEEEEEEY MIKEL!"

"Huh wha, what?", as he spaced out Mikel didn't realize Skarlet was right in front of him.

"If you enjoy eyeballing my body so much, why didn't you do it while we were in the bath?" Skarlet put her hands on her hips, puffed out her chest, looking sideways and sat there like a sexy model. All while keeping a displeased look on her face.

"No wait! You misunderstood, I didn't watch your body,... I was watching,........ well technichally I was watching...... NO I WASN'T ugghhhhhhhh!" Mikel completely panicked as he didn't know how to react to her.

Skarlet's look quickly changed into a smirk, as Mikel stuttered around not knowing what to say so he wouldn't offend her. As he went on Skarlet just couldn't hold herself back. She bended over, holding her stomach and started laughing at the now poor; tall; perplexed inkling in front of her: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! You should've seen your face, getting all worked up just because of me HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

"OH C'MON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mikel just realized, that she baited him and he totally fell into her trap.

After Skarlet calmed down, still having tears in her eyes she asked: „So, what are we going to do now?"

"I brought two of my favorite board games with me, one is called Jenga and the other one is called Chess. Which would you like first?" Mikel held out one tall and one flat package.

"Oh and here I though we would do something romantic..... ah well maybe it will be fun." "Let's play Jenga first, since you called it first."

"Alright!" Mikel began explaining Skarlet the rules, while stapling up the blocks. "And no bets!"

"Damnit!"

They began pulling and pushing blocks out of the tower and Skarlet quickly got into it. But sadly, she always knocked over the tower, while Mikel skillfully knocked blocks out of the tower, or carefully pulled them away. He always seemed to know where he had to start for the next move. "I wished he would make a move on me, but I do have to admit, I would've never though he could be this skillful with his hands. Considering they are so large, that my breasts would fit wonderfully fit inside them. Speaking of his hands........." "Mikel I was wondering, what happened to your right hand?"

Mikel flinched, knocking over the whole tower, while an angry expression came over his face.

"Oh, did I say something wrong?"

"Nah sorry, It's a bad memory of my past. I don't like talking about it. Another time ok?"

Skarlet quickly realized the mood would go sour, if she asked about it, so she quickly changed the subject "No problem Hotstuff, but what's the other game you had back then?"

"Oh, you mean Chess? That one's great, even though I'm not that good at it. And stop calling me Hotstuff!"

"Hihihihihi"

Mikel then prepared a board with orange and blue colored figures (A/N: It's a Splatoon Chess!). After that he explained Skarlet the rules, since they were a bit more complex.

Then the game started and....................

MIKEL DIDN'T EVEN WIN A SINGLE ROUND

"How can you be this good, if you never heard of this game?" Mikel was shuffling through his bulky tentacles.

"You're so easy to read, I can literary see your moves, before you make them. But on the other side your reaction is great when I'm taking your units, you even do different maneuvers, when you see the same attack coming. The problem is just, when you attack it's always head on............. Uh what did I just say now?" Skarlet was surprised at her speech by herself.

Mikel just looked at her speechless, but soon grasped himself: "Ya know, it's those moments that make me seriously wonder who you were in your past. But nevertheless, thank you for the feedback."

Skarlet giggled and scratched the backside of her head. "Well it was fun beating you over and over again."

"Boah and here I though I got some praise.......... Well let's scratch that, by now it should be almost time." Mikel sat next to her.

"Time for what?" "Pleeeeeease~ let us do something naughty!"

"Yeah look over there," he then pointed at the Octo Canyon.

Skarlet was clearly disappointed, that he wouldn't make a move towards her, but followed the direction he pointed at with her eyes. What she saw could be just described as amazing. In front of them the whole canyon was bathed in a gentle orange-reddish tone, as the sun went down at the horizon.

"Beautiful view, right?"

"Yes, it is......", Skarlet then leaned her head against the side of his shoulder, since she couldn't lay her head on it, due to him being so tall. She then asked: "Why do you call this canyon beautiful and not me? Is it because of what you told me?", her voice had a sad tone with it.

"Haaaaaaah- ", Mikel sighted "-No, that's not the case, I just didn't want to ruin the moment with any naughty stuff, please bear with me. As for you, you're the hottest girl around here and you definitely are beautiful........."

Skarlet looked up at him, smiling: "Well that wasn't so bad, but you should put more effort into it, when you're complementing a lady." She then quickly put her head on Mikel's stretched out legs, before he could even react.

"Wha-?"

"Let me have it at least like this, if you're not making any advances." She said while using his legs as a pillow, as she was watching the sunset.

After a short while she heard it rustling above her and as she turned her head Mikel said: "Say aaaaaah."

Well she did as he said, opening her mouth, while showing her fangs to Mikel. Then something round entered her mouth and she immediately knew that it must be one of those sweets she bought with Mikel. "Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.", she said, having her eyes closed, while munching those sweet chocolate orbs he fed her. After a bunch of them have been consumed by her, the steady flow of sweets stopped. As she just though the sweets were empty and started dazing a little bit, she felt a slight weight on her forehead. Her eyes quickly shot open! But there was only Mikel staring at the sunset and gently rubbing her forehead.

"You know Skarlet there is something I want to tell you.", he then turned his face to her.

Skarlet just watched him.

"I want you to know that I'm afraid of your amnesia."

Skarlet's eyes widened.

"Please let me explain. My ........ frie...brother Marco was visiting a doctor to get information about your amnesia. As it turned out from the info he got and what happened you got HYSTERICAL AMNESIA."

"Hysterical amnesia?"

"It means something so terrible must've happened in your past, that you couldn't take it anymore, or you made up with your life and just wanted to die...... "

Skarlet felt a shiver going down her back.

"As a response your body temporarily locked away most of your memories, to save you and the impact to your head, when you crashed onto my boat when I was at work might've amplified the effect."

"So, you're saying I wanted to die?"

"Yes, but hear me out first. There were two major events in my life that broke me totally. Both my heart and my mind got ripped apart and shattered completely. It went so far that I just wanted to die on the one side, but on the other side I raged and went berserk at the slightest thing that displeased me. I then started to drink, to keep the raging somewhat under control, but then it just amplified my wish to die."

Skarlet could barely believe what the tall Inkling was saying, as he seemed to be such a kind person.

"But do you want to know what brought me back?"

"?"

"The people that cared about me and the wonderful memories I had with them."

"The people that cared about you and memories?"

"Yes, that's what became the reason for me to continue with my life and I am grateful for everyday I live. That's also the what I want to make with you."

"Huh?"

"If by any chance you're afraid of the things you've done to others and don't know how to fix them, then I'll be there and help you to fix them. If you're afraid of someone from your memories then I'll be in front of you, smashing those that mean you harm with a splashdown. If you're lost, you can always ask me for a guide and last but not least." Mikel inhaled deeply:

"I'll do my best to get you some wonderful memories, before you're remembering your past! Because if it was bad, then you'll have the memories with me to keep going on with your life."

Skarlet's POV:

Skarlet just stared at him. "Could it really be that something awful happened in my past? What if I did something to the people I forgot about? Did I really quit with my life?" All those questions came up in her head, but she couldn't remember anything yet. Still there was one thing she was sure of. Mikel wasn't lying. She then closed her eyes while enjoying the warmth of his massive hand and said:

"Thank you so much for those wonderful memories you gave me today."

After saying this, Skarlet slowly dozed off into a peaceful sleep.

Mikel's POV:

Mikel was taken aback by her words an smiled, while a few small tears formed in the corners of his eyes. "It just feels wonderful, being there for someone. It's like finding another reason to live."

As it began to get dark Mikel carefully packed everything together and carried the sleeping Skarlet back home.

When he arrived at his Shack, Mikel changed Skarlet into her sleepwear, NOT TOUCHING HER UNDERWEAR and doing his best to avoid staring at her. He still got red like a tomato. He tilted the window and put down his house-phone next to his bed, along with the numbers of Marco, Isa and Grizzlo.

Mikel just finished preparing everything and already changed himself into his basic working attire. His complete equipment was at Grizzco. "Aaaahhhh I've built up so much stress during this weekend, I really need to let out A LOT of steam.", he stretched himself and went to the door.

An expression formed on his face, which could just be described as insane, followed with a huge grin. "Well I might've gotten over it, but I really do love going wild sometimes.", he though and said with excitement: "TIME TO GO TO WORK!"

(A/N: Sorry everyone, that this chapter comes out this late. I had a lot to do for Christmas and this Chapter took far more work than I thought, mostly because I want to show why Mikel want's to help Skarlet so much and explaining his reasons. Also stay tuned for the next chapter, because Mikel is one hell of a worker. Both as a mechanic and as someone that likes to charge head on into a horde of Salmon bosses.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!)