AYYYYYYYY IM BACK!!!! Btw this is all over the place and frankly it's absolutely terrible, more fluff coming soon, tails pt 2 should be up by Wednesday!!

LUCY
"Thought you might be here." Said my favorite spectacled nerd.
"Mmm, just looking back." I didn't divert my eyes from the rapier in the glass case. A hand gripped mine, nobody spoke for awhile.
"Remember what he used to say?" It was more of a statement than a question since we both knew the answer.
"The past is for ghosts, best not to dwell on it." I said, looking down the marble hallway.
"Mmhmm."
"I... can't stop thinking about that night..."
"I don't think any of us can, Luce."
I finally turned to face my friend dead on.
"The things I could have said-"
"But you didn't, I know, I regret not saying enough..."
"I loved him..."
"Luce," I was pulled into a long, quiet embrace. Who really knows who started crying first, I know I don't.
"He really is gone." I heard him son. Sobbing harder I nodded.
"He's..." I couldn't finish the sentence.
"Why did we live! Why couldn't he have survived with us! ITS NOT FAIR!" My friends knees gave out, I dropped with him hoping to break his fall.

The cool marble wall felt nice against my back, that where we now sat, staring at our knees.
"Are we ever going to tell them?"
"What that half of the 'artifacts' in here are not actually his?"
"Yeah."
"No, I want to keep them."
"Ok."
...
"Luce... he really did love you... he told me after you left, that's why I wasn't, well, welcoming when you agreed to help us. You caused us so much grief, it was worse for him..."
"I was trying to protect you, and all I did was run away from what could have been solved."
"I missed you so much, Luce."
"I missed you too."
Silence lapsed over again, it felt good though.
"There's something I never told you..."
"What?"
...
"Luce, what is it?"
"We kissed." I mumbled.
"Im sorry, what?" I could practically hear his smirk.
"We kissed, right before we left to confront Fittes, he said 'if I don't get another chance to do this, know that I've wanted to do it for a very long time' there wasn't an I love you, even right before he... he." I took a rattled breath. Georges hand took mine again, I smiled.
"He really did love you for a long time, I don't even think he knew it. I suspect it was around the time of-"
"Are we ever going to move on?"
"What?"
"From this? Are we ever going to move on from this?" Using my free hand I beckoned to the 'Priceless Anthony Lockwood Artifacts' on the walls.
"It will take time, you know that. But no, we'll never full move on, and we shouldn't. We can't forget our friend."
"Couldn't if we tried."
"No, so are we keeping the house?"
"Yeah, I think we should. Don't want some punk kids buying it and trashing the place."
"No, we wouldn't want that..."
"Can we go home?"
"Yeah."
We walked home hand in hand.

5 years later~~~~
"Hey."
"Hey."
"You wanna go to the park?"
"Sure."

"This was his favorite spot..."
"Yup."
...
"George-"
"Lucy-"
"Sorry you can go first."
"Okay... thank you for sticking around."
"Of course, Luce."
"Lucy, I would understand if you said no..." I watched as my friend shifted his balance from one foot to the other. "Do you think you can see a future... with me in it?"
"If you promise not to leave."
"Well yes of course I would never do that but, I meant as, more than a.. friend." I didn't respond at first, just looked at him.
"George, I can't. Not right now at least I mean-" I took a deep breath.
"I know it's been five years but I still can't get over it, I would be a lousy girlfriend, you'd be dating someone who still loves another man..."
"Ok."
"Im sorry."
"No, Im not mad, I get it. Take your time, when you're ready, well, I'll be here."
"Always?"
"Of course, Luce."

5 years~~~~~
"You said you'd be here! Always!" I threw a pot at him, I missed.
"I know but-"
"No!" I threw another one, purposely missing.
"Luce please! Hear me out!" He held his hands up defensively, I held another pot at the ready.
"Why should I! You're leaving me!"
"Not forever! Just... just a couple... years."
"YEARS!?" I was ready to throw the pot and actually hit him.
"Look this job offer is one in a million, I'd never get another chance, but it requires schooling, out of the country I'm sorry Luce!"
"Always... you said always." I didn't bother hiding my tears, I let the pot hit the ground... sinking down with it.
"No, Luce."
"You can't leave... you can't." He cant around the corner, scooping me up and carrying me to the living room.
"I don't want to say goodbye either but you know its for the best..."
"No-"
"No, you know it is, we're going broke, Luce."
"Not really!"
"Yes, really. We need this job and I won't be able to get another job like thi-" You can't really talk that well when someones lips are pressed to yours right? It shut him up for a bit, that was on the plus side to doing what I did.
"Luce, I- I..."
Snuggling into his side, I closed my eyes and sighed.
"Please don't leave..."
"Luce, im sorry... I have too."
"I'll come with!"
"You know you can't, the house needs to be looked after, the bills need to be paid."
"I don't want to live here alone... not for a couple of years."
"We can talk everyday even if our times are off, we can facetime and-"
"You know it's not the same, but think about it in the long run."
"I have, I like the sound of then, not the sound of right now."
"Oh Luce, I hate it too, but we're going to have to make sacrifices to keep the house."
"Fine."
"Fine?"
"Go, leave me alone, go get on a plane and don't come back for a couple of years, fine by me!" I went to jump up, hands caught me around the waist and pulling me into someones lap.
"Oh no, you're not leaving just yet."
"Oh yeah? And why not?"
"Cause im not done with you yet." I could feel him mouth on his ear and the shivers that racked my body. His hand tightened around my waist, I could have sworn my eyes were as big as dinner plates.
"Oh-"
"Oh in deed."

2 months~~~
"Hi!" I screamed when my boyfriends face lit of the screen of my phone.
"Hey babes, how you been?"
"You mean since yesterday?"
"Mmhmm."
"Great."
"Ohhh, yesterday you were only good, what happened today?"
"Heh, well you see ummm... I umm-" now that the time to tell him had come I found I couldn't.
"I got a raise!" I squealed.
"Thats my girl."
The conversation went as per usual, and so it did the following weeks and months.

Ten minutes till he would call. I lay on my old bed in the attic, hand on my elevated stomach. Yeah, being six months pregnant and no one to talk to sucked. How could I actually tell him? He would flip, I should have told him the minute I found out, but I got scared. I got scared every time he called. I couldn't tell him, I needed to this I knew well enough.

Bzzzzzz, Bzzzzzzz, Bzzzzzzz, Bzzzzzz
My finger landed on the end call button, I'd never done that before, why am I doing this now!?
Bzzzzzzz- nope! I can't!!
Bzzzzzzzz- stop trying!
Ding ding- "hey, whats going on?"
Ding ding- "babe?"
Ding ding- "I know you're reading these my phone says you are."
Bzzzzzzzz- declined
Ding ding-"whats going on?"
Ding ding-"babe please!"
Ding ding-"come on babe this isnt funny, you're scaring me!"
I finally replied, "im sorry..."
"Babes wth! Answer my calls!"
Bzzzzzz- decline
"Babe! Are you ok!?"
"No."
"Tell me whats wrong please!"
"I can't."
"Babes tell me what wrong, or Im hoping on a flight and coming home!"
"Its nothing."
"That it im coming home."
"No please!"
"Are you cheating on me?"
"What!? Of course not!"
"Then answer me!"
Bzzzzzzz- my boyfriends face lit up my phone, his face was soaked with tears.
"WHAT THE HELL LUCY!?"
"im sorry-"
"NO DONT GIVE ME THAT IM SORRY CRAP WHY WEREN'T YOU ANSWERI-"
*Call ended*
*Swipe left to shut down*
*Shutting down...*

GEORGE
I don't know how long I sat there staring at my screen after she hung up, or how many times I tried to call her back, I left hundreds of texts, angry at first but pleading in the end.

I couldn't reach her for a week, so I packed my bags and flew home.

"LUCY!?" I threw the door closed, checked every room on the first floor and basement before throwing myself up the stairs.
"LUCY!?" She was in her room, sleeping, or at least she was sleeping a moment ago.
"George?" A look of utter bewilderment covered her face.
"Babes!" I ran forward, covering her in kisses.
"Why are you home?" She was still groggy from her nap.
"You scared me so badly, I had to come home. Are you okay? Im so sorry for yelling I never should have, im so so so sorry babes... Luce?" I put a finger under her chin, making her look me in the eye.
"Please never, ever do that again."
"George..." she took me hand pulling it to her stomach. Oh my god her stomach, I flung the covers away so hard the ended up on the other side of the room. Oh god...
"I couldn't tell you.. I was so scared. I never got that raise, I was too scared to tell you, incase you would have left me-"
"Never, babes." I hugged her so hard, pulling back and continuing my staring contest with her baby bump.
"Can I touch it?"
She giggled, "of course."
I lifted her shirt, she was really... warm and bloated, I kept rubbing it, smile growing bigger and bigger by the second.
"Im sorry I wasn't here." My smile faded.
"Im sorry I didn't tell you..."
"Please don't scare me like that ever again."
"I promise."
"Do you, do you know the gender?"
She nodded, "what do you want?"
"A girl."
"Really?"
"Mmhmm, I just need to buy something though if it is a girl?"
"We need to buy a lot of stuff, what were you thinking?"
"I need to buy a shot gun,"
"I sorry what?"
"For when she gets a boyfriend, say the whole, 'you hurt her, you're dead' slogan, be the scary but totally awesome father in law and the best dad ever, is it a girl?"
"First things first you are not bringing a gun into this house, and two...."
"OH LUCE! Spare me the suspense!"
She giggle, resting her forehead on mine.
"Its a girl."
"HELLS YEAH!"