A/N: I know I said that I wasn't gonna start this story until AFTER "Saving Dory," but I couldn't wait! I'm gonna take a shot at writing two stories at once, and I'll probably hate myself for it; school starting soon, and it's gonna be enough pressure with just one story, let alone two! But, like I said, I can't wait, and I know some of you wanted this story soon too.

I'll probably be switching POV's between chapters. This one is in Marlin's, and I know I won't keep it that way for the whole story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Finding Nemo. What else do you need?

"All You Wanted"

Rated PG-13 for adult content, sexual hintings, and mild language

by: i-luv-mark/MD fan

{though i don't luv mark anymore :P}

Chapter 1 – "Our Anniversary?"

"Come on Dory, if you wanna come pick Nemo up!" I called down in Dory's tunnel and heard her yell back up, "Ok, just a sec!"

Dory had accompanied me with taking Nemo to and from school ever since her first day here, nearly a year ago. Sometimes she would take him by herself when I was sick, or when Nemo just wanted to be with her. The first time Nemo insisted that Dory escort him without me, I had naturally felt a bit jealous. But when I realized there was nothing to be jealous about, I didn't have a problem with it afterwards.

Dory swam out of the tunnel and smiled. I smiled too, but more to myself; her smile always made me feel happy in a special sort of way. Though I got that a lot around her lately. When she would hold my fin, smile at me, or sometimes just being around her lifted my spirits in a way nothing else could.

"Let's go, then," she said, swimming next me. I nodded to her and we left.

"Do you know what today is, Marlin?" Dory asked. I guessed that she was just having another memory relapse, like she did every once in a while. "Wednesday," I told her. She frowned.

"No, I mean… don't you remember?" She looked at me and I looked back. I raised an eyebrow at her. "Remember what?" I was thoroughly confused now.

"Our anniversary, silly! It's today!" she exclaimed, smiling again. Anniversary for what? I wondered to myself. Doesn't she know that anniversaries are mostly meant for… well, couples?

Dory saw the confused look on my face, because she said, "It was exactly one year ago that we first met!" My eyes widened with realization.

"Oh!" I thought for a moment and then realized she was right. "Yeah, I guess it is, isn't it?" I said. She nodded vigorously. "Wow, I can't believe you remember. With your memory condition and all…"

"Oh, Marlin, how can I forget when I met the fish who helped my memory get better?" she asked. I thought of the time she had told me this…

 "I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look! P. Sherman, forty-two… forty-two… ugh. I remember it, I do! It's there, I – I know it is! 'Cause when I look at you, I can feel it."

I then noticed that were at the drop off. I watched Nemo get off Mr. Ray's back and tell his friends – Tad, Sheldon, Squirt and Pearl – goodbye. He then started swimming quickly over to me and Dory. Though he got to me first and gave me a big hug. "Hi, dad!" he happily chirped. He then went to Dory for a hug too. "Hi, Dory!"

"Hey, kiddo! How was school?" Dory asked. Nemo smiled widely and launched into his story about the school day.

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We arrived back at the anemone a little later than usual; Nemo wanted to take the long way so he could tell Dory and me his whole story.

"Hey, Nemo!"

Tad, the little butterfly fish, came swimming up behind us. Nemo looked back. "Yeah?"

"My dad says it's alright if you stay at my place tonight! Sheldon, Pearl, and Squirt are gonna be there too, wanna come?" he asked. Nemo smiled, his eyes full of excitement. He looked over to me.

"Can I go, dad? Huh? Huh? Can I go, please, please, please?" he begged to me. He gave me his trademark pout-face, and I couldn't help but let him. "Of course. Just mind your manners and stay out of trouble, alright?"

Nemo smiled even wider. "Okay, dad! Thanks!" And with that, him and Tad left.

"Well then," Dory spoke up after watching Tad and Nemo disappear behind a large patch of coral. I looked over to her. "That gives us the whole day to do whatever we want!" she said happily. She made it sound like that was news. Almost every day we spent alone together. But I didn't feel like pointing this out.

"So what do you want to do?" I asked.

"Actually," she smiled. "I have something special planned since it's our anniversary. Come on!" She then took my fin in hers (I got that feeling again) and she started swimming.

After a little while, she had lead me into one of the darker, and murkier parts of the water. At first I wondered if she had gotten lost, but I decided not to ask. Then she stopped swimming.

Dory looked around us in all directions, and then began heading towards the surface. I hesitated before following her, but once again, I thought not to question her. In a couple of seconds, Dory and me were poking our heads out of the surface of the water. It was dark out, and the moon shone brightly on the water.

But then I looked all around us and my heart stopped; there were boats everywhere. In every direction I turned, there were boats. And in front of us was a specially tall and long one. Thank God the boats were a good distance away from us, though. We were just in the middle of a huge circle of boats.

"Don't worry, Marlin," I heard Dory say when she saw my scared expression. I laughed to myself. How can she say not to worry when we surrounded by boats?!

"But, Dory there are boats everywhere! If we don't get out of here, we're gonna gt captured!" I cried. She gave me a reassuring smile and said, "Trust me, they're not here to take fish home."

Ugh, she just had to use the word 'trust' against me again. That always got me. But I still had my doubts. "Then why are they here? I mean, it's kind of ironic for this many boats to be out here in the ocean all at one time in the same place!"

She looked up at the big boat in front. "You'll see," she whispered.

We sat there for a while. I started seeing humans coming out of their boats and sitting outside of them. (Though some of the people with smaller boats were already outside.) I was about to ask Dory what we were waiting for, but then a loud whistling sound went off.

I looked up to see a bullet of light erupt from the large boat in front of us, and the light went high into the sky. I watched in amazement as it disappeared. It was quiet again, but only for a second and then an even louder 'boom' noise came, and where the light had disappeared, even more lights appeared. And then the lights dissolved into glitter.

My jaw dropped as another one came from the big boat – blue this time. All I could say was, "Wow…"

I had never seen anything this mesmerizing in all my life. I looked over to Dory. "How did you find out about this?" I wondered to her. She looked back to me. "Nigel had told me, though I know that they do this once a year. And I come to see it every year… or, at least, I'm pretty sure I did."

"What are they called?"

"Uh… fireworks! Yeah, that's it… fireworks."

The show had gone on for quite some time, and I enjoyed every minute of it. And just before it had ended, about twenty different colored fireworks went off at once, which was so loud, I was sure that I would be half deaf the rest of the night.

Once the finale had ended (that's what Dory said it was called), we were back under the murky, black water. While we swam, I watched the water get shallower and shallower, and Dory and me were once again swimming right above the ground. Though we were still in the dark waters.

"Dory?" I stopped swimming. She stopped swimming and looked back at me. "Yeah?"

I didn't rightly know why I wanted her attention, or what I wanted to tell her. I guessed I might as well say something. "Um, thanks… for tonight. It was really amazing," I told her. She smiled. "It was nothing, really. And I'm glad you liked it," she said peacefully.

I smiled back to her, swam closer to her, and took her fin. The moment I touched her fin, though, I jumped a little; I felt some sort of odd energy go through me. It looked like she felt it too, because she also jumped.

Dory was already looking at me by the time I looked at her. She had taken my other fin in hers and she smiled dreamily. That was when I noticed that we were moving closer to each other. I wanted to stop moving, because I knew what would happen if I did… but then I realized that… I didn't care. Obviously, it was meant to happen, so I wasn't about to stop it.

So I didn't.

A/N: So how's that for the first chapter, eh? Tell me please!