ShadowRose18: I'M SORRY!!! My family was going out for the day and they dragged me along too. I thought it was only going to be an hour or so, but it ended up being pretty much the whole day! Gah….

Anyway, Tancred and Em are now in their mid-twenties (like Sweet Tooth. This could be a prequel to Sweet Tooth I guess XD)

Chapter 8 – Epilogue – Lost and Found

'Em! Where do I put this?' Tancred called from one of the rooms.

'In the kitchen,' Emma replied, on her knees, searching for her checklist in one of the many cardboard boxes on the floor.

Bare white walls surrounded them. A few days ago, all the furniture had been moved into the apartment that the two were going to share. Now, in the afternoon light, they were trying to organise all their belongings, in boxes, into the apartment.

Emma, wearing old jeans and a red shirt, straightened up, her head out of the box, and wiped her sweaty hands on her jeans. Giving a long sigh, she bent over the box again.

Tancred, in navy blue tracksuit pants and a black shirt, was carrying two boxes in his arms and was trying to make his way across their living-room-to-be.

Mid-way, just before passing Emma, his left foot hit the corner of another box, causing Tancred to lose his balance and to fall, with the two boxes, to the ground.

'Tancred?!' Emma's panicked voice, and hands, found Tancred's head in a box of, thankfully, clothes. Not so luckily, the other box, full of books and other things, spilled all over the floor and Tancred's hands landed on some corners, causing a few cuts.

Emma, thoroughly worried, hurriedly searched another box for the first aid kit, which she eventually found at the bottom of the box.

Tancred, meanwhile, had moved himself so that he was sitting behind the white couch, leaning against the back of it.

Emma returned with the first aid kit and gentle put band-aids on his cuts, while Tancred watched her. When she was done, she went over and picked up the books and other things and one by one, put them into the box.

Mid-way she stopped and laughed. Turning, she held up something for Tancred to see.

Tanma.

'You still have that thing?' Tancred cringed at the mere sight of the slightly deformed Tollroc he made when he was sixteen.

'Why wouldn't I?' Emma replied, sitting herself beside Tancred. She stretched out her legs and leaned her head on his shoulder.

'Why would you?' Tancred asked.

'Because…you put a lot of effort into it AND it was given to me when…when we started going out…' Emma trailed off, blushing a deep shade of red.

Tancred sighed. 'If you say so…' he murmured.

Emma giggled. Then her eyes caught sight of his hands again. They were like the time when he had tried to make Tanma.

'Do they hurt this time?'

'Mmm. A little,' Tancred replied, staring at the blank wall ahead of him.

Picking up his hand, covered in several band-aids, she gently kissed it. Tancred, surprised, didn't speak.

'Em…' she looked up at him.

'It hurts too…' he said, pointing to his lips.

Emma smiled.

'Close your eyes,' she whispered. He obeyed.

She leaned in…but a material beak pecked him first.

'What the - ?' Tancred cried, spitting out the fuzz that had been left in his mouth.

Emma was laughing so hard she couldn't speak, while Tancred shot her an annoyed glare.

'Em…' he growled. Emma, controlling her fits of laughter, lifted Tanma up to his face.

'Another one?' she asked, grinning like a small child.

'No!' Tancred cried, backing away while wind whipped around them. Emma smiled.

'Okay okay,' she smiled and this time, Tanma didn't kiss Tancred, Emma did.

When they broke apart, Emma lay contently in Tancred's arms.

After some time, she lifted her arm. Tancred, thinking that they were going to kiss again, leaned in, but he had been fooled again. Tanma's material beak was against his lips, and Emma's laughter could be heard from outside the apartment.

ShadowRose18: (laughing)

GO EM!!!

Em: (grinning)

Tancred: (grumbling)

Yeah, just wanted a bit of comedy, but cute comedy too, so Tanma kissing Tancred was kinda funny XD

Anyway, it's now almost midnight and my mum is threatening to ban me from my computer (NOOOOOO!!!) so… I'd better go to bed before I'm banned (hurries).

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