And now, we go forward with the final chapter of this request story for Maximiliano Franciso Bravo Maturana! It's been at least a few months, but I'm glad I was able to complete this multi-chaptered fic! I'm just about ready to conclude this story with a bang! Anyway, enjoy!

"Eventually, that something might be interesting to you soon enough."

A young man of thirty-two with a full head of black hair, a small mustache, and a green shirt with brown khaki pants had just finished reading to a little green skinned girl sitting up in bed as she seemed to be enjoying the story.

"I like that story, Daddy." The girl smiled, looking up at the man, who gave a smile.

"I figured you would." The man laughed as he shuffled his little girl's raven hair, making her giggle. "Sorry you had to sit through a lot of stories of me acting like a complete buffoon around Patti, but you know, it just goes to show that even then, I thought your mother was a wonderful lady."

"There's just one thing I don't get." The girl tilted her head in confusion. "What did happen after the time in the dance? And your Quailman fantasies, did you ever show Mommy the Bovine Beauty character you made? What about the weight loss camp adventure, and what happened with the music story Mom had? Did your music teacher like the audition?"

The man, known as Doug Funnie, gave a slight chuckle as he said, "All good stories, those are. But I'm afraid we're out of time to tell those parts. Maybe if you're good, I'll tell a little more. Besides, I DO have another volume of entries to go through... at least two or three more. Now, Yolei, why don't you just lay down and go to sleep."

"But Daddy, I'm not-" Yolei started... before yawning as she tried to open her eyes, but they found themselves closing. "...sleepy..."

"Just lay down and sleep, little Yolei, and we'll have more fun in the morning... first day of school is tomorrow." Doug whispered as Yolei found herself snoring a little. The man gave a warm smile as he got up, taking the journal with him as he shut the lights off and closed the door to her room. Giving a silent nod, he started going downstairs and smiled upon seeing a familiar green skinned woman sitting by the couch, resting her eyes.

Doug could still hardly believe that things have looked up for him and his wife Connie since the day they shared that accidental kiss. Sure, after moving into Bluffington Junior High and during the summer, Connie had lost most of the weight she had when her camp had finished, but she still retained the sweet personality that she was pretty known for, at least, according to Doug. In fact, she found herself mostly hanging around Doug and Skeeter whenever they were busy, even joining them on solving the Mystery of the Monster of Lucky Duck Lake. Eventually, though, they did grow apart for a while and went to different colleges, though they still kept in touch. After college, Doug and Connie managed to start the relationship anew, so things couldn't have gone well for the couple, even both Doug and Connie's families seem to be very supportive of their relationship.

So, when Doug Funnie popped the question to Connie Benge at age twenty-six, her excitement went through the roof as both families were celebrating happily... and both Doug and Connie found themselves married a year later. Not only that, but after a year of marriage, Doug and Connie welcomed their new daughter Yolei Funnie into the world, and they were indeed very happy.

And at this moment, Doug couldn't help but give a warm smile to see his wife just laying back and relaxing. As he sat down next to her, Connie opened her eyes with a happy grin. "Yolei in bed?"

"Yeah, I managed to soothe her down with one of my childhood stories." Doug said as he put down the journal.

"What story did you tell this week?" Connie raised an eyebrow.

"The one where we accidentally kissed each other in the music room, then from there, the romance started..." Doug gave a smile.

Connie could only laugh. "About time she finally got to know how Daddy fell in love with Mommy. You know, she was beginning to worry from the stories you told her that you had a great obsession over Patti."

"Oh, babe, you know you're always my Bovine Beauty." Doug gave a smirk as he stroked her purple hair.

Connie sighed as she looked down. "I suppose that can't be helped. I have some good news, though."

"Really?" Doug asked as Connie gave a smile, holding a contract. Doug gasped. "Does this mean...?"

"The family will be touring together, that's right!" Connie grinned. "Man, a lot of people would easily question this relationship... a comic strip artist and a singer, married with one child..."

A bark was then heard as Doug and Connie saw a familiar blue furred dog raising an eyebrow... before Connie chuckled. "And one dog. Don't worry, Porkchop, we didn't forget you."

Porkchop, seemingly satisfied with that answer, immediately laid his head down and went to sleep as Doug raised an eyebrow. "You know, I'm still surprised he managed to live with us over the years... I wonder how Porkchop does it...?"

"Good health?" Connie joked.

"Maybe." Doug smiled as he turned to Connie and put his arm around her waist, pulling her close. "Well, I've yet to release issue thirty of Quailman, so that's pretty good on our end!"

"Doug, I told you, we are going places beyond where we went." Connie gave a warm smile.

Doug paused and grinned... before thinking about this. "I suppose that means we'll be moving out of Bluffington, huh?"

Connie looked at Doug sympathetically as she put a hand on her shoulder. "I know how you feel. It's my home too. But it's only for a little while... who knows? Maybe wherever we go, we'll make new memories there... right?"

Doug gave a pause... and smiled. "You're probably right. It'll be a new experience for Yolei as well... maybe I'll give her something to help commemorate her memories... maybe I'll give her her own journal, to write down her life story..."

"And then she'll tell it to her kids when she grows up!" Connie giggled. "Doug, you've always been such a sweetheart to everybody. Even me and your daughter. Don't ever change that aspect about yourself, okay?"

Doug paused as he looked at his wife with a warm smile, before leaning in and kissing her, with the words "I promise." whispered to her.

As the two got comfortable on the couch, and as Doug slowly went to sleep, he smiled at the life he had, knowing that right now, at this very moment, he felt like he was in true bliss.

Orange Ratchet Story

"That's All, Folks!"

An Orange-Ratchet Fanfiction

And with that, this story is finally done and over! How did you guys like it? To Maximiliano Franciso Bravo Maturana, thank you very much for giving me this suggestion to do this Doug x Connie story, and for all the ideas you gave me. Sorry if all of them weren't used, but I wanted to have AT LEAST something of a coherent plot, and I didn't want to do too much! And like I said, this last chapter, doing an alternate future setup for an OTP I ship, it's nice to do something like this... And for the rest of you, I hope you all enjoyed reading the story just as much as I enjoyed writing the story! Will there be more Doug x Connie in the future? Well, I do have one story I'm working on, but other than that, if there's enough fan demand for it... we'll see. Anyway, thank you all for reading this story, and have a VERY wonderful day!