SG was squealing and bouncing up and down in front of the computer.

"Calm down Gigi," Rage sad, but she was grinning, looking every bit as excited as SG.

"Twenty one!" she crowed. "There was twenty-one last time I checked! I know that doesn't seem like a lot but remember when we still had ten?" She sighed dreamily. "Yeah... those were the awful days."

"So who won? I want to present them with the pie."

"You can do that," SG agreed readily. "As long as you bake it, because I am way to lazy."

Rage only shrugged. She liked making pie and so it made no difference to her who baked it. "As long as you help me."

"Sure! You make the best pie, anyways."

Rage smiled. "Thanks. Now the winner...?"

Gigi hummed. "The winner is..."

We interrupt this program with a short message from the judges. Before we release the results, we would like you to know that it was tough to score your stories because we really enjoyed all of them. And we are not just saying that to be nice. Your stories were insanely creative and all your plots, I could never have thought up off.

And now, back to the results.

Previously...

Gigi hummed. "The winner is..."

omg-KITTENS Congratulations!

You story, Of Kittens, Carts and Bowtiesis the first place winner of the Hope/Arthur contest. It is written well and has a lovely and original plot. Your grammar, punctuation and spelling is great and the characters seem realistic. Your humor was also awesome. :)

Thanks for writing an EPIC Hope/Arthur story! :D

Runner up:

Calling Names by IJustCantChoose!

You did a wonderful job, writing about how Dan got his name. I like how you made Hope the one who was somewhat in control, how she told Arthur to be more serious- it's how I imagined her. Grammar, punctuation and spelling is good. Haha, I love how Arthur was goofing around. :) I find him a lot like Dan in that way.

Great job! I enjoyed reading your story and I can't wait to see your future works!

And finally, in third place we have When You Were Mine by .Death.. I'll tell you this bluntly. I. Absolutely. Love. Your story. If you asked me what I thought of Vikram/Hope a few weeks ago, I would have thrown up. Literally. You changed all that. This one-shot is incredibly cute and I'm in love with the ending. It reminds me of Ian and Amy, but with Hope breaking the Kabras heart instead. Haha. I'll admit that was rather ironic. Unless you did that on purpose of course.

Congratulations to all who entered! You've helped by taking one step closer to making Hope/Arthur a popular pairing! The s scores were so together- we even have a tie for the fourth place.

Rage presents the second a third places with tasty blueberry pie! Please enjoy. :)

/And please put in "this won -insert place- in the Hope/Arthur contest!" in your summary./

OMG- kittens- PM me two characters you would like me to write about.

Once again, thanks to all the writers and even if you did not win, your stories were beautiful and I hope that you will keep growing as a writer.

~SG^^