A Past Revealed

Two- Married Couple Reunited

Sly's POV

I brushed my fingers across a picture of me and Jess when we were little. Seriously, we were little. Six years old, in fact. The picture was of the two of us standing back-to-back, leaning on each other and trying to look tough but failing miserably. We just looked absolutely adorable.

I smiled a tiny little smile. I missed her, Jess... Thinking her name brought back so many memories of her.

I glanced down at the ring she had given me that one day with the whole Flippy thing. Our 'marriage'. That one hadn't been official, but because of it Jess and I got together. We did actually get married later, so, yeah. We also used the rings we gave each other that day.

I pulled out my memory crystal of that day and viewed it. A few tears fell down my face and I hastily wiped them away.

"Sly!" Katz yelled, running into my room. "Jess is in the Hall, with two guys that claim to be her guards!"

"Really?" I asked, looking up. "Let's go!"

We ran upstairs into the main hall and found Jess on the floor, unconscious. "What happened to her?" I asked, skidding to a halt next to my wife and checking her pulse.

"She collasped." One of the two strangers said. "She said she was having a physical dream and asked us to grab one of her SMH pins and take her here before she passed out."

I nodded. "Katz go grab her suit." Katz nodded and ran out of the Hall, to fly to Asgard. We had fixed it after the whole Venom-taking-over-Katz-thing. "You two, just stand back." I said.

I ran to the meeting room behind the rules board. Jess's parents were in there. "Hi, no time to talk. Jess is back and in a physical dream!" I said, and grabbed Mjölnir. I ran back to Jess and put the hammer on her stomach.

She woke up with a gasp. "What happened?" She asked, sitting up.

"Physical dream, apparently. These two brought you here." I replied nodding to her guards.

Jess nodded at them with a grateful smile. Then she turned to me. "Sly!" She yelled, throwing her arms around me.

"Haha, it's good to see you, Jess." I said, hugging her back.

The two guards growled. Jess leaned her forehead on my own. "I missed you." She whispered. Katz came in then, grinned at us, and stood next to the guards.

"I missed you to." I whispered back. I smiled at her, and she smiled her million dollar smile back. "And now I can finally do what I've wanted to do all those years you've been gone."

I leaned forward and kissed her. Jess shifted a little and kissed me back, her hands tangling in my hair.

We broke apart, both smiling.

Jess/Aphmau's POV

I sighed happily. I was finally back home. "Jess!" Two familiar voices yelled happily.

"Mom! Dad!" I yelled back, grinning and running to them. They pulled me into a large family hug.

"Wait, what?" Garroth asked. "Lady Aphmau, why do people call you Jess, why did that guy kiss you, and Lady Irene and Thor are your parents?!"

I pulled away from the hug and laughed sheepishly. "My real name is Jessica Aphmau Thordottir, so yeah, well, actually, that's a lie. It's Jessica Aphmau Stark nee Thordottir. Go ahead and call me Jessica or Jess. I'm married to Sly, who kissed me, and yes, they are my parents."

Garroth and Laurence stared. Then fainted. Sly, Katz, and dad roared with laughter, I snickered, and mom rolled her eyes.

"Oh! Sly, I should tell you, you have two sons." I said.

"What?!" Sly yelled. "Oh wait, do you mean Leo and Flippy?"

I shook my head. "Nope. I adopted two children- Levin and Malichi."

Sly nodded. "I guess I expected that from you- adopting children. It's such a you thing to do."

"Hope you have better luck with them than my dad had with his adopted son." Dad commented. Both Mom and I punched him in the arm.

Katz smiled at us. "Well, I'll stop gate-crashing this family reunion. I've got a date tonight anyway."

"Really?" I asked, looking over. "With who?"

"A girl from the village, her name is Savannah." Katz said.

"Isn't she the girl I hired at Thunder Thighs?" I asked.

He nodded. "Yeah, her. I'm actually planning on proposing tonight."

I squealed. "Oh yes! This is gonna be awesome!!!" Sly, mom, and dad all laughed as Katz left the hall. I turned to them. "Is anyone else dating someone?"

"Kala and Steven are married, but you were there for that, and we can't forget they have a daughter named Elizabeth." Sly said, "Jose is engaged to a girl named Clara, Alex is with Constance, that librarian Castor basically kidnapped, they're dating. Pbat is married to a girl called Annabelle, they have a four year old daughter named Bella. We don't know about Castor."

"Oh, he lives near where I do now." I said. "He likes this girl in my village named Cadenza. They're actually engaged. In a way. Kind of."

Sly nodded. "Good to see he's not constantly moping over Veronica anymore."

Mom and Dad smiled. "We'll leave you to your catching up then, shall we?"

"No!" I exclaimed. "Do you three want to come to my village? Meet everyone? Mom, it's in the Ru'an region."

Mom looked up with a smile. "Sorry, but I can't." I understood. She left to get away from all the fawning. If she went back it'd be the same.

Dad shook his head. "Someone's gotta watch Asgard- it's a big kingdom."

"Sly?" I asked.

"Wouldn't miss it for the world. I'd love to see your village." He said, grabbing my hand and lacing his fingers through mine.

"Good." I grinned. "We should probably wake them up." I pointed to Garroth and Laurence. Mom and I walked over to them and we waved our hands.

They woke with a start. "I had the strangest dream that you, Lady Aphmau," Laurence said, "were the daughter of Lady Irene and Thor, and is married to this guy named Sly."

I laughed. "Laurence that wasn't a dream. It's real. You and Garroth just fainted."