A Year Of Ben And Mal

Fireflies

From: danifan3000

Summary: Mal hears someone talking about fireflies and with how things were on the isle of the lost, Mal has never seen or heard of fireflies so Ben decides to take Mal to an open field for a date and wait until dark to show Mal the lights of the fireflies.

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"Hey Ben" Mal said walking up behind her boyfriend as he sat in his mom's rose garden at the palace.

"Hey Mally" He said with a smile

"Oh hush" Mal said with a matching smile, playfully hitting him in the shoulder, then sitting next to him laying her head on his shoulder as he wrapped his arm around her.

"Hey Benny, I heard somebody talking about this thing earlier, and am very confused as to what this is"

"What was it?"

"A "FireFly"? What are they flies that shoot fire?" She asked with a very confused face, Ben laughed a little and shook his head

"No, actually they are these tiny little bugs, that light up." Ben explained "They are also sometimes known as Lightning Bugs"

"Do they shoot lightning?" Mal asked confused once more

"No" He said laughing once more

"Well they have really misleading names then"

"You know in a story my mom read me once, all the little fireflies were fairies on their way to the fairy Ball, and the brightest one was the Fairy Queen in her carriage" Ben said smiling

"Well that is completely different from bugs that shoot lightning or fire"

"Yea I guess so. Hey stay right here, I will be right back" Ben said running off with a huge smile on his face

He came back a few minutes later with a picnic basket, and a blanket.

"Come one" He said with a big childish look on his face grabbing Mals hand and bringing her to his Scooter. He strapped the basket and blanket to the back and then got on, Mal right behind him. She wrapped her arms around his waist. Of course after Ben had her put on her helmet, and he put on his. Then put her chin on his shoulder so she could see where they were going

"Ready?"

"I guess, I have no clue where we are going but sure"

He laughed and then drove off, he parked the bike where he had when they went to the enchanted lake on their first date, and a few other times.

"So we are going to the Lake?" Mal asked

"Nope, we are taking a different path" He said with a smirk grabbing the basket and blankets, they followed a similar path until they had crossed the bridge, there Ben pushed a large bush to the side which showed a new path

"You just love mysterious places don't you"

"Why yes, yes I do" Ben said with a smirk, and set down the basket and blankets, and reached into the basket pulling out a blind fold

"No, not again"

"Yes, again. New rule, I am making it official! Any dates where I take you to a new mysterious place you get blindfolded or your eyes covered on the way there at some point" He said in a very kingly way, but he couldn't keep a straight face at his new proclamation

"Oh how Kingly my King, well then why don't you blindfold me when we are almost there"

"Oh I am, we are only about 5 to 10 minutes away. Now come on, can you hold the blankets though? I want to be able to easily guide you or catch you in case there is anything you trip on" Ben asked she nodded and took the blankets and let him guide her.

Had this been anyone else, she would not have put close to this much trust in anyone. Especially on the isle, but Ben was different. She trusted him with all her heart.

Finally after only 3 small trips in which Ben did catch her, they made it to their destination.

"Okay stay right here, do not move what so ever, and give me the blankets, I will be right back. " Ben told Mal taking the blanket and as an afterthought added "I will only be about 10 feet away" Knowing she was trusting him a lot just with the blindfold he didn't want to scare her. He ran off and came back 2 minutes later

"It's me" He said as he then untied her blindfold but still held it over her eyes "Ready? Open." And he pulled down the blindfold so she could see an open field filled with greenery.

"Wow, it's beautiful" Mal looked around taking in her surroundings

"Come one" Ben said pulling her hand to the Blanket laid out in the center of the field, the whole field had grass that looked like it was cut often, but it looked natural short, it didn't really make sense

"Why does it look like the grass is cut, but not?" Mal asked

"Well, this is the Enchanted Meadow." Ben explained "So everything always stays naturally perfect. At Least in a nature sense"

"Is every where you take me over here an Enchanted something?"

"Well there is the Enchanted Lake, Enchanted Meadow, Enchanted Woods, Enchanted Beach, Enchanted Desert, Enchanted Tree, Enchanted Island-" Ben joked

"Seriously?" Mal asked

"Well, no. But some of those are actual things. " Ben defended

They went and sat on the blanket Ben had laid out and began eating their picnic. Ben brought, Strawberries (Of course), Chicken sandwiches, salad, apples, and a few chocolate chip cookies (No love spell of course).

They laid down next to each other just looking up at the sky watching as it shifted from day to night. They had both gotten slightly chilly, which is why Ben brought 2 blankets, one to lay on the other to cover up.

Ben was talking about constellations when he saw a flash of light out of the corner of his eye. Then stopped talking and just smiled

"What?" Mal asked

"Look over there" Ben said pointing to some bushes off their side, with lots of tiny little lights flashing "That, is fireflies"

"Woah, It looks magical"

"It does look magical"

"So this is people in the story thought they were fairies"

"Yea, I guess so"