A Moment in Time (Adult Rucas AU)

Chapter Twelve

A/N: More feels, a lot of feels more questions and because all of the jokes I made on Tumblr about this particular part of the story... well it finally happens

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Every face in the crowd looked like Evan to her, even though they weren't him, she had shown the note to Lucas soon after she had seen it and he ended up crushing a bottle of water on her table. Automatically he set off towards Josh and they talked but he had left Riley in the booth surrounded by people thinking of the one person who could ruin everything. When Lucas returned she noticed a lot more officers surrounding the area which eased her tension just a fraction.

"Everything is going to be fine," Lucas said in her ear as she smiled and signed a book for someone. He quickly gave her a kiss on the cheek and returned to helping Charlie and Sarah with the line of people.

With each hour that passed her nerves were retching themselves up stomach and into her throat, because she would certainly throw up on some poor unsuspecting person just from thinking about anything happening. When the first signing ended, Lucas pulled her into a small office inside of the library and closed the door behind him. She let out a breath she hadn't known that she had been holding in at the time.

"What are we going to do Lucas?" she asked as she sat down on a nearby chair. Even though she had been sitting for hours her legs couldn't stand on their own.

He walked up to her and kneeled down on the ground taking her hands. "Don't worry about him, he wouldn't do anything with this many witnesses, if he did try something he would be arrested so fast."

"Did they find out where the flowers came from?"

"Josh and Zay are looking into it, they even called the state troopers to look into it as well," he said picking her hands up and placing a soft kiss on them. "Don't worry, I'm not going to let anything happen to you."

"Okay," she said to him as she took her hands from his grasp and placed them on his face. "I trust you."

Lucas smiled and leaned into her placing his forehead on hers before kissing her softly on the lips. "Let's get some food for you to eat and get you ready for the second half of this madness."

"The people in the crowd aren't as bad as I thought they would be," she said standing up and pulling him up with her. "They've been nice this entire time."

"Yeah but I also know you're worried so let's get your mind off of things and play some of those overpriced carnival games."

"I can eat a corndog while I watch you play, and walk around being all lovely dovey," she smiled. "Normal couple stuff, which we haven't really done because there hasn't been any time."

"Not so much time, just too much happening all at once, but that also meant I had you all to myself, and didn't have to share."

"Well that's a lie because you've had everyone in town meet me, sometimes I wonder if it was your plan all along, you know to get all the little old ladies to like me so that I would stay no matter what."

"You wound me Riley," he said putting his arm around her shoulder. "Liliana was my trump card, everyone else likes you because you're a wonderful person. But I wouldn't mind a little alone time tonight," he gave her a wink as they stopped at one of the Food stalls and he got everything from popcorn to hot dogs.

She watched him as he played every game he could, winning her a giant stuffed purple cat, and a giant unicorn for Liliana. Riley made him go back to win a stuffed pony for himself and when he refused she played the game instead and won it for him with a giant smile on her face.