One-Shots!

Tuck Everlasting: One Last Adventure

A/n: The fandom might be dead but I'm not. Go listen to Tuck everlasting! It's amazing!

Winnie dashed out the front door as soon as possible, today was her seventeenth birthday and her mother had refused to let her leave the house until they had celebrated, that was seven hours ago. She ran through the woods to the tree she had climbed when she first met Jesse. After the event six years ago Winnie decided to get to know the woods she had lived next to her whole life, sneaking out wasn't preferable but her mother didn't rethink her rules especially not when Winnie got "kidnapped". She hoped she wouldn't run into Jesse, she had made her decision years ago. She wouldn't live forever she would just live.

Winnie finally found the tree she had climbed with the spring next to it.

Croak

She jumped and turning around to see that the frog she had given the water to was drinking from the spring. "Hey bud, how's immortality?" Winnie asked kneeling down to let the frog jump into her hands. "I haven't seen you since I fell out of that tree and you jumped onto my head" The frog looked unimpressed by her story.

Reeunk

"Rude" Winnie briefly debated that she was having a conversation with a frog but couldn't bring herself to care. Treegap was boring. She carefully lowered the frog back onto the ground letting it hop off her hands.

"STOP!"

Winnie jumped to her feet and spun around to block the spring from view. "Who's there?" Her eyes darted around the forest before landing on a figure running towards her. She squinted and took a step away from the spring. "Jesse?"

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Jesse had immediately booked it back to Treegap when he remembered that it was Winnie's seventeenth birthday. He had continued to travel the world, stopping in New York and Chicago before making his way back to Vermont where Miles had become a teacher. He had six years to think and he had come to the realization that he couldn't let Winnie stop her entire life. She was going to do amazing things, have kids and a life. He could find a different partner in crime, maybe he would track down that cat. He would make sure Winnie didn't drink from the spring and they could have one last day together before he moved, he was thinking Sweden, far away and cold.

He jumped off the train and started the long walk to the forest. He decided to go to the spring so he could get his bearings, maybe he would track down the old cabin. Ma and Pa moved away years ago, said something about Maine and moved to get some peace and quiet. He made his way around the forest, stopping to watch a squirrel, or pet a random cat. When he got close he noticed a figure with familiar red hair and a blue dress kneeling by the spring.

"STOP!"

Winnie turned around "Who's there?" Jesse ran closer "Jesse!?"

"Hey..." Jesse stopped once he was closer

"You're back!" Winnie exclaimed racing forward to hug him "It is you right"

"Of course" Jesse promised, before he remembered why he was there "You can't drink from the spring"

Winnie nodded "I wasn't going to" She sighed "A life of adventure sounds amazing, but I want to just have a life"

"I am so happy to hear that" Jesse said pulling Winnie into a tighter hug "But I am also here to ask you a question"

"You aren't going to propose again, are you?" Winnie teased, sitting down on a rock and pulling Jesse down to sit next to her

"Okay, I admit that was weird. But it made the most sense at the time" Jesse admitted "Two teenagers traveling the world would attract less attention if they were married," He pointed out "And you didn't disagree"