For Tonight

8 years ago, a madwoman- or madgirl, or mad anything else for that matter- was unleased on his life. And combined with all the other horrors around, such as school, bullies, crazy girls and teachers, that didn't bode well for his life at all.

And it was 8 years ago that they came to save it, or at least balance out the bad insanity with some good insanity.

Now it was almost over.

In two days, he would lose them forever due to Da Rules provision that faires could not stay as long as they had stayed already. He was no longer a kid, and was approaching the age when he wasn't even supposed to believe fairies exist. Even for all the times he had saved their world, it couldn't buy him a stay of execution- probably because they still remembered how he caused Fairy World to almost be destroyed to begin with.

With all the legal options exhausted, there was nothing left to do but prepare for the end. Once all the sadness was subdued, they finally worked out some semblance of a plan to say goodbye. With two days left, he would spend the entirity of one day with one fairy godparent, the final day with the other, and then part at the beginning of the next day.

The boy chose the male godparent, Cosmo, to spend the first day with. It would almost be surprising to an outsider, or one intimatly familar with these three beings. The Fairy World files were filled with their screwups in the first several years of their partnership, and how the boy nearly approached the stupidity of Cosmo on many occasions. They sided with each other and caused man and fairy kind to be on the brink of destruction so often. That was because the boy always sided with him and gave him the chance to destroy so much, and never listened to the advice/nagging of the other fairy. Even after messing things up hundreds of times, they never seemed to listen to her. Therefore, why would the boy spend his next to last day with Cosmo, and have his last day with someone not as destructive, and therefore not as fun to wrap it up?

That outsider never read the files for the last few years.

The toll this dynamic had eventually ran it's course, and the gift of maturity had finally entered the boy's head. Gone was the intense appetite for messing with everything in the universe to satisfy his own desires, and with it came a new appreciation for the female's efforts. As he grew out of his childish fantasies and desires, he grew out of making wishes that led to such pain and panic. Sure, the odd stupid wish came ever so often, as he wasn't entirely mature all the time. But this time, they were easier to contain and control before the worst happened. It took longer than most observers wanted, but her influence had finally gotten some stability from him, and from Cosmo. As such, the boy found that by listening to her more, these final few years actually had more peace and more time to have fun with each other, not so much time to clean up stupid messes.

Those lessons had a profound impact on the boy, even more so now that his time with them was almost over. That's why he wanted the final day to be spent with her. He owed her so much for helping him destroy stuff less, for not taking those lessons to heart earlier and leading to such strain on relationships beforehand....and how this fueled other thoughts that not even the other fairies could get to.

Timmy Turner owed Wanda his life.

And on this final day, he wanted her to remember that, at least.
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After his day with Cosmo was over, the green fairy carried out his promise to leave for the rest of the day. He would not be back until 9:30 PM in this time zone, leaving Timmy to spend the rest of the day with Wanda.

Luckly, these final two days were on a weekend, so he didn't have school to worry about, and probably no Vicky. But he had a plan to make sure that wouldn't be a problem, just in case.

And then, once he left, she arrived at around 9 AM.

The sight of her would have looked normal compared to the 10 year old version of him. Now that he was 18 and so much taller than her, she looked kind of silly next to him, her tiny frame floating above him. But she didn't look anything bad in his eyes- hence the secret thoughts not even the fairies had discovered or bothered to investigate.

In these final few years as Timmy sided with her more, due to the guilt and trama she went through over not listening to her much before, he had noticed a few more things. He noticed that his hormones were coming on strong, as they were supposed to. He noticed that the more he didn't get close to Trixie, or the more he suffered the advances of Tootie and Veronica, he wished that girls he knew were more like Wanda. Stable, not conceited or crazy, with a loving hand and deeds to back it up....and looks that weren't flashy like Trixie or non existant in Tootie, but a balance of being just right. He also could sometimes hear the....night activities of her and Cosmo in his fish bowl during nights when he didn't get to sleep right away[another benefit of them not fighting as much anymore]All this helped fuel his wonder about what things might have been if Wanda were just another girl he didn't have to lose, and could actually be closer to if not for Da Rules. Especially on their last day, these thoughts had to be around somewhere.

Although he imagined there was the chance they could get worse today, he made his request for what they could do today anyway.

He wished not only for Wanda to be in her human form today, but for all the humans in the world to be asleep until 9:30 PM. That way, they could actually do activities and spend time together like a regular human couple- not couple in that way, but as a pair of regular people going out to spend time together, something that could never be done normally. He also wished for all of the things that would be destroyed or go out of wack without human supervision not to go berserk- an added bonus to his age was that he actually thought ahead of that stuff now. This way, all the humans would be out cold and not ask questions about who this woman was with him, and perhaps cause too much trouble on this last day.

Wanda, proud of how far he'd come that he actually used enough of his brain to do that, granted the wish. Soon, everyone was in a deep sleep. As such, Wanda could change into a human form and walk around with him without any trouble- and that's what she did in her next step.

She had acted as a human a few times before, most notably in the Mr Crocker era when he occasionally stumbled into getting too close. He didn't take too much notice of the actual form back then, but in the state he was in now, he couldn't help but do it now. Her legs were shaped in even better condition than Trixie, and with his extensive research on the subject, he would know. Her hips were curved rounded than any other girl he knew- curves which continued onto her waist that was covered by her yellow shirt. Her chest, an almost triangle shape when she was a fairy, was the traditional round now, and a substantial round at that. All that was unchanged was her already striking face and the swirly pink hair that enticed so many others before him.

He thought he blocked those thoughts out of his head just before Wanda could sense them, and told her he was ready to go. At least he thought he did.
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The day and the afternoon went even smoother than even Timmy had planned it. They went to all of Timmy's usual hangouts- only this time Wanda could actually participate in them and not have to pose as some piece of decoration. They talked about all the various things they had been up to over time, including Wanda's plans for the future and what Timmy would wind up doing as well. Timmy knew he'd have to get an actual real job someday, which would be harder without fairies, obviously- but Wanda pointed out some things he could do while waiting for a career path to take hold. They talked about that a bit more while having lunch in the mall. Timmy even went to a beauty salon to see the tapes that employees had recorded of the week's new soap opera episodes. Even at 18 he still liked those things, and for once he could do it openly with someone who he could actually discuss the latest love octogans/botched surgeries with.

In the afternoon, they actually had fun in remembering the enemies they fought off together. As insane and often dangerous as they were, they could more clearly see how more funny they were when they weren't fighting them. Plus the fact that they were beaten so ofte by them, even with all their own bumbling, was kind of pathetic for those villains. Except for Crocker, since that's what he was already- with Timmy managing to block out the fact that he would soon suffer the loss Crocker went through that made him so crazy.

Pointing out the logic holes of the day took up much of the afternoon. After a few more activities, it was about 5:30 PM. With 4 more hours left until Cosmo returned and the humans woke up, they figured they could go back home to finish things out. Wanda decided that would give her plently of time to make a dinner for them. Since the best material for that was in her fishbowl home, she offered that they have it in there.

Timmy accepted, right after feeling a little twinge of something that was either nerves, or anticipation.
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Though they were shrunk, they still remained at the same height to each other, and still had the same form. The dinner table was dressed up in fancy garb to befit the fancy atmosphere of Wanda's home- at least the part of it she decorated. But it wasn't too big for two people, as the two sat across from one another and could pass material to each other with no trouble.

They were close to being done a little after 6. With that, Timmy knew the day between them was headed towards it's last legs. He had accomplished most of his ideas and he knew she might want to rest up for when Cosmo returned, as they still had some packing to do. Obviously he would want to mark their departure with her in their own...special way. Before Timmy got too wrapped up about that, he decided to get out whatever else he hadn't gotten to say today.

"I wanted to thank you."

"I thought I'd be doing the thanking for today. You treated me, so I should do my share of thanking for you.", Wanda responded.

"No, not just for today....for everything."

Timmy took a deep breath, and the right words came when he was done.

"How often do you think about....how unlikely it is that we ever survived to today, considering our history?"

Wanda gasped, remembering how she had some thoughts about that herself before the day started, in her own reflections. It was scary how they were more often on the same wavelength now. "More than you might think, actually."

"Then I think you know where I'm going. If one of those silly enemies got me....I'd probably go down in history as the person who let humans and fairies suffer, since they tried to take over things and all. I'd be the laughingstock of every universe, not to mention I'd never get to do so many cool things. And you and Cosmo might not be together either...either by death or worse. Heck, we were so close to breaking apart even without people coming between us. It's a wonder we made it each and every time."

"I guess that's a way to look at it....so, all these troubles turned out to be a good thing, you're saying?"

"I think it was, in the end.", answered Timmy. "Now look at everything....everything that's only the way it is now because of you."

Wanda took a bit of a pause at that comment. "I thought we were going into another laughing at the bad guys talk.....how do I fit into that?"

"Because you kept me alive when they attacked....and when my own stupid stuff almost got me killed too. I think too few people forget that part, they mostly remember how me or Cosmo caused the damage They forget you too easily and how you stopped it."

With this, Timmy took a daring gamble, at least in his mind. He reached out and took one of her hands in his.

"I'm only alive because of you...maybe I said that already today, but it has to be said again. All that I have now is only possible because of what you did 10 years ago."

"Seems like I made the right call, didn't I? At least I've never doubted I did."

"Even after all I put you through? The fighting, the fires, the explosions, the near destruction of your marriage?"

"Not even after you did all those things 10 times over. Maybe that came out wrong....but in a way, it makes the point clearer. No matter how much you messed up, I wouldn't leave you by choice. That's not what people, or fairies, who care for you more than life itself do."

And she meant it. As much as he said she helped him, she thought he matched him word for word in that department. She knew she was only alive because of him, and for all the things he messed up, she knew he always had the heart to recognize those mistakes eventually, and not rest until he fixed them. Before he came into her life, her godparenting career and that of Cosmo's was becoming routine, and almost boring. For all the fights they eventually got into, they might have been worse if they didn't have Timmy to protect. Now, 8 years later, they were all alive against the worst odds, and it was largely due to Timmy- heroism which eventually came through when he realized he neeed to change his ways, and helped ensured she and Cosmo would still be together forever. Things in her life had only gotten better because of him. And the kindness and compassion he showed her then was still so much in him now- which was really how she tried so hard and succeeded to defend him against villains and his own mistakes in the first place.

It filled her with even more extra pride as she saw the man he had become since those events....so heroic, so caring, so fun, so handsome...thoughts which were less disturbing to think of since he actually turned 18...

"I have some thoughts I'd like to share as well....while we're being honest.", were Wanda's words to break up the silence.

"It sounds like you credit a lot to me. Probably more than I could ever credit to you. My life's hardly been as eventful as yours since then, even though we've shared the same adventures. But....there's still so much I owe you."

Timmy put his head up to look right at her eyes as she continued.

"There hasn't been one day in 8 years where I haven't thought about you...and what you did for me. I pretty much have all I have right now cause of you too, you know. Your impact....I feel like you've changed my life just as much as Cosmo changed mine when we met. And as much as he has done for me....it can't compare to what you've done to help me find new purpose in my life. I feel like the sky's the limit for me because of all I've learned and discovered over this time, and will take with me for the rest of my eternal life. I think...we've shared something in that time that was so different from what me and Cosmo shared, or that you wanted with Trixie.....but it had the same end result. Me and Cosmo would die for the other because we love them....and I think that's what we had. I think...that's what we still have now. And I think that comes from....a kind of love for each other that is different from me and Cosmo....but which has the same end result."

She knew she was rambeling and almost not making any sense, so she stopped right there before she muddled her point. It looked like it was getting across to him, though.

"You have no idea how much that got across to me...." he said.

"I think I have some idea.", she replied. "You think I didn't know you could hear us at some nights....or couldn't sense some of your thoughts at certain moments?"

Once it became clear to him exactly what thoughts she was referring to, Timmy started to stammer, hoping to salvage some excuse before the day was ruined. He thought hard of another topic of conversation to distract her, but the last one was still too open ended not to attract suspicion. He looked down at the table, figuring he could at least pretend to look at the food and utensils to buy some time.

When enough seconds went by to make that impossible, he finally moved his eyes up. Unfortunatly for his current state, the first thing he saw in front of him was Wanda's chest, which was heaving with each of her breaths- and showing more of the pronounced cleavage that was on top of it. His eyes shot right up to the roof, then back to the walls, but not to her.

So it was up to Wanda to speak up.

"You've had some of these....strange feelings for me for some time, and probably feel embarassed. Well...don't be. Because, well...there are times I think about what mighta happened if things were different too. Maybe if you were a fairy, or around before I met Cosmo, or I was a regular human girl or some other what if thing like that....it goes through my mind too. If things were different, and I had the chance to be with you in that way, without Cosmo and without these rules....would I take it? Sometimes, with all we've been through and all we've given to each other....I think I might."

Timmy took a moment to make sure that meant exactly what he thought it did. He knew he had these feelings for some time, but to hear what....might be a tactturn admission that she might have had that as well?

Or might be having?

"I, um....didn't think you imagined stuff up like that."

"A bit more than I should sometimes....not because I regret who I'm with now or anything about my life, not at all. It's just...I imagine I might have gone that extra way in feeling about you if we were a little different. And from those thoughts I know about....I wonder how muchj you felt that way too."

Only most every day he thought about it....but as revealing as she was being, and as far as she was taking the conversation, he probably couldn't say that in those terms.

Could he?

"Maybe....sometimes....but there's nothing that can be done about it now. Things worked out so well that there's no need to alter it in any way just for that."

"Right, right. Still....it's enough to boggle the mind sometimes. About how different things would be with just one different thing and all."

The two nodded, seeming to come to an understanding and enough closure. With that, they managed to smile at the resolution.

"To what might have been." Timmy added on.

And then, just when he thought he was out, he let himself be pulled back.

Without thinking for one little bit, he demonstrated his thanks by kissing her hand.

The gasps from both people came a split second later. The akward silence returned even stronger than before. But that didn't silence their inner thoughts by a longshot.

"You stupid moron, you were almost in the clear! Now it's just gonna get worse and....wow, her hand was so soft. My lips are still tingling..." Timmy's thoughts ran.

"That shouldn't have been so bad....probably the wrong thing to do while I was thinking about us being....that way. Maybe I should excuse myself and....maybe it was just him being a gentleman, like he's become so well. And he sure did it just right...." ran Wanda's thoughts.

Timmy had done the brunt of looking away and being nervous for the night, and now Wanda was sharing that responsibility. When they finally looked at each other, their thoughts ran so much alike, even more so than they knew. The same thoughts of fear, uneasiness, guilt, disgust- along with intrige, desire, curiousity, and the growing signs of lust- ran through their minds in almost the same pattern.

The latter feelings were winning out enough for them to get up and actually walk towards each other. They stood, staring into each others's eyes and not making any other moves.

The innermost thoughts of the two close friends were running at full force through their minds...and had graduated into fantasy. They each wondered what if....and each was starting to consider the chance that they could answer it. Every thought that had gotten too....graphic for them was now becoming more clear, and harder to banish away like always. For Timmy, it was the culmination of thoughts that had ran through him at one time or another for several years. For Wanda, they were thoughts that weren't as prevelant- but every time she thought of what things would be if they were in different positions, and when she thought about how much she cared for him, how much they had shared, and how much he had grown....they had started to become more active. At least since he got old enough to be legal. A full year of those thoughts had started to make her wonder if they were worth carrying out- and this was the excuse they had been waiting for.

"I, I...." Timmy couldn't finish. She wasn't pulling away or yelling at him or anything....if she wasn't interested in somewhat the same way he was, she would have by now. That knowledge told him that if he did do something....it might be returned. The more he recognized his own looks of longing and wonder in her clear eyes, the more he thought that she wanted it too.

It could actually happen....if he was willing to go that extra mile and forget about-

And then he saw only one answer he could give with a clear conscience.

"I can't."

Every effort to turn away finally worked about three seconds after he said that.

"I want to....but I can't. I couldn't live with it...knowing I'd never see you again afterwards."

She finally sighed, returning to Earth as well. "And I probably couldn't live with it around him."

They had reached the impass of having to deal with the consequences. There was only one thing to do now- turn away and forget it ever happened. But then what would happen for the remainder of their time together? Is this how it would end, with all these uneasy feelings and all these regrets between them? Spending their last hours feeling guilty about going this far, and not actually enjoying the last moments they had before their minds were wiped and they never remembered each other again...

Wait a minute...

At the same time, they realized how nothing they did together would ever be remembered after tomorrow.

Even if they did things they shouldn't have done....they wouldn't remember and wouldn't have time to have any guilt over it.

And Wanda would forget about it too soon to feel guilty towards Cosmo.

Once they shared those feelings out loud to each other, they began to plan out what could happen now.

Timmy knew Wanda loved Cosmo and didn't want to cheat on him, however. That was the biggest thing to overcome. But Wanda's curiousity had been opened past the point of no return now. Timmy was the only being she ever loved as much as she loved Cosmo....and now that they were going to be apart anyway and nothing worse could possibly happen now....what was the point in holding back? She'd forget it anyway and so would he. Besides, no humans would be awake for 3 hours and Cosmo wouldn't be back either...more than enough time to do whatever they wanted. They weren't sure if they wanted it to be full blown sex, though....just the chance to explore what might have been.

Now that they had the chance to do something, the question was- how far? They could do anything they'd always wanted, or just recently realized they wanted, to do. But they didn't have to. They had well enough time to let whatever happened happen naturally, without too much planning. If it was just a what if experiment to see what it'd be like to be romantic with each other, then so be it. If their feelings developed into letting them take it further, then it would come naturally as well- as long as they kept an eye on the time, they could manage it just right to pull this off.

No matter what they did or didn't do, they would forget it soon enough, and still remain friends and be able to be devoted to their loves later. They agreed it would be a one time only experiment- to see what it would have been like for them to be together, just once. Just for tonight.

As the friends they were, and would always be, they came to the agreement rationally, calmly, and respectfully- remarkable considering what they were discussing.

Besides, it would be best to purge these thoughts out of their heads forever, to act on them once and get them out of their system. After that, there would be no more what if questions and they would never have to doubt their commitment in their relationships again. It would make them stronger in the end to do so.

So they decided.

Act out the deepest fantasies they had developed, before they were made to forget about them.

Just for tonight.