Very early Sunday morning, a clearing in the preserve

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Things had been going so well. So incredibly well. Well, except for the weird and deadly board game Isabel had found. (And, okay, except for flailing when Savannah came to him for sex advice.)

Then on Friday night, as Parents Weekend began, he and Chris had gone out for pizza so they wouldn't mope about not having parents there. And two suspiciously-acting cousins had shown up. They were so suspicious that Chris had called Bridge to check them out. And then they learned the truth: the "cousins" were really their parents in disguise -- the parents they thought had been dead for the past decade and a half.

It was too much to process. He'd gone to Isabel's room and spent the night there, needing to hold on to someone he could believe in. In the morning, he'd gone to get Chris, only to find him with Lana (despite earlier insistance that there was nothing going on between them, wtf). They'd gone to talk to Prue only to find out she knew that their parents had been alive, too.

Isabel and Prue (and maybe Lana, too, he didn't know) had encouraged them to talk to their parents and find out why they had faked their deaths and left them to be raised by their grandfather. Isabel had come with him to the Devil's Nest to confront Piper and Leo. He was still struggling to understand, but he was feeling less angry.

But for now he was lying on a blanket in a clearing in the preserves, his arm around Isabel, watching the Perseid meteor shower. This was the surprise she'd mentioned, and he was more than happy to forget about the past two days and just lie there with her and count the shooting stars until the sun rose.

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"This is nice. Although it's probably not the kind of surprise you had in mind," And that thought made her laugh a bit thinking of their conversation at the Devil's Nest.

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"It's too cold for you to be wearing nothing but an apron," Wyatt grinned, turning his head to kiss her forehead.

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"Somehow I'm sure you'd be able to keep me warm," Isabel smiled, burrowing a little more closely into his side.

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"My body heat is your body heat," Wyatt said gallantly.

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"You're so generous," she said. "I'll keep that offer in mind if it ever gets cold. It's hard to believe it's October."

Another meteor blazed by and Isabel smiled, realizing that she didn't have another wish to make. Life was pretty damn good at the moment.

"So Lana and Chris?"

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Wyatt groaned and facepalmed with the arm that wasn't wrapped around Isabel's shoulders. "Looks like it," he said. "Despite Chris totally denying it the other day."

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"Talking to Lana it sounds like it was rather sudden and surprising," Isabel told him, trying hard not to laugh at his reaction. "That could be why Chris didn't say anything."

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"He's been following her around like a lovesick puppy," Wyatt grumbled. "I called him on it a couple days ago but the said they were just friends. Riiiiight."

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"Why don't you like her?" she asked. "She's nice."

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Wyatt wrinkled his nose. "We don't get along," he said.

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"Why? She's pretty, I'm surprised you didn't try to romance her," Isabel teased. "Of course she did have the very intense boyfriend, so that was a bit of obstacle."

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"I told her she couldn't come to the Underworld with us when we went to rescue Aunt Phoebe and vanquish the Source," Wyatt explained. "She didn't have powers and I didn't want to take the risk of someone needing to keep an eye on her. So she gets all pissy at me and finds some other way down there. And then because she and Dr. Wilson were there and had to go back through Tannim's portal, it closed before Chris and I could go through."

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"You know, just because someone doesn't have powers doesn't mean they can't help," she pointed out, thinking of all the times their friends in Roswell had helped them out. "I didn't realize you'd been left. I was pretty upset when we got back. I just went right to my room. How'd you get back?"

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"Chris figured out how to orb," Wyatt said. "Some demons came in, and his powers kicked in and got us out of there. Lucky for us." He shrugged his shoulders a little. "Maybe I was too hard on her about not going, but sneaking down after us could've gotten her killed for sure. Ever since then she's been a total bitch to me."

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"Very lucky for you." And ultimately lucky for Isabel, a thought that made her stretch up to give him a kiss.

"She's been a bitch and you've been sweet and nice and haven't bugged her?"

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Wyatt winced after the kiss. "Well . . . there was one incident. . . ." he said reluctantly.

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"Yes?" she prompted, sliding her up his arm.

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He screwed his eyes shut and rubbed his forehead with his free hand. "She got herself possessed and totally came on to me. I thought she wanted to make up, and I was blind at the time so I couldn't see that something was wrong."

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"Oh..." That would be Isabel's hand going very still for a moment, while she once again cursed the wbitch that had caused so much trouble.

"That's one hell of a way to make-up," she said dryly as her hand began to move again. Because really, there was no reason for her to be jealous. None at all. Look. This is Isabel not being jealous.

Twitch.

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Wyatt sighed, not noticing Isabel's reaction, at least not yet. "Yeah, but a couple days later when I made some comment to her about it, she totally freaked out," he said. "I thought we were cool, and she completely loses it and tells me about the possession thing. I got a little freaked myself -- I felt like I'd violated her, and I'd never do anything to a girl like that -- and I promised to drop it and never bring it up again, it didn't happen. But ever since if we're in the same room she looks at me like I'm pond scum."

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"I know you wouldn't take advantage of her. But it does take the post casual sex awkwardness up to an entirely new level," Isabel pointed out. "And if you guys weren't getting along before? That certainly wasn't going to make it better."

Not jealous. Not jealous. Not jealous.

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"Yeah," Wyatt said. "But I've gone out of my way to give her space so she isn't reminded about it. And now she's seeing my brother. Greaaaaat."

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"Well, she knows what she's getting into if things do continue with Chris. But it'll probably help things if you both try to be nice." She propped her head up on her arm and looked down at him. "You do want Chris to be happy don't you?"

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"'Course I do," Wyatt said. "But with a nice girl. Like you."

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"She is nice. She's also my friend." Which was a warning of a sort.

In the meantime, Isabel was trying hard to file the thought of Wyatt and Lana away in one of the deep dark corners of her mind.

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Wyatt sighed. "I told them I'd do my best to get along with her, but that's only going to happen if she stops acting like I'm evil incarnate." He squeezed his arm around Isabel's shoulders. "I'm sorry."

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"I think for Chris's sake, she might. It seemed like she really likes him." She rested her head back against Wyatt's shoulder and gave a half-hearted shrug. "Nothing to be sorry for. Just be nice."

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"I can be nice," Wyatt said, giving her a pouty face.

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"Are you pouting?" Isabel asked, running her finger over his lips. "You are. You're going to trip over this lip if it sticks out any further."

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He nipped at her finger. "There's only one way to make it go back," he said, batting his eyes.

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"And what might that be?" Funny how she didn't pull her hand away all that fast.

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"Applying gentle pressure, preferably with the lips," Wyatt said, kissing her fingertip.

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"You mean like this?" Isabel murmured, doing just that.

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"Mmm hmm," Wyatt said, too busy to articulate anything else because he was kissing her back.

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Shooting stars? What shooting stars? Isabel opened her lips to deepen the kiss and forgot about everything but kissing Wyatt

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Wyatt wrapped both arms around Isabel, moving his hands up and down her back as the kiss grew in intensity. All the other drama in his life didn't matter right now, just the girl in his arms.

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The girl in his arms was slowly kissing her way along his jawline, slowly working her way towards his ear.

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Oh, no, not the ear. When she reached his earlobe, Wyatt sucked in his breath and stiffened. Not there. Okay, maybe there, too.

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Considering the way she was half sprawled across him, it's quite possible Isabel was aware of that reaction. She might have pressed a little closer and kept her attention focused on Wyatt's ear.

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Wyatt shifted his hips, trying to hide the evidence of his arousal. Well, not like the way he was softly groaning wasn't a dead giveaway anyway.

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Isabel was fairly certain the groaning meant she was doing something right.

Or wrong given how she'd asked not to rush things, a tiny voice in her head pointed out.

A bit breathless herself, Isabel kissed her way back to his lips, then pulled back just enough to rest her forehead against Wyatt's. "Hi," she said quietly.

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"Hi," Wyatt said, grinning at her as he ran his fingers through her hair. "That was . . . nice."

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"Nice is one word," she said sheepishly. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get carried away."

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"I don't mind," Wyatt said, caressing her cheek. "I liked it."

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Isabel leaned into his hand and smiled. "You did? I couldn't tell?"

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"Good, because I was trying to be all subtle," Wyatt said.

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"Subtle? Oh...subtle, yes. Definitely." Laughing softly, she kissed him again, this time soft and slow.

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Wyatt was trying to think of things like basketball and homework so he didn't get too worked up, but it was rather difficult to think of anything but the beautiful girl kissing him.

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Isabel was doing some thinking of her own. About things like Men in Blackberry Pie, college applications, and what Ares was going to subject them to in class on Monday. UnFortunately it kept her from getting too carried away as she continued to kiss him.