47 (UISYA)

Below is the description of Ann and Larie's **47th meeting** (EARTH 6) from the Ed, Edd n Eddy fanfiction series, Until I See You Again.

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## Story

>    The animal kingdom has evolved and replaced humanity, though animalistic violence and instincts are still present. As prey animals are still the only means of food for carnivores, there's a great divide between them. Predators control the wealth and the law inside the most prominent cities, while prey animals mainly live in rural towns and are casually killed or harassed. Because of this, many are demotivated to leave their meadow homes to pursue higher education or a well-paid job, and so, keep falling behind on the social ladder.
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> Ann is a sheep in her teenage years who wishes to attend public high school, though has to deal with the fact she is only one of the few herbivores there. A wolf named Larie, the “dominant leader” in school (human equivalent of a popular kid), is impressed by her nerves and oddly polite way of telling off every intimidating classmate that approaches her.
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> Despite the history and reputation between wolves and sheep, he becomes fond of her, and without really her knowledge or approval, decides to add her to his "pack". Many of the wolves and dogs feel mocked by this decision and join the big cats instead, who're most vocal about their relationship.
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> Because Larie has to keep shedding blood with other predators in order to keep his rank high and Ann safe, she's stuck on whether she should abuse his inappropriate love for her to get the education she wants, or give up school for his sake. She realizes to have grown more fond of him than she dares to admit, and decides not to waste her only method of meeting up with him. She decides to stay and their friendship grows, even though Larie has always treated her as his girlfriend and she constantly has to deny these claims.
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> One day, he wishes to see her house and do homework together, and Ann thinks enough situations have expired and time passed to trust him. She has to sneak her dear friend into her meadow village, since it's in the middle of nowhere and only inhabited by sheep; making predators not allowed and seen as too much of a risk. While having some trouble with the skeptical cat bus driver, she manages to convince him they're high school buddies and he's welcome. As expected, Larie corrects her she's his girlfriend.
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> Upon getting out, Larie is covered in wool as a make-shift sheep disguise and guided to her home, but mere seconds after showing him her bedroom, starts to get awfully close. Ann anxiously suggests they start on their homework, as there's alot that needs to be finished before the end of the week.
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> They spend roughly an hour on it, until Larie becomes flirtatious again and manages to make her comply. The two engage in unheard activities and are caught by Ann's mother having arrived home, shrieking at the sight. She runs off and calls at her husband to get a shotgun, but Ann has already helped Larie escape through the window before they can return. More screaming is heard as he sprints through the small streets, and Ann's parents run over to hold their daughter, thinking she's been assaulted by an intruder wolf. She insists to know him from school, but that's all they care to hear and use that information to share with the police.
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> As is common for predators: Larie receives no punishment for his alleged crime, but enters a blacklist and is forbidden to step on any buses leading to sheep villages. News spreads fast in his neighbourhood, where the other hotheaded trailer trash-canines call him a pervert wherever he goes and some try to brawl with him over it. Larie uses the act of fighting to earn back his lost respect and becomes more ill-tempered as time passes.
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> Ann receives homeschooling and is not allowed by her parents to leave the village ever again.
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> 10 years go by and Larie happens to see a documentary on TV concerning the situation between him and Ann. He sees a censored sheep being interviewed about the day that aspired, and the program takes a surprisingly unbiased approach he's rarely seen. Larie feels defeated hearing Ann's more matured voice, and while wanting to see her, is convinced it would be awkward, as the incident and many years apart don't give them anything to bond over anymore.
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> Nevertheless, when the interviewed sheep speaks of a pregnancy she was forced to terminate, Larie's attention is heightened. She claims it was the wolf's and her parents didn't want her to bear the freak child of a natural enemy.
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> Larie doesn't believe different species of animal are capable of having offspring, but is unwilling to accept Ann would lie or cheat on him. Wanting to know more, he tries to contact the journalist that interviewed her to help him see her. Luck have it that she's a cow with a predator husband, who feels for their story and is willing to give the documentary a sequel. He doesn't care to have his face and life be broadcast, but accepts it in exchange for a ride to Ann's village.
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> After having contacted Ann with the same offer, they set up a date to meet and Larie is asked to wait outside of the village's border, while the journalist leaves to pick her up. Ann shows up, visibly uneasy to meet a friend she was kept from seeing for 10 long years. Like Larie, she fears their love has faded and they'll have nothing to say to each other.
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> The journalist asks if she may document their conversation, but Ann prefers their first meeting to be private, thus leaves them be.
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> After some silence, she says to have missed him and apologizes for getting him into trouble. Larie replies to haven't met with any severe consequences, unlike her, and moves on to the subject of her supposed pregnancy. Ann responds with embarrassment and is reluctant to talk about it. He begs her to tell her the truth.
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> She insists it had to have been his and never been intimate with another man, including her current partner. The latter news spawns more displeasure than the pregnancy story, and Ann responds to Larie's expression saying her parents were still somewhat suspicious of her and wanted to ensure she'd stay involved with her own kind. They married her off to a ram, and considering her predicament, she didn't know how to peacefully decline the engagement. Larie doesn't think that to be an excuse to accept a random guy into her life, to which Ann adds the village authorities and residents have been keeping a critical eye on her ever since the incident, and she's never even been able to leave the village.
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> He asks if she's fallen for her forced-upon husband, but she clarifies they've not married yet and she's postponed the plans ever since they were announced. He asks if she still loves him, then, whereafter more silence follows.
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> Ann expresses the concern nothing good will come from a relationship like theirs, and this meeting should be their last, proper goodbye. Larie stares at her like an wronged puppy, until the fur on his back slowly starts to rise and he bears his fangs. The journalist comes over to check, just in time to hear Larie's demand to know Ann's fiance's whereabouts. Ann begs him not to perform more regretful acts, to which he replies being with her never counted as one. The nervous journalist requests they both behave, as she'll be made responsible if anything happens. Larie doesn't care for the self-preservation and snaps at her, earning him a scolding from Ann.
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> Larie sits down with a defeated posture, whereafter she comes over to join him. She pets his arm and explains not to be looking forward to anything waiting for her, but staying in their respective lane will ensure their safety. She wishes to know if he can show understanding for that fact, but he replies to have never cared for his safety. Thinking back about their high school days, she replies to know.
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> He turns to her and asks if he can't just take her with him -make people think she's disappeared into thin air- but she says nothing to the offer. He asks her again, while drawing closer, but she only comments he should've forgotten about her, as if telling herself this. Larie admits he could've if he never happened to come across her interview and adds not to regret coming. Meeting up and hearing her voice brings back good memories, and she's "sexier" than he remembered. She blushes, but with an expression of pity.
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> Feeling cheeky, he pinches her rear, making Ann release a high-pitched bleat. Ruining the mood even more, he romantically holds her hoofs and asks her if he may kill her fiance, a question she's willing to take as a joke this time.
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> They become more relaxed and refamiliarize with each other as they fondly talk about the past and their current little endeavours. The journalist takes notes of their interaction and is allowed to ask a few questions in between. When sunset arrives, Ann gets up. She wants to give her dear friend one last embrace, but he requests an item to remember her by. Seeing him so content with it all, she feels a bit saddened, but agrees to hurry back home to find him something.
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> As she runs off, the journalist commends Larie on being a good sport and states this not to be the worst ending to a forbidden love story. He says nothing.
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> At Ann's house, she's going through all her possessions and tries to think of what would convey her feelings the best. Not wanting to have to explain herself to her homeward-bound partner, though, she quickly browses all available chests and drawers, knocking over a few things as she does. She flinches when she hears the front door closing, and quickly tidies up the bedroom. Before she can turn around to welcome him downstairs, she's standing eye in eye with Larie.
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> She urges him to leave before her partner arrives, but he won't move and asks her to reconsider their ending. She spins him around to push him down the stairs, but when she hears her fiance talking with someone on the porch outside, hurriedly tries to flee back into the bedroom. Larie releases a vicious grunt targeted at the door, but comes with after some persistence.
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> Back in the bedroom, the controversial ram is heard entering the home and walking around the living room. They silently listen to his hoofs hitting the wooden floor, until he starts calling for Ann. She quickly comes up with an excuse to keep suspicion low and him out of the bedroom, and calls back to be shaving herself and starting on dinner soon. Larie becomes angered when the ram asks if she needs help, thinking it to be a lewd offer. Ann gives Larie a whispered promise not to be needing help with things like these.
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> Upon closing the door, he remarks her fiance sounds like a dick, unlike him, earning him a short-lived smirk. She repeats he needs to leave and should take the familiar route through the window. He says not wanting to leave before talking, but she thinks they've talked enough. He replies it's only been casual reminiscing, and he's not heard a reason from her why they can't make things work.
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> He brings up the journalist cow with her predator husband, but Ann comments her husband is a cat; and cows and cats share no violent history, or violent present. She believes there'll be few places for them to go and start a life because of that fact, as others will always judge at best, and respond with aggression at worst.
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> Larie says it's not impossible to recognize and avoid bad places; with her village standing at the top of the list. Ann doesn't understand his reasoning, thus he reminds her she's being controlled on what she can and can't do. He comments on how the residents and her parents turned her into a victim, yet also the perpetrator of the supposed crime he committed against her, and forcefully took their child away out of spite for his species. Ann looks up at him to ask him if that means he believes it was his, to which he says it couldn't have been any other way, as she told him so. He draws closer to repeats the facts with more sincerity, visibly filling Ann with doubt.
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> Her fiance starts shouting banter at her as he's watching television downstairs, and Ann's need to reply to everything perturbs Larie. He grumbles he's no good for her, but Ann insists he's a good person. Larie disagrees and takes on the assumption the ram finds himself a hero for accepting a "shunned victim", and in the meantime, is cheering a hole in the sky for having scored himself a beautiful woman without putting any effort into swooning her.
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> Ann is flattered by the compliments targeted at her, but doesn't think the description matches her fiance. Larie replies she isn't supposed to think that, as it would sour their relationship.
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> She sighs and urges him to leave again as she opens the window. She argues their years apart make their past a distant memory, to which Larie says their hours of talking about it insists otherwise. Ann turns her head, making it clear she's trying to do that which she sees as the only right option. Larie asks why she considers staying her only option, and she replies there simply to be no place or future for hunter and prey in their world. Larie says to have secured a place, though it requires a level of acceptance and fearlessness from her. With hesitance, but curiosity, she asks what he means.
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> He answers to have spent 10 years arguing and fighting his neighbours, which turned his trailer park home into his territory. With the residents as his underlings, he guarantees it's safe to visit to those he deems welcome. Ann finds it unlikely she'll be safe within a community of canines and reminds him how fragile the loyalty was in his high school pack. Larie attributes it to teenage stupidity and assures adults play more by the rules.
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> When they hear her fiance coming up the stairs with some kind of surprise he wants to show off, they understand time to be up, but Larie keeps standing around to wait for an answer. Ann tries to pull and push him towards the window, but this time, he doesn't allow her to move him. He pleads with her to come with, but she insists on her earlier verdict and keeps pulling his unbudging arm.
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> Her fiance's footsteps are only a few feet away and Ann tries to buy them more seconds by telling him to be changing clothes, while getting more rough-handed with Larie. Her partner politely stops, but Larie becomes annoyed by his voice as he keeps talking about how great his surprise is. His head slowly turns to the door, contemplating on attacking his competition, but Ann grabs his face and whispers not to do it.
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> There's a back and forth about him having to go home and Larie wanting her to choose him, until the fiance is heard moving again and Ann loses her patience. She utters she could never choose him, finally ending the conversation. She witnesses the wolf's eyes turn soggy for the first time, but he hurries himself to her window before any tears can form.
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> Without a word, he climbs down and Ann watches on, while her partner rattles on in the background. With his expression of heartbreak burned on her retina, she feels uneasy and desperation grows the more her decision starts to implement itself. Larie gives her one last look from down below, but before he can turn around, Ann throws herself out of the window, barely missing her fiance entering the room.
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> Larie hurriedly tries to catch her as she falls and immediately sprints off with her in his arms. He calls her a fool for jumping like that, but with clear shock on her face for what she's done, she just tells him to keep running.
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> They manage to leave the village unseen and meet the angered journalist standing at the border, scolding Larie for running off. He argues it all worked out and urges her to drive them home before the villagers finds out. Though not happy about the way Romeo and Juliet handled things, she helps them with their escape.
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> Ann arrives at the frightful predator-ruled city she was long barred from, where Larie guides her to where she's never been before; his house. They eventually set foot in a messy-looking trailer park, where a bulldog and a wolf chatting outside don't waste time to comment on the presence of the sheep and ask Larie if she's a snack.
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> He takes the opportunity to announce Ann's presence to everyone who can hear him, and orders that those who don't are informed she's their alpha female and falls under their protection. Ann is surprised to see the canines politely lower their heads as they pass by, then continue their business.
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> Larie opens up the door of a relatively large trailer -in contrast to her size- where he apologizes for the downgrade of living circumstances. She says to have all she needs, just short of a baby.
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## See also

* Until I See You Again
* An, Ann n Anny
* Ed, Edd n Eddy Highschool
* Ed, Edd n Eddy Working