A Push in the Right Direction

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This takes place after the DHAIPT, with Fry and Leela not being together. Please note that this is completely different to my other storys and is not related in any way, thank you.

 A push in the right direction

Part one

“Come on Leela, just one date, please,” begged Fry as he followed Leela around the PE offices.
“For the last time today Fry, NO!” rebutted Leela, spinning round on her heels to face Fry. A sly grin came over Fry’s face.
“Does that mean if I ask again today you’ll say yes?” asked Fry coyly. Leela took a deep breath and counted to ten, very slowly.
“If you axe me again today Fry, I’ll never talk to you again,” declared Leela solemnly. The grin fell from Fry’s face faster than a boulder off a cliff.
“But I can ask again tomorrow, right,” inquired a nervous Fry. Leela felt a small smile tug the corners of her lips upward at his worry.
“Sure you can, but you’ll get the same response,” reassured Leela. The grin reappeared on Fry’s face.
“Cool, so I’ll see you tomorrow right?” Fry double checked.
“Right, bye Fry, have a nice night,” called Leela as she walked out.

Leela always enjoyed the crisp New New York air as she strolled home after a hard days work. Walking had its benefits on her physical health, but the gentle hum of hover-cars at night, mixed with the soft sounds of the wildlife as she walked past the park, soothed her nerves. Pulling her jacket slightly tighter against the cool night winds, Leela sped up slightly. She always needed her nerves soothing these days, what with the near suicidal missions, her strict exercise routine and Fry’s increasingly desperate and frequent attempts to woo her, she found herself at the end of her tether each day. Breathing in the clean, clear air, Leela felt a rare wave of peace float over her. Listening to the rhythmic beat of her feet on the pavement, Leela could almost feel the worry sink out of her and into the ground.

She entered into her apartment block and unlocked the door of her apartment. Stepping inside and looking around, she sighed in self-pity. Apart from a chair, a TV and a newly installed window, her living room was bare. Leela turned on the TV and sank into the chair, ready to relax, when the doorbell rang. Getting up again, muttering under her breath about it being just her luck, and how she’d kill Fry if it was him come to beg for a date, Leela went to answer the door. An excuse ready on her lips, Leela flung open the door. Her excuse died on her lips because it wasn’t Fry at the door.  Instead she found two children; one was a tall girl who looked like Leela except that she had red hair and two eyes, the other was a boy with a slouched posture, who looked just like Fry but with purple hair and one eye. The girl stood forward.
“Hello, are you Leela by any chance?” the girl asked politely. Leela stuttered incoherently a few times before she could answer.
“Yes, but who are you?” she managed to splutter out, reeling in shock.
“Sorry,” apologized the girl, “I should have introduced us. I’m Jessica Munda Fry, and this is my brother Sam Yancy Fry, we’re your children.” Explained Jessica.
“Oh,” managed Leela before fainting.     

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Wow. Very interesting and intriguing beginning, jle. Me likey very much. I want to see how Leela takes to finding her own children (probably not well)...and how they got there. I'm predicting something has to do with time travel? Just a guess.
Oh, by the way, since I think you'll enjoy it, check out this one and the next update to my story. Because the next one's gonna introduce-
SHIPPYNESS!!!

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wow, I can't wait to read more! If I can critisise, I would like to say that you repeat similar words/phrases too close together, otherwise its amazing work!!

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Hey jle1993 is your name Jessica?
You already used that name in another fan-fic!And Sam YANCY Fry!You named the yet unborned Fry/Leela son Liam Yancy Fry in the same fan-fic ,infact I'm the one who suggested naming him Yancy,and Jessica MUNDA Fry!You named the unborned girl Leah MUNDA Fry in the same fan-fic!

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Sweet Jeebus!  Boggles the noggin it does!
Off to an interesting beginning.

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Interesting beginning, I'll have to wait for this one to pan out a bit more before I make a definite judgement.

Will on no way be as good as your previous one 

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Nice start.

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Originally posted by Writer unit32:
Hey jle1993 is your name Jessica?
You already used that name in another fan-fic!And Sam YANCY Fry!You named the yet unborned Fry/Leela son Liam Yancy Fry in the same fan-fic ,infact I'm the one who suggested naming him Yancy,and Jessica MUNDA Fry!You named the unborned girl Leah MUNDA Fry in the same fan-fic!

To be fair, neither of those names are really uncommon in this fandom; lots of authors figure Fry and Leela would name their kids after various relatives, so it's not surprising to see the same names pop up over and over again.

And I think the author's entitled to reuse her own character names if she wants to.  It's probably not recommended, but there's nothing to stop her, either. 

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Yay, another story! Why is it that the characters in your stories always say 'Oh' before they faint?

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Oh!
*faints*

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oh a cliffy update soon please!

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u know this beginning kinda reminds me of the book "The Time Travelers Wife" anyone ever read it?

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No I didn't but maybe I'll check it out do you know the author? and if it is one of those big 700 page books I won't read it...the big books anger and infuriate me...also I feel as if I committed to read the book and if it is long and I don't like it well I just wasted a week of my life

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  Golly...

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hey cool, and weird

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I can imagine what I would think if somebody looking really like me would come to my house and say that there my children...
Oh...[faints]

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Originally posted by any1else:
    Golly...

Haha, you said 'golly'...   

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Nice start! I'm assuming that by the end of this story everyone will have survived?
Can't wait for the next update!

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Dont kill Fry in this fic ,heh.Pleeeaase...Fry is my favourite character,and I had enough of him dying in The Sting and your Everything for her fic.

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One my name is not Jessica, I'm named after a famous Shakespere character.

Two, never really named the kids in the other fic as they were never born, and I reused the middle names coz I liked them

Three, Leela says oh before fainting coz shes in shock

Four, and this is the biggy, I PROMISE I will not kill Fry or Leela in this one, and you can hold me to it.

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pwease, please and pleasy-mc-pleasey-please, write more ASAP, I'm getting bored of not reading you fab-u-lous work! *pouts*

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Originally posted by jle1993:
Four, and this is the biggy, I PROMISE I will not kill Fry or Leela in this one, and you can hold me to it.

Ypur gonna kill Bender?But He's great!
 
Just kidding Jle write some more soon coz I have only one thing to say about this fic(atleast its beginning):
GREAT

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More update by the ill fated gilr from Shakephere's romantic tragidy.

Part two

Sam stepped around Leela and into the apartment, closely followed by Jessica.
“That was good Jess, ‘we’re your children’, really good way to break it to her,” criticised Sam, giving Jessica a sarcastic look. Jessica said nothing and just stared at Leela’s fainted form.
“Do you think we should wake her up?” asked Jessica cautiously. Sam glanced at Leela.
“Sure, but this time let me do the talking.” Replied Sam lazily. Crouching down next to his mother, Sam began to gently shake her. “Wake up Mu…Leela,”
Slowly, Leela’s eye fluttered and she attempted to sit up. When she saw Sam crouching near her, her face paled and she looked close to re-fainting.
Instead she managed to choke out, “Who are you?” again. Sam sighed in exasperation.
“Like my little sis stated, we’re your children,” he explained
“But I don’t have any children,” puzzled Leela.
“Not now you don’t, but if things go according to plan, you’ll have me in four years and you’ll have Jessica two years after that,” clarified Sam.
“Okay, let’s say I believe you for a minute, which I don’t, who’s the father?” Leela queried, uttering a silently praying, that it wasn’t…
“Fry,” responded Sam
“Now I know you’re lying. There is no chance in hell I’d have kids with Fry, I wouldn’t even date him!” exclaimed Leela venomously.
“Which is why you sent us back, to give you a push in the right direction,” interrupted Jessica. Leela stood up, and examined Jessica and Sam closely. She checked the roots of Sam’s hair for any trace of dye, and went as far as poking his eye to check it was real.
“Ouch,” Sam yelled as his eye watered, “What was that for?”
“Sorry, just checking,” apologized Leela as she bent over to carefully scrutinize Jessica’s face. Straitening up, Leela took a deep breath.
“Okay, I’ve got no idea how he did it, but I’m going to kill Fry. I swear this is the most desperate attempt to date he’s ever come up with, more so than the opera!” swore Leela. Sam and Jess exchanged looks.
“Da…I mean Fry, doesn’t know we’re here. We came to you first because you’re the one with a problem,” interjected Sam. Leela felt her temper beginning to boil up.
“I do not have a problem, the only person with a problem is Fry,” said Leela through gritted teeth, “Now would you please leave my apartment,”
“No,” Jess said simply, shocking Sam who was already heading for the door.
“This time I’m not asking you, I’m telling you, get out of my apartment!” ordered Leela.
“No,” repeated Jess, “If we can’t convince you that Dad is a good man and that if you actually stop hiding your feelings be hide a cold, hard wall of distrust and self hate that you’ll love him,  then Sam and I will never be born and we’ll disappear into nothingness. I didn’t not spend forever revising for my exams to disappear into nothingness before I can take them,” said Jess determinedly. Leela and Sam stared at Jess opened mouthed.
“Where’d you pull that from,” asked an admiring Sam.
“Mum warned me that her past self would be difficult, so she helped me with the speech a bit,” replied Jess blushing.  Leela looked at Jess, then at Sam, then back at Jess. Then she snapped.
“I don’t know who the hell you people are but you have till the count of three to get out of my apartment before I open up a can of whoop ass!” she roared.
“Try it Mother! I was taught by you and I can do all you can and more!” warned Jess.

The mere fact that this girl claimed to be better that Leela drove her into an instinctive need to prove herself. Leela flew into a flying head kick, which Jess dodged with surprising ease while adding a cross chop to Leela’s back as she flew over. Leela landed on a heap on the ground, taking a split second before flipping herself up and into a sweeping spin kick which Jess deftly hopped over. Leela felt a red haze fade over her, as she threw a flurry of punches, all of which failed to make contact with Jess, who managed avoid the flying fists of fury easily. Throwing attack after attack, Leela felt her self become more infuriated with every counter she met.

Suddenly, Jess moved into an offensive stance and began to launch attacks of her own. Blows raining down on her, Leela began weaving in and out of the attacks, forcing Jess to miss. Just as Leela thought she was safe, Jess went into a flying spin kick to Leela perfect standards and made a solid connection with Leela’s head, sending her careering backwards into the wall. Jess ran over to Leela and twisted her arms behind her back, forcing Leela into submission.
“Listen to me Mum, I’m not lying to you. I am your daughter, Sam is your son, and our Dad is Phillip J Fry!” pleaded Jess.
“Liar!” spat Leela in disgust.
“I’m not! I’ll tell you something only you would know. When you were in a coma after the space bee incident, you thought Fry was dead; you blamed yourself and felt guilty. When you fell asleep in your dream, you saw Fry and it was the happiest you ever felt! You were willing to take three spoons of honey to send yourself to sleep forever to be with him!” declared Jess.
“How did you know that?” demanded Leela.
“You told me.”

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I wouldn't tell such a secret to anybody...Well that reminds that I'm not human...

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But Jess is Leela's daugter from the future and future Leela knewe that without a secret like that, past Leela would never of listened.

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Yeah,but I already remember I'm not human...

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wow, i love it... i wish i could read, well, all of it RIGHT NOW!    sorry i've got a short temper  *blush* 

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good good! the fighting part was very discriptive! Greay work!

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Wonderful so far! (Would you kill me if I said I like it better than your last fic? If so, then it was just a hypothetical question)

Can't wait for an update!

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So two people who clearly already exist are trying to make sure that they exist...? And Leela made a concerted attempt to actually beat the crap out of two young children.

That last post had a monumental paradox AND some sinister moral ambiguity. My two favourite things in the world.

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Hello everybody,
WU32, There there, noone will care if your not human.
No1fan, glad you like it!
Miss Bender, I'm glad you thinks its great, I do try
LuvFry, No I would not kill you for saying to like it better than my last fic, I'd be very happy if you did.
Coldangel, the idea for it came to me in a dream...

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The idea came to you in a dream?So your dreams are full off monumental paradoxes and sinister moral ambiquity?

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That and more, I have dreams of great shippyness and the plot bunnies come and whisper into my ear.

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Well then your dreams are boring!
Tonight I dreamt that I jumped in the window(I forget why) and I landed into the proppeller of a helicopter.My head was chopped off my body and fell on the ground in slow-motion.After a about thousand years somebody found my head did something to it and I ressurected.With my head in a jar...It turned out that I'm Leonardo De Vinchy!After that a alien race wiped out humanity and put me into theyr zoo as 'human head' one of the exibits helped me run.I think it was a space lizard...Some guys on the 'Surprise'(I think it was made from whats left from the 'Enterprise' the Star Trek religion guys built) got me on board and I became a soldier of the last army thats still fights against the Hypnotoad.Then the biggest galactic war in the hystory of the uniwerse...
I hope dreams of this story will continue.Yes I now I'm insane!

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Hey did you have the dream of the backwards talking people with flaming cards too?  Naw I'm just kidding, it's weird u guys are talking about dreams cuz I just had one with space bees in it.

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I had a dream, of an enchanted place, with a huge tree, and a cute three eyed animal next to it, plus, there were space ships, three moons, and fry bender and leela were walking up a mountain (i think it was them)    , i'm curently drawing a picture of this dream, and hope to post it on PEEL, as soon as my scanners operational...

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Originally posted by Apple Tea:
Hey did you have the dream of the backwards talking people with flaming cards too?  Naw I'm just kidding, it's weird u guys are talking about dreams cuz I just had one with space bees in it.

Hey thanks for reminding me about the backwards talking people with flaming cards! I'm trying to remember all my dreams to write them if I get that 'learning to predict the future by dreams' dream again...
And I love talking about dreams,when I dream something I usually dream it again starting from the place I where I woke up (read Xanfor's 'Life is but a dream' fic).

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Originally posted by x-number1fan-x:
I had a dream, of an enchanted place, with a huge tree, and a cute three eyed animal next to it, plus, there were space ships, three moons, and fry bender and leela were walking up a mountain (i think it was them)     , i'm curently drawing a picture of this dream, and hope to post it on PEEL, as soon as my scanners operational...

Stop stealing my dreams!Oh wait,sorry I had some cannibal bugs in my...
As I said I'm crazy...

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*types*

*contemplates*

On second thought, I'd rather not share that dream.  >_>

Wait, what was this thread originally about?  Time paradoxes?

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At least I'm not the only one who dreams in Futurama references...