Here we have the first piece of art on my recent purchase of a drawing monitor! I feel so legit when I work on this thing now, haha! I thought I would show Cyberpunk Cookie doing something she barely ever does, smile!! Enjoy a photo of Cookie's past.

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Some time had past since the big Aegis gig. Fiona, Cookie, and even their fixer Wilda had to lay low for a few weeks in order to avoid the ire of the giant mega corp. During that time however, Fiona had decided to give Cookie a proposition.

"Hey Biscuit, with me diversifying my revenues between all these ventures. I may need a bodyguard. Would you be willing to move in with me to give me some piece of mind in case some rival corps show to get rid of some 'rival competition?' Fiona would message out of the blue one day.

Moving out of the storage unit apartment. The same one that her and Trevor had lived in together all those years ago. It sounded so soon, despite Trevor's death approaching ten years. She would need to think on it. That is when she went to sleep that night similarly to how she always did, weeping in a bed alone with no hope to ever finding joy again. It was in her dreams she saw her lost partner, Trevor Cooper. He was standing at a railing, looking over Prospera's buildings. He wasn't wearing his usual jacket, and she looked down to discover she was wearing a dress that she thought was long long gone.. A purple dress that showed her features much more than maybe she'd like, though at the same time it would have been something Trevor would have really liked..

"Hunny." The dream Trevor turned to say, with a big grin on his face.

"I know this isn't like the proposals you see in the vids - but.. I've been saving for a couple months and for this really nice date and.. I.. I want to.." Trevor the sank to one knee.

"I want to make you Mrs. Cooper. I love you. I don't have a huge mansion, or a million dollars. What I have is a love for you that will never fade. Will you be my wife?" A swell hits the rabbit's eyes.. Knowing she was in a dream, but chose to indulge in this moment another time. Tears immediately streaked on her cheeks.

"T-Trevor.. Of course I will! I want nothing more than to be with you forever!" She says as she clings to him in loving embrace, where they share their first kiss as to be husband and wife. Though as this kiss lingers, the dream feels more.. Different as Trevor interrupts their kiss.

"But hunny.. If I can't be with you forever. You promise that you'll still push through, right? You'll keep trying? Keep pushing through this world that tries so hard to keep us down?" Cookie was stunned.. This wasn't how things played out. She didn't say anything, as Trevor kept speaking.

"You never know, I may be gone some day, and you may be on your own. I want to know that you'll be okay. Please.. Please promise me that you will take care of yourself and you'll be okay." A different sort of swell hit the rabbit's face as she heard her late husband's plea, retrospecting on her years since his passing and everything hitting her all at once. Immediately she fell to her knees and sobbed while shrieking.

"I - I promise, Trevor! I promise I'll keep pushing, for both of us! You don't have to worry about anything!" She screams as she suddenly wakes up from her dream in a heavy dread. Her fur completely disheveled with one floppy ear over her eye and the over thrown to the end of the bed. She immediately pulls out her phone to text her friend Fiona.

"Yes. I'll be your bodyguard and move in with you. I'll start packing today." as she wipes her eyes and gets up to start getting her things together. Thankfully she didn't have much possessions to pack before she moved into Fiona's corpo apartment, one that thankfully had a spare room for her to throw everything into. Despite it being just an apartment room, it actually had more room than her storage container unit had. So she had space to display photos and knick-knacks. One of these being a very familiar photo of Cookie and Trevor in a particular part of Prospera, smiling and happily standing together. Fiona asked as she stared at the photo.

"Wow, is this Trevor? Gosh he's quite handsome. What was this photo of?"

"It was actually when he proposed. Here, I'll tell you about it..." Cookie answered as she regaled the story of Trevor proposing to her, though without the dreamly bits.