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A World Left Behind

Chapter 6: A long story

Garroth had to choose his words carefully. If he didn’t, the guys would think that this was some kind of practical joke. But it was far from it. Laurance and Dante sat on the couch while he and Zane stood in front of them.

They deserved to know what was going on.

“So it all started when Aaron, Lucinda, Kim and I arrived at the lodge.” Garroth ignored the confused look he got from Zane at the mention of Kim and Lucinda’s name, one problem at a time. “Everything was going well at first, but then some wolves broke in accompanied by a girl.”

“Why would a pack of wolves break into the lodge?” Dante asked. Garroth gave him a look, “What did I say about holding questions until the end.” It was worded like a question but said like a statement. Dante huffed out a breath of annoyance but stayed quiet, so Garroth decided to continue.

“The wolves left on their own pretty quickly, and we thought that was the end of it, but boy were we wrong. We went back to just cleaning the place up when Aphmau and Zane showed up.” Garroth turned to Zane so he could explain his side of things at this point.

“Right, Aphmau and I went to go and check up on you guys because… because…” Zane paused for a moment, “I don’t remember exactly, but we were told something about the lodge that was worrisome.” Zane clenched his fists, clearly trying to remember. “Hey, it’s okay, don’t push yourself.” Garroth reassured him, Zane nodded slowly in response.

“Hah! Zane, I think you’re losing your role as the intelligent brother.” Dante teased. “Hey! It isn’t his fault.” Garroth shot, placing a hand on Zane’s shoulder. He knew Dante didn’t know yet, but he couldn’t help it. Laurance and Dante just stared in silent shock, which he guesses is reasonable.

“Anyway, once Zane and Aph arrived, that’s when the weird things started happening. It started when Zane went off to search for the bathroom and-“

Garroth was cut off by Zane recalling his experience that day, “THREE ATTACKED ME!” He sounded just as crazed about it as when it first happened. Laurance opened his mouth to speak but Garroth got there first, “Basically Kim tried to kiss him.”

Laurance and Dante exchanged a look, many emotions flashing across both of their faces. “We’ll circle back to that later. A couple days later Zane went missing when there was another attack on the lodge.”

Zane started his side of the story now, “I was in one of the rooms by myself when a cloaked figure came in, accompanied by a few wolves. They knocked me out and when I woke up I was in a cage in an unfamiliar, rocky place. Which turned out to be a cave, by the way. The cloaked figure, who I still didn’t know the identity of at the time, used a potion on me.”

“Meanwhile, the rest of us were looking all over the place for Zane, we even found a secret passage built within the wall. It led us to this creepy cave library, that will be important later. But we came up empty handed and later Zane just showed up again, all on his own. His eyes were green and he didn’t know who I was.”

“The potion used on me was a forever potion. I was being controlled from afar, but I was aware of everything that was going on the whole time. Those of us who were affected were forced to watch as our bodies were used like puppets and hurt the ones we care about.” Zane’s voice was so serious, and the air was so tense. But only among the Ro’Meave brothers, Dante and Laurance still didn’t seem to believe it.

“After that things just sort of fell apart. Lucinda went missing and got a potion used on her too, and next was Aph. I got imprisoned too but was never affected. Aphmau got two potions used on her, one to make her fall in love with the hooded guy and the second to make her hate Aaron to the point of attempted murder. I watched as Aphmau… stabbed him with a knife, and pushed him off a cliff.” Garroth barely choked out the words at the end. The images flooding back into his head, the things he had tried so hard to forget. Laurance and Dante were beginning to look more serious about the situation but they still didn’t seem to believe what he was saying

“Don’t worry though, Aaron survived. He gathered back with Kim and I and we made a plan to stop this. Oh, and the cloaked figure was this guy named Ein from highschool and Kim got possessed by a ghost who was haunting the lodge. Don’t worry though, the ghost is friendly and helped out a lot. Got all that?” Garroth didn’t wait for a reply, “Good. So we managed to create an antidote using these special emeralds and freed Lucinda. The problem was, we had three more to make, and only two emeralds.”

“And at this point in time,” Zane cut in, “I was with Ein and Aphmau looking for Aaron’s body. We didn’t find it of course. And Ein- he hit Aph. Again, memory is not doing so great right now so I don’t remember all of the details, but Ein was just a very hateful guy.”

“Right, so Aaron made a sacrifice type thing where he let me undo the potion on Zane and only one of the potions on Aph. Specifically the one that made her love Ein. He talked about how she deserved the right to find someone who made her happy herself, not because someone else forced her to. But that meant she would still hate him from the bottom of her heart. Anyways, with that said and done, we went off to go find them.”

“When they arrived, Ein ran off in one direction and I ran off in the other, and I didn’t really see where Aph went.” Zane began to explain. I was eventually cornered and ended up saying things. Things I wouldn’t normally say.” Garroth nodded his head slightly at that, remembering what Zane had confessed that day. That he felt like he had always lived in Garroth’s shadow. He had never realized that his baby brother felt his way, and it broke his heart. “But they used the antidote on me, and then we all went off to find Aph. Except for Aaron, he had chased after Ein.”

“We did find Aph alone in another part of the forest, but she was going a bit crazy because she wanted to find Aaron to try and kill him again. So we did have to hold her still. When we tried using the antipotion, it, uh- it didn’t work.” Laurance and Dante’s eyes both shot wide at that. They were invested in the story, whether they believed it or not.

“Aaron then ended up joining us, covered in blood and new wounds. Aphmau broke free from our hold and ran at Aaron. She still had her knife and stabbed him, screaming about how she hated him. But Aaron just… hugged her. Which actually, somehow, got her to break free from the potion on her own just before it became permanent.”

“But then Aaron died.” Zane added, Garroth whipped his head towards him so fast that it made him dizzy. He then slowly turned his head to face the two young men still sitting on the couch, their eyes almost comically wide if it weren’t for the circumstances. “But,” Garroth was quick to jump in, “we got medical professionals to the scene quickly and they managed to save Aaron just in time. But he was in a coma and would have to go through physical therapy, which is why he didn’t come back with us.”

“Oh, and one more thing, we found out Aaron was the Ultima werewolf. That was one of the reasons Ein wanted him dead, that plus an old high school grudge I don't really care about. Now, any questions before we move on?” Zane asked, rather politely.

“Yeah, WHAT THE F-“

“Dante!” Garroth warned, the blue haired boy in question snapped his mouth shut. “No swearing in my house.”

“Uh, yeah, what I meant was, WHAT THE HECK!?” Dante shouted. Laurance, who was still sitting next to him, leaned away from the sound.

“I see this is a lot to take in, we can take a break if you want-“

“No! Please, continue.”

“Right- Well, as you may or not remember, Aaron was gone for a like a year. That’s because he was healing and going through physical therapy.” Garroth started the story back up. “And regular therapy.” Zane added. “Yes, and actual therapy.” Garroth nodded in agreement.

“Wait, why didn’t we ever go to therapy?” Zane whispered to Garroth, who just shrugged.

“Anyways, where was I? Oh, right. So we all get invited to Starlight Wonderland and it was amazing. I wasn’t supposed to be the one to tell you guys this, but I don’t think it matters anymore, Aaron and Aphmau got engaged!”

“Wait really? That’s awesome, I’m so happy for them!” Laurance cheered. The two of them have really gone far. Going from doing anything to keep Aphmau and Aaron separated, to being some of their biggest supporters. After Kawaii~Chan of course. It did help that they found love of their own that they managed to move on.

“About time, those two have been dancing around each other since high school.” Dante joked.

“Yeah, things were great, KC and Zane even started dating,” the mentioned man nodded happily, “but then… Well news of the Ultima, who is Aaron, being on the Island started going around. The whole Island went under lockdown and these Guardian Force guys showed up and started searching everywhere for us. We moved around constantly and were almost caught multiple times. There was even a whole racism thing thanks to the news going around, so basically everyone hated werewolves and all of the ones who had been staying on the Island was forced into hiding as well. Which really sucked, especially considering…” Garroth started on a new ramble but trailed off at the end. He needed to tell them about becoming a werewolf. He could only hope they would accept him and pray they wouldn’t blame Aaron.

“Especially considering what? It seems to me like Aaron has done a pretty good job hiding the fact that he’s a werewolf.” Dante questioned; he was starting to sound bored again. Which Garroth thought was strange considering most what he had just said.

“Well, back before the whole GF thing, Ein showed up on the Island too. Aaron’s powers are tied to his emotions and he freaked out a little. He may or may not have… turned me into a werewolf.” Garroth dragged out, watching carefully to see the others’ reactions.

Laurance’s eyes had shot wide open, Dante just looked unimpressed. “Then where are your tail and ears?” Garroth wanted to roll his eyes at that question, Dante was the one who just said that he couldn’t tell Aaron was a werewolf. Garroth decided not to bring that up and just get the awkward part out of the way.

Garroth carefully pulled down his hood, the blonde wolf years fluffing themselves up, as they did his tail come out too. Garroth could feel himself tensing up; after months of having to hide this new side of him, it felt strange to finally show it off. He couldn’t help the alarm bells going off in his mind despite knowing it was safe now. Or at least he was safe from the GF, who knew how the Laurance or Dante would react.

Garroth must not have been very good at hiding his discomfort because suddenly Zane placed a hand on his shoulder. It was just barely resting there but it was enough to ground him.

Garroth could feel the way his ears perked up more. So that was how Zane could tell.

Slowly, he turned his attention to the pair on the couch. Laurance was still just staring with his eyes blown wider than should be possible. Dante was gaping like a fish, eyes daring around as if trying to figure out if this was a prank or not. Oh how Garroth wished it was.

“You gonna say anything?” Zane asked sarcastically, his hand moving from its position so he could cross his arms.

“You are so… adorable man!” Well that wasn’t what he was expecting. Dante jumped up from his spot on the couch and moved closer to Garroth. “You look like a golden retriever.”

“Could you not compare me to a dog. It’s actually kind of insulting.” Garroth moved away as Dante tried to reach up and touch his ears. Dante retracted his arm, “Right, right, sorry, I forgot about that.” It was well known that werewolves hated being called or compared to a dog, but some people still did it, intentional or not.

Garroth let out a small chuckle, “It’s alright, I never really understood why werewolves found it insulting until I became one myself. Unless it wasn’t intended as an insult in the first place that is.” Dante nodded, shoving his hands in his pockets, looking around awkwardly.

Laurance was still sitting quietly on the couch, not looking away. Other than the clear shock, his expression was unreadable.

Please don’t be upset please don’t be upset please don’t be upset

“What was it like?” Laurance suddenly asked, “Turning into a wolf I mean.”

“Well, uhm, painful. Werewolves and humans have different anatomies and functions outside of just the ears and tail. So really it was like my entire body was being rearranged and I couldn’t do anything to stop it. It was awful and- and horrifying. Yet it still wasn’t the worst part about that trip.”

“Then what was the worst part of that trip?” Laurance asked with a bit of hesitance. Garroth sighed, time to get started again.

“Well as it turns out Travis has demon ancestors or something, I’m still not completely sure what it was, but Travis got like by possessed by this demon warlock guy named Michael. And using some kind of magic he managed to control the entire Guardian Force as well as Katelyn and myself.”

“So both of you have been mind control victims? What kind of family curse is this?” Dante paused in his movement back to the couch to ask the question. “And- wait Travis was possessed by a demon?!”

“Are you okay?” Laurance asked quietly. Garroth, ignoring Dante, slowly nodded his head. He wasn’t lying, he was fine. He broke free from the mind control and he survived. He was fine.

“Are we not going to bring up the part where the GF found us, stormed out place of hiding, and we all got separated? That seems pretty important.” Zane dropped that piece of information too casually. It was clear that he was trying to say it to Garroth and Garroth only, but based on the expressions of the other two in the room, they clearly heard it too.

“Yeah, I was just trying to skip to the interesting parts.” Garroth replied, rubbing the back of his neck. “Um- anyways, so I was chasing Zane around, trying to attack him with a sword. Kawaii~Chan jumped in the way to try and save him and snap me out of it with her words. It didn’t work and I might’ve, maybe, nearly killed her.” The memories came flooding back to him like a slap in the face. The guilt still ate him alive. No matter how many times Kawaii~Chan reassured him that it was okay and not his fault, he couldn’t help it.

“But it was Four who saved me that night, I don’t even know who this ‘Kawaii~Chan’ is.” Zane brought up. He sounded way to genuinely confused and it made Garroth feel even worse. “Four is Kawaii~Chan. We’ve gone over this before.”

“I know, I’m sorry, I just-“

“Okay, I need to ask, why does Zane keep calling people by numbers?” Dante asked from his reclaimed spot on the sofa.

“We’re getting there.” Garroth tried to reassure his friend. Dante was starting to look skeptical again, and this didn’t really seem to be helping.

“So Four saved me and Garroth just left for some reason but I’m assuming Michael called him back. But I was trying to help Four when Aaron ran back in with Aphmau who had been shot, Aaron was too freaked out to tell me what happened and I wasn’t interested in prying. The two of us were trying to help the girls but Aph, well um- Aph died.” Zane started explaining. Garroth had heard about Aphmau dying, and him not being there to witness it is the one thing that made him thankful to be mind controlled. Laurence and Dante were wide eyed again. But unlike when they talked about Aaron dying, this time they believed it.

Nobody said anything for a long moment, just sitting in the somber silence.

Zane was the one to break it, unsurprisingly, he had had more time than anyone to take the information. He had been there and he also saw her come back. Zane also wanted to get this moving along, which he made very clear.

“Aaron ran off with this giant sword and Seven and Three showed up too. The ghost was using Three as a host also knew magic apparently. But they managed to revive Aphmau.”

Why not keep the ball rolling, Garroth might as well jump in here. “While all that was happening though. Aaron went on a killing spree, turned into a massive wolf, and me and Katelyn had to fight him. I have no idea how we did it, but we managed to take him down and the GF captured him. Michael tried to turn Aaron into a relic but then Aaron’s dad showed up and pushed him out of the way and got turned into a relic himself. I never actually saw that part myself though, just heard about it later. But apparently Aaron also somehow managed to get transferred to another realm, I don’t know, a lot happened.”

“Right, well our group, with the help of Travis' dad, made this whole plan to get the demon out of Travis, which we assumed would snap Katelyn and Garroth out of the mind control, as well as free Aaron.” Zane started again. “We snuck onto their evil flying base thing. That was a whole process, but we did it. Katelyn started attacking us once we got there, Lucinda decided to deal with her while the rest of snuck in. Then Garroth started attacking me. Threw me out a window and stabbed me with his sword.”

“Could you stop bringing up the Garroth nearly killing everyone so casually.” Dante wined. Garroth looked away, guilt consuming him whole once again.

“Wait, Garroth I didn’t mean it! I’m sorry! Oh gosh those droopy ears are so sad.” Dante quickly followed up his previous statement. Garroth pulled his hood back up over his head at the mention of his ears. He really needed to learn to get those things under control.

“I mean,” Dante smacked himself in the face, “Dang it man, I’m sorry.”

“I-it’s fine, really.” Garroth reassured. Dang it, this was starting to get really uncomfortable.

“Right, uh, well I managed to snap Garroth out it. Told Lucinda and she snapped Katelyn out of it. Then we were off to go find where Aph and the others were. It didn’t take long before we did, Aaron was there covered in what Three called void burns.”

“It was a very touching reunion.” Garroth cut in, “But then this guy showed up who tried to shoot Aaron, but we got him on our side pretty easily. Then we were told about how the relics worked. They’re basically people’s souls that other people then use. As Ghost explained it, it could be used as a blessing or as a weapon. Michael managed to gather the souls of everyone on the Island below. I’m not exactly sure how though.”

“But then I came up with an idea.” Zane explained, “Based on knowledge we learned about the relics and Aphmau, I figured we could give her our souls as relics and she could fight Michael that way. Okay, Aph being the one to wield them was Seven's idea. However, those who were used as a relic would face consequences. Aaron, Seven- er, what did you guys call her, Lucinda, and myself were the ones who became the relics."

“Katelyn and I went to fight Michael on our own. We needed to keep him distracted while the others activated the machine to turn them into the relics. Ghost was the only one who knew how the machine worked so Kim couldn’t do it. Kawaii~Chan was injured, so were the others so I don’t know why KC got the boot, but it wasn’t up to me anyway.”

“I didn’t want to put her at risk.” Garroth chuckled at Zane’s flustered response.

“As I was saying, me and Katelyn went to go fight Michael ourselves and- in a moment of weakness… I got controlled again. But don’t worry, they snapped me out of it again.”

“Meanwhile, Aphmau began to wield our relics. Epic fight scene this, epic fight scene that. I don't remember a lot of it, it's all really fuzzy. It took a lot but we actually did it. We won."

“Everyone got their souls back and Michael was destroyed, we really did win.” Garroth nodded, a small yet satisfied smile coming to him. “One cover up story and multiple hospital visits later, we were able to go home. Aphmau and Travis weren’t as lucky though, they’re still back at the Starlight Hospital. Which is actually really professional for being on a resort. Not that I’m complaining of course.”

“But, remember what I said about those becoming relics facing consequences? Yeah well I might as well cover that.” Zane said, bringing back the sadder mood that they had just gotten rid of. “Seven lost her magic. Aaron, he got the worst of it, Aaron was left blind and with no memories. I was fortunate enough to have only lost parts of my memories. It feels like there are just random gaps in my mind. I- I don’t even remember my own girlfriend or brother’s names.”

“Wait, but I though you remembered my name?” Garroth shot Zane a confused look. The only names he thought Zane forgot were Kawaii~Chan, Lucinda, and Kim.

“Obviously I remember your name Garroth, I’m talking about Five.” Zane rolled his eyes. “Five? But who could- Vylad?”

“Who’s Vylad?”

Oh.

It feels like every day they uncover more information that Zane forgot.

“We’ll uh- We’ll talk about that later. When we’re alone. But for now,” Garroth turned his attention back to the two sitting on the couch. He had gotten so lost in telling the story about everything that happened he forgot to watch their reactions. Right now they both looked like they were in complete and utter shock, which was completely reasonable. “Like I promised, you can ask questions now. So, ask away!”

“Yeah, my previous question still stands. WHAT THE HECK!?”

Can you tell that I gave up like halfway through writing this, because no you can't

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aphverse-confessions · 1 year ago

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hello hi it is me the anon behind the originL "kim is just ghost's enabler" post. contrary to popular belief, i am not a laurance stan (ew), but a zane stan. and zane stans are the most thorough bitches in the fandom. allow me to elaborate:

the very first time ghost possesses kim is to sexually harrass zane. the second is to sexually assult zane. i do not think that kim has any responsibility in either case, she is also a victim of spectral assault and its important to acknowledge that.

that being said, kim later allows ghost to live in her body full time becauae she feels bad that ghost barely remembers anything about the world beyond the lodge. however, kim also knows that the only thing ghost remembers is zane, specifically being in "love" with zane.

kim knowingly consented to hosting a sexual predator spirit whose existence revolves around pursuing a specific target whom they have already attacked multiple times and have shown no signs of ending this behavior now that they have a physicial vessal.

ghost spends most of her limited lines in aphmau's year making comments about/towards zane. ghost grabs zane in hugs and asks him out on dates. ghost stalks zane multiple times in starlight. ghost attempts to hunt zane down to kiss him again in the haunted house.

and after all that, once kim finally confronts ghost, it's about how kim is frustrated that ghost's behavior makes people think that kim is has a crush on zane when kim thinks that zane is lowkey kinda gross. would this behavior suddenly be okay with kim if ghost was infatuated with someone that kim was attracted to like laurance?

it's not until ghost literally attempts to MURDER zane's girlfriend that kim actually bothers to get lucinda to make a charm to keep ghost in check. the charm is made out of dental floss and leftover crystals, an easy and immediate solution kim could have been using the whole time had she been dicked to asked earlier.

even if kim is uncomfortable with ghost's behavior, kim shares partial responsibility for ghost's actions by repeatedly allowing ghost unrestrained access to her victim for OVER A YEAR.

kim is an enabler.

#aphmau #aphblr #aphverse #aphmau confessions #aphmau mystreet #mystreet

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vienoreal · 2 years ago

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Hello hello I am a random and nervous anon who will probably never interact with you again but. I would like. to hear your thoughts. on the minecraft diaries au u mentioned hjbskjdnfksfd i remember watching through that series like 1000000 times back in the day lol

YESSIRRRR I LOVE YOU ANON!

OKAY OKAY SO!

i have a lot of ideas for it and so many thoughts

1st variant of Minecraft Diaries x QSMP crossover.

qMariana is Aphmau, Juanaflippa is Levin and qCharlie is Laurance

Mariana just kinda appeared outta nowhere and Juanita got left at his door and as the Lord of the Quesadilla Village he just fuckin' had to keep her until he found her mother

on said adventure he meets this very pretty guy who for reason has really long green hair and pieces of slime on him like HUH? AND HE'S FLIRTING WITH HIM?? AND HE COMES OVER TO VOUCH FOR HIS INNOCENCE ALONG WITH HIS OWN KNIGHT FOOLISH?

okay and now he has a fucking Wyvern and offered to give him a ride? fuck yesss, but honestly even if he wants to jump this man's bones like every other bitch but he has a kid to take care of! and a village! also Foolish is kinda hot and Charlie is a knight for another village

Mariana just looks like his normal self, some people question the outfit but he doesn't really know either

Charlie's outfit is exactly like Laurance's, but his hair is Green because his childhood friend, aka. Wilbur Soot, and who he considers his brother, dyed his hair and disappeared before he could change it back

Charlie ended up having to take care of Tallulah, Wilbur's daughter. Phil, the new Lord of Meteli also takes care of her and his other son, Chayanne. Missa is his guard.

Quackity takes Sasha's role, having died and turning into a Shadow Knight. Tilín disappeared after his death and Charlie is still working on trying to find them.

when Mariana goes to save the Chicken Shaman, aka. Maximus, Charlie sacrifices himself to save them, hoping for Maximus to turn Wilbur back to himself

he gets raptured and turned into a Shadow Knight, where he sees Quackity as Sasha, Luzu as Gene and someone else (i have yet to figure out who should be Vylad. )

Mariana is honestly fucking devastated that Charlie is in the Nether with no help and no way to come back, until he sees him while on a trip with Juanita. Charlie wanted to reach out to Mariana and hug him and kiss him, but he couldn't. the rage imbued in him by the Shadow Lord making it also impossible from pulling out his sword and gutting Mariana, the last Lord he served. but seeing little Juana there, staring at him with big bright eyes and a smile, reminded him of Tilín and Tallulah. it broke his heart and he fled, afraid of hurting the poor child.

when Mariana later finds Charlie, blind, hurt and nearly on death's door with the wyvern, Cucurucho (yes Cucurucho bc qCharlie's interactions with it are funny and adorable and sad) suddenly turned dark and disappearing

Wilbur, now turned normal thanks to the combined efforts of Vegetta (Zoey) and Cellbit (Kawaii-Chan), came to visit and Mariana left to give them space, but thennnnnnn

the High Priest, Rubius, is outside his tattered house which was blown up by Leo (Zenix) while he was on his adventure for the mother of Juanita. threatening Charlie

yaddi yaddi yada, story goes as normal y'know, except arguments and love between Charlie and Mariana and jealousy with Charlie over Foolish and Mariana

now misc facts about this version of this AU go! -> Charlie is a slime elemental and human hybrid. Mariana is still Lady Irene and i guess a reincarnation? Aaron doesn't exist in this version. Tilín takes Malachi's role, having died and become a ghost with the same fear powers, but Charlie takes them in instead of Mariana. Roier is Dante. Donna and Logan are Forever and Bad respectively. Jaiden is Kiki, and Fit is Brendan. Emmalyn's role is taken up by Baghera. Lucinda is Etoiles and Nicole is Melissa. yes. no, it doesn't make sense. yes, i know.

2nd variant of the AU!!

their roles are just reversed. that's it. Charlie is Aphmau, Mariana is Laurance.

3rd variant of the crossover

Charlie is Logan, Mariana is Donna and Juanaflippa is Yip. but make everything else and everyone else normal Minecraft Diaries or other QSMP members i honestly don't know

Charlie, instead of being greedy and mean, is very friendly and weird and quite diabolical, a slime hybrid. when he gets turned into a werewolf, it messes with his slime and instead transforms him into and eldritch mix of werewolf, slime and demon with too many limbs, too many eyes and teeth and claws, too much fur and goop and,,,, tentacles? goo goobie bitches

Mariana is a nurse who got moved into the "Babe House", and after seeing the hot buff merchant, he's very much into it and wants to become a sugar baby, but instead falls in love and gets married. mission failed successfully?

their relationship is very much playfighting and joke arguments that seem a bit too real for others. they are madly in love and have done el sexo de grande multiple times. even with Charlie in monster form. Charlie gets ruts btw– *gets shot*

when they get kidnapped, Charlie fights tooth and nail to keep Mariana safe, at the expense of his health. he's near death when rescued by the Lord, and frantic in going back to Mariana

Flippa, the lone survivor of the murder of her tribe, later found by Charlie, instead of the Lord of his village. he takes her in and treats her just like he would his own biological daughter

then when he sees Mariana again, reencuentro el sexo de grande

when they go back home, Charlie goes back to his job and dotes on his brand new daughter and his bitch wife like no other, it's sickening how much he adores his family

and during the war, Charlie stays behind to fight, wreaking havoc against his opponents. and during the 15 year time-skip, he waits for Mariana patiently, sitting at the docks like dog waiting for its owner. when he comes back with Flippa, Charlie almost tackles them into the ocean with how happy he was, crying with Flippa about missing each other and kissing Mariana breathless

the Backflippo family is one of the few who stayed at the village. Charlie is one of the few people who are capable of fighting off the bandits easily, along with the help of Juanaflippa, but he has to he away to keep getting more resources and food to keep everything ok and running

Mariana starts a garden at the wish of Juanita, giving them to Charlie to sell and Juana to make crowns of and press them. he farms as well and makes sure everyone stays healthy, rasing Juanita while Charlie is off doing business and exchanging letters with him almost every single day, sending them talking about their days and how they're doing while away

they're so in love your honor

Juana is very hyper and very energetic, practically hounding Charlie to play and teach her how to be a werewolf every time he's home. whenever that happens Mariana takes a big big nap and enjoys whatever gift Charlie brought back

i'm so normal guys, trust me

hope you liked these ms paint drawings HSBDJDHHDGSGVS

#qsmp slimecicle #qsmp el mariana #fliporiana #slimeriana #vienoreal arts #vienoreal aus #qsmp x minecraft diaries crossover #ms paint drawing #shitty ahh drawings lmaoooo #it was fun though ngl #goo goobie #qsmp #minecraft diaries #crossover ideas oooooooo #juanaflippa #i need to draw more Juanaflippa i love her so much #long post

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rayelle · 2 years ago

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Hear me out, I may just really be Mystreet/MCD deprived but Hear me out I beg you.

Imagine Mystreet Aph being the new "Irene" and is the reason why for the new child-ish videos, it's exactly what the previous Irene did (MCD Lady Aphmau)

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Lady Aphmau had created a new realm, new dimension or a new place where all of the people she knew, friend or foe, could live peacefully. She set a new timeline, a new path, a different way for her To be happy, and is through Mystreet Aph.

Lady Aphmau had used most of the Relic's left over strength to create this new realm for her to see what it would be like if all the bad things in MCD never happened. A place where Zane isn't some evil priest with a cross waging war on everything, a timeline where she isn't pressured by her thoughts of being Irene, where she doesn't have big responsibilities, where everyone she new and loved had the life they deserved, and mostly an alternate home where Aaron is alive. In the end she knew Mystreet Aphmau isn't her life to live. After years, decades, centuries even, She finally rests in the hands of judgement.

But what exactly happened before Lady Aphmau became Irene? a TL;DR of my Theory of this is that, she had exchanged her life in the Mortal world to replace Irene in the "Irene dimension". I personally believe the reason Irene in MCD wasn't able to pass to the after life was because there no one to take her place in the "Irene Dimension" or whatever dimension it was that helps the universe stay in shape. Irene wasn't able to lay and rest in judgement because no one would look after all of these Realms and dimensions.

So during Shad and Lady Aphmau's battle in that one episode in MYSs6, I believed that Lady Aphmau had accepted Irene's full power and relic to be able to save Alina and return everything "the way it should be"

(Miraculous: Lady bug style yk?)

But her accepting Irene's full power meant that, Irene was finally able to pass to the other side, which left the "taking care of the realms" responsibility to Lady Aphmau.

Now let's take a look at what happened to MYS Aphmau.

MysAphmau is the reincarnation of Lady Aphmau, me personally, MysAphmau is the "carefree" side of Lady Aphmau, the side of Lady Aphmau where she has no worries, where she can do whatever she likes, whenever she likes.

I take it when Aphmau died, and was going to be sent back to the Mortal realm was the part when basically MCDAphmau is passing the torch of power down to MYSAphmau.

So MYSAphmau wakes up, beats a demon's ass, and dies part 2, wakes up to realize most of her friends are traumatized (not dead surprisingly) and finds that Lucinda can't do magic, Zane can remember but talks in A.I., and lastly Aaron, who doesn't remember her.

You could imagine how devastated home girl must be, hiding from men with guns, coming back from the dead, meeting Gods, witnessing her friends absolutely lose their shit, opening realms, just to find out her Fiancé, no longer remembers anyone. Not even her.

Now this is where I insert my ✨personal timeline✨, Now MysAphmau is the new Irene, MCDAphmau now resting in the afterlife, No one is there to take care off the realms.

MysAphmau, too devastated, too ashamed to face her friends and accept all of their problems and all of their difficulties, especially seeing Aaron the man she was Destined to be with, no longer remembering her or anyone really. Accepts that she's the new person to take care of the thousands of realms left to her by her former ancestors??? Former–Goddess–Leaders?? Former–idontknowanymore.

Basically instead of facing her friends and family, she decides to step up and be the new Irene, this is where the new videos come in.

Now that MysAphmau is in control of everything, no Godesses to tell her what to do, think, and make (considering the Relic holds both Irene and MCDAphmau's memories), She decides to repeat history and create a new realm, once again.

Same reasoning as the relic holder before her, she just wants to see all of them happy.

But it just doesn't stop there, this would explain why the videos are repetitive of the old ones. It's MysAphmau reliving her life, it's MysAphmau trying to push all of the conflict and trauma behind her and stay in the past before all of these overwhelming–otherworldly things happened to her.

Not only is MysAphmau trying to relive her past but she's also trying to make up for lost time, and creating fantasies she's always wanted, these scenarios she's created include and are not limited to:

•finally getting to marry Aaron — as we all know Aaron's kinda yk, half dead rn, blind and has amnesia. Pretty self explanatory, we could see how excited Aphmau was for the day they were going to get married.

• finally having a loving family — as we saw in the new videos, suprise, Zack and Slyvanna get along, even call eachother loving names. Something a child of divorce and abandonment would love, and I mean would LOVE to experience, no matter how icky and yucky it may seem, to Aphmau's eyes having both a loving mother and a supportive present father, would've meant the world to her, especially seeing as what Aphmau went through during her Child–adolescence years.

•Getting herself a sister — Arina has been showing up too, and as we can remember in starlight (and maybe even season 1 and PDH) Aphmau was obsessed about having an older sibling, she was always envy about Zane having Garroth, and Aaron having Melissa. She had always wanted an older sibling to run to about her problems, hence Arina.

• There was also family videos with Aphmau and Aaron having kids but I don't really wanna touch that.. the thumbnail alone scares me.

• There's more I could say but let's keep this short I still have a series to write, but another thing these videos have in common is that in the end, Aphmau is always happy. There is not a single video where in the end she cries and suffers or stay mind controlled, she always ends up saved and laughing by the end. This further suggests that MysAphmau unlike MCDAphmau had the balls to keep changing the plot of the story so that the new videos–Aphmau, would never have to feel the pain and suffering she went through.

Another thing i'd like to mention is the surrounding places of these new videos—

(FYI, yes, I know they make the scenery simplistic and color-coded because they are showing this to children, and children need things to be handed to them on a silver plate but seriously stay with me on this one)

Unlike the scenery in both MCD and MYS, the new videos seem to generate places, not as "pretty" as the realms before, I'd like to connect this with the fact that the current relic Aphmau holds is very weak, it's gone through centuries and centuries of over-usage and imbalance, so of course it wouldn't generate a world so beautiful such as MCD and MYS, because it's so weak and fragile now the best it can do is to put a few houses, make a few roads, spawn a few vehicles, but it can no longer generate realms that compare to the beauty of MCD and MYS.

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•Personally, I'd like to make this a series, after my Prequel-Parents rewrite, The story would basically be—as I said—Would start with a devastated aphmau leaving the world of MYS to create her own world, but this time MysAphmau's friends are trying to reach and travel to her, crossing dimensions to help her heal, to be able to reach her and tell her whatever she's feeling is what they all feel aswell. She shouldn't be ashamed because she had done all she could and that was enough.

To me personally this is the season 7 that I would love to see. But who am I to say this, I'm just some girl who sleep, eats chips, and has asthma. See ya'll on the next one.

#aphmau #aphblr #aphmau mystreet #aphverse #mystreet #writing #mcd #mcd aphmau #aphmau irene #irene the matron #ifAnyoneisIntrested #I'dActualloveTobeAbleTowriteThis

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mcd-ms-rants · 4 years ago

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I can’t believe I started this blog asking for one note and you guys went way above and beyond that <3 <3

let’s do this shit *cracks knuckles*

also some of the points here might be in jumbled order cuz I just wrote them as soon as they came into my head

STUFF I DIDNT LIKE IN MYSTREET SEASON 2:

• ayyy home alone reference

• ok that’s not a bad thing

• WHERE IS LAURANCE. He had no reason to just disappear like that where did he go :(

(side note: I’m pretty sure that Jess was hospitalized during this time, so a lot of characters were cut out and the script was made shorter. so I think that’s why a few characters were scrapped.)

• isn’t llp supposed to be ‘sold out since forever’?? how do Aaron and Dante somehow win tickets FOR EVERYONE just by kissing?? ok sometimes shows or contests give free tickets...but only like one or two. Aphmau literally drags the whole street there

• in my opinion it is IMPOSSIBLE for a whole street’s worth of people to pack their stuff, grab essentials, drive to the airport, check in and get on the plane IN AN HOUR. especially considering that mystreet is the most chaotic street in existence

• why do all the boys swim shorts have the same damn pattern hello originality??

• DAMN TRAVIS GETS UP TO SOME FREAKY SHIT WHEN THE OTHERS ARENT HOME. he literally hires people to impersonate his friends and monologues as katelyn and I’m not even going to repeat those lines here they are CURSED😳😳 where did he even get Katelyn’s clothes from??

• how does the mys gang take Zane, who (im pretty sure) wasn’t even in the house where Garroth and Dante were when Dante broke down the door, but forget to take Travis, who literally lives IN THEIR BASEMENT IN THE SAME HOUSE. for the record HOW DO THEY FORGET LAURANCE. this makes no sense (I don’t really remember this part well so if zane is actually there then ignore me :) thanks)

• garroth saying ahoy matey kills me every time

• I feel like lucinda really got shoved to the side in this season. she barely has any relevant lines that aren’t just filler

• ok there’s a gay couple here it’s Guy and Nate. but isn’t this way of representing them heavily stereotyped?? a twink and a buff guy. Seems like a stereotype to me and I don’t like it because of that

• also arent ivy and teony supposed to be lesbian?? this would have been nice...IF WE ACTUALLY GOT TO SEE THEM ASIDE FROM LIKE TWO EPISODES. Stop making characters disappear :( I get that not every character can be major but they were like the only decently written lgbtq+ representation this show has plus teony is a dark-skinned beauty and you cannot convince me otherwise. she’s underrated

• I bring to you better lgbtq+ representation: Garrance

• admit it it would’ve been SO MUCH BETTER even tho Laurance wasn’t actually in s2 at least do it in s1

• we need more nb and lgbtq+ representation I’ll say this again and again

• when Aph sees Ivy there’s no mention of her being in a jury of any kind in pdh. Same with Katelyn and Jeffory actually, even Ivan in s3. If these people weren’t in the jury then who was??

• i love mcd Dante but WTF HAPPENED HERE. His character is a mess and not the good kind. he is dumb, flirty and a cheater since highschool and instead of learning from his mistake of cheating in pdh he decides to DO IT AGAIN. And I don’t see anyone else in the cast point this out or tell him not to?? Why??

• HOW TF DO ZANE’S PANTS EVEN FALL DOWN?? he legit goes down a baby water slide and boom theyre gone. Aphmau doesn’t lose her clothes while going down a roller caster water slide that GOES INTO THE SEA so HOW DOES HE?? If they were that loose they would’ve fallen off while he was walking. which they didn’t. Also doesn’t water make your clothes stick to your skin and not the other way around? Ya hello can someone please explain

The next four points are not actually bad things i found them funny in a stupid way but also how tf did they even happen:

• I’m not even going to BOTHER deciphering the physics behind Travis setting the house on fire, having said fire coming into contact with explosive feathers, and yeeting him thousands of miles away into llp

• no seriously how is he still alive

• and why is he allowed to stay?? isn’t this place sold out since forever??

• wow celeste has the power to swim thousands of miles away to llp as well seriously what does she eat??

ok let’s get back to it

• doesnt Katelyn throw Travis off a roof some time in this season, or was it s1? Either way that’s not cool

• the talk between Travis and katelyn was very much needed. I’m very glad it was written in but feel as though it could have been written a bit better. also Katelyn doesn’t even realize what shes doing isn’t ok till here in canon which I don’t like because it makes her seem ignorant or airheaded and I know she isn’t like that. she’s better than that. she should have been at least a bit aware of it since s1

• AND THIS WHOLE TALK WAS SHOVED ASIDE BCUZ AARON HAD TO ASK APH TO LIVE WITH HIM. am I the only one that feels this way? which is more important in your opinion?? there was nothing inherently wrong with this scene but the fact that THIS had more importance than the travlyn talk really upset me

• hello Gene :) the ONLY character with some decent development here. Give him a hand👏👏

let me make it known that I’m aware that this is supposed to be an anime style show so not everything will make logical sense but I’ve still put those points in cuz why not

and that’s all I can think of thanks for coming to my ted talk <3 <3

#zane ro'meave #garroth ro'meave #aphmau #mystreet #travis valkrum #katelyn the firefist #lucinda #aaron lycan #kawaii~chan #season 2 rant #here it is #basically #more lgbtq representation pls

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lunatic-fandom-space · 3 years ago

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My pals from discord and I were talkin shit about Aphmaus Minecraft series and two of them wanted to rewrite Diaries n Mystreet respectively and the more we talked the more I wanted to rewrite Diaries as well so now Im gonna watch/rewatch it and write my notes down here

Ive only actually watched the first season before bc I really liked Zane in Mystreet when he was a bastard asshole and ive heard that he was the villain in Diaries but then I wanted to look up his age on the wiki and found out that he really wasnt too important in seasons 2 n 3 so I never watched anything of aphmaus again. until now

Heres my notes on ep. 1:

Im considering renaming Aphmau (as a character obvs) to Jess/Jessica or smth. Idk like, all the other characters (aside from maybe Kawaii-chan but I'd prefer not to think abt her in general) have these very normal kinda generic names (Katelyn, Garroth, Zane, Lucinda, Lawrance, Aaron n god knows who else) so Aphmau as a name just seems really out of place but im not fully sure yet

Okay, so I think im gonna keep the plot stuff about how their Lord recently passed away and now everythings in chaos and theyve lost contact to all those other village states and theyre running low on resources oh no, I think thats a good excuse to keep it contained to one single place in the beginning as everyone is trying to deal with this shit. I dont remember too much about the plot from when I last watched this series though, so I might change some stuff later to have some foreshadowing and maybe make things more cohesive

Because this is a Minecraft Roleplay Aphmau doesnt really have a backstory which makes perfect sense in the context of it being a Minecraft Roleplay since we (the audience) dont really need to know anything about what happened prior the RP starting, however, Im trying to approach this like more of a traditional story so I think thats kinda necessary. I actually kinda already rewrote Diaries when I first watched it a few years back (but I was also using my own OCs back then so idk if it really counts) and the way I dealt w/ it there was just, the Main Character has amnesia. The full backstory was that she was actually the daughter of a noble (idk if it was the noble running the community she stumbled upon but its likely) and they did some magic/herb bullshit to make her forget everything but her name in order to protect her from being killed like the rest of their family and then shes just kinda a helpful nice girl in this struggling community until her past catches up w/ her yknow? I'd like to basically just do that but w/ Aphmau here

Im gonna go more into detail when we actually get to it, but I know towards the end of the first season they reveal that Aphmau is actually the reincarnation of Irene (whos basically Jesus in this world) and I feel like thats a bit much?? So im just gonna say shes like, Irenes only child or her only living child instead and sort of tie that into my previous idea, but again Im gonna get more into it when we get to that part

Im also leaning a bit more towards realism here (obvs its still fantasy I'd just rather nor have Minecraft physics yknow)

Aphmau finding the village is gonna go like this: She sees Vylad on patrol or some shit, follows him to the village, sees the other guards and kinda hides in the bushes nearby, eavesdrops on them (hears Garroth n Zenix have their exposition talk, (G) "I dont think anyone in the village will listen to any of the guards. Not after how horrible the last Lord was..." (Z) "Now that the Lord is gone the village is in chaos. What are we going to do?"), wonders whats going on and sneaks to the village without alerting the guards

Aphmau is staying more or less lowkey and just kinda walks around the village for a bit, sees all the villagers and all that, maybe has some little interactions with them idk

She nabs some carrots from one of the fields bc shes hungry (this is basically all just like it is in the OG Diaries but less Minecraft RP-ey yknow)

After that ya girl jusg sort of wanders around in the village, maybe pointing out some stuff that needs fixing and thinking about how she could help (bc shes definitely not leaving) and its kinda like foreshadowing her being this really good and helpful presence in this struggling village n shit

Im not fully sure how Im gonna deal w/ the Minecraft stuff initially, like, before it transitions into pure story and more or less cuts out all the modded!Lets Play shit. Bc in the RP, they dont really craft things (if I remember correctly) they just. get them somehow but Aphmau is gonna be crafting quite a bit in these early episodes im pretty sure. Now I have tried to convert this type of MinecraftRP into a proper story before, and the way I dealt w/ the crafting aspect there was by having a sorta Fullmetal Alchemist style magic system, where you have to put raw resources in this summoning circle thing and they work exactly a crafting bench but more Mystical n Magical but Im not sure if that would work that well

Aphmau is exploring the area a bit (and collecting some stones for better resources, if I'll actually go for my idea w/ the crafting benches) and hears weird creepy noises?? I dont remember if that leads anywhere, but Im putting it here in case it actually does or in case I can use a scene like this for something else

She doesnt really worry about finding a home and just kinda does her thing for a bit, exploring the area and all that, but then she realizes Oh Shit. Its Night Time and everyone already went home and locked their doors so dhes kinda fucked. She tries knocking on some doors but no one opens her but she fortunately manages to find a house thats seemingly abandoned and stays there for the night

(Also, Im keeping the hostile minecraft mobs)

And yeah, thats pretty much it for the first episode/chapter??maybe

Im not sure how close I wanna keep it to the OG but we'll see

#lunas mcyt shit #my mc/d rewrite #<- dash bc I dont necessarily want mcd fans to find this lol

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aphstruggleposts · 5 years ago

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uh hi, i used to be in the fandom in 16-18 but then grew disinterested ig, but i came back (boredom+still loving characters) and im so confused on everything. mcd is still similar to what i remember but then i havent watched the revamp, but im so incredibly confused on mystreet, i kinda remember the emerald stuff and aph getting a maid cafe and gene was there?? idk thats all i remember and the wiki isnt helpful, can you explain mystreet please?

TLDR; Aaron beats up a prick who had a crush on Aph in highscool. Mentioned prick tries and fails to get revenge. Aaron is exposed to be an Ultima WW (a werewolf with powers) so everyone hunts for him when he just wanted to have a nice vacation. Aaron dies a total of 3 times then gets amnesia. The end. This is very long bc Mystreet is very confusing. Moving on:

Mystreet seasons 1-3 are a slice of life take, and have no revelance to the plot of seasons 4-6. Phoenix Drop High, two prequel series to Mystreet, are about the high school years of the cast. PDH S1 is also not relevant, but in S2 we introduced to Ein, a werewolf. He likes Aphmau, but he was also pretty power driven, and acts like a prick because of this. Aaron finds out and gets into a fight with him, and Ein is no longer able to romance/manipulate Aphmau.

MSS4 is set in a lodge in the mountains with Aaron and friends (Garroth, Lucinda, and newbie Kim). They are planning to renovate the lodge, so Aaron can legitimately earn money and take Aph on a vacation. Zane and Aphmau eventually turn up, but Kim is possessed by a ghost residing in the house (who is appropriately named Ghost). They don’t do much with this, but it’s pretty sexy.

Anyway, Michi (who works nearby?), Lucinda, Aphmau and Zane are put under a trance - the effect of a forever potion. After a period of time the effects of a forever potion become permanent. Together they lead Aaron and the remainder of his friends to another lodge, where the mastermind of this mind control is. It’s Ein! And he’s doing all of this to get revenge for what happened in high school. He wants Aaron to turn Aph into a werewolf, because surprise! Aaron is an Ultima WW and can turn humans into WW and visa versa. We find out Aph is now under two forever potion effects, one to make her love Ein and one to make her hate Aaron. This eventually leads to Aaron falling off a cliff and dying. Irene talks to him and revives him, and he goes to fight Ein again. Aaron and friends try to break Aphmau out of the potion effects, and they do, but not before Aaron is stabbed and almost dies again. End of S4.

Aphmau’s year is an inbetween of S4/5. She can’t see Aaron because he’s pretty much died twice and needs to recover. She is very sad.

MSS5 is another slice of life series, the gang from before + KC, Katelyn, Travis, Aaron’s parents, Melissa and a Wolfpack from high school go to the vacation island! It’s like one big theme park. Aaron and Aph are reunited. Later on, Aaron goes WW mode because he saw Ein, and accidentally turned Garroth into a WW. Aphmau wants to experience WW racism so she is also asked to be turned into a WW. Aaron proposes. S5 ends.

S6, the latest season, is when everything goes more crazy. Aaron is revealed to the public as the Ultima WW, so a bunch of people are trying to hunt him down. They spend some time in hiding, then some decide to go to a masquerade with the rest of the public(???). After this, they are found out and have to run again. Melissa (Aaron’s Sister) is shot and declared dead by everyone. Aph+Zane find where the ww in hiding are, but Ein is there (he lived ofc). Aph is held hostage, Travis is possessed by the person who possessed his dad, and Garroth and Katelyn are now being controlled by the forever potions.

Turns out some of the parents thought it would be cool to make their kids drink forever potions that make them strong (???? And also under someone’s control ????). Aaron finds Aph with Ein, and turns Ein back into a WW to save aph. Because of all of this, KC is almost killed by Garroth and Aph is actually killed by Ein, who had laser powers now. Aph is revived by Irene’s daughter, Alina, who gave up half her heart to see her mother again, but she gives that to her reincarnation so w/e. Aaron goes apeshit and kills a bunch of people, and is captured. They wanted to kill him for his relic? But they end up killing Irene and Aaron’s dad instead. When everyone is healed and reunited, they have an epic fight with the Demon Warlock who possessed Travis, using the divine relics of the reincartions that would have them. Our gang ends up winning, but some people are injured both physically and mentally, so Zane can’t remember peoples names and Aaron has amnesia about everything. Melissa is also alive. That’s the end of S6.

#asks #long post #elliott (ptsdaaron) and aiki (vyladromeave) have good overviews as well #elliott more so abt meta but its still good

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minuky · 6 years ago

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Minecraft Diaries Episode 6 - My Thoughts and a General Summary

Oh, hot the time flies.... sigh. Already on Episode 6. Before you know it, we’ll be halfway through the season, and I’ll be crying because Leona is reintroduced and finally... other people will care. But I’m getting off topic. Let’s jump right into it, shall we?

So, our episode begins with a nice shot around everyone’s favorite Worst Brother of the Year, Zane!

God, look at him. He’s such an asshole. I love him.

Now I know I can’t be alone in the group of old fans who saw this next scene and thought -

“Who the fuck are you?”

His name is revealed to be Ivan, and I had no idea who this dude was. According to my Good Friends, all of whom are much better at remembering Everything Aphmau, Ivan is Lucinda’s ex. He was introduced sometime in Season 2, and then killed off subsequently after. If you don’t know who Lucinda is yet, because you’re new to Minecraft Diaries, just hold on a bit longer. And if you do know who she is because of MyStreet... well I prefer everything MCD to their MyStreet counterparts, so... good for you?

Back to the summary, Ivan has returned from scouting to inform Zane that they haven’t found anything relating to whatever he’s searching for, but that some scholars are supposedly hiding something. Zane decides that mayhaps a visit from the High Priest Himself is in Order. Which means shit it about to go down. If OG MCD taught me anything, its that when Zane LEAVES Oh’Kahsis, people die. Just look at Falcon Claw.

Back in ye old Phoenix Drop, a freshly bathed Aphmau is being escorted out of Donna’s house, and Donna tells Aphmau not to fret over what happened to Visher. She then admits that events like this are precisely why she hasn’t let anyone get close to her heart. Aphmau, having literally only come to consciousness only some days/weeks(?) prior, is confused to what Donna could mean. Before Donna can properly explain, aside from some cryptic message about protecting her heart, Dale (surprisingly more or less sober) runs up, informing the two that Brendon has been killed.

Spoiler, he’s not dead, just very badly wounded. Garroth and Zenix are freaking out over what to do, and Donna, Dale and Aphmau showing up cause even more chaos. Zenix runs downstairs to heat his sword so he can cauterize the wound, and Aphmau notices a bruise on Brendon’s foreheard. She does some of her good old Glowly Glow Magics and proceeds to pass out.

This marks another time upon which Zenix was not present to see Aphmau perform her magics. The exact reason for this, I couldn’t say. Maybe if he see’s he’ll recognize her? Or maybe it’ll be more of a running gag? Again, I can’t say for sure.

Back downstairs, Kiki has arrived! The group questions Zenix as to what happened, as he was with Brendon. Zenix states that he and Brendon were working, when he heard a noise and saw Brendon has been shot. Looking around, he spotted a thief in green, and attempted to pursue, but then instead flagged down Dale. Which, to me, is a massive red flag, as Zenix is a hot headed idiot who has ALWAYS chased things down. But you know, everything all crazy.

So after more or less dismissing HOW everything went down, its explained that while Aph was able to help Brendon, whatever was on the arrow is still eating at his flesh, and he needs this special herb. However, Visher, who normally sells medicine, doesn’t have any in stock at the moment. But, the Lord of Bright Port does! Aphmau at this point as been listening to the conversation, and discovered that for whatever reason, her powers aren’t working. Visher makes it clear that he can leave to get the herbs, but will only leave in the morning when its safe. So what does Aph do?

She jumps out the window and steals Paul’s boat.

....

This is the most on brand thing she’s done, I swear.

We get a small taste of Gene and Sasha being all evil, Gene sayin he needs to go do something, and even dropping hints about Sasha’s past (oooOOOO).

So Aphmau sets sail (don’t even get me started on how she fuckin knows how to use a goddamned boat) and she makes it to -

BRIGHT PORT!!!!

We’re movin on in the world y’all! It’s GREAT.

And now.

My favorite PART of the episode.

The One.

THE ONLY.

*insert the sound of panties dropping*

Laurence....

Laurence sees Aph, decides he’s gonna go after that, and starts to work his charm. Some of the village girls get a bit upset, but aren’t too upset. He flusters her, then leaves to Meteli, to lie in wait.

Now, to some OG fans, you all might be questioning : Hey, why is Laurence here so early? Well you see there... dear viewers, Laurence WAS in Bright Port the first time Aphmau went to Bright Port.

Nice little nod to the OG series there Jess.

BUT ANYWAYS.

We come upon some kid named John, who is pleading with some guards to help him free a baby werewolf. They refuse, and Aph steps in to help him out, in exchange for help.

AND SO WE MEET LOWEL.

Look at him. He’s so tiny. He’s looks kinda weird. But she saves him and its v cute.

Bromance.

And a weird lil hug. But that’s excusable.

This next boat scene ain’t.

Dear. Lord.

I see why the boats were only seen in low light. This looks like... BAD. I get it. These peeps are on a tight schedule. They pop one episode out a week. BUT LIKE THIS BOAT LOOKS SO WEIRD. IDK MAN. ITS JUST WEIRDLY SMOOTH AND GROSS AND LOOKS LIKE PNG. BLEH.

This scene is basically just setting Gene up to whatever the fuck he’s gonna do. But i could care less cuz THE FUCKIN BOAT.

And that sums up the episode! What are y’alls thoughts? Feel free to add to the post, I’d love to talk to more Aphmau fans! And look forward to my drawing for this episode. See y’all next time ^-^

#aphmau #mcd #Minecraft Diaries #garroth #laurence #donna #kiki #brendon #gene #sasha #zane ro'meave

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blog-in-a-corner · 6 years ago

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TSOTBL - Morning Haziness

In a few more days Garte would finally arrive to the lodge and everyone would get to come back home, they can handle a few more days at the lodge right?

Lucinda walked into the kitchen, her hair was a mess and she was sloppily dressed. Kim happened to be in the kitchen as well.

“Hey Lucinda are you alright? You look like a bird flew into your hair and you fell face first onto the pavement.” Kim asked, surprised at her friends appearance. “No, I'm not. I haven't been able to get any sleep these past few days.” Lucinda responded, cranky with the lack of sleep. “Why is that?” “I don't know! I keep feeling this weird, static feeling and every night it gets worse! It keeps me up all. Night. Long.” “Geez that sounds awful, do you know what's causing it?” “No! And it's driving me crazy!” Lucinda shouted, slamming her head onto the countertop.” “Hmm that's weird….” Kim muttered. “Not the only weird thing about this whole damn lodge anyway….” “Yeah… I can definitely agree with you on that….” “Anyways, how have you been holding up?” “I've...been fine! I guess….” “Good for you.” “I've been... reading and uh, napping….a lot.” “Irene I wish that were me.” “It's been so horrendously boring around here though, we're almost done cleaning the lodge and there's less and less things to do! With nothing to do I have to be alone with my thoughts, and I hate being alone with my thoughts!” “At least we'll be gone soon, just seven more days…” “Feels....like forever….” Kim trailed off. “Remember, we just have to be patient Kim.” Lucinda assured Kim. “Yeah. I…just...” “Uh Kim, you alright?” “Yeah….yeah-um, it’s nothing! Bye now!” Kim uttered, speed walking out of the kitchen. “Dammit! There she goes acting weird as shit again!” Lucinda slammed her head against the counter once more, in frustration. “I need to find out what's wrong with her and soon!

As Lucinda screamed internally, slouched over the kitchen counter. Aaron walked in to grab something to eat and noticed Lucinda slouched over..

“Uhh...Lucinda are you okay?” Aaron asked awkwardly yet somewhat concerned, looking at Lucinda, poking her shoulder. “No…” Lucinda groaned, picking herself up from the counter. “What happened?” “Everything…” “I see…” Aaron said, setting some water to heat. “Doesn't seem like you got a good night's sleep, you look like if a bird sold their run-down nest to an all too sentimental-bordering-on-hoarding frog.” “Gee, thanks.” “H-Heh um, h-hows Kim doing?” Aaron stuttered, quickly changing the subject. “Nope. She was fine before she left but then she started acting weird again.” “Again? Have you figured out what it is that's wrong with her?” “No, because I haven't been able to focus with everything that's been happening with this stupid lodge!” Lucinda snapped in frustration. “There was the whole boiler thing, and then our cars broke down, and then there's that weird cave full of bad energies LITERALLY behind the wall of the library in this lodge that we STILL haven't figured out how to close up, I can't sleep, and all the food we have is crap! Sorry if I can't detect anything right now!” “Hey calm down! I understand that this whole situation has been stressful, but we have to take a moment to breathe alright?” “I know it's just!....look I'm sorry for snapping at you like that, it's just frustrating not being able to do anything about a situation like this….I’m a prodigy! This shouldn’t be any problem at all..” Lucinda sighed. “It’s fine Lucinda, the situation has been rather...difficult, to say the least.” “Hey, do you happen to know anything about the lodge and it's specifics of being built?” Lucinda asked, hoping Aaron might know something. “Not really, although when we went to that liquor store the other day, the really jolly guy told me that BunnyHill has one of the largest burial sites in the country.” “Really? There being a lot of ghosts would make sense if that's the case, but why would there be so many upset spirits?” “I'm not sure…” “Do you know anything else?” “No, that's all he told me.” “Hmm, maybe we should try asking Zane or Garroth, they know a bit about the lodge. Actually speaking of Garroth, he didn't come down for breakfast this morning.” “Odd. I'll go check on Garroth and try my luck with him to see if he knows anything, he won't snap at me like Zane probably would.” “Alright, thanks.”

Aaron headed over to Garroth's room, he needed to talk to him.

“Garroth? Are you there? I wanted to talk to you about something….” Aaron asked, knocking on Garroth's door.

No answer.

“Garroth?” Aaron tried opening the door but it was locked.”Hm maybe he's somewhere else? But I haven't seen him leave his room…”

Before Aaron could step back to leave Garroth's door flung open. It nearly hit Aaron's face.

“What is it?” Garroth asked somewhat annoyed, his hair was a mess and he looked incredibly tired. “Oh hey! For a second I didn't think you were there, it was so quiet and-” “What is it that you want Aaron?” Garroth cut Aaron off, more annoyed than the first time. “Oh right, I just needed to talk to you, can I come in…?” “Fine, just make it quick.”

Garroth's room was in disarray, the blankets were sloppily piled over the bed and some of Garroth's possessions we're scattered around the room.

“Geez Garroth this place is a mess! We've got to have this place clean before your dad gets here y'know!” Aaron commented, looking around the room in shock. Garroth was usually more organized. “Is that all you wanted to lecture me about? Because I have other things to do.” Garroth asked, tapping his foot impatiently. “What? No, no! I wanted to talk to you about lodge, since you seem to know a lot about it.” Aaron insisted. “Alright, what do you want to know?” “Do you know the specifics of this land? You know the very spot the lodge was built?” “Not really, I know more about the scaling, the worth, foot traffic, and a bit of the history, but not really anything to do with the lodge grounds itself.” Garroth explained. “Hmm I see….” Aaron muttered. “All I can tell you is that this particular spot of land in BunnyHill apparently never grew anything, that's why they chose to a building of its structure here. My father probably knows more about it, seeing as he bought the place n’ all, maybe you can ask him when he gets here!” Garroth advised. “Yeah that's right! Thanks Garroth.” Aaron thanked Garroth, walking towards the exit of the room.”By the way, or you feeling alright? I don't wanna sound rude but you seem a bit uh, off this morning.” “Oh..oh it's nothing I'm just...a bit tired I guess…” Garroth mumbled, looking to the floor. “You look tired, get some more sleep. We're almost done cleaning the lodge anyway time isn't too important right now.” “Yeah...yeah I'll probably get myself some more shut eye right now…” “That's good, take care alright?” “You too.”

Aaron exited Garroth's room and went down the stairs, Kim was standing at the end of them.

“Hey Kim, whats up?”

Kim said nothing, she just stared.

“Uh Kim? Did you hear me?”

Kim shook her head and blinked a couple of times before looking back to Aaron.

“Oh hey Aaron, sorry I think I was spacing out…what did you tell me?” “Oh, I just asked you what's up.” “From this side of the stairs, you apparently.” “Okay, I set myself up for that one, that I'll admit.” “Haha!” Kim laughed. “I swear Garroth's rubbing off on you too much…” “Probably, but it could be worse, I could be body slamming into windows.” “GARROTH DOES THAT?” Aaron asked in complete shock and confusion. “No, you do. Aphmau told me you've done that like, four or five times in the past.” Kim elaborated. “FIRST I'VE ONLY DONE IT THREE TIMES, SECOND I BET SHE DIDN'T EVEN GIVE YOU THE CONTEXT.” “Nope! She didn't give me any context whatsoever.” “Just when I thought I would never have to explain that story to anyone ever again….oh, before I forget, today we all have to touch up the last few rooms in the third floor and I think we should be done with the lodge once and for all.” “Really?” “Yup! We'll all get together in about two hours.” “Alright then!”

The two went off to tell the others.

//Howdy y'all! I'm going to be on a vacation with my family next week and won't be able to post. Regular posting will return June 17th!//

#aphmau #mystreet #fanfiction #writeblr #garroth ro'meave #zane ro'meave #aaron lycan #kim #lucinda #tsotbl

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queendeanofpie · 7 years ago

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Reborn ~ Zane Ro’Meave

This is Mystreet/Mcd stuff! Literally just popped into my head, and I love it! Short little Minific involving MCD Zane and Mystreet Zane. Enjoy!

"Zane . . . . how come Ghost is scared of you now?" Kim stared at Zane her eyes wide in fear from where she had collapsed on the floor "Why is . . .why is she saying Kenmur?"

Zane stood shocked before he finally sighed deeply looking down sitting in a chair. "I guess I didn't fool her . . . ." He shook his head looking back up everyone was shocked when Zane's eyes were a bright ruby red. "Truth is . . . .I wasn't always your Zane . . . sure I was reborn . . . grew up but . . . . that's not my beginning"

"Zane?" Garroths voice was small "Tell me . . . . tell me it isn't true . . . .your my brother . . . aren't you?" he stared at him and sadness filled Zane's eyes

"I'm sorry Garroth . . . i wish I could say it isn't . . .. but I'm still your brother . . . your parents are still mine . . . . " He said softly "As far as I know I'm the only one . . . . but in the era I was first born . . . I had the same brother Garroth . . . . " He gave a faint smile looking down "I was . . . bad though"

"What . . .w-what do you mean bad?" Kim's voice was shaky and tears were forming in her eyes "What did you do to ghost!"

" . . . . I was . . . . I was a horrible person then . . . " Zane swallowed hard keeping his gaze on the floor " . . . .I-I murdered people . . . and I was hurt so young . . . . it corrupted me . . . and turned me into a monster of a person . . . "

" . . . . But . . . . you wouldn't do that" Garroth's voice was hushed as he stared at him "You may have been horrible in high school to people but you wouldn't hurt anyone . . . "

"Your wrong Garroth . . . .I-I hurt a lot of people . . . including my brother then . . .e-even my younger brother" Zane shuddered "I even begged to be a monster . . . a shadow knight"

"Shadow knight . . . . shadow knights are a myth . . . . they don't exist . . . no one has ever found proof other than in folk lore" Lucinda said slowly staring at him

"I beg to differ" Zane chuckled darkly looking up his red eye making her press her lips in a frown. " . . . . Shadow knights were creatures of darkness . . . .I was immortal . . . unless someone killed me with a blade or magic strong enough to kill a knight"

"Then how were you reborn?" Garroth snapped "You should have been dead!"

Zane flinched at the anger in his voice, but he couldn't say he didn't blame him " . . . . I should have . . . I don't know who gave me a second chance . . . . but they did . . . .they healed my soul and took away the darkness in my heart . . . .Even my powers“ Zane sighed the red in his eyes fading

” . . . You said you were a murderer! Who would give you a second chance!“ Garroth growled angrily baring werewolf fangs at him

” . . . .I don’t know . . . But I wish I did because they gave me back my family“ Zane said softly looking up at him ” . . . .Emmalyn . . . You should speak“ he looked expectantly at Kim.

“H-How did you know her name?” She whispered

Zane smiled “Please tell her . . . She can speak . . . I want to talk to her now that I’ve figured out who she is . . . ”

“Go ahead Kim . . . ” Lucinda said slowly staring at Zane. Kim closed her eyes before they flew open a deep sadness and hatred in them, shining grey instead of green.

“YOU! YOU KILLED HIM!” Ghost shrieked at Zane tears falling down her cheeks “YOU . . . you killed my Kenmur . . . ”

“ . . . . And you will never know how much I regret it Emmalyn . . . I spent years drifting . . . Alone in this soft light . . . Healing me . . . . And when I was finally healed I wished I was dead” Zane whispered looking down in guilt “ . . . .I wished I was dead for all the . . . All hurt and . . And harm I caused . . . ”

“You killed me . . . ” Emmalyn whispered “You killed me I remember . . . . You were leaning over me . . . . And everything went grey. . . ”

“I never killed you . . . . .” Zane shook his head wiping away tears the sight making Garroth go stiff “ . . . .You ran off . . . I had you hostage . . . . It was snowing and I tried to find you . . . . It was too late when I did . . . ”

“ . . . .Then why aren’t you . . . Why didn’t you try to kill everyone again?” Garroth said staring at him with his eyes narrowed

“ . . . Because . . . I was healed in more than my wounds . . .All the hurt and corruption that made me a monster was gone . . . I’d always had a cold exterior . . . But I wasn’t a monster anymore . . .I grew up normal . . . Realized who I was . . . And decided to live on . . . ” Zane sighed

“ . . . . So you managed to become someone better” Lucinda said softly

“ . . . .I became the person I should have always been” Zane muttered “ . . . All of you are familiar faces . . . Aphmau was the Lord of phoenix drop . . . Garroth her loyal Guard . . . .Laurence her shadow knight who sacrificed his humanity for her . . . Lucinda the witch and lord of Piccolo . . . . Aaron . . . . Aaron who killed himself to stop me”

“Vylad was our younger brother . . . ?” Garroth whispered “ . . . You killed Vylad didn’t you?”

“I will never blame his death on me . .” Zane spat looking up “ . . . Vylad would agree if he were here . . . That was never on me . . . But our father. . . ”

“How . . . How old . . . Who were you?” Garroth breathed staring at him

Zane gave a deep chuckle standing up giving him a smile “I was Lord and High priest Zane . . . The Shadow knight rouge who killed any who got in his path . . . . I’m over a thousand years old I suppose . . . . but now I’m Zane ro’maeve the knight who got a second chance”

#Emmalyn #Zane #zane ro'meave #mcd #minecraftdiaries #aphamu #crossover #ZANEWOULDBESOSADANDOLD #I wanted to heal him okay #HEDESERVESLOVE #mystreet zane anyways #queendeanwrites

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astra-knights · 7 years ago

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Crashing Seas: Aphmau AU

Word length: 3900+

Summary: Ever since the early death of Mermaid Queen Rachel, King Derek of Atlantis shuts out anything from the Mainland and forbids interaction for the safety of his home. His eldest daughter Melissa has other plans and strives to discover more about the world she is forbidden to see with her brother, Aaron, and many of her closest friends. When she happens to meet a beautiful Mainlander girl named Lucinda, would Melissa risk all she’s known to know more about this girl and her world, or is she doomed to fail?

Note: This is based loosely on the Little Mermaid Disney film with unique twists and character changes, I hope you all enjoy! If you’d like to be added to the tag list, send me an ask or a dm <3

Tag List: @ptsdaaron

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Chapter One: Breaking from the Wreckage

Melissa was laying on her seabed, staring out the open hole of her bedroom. She was waiting for the sun to rise high enough to light the waters she lived in. She had her arm under her head, her brown hair floating around her. She was getting anxious, that was one of the reasons why she was awake before the sun touched the seafloor. She wanted to go scavenging again, and today was the best day for several weeks. Being the crowned princess was a pain, Melissa had to take extra classes, do extra public events, and have less time to herself compared to her younger brother Aaron. Even though they were two years apart, they couldn’t be more different. Melissa was excitable and adventurous, often the one getting caught in trouble out of the pair. Aaron was quiet and reserved, he knew how to not get caught. Despite the differences, they pulled a lot of adventures together. Their proudest adventures were scavenges from sunken Mainlander ships, finding new and interesting gadgets that they knew nothing about as Merpeople but were fun nonetheless. The two siblings loved their scavenges since it gave them a reason to get closer together. Ever since their mother died, their father had become distant and cold to them, so they relied on each other to keep afloat.

Sunlight broke through the water, fracturing in beams across the pale seafloor; the water went from a deep blue to a green-teal right before Melissa’s eyes. She smiled. She swam out of bed and went across the room to Aaron, shaking his shoulder rather aggressively, she whispered, “Aaron! Aaron wake up!”

Aaron whined, stretching a bit. He turned over and opened his eyes a sliver, the deep ruby color shadowed by his lashes, “Whhaaattt?”

“We need to leave, now!” Melissa said with excited urgency, “We’ll only get a few hours!”

Aaron rubbed his eyes, yawning, “What time is it?”

“Sunlight just touched,” Melissa replied.

“Sweet Irene, Melissa, how long were you awake?” he asked, sitting up.

Melissa hesitated.

Aaron looked at her, his face showed concern. “Were you thinking about Mom again?”

Melissa didn’t say anything, which only confirmed Aaron’s concern. She changed the subject, “Anyway! I saw this old wreck the other day over by the ravine, it’s close to falling in. We should head there first.”

“I, um,” Aaron didn’t want the subject to change quite yet. He didn’t like that whenever their mother was mentioned, everyone shut down on him. He had questions, he was missing some pieces, and no one will give him any. But he decided to leave it for now and he said, “Alright. Lead the way.”

Melissa grinned and swam over to the open window, looking over her shoulder to make sure Aaron was following. Melissa led the way to the ravine, careful not too swim too fast since Aaron tended to lag behind as he got lost in his thoughts. The swim to the ravine was far from any of the outside villages so they didn’t have to hide from the curious eyes of their people. Their father, King Derek, kept them on a tight leash ever since their mother died so it was rare to see the royal siblings out for a swim on their own without supervision. So, to keep their father from hearing about their adventures, they traveled early and away from anyone who could see them.

They arrived at the mouth of the ravine, Melissa stopped a little over the lip and looked for the ship. The ship was broken in half, the front of the ship was lost to the ravine, but the back of the ship sat balanced on a ledge several meters down into the ravine. The sunlight exposed the ship’s golden accents that would have been hidden in the darkness otherwise, that’s how Melissa found it. She smiled when she saw it, her whole body felt tingly with excitement as to what they would find down there. Aaron swam up next to her, he looked down at the broken, barely stable wreck of a ship and said, “Tell me you’re not serious.”

“Oh come on, Aaron,” Melissa said with a grin, “Live a little.”

She swam down towards the ship, Aaron followed with, “If I die I’m blaming you.”

Melissa was too excited to listen to her brother’s concern as she entered the large hole of the ship. She looked around the dim area, awed by the curious environment. She couldn’t name the objects around her like the globe, the astrolabe, the chart of the stars, the pens and ink wells, they were all foreign to her, but they were so interesting. Melissa approached the astrolabe first, it rested on a desk with an overturned chair nearby. She picked it up, turning it over in her hands as Aaron went over to the shelves. He picked up a small snow globe, though he didn’t know what it was. He shook it and watched the small flakes of fake snow float around, settling down on the plastic snow covered houses.

“Hey Aaron, check it out!”

He turned and saw Melissa looking through the astrolabe’s scope, she was smiling at him. She could see his face clearly, especially the amused look he gave her as he said, “You’re a child.”

“I prefer an adult that knows how to have fun,” she said with a grin. She lowered the scope, “What did you find?”

“Some—uh,” Aaron waved the snow globe around, showing it’s floating snow, “glass, ball, thing. It’s cool.”

“Oh!” Melissa said as she swam over to inspect it. She shook the snow globe vigorously, watching the blizzard of fake snow swirl around, “Awesome. We’ll have to take it to Dante, along with this thingy,” she said, holding up the astrolabe.

Melissa looked around for a bag or a crate to put the stuff in as Aaron moved over to the globe in the corner, he spun it around and watched it lazily as he said, “You know he doesn’t know what he’s talking about right? He doesn’t actually know anything.”

“He knows more than you,” Melissa defended, “He had a childhood friend on the mainland, he showed Dante all sorts of cool gadgets.”

“Ah yes, the boy with white hair,” Aaron said with a scoff, crossing his arms, “That doesn’t sound made-up.”

Melissa sighed as she over turned an open wooden crate, placing the astrolabe and the snow globe inside before picking it up, she turned to look at her brother. Aaron was playing with the globe, spinning it and stopping it before spinning it and stopping it again. Something was eating at him, that was obvious. Melissa swam over with the crate, she rested it on her hip and said, “Do you know where we are?”

“Not really.”

“We’re right,” Melissa spun the globe a bit before finding their home. Her finger tip covered part of the large tip of the Mainland and she slid it down a few degrees and stopping, “here.”

“How’d you know?”

“Mom showed me,” she said.

Aaron looked at Melissa, “We had one of these?”

“Not really, Mom found one and showed it to me,” Melissa said, “I think it’s a globe, if I’m remembering right. I think Dad got rid of it after she—” Melissa stopped herself.

Aaron looked over at his sister. Now was his chance. He swallowed and said, “What happened to her?”

Melissa didn’t reply. She turned away from the globe and said, “Let’s find some other things to bring to Dante.”

Aaron got upset and spun around towards Melissa as she packed the crate with other trinkets, “Why won’t anyone tell me anything? I’m not a child any more than you are!”

“It’s not important Aaron, just drop it,” Melissa said.

“It’s not fair!” Aaron shouted, “Why won’t you tell me anything? Why do you keep having nightmares about Mom? Why do you go out of your way to find these—these pieces of junk, when you know Dad hates it?”

“This isn’t junk, Aaron, they’re part of entire world!” Melissa defended, “An entire world we know nothing about! How can we just ignore them when bits of their culture are falling into our home every day?! You can’t expect our people to just ignore it.”

“So we go against our father, the king of Atlantis, to prove a point?” Aaron said, crossing his arms and leaning against a beam on the ship. “That’s a bit childish for the future queen of Atlantis.”

“Oh whatever, I won’t be queen for decades,” Melissa said, “And until then I’m going to do whatever the hell I want,” she turned and grinned at Aaron, “with my partner in crime.”

Aaron rolled his eyes, a tug of a smile on his face, “You’re not winning me over with that lame title.”

“Would you prefer…Double Trouble?” Melissa said with a growing grin.

“Don’t make it worse.”

“Couple of Dudes.”

“Please stop.”

“Beauty and the Beast.”

“Now you’re just insulting yourself.”

Melissa busted a lung laughing, she had to grab onto the nearby shelf for support. Aaron began to laugh at his sister’s hysteric laughing. Their relationship had its tensions, as many relationships did, and they always seemed to bounce back. But no amount of teasing and subject changes would stop the growing tension between the two.

When the laughter died down, Melissa said, “C’mon, grab more stuff.”

Aaron swam to the other side of the room to grab more trinkets, he grabbed a few before swimming back to his sister and putting them in. Once Melissa was satisfied with their haul, they left the wreck and swam out of the ravine. A few hours had passed while they were down there, so they were running low on time before they had to do royal obligations for the day. Melissa looked around cautiously before she said, “Hurry, let’s go to Dante.”

Melissa led the way to Dante’s cove located closer to the Mainland shores. Aaron followed after her, watching her with mild upset. He couldn’t help but kick himself for being so easily persuaded to change the subject he wanted to talk about for years. He knew that the Mainlanders were responsible and that her death was the reason for the ban of Mainlander interaction and objects, but there was more to it. He could feel it, he could see it in his sister’s eyes and his father’s cold shoulder, there was something he was missing, and it was his right to know. She was his mother too. He could feel his bond with his sister growing thinner and thinner the more she avoided his questions and changed the subject. He felt torn between knowing the truth, and keeping his best friend. He had no idea what to do.

Melissa swam to the mouth of Dante’s cove before stopping, she called inside, “Dante! You home?”

There was a clatter and a crash from inside followed by Dante’s voice echoing through the cove, “You scared me Princess, come on in.”

Melissa led the way into the cove and Aaron lagged behind. Dante’s cove wasn’t his home but it might as well be. It was a secret cove that was full of Mainlander trinkets and tools like hammers, screws, wrenches, clogs, and other bits of things. He liked messing around with Mainlander items to see how they worked and functioned. Since he was young he always had a fascination these types of objects, and then King Derek banned anything from the Mainland, so Dante moved to a secret cove. The only reason Melissa and Aaron knew about it was because Melissa wanted to know about the objects they found, and Dante was suggested. They had an agreement, keep Dante’s cove a secret and he’ll give any knowledge he could about any objects the siblings find.

Dante was swimming around his cove, rushing to tidy up his messy workspace with pulled apart objects and such. He pushed a crate onto one of the ridges in the cove as he looked over his shoulder to see Melissa and Aaron enter, “Ah, there you are. Sorry about the mess.”

“Is it messier than usual?” Aaron asked, looking around, “I didn’t notice.”

Melissa gave her brother a look as Dante swam down to them, he noticed the crate and put his hands together, “More goodies for me?”

“Sort of,” Melissa said, “Mind taking a look?”

“Anything for you Princess,” Dante said with a smile, “Put it on my desk.”

Dante led the way to his work bench, Melissa eagerly following. Aaron kept a few feet away, arms crossed, but his eyes on Dante and Melissa. Melissa put the crate down on his work bench and leaned on the table with excitement as Dante rifled through the objects in the crate. He pulled out the snow globe Aaron found and examined it, first the miniature snow-covered buildings and then tilting to look at the base. When he saw the floating snow, he shook up the globe and watched the fake snow fly around. He smiled, “I know this, it’s a snow globe. My old friend Travis showed me one when I was a kid.”

“Is that the guy with white hair or is this a totally new ‘friend’?” Aaron asked.

“Aaron,” Melissa warned as she gave him a look.

“May I remind you that you have a friend with bright red hair?” Dante said, “And my hair color isn’t exactly normal either.”

“Oh, so white hair is totally plausible then?” Aaron said, sarcastically.

“Absolutely,” Dante said with a tight smile, making Aaron roll his eyes. He added, “Careful, you keep doing that and your pretty eyes will get stuck there.”

Aaron glared at him and Melissa stepped in, “Aaron don’t be a jerk. If you’re going to be trouble, then watch the entrance.”

Aaron felt hurt that his sister didn’t take his side and he tensed up before he backed down and mumbled, “I’ll stay.”

Melissa nodded with vindication before she returned her attention to Dante, she leaned forward, “Go on, tell me more.”

Dante smiled at her and picked out something, the astrolabe Melissa was looking through earlier. He said, “Ah, beautiful,” Melissa smiled, excited to Dante put a name to the object she found. He looked it over and said, “This…this is a, uh,” Dante glanced at Melissa’s excited expression and felt a bit of guilt before he said, “This is obviously a…Scope…ilizer. Yeah, Scopeilizer.”

Melissa beamed at the name as Aaron snorted and said, “Yeah, that’s a real name.”

“Aaron!” Melissa scolded, glaring at him.

“Oh come on, that was totally a fake name,” Aaron argued, “He hesitated!”

“I just, forgot for a bit,” Dante defended, digging himself deeper into the lie he was building, “But it came to me in the end.”

“Thanks so much Dante,” Melissa said to him with a smile, “You have no idea what this means to me, to us. You telling me about these objects, helps me understand the Mainlanders more.”

Dante smiled a bit, “Anytime, Princess.”

“Gross.”

“Alright Aaron, swim along we’re leaving now,” Melissa said as she picked up the astrolabe and the snow globe, “You can keep the rest of the stuff Dante.”

“Very kind of you Princess, swim safe,” Dante said as Melissa swam towards the mouth of the cove.

Aaron hesitated, staring at Dante with both annoyance and confusion. Aaron was curious about his motives, what reason did he have to lie? And rather poorly too.

“Aaron! Come on!”

Aaron left the cove and swam after Melissa, who had waited for him. As they swam back towards the palace, Aaron said, “We’re cutting it close, aren’t we?”

“Don’t worry so much, we’ll make it,” Melissa said.

“But our cove—”

“Don’t worry about the stuff now, we’ll just hide it in our room for the night,” she said.

“Melissa—”

“It’ll be fine Aaron, trust me.”

Aaron didn’t trust her, especially with the very thing that could cause their father to burst into hellish flames. Aaron held his tongue, though he didn’t like it. They swam into their window and Melissa hid the items under her bed quickly as the door opened, revealing their father’s personal advisor.

“Morning Ein,” Aaron greeted, eyeing his very suspiciously acting sister.

Ein was the son of the former advisor to the king, and with his father’s recent retirement Ein was made the new advisor. He was good at his job and the siblings enjoyed having someone they grew up with in charge of their everyday life, rather than a bitter old man. Ein rested his hands behind his back casually and greeted, “Prince Aaron, Princess…Melissa?”

Surprised by Ein’s presence, Melissa slammed the top of her head on the base of her bed as she tried to get out. Ein had an amused smile on his face as Melissa showed herself out from underneath the bed, she smiled sheepishly and said, “Ein! How are you?”

“After that, much better,” Ein replied with a cheeky grin.

“If our father giving you trouble again?” Aaron asked as Melissa straightened.

“You know it’s illegal to talk bad about the king.”

“Since when?” Melissa asked.

“Since both my job and family pride are on the line,” Ein said with a small smile. “Either way, your father wishes to see you both before we start our schedule for today.” He waved towards the doorway, “Shall we?”

Ein led the way down the hallway as Melissa and Aaron followed. Melissa whispered to Aaron, “What do you think Dad wants to talk to us about?”

“Probably your terrible table manners.”

Melissa elbowed him, “Be serious.”

“I am.”

Melissa hit him, making Aaron’s teasing grin grow. Ein stopped at their father’s throne room and he said, “Here we are.” Both siblings straightened immediately in attention as Ein opened the doors and said, “Your highness, I present your daughter Melissa, and your son Aaron.”

Melissa entered first, followed by Aaron. Their father had his back to them, hands clasped. The two siblings could feel the rising tensions in the room, Aaron swallowed nervously. Their father said, “Thank you Ein, that will be all.”

Ein closed the door and they were left alone with their father. Derek turned to face his children, his face was sunken with the grief of losing his wife for many years and the isolation he caused because of it. He looked at his children as if he was seeing them for the first time, they looked a lot older than he remembered. When did they stop being so young? Melissa felt the awkward tension building and decided to speak, “Good morning father,” Derek looked at her, “Did you sleep well?”

“No,” came his blunt reply, “No I did not.” Melissa felt tenser now. Derek said, “I didn’t call you here for pleasantries. I called you two here to tell you, that from now on you two will be in separate rooms.”

“What?” Melissa said with sudden surprise, forgetting her place, “Why?”

“You need to focus on your preparations to take on the throne,” Derek said, “I want you to be ready when the time comes.”

“Which won’t be for several decades!” Melissa argued, “Father, please—”

“This isn’t up to discussion,” Derek said harshly, “You’re lucky I’m even telling you beforehand. Ein convinced me to on your behalf.”

“Father, please, we need each other,” Melissa said, desperate. She needed Aaron in her life, she wouldn’t survive otherwise; she couldn’t handle feeling alone. “I need him.”

“He’s holding you back,” Derek said. “My decision is final. Aaron, you are to move your belongings to a room on the other side of the palace—”

“Father!”

“You are not to visit her during her lessons, you are not to distract her from her duties as the future queen, do I make myself clear?”

Melissa looked at Aaron, wanting him desperately to say no, to tell their father off. But Aaron’s face was blank, he had shut himself down emotionally. He responded, “Yes, sir.”

“Aaron,” Melissa said, hurt by his betrayal, “Aaron, no.” She turned to Derek, “Father please don’t do this. We’re all that’s left for each other.”

“We’re done here,” Derek said as he turned his back on his children once again. “Ein! Take my children to their room, have Aaron pack and prepare Melissa for her lessons.”

Ein entered at the call of his name and after hearing his instructions, Ein replied, “Of course, sir.”

Melissa wanted to scream, shout, cry, something. But all she could do was glare at her father’s back with frustration and anger. Ein led them out of the room and back to their own. Aaron began to pack his belongings numbly, slowly, while Melissa sat on her bed in quiet thought and Ein stood out in the hallway. After a few moments of heavy silence, Melissa said, “Why didn’t you say anything?”

Aaron said, “What would I have said? He seemed pretty set on everything.”

“You could have backed me up,” Melissa said, “Actually show your support for me for once.”

“Are you serious right now?” Aaron said, “I’m literally leaving to go to the other side of the castle and never see you again, and you wanna start a fight?”

Melissa sighed, hanging her head. She couldn’t fathom being alone in this hell of a castle without her best friend by her side constantly. She didn’t want to be alone. Who would she talk to late at night? Who would help her with her lessons? Who would keep her secret with her? Who could replace someone like Aaron in her life? She didn’t mean to start crying and she sniffled, wiping her nose, “No, no, sorry. I just…I don’t want to lose you Aaron.”

Aaron had stopped packing, he hesitated before he said, “You won’t lose me Mel. You couldn’t if you tried.”

Melissa looked up at him and smiled. Aaron smiled a bit back, Melissa swam over to him and hugged him tight. Aaron held onto her, he was afraid of losing her just as much as she was of losing him. It was then that Melissa was struck with a wonderful, and very bad idea. She pulled away and whispered to him, “We should go see a Mainlander ship. A real one! Tonight, after sundown!”

Aaron was confused, “Wait, what?”

“You should come to me since I’ll be more guarded after my argument with father,” Melissa said, beginning to brainstorm. “We should bring Dante along too!”

“Wait, wait, Melissa—”

“No, no, you’re right, too many people involved,” Melissa said, “It’ll be us two, a duo mission.”

“Melissa hold on,” Aaron said, finally getting her attention, “It’s one thing scavenging a wrecked Mainlander ship for trinkets, but going to a live one? With Mainlanders on it? With spears?”

“Aaron you worry too much! We’ll be careful, we’re always careful,” Melissa said. She took his hands and said, “Please, Aaron, one final mission for us as a team. Our biggest plot yet. We’ll just watch, no interaction.”

Aaron hesitated, this had “bad idea” written allover it, like a majority of Melissa’s ideas. But the pleading look in Melissa’s eyes made him reconsider it. This was going to be the last fun thing Melissa would be doing for a while, and the last fun thing Aaron would do with his best friend at his side. He tightened his grip on her hands with assurance before nodding firmly, “Alright. Let’s find ourselves a ship.”

#aphmau #aphmau fanfiction #crashing seas au #melissa lycan #aaron lycan #dante #ein #derek lycan #this was my first time writing anything so let me know if i can change it up like w the format or whatever #please critique me i need it #oof hope yall like it

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lauranceromeave · 8 years ago

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Limerence (a domestic danvis fanfiction)

Dante deals with the aftermath of KC’s death. Travis helps.

Words: 7222, Oneshot, Language: English

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: Major Character Death (KC)

Categories: M/M, F/M

Relationships: Travis/Dante, Kawaii~Chan/Dante (past), Nicole/Dante (past), other minor ships

Additional Tags: hurt/comfort, angst, domestic

As Dante walks out of the room, Dmitri who had just been talking with Nicole immediately stands up and runs towards him, "Dad? Is- mom okay now?" Dante hears the hesitance in Dmitri's voice when he calls Kawaii~Chan mom. For a moment his gaze strays towards Nicole, he expects to find a hint of hurt in her expression, but she's only smiling as she strokes Nekoette's head to make sure that the little girl gets a good sleep for tonight. Dante knows that tonight will change his life in many ways, so he appreciates that Nicole is as kind and understanding as she always is. Still, he doesn't know how to break the news to his son, especially due to the fact that Dmtiri was finally warming up to the concept of being family. Dante knows that he sounds broken and hurt when he says it, but it's the best he's got right now, "She- she's safe Dimitri. She's not here, but she's safe." "Dad? Why are you-" Dmitri asks him with a concerned look, and it takes a while for Dante to realize that he's crying. Just as he's about to break down, as all the apologies and hurt caught up in his throat threatens to spill, Travis comes from somewhere behind him and kneels down in front of Dmitri. Travis' grip on Dmitri's shoulder is firm and reassuring, he speaks as gently as he can to the small boy, "Dmitri, your dad needs a little bit of time to himself, alright?" Dante hates that he has to see that distraught look on Dmitri's face. The boy might be young, but he is nothing short of smart, the reality of the situation might just be sinking in at that moment. Dmitri manages to nod anyway, he also lets Travis pull him into a comforting hug. Although Dmitri might not fully understand what's happening, seeing an adult cry is often unusual for children. Dante wants to be there for his children right now, but he's afraid that he can't really be much help, not when his mind is a whirlwind of pain. "Thank you Travis, Nicole," he bows his head slightly towards the two before he heads back into the room. Dante doesn't know how to deal with all of these things. After he and Nicole broke up, he found a new happiness in Kawaii~Chan and soon after, in Nekoette and the whole entirety of his perfect little family. It was all well for many years until one day he found out about Dmitri, in which he felt extremely guilty and upset that his son didn't have him while he was living happily with his new family. Everything worked out after that, Dmitri had become a new member of his lovely little family. Nicole who had always been a workaholic would visit every chance she had, Kawaii~Chan got along with her, and Dmitri had really started to look at Kawaii~Chan as his mother and Nekoette as his sister. Their family was not as common as others' but it was a happy one. It was a rainy night when he found out, Nekoette and Dmitri were fast asleep after a tiring day of school. Kawaii~Chan had asked Dante to come to the living room whenever he was done with his work. Dante did as he was told, he didn't know what to expect, but the unusually serious look on Kawaii~Chan's face was an indication that the talk was not going to be very pleasant. That night Dante found out that Kawaii~Chan was sick, she's suffering from the kind of sickness that only a miracle can heal. They tried to achieve that miracle, Kawaii~Chan stayed at the hospital for a long time and went through various medications, friends and family visited her every chance they had to support her. Alas, it was still not enough. Tonight at the hospital, after Kawaii~Chan went through a risky surgery, a risk they had no choice but to take, she passed away. Dante was beside her when she took her last breath, it was so peaceful and soft, as if she was just falling asleep. Dante has just reentered the room to see her again, the doctors and nurses who were surrounding her moments earlier no longer there. They knew to give him time to let the situation sink in, especially after he burst out of the room the moment when Kawaii~Chan was pronounced dead. Dante takes a seat beside Kawaii~Chan's lifeless form, tears streaming down his cheeks as he silently begs her to come back. Outside, Nekoette is sleeping on Nicole's lap, Dmitri safe in Travis' embrace, but in that room Dante realizes that he's all alone. # Her death hit everyone really hard, Dante more than anyone. Aphmau, Lucinda, Katelyn, Garroth, Laurance, Travis, Aaron, even Zane, they all had their own special connection with Kawaii~Chan, along with many more people who had known her. It was difficult for everyone to let her go, and not a single soul had stopped missing her presence since then. It took Dante all his might to explain to Dmitri and Nekoette about what had happened to their mother. The two were devastated, although being the children they are, they have yet to fully grasp the concept of death. Dante feels terrible that they had to experience something like this in such an early age. He can never forget how they cried for her at her funeral, how they told him that they miss her, how they still ask about her. For the following months, Nicole had decided to work from home to spend time with Dante, Dmitri, and Nekoette, to become moral support for all of them. Clearly, everyone else also helped their family to cope with the loss in their own way. Even so, eventually everyone had to go on with their life, Nicole became busy after a few months, all the work she had missed piling up on her desk. As the visits back to her office become more frequent, it becomes clearer to Dante that the presence of a mother is something truly important for children. Nicole apologized countless of times when she said that she'll be returning to her old schedule, but Dante thanked her instead, explaining how thankful he is that Nicole had been so understanding and helpful, how he can only imagine the amount of extra hours she has to spend at work now. Nicole left their house late at night, when the children were both fast asleep. After helping her move her stuff into the taxi, Dante bids her goodbye and walks back into the house. Immediately, the house feels incredibly… empty, emptier than it was already. There's a feeling tugging in his chest that he does not like, so he walks into the room Dmitri and Nekoette shares and simply basks in their presence, their innocent faces. For when he does this Dante remembers that he can't drown in sorrow forever, whether he can or can't, he has to be strong for his family, for his children. Moments later Dante goes to his room, he finds difficulty sleeping when he's so painfully aware of the empty side of the bed. As he drifts to sleep, he wonders if anyone could ever fill the emptiness. # Dante wakes up a bit too early that day, despite the lack of sleep he had the previous night. After he drinks his fix of coffee for the day, he decides to cook something for the children to bring for lunch to fill his time. He subconsciously starts preparing to make a bento, something Kawaii~Chan and him often made together for the children. He thought that after a good few months, he'd be able to do these kinds of things without being washed up by the memories of the past. Maybe it was easier because Nicole was around and she was a familiar presence. When he's alone like this, it's much more difficult to hold back the tears, after all, no-one would know if he cried alone. The ringing from his phone wakes him up from his thoughts, stunning him for a moment before he picks up his phone off the counter. There's a very particular kind of calmness that comes over Dante when he sees that Travis is the one calling. It takes him a while to figure out why in the world is Travis calling at this time of the morning, that is until he remembers that Travis has offered himself to pick up and take care of Dmitri and Nekoette today. It's no surprise that Dante is finding it difficult to balance work and taking care of children without Kawaii~Chan and Nicole around. He has to work and his friends do too, he's currently in the process of figuring out how to handle all of this but in the meantime, those who have more flexible schedules are being a ton of help for him. Dante spends a second too long to stare at his phone instead of answering the call. When he does, he hears Travis' voice fill the empty space in the kitchen, "Mornin' Dante, up already?" "Uh, yeah I guess. I'm making lunch for the kids to bring before I make breakfast, I kinda woke up too early today," Dante is kinda stunned by how… normal Travis' tone is, it gives Dante a sense of normality he misses, but he says none of this. There's a small pause where Dante thinks that Travis is nodding to himself, "Right then, I didn't call just to wake you up, I also wanted to ask you again, just to be sure. Uh, when do the kids get out of school again?" It makes Dante feel mildly amused to know that Travis has asked this question so many times ever since he offered to pick the kids up, a small smile tugs at Dante's lips, "They should be out at twelve Travis, I think you already know that." "I mean I do, but I don't want to mess up you know,” Travis speaks and Dante can feel the nervousness from the man on the other end of the line. "Look Travis, you're going to be fine, I appreciate that you're being careful, but there's no need to be so nervous," Dante can hear Travis let out a sigh after he finishes speaking. There's a brief silence where Dante can hear footsteps coming from Travis' end. He wonders who that might be, or could it be Travis' instead? It takes a while for Dante to connect the footsteps and the knocking on his door. At first he thinks that it couldn't be, but as he rushes towards the door he realizes that if it's Travis, his dumb and kind best friend who will do practically anything for those he loves, anything is possible. So when he does open the door, he's not too surprised to find Travis smiling at him with his usual sheepish smile. Dante can't help but to let out a small smile due to his best friend's ridiculous actions. Both Dante and Travis end the call and put their phones in their pockets. Dante looks at him and shakes his head in disbelief, "Why are you even here Travis?" "Ah- Breakfast?" Travis answers as he rubs the back of his neck, the sheepish smile still remaining on his face. "Well, come on in then. You better help me alright?” Dante turns around and heads back to the the kitchen. Travis nods despite the fact that Dante can't see him, he then shuts the door and trails behind him quietly. As soon as they get to the kitchen, Dante continues to make the bento he was working on. Even though Travis is just watching him cook silently, it feels much less lonely to have someone just be there. The silence becomes awkward after some time, which is very unusual for the lively pair they used to be. Dante can tell that Travis wants to start a conversation, but it seems that the latter just can't find a right topic to start on. "Hey Travis?" Travis immediately jolts up, somewhat expectant, "Yeah?" "Would you mind making some omelets for us?" Dante asks, his gaze doesn't leave the vegetables he's chopping. "Uh, no, not at all," Travis says as he scrambles towards the stove where Dante hands him four eggs and a couple of spices. The two cook peacefully, Travis' soft hums complimenting the ambience. After a while Dante is already closing the kids' lunch boxes while Travis pours milk into the kids' mugs. They both take a step back and lean on the counter, their expression content as they take a moment to admire their cooking. It has been a while since making breakfast felt this seamless for Dante. When Nicole was around, Dante wouldn't ever wake her up early as she was always tired after working late at night. Making breakfast used to be a wonderful start of day for him, but after KC's death, it feels more lonely than anything. Today the kitchen feels warmer and brighter with Travis around. Dante is more than glad that he has Travis to count on, without Travis around he'd be much more lonelier than he is now. Dante is so lost in thought that he doesn't notice Travis staring at him intently, an expression of concern and gladness apparent on his face. The kitchen is quiet for a while until the kids come out of their room, pajamas hanging off their small frames and hands rubbing their drowsy eyes. Their small feet take small steps into the kitchen and both Dmitri and Nekotte get themselves seated on the dining table. "Why is Uncle Travis here, dad?" Nekoette asks in between her yawns. "Your uncle right here decided that he wanted to have breakfast here," Dante answers calmly as he joins the children on the dining table. Travis follows his motion and as he sits down, he smiles at the children, "I wanted to help out your dad aaaand I also missed you two." Dmitri looks up right after he swallows a portion of his omelet, "Weren't you going to pick us up anyway?" "Twelve o'clock is all the way in the afternoon. I couldn't wait that long," Travis explains, the smile never leaving his face. Dmitri just nods innocently before focusing back on his omelet. All four of them eat peacefully as the kids are still too sleepy to be talkative this early in the morning. Nevertheless, Nekoette still makes cute comments about the food and Dmitri whines about drinking his milk. Dante just watches them calmly, a small relaxed smile gracing his face. Travis makes his usual silly retorts and statements, both entertaining and distracting the kids from eating breakfast. Sometimes Dante scolds them playfully, but for the most part he loves seeing his children laugh and smile too much to actually tell them to eat properly. After they finish breakfast, the day goes on as planned. Dante drives the kids to school and Travis decides that he should just hang around in a nearby cafe since his work shift doesn't start until the evening. Dante sticks around long enough to get Travis to buy him a cup of Frappuccino and he leaves as soon as Travis starts trying to make Dante buy him a breakfast pizza. He manages to escape to his car and Travis waves him goodbye shamelessly from where he sits. Dante can't help to wave back despite the fact that Travis can barely see him as he drives away. # A few months past and it's been rather bittersweet for Dante. Things haven’t exactly been great, but it’s not like it has been terrible. The kids seem to be handling things quite fine, so Dante has been willing to do everything to keep it that way. He can’t take all the credit for his family’s well-being. His friends and family has been great help to him, they all help whenever and however they can. Aphmau, despite being busy with her own children already, has often invited Dmitri and Nekoette to come over and play at hers (Aaron is busy most of the time, but he does what he can too). Katelyn takes care of them a lot, hence why the kids have been taking a liking to plays and they also seem to have acquired Katelyn’s taste in music. Garroth and Laurance help too sometimes, Dante gets worried because of how silly the two can get, but the kids seem to be happy around them, so he puts aside his worries eventually. His brother, Gene, is often busy, as is Nicole, but they both come over on the weekends a lot to talk to him and play with Nekoette and Dmitri. Their support really means a lot, especially with how his work has been recently. It wasn’t a good day in the office for him that night. Dante walks into his house, a tired expression prominent on his face and his back aching terribly. Despite how tired he is and how badly he wants to feel the softness of his bed under him, Dante wants to see his children much more. They are his motivation and inspiration to go through his often difficult days, he truly doesn’t know what to do without them. As soon as he gets to drop his bag in the living room, he walks towards his children’s room. The house is very quiet and so he tries to not make any sounds, that is until he sees a shadow in the kitchen and yelps subconsciously. He lets out a sigh of relief soon after, his relief is accompanied by sounds of laughter from the figure in the kitchen. Dante really doesn’t know how he managed to forget that Travis was the one taking care of them today and he fully regrets forgetting that fact. “You should’ve seen the look on your face Dante,” Travis is still laughing, the water from the glass he’s holding threatening to spill out. Dante rolls his eyes as he walks into the kitchen to get a glass of water for himself. He looks at Travis and shakes his head, wondering why in the world is he still laughing. One of the things he hates about Travis is the fact that he has a contagious laugh. Dante has given up and is smiling as he says, “Oh shut up Travis.” Travis looks at him, eyes bright, smile wide, and Dante is reminded just how lucky he is to have Travis as his best friend. Everyone has been helping him with his life, yes, but no one knows him the way Travis does. The past few months, he has only been thinking of his children and not of his own well-being. Everyone is more or less concerned, but no one reminds him to take care of himself as much as Travis does. He even knows when Dante is feeling weak or vulnerable, he also gives Dante a shoulder to cry on when he’s feeling like so. It also helps that the things he says are also the most heartwarming things that make Dante feel at peace with himself. “Dante? Hey Dante? What’re you looking at?” “Huh, what?” Dante asks, only just now snapping back into reality. Travis smiles at him, “You were smiling just now.” “Ah,” Dante smiles consciously this time, “I was just reminded of something nice I guess.” “You should do that more then,” Travis says cheerily, fingers tapping the edge of his glass. Dante tilts his head, confused, “What do you mean?” “Remind yourself about the nice things and all,” Travis shrugs and a part of Dante finds it funny that Travis is unconsciously reminding Dante to think of him more. Now that he thinks about it, it has been a while since he last felt the unsubtle emptiness that Kawaii~Chan left in his life, his heart. It doesn't mean that Dante doesn't feel heartbroken every time he thinks about her, it's just that he thought that his life would feel numb and senseless after her death. In reality, his children, his friends, they all bring color to his life more than he thought they would. Suddenly he's all sentimental and he just wants to tell everyone how much he appreciates and cares about them. He- He doesn't know what could've been if they hadn't been around to support him, especially Travis, his best friend, the best kind you can ask for. "I'll do that Travis, thank you," Dante places his glass on the table and pats Travis' shoulders with a smile. Travis seems to be a little shocked when he does that, but moments later he's grinning back at Dante. Moments like these are the ones that make Dante feel rejuvenated, to know that people around him are happy and so is he. He's been healing slowly but surely and Dante is glad that no one has told him that he's been healing too fast or too slow. He knows that he shouldn't make drastic changes in his life, he knows that what he needs to do is to focus on caring for his son and daughter. It really helps that everyone understands that. "The kids are sleeping already, right?" Dante says as he stands up, looking to go to his children's room. Travis nods, expression fond, "Yeah, they were extremely exhausted today." "Ah? Why is that?" Dante asks, since as far as he's aware it should've been a regular school day for the kids. "I took them swimming remember? I told you yesterday," Travis is smiling, but there's a slightly concerned look on his face. "You did?" Dante pauses, trying to remember, "Oh yeah, you did tell me, sorry." Travis looks fully concerned now, "Are you okay Dante? Haven't you been too tired recently?" "I'm fine Travis, I really am," Dante tries to give the most convincing smile he can, but Travis seems like he doesn't buy it. Dante knows that he isn't convinced. "Look Travis, it's all for the kids. All I want is for them to grow up the way they deserve to. I need to be able to fill the gap that their mother left in their life and provide for them. There's Nicole, and dont get me wrong, she loves them both, but she can't always be here and I-" Dante's voice is suddenly caught in his throat and he feels vulnerable. This time it's Travis who hold his shoulders, his grip firm and reassuring, "But Dante, you need to take care of yourself too. I'm sure Nekoette and Dmitri want you to he happy as well. Besides, we'll all be here for you. You will at least always have me." He ends his sentence with such a sincere and soft expressions that it makes Dante all teary. "I don't know what I'd do without you Travis," Dante laughs as he wipes the drop of tear from his eyes. "You'd be doing way too much, more than you can handle. It's why I'm here Dante," Travis laughs a little and his hands feel a bit warmer on Dante's shoulder. # A year has passed since then. Dante's life has been a mix of visits to KC's grave and family vacations, work and weekends, friends and family. His life isn't easy but everyone makes it seem easier. Katelyn brought up the idea of having movie nights with the kids every Saturday somewhere along the way. The kids love it, Dante thinks it helps him. That Saturday Travis joins Dante and his children, it's not nessecarily the first time it has happened. It's obvious that they'll have to watch family movies because of the kids, some of them are too childish for his liking but sometimes they're actually pretty good movies he enjoys. However, tonight's movie was not something he particularly likes, it's some dumb kids movie he doesn't even know the title of. The kids enjoy it somehow, they're pretty focused on the non-existent plot of the movie. It helps that Travis makes fun of the movie's dumbness in whispers and small chuckles that only Dante can hear. It makes the night move faster somehow, Dante just can't simply tolerate bad movies even if his children loves it. He was just starting to doze off when he hears Nekoette and Dmitri laugh so hard, it wakes him up completely. The characters are doing some random dance on the screen and he thinks it's absolutely ridiculous and cheap comedy. Still, when he hears his children laugh and Travis chuckling beside him, he just feels a burst of happiness from somewhere within him, resulting in a heartfelt laugh that took everyone's attention. Dante knows he hasn't laughed like this in a while, so freely and genuinely, hasn't felt truly happy and free. "Oh my god that's so stupid it's hilarious," he comments as soon as he gets all the laughter out of his system. "It wasn't that funny dad," Nekoette says, smiling up to Dante. Dante pretends to pout, as if he was upset that she said that. Dmitri chirps in before Dante can reply, "It was pretty funny though. Besides, I bet you're going to do that dance for the whole week." Dmitri snickers as Nekoette and him start throwing playful insults at eachother. Dante watches adoringly, at the same time making sure they don't say anything inappropriate. "I can't believe that you still have such a childish sense of humour Dante," Travis says, holding back his laughter. Dante punches Travis' shoulder playfully, "Oh shut up Travis, it's not like your sense of humour is any better." "Excuse me," Travis makes sure that he sounds extra sassy. Dante laughs again and Travis just takes time to look at him properly. Travis doesn't remember the last time Dante has laughed so freely and openly in front of him. It's something he has truly missed. He just wants to see Dante like this all the time, he just want to see Dante happy, he wants to make Dante happy. Travis doesn't know whether he can do that or not, but he has been trying and he will keep doing so. Dante finally stops laughing and the look he gives Travis is- it's tender and full of adoration, so much so that it makes Travis' heart go wild in his chest. He reminds himself to not get his hopes up. "You can make anything sound funny Travis, it's horrible," Dante shakes his head, his hands running through his already perfect hair. Travis longs to be able to touch Dante, to run his fingers through the other's hair. He doesn't, instead he retorts, "But you like it anyway, no?" "I do." # "Look, Travis you should stop sticking yourself in my business, in MY family's problem, okay?" Dante isn't playing around at all, his brows are furrowed, expression clearly displeased. Travis stands in silence near him, expression just as unpleasant. They both refuse to look at eachother, gazes always somewhere else. It started off as a small dispute about the children's schedule. Both Nekoette and Dmitri wants to get involved in more activities, in and out of school. Travis fully supports that, hence why he promised the two to talk to Dante about it. Unfortunately, Dante didn't take it too well. It's understandable, Dante doesn't see his children that much anyway due to his work. More activities in their schedule mean that they'll get more tired and in turn, less time with Dante. Dante rubs his temple, trying to calm himself down. "Just," he pauses, "Go home Travis. You're not making anything any better." "Dante, look, they-" "You're not helping anyone Travis, go," Dante says dismissively, not even sparing a glance. Travis has had enough of it, he's trying his best to help Dante, to care for his children, but this is the kind of treatment he gets? He knows that Dante must be tired from work, but he needs Dante to know that he has been sacrificing his time and energy too. As time goes by, these kinds of behaviour from Dante become increasingly worse as his work continues to pile up towards the end of the year. Travis may not understand, he has never really worked a desk job before, but it's no excuse to be dismissive of his efforts to care for Dante's family and Dante himself. For the first time in a really long time, Travis snaps. "Well, Dante, I'm sorry that I care so much about you and your children," Travis says sarcastically, his fists are clenched and shaking, "I can clearly see that I have not been helping at all, even after all this time I've been supporting you, not at all. Never in a million years have I ever made anything better, is that right?!" Dante grits his teeth when he hears what Travis has to say, "Why-why do you care so much anyway?" And with that, the last ounce of self control Travis had intact was gone, "Because I love you that's why! And I also care about the kids more than you probably realize and- " "You what?!" Dante immediately turns his head towards Travis, eyes wide, mouth hanging open. He's not even mad that Travis raised his voice when the children are asleep, he's just- bewildred, shocked. Travis looks away frantically, face reddening, "I- I what?" Dante also looks away, a blush creeping on his face, "How long?" "What?" Travis knows what Dante is asking about, but he asks again in attempt to avoid the impending question. Dante is reluctant to ask, "You… to me…?" He makes slight hand gestures when he speaks, trying his best to convey his meaning. "Why are you even asking me that? It doesn't matter, does it?" Travis says, still trying to avoid the question. "It does," Dante says in a serious but soft tone. Travis wants to know what kind of face Dante is making, but he can't bring himself to look. Travis stays silence for a while, but Dante doesn't say anything any further. He never thought that the confession he had thought of for so long would happen in the middle of a stupid fight. Travis knows that there's no getting out of this situation and so he gives in, "W-well I don't know then. Probably since highschool or maybe after Katelyn and I- you know, but I never really thought on it until much later." Dante doesn't say anything for a while and Travis becomes worried. Moments pass and he doesn't know how long it has been silent. Finally, he bring himself to look at Dante and he finds that Dante is covering his mouth with his hand, he looks devestated. Dante begins to shake his head and Travis panics internally, thinking that he has totally ruined everything that has been building up between him and Dante from all these years. Has he really ruined their friendship? Dante closes his eyes, fingers pinching the bridge of his nose, "You- you're an absolute idiot Travis, I'm telling you, an utter and absolute idiot." "What? Why am I an idiot?" Travis is now both confused and worried. "Why do you let me do this to you over and over again? Are you a masochist?" Dante asks, his voice thin. Travis shakes his head frantically, just utterly confused about what Dante is saying, "What? No! Why in the world-" "Why do you let me hurt you over and over again like this?" by now Travis realizes that Dante's half-sobbing as he speaks. "Wait, why are you the one crying?" Travis asks, puzzled. Nevertheless, he still comes closer to where Dante is sitting, worried about him, but he doesn't dare to touch the other. Dante takes a deep, shaky breath before he speaks at length, "Because I'm a shit person, that's why. First of all, I somehow never recognized how you felt about me. It has been like, what? Ten years? I was always your best friend, how the hell did I not know? Then I just get mad at you for taking care of me and the kids, instead of appreciating the help you've given us the past year. Why do you let me do this to you Travis? Why did you never tell me how much you were hurting because of me?" By the end of his long sentence, Dante's tearing up. The latter drops his head into his hands, covering the tears streaming down his face. Travis takes a step forward and spontaneously cups Dante's face, bringing it up to look at him, "No, no, Dante. It's not your fault, I never wanted you to know because I wanted you to- make your own choices, I didn't want to lose our friendship, and you were dating people most of the time anyway, so I held back. I though that- if we ever become a thing then it should be by your choice, you should choose me. Then you got married and I-I can't even feel sad when you're that happy. And I know you're tired Dante, I understand why you were mad. I should have chosen a better timing to tell you about all of that stuff with Dmitri and Nekoette. I'm sorry." "You- you're insane. Why are you the one apologizing? I'm the douchebag here, and you- you're way too kind and forgiving to me," Dante says, his expression is rather unclear, it's conflicted, somewhere between happiness and sadness. Travis is a bit taken aback, "Me? Insane? Isn't it normal for me to do so?" Dante starts to smile without meaning to, "It's not Travis," he whispers, "You should've told me." Travis is a bit dazed already, trying to comprehend what he's hearing. It's absolutely shocking when Dante pulls his collar down, levelling his face with the latter's. Travis' mind is a mess, his heart is threatening to burst out of his chest as it is too full of emotions. They just look at eachother for a brief second that feels like forever and Travis still can't comprehend what's happening. Dante flashes Travis a small smile and then it's fireworks and butterflies bursting within the two. The kiss wasn't too quick nor too slow, not too hungry nor too bland, simply put, it was perfect, it was all they could've asked for and more. They bask in eachother's need to feel and touch, the tension building between them since God knows when released in one perfect kiss. Neither wanted it to end but they ran out of breath eventually. "Wha-what was that for?" Travis asks, his breath a bit ragged, but his smile wide as he touches his lips, uncertain about what had just happened. Dante laughs, his eyes disappearing when he smiles, "Get a clue Sherlock. It matters to me that you like me." Travis didn't even know he could smile this wide. "Dante, I would've never-" he cuts his sentence short, searching for better words to say, "I thought- How?" "Look Travis, I- I have to admit that I have never really seriously considered dating you back when we were in highschool, or after that. As you said, for the most part I had other relationships and other things to worry about," Dante says and the smile on his face is a bit bittersweet now. He then takes Travis' hand, the gentle touch sending shivers down Travis' spine, "But over the last year, as you've helped me and the kids go through rough times, I've fallen in love with you. You and how caring you are. You and your silly efforts to cheer me up. You and your stupid smile that lights up the whole room. Everything about you Travis. You just- you have a place in this family, as you do in my heart. I- I can see a future where you are by my side, with the kids, us, a family." Now Travis is the one tearing up and Dante's expression is warm, "Welcome to the family Travis. I love you, and I'm sure the kids do too." Travis wipes his own tears, happiness bursting from within him and everything just seems wondrous, "I love you too Dante, I love Dmitri and Nekoette and I- I'm just- I'm just so happy to be a part of this. I- we- Oh Irene-" Travis' hand is joined by Dante's, the latter's hand gently caressing his cheeks, "You've been here all this time, for me, for the kids. Heck, now that I think about it, you were the one who got Dmitri to warm up to me. Without you, I don't know how'd things turn out. You are family." "Dante," Travis pauses and for a breathless moment the world stops moving and everything is simply perfect. He continues with a soft whisper, "I'm here and I'll always be here, that's what matters." "Dad? Uncle Travis?" Dmitri's voice startles both Travis and Dante. The two of them quickly erase the trail of tears remaining on their cheeks and try to look as calm and normal as they can. The two children come out from the shadows of the house and step into the kitchen. Nekoette blinks innocently at them when she speaks. She looks both confused and concerned, "Are you two fighting?" Dante's instincts tell him to immediately get rid of that look from Nekoette's face. Never in a million years would he want to make his daughter be so concerned. He leaves Travis' side and scoops Nekoette up into his arms, "Not anymore, no. You two don't need to worry, okay?" Nekoette looks at Travis from over Dante's shoulder, her gaze questioning. Travis is both glad and uneasy that the little girl is very observant, but he has nothing to hide, "Yes, it's fine, we promise." "Now the real question is, why are you two awake?" Dante looks at Dmitri, who looks a bit restless from where he stands. Travis notices the little boy's restlessness, "Oh Irene was it because of us?" "We've been awake for a while," Dmitri answers, his gaze trailing the floor. Nekoette continues his brother's sentence and buries her face into Dante's shoulder, "But we were too scared to come out, because you two were- you were shouting." Dante strokes Nekoette's head softly and gives Dmitri an apologetic look, "I'm so sorry you two, you dont need to be scared or worried at all. Everything is fine now, we were arguing for a bit, but we've made up. That happens sometimes, but it's fine." "Why were you fighting?" Dmitri asks, not able to hide his curiosity. Dante lets out a sigh when he answers his son, he tries to smile when he says it, "Because your dad here is an idiot." Travis notices the hint of bitternes in Dante's words and quickly chimes in, "So am I." "Why do you want to be an idiot uncle Travis?" Nekoette giggles adorably. "Because I can't possibly let your dad be an idiot alone, can I? You two are smart, so I have to accompany him," Travis joked, smiling fondly at Dante all the way through it. Both Dmitri and Nekoette giggle at his words while a light blush creeps onto Dante's face, "Okay you guys, that's enough, let's get you two back to bed." "But we can't sleep," Nekoette whines, giving Dante puppy eyes. Dmitri gives Dante an innocent smile, "Maybe if you read us a bed time story we can go to sleep?" Dante huffs as he has been outsmarted by his kids once again, "Okay, you two got me, uncle Travis and I are going to read you a quick bed time story but only one okay? You two have school tommorrow." "Dad it's Saturday tommorrow, we don't have school," Nekoette argues and pouts at Dante. It takes Dante a lot to not coo at his adorable daughter, but before he can reply, Travis speaks first, "Then how about we all go to a theme park tommorrow? It'll all be on me, but you guys have to sleep properly." Dmitri and Nekoette lock gazes and then look at Travis while nodding excitedly. "You don't have to do that Travis," Dante remarks. "It's fine, I've been wanting to go anyway. Nekoette and Dmitri clearly wants to go and you, you need to let loose Dante," Travis points out and both Nekoette and Dmitri nod at his words. Dante sighs, once again defeated, "Alright you guys, but if we're going to go, we all need some rest." "Okay, dad," Nekoette and Dmitri answer simultaneously. Dante nods approvingly and bends down to place Nekoette back on the floor. "Daaad, I wanna be carried to the bedroom," Nekoette insisted as she clings on Dante. "Okay, princess, I shall take you to your bedroom," Dante holds his daughter tightly and he zooms towards the bedroom, Nekoette giggling all the way. Before he leaves the kitchen, Dante quickly adds to Travis, "I leave Prince Dmitri to you," before disappearing around the corner. Travis and Dmitri exchange looks and they both end up laughing. The two hear Dante shout 'I heard that' in the distance. Travis looks lovingly at Dmitri, it makes him happy to see how much he has changed since the first time he saw the boy. Dmitri seems more vibrant and happier these days, as he should be. He hears Nekoette's loud laughter and he snaps back into the current time where Dmitri's still laughing at his father and sister. "So does the little prince want a ride?" Travis asks, half laughing as he says it. Dmitri doesn't answer, but Travis understands from just looking at his expression and gestures. The boy wants it but he doesn't seem to want to come across as childish. Travis worries that kids these days grow up too fast, so he gives Dmitri a reassuring smile. "You don't need to be embarrassed Dmitri, hop on," Travis says as he crouches so Dmitri can get on his back. Dmitri stays silent for a second until he just says a simple 'okay' before hopping on Travis' back. Travis then sprints towards the room while piggybacking Dmitri, they both laugh along the way and their laughter is joined by both Nekoette and Dante when they arrive at the bedroom. Dante and Travis tucks the two children in bed and started reading a children's book from their shelf with a little spin of their own (which makes the two children giggle as they read through the story). Eventually as the story comes to an end, the children yawn and rub their eyes. Not long after, they're both fast asleep and the world seems so peaceful that night. Dante and Travis however, don't go to bed after. Instead, the two watch watch some random romcom film from netflix and cuddle on the sofa. Dante is amazed by how natural it all feels, but it's the first time in a while that sleep has come so easily to him. It's the first time in a while that he has someone next to him as he slowly drifts to sleep. Dante leans closer towards Travis and the last thing he sees before he goes to dreamland is Travis' peaceful sleeping face. If anything, this is better than any dream Dante could ever have.

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Over Time, Chapter 3 - Haunted Memories

About: A year and a half. 18 months. More than 550 days. Enough time to change your mind about the people you call your friends. Enough time to change your mind about the ones you don’t. And in a blink of an eye, it all disappeared.

Rated: M for mature themes.

Previous Chapter: One | Two

Word Count: 1648

Zane tossed and turned in his sleep. It had been quite some time since he experienced a sleep this rough. By this point, the blankets that usually covered him were mainly on the floor beside him, having been tossed off in his fitful slumber. His dream was one of his fondest memories but, in that moment, it felt like some sort of cruel torture by his brain.

Her hug came at him so quickly that Zane was thrown completely off-guard, unable to do anything but brace himself for it. Her grip on him felt almost like she was trying to wrap his whole body in her loving protection. And while Zane was normally very opposed to physical forms of affection, even amongst his closest friends, he found himself very accepting of this particular someone’s need to care for him.

After she released her hold on him, Zane swallow hard as he realized just how much of a burden was lifted off his shoulders. Finally someone outside of his small traumatized group of friends knew about the things that happened back at the lodge.

“Now, let’s good cooking!” Her voice was back to its usual happy, high-pitched tone. If there was one thing he could say about the Meif’wa before him, it was that she always knew how to take care of those around her. “If you need help mincing the garlic, Kawaii-Chan can show you!”

“I’d like that. Thank you, Kawaii-Chan.”

He couldn’t help himself from returning the smile she gave him under the mask he wore. Her radiated happiness was infectious. For the first time since meeting Kawaii-Chan, Zane was very grateful for her presence in his life.

He could feel the tension in his shoulders loosen as they danced from the counter to the stove. Kawaii-Chan watched him and jumped in with helpful tips along the way, the scent of the wonderful meal they were creating whipping around them as they moved. There was something in the way her smile made him forget Aphmau’s screams, a sound that had played on repeat for so long. He knew there would be questions later. For now, they would enjoy this moment of peace, and he would relish in the positive and supportive atmosphere she was working so hard to create for both he and Aphmau.

Dinner was a calm affair. Kawaii-Chan filled much of the silence coming from the others with what she and Kaitlyn had been up to over the past few months, hilarious circumstances Travis, Dante and Lawrence found themselves in, and other minor pieces of information Zane only half-heartedly listened to. It was hard for him to listen to the innocent, safe fun their friends had while the rest of them fought to just stay alive.

Still, her sweet giggles and ear-to-ear smiles were all he could focus on. The solace he was finding in them was confusing and freeing all at the same. Even though Aaron’s absence was heavily felt, just having Aphmau and Kawaii-Chan there with him made him feel more normal. It would do, for now.

Despite their insisting, Aphmau had declined their offer to stay with her for her first night home.

“I’ll have to get used to it, eventually,” she had reasoned with them.

Accepting her decision, Zane and Kawaii-Chan put away the last of the cleaned dishes and leftovers before wishing her a good night and seeing themselves out.

The walk down to the sidewalk was intentionally slow for both of them. The paths home didn’t provide much time for deep conversations as Kawaii-Chan lived next door and Zane lived across the street from her. Kawaii-Chan paused in front of the walkway leading to her own front door, her eyes glancing at Aphmau and Aaron’s home before moving them to Zane.

“Kawaii-Chan wants you to know that you don’t have to deal with all of this on your own, Zane-kun,” she assured, her voice kept low to help make sure he would be the only one to hear her.

“Thank you, Kawaii-Chan, but I’ll be fine.”

“No, Zane-kun, you won’t be if you keep it all to yourself.” The look of concern and compassion was strong and it had thrown Zane off-guard. “Please promise me that you’ll call or text me if you need to talk. Please, Zane-kun.”

Zane swallowed hard as he saw the tears start to build in the bottom lids of her eyes, the sight of them choking him up as well.

“Kawaii-Chan,” he started, his eyes shifting to his feet, “no offense, but we all went through a lot. I-I don’t know if it’s a burden you could handle beyond what I’ve told you. But, it’s alright. Probably for the best, really. Keep you happier not knowing everything.”

His head jerked back up in surprise as he felt his arms being grabbed by her. Kawaii-Chan forced Zane into an eye-lock.

“Zane-kun, please. Whatever happened up there… if you don’t talk about it, you’ll just feel worse. Please, let Kawaii-Chan be there for you like you were for her!”

The stunned young man nodded his head as he stumbled for his words. “Y-y-yes, K-Kawaii-Chan. I promise, then.”

The infamous smile was instantly plastered back on her face, but Zane could still see that it wasn’t quite back to 100% there. He could tell she was doing it for him.

“Kawaii-Chan has to go inside now. Please go get some rest now, ok Zane-kun?”

“I will. And, thank you for everything tonight.”

Her smile grew even bigger and Zane could have sworn she was back to normal.

“Of course!”

Zane watched her retreating form as she made her way to the front door, his feet still in the same spot as she had left him and his arms limp at his sides. He was barely able to muster a wave back at the girl as she closed the door before retreating into her home.

When Zane finally awoke the next morning, he couldn’t help but turn over and stretch out an expectant arm. His dream had felt like he was reliving that day all over again. A small remembrance smile found its way to his lips. Oh, how he missed Kawaii-Chan’s hugs…

Suddenly, the events of the previous day came flooding back at him. His heart and resolve broken once more.

The door to his bedroom flung open. He looked over to see his Garroth coming in with a plate of what he imagined to be breakfast in his hand.

“Zane, wake up. You need to eat up so you can go see Kawaii𑁋 Zane? Oh, baby brother…”

His fingers curled around the fabric underneath them. He knew his face must have given his thoughts away. Zane watched as Garroth placed the plate on his dresser and walked towards him. He mused slightly realizing just how much their mother the oldest Ro’Meave boy was. While Zane got her patience for planning, her skillful manipulation and love of cute things, Garroth had inherited her natural charm and supportive nature.

“Do you want to talk about it?”

Garroth’s voice was low when he spoke. At that moment, it annoyed Zane. He didn’t want his brother’s sympathy. What good would it do either of them? He focused his stare on his plate on the dresser.

“What’s there to talk about, Garroth? She remembers nothing. Absolutely. Nothing.”

There was a moment of silence before Garroth spoke up again.

“You never came back to see her last night. I checked with the others. Everyone said they never saw you.”

Zane refused to respond.

“Are you just going to avoid her now? Let things go back to the way they were before?”

Again, Zane remained silent. His body betrayed him as a teardrop managed to escape his uncovered eye and roll out the corner of his eye and into his hair.

“Tch,” Garroth grunted before standing and heading towards the door.

Good. Leave me be.

Garroth turned around and looked at Zane once more.

“I get that you’re in pain, baby brother,” his voice once again low but stern in tone, “and this isn’t how you imagined all of this playing out. Believe me, I do. But please don’t forget that this isn’t what she would have wanted either. She tries to hide it, but some of us can see just how lost and scared she is. She’s lost so much time and none of us know if it’s permanent or not. She doesn’t know it, but she needs you, Zane. She was there for you when you needed her. Even if you can’t be there for her the exact way you’d like to be, at least be there for her as her friend.”

Zane’s grip on the cloth beneath him tightened, but still he was quiet.

As Garroth began to head out the door, he threw one last comment over his shoulder.

“Oh, and her MRI scan is at 9 AM. That’s in two hours, and you know none of us can be there. I suggest you get up soon.”

And with that, Garroth closed the door behind him and thudded his way down the stairs, leaving Zane alone with his pain once more.

As the kitchen came into view, he saw Lucinda, Lawrence and Dante look up at him expectantly. The small group decided to meet up for breakfast before work that morning since they’d all be in the same area.

“Do you really think he’ll show?” Laurence questioned having heard the end of their conversation.

“I really hope so,” he replied. “I’ve already told the others not to go if he contacts them.”

“That’s a good plan. Maybe if he sees that everyone really can’t go, he’ll feel more compelled to be with her,” Dante agreed.

Lucinda took a sip of her coffee, still looking like she didn’t completely trust his plan. “Let’s hope so. For her sake, at least.”

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Disclaimer: Characters and some quotes used by Aphmau. Most of the situations the characters find themselves in all my fault.

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