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Poly! Catradora x gn! Reader - Triumph from a shadow (PRIDE 2023)

A/n: Here is the first installment to the fics of pride 2023! (This is also old, so don't expect the writing to be stellar!)

Summary: You've always been a third wheel to Adora and Catra, even when you stayed with Catra in the horde. You've been over shadowed by the two of them your whole life and you're okay with that. You've seen what power can do to people, but your destiny isn't okay with it, and neither is your feelings.

Warnings: panic attacks, ptsd from the horde prolly, mild violence, death swearing, low self esteem, abandonment issues, crying, unrequited love, I think that's it? You have been warned!

The three P's:

[Pov: 2nd person][Pronouns used: you/your][Pairings: romantic! Catradora x reader, platonic! glimmer x reader, platonic! bow x reader, platonic! Entrapta x reader]

You've been a third wheel to Catra's and Adora's relationship from the beginning. Even in the horde when you had decided to stay with Catra to keep her safe she was still obsessed with Adora. When you had defected the horde because you saw what Catra was doing to herself and not only could you not watch her do it, you felt like you were only encouraging it.

While you came back to Brightmoon and tried to help Adora and the rest of the Princess's everything had spiraled and eventually Adora couldn't just ignore her feelings for Catra and you were left alone.

Unlike Catra and Adora, you can ignore you feelings, because you know they're unrequited, you take one look at the way they look at each and whatever hope in you dies. They've never looked at you like that before.

We're you really that hard to love?

As you were on the ship - Darla, with the "best friend squad" and Entrapta you're eternally grateful Glimmer had suggested you come, because you didn't want to be on Etheria. Not really, you would have been useless, and even though when you look around at all these people who are so strong you know you're out of place. At least you were with the people you longed to be with the most.

Which, is a different kind of torture all on it's own.

On the couch in the control area of the ship tears come to your eyes as Darla is on autopilot for a planet called Nyxion, it's believed that the people there are called Nyx. Though you haven't gotten a transmission back after you guys had tried to send one to them.

Sniffles are heard throughout the room as you try desperately not to cry, you couldn't cry not only would it probably wake somebody up, it would only prove your weakness.

Although it seemed like someone was already awake because you heard footsteps from behind you as someone place's a hand on your shoulder.

"Y/n?"

It's Adora, you would know that happy, soft voice from anywhere.

More footsteps erupt from behind the two of you and another hand is placed on your other shoulder and you know it's Catra from the claws that slightly dig into you in worry.

"Are you okay?" Catra's soothing, hard voice, whispers and the urge to burst out into tears gets even harder to ignore.

You close your eyes and sigh, "I'm fine, you guys should go back to sleep. I know you need your rest."

Adora laughs quietly and wraps her arms around you and leans in so her head is against your shoulder, while Catra leaps gracefully into your lap and places her hands over Adora's.

"You're always putting others before yourself, just relax for a second." Catra's voice surrounds you.

"We're here for you." Adora says warmly. "We'll always be."

"What?" Your breathe out as your mind starts getting flashes of your memories from your childhood at the horde.

"Ya, we made a promise clumsy." Catra grins up slyly at you.

"Adora! Catra!" Your child self yells out excitedly for the two of them.

"We're over here clumsy!" Catra screeches at you as she and Adora wave you over to them. Of course you come barreling towards them knocking you guys all down.

"Nice work clumsy!" Catra snaps at you as she helps Adora up leaving you on your own.

"Sorry I was just excited." You say dejectedly, taking sudden interest with the floor below you.

"It's okay." Adora offers. "We're really excited to see you too!"

Looking up you see Adora nearly jumping up and down she's so happy and you see Catra soften her glare towards you and it almost turns into a smile.

"Where were you guys?" You question tilting your head to the side to observe how Catra grips onto Adora's arm.

"With Shadow Weaver." Catra murmurs fearfully, and shudders as she says her Shadow Weavers name.

Scrunching your nose you shake your little head.

"Shadow weaver doesn't like me."

Which wasn't entirely true, she had avoided you at all costs sure, but she hadn't yelled or screamed at you. Not like she did everyone else, she even sometimes would yell at Adora. But never you, it was like she admired you, or perhaps the truth is she was afraid of you. Of what you didn't know. All you know now looking back on it, is that Shadow weaver for some reason was afraid of you.

Adora shrugs and walks up to you and grabs you by your shoulders.

"That doesn't mean we can't be friends!"

As you shake your head the younger Catra comes up from behind you and wraps her arms around your torso (a little possessively) and cuddles you from behind.

"I'm just scared you'll forget about me, and leave me..." You trail off but Catra finishes the sentence for you. "Alone?"

You nod your head sadly.

"Hey." Adora squeezes onto your shoulders.

"We're here for you." She says quietly like it's the most important secret in the world, to say that she and Catra won't leave you. "We'll always be."

"What?" Your younger self thinks out loud.

"We're making a promise clumsy." Catra says affectionately.

Abruptly you pull away from the two of them and stand up.

You couldn't do this, you couldn't just stay in their embrace like you when you guys were young. You are young no longer, and no longer are your feels platonic and free. They are love and caged, and enraged because of it. The love you feel, would only hurt them.

"I can't-" You break off the beginning of your sentence and you nearly start to cry. "I can't do this again."

The two of them stand up and Adora stands in front of you, as Catra stands behind you.

"Y/n, we just want to help." Adora says gently and tries to take your hand in hers but you pull away before you can.

"Just leave, leave me be."

Adora looks at you clearly hurt by your actions and words, as Catra, being as protective over her girlfriend as she is gets a little bit angry.

"Fine, we'll leave you to wallow alone then! If you don't want us, we'll leave!"

Catra takes Adora's hand, and although Adora probably isn't very happy with Catra's choice of words but she doesn't protest when she leads both of them out of the control room. Away from you.

"No, wait-"

"We've tried Y/n, but we can't wait around for you while you push us away." Adora says quietly and her words stab you straight through the heart and they kick at your delicate walls. They come crumbling down around you as you collapse into sobs.

"Wait! Please!" Your voice borders on hysterical "I'm sorry I'll-" This time you cut yourself off as your own voice gets taken over by the cries that erupt from your throat uncontrollably. Cries that have been waiting a long time to be let out.

In seconds Catra is in front of you taking your face in her beautifully dangerous hands and moves your head so you're looking up at her.

"Hey, hey, hey." Adora's voice comes from behind Catra. "You're okay." Adora says while Catra says at the same time; "You're with us."

"We won't leave you alone." Catra whispers into your ear.

"We promise." Adora says as she takes your hands into hers and places it over her heart.

"Am I-" Your voice is hoarse, and still riddled with hiccups as tears still run down your face. Yet it isn't as hysterical and out of control as before.

"Am I hard to love?"

It's silent for a second before Adora shakes her head. "Y/n, I'm not sure we totally understand." She tells you lightly.

"Am I hard to love." Your voice is like a scorching fire. "Because you guys have never loved me, not once. Not even when I love you guys so much it hurts to be around you. So tell me, am I just that impossible. That unlovable." Your voice is hard and both of them look at you with surprised faces and while Darla starts beeping, alerting everyone that you've reached your destination.

Glimmer, Bow, and Entrapta come through as the ship starts opening it's doors and ramps to the ground as you rip yourself away from Catra and Adora. While you go to join Glimmer, and Bow who look at you with matching concerned expressions.

"Don't ask." You grit out as you wipe the rest of the tears from your face.

"Are you-" Bow starts, trying not to freak out.

"I said don't."

Everyone is quiet as you guys take in the seemingly abandoned planet.

It's primary colors are black, and different shades of grey, as vines twist across the ground and trees hang over your heads. Yet there's a certain beauty to the darkness. When the light hits the right parts of the dark vines and trees they glow an almost rainbow color.

In the distance there's a structure that looks vaguely like a broken down temple. You feel a pull towards it, and you know you guys have to head over there if you want any answers.

"We should head over to that temple over there." You raise your voice and there's no response from anyone, everyone is just stays extremely quiet, keeping their heads down. You want to scream in anger, at least it would break the heavy tension in the room.

Finally the tenison is broken by Entrapta (bless her heart) as she shakes her head full of purple hair.

"I'll just stay over here I think! But I still want to know what's happening soooo..."

She hands everyone small little body camera's and you can't help but smile at her. She really is a genius beyond compare.

"I can also speak through them and if you want to try and get my attention just say my name!" She says excitedly, bouncing up and down.

"Thanks Entrapta." You nod your head towards her, as everyone puts on the body cams.

Catra slyly glares at Entrapta as she harshly grabs onto your hand and starts leading the group towards the temple.

"What the fuck was that!" You scowl at Catra passive-aggressive behavior.

She doesn't say anything but she doesn't let you go either. If anything, she grips onto you harder as you feel her claws dig into your wrist.

Taking your other hand, Adora grips onto it like it's her last life-line before she's pulled into the sea.

They don't say anything at all, the only words that are exchanged are from Glimmer and Bow who are desperately trying to fill the awkward silence.

"Y/n." Adora starts. "We just wanted to say-"

You cut her off by shaking both their hands off not wanting to hear their ultimate rejection.

Just in time before the two girlfriends can say anything else, the temple stands before the five of you.

It's black like the trees and the vines, and it looks old. Nevertheless it's beautiful with some dark crystals and symbols engraved into the black stone. Although it feels like the temple is missing something.

You feel like you're in a trance as you walk through the entryway as the others follow behind you.

"Uh, guys?" Entrapta's voice comes through the devices.

"If you guys go straight it will lead you to a power source that may or may not be magical. And it may or may have been barred off from the planet for a long time and if you guys don't unlock it from it's cage it will make the planet below up in... 30 minutes."

Immediately, everyone starts running furiously forward trying to get to the center as fast as possible.

Running up next to Glimmer you jog beside her contemplating on asking her your question wondering if she'll actually say yes but... If you don't say anything you'll never know.

"Glimmer." You brush your hand against her arm to get her attention.

"Can you teleport me to the center."

"But I can't teleport everyone?" She questions you, eyebrows frowned.

"I know." You whisper as you don't really want the others to hear. "I just want you teleport me, just me. I just have a feeling to this place, a connection I think."

Glimmer stops and observes you before nodding her head. Out of everyone, Glimmer was the one to go with problems like these. The other person might have been Adora but you didn't want to talk to her right now and she had a tendency to freak out over your safety. Not that Glimmer didn't, but she wasn't dramatic like Adora, nor would she be irrational.

"Okay."

In a second she takes your arm and you're teleported into the center of the temple.

Glimmer teleports out quickly as to not worry the others and probably to leave you alone here. She would understand, you would think.

In the center of the... center you suppose, is a beam of magic that's red, and black light with a grey magic barrier surrounding it.

Looking closer you realize it must be dark magic.

Taking a closer look at the walls around you, you realize that these aren't random symbols, they were writings, and you could read them.

Memories from the past flash through your mind forcefully as you read them.

People that were born from dark magic, normal, happy, magic users who used it for good. They were shunned from outside planets but the queens did not tell their people to resent them, they told them they just didn't understand them.

The queens were powerful and together they birthed a child from the magic, but before they could raise them Horde Prime came and obliterated their people. In a rush they had contained it's magic making so only one person could contain all the magic. Dark magic would always stay on this planet but it needed someone to stick to.

They created a safety guard on the place so if anyone came inside they would have to fight an large three headed dog.

As Prime came closer the two queens kissed their baby on the head goodbye with tears in their eyes as they did what they couldn't do for their people.

Save them.

So they sent the baby away with a spell, sending the child through darkness hoping praying they would end up somewhere safe. And that child you - had ended up right into Shadow weavers arms.

Then Prime killed the queens.

You fell to the ground your head pounding at your heart yearning.

You knew what you had to do, you had to go inside the beam of magic and absorb it's magic's power before it teared the planet apart.

Getting up you start to trek forward before four hands firmly pull you back.

"What are you doing!" Adora yells at you.

"The magic is restless, someone needs to absorb it so it doesn't tear the planet apart!"

"It's dark magic! You won't survive!" Catra screams down at you as her iron hold on you becomes even stronger.

"Yes, I will." You say calmly, the tone of your voice surprises everyone.

"You don't know that!" Adora cries out. "I'm going to do it, She-ra can do take it!"

Instantly Catra lets you go when she hears Adora's words.

"No you will not!"

In the distance you hear a growl and the ground shakes beneath you and you know you've run out of time.

Dodging She-ra and Catra, you sprint up to the magic and you hesitant slightly.

What if it didn't accept you? What if your moms had it made for someone else?

"Y/n!" Everyone screams for you to stand back, and the rational part of your brain is agreeing with them. Really, you didn't know what you were dealing with, but the pull you feel here is undeniable.

You've never been one for rational decisions anyways.

"I love you." You declare to Catra and Adora before taking a step into the dark.

It envelopes you wholly, it's long black inky arms seeks entry into your body, it doesn't hurt. This much magic going into your body should hurt, but maybe it's had a place there all along.

You're lifted into the air and you feel the darkness seep into you, and you welcome it like an old friend. More memories of your moms, of your people are filtered through your brain, even that you don't stop. This is where you were meant to be, what you've been meaning to become.

You feel every last drop of the magic inside of you yet you don't come down. What happens if you just stayed there? Could you be able to learn more about your people, why would you ever need to come down? Down there is so confusing, and horrible, terrible things have happened down there.

However the shouts of Adora and Catra fill your ears, their pleas for you to come back to them are desperate. Then you hear Adora turn into She-ra but she's not trying to "save" you, you don't think Catra would let her, no there must be something attacking them.

The three headed dog.

Opening suddenly your eyes are filled with black as you descend down, while around you your body is glowing. You can feel every shadow across the universe, and all the secrets of every individual.

You stand in front of your friends and you send an inky black barrier to cover them with just the flick of your hand as the dogs snarls and howls at you. He's a afraid, not of you but of being alone, yet he feels like he has to fulfill his purpose.

"I remember you." You whisper. "Mom used to play fetch with you outside the temple, and mama would watch from the sidelines, claiming she didn't like you."

You tilt your head to the side and the three headed dog does the same, as if he too, is starting to recognize you.

"But she gave you your name, Spot right? And she was the one who would pet you in the middle of the night."

Spot howls and runs at you as he nuzzles your neck, and cuddles you. Slobber must have been all over you.

Giggling the barrier separating you, with your friends dissipates as your eyes slowly fade back to their natural color, of course with a dark tint that wasn't quite there before.

"Y/n!" Adora runs up behind you as she pulls you into a hug.

"I thought I had lost you!" She exclaims.

"We, thought we had lost you." Catra comes in front of you, and takes your hands into hers.

"You almost did, it showed me so many memories of me, my moms, and my people. I didn't want to leave, even when the magic had transferred over to me entirely." You sigh a bit shyly.

"What made you come back?" Glimmer is behind you in a spark, but you knew she would end up there - her shadow was there before she was. So you didn't flinch or jump at the sound of her voice.

"Well I didn't want you guys to hurt Spot." You pet the ginormous three headed dog, you joke with a sarcastic tone at the end. Yet you pause before what you're going to say next. Did you have to courage to tell them outright when you weren't in distress?

Still, as you observe Adora and Catra you think maybe it's them who have to say it to you, or break it to you that they didn't love you.

"My friends." You reply, "All of you, I thought Spot was going to go after you guys (it's what he was trained to do after all) and just knowing that anyone of you could die... I just knew I couldn't stay there forever, not while you guys were suffering."

"OH!" Bow screeches. "Best friend squad!" And he pulls you all into a big hug as Entrapta agree's from the cameras.

"How did you know about any of this..." Adore trails off as everything soon gets quieter at her question.

Chuckling you take Catra's and Adora's hands into your as you wink at Bow and Glimmer. "I'll tell you all on the way and maybe on the ship. Quite frankly it's a long story!"

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After you had told your story to them, Glimmer had informed you that you would have to start training with your newfound magical powers. Even if she still sounded a little uncomfortable at the prospect of dark magic, you had told her that you were basically a vessel made to hold dark magic, and control it. There was no corrupting you, plus your people and parents had never been corrupted.

Catra and Adora had been acting weirdly around you, to say the least. You would do something you would normally do and they would have matching bright faces. Along with the fact that the three of you still haven't spoke about you confessing your love for them... Twice.

"Well this is a familiar setting." Catra speaks from behind you in the control room, while everyone else are in their respective rooms.

You can feel Adora's shadow also coming to the control room a bit farther down the hall then Catra. Without turning around you call out to her;

"Hello Adora."

"Oh crap! That's like super scary!" She yells as she jogs up to the couch where Catra now is laying her head inside your lap.

"That's the point Adora." You snicker but there's definitely a teasing tone to your voice.

She comes up behind you and somehow slides in behind you so her arms are warped around you, and your back is flushed against her chest.

There's silence for a while, for long time. It's not awkward or bad, it's actually pretty great as you cuddle the two of them.

"Y/n?" Adora's voice comes out a bit croaky.

"Yes?"

"We love, you like a lot."

"I know."

Catra sits up and slides into your lap. "If you were any other person right now I would slap you."

Giggling you run an hand through her hair. "I think- I think even I deserve love. Whether it be platonic or romantic."

"Hey Y/n." Adora whispers as her lips touch the shell of your ear.

"You aren't hard to love."

Catra kisses your cheek and smiles down at you, it's that smile you know not many people other than Adora and now you have seen.

"You never were."

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thedelusionreaderbitch · 2 years

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Catradora x gn! Reader - By staying and by knowing

A/n: I couldn't not write this once I got the idea

Summary: You've always been there for Catra, even after Adora left you were the one who stayed. Even if you didn't know what was out there or that the horde was wrong, it still killed you a little inside knowing that you hadn't left with her.

Warnings: Allusions to sex at the start, mentions of deaths of children and innocent people multiple times, swearing, instated that the three of them were together at one point, might write a part 2, kind of toxic relationship(s), I think that's it? You have been warned!

The three P's:

[Pronouns: You/you] [Pov: Second pov] [Pairings: (romantic) Catra x reader, (romantic) adora x reader, (past romantic) Poly! catradora x reader]

Takes place around season four

Catra's footsteps echoed off the hard concert floor as she basically pranced up to your side nearly giggling giddily as she threw her arms around you.

You smiled, it was so rare to see Catra so happy these days, after Adora had left the Fright Zone for good she usually was always seen in a deary mood. It didn't matter what you did, bring her her favorite foods, or cuddle her when she looked down, she never seemed satisfied with you. Only when you won against the rebellion did she ever even seem slightly joyous.

"What's got you in such a good mood?" You chuckled as she purred quietly when your hands run through her hair as she nuzzled your neck.

"Nothing important..." Catra trailed off as a mischievous hand wandered up your shirt.

"I doubt that." You scoffed as you felt her hand go lower, and lower...

"Catra!" You gasped.

"Then don't doubt me darling and let's get to my room."

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You woke up cold, without a blanket covering you. Sitting up you quickly realized the blanket had fallen to the ground, and that Catra had left.

After standing up and flicking on a light you found a note on the bed next to where she was supposed to be sleeping.

On a mission to capture the princess's, will be back soon with a victory ;)

Catra

Your hand squished the note before tearing it to shreds.

She always did this! Leaving you alone, going on missions, then coming back and sending you on some more. The more the cycle ran through again, the more you couldn't help but feel used.

And lied to.

The truth is, you didn't know what was out there! For all you knew the princess's were right and the horde was in the wrong! But you banished those thoughts from your head instantly, Catra had always told you what was out there. Although, you've never gone on missions out of the Fright Zone and never against anything big.

So you really didn't know what was out there. To be fair, no ones ever told you Catra has been lying to you, they'll never comment, but they don't object.

You didn't even realize your eyes were welling up with tears before your vision started to get blurry. No, you could not cry, you weren't allowed to.

Subconsciously half moons were forming on the palms of your hands from squeezing them so hard.

Then there was a knock at your door.

In a split second the water in your eyes was gone with a blink and a neutral expression had been drawn on your face.

"Yes?" You opened the door to see an very happy Lonnie with Kyle by her side.

"We got them," She laughed.

Your brows frowned in confusion.

"We captured those fucking princess's."

Oh, they really did do it. Why weren't you happy, why wasn't joy filling your veins as you fully realized that the horde had finally contained the mad princess's?

Catra had helped contain them.

Something here wasn't right, maybe the only way to know the truth would be seeing one of the princess's and hear them talk?

"Take me to them."

A sly smirk crossed Lonnie's features. "That's just what I'm here for, Catra wants you there for interrogation."

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"Catra?" You murmured a bit afraid as you approached the cells.

"Over here!" She yelled almost gleefully as you turned around to where she was over by the door of an extremely contained cell with no glass to see through, and the entire thing nearly made out of complete steel.

Grabbing your hand she squeezed it almost as if saying she was there for you. It gave you some comfort, and your original mission that you had put yourself on as soon as you heard Lonnie's words nearly disappeared from your mind. Not quite though.

"You have to be careful and be on your guard as soon as you get in there okay?" Catra's voice slithered. "Don't trust a word they say, and remember they will try and play the victim don't feed into it. The princess's are just a bunch of power hungry manics that don't understand control, alright?"

You didn't get the chance to even answer her question before she eagerly opened the door.

Most of the princess's were there, well you assumed most maybe even all of them. As there were six there, plus two men one with a red bandanna and one with a heart on his shirt with his stomach showing. (You didn't really think that would be great for battle.) And then there was-

Adora.

Oh, you've forgotten how much you missed her. Her blonde hair was tied up a bit frizzled, scratches all over her, chained to the wall, yet she was still as gorgeous as you remember her. Also she was still in her former horde uniform.

You wondered if it reminded her of when the three of you were all together. When life was much simpler, and when you were truly happy.

Then there was her eyes, her bluebell, nearly grey eyes. That was something of Adora that you would never forget, her beautiful eyes.

Catra did most of the talking, you managed to keep your neutral face through everything while blocking out what Catra was saying. You were not ready for seeing Adora after all this time, so there was no way you could have prepared yourself to make coherent words that weren't a mess.

So you didn't say a word, in fear that you would say something that was hilariously stupid, or something Catra didn't want to hear.

"I have to get someone to watch over them, there's no way we can leave them alone. Not even in a cell like this." Catra muttered, as she gritted her teeth.

Now she was angry again, great.

"I can watch them."

Catra whipped her head around as her yellow and turquoise eyes stared down at you. For a second you couldn't help but revel in her gaze even if she was trying to figure you out. Meaning that she didn't totally trust you, which yes, it hurt, but maybe she's been lying to you.

Maybe you should be questioning your trust in her.

Yet she didn't ask you if you were up for the job, she only analyzed before speaking. "Thanks, I really need a break from them."

Smiling at her as she opened the door only for her to pause on the way out.

"Oh, and come see me after okay? I want to read that new book with you."

Then the door shut and you were officially alone with the people from the Rebellion.

You didn't say anything, Catra's words had left an imprint on you. She was never so vulnerable in front of others, never so affectionate. To someone else those words might seem so insignificant, but to you they meant the world.

Too bad you didn't want the world, you wanted Catra fully and whole. That meant you needed the truth.

"Why did you leave."

You don't look at her, you think you just might break if you look at Adora.

"Don't talk to-" The Princess you were pretty sure was named Glimmer growled at you before Adora shook her head.

"I didn't want to leave you or Catra."

Those words, those words were the ones you needed to hear, the closer you never had after never talking to Catra about Adora leaving.

"You didn't?"

"I left the horde, not you- not you guys."

Finally you turned to her and as the tears ran down your cheeks. The tears that had been held in for years.

"It was terrible when you left." You sobbed, chocking on your words. "Catra got so angry, just all the time, and shadow weaver was relentless when she was here. Hordack is just here, I'm not even sure if he's running the place anymore, and no one tells me anything I just-"

You whimper and cover your face with your hands as you break down in front of most of the leaders of the Rebellion.

"I'm sorry Y/n, I truly am I just couldn't stand for the horde! They're horrible, killing innocent people and slaughtering towns because they just want more power!"

You didn't even question Adora's words, she said them so passionately that you knew them to be true. That was another thing you love about Adora, her passion and her morality for good. After everything is over you're sure Adora would be the one left standing for good after everyone else has fallen.

"Y/n please, please let us go. You can come with us and-"

"I love Catra." You suddenly interject.

"I'm not going to just follow your merry group and abandon her as you people use me to get you out of here then lock me up as soon as your out. I can't leave Catra, it would destroy her if I left."

Adora gazed up at you with concern and desperation in her beautiful eyes. "It's destroying you."

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You didn't speak a word to Adora or the rest of them after that, although you were the one who would take shifts with some other soldiers watching over the princess's. Though you were always silent when you did.

You knew what the horde was doing was wrong, of course it was. However you were still torn, Adora or Catra, Catra or...

You wished you could have them both like you used to. You wished that you loving them both wouldn't break you as they tore you in half.

You reached your breaking point when Catra came back grinning and boasting about attacking a fortress town near Brightmoon. Though you really knew it was a civilian town.

How could she boast about killing children and innocent people like that? How could she still have a clean conscious after everything?

So when you opened the door to the cell you let yourself speak.

"Could you protect them."

Adora answered almost eagerly to your question even if she didn't know what it entailed. "What?"

"Would you focus on protecting the children and the innocent with she-ra instead of using her against the horde."

"I can't just not fight the horde."

Shaking your head your heart accelerated knowing the answer to your next question would decide her fate.

"I'm not saying don't fight them, but if you used she-ra primarily with helping the villages and towns hit by the horde couldn't you save more lives? While the other princess's could attack the horde and you would help them only on the huge battles?"

"I would." Adora answers without hesitation.

"Promise me." You whisper into the cold air, water dampening your cheeks for a second time.

"I promise."

Pulling the sword from behind your back you place it in Adora's hands as she looks at you in shock.

"I can't-"

"Go."

You don't hear her yell the words for her transformation as you fall to the ground sobbing yet again in a cell.

And there was Adora, glowing in all her glory in she-ra form.

She crouches down to pull you into her arms.

"I think you're prettier when you're just Adora." You grumble, spouting off mindless sentences as she engulfs you with her arms.

Chuckling sadly she storks your hair, "Come with us, I can't just leave you. Not again."

The tears flow down your face even faster as you look up at her, "Go Adora, leave. Someone needs to be here for Catra."

Adora shakes her head; "She'll go livid when she finds out you let us go."

"That's why I'm here, to give you guys time to escape."

"Adora!" The boy with the heart shirt yells. "We have to go!"

"I'll come back for you." She stands up leaving you crumpled on the floor.

"Don't."

Nobody answers as Glimmer opens the door and the princess's file out one by one.

"Adora wait!" You yell.

"I love you."

When the door shuts you weep because in the end you betrayed them both, by staying and by knowing.

Words 2015

-thedelusionreaderbitch

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