Your Encanto (Camilo x y/n)

Heart to Heart

"This had better be worth it"

In the meantime you supposed you'd better
do something. So you turned to Camilo, and, using the semi-bright emerald light from the vision piece, you decided to strike up conversation

However, before you spoke you noticed something

Camilo was...shapeshifting?

"Um...what are you doing?" You cautiously asked, setting the green piece down in the middle of the two of you so that you could both see each other

Instead of answering, however, Camilo kept changing between different people you somewhat recognized in town

'This must be an anxious thing' you thought

You could hear him slightly mumble to himself in the middle of all of his shiftings

"Camilo?" You tried. He looked back at you. "Take deep breaths okay?" You slowly breathed in, taking deep breaths yourself. He soon copied your pace, and you both breathed in and out together

Finally he shifted back into himself. When he did, though, you noticed something fall out of his pocket.

Before he could notice, however, you picked it up. It was a photo. A photo of...himself?

"Uh, Camilo?" You started. He looked at your hand, finally noticing what you had grabbed

Quickly, he tried snatching it back. You looked up at him. He looked embarrassed, his cheeks growing slightly red in color

"You carry a photo of yourself in your own pocket?" You asked, slightly amused at the question you just asked. "A little egotistical if you ask me"

He paused, not looking straight at you. You looked up from the photo to look at him.

"Well when your gift is changing into everyone but yourself, it gets hard remembering who you are sometimes." He said, his voice slightly above a whisper. He glanced down, fidgeting with his hands before changing into two other people again

The look on his face made you immediately feel guilty about what you had said. You looked at him with sorrow

You slowly and quietly walked over to him, offering him his photo back. He glanced between you and the photo before grabbing it from you, changing back into the curly haired boy you recognized, and tucked the photo back into his pocket

"I'm sorry Camilo. I shouldn't have said that" he gave you a weakly forced smile

"It's alright, you didn't know"

"That doesn't mean anything. I shouldn't have been so insensitive" he frowned at that

"Im not weak, y/n. It's alright."

"I never said you were weak. This-" you pointed to him and his pocket, "-doesn't make you weak"

"Sorry" he sat down "I didn't mean to snap at you, I just don't usually let people see me like this" you gave him a soft smile and sighed

"You known I think we both got off on the wrong foot" You sat next to him "aaaand I'm pretty sure we also misjudged each other...or at least I did. And I'm sorry for that"

He looked up at you."Just please don't think of me as any less because of what you know" he gestured to the photo

You gently put your hand on his shoulder. "Camilo, I don't think you being vulnerable is a sign of weakness."

He went silent again for a few moments. In that time you took your hand off his shoulder and just sat there next to him.

"You can talk to me you know" you gently whispered. "I'm already hated by everyone in town right now, including my own family, so it's not like I'm gonna tell anyone" you forced a smile in his direction, trying to lighten the mood. You could tell he was still anxious

Slowly, however, he gave in. And after a deep breath or two, he continued

"Ever since I got my gift, I've been needed and wanted" he paused. "But not as me" he reached in his pocket, taking out the picture again and looking at it. "I mean-," he chuckled, "who would even need the guy who doesn't even know who he really is...?"

You looked at him, trying to decipher his facial expressions, but all you could see was teary-eyes, hidden behind a mess of curly hair and years of masked pain.

"I couldn't even save you as myself" his voice was barely audible, but you could still hear what he had said. You had never thought about it that way. When he had saved you from falling, or heck, when he helped you swing across on the rope, he wasn't himself. He wasn't Camilo.

"Camilo" you started, just barely above a whisper

You had no idea what to say. You let his name hang in the air as you tried to gather up the right words

You finally decided with sharing a personal story of your own. You let out a breath before starting

"Ever since I could remember, my brother Carlos has always been the person everyone looks up to" Camilo turned towards you, probably (for the first time) glad that the attention wasn't completely on him

"My dad left us out of nowhere one day and from that moment on Carlos stepped up into that father figure role. Ever since then, he's the one that people need. That people want. And because I'm younger I'm no use to anyone because Carlos is always there to fix everything and help everyone. Ever since then, I didn't know what role I was supposed to play or what I was supposed to do with my life. I didn't even know who I was...I still don't fully know who I am.." you looked down, playing with the sand on your fingers as a distraction.

"I just don't know what my purpose is supposed to be anymore.. It's almost as if I'm nonexistent.." you paused, holding your knees close to your chest and started focusing on your breathing before you looked at Camilo and continued

"I may not know what it's like to have gifts or to struggle because of them. And I can't imagine what you must be going through, Camilo, but what I can say is that I understand how it must feel to believe that you aren't helpful or aren't worthy as yourself." He looked into your eyes, listening to every word

"And you saving me back there" you directed your head toward the entrance of the cave "that was all you. Sure, you shape-shifted into someone else, but that person on the inside, the one who had the heart and courage to save me, that was all Camilo" you looked at him, smiling. He returned the gesture

"And if it's any importance to you, I think you look really cute in that photo there in your pocket" you said giving him a nudge with your shoulder

"Oh whatever" he said, chuckling as you slightly laughed aswell

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"Quickly, they're in there" you heard Mirabel say as she got closer to the cave

Not a moment after you heard rocks and boulders being pushed back the door, which was being easily opened by Luisa

Mirabel rushed in, sucking us up in an embrace

"Are you two okay?! I'm kinda surprised you didn't kill each other while I was gone" She said still hugging the both of you.

You and Camilo both just simply looked at each other.