Wings of Fire One Shots

"I Love You Too." (Sunnyflight)

(Art by PotatoNibbles)

Before I start, just wanted to say that this takes place in The Dark Secret, and it's basically a different version of when Starflight confessed his crush on Sunny. So yeah, there's exact quotes from the book. Anyway, let's go...

 Starflight looked around at Sunny again.

I might die today.

What if she never knows?

What if I die without ever telling her how I feel?

He lifted his face toward the setting sun. He'd bluffed the NightWing guards. He'd escaped from the NightWing island. Surely he could say three words to one dragon.

When he looked down again, Sunny was right in front of him. His heart seized as though someone had wrapped fierce talons around it.

"We're going to be all right," she told him, shaking out her wings. "Just think of the prophecy. We have to be alive to stop the war, right? So we can't die today. Isn't that comforting?"

"I wish I had your optimism," he said.

"It's not optimism," she objected. "It's faith. There's a reason we're here. What we do today is part of it, but there's more, too, and we have to survive to make it all happen." Her smile made him feel as if lightning were crackling under his scales.

"Sunny," he said hesitantly. "There's something — I mean ... something I've wanted to tell you. For a long time."

"I'm listening," she said, tilting her head.

Across the clearing, Glory was flaring her wings and waiting for silence. It was now or possibly never, depending on what happened today.

"I love you," he blurted.

Sunny blinked, and then blinked a few more times. "I ... I love you, too, Starflight."

"No," he said. "I mean — I mean you're all I think about, and I want to be near you and it hurts when I'm not, and everything I do, I think, what would Sunny want me to do? And I think you're the only dragon who sees me the whole way I am and likes me anyway...." He thought, uncomfortably, of Fatespeaker and spotted her at the same time, across the clearing near Glory, watching the RainWing queen with her eyes wide and her head upturned. But his feelings for her and his feelings for Sunny ... well, they couldn't be the same.

"And I had to tell you," he hurried on, "in case something happens to either one of us today, although if anything happens to you I don't know how I'd be able to breathe or think or do anything ever again."

"Oh my gosh, Starflight, stop," Sunny said in a rush. "This — right now — how can I say anything, let alone the right thing, when we're — when everything —?" She spread her wings helplessly, indicating the mob of RainWings around them.

"It's all right," Starflight said, and realized that he meant it. "Don't say anything. You don't have to. I just wanted you to know, just in case."

Suddenly, a smile appeared on Sunny's face. She grabbed Starflight and kissed him, leaving Starflight blushing with wide eyes for a second until he caught himself.

"I love you too," Sunny said. "I should have figured it out sooner." She regretfully looked at all the RainWings preparing for battle, and then at Starflight again. "Promise me that you'll stay safe."

Starflight didn't answer, he wished he could make that a promise, but he might break it. "Well now I have to," he said.

"You did bef ---"

Starflight shook his head. "Now even more." All the words were coming out wrong. 

"Why?"

He smiled. "I have you."

They stayed like that for a few awkward minutes, right in front of all the watching RainWings.

"See you back here?" Starflight asked. 

Sunny nodded confidently. 

Starflight was about to walk away, but then he turned around. 

"I love you," Sunny whispered. "Don't die..."