Separated ~ Original Amphibia AU

Chapter 23: The Betrayal

     Sasha POV

     Sasha awaited Grime's response, but naturally a bird wasn't the fastest flyer. But it had been 6 hours now. Sasha stayed in her bedroom, not knowing how to go about the situation she was in. She needed Grime's help.

     Suddenly, a bird flew straight into her window, crashing at the glass. "Oh!" Sasha exclaims, opening her window and helping the little injured bird. He was small and red. "Hi there, wait here." She placed him on a small cushion chair as she took the letter from his leg.

     She unrolled it to read:

     Sasha,
This is perfect. Your mission is to get close to the heiress until you get the perfect chance to kill her, then go for the king. Inform us when the job is done and the toads will swoop in and do the rest.
              - Grime

     Sasha was shocked. That was a huge request. Sasha had never killed anything before, aside from monsters that attacked the camp and tower. She wasn't sure if she was ready quite yet.

     Suddenly, the door opened as Sasha quickly shoved the note into her pocket. She turned around to see Marcy and Anne at her door. Marcy wore a light green night gown, holding a brown teddy bear close to her, her chin length black hair let down and slightly wavy. As for Anne, her thick curly brown hair was put in a loose braid and she wore a baggy blue sweatshirt with white shorts and bunny slippers, clutching a pillow to her chest. "Hey Akana," Marcy says.

"Oh, uh what are you doing here?"

"We was thinking of maybe having a sleepover?" Marcy suggests, showing off her teddy bear. "I thought I'd like to get to know you better."

Sasha sighs. Orders were orders. "Oh gosh, sounds like fun!" She exclaims.

"Really?"

"Yay! I told you there was nothing to worry about, Marcy! Akana just needs to adjust." Anne leaned over and whispered in Sasha's ear, "She was paranoid you didn't like her."

"Pfftttt. Whaaat? No way," Sasha says, waving her hand dismissively. "So? Let's get this sleepover started!"

"Okay!" Marcy exclaims, shutting the door and tossing her bear onto Sasha's bed.

"So, how do sleepovers work?"

"Well, I guess we just hang out overnight and hardly sleep!" Anne explains.

"We could build a pillow and blanket fort!" Marcy suggests. "I loved doing this when I was a kid. It's like when you build a little house out of pillows and blankets."

"Okay!" Sasha says as they started picking up pillows and stacking them like walls. She hated her life.

"So.. did you guys ever build forts?"

"Not really," Anne says. "I only had one pillow."

"Yeah, not everyone got the luxury of hundreds of pillows," Sasha grumbled, before she realized what she said. Marcy's expression looked sad.

"Yeah.. living conditions aren't the best for frogs and toads. And even if we aren't on best of terms with them, I want to change things when I'm the ruler. I'm going to make living conditions better, give food and supplies to those who need it. I want this dumb feud to be over with."

Bull crap, Sasha thinks. Sasha knew she could do a better job than her. Give the toads what they finally deserved. "Well, we're counting on you," Sasha mutters as she continued the fort.

"I know it's scary. But I'd love your advice," Marcy says, softly. "You can trust me."

Sasha glared at her before looking away. "Yeah."

An awkward silence before Anne started squealing. "The fort looks sooo good!"

"Wait, let's get the finishing touch!" Marcy says as she grabs the blanket off Sasha's bed and thew it over the pillow fort.

"It looks so good!" Anne exclaims.

"Yeah.." Sasha mutters.

Anne and Marcy crawled into the hole on the side as Sasha followed. Wow. This was so unsturdy.

"Is this it?" Sasha asks.

"Well we can play a game."

"What game?"

"20 questions!" Anne suggests. "You just ask each other 20 questions to get to know each other better."

"Ohhh ok!" Marcy turned to Sasha. "Akana, what's your favorite color?"

"Pink," Sasha says. Silence.

"Oh uhh you ask someone else now."

"Okay." Sasha turned to Marcy. "Marcy, how do you plan on changing things when you are the ruler?"

"Oh, I'm so glad you asked!" Marcy says.

"Guys you know I'm playing this game too right?" Anne adds.

"So," Marcy starts, "I am going to make the budget for each land more even. Right now, Newtopia has a lot of treasures and money but I think if we can expand the lands for the frog nation it can have better conditions! Sturdier homes, more food and crops opportunities. And I want to relieve toads of the duties to just protect frogs. I want them to live freely like the frogs."

Sasha looked at Marcy. She didn't want to admit she was impressed. "Oh... wow. That sounds amazing."

"Yeah.." Marcy smiled. "I can hardly wait."

"Me too.."

"Okay, my turn," Marcy says.

[3 hours later]

     The girls couldn't stop chatting it off. Sasha was laughing as she heard the story of Marcy falling down the stairs. "And how did everyone react?"

     "Just as well as you would expect, which is not at all." They both laughed.

     "I cannot believe you actually tripped over your dress."

     "And the heels! Those are the spawn of the devil."

     "I wouldn't know," Sasha says. "I only wear super cool boots."

     "Ohhh I want some," Marcy says.

     Poor Anne ended up falling asleep aside them. They forgot she existed.

     Marcy rubbed her eyes. "Okay I'm gonna turn in. It was really nice talking with you though, Akana."

     "Y-Yeah."

     Sasha didn't want to admit it but Marcy was okay. She wasn't really like everyone else. The fancy pants newts and stuff. She cared. But that's what made this harder.

     Sasha stared at her as she was lying down, snuggled into a blanket and pillow and breathing slowly. Sasha slowly opened her bag, pulling out a knife. "Okay.." she says, taking a deep breath. She held it to her, her arms shaking. She slowly lowered her hand. "I can't do this," Sasha says, sighing and slowly putting her knife away. "I'll figure something else out. I can't turn my back on the toads."

     So she strategized for the rest of the night, anything but to kill her.