MESSY, riven [fate : winx]

one..

[ episode one : to the waters and the wild ]

tatum sat with her back against a tree trying to finish her last minute summer reading homework. she knew it was hopeless, 6 weeks of summer holiday and not even the first page had been turned. she was trying to concentrate, she really was, but she couldnt pull her mind away from the conversation she had just had with stella.

four new suite mates, on top of already sharing a suite with stella. it was bound to happen, with all the extra room they had ,but god, four new people. really?

her thoughts were interrupted with a hand blocking the vision of her text book. "m'lady" riven said looking down at her. she gracefully took his hand, standing up, and doing a sarcastic curtsie. walking along with him as he twiddles his knife around in his hand.

"why so glum, chum?" he asks noticing the unusual silence around her. "nothing really.. i just- nevermind" "okay.. if you really dont want to tel-"

"well, basically stella just suddenly sprung it on me that we would have four new first years in our suite. four. thats crazy, i mean how am i going to deal with stella and four other girls. how will i-"

"stop stressing." he interrupted grabbing both of her shoulders and lightly shaking her. "it will be fine. and anyway, if its really that bad you can always sneak into me and skys bedroom, its not like you didnt last year."

they kept walking, now with his arm wrapped around her shoulder, a natural act for the pair. "yeah, you know what, your right. ill be fine. i dont know why im so stressed today, it's like my anxiety has skyrocketed over the summer." she calming replies, leaning into his arm further.

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"quit perving on the first years." riven jokes, seeing sky talking to the slightly younger red head. "riv, just give me a second. yea?" the blonde replies turning his head slightly. "why, you gonna chase her?" "nope." he huffs annoyed that his friend had distracted him from the girl. suddenly riven had pulled both of his two best friends into a hug, them all laughing with eachother like they had never spent any time apart.

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"i dont know man, theres just something about her." sky tells riven as the train. "what, your smitten after one chat?" riven scoffs in amusement at sky. "what do you think, tay?" the brunette asks the layed down girl, once again trying to do homework, resting the book on her chest she sighs, "sorry sky but im gonna have to go with riv on this one, you've known her for about five minutes." now watching the boys train it's become slightly more intense and as the swords clank together riven says, "what is it with you and the crazy one's?" riven asks, striking sky in the stomach again, earning a groan in return.

"how do you know she's crazy, you haven't even met her?" sky continues to defend her, "she's a ginge, they're all nuts." riven replies with a simple shrug of his shoulders, still fidgeting with his sword, "amazing shags though.." he adds on. "didnt need to know that, did we riv?" the brunette pipes up again focusing on anything but her work.

"speaking from experience? didn't know your hand was a red-head." this making tatum fake gag and mumble the word "gross."

the boys continue to train and as sky pushes riven to the floor he says "you got slow this summer."
"correction.. i got high this summer." riven replies resting his head on his arms.
"really?" sky asks as he helps riven off the floor.

"whatever big brother speech your about to give me.."
"there's no speech."
"i dont want to hear it." he carries on walking over to tatum and pulling her up off the ground, taking her hand to pull her in the direction of the woods.
"a more productive use of your time would be to distract your aggro father figure so we don't get expelled."

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"just this way." riven says, still holding the brunettes hand taking her towards the usual rock he goes to. just as they are about to sit down the hear a strange noise, in the distance, just the rustling of leaves against trees, them brushing it off and sitting down.

over the next few minutes the noises continue and as riven is blowing the smoke out of his mouth, hr looks around ever so slightly, trying not to move the silent girl resting against his shoulder, the quiet not lasting for long as he lets out a scream when he sees a dead body near.

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as tatum stood with a boring couple from her year, having casual conversation with them, she thought about all the things she'd rather be doing right now: hanging out with riv and sky, listening to music, rewatching just go with it for the 50 millionth time, sleeping, hell she'd rather be attempting to be finishing her summer work then standing in this god-awful party, standing with possibly the least thrilling two people in the world.

a commotion in the room caught her eye, seeing her new suite mate getting visibly frustrated with someone she couldn't see, tatum walks over there muttering a quiet "exuse me" towards the couple, as she reaches closer she sees the familiar grey jumper, that she borrows quite frequently, come into view,

"you shouldve seen him last year, he's just a tragic nerd in disguise." tatum hears terra say to her best friend.
"and she's just three people in disguise." riven retaliates, before seeing tatum come over.

"woah, riv, what the fuck?" tatum asks making them all acknowledge her, but before she could continue telling the boy off terra stops her, "no, no i've got this."

"people always think that they can treat the big girl like shit because we're.. we're sweet. and we're harmless and we should be happy that you're even talking to us. but sometimes we've had a really, really bad day and some srawny little arsehole says the wrong thing at the wrong time, and suddenly we're not happy your talking to us, we're not sweet, and most of all,
we are not harmless."

terras hands start to raise, and a vine loops around rivens neck, strangling him. as the scene unfolds tatum can't help but panic, her palms getting sweaty and heart beating faster,feeling this sensation all too well.

terra mocks as riven attempts to speak "huh? sorry? what was that riv, im sure it's really funny but i can't quite hear it." riven wished terra knew what he was really asking for, just wanting to check on tatum, knowing the panic she feels after watching her father die when she was younger.

"stop, stop please terra!" tatum beggs, wanting nothing more then her loved ones to be safe. terras release on riven releases with a slight smirk on her face.

" you could've killed me you freak!" riven says pointing a finger in terras face before taking tatum hand in his and placing it on her heart to help slow it down, them both knowing the routines to her panic attacks, "you okay tay?" he asks his gaze softening on his best friend.

"missed you too." terra calls out to riven as he leads tatum away.

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tatum misses all of her suite drama that evening as her and riven lay asleep in her room not knowing everything that's happening just outside her door.

a/n
first chapter done , lmk your thoughts <3