Bolt Through The Heart (Quanxi X F.OC)

-Pancakes-

Splatter.

"I thought I'd still have more time." Sei thought, washing out the red from the sink but she was literally losing sleep over this. "This is getting common."

She was sure Makima was doing something, they are meant to be equal technically and yet she was in this state, if Makima really upsets the balance between might happen to actually go out of balance, it never did but still, that was Sei's only explanation to be coughing blood so close too the previous time.

She looked at herself in the metal pans reflection, she wasn't getting better, skin forever looking pale, thin on her body, hair dry and brittle, eyes sunken in and tired... And to think there was a time she really looked like the perfect twin of Makima.

She quickly washed the rest down, hearing someone stir behind her.

"Oh hi Long." She smiled as the fiend sat up in bed, yawning and when breathing out accidentally breathing a small ball of fire but lucky her, it didn't burn anything.

"Hi..." She muttered before smelling the air. "Oooh what am I smelling??" She asked, excited.

"I promise you guys pancakes, plus I woke up first today and didn't feel like sleeping in so I set out to prepare the batter at least."

"Oh let me help pleeeease!"

"Sure but put on some goddamn clothes."

"I am a dragon, I don't need them."

"I don't understand why you so love being naked even if nothing happens in that bed, you are always naked."

"I have scales, I am not naked!"

"You are naked too me, dress up, now please."

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Yet again she sat there, feeling sick just at the sight of food in front of her as none of the fiends noticed, stuffing their face with the pancakes Sei had promised to make them, Long was still covered in flour from the somewhat help she tried to offer, somehow.

She kept her gaze fixated on the now cold cup she was holding, the smell of food revolting.

A plate was pushed into her view and she looked up, Quanxi already staring at her while doing that, taking her finger off the plate.

She swallowed with a forced casual smile, grabbing a fork and suppressing the tremble in her fingers as she grabbed it.

She felt like throwing up again at the first bit but chewed and swallowed it, doing her best to not look at Quanxi at all.

Bite after bite, it was a fight to keep it down, finally pushing the empty plate away by the time all the fiends had finished their huge pile of food.

"Thanks! That was really good." Pingtsi said with a side hug, Sei smiled even as the smaller girl squeezed her in her arms.

"With pleasure, I like cooking, I could do it more." Sei added, Tsugihagi gave her two thumbs up, she might not talk but she did have her way of communicating, hell sometimes it was easier to understand her then it was Cosmo who did try to speak.

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"Keep it down, keep it down." Sei repeated too herself, hating how her stomach never let her keep anything down for a while after spitting up blood.