Spell It Out

Stand Up

 As they walked off the field, Wednesday following Enid, Ajax stormed onto the field. "Okay that's enough, I'm done being too scared to say anything."

Wednesday takes a step forward, lips slipping into a haunting grin as she lifts her hands. Ajax trips backwards a step, fear dominating his features. Still, he refuses to run away.

As Wednesday goes to advance on him, Enid steps between them. "Stop!"

The two shift their attention to the colorful girl, faces stunned as if they had completely forgotten the subject of their argument to begin with. In reality, how could Wednesday possibly forget Enid, such a bright star in her delightfully dark black and gray world?

So she waits as Enid takes a deep breath and steadies herself. "Wednesday, could you give us some time to talk? Alone?" Enid finally says.

The first reaction Wednesday had was to immediately electrocute the gorgon into ashes like a certain loathsome relative of hers. Instead practicing the restraint that Wednesday hadn't showed since her parents tried to mistakenly send her to a disgusting summer camp, Wednesday took a deep breath, and stepped back. "Fine. But if he does anything to you I won't stop at nailgunning his heart."

"I'll be fine, Wednesday", Enid huffs with an eye roll. She refused to be babied.

Relinquishing, Wednesday sends Ajax one last glare in warning, and turns on her heel and walks away towards the dorms.

"Look, Ajax I know it's weird and Wednesday isn't the nicest or most romantic, but she and I are seriously engaged. We need to break up officially", Enid says, setting her shoulders back and standing up straight to look taller. In the end, she had to do this herself, and not rely on Wednesday. She was a werewolf after all! Enid Sinclair was no weakling. Somebody who couldn't even stand up for herself to break up with a person could never stand next to Wednesday Addams.

Ajax nodded slowly, face falling into sadness. "So it's for real. The show in the quad, the heart."

Frowning, Enid wracked her brain. Unless Ajax meant their physical hearts, there was no hearts involved in Wednesday and Enid's engagement. "What do you mean heart?"

With his hands still in his pockets, Ajax nods towards the center of the field behind Enid.

Her mouth dried as her heart thundered. It couldn't be. There was no way Enid could have missed something like that right? Slowly, Enid turns around to spot the heart made of arrows, made just for her. With a gasp, Enid brings her hands to her mouth to cover the o that her mouth had formed.

"Enid? Are you ok?" The words from Ajax barely registered in Enid's brain, mind still racing through backward to several minutes ago when Wednesday had so confidently shot those arrows around Enid. Wednesday hadn't been attacking Enid for fun at all, she had been trying to be romantic.

"Aaaand I can tell I've completely lost you. See you around Enid", Ajax murmurs. Actually he might have shouted it in her ear, Enid wouldn't have remembered the difference because she was too busy swooning internally. Somewhere in the background Ajax walked off, shoulders drooping.

Enid inwardly berated herself. She had been so ready to be angry at Wednesday for not giving enough effort into their new relationship, but it was Enid who had completely overlooked Wednesday's efforts. That was just how Wednesday was, quiet, crazy in the best of ways, and deadly for Enid's sanity.

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Enid bounced into the room with two plates of food and ground to a halt. "Wednesday?"

She had gone to the cafeteria to grab them lunch, knowing that Wednesday would choose writing furiously on her typewriter over lunch in a heartbeat. So, she had stopped on the way to talk to Yoko and excitedly spill her guts (which always took a while if she was being honest), but the entire room shouldn't look completely different in that time.