I will not forget. | Catradora

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Screaming. Breathlessness. Darkness.

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Adora rubbed her eyes and looked around the room before gazing towards the window where Catra stood. Catra didn't turn around to face Adora despite hearing the squeaking of their bed as Adora sat up, her stare was locked on the night sky.

"Catra, are you okay?" Adora didn't need to be fully awake to notice something was wrong. It wasn't unusual for Catra to wake up in the middle of the night, it had only been just over 2 weeks since the defeat of Horde Prime so she was still on edge, but she had great hearing and would always acknowledge Adora waking up by at least looking over at her.

She hesitated for a moment, "I'm fine, you can go back to sleep". Ouch, she winced; it came out a bit colder than she intended.

Silence filled the air for what felt like an eternity, and yet was probably less than a minute in reality, "Promise?"

She turned around to face her girlfriend, staring into her worried eyes, "I..."

A feeling of guilt suddenly settled in her stomach, "Adora, it's okay, I'm okay, see? You need to get some rest."

"So do you," Adora replied as she moved over in the bed and gently tapped the space next to her, a signal to get Catra to come and lie next to her once more. A sweet smile barely made its way onto Catra's face, she couldn't help but smile towards Adora, she was like a ray of sunshine. Her ray of sunshine. She couldn't help but feel that she didn't deserve her, but even after everything they had been through, there she was.

Catra made her way over to the bed and lay down, hugging her legs to her chest. Adora took the blanket and gently covered Catra with it, she then got comfortable right next to Catra and hung her arm over her body to hold her hand. And like that, they drifted off to sleep.

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A shriek, Catra's ears were bleeding. Suddenly she was back in the portal, the world around her glitching and breaking away from existence.

"ADORA!" She yelled as she shook the blanket, but to her utter shock she wasn't there. She frantically looked around the room, searching for any sign of her.

She quickly stood up and turned around, "You did this,"

"Adora, Adora what's going on?" Catra pleaded with an urgency in her voice, "We need to go!"

She grabbed Adora's hand and went to run to the door, but Adora didn't move, she just stood there with a stern expression on her face.

"What is wrong with you!?" Squeaked Catra, full of panic.

"You should be here, not her," a voice echoed from behind them which made Catra spin around with tears in her eyes.

"Glimmer!? What do you mean?" But Catra knew exactly what she was on about, "Nevermind, Sparkles come and teleport Adora out of here because she's clearly not moving!"

Catra spoke with her voice cracking slightly, getting more aggravated at the situation but also trying to stop the tears from pouring out. This couldn't be happening.

Tears were blocking her vision now, but she still realised something wasn't right with how Adora and Glimmer looked, it was like they were glitching, like they were holograms.

"Little Sister, you didn't really think you were going to have your happily ever after, did you?" That voice. So cold and careless, mocking Catra in its tone.

The room began to fill with green as Catra desperately searched for a way out, the doors and windows were gone, her friends were gone and she was all alone. Again.