We weren't friends anyway (It still stings)

Settling grief.

The next few days were downright awful.

Entrapta surgically removed the chip from Catras corpse, crying silently as she did so.

Then came breaking the news to the alliance.

Scorpia broke down, and Perfuma was tearful during the explanation. All hell broke loose when Shadow Weaver replied with; "Good riddance"

The other princesses were unsure of how to react, and so they didn't.

Though Micah felt he needed to somehow thank her for saving Glimmer, yet it was now impossible.

And through it all, Adora kept her composure. Refusing to appear vulnerable.

Bow wrapped Catras injuries in bandages, and Glimmer pulled a sheet over the corpse.

Adora couldn't look at the body without nausea and guilt creeping up.

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Adora closed the door gently behind her.

She couldn't wake Bow and Glimmer, they couldn't know what she was doing.

She approached the covered corpse, her lip quivering as she slipped the sheet aside.

The two familiar emotions crept up inside her.

She finally allowed the dam to break, and tears flooded from her eyes.

She hugged the corpse of the girl she'd grown up with, and a trail of blood followed the movement of the body.

'Oh..Catra...' She whimpered.

Tears spilled down her cheeks, the agony of loosing someone she'd loved so dearly burning through her very soul.

The numbness had grown away, and simple, yet excruciating, pain sprouted in its place.

'I never even got to tell you..' Adora sobbed, her words muffled through Catras hair.

'I love you...I always have, and always will, stars....I wish I told you..'

Glimmer froze outside the room.

Hearing Adoras words, she teared up herself.

She had known the blonde had cared for the magicat, but not to this extent.

Glimmer would never wish a feeling like how Adora was feeling right at this moment on anyone.

The pain was too familiar.

She had lost her mother, and supposedly her father.

Adora had never know her family. She had only ever had Catra.

And now she didn't.

Adoras thumb rubbed over the fur of Catras face as her eyes stung from the tears.

She hadn't fallen asleep, and any moment now Glimmer or Bow would usually be waking her for breakfast.

But her appetite had gone with Catras life.

Now non-existent.

Placing a final kiss on Catras forehead, Adora pulled away.

She fixed the sheet over her friends body, and a weight lifted from her chest.

'Adora? Breakfast!'

'I'm on my way!'