Our Secret (MCD Vylad X Reader)

The people of New Meteli

There, laying in bed more exhausted than she had been before going to bed, was Aphmau. It took her a moment to properly open her eyes, mostly a shine of surprise filling them once she finally did. She was still dressed in the frilly, purple underwear Cadenza had provided for her, her black hair frizzy, and her lips swollen.

Emmalyn is worriedly fretting over her as I finally approach, both just as confused as the other as they stare back at one another. Emmalyn is unable to contain her shouting and Aphmau looks like she hasn't slept in thousands of years.

"I TURN MY BACK FOR ONE SECOND AND THEN YOU WERE THERE! WHAT DID YOU DO?!?!"

"Woah, calm down there, tiger. Don't get your panties into more of a twist than they already are," I finally speak up, a nervous grin more than likely on my face as I drag Emmalyn off of Aphmau to give her more space. I move a little closer, giving her forehead a quick feel to ensure she's not too hot before backing away to view her a little better again, "Geez, you look like shit... You feeling okay?"

Aphmau doesn't hear my question, her eyes glazed over as she thinks to herself. Eventually, she comes back to, auburn eyes widening as she sits up a little better. She gazes between me and Emmalyn, "I... I-I was dreaming a-and I was in this completely different place, it almost felt like a different dimension an-and there was Garroth-"

As she rambled, I placed my hand on her shoulder to ground her. My eyebrows furrowed at his name and I was unable to stop myself from interrupting her, "Garroth?"

"He kissed-... H-He kissed... kissed...," She stopped herself, her cheeks flushing a brighter shade. She lets out a sigh before continuing, "It felt like a dreamworld... There was a huge tree and-and it was just... It was weird..."

It takes Emmalyn and me a moment to respond, both of us trying to process Aphmau's words. Emmalyn speaks up first, "So you believe the dream had something to do with you disappearing?"

"I-I mean, it felt like another dimension, yes, but I...I don't know what to think about the entire thing... If I was gone here and I was...," Aphmau hesitated after working herself up again, only to calm back down when she loses her footing, "...I don't know what to think about all this."

Emmalyn tosses around Aphmau's words more in her head after that, her thumb and index finger rubbing at her chin for a moment before lightly tugging on her bottom lip as she further thinks on it. I ignore her thinking and mumbling to instead go to Aphmau, who's a little more than worked up and confused over the whole predicament. I grab her hand closest to mine between both of my hands, rubbing my thumbs over the back and palm of her hand to calm her breathing. I send her a reassuring smile and the panic in her face goes away for the most part, a small, pained smile returned my way, "While I don't exactly know what to think of it myself, I will say that I'm glad to know you weren't hurt and that you're now back with us and safe. Would've really fucking sucked if you died before we could finish the wall for Phoenix Drop..."

I manage to gain a laugh from her and that's enough for me-

"Aphmau, you might have been with the actual Garroth," Emmalyn perks up, eyes a little wider and her hand flying away from her face to adjust her glasses as she fixates her gaze back in our direction. Her dilated pupils are almost scary.

"Emmalyn, what the hell are you talking about?-" Her statement sends me some form of anxiety, mostly that I'm not the only one thinking that she might've actually come across Garroth through her dream traveling.

"I've never heard anything like this before, though scholars have documented things that might be attributed to this...," Emmalyn continues, sounding more like she's walking herself through her own line of thinking. Her tone remains questioning, "I don't even know... I DON'T EVEN KNOW AND I WANT TO KNOW!" Emmalyn pushes me out of the way, grabbing Aphmau's hand as I'm forced to let it go and getting on her knees as she tightly and desperately holds it close, "TAKE ME WITH YOU IN YOUR DREAMS!"