Hestadil One-Shots

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Anadil and Hester's relationship had always been complicated.

It started off as a friendship of necessity to get through their first year at the School for Evil, but by the end of the first month they were true friends.

And then their second year came.

It was the two of them against the whole world.

They wanted to get back to good and evil and they were doing it together.

Everything had been perfect that year, if you asked Anadil.

But then their third year came and everything changed.

Now their rankings were important.

That meant Hester was tracked as a leader and Anadil as a henchman.

And now Hester was in charge and the dynamic changed again.

Anadil didn't like it.

Sure she had always done what Hester said in the past... but that was when it was her decision.

They had been equals, even if Hester made the plans.

Now Anadil was supposed to do whatever her friend told her.

And that made her start to wonder if they were even fiends anymore.

Maybe Hester just saw her as a henchman now.

And that made Anadil's heart sink.

She vowed to prove that she was more than a henchman.

So she did her best all year to rebalance Good and Evil.

But Hester let calling her a henchman.

She needed to find a way to prove it to Hester.

And that's when they got to Avalon.

She got the opportunity to prove she was more than a henchman and kill not one but two different great villains.

Nobody would ever be able to call her a henchman again.

Not even Hester.

And so she worked twice as hard and twice as long as everyone else to prove just how vital she was.

Hester didn't seem to notice.

She was too distracted with her own mentors.

The people who had killed her mom.

Hester was being so brave and (as much as Anadil hated the word) heroic.

And it made her heart beat twice as fast whenever she thought about it.

It made her fifteen times as determined to kill the villains.

She would show Hester she was more than a henchman.

She was worthy of Hester.

She blushed.

And by that she, of course, meant worthy of being on the same level of Hester.

Not... worthy of her like...

Anadil was distracted for the next fifteen minutes, her face still a light shade of pink.

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The battle was long and tiring, but by the end Anadil could say she had been instrumental in the death of two famous villains (Jack's giant and Blair Rose's fairy).

Just like Hester (her mother and Red Riding Hood's wolf).

She wasn't a henchman anymore.

She was on her way to tell Hester such when suddenly Blair Rose intercepted her.