Touched By Fire [Anne With An E]

Chapter 4

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(A/N I'm sorry for such a long wait. I didn't have much inspiration and was kind of addicted with writing my other story, but I'm here now. Hopefully I'll upload more often <3 Also if you noticed it, I changed the name from "Touched By Fire [Shirbert]" to "Touched By Fire [Anne With An E] I purely did this because I'm confused about this story. I don't know if I want this to be an Anne x Diana, Anne x Gilbert or an coming of age story, so please tell me which one you want it to be. It would help me a lot. Also sorry for the incredibly short chapter.)

"Diana!" Anna screamed, "Diana wake up!" Anne did everything to make her conscious, but nothing worked. She could do two things, one leave her where she had found her or two take her to her shack. But Anne wouldn't be Anne if she had just left her there.

With all of her strength took Anne Diana in her arms. The first few meters it went pretty smooth, but soon after that Anne lost her balance and fell down in the mud. She was covered from head to toe in dirt while Diana only had her hair dirty.

"Great, now I have to wash this," Anne murmured as she pushed Diana off of her trying not to make her covered in sludge, but failing miserably, "Forgive me."

Anne's second attempt was more successful, she lost her balance a couple of time, but she never once dropped Diana.

Her arms grew tired and she was getting weaker and weaker, but she was almost there. Just a few more meters. At least she thought that it were only a few metres*, in reality she was on just over the middle of her path.

After a few minutes Anne couldn't handle it anymore, she needed to lay Diana on the ground. And that's exactly what she did, knowing her dress was already dirty. The redhead decided to sit next to the Barry girl while she was catching her breath.

Her mind drifted of, wondering what it was like in the village right now and why Diana was in the forest. Maybe she was looking for her. Shirley quickly dropped that thought, she knew one one cared enough for her to do that. She knew that people wouldn't care. She was already gone for a few days, but nobody had gone looking for her. And it's not like she didn't run away before, why would the situation be different this time.

"Anne?" it snapped her out of her thoughts, away from her insecurities, "Anne?!" the same voice said only happier this time. All of a sudden Anne felt two arms wrapped around her neck, only then she realized it was Diana against her body.

"You're awake!" Anne yelled a bit to enthusiastic.

"Are you coming back home?" the black haired girl said as she pulled away.

"I don't have a home," the confusion was visible from kilometres away.

"Of course you have, silly. You live with me," Diana started to walk away.

"You're going the wrong way and you hate me!" Barry walked in the right direction this time.

"I never hated you!" Anne started to catch up with her.

"And Jo March is heterosexual**!"

"What?!" Diana stopped for a split second.

"It means that you're lying."

"But Jo March isn't a homosexual, she is in a heterosexual relationship!"

"That doesn't exclude her attractions towards the same sex."

"Yes, it does! You can only have one type of sexual attraction, the one towards the opposite sex."

"Not everyone experiences the same things as you, some people don't want to be in a relationship with a man, but with a woman. The only thing that matters is if they love each other."

"But the church..." Anne cut her off before she could continue.

"The church doesn't get a say in love. God made you the way that you are and no one should be in the way of that."

They didn't speak to each other the rest of the way, that was until they got to the lake of shiny waters.

"We're not on the way home, are we?" Diana's eyes filled with worries.

"No," Anne simply stated.

*I don't know which measurement they use in Canada so I'll just do the one we use in the Netherlands.

**For everyone who is gonna attack me about this, this is my opinion and I don't wanna be in a fight with anyone about the sexuality of a fictional character. So if you disagree with me, please keep it to yourself.