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Hey Adora

"Come with me, please!" Adora begged, tears stinging her eyes.

"Why? Why would you want to leave? We have everything we need here."

"We are prisoners here!" Her fingers traced new scars on the arm she desperately grasped. "We could be free. Don't you want that?"

"She'll never let us be free, Adora, you know that. And she'll have my head if I let you walk out of here."

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"Would you get out of bed?! You're gonna miss class!"

Adora groaned as her roommate, Glimmer, grabbed her by the ankle and tugged. Her plan was to drag the built blond out of her raised bed but, in reality, she just sort of dangled from her ankle like an odd piece of jewelry.

She fell to the floor with a yelp and rubbed her, now sore, backside. "How are you so stubborn?!"

"Talent," Adora yawned as she finally sat up, the last remnants of her dream fading. She glanced at her alarm clock and grumbled a few incoherent curses as she climbed down and began getting dressed. "Aren't you late for breakfast with Bow?"

"No, we're late to breakfast with Bow," Glimmer corrected as she tossed Adora her jacket. "You promised you would go today."

"Yeah but that was before Coach called an emergency practice last night and I didn't get back until like one in the morning."

"Why did she call such a late practice?"

"It's game week," she shrugged as she ushered Glimmer out the door, finally awake, and passed out a few high fives down the dorm hall. "We have a big game against Krytis this weekend and Coach doesn't want us to break our winning streak."

"Just don't wear yourself out Adora," Glimmer's voice was coated in concern as they exited the dorm and into the crisp morning air. "You practice harder than anyone else on your team and I get that you're captain but, like, you deserve a break too."

"Did someone say party?" The girls smiled as arms slung themselves over their shoulders and Bow's smiling face came into their peripheral vision.

"No," Glimmer playfully shoved him, "I was just telling Adora that she should take a break."

"I don't need a break!" She groaned. "I need to stay focused so I can make sure we win this Saturday."

"Yeah but it's Tuesday," Bow's voice started to raise in pitch, as it usually did when he was about to make a suggestion, "so you still have a few days to get focused. Plus you don't wanna burn yourself out or you'll just end up tired. Remember last year when you stayed up for days, training to beat Scorpia for that captain spot?"

"What are you talking about? I got captain Bow!"

"You got co-captain," he corrected. "You were so tired from all your training that you and Scorpia ended up in a tie for the spot."

"I hope you have a point with this."

"Look, I'm just saying none of us have morning classes tomorrow and it would be nice to go out and have a good time? I hear The Crimson Waste has a deal on shots tonight."

"You just want to show everyone up in darts," Glimmer teased but still gave in to the idea, "but he does have a point Adora. C'mon! One night won't hurt you."

Adora glanced at her best friends pleading face and raised her hands in surrender. "Alright! Alright! Fine. We can go tonight. But! We aren't staying out all night. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night and I would like to catch up on it."