Chapter Six: The Shadow That Pierces The Light

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A/N: Not that anyone is probably interested, but I started a TikTok cosplay account (ehk_cosplays._)My main cosplay is Catra, although I cosplay Adora, and even Perfuma too. Feel free to give it a follow💗

[Adora POV]

When I awake in the morning, Catra is lay peacefully beside me, one hand in my own, and snoring quietly again. Her short hair is messy, but that's the way it's always been. In fact, seeing it so clean-cut when she was controlled by Prime was what scared me most, apart from the dangerous green glint in her eyes.

I take a lock of the soft hair in my hands, and smooth it away from her forehead. She begins to stir, mumbling.

"Hey, Adora." She smiles softly, moving the hand that held onto mine over her eyes to shield from the morning sun.

"Can we get curtains?" She asks, and I laugh.

"If you want to." I respond, as she sits up, stretches, and scratches her back, just as she always has done.

"What time is it?" Catra grumbles. We'd stayed up until about five this morning, just talking. Even after I had reassured her that everything would be okay, she was still shaky, and her heart beat was so loud I could hear it- it was beating in a worryingly quick rate, but not a surprising rate, given the nature of her nightmare.

I look over to the big clock on the wall, squinting my sleep-filled eyes to read the time.

"Nine." I inform her. I take a moment to register this, before realisation dawns on me, and I jump out of the bed, whilst Catra stares after me, confused.

"Breakfast!" I shout, grabbing my jacket from the back of the desk chair and the rest of my pre-prepared clothes from the seat of the chair. See, thinking ahead always works out.
"Quick, get dressed!" I order Catra, before running into the bathroom. My girlfriend groans a few times, but I eventually hear her feet hit the floor, as she presumably goes to grab her own clothes. 

"What are you talking about? Why are you suddenly yelling about breakfast?" She asks as I pull on my white turtleneck.

"Breakfast stops getting served at half nine." I inform Catra. Food hadn't really been a priority of mine over the last few months, given how my main goal was to get Glimmer back from the Velvet Glove, Prime's flagship. I always made sure to have something at the start of the day though, so that I'd be able to work properly, even if it was just an oatmeal bar. 

"And? You can just get Sparkles and Arrow Boy to raid the kitchen with you, eat some cake straight off the platter with your bare hands. I hear you're good at that. Pigs." Catra says, as I come back into the bedroom, tugging on my boot.

"Oh yeah? Where'd you hear that?" I ask, intrigued, as I pick up my belt from the desk, and wrap it around my jacket.

"Sparkles, duh. We spent a month in captivity together, plenty of time to talk." Catra informs me, pulling on her black shoulder garment, and fastening it at the centre. 

"It was closer to two months, actually." I tell. Catra scoffs. 

"Whatever. Let's just go get some breakfast so you can stop running around at nine in the morning." She says, pulling me out of the room with her.

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When we reach the meal room, we find King Micah, seated alongside Glimmer, Castaspella and Bow. Opposite from Glimmer is Scorpia. Every other Princess had returned to their kingdoms last night, and Spinnerella and Netossa had gone on a break in a small cottage in the Whispering Woods. Netossa said it was a late anniversary present, given how Spinnerella was under Prime's control when their actual anniversary was.

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