RED (Dianakko)

8

They sat in silence sipping tea, Akko wishing this silence will last forever instead of talking about what going on with her, but she knew Diana will not let this go even if they don't talk about it tonight, but she's still grateful to know that despite her hurting her, Diana is still willing be by her side, even confessing how she felt, and Akko more than anything wants to grab her and kiss her, but she's so afraid of hurting her again to even actually do that, as well as being afraid that Diana will say no to her advances because of her reputation, in reality Diana would gladly announce to everyone that she's in love with the red eyes witch that helped her finally find peace with herself, who showed her that she doesn't have to take everything serious all the time.
Diana cleared her throat, setting her empty tea on the table, making Akko tense up a bit knowing that either way she has talked about what's been going on, despite not knowing herself.
"Akko, when did start noticing these changes?" Diana asked, looking her in the eyes.
"I guess when I woke up...I can't exactly explain it, but I feel like I'm not me anymore, like I've become more animal than human," Akko replied, thinking hard about what she's been feeling and she's been noticing about herself.
"What do you mean about feeling more like an animal?" she questioned.
"I...well, I don't know, I just feel like a wild animal, when I smelled your...blood, I was so hungry, I kept thinking about...like...it felt like you were food," Akko jumbled out, shaking her head in disgust of what she was saying, even more disgusted that she actually thought that.
"When I was with Bo, when she was experimenting on me, she kept talking about how I'll her perfect child, that I'll be like her if I survived whatever she was doing to me...what if she's right, what if I'm becoming like her, she definitely wasn't human...I don't want that," she continued, suddenly having trouble breathing when thinking about what happened to her, remembering the pain each experiment gave.
"Can we not talk about this right now?" Akko pleaded, not looking at Diana.
"Of course, I'm sorry for pushing this, we can talk about something else," Diana said softly, going over to Akko, giving her a tight hug, Akko hugging her back.

After Akko left, Diana started to clean up the mess they made, setting them each item back in there place after cleaning them, once she was finished with that, she grabbed her wand and a empty satchel, planning on going to the Archives, hoping to find something that describe what Akko told her, also making sure to bring a lantern and her broom if needed. Once inside she started looking around, trying to find anything from curses to werewolves, which definitely seemed likely, putting anything werewolf related into her bag, as she continued to anything else.
"Akko did say whoever took her wasn't human, maybe a shapeshifter?" she whispered to herself, hovering up to find anything about shapeshifter's, grabbing three books.
But she wasn't satisfied yet, knowing that it could be something one wouldn't think about, spending a full hour looking for any material that could help. Once she couldn't fit anymore in her bag, she reluctantly left the Archive, hurrying back to her dorm room before curfew hit, not wanting to get in trouble.
"Diana where were you?" Barbara asked, her and  Hannah already in their sleep wear.
"I went to get some books to study," she replied bluntly, setting the bag down near her desk.
"Hm ok, we're just worried that's all, you've been very tense lately," Hannah said, frowning a bit, "we don't get hang out with as much, maybe you want to go out to town tomorrow," Hannah said hopefully.
Diana felt horrible for not spending time with her friends, knowing that they were right about her being more reserved as of late, "yes, I would very much like that, I think it's for a break," she agreed, which put smiles on their faces, yelling goodnight to Diana.
Diana slowly started changing, thinking about tomorrow, knowing that she still had time to study later once she spent time with her teammates, finally going to sleep somewhat content with her plans tomorrow.

Morning quickly came by, Akko up before her teammates which wasn't like her before she was taken, but since she been back, this was becoming habit of watching her friends sleep before leaving the room, heading to the courtyard again, her mind going back to what happened yesterday, focusing on every detail of Diana's petrified face, feeling both pleasure and guilt ridden, as she tried to comprehend her actions, to understand what this means for herself and the people she grown to care about, despite her mix feelings, she doesn't want hurt anyone, she doesn't want to be a monster, something she feels like is happening to her anyway. Akko found her focus on the forest, thinking about leaving instead of eventually harming anyone here, so with that in mind, she got up from the bench and started making her way towards the forest, not stopping to look back as she entered, her only goal in mind right not is to not be a burden to the people cared about, specially not her teammates and definitely not Diana which she hasn't told her how she felt yet, but it seems it'll never happen.
And by the time the first class beginned, Akko was long gone.

Bo felt a boast of excitement, knowing that finally her plans are coming to play, not only does she finally have her own child, the demon lord has finally arrived on this earth, and now all she has to do is wait for her nephews to break her out tonight so they can get her daughter and lay waste to these lands. She stood up from her chair that was rooted to the ground, looking out her cell, watching the guards casually talk to one another, slowly walking to the wall, as all of sudden two men appear and slit the guards throat, as another man teleports in front her cell, a wand in hand.
"Hello Carlson, it's nice to see you again," she grinned, as he mumbles a spell under his breath, a door carving itself on the wall.
"Your right, it's definitely been awhile dear, but enough chit chat, we have plans," he chuckled, moving to the side as she walked out, raising her cuffed hands out for him to dispel.

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A/N: Unfortunately this will be the last update for awhile, I just found I have to go to summer school, so I'lol be taking off to focus on my school work.