Hardships

Demons of the Past

Catra's POV:

I woke up with weight on my torso and my hip. I look up at the tent ceiling before looking around, my eyes widening when I saw familiar blonde locks strewn over my chest. I smiled softly before I realized where my hand was. I felt my heat rising up the back of my neck and I moved my hand from her butt to her lower back, rubbing circles there.

I studied her soft expression, and used my other hand to run a gentle finger over her soft cheekbones, her button nose, and her plump lips that I longed to have against mine once again. I smiled more and more when she cuddled into my side more and held onto me like I was a teddy bear. I moved a strand of hair from her face and tucked it behind her ears and  leaned forward and placed a gentle kiss on her forehead. I smirked knowing that she was awake. It was obvious, because of the little smile that came across her face when I did that.

"Good morning princess", I say surprisingly myself with how hoarse my voice was. Adora's blue eyes open, unveiling those beautiful sapphire eyes of hers and she smiles softly and asks, "How'd you know I was awake?". I smile and wrap my arm around her waist and pull her tighter to my side and say, "You arent very good at hiding it, I saw the little smile you had on your face after I kissed your forehead". Adora chuckles and I smiled gently as she ran circles on my abdomen with her index finger and says, "You study me often?". Now it was my turn to laugh and which made her look at me and I smirked at the pout on her face and say smugly, "Of course I have princess, we've known each other for 19 years".

Adora pouts even more and says, "not because you like me?". I felt my cheeks heat up and look away from her and say, "I dont like you!". I cringed at how many octaves my voice went up when I said that which only made Adora giggle and sit up, poking my cheek and saying teasingly, "Im not sure I believe you~ your voice rose like 6 octaves when you said that Catra". I grumble and she squeezes my cheeks and presses a kiss on my left cheek making me look at her with wide eyes. "W-What did you do that for?", I ask looking at the smug yet warm smile on her face and she smiles and says, "You were grumbling, I didn't want you to get frown marks".

I smile and sit up only for her to tut in disapproval and put a hand on my chest and keep me down. I look at her with a raised brow and say, "Adora I gotta get up".  Adora shakes her head and says, "I know but take it easy Catra you ate poisonous berries. You couldve been seriously hurt if Melog didn't bring you in". I sigh and look at the worry in her eyes and say, "Ok, I'll take it easy. And Melog brought me in?". Adora nods and says, "Yeah, he carried you on his back and got our attention around 5am. I brought you here and had the medics take a look at you. They found the reason why you passed out and had rashes all over your body. Which obviously was the damn berries you ate". I raise my hands up in defense and say, "Hey! I didnt know they were poisonous at the time they just looked ripe and colorful". Adora looked at me exasperatedly and says, "Catra! We learned that in survival skills 101 in the Horde! Colorful berries are 80% out of 100% POISONOUS". I scratch my behind my ears and say, "Well... you see". Adora rubs the bridge of her nose and says, "You didnt attend that class did you?". I offer her a sheepish smile and she sighs and kicks her legs off the side of the bed and stands up.

My eyes widen when I realized she only had on her panties and her gray undershirt. I quickly whipped my head around and said, "Adora you uh... slept like uh that?". Adora hums and says, "Yeah.. why?". I look at her and felt my whole body stiffen, and it was suddenly 100 degrees in that room as she slipped off her shirt and was left in her bra and panties as she looked for new clothes. I swallowed the lump in my throat and pulled at the collar of my shirt and asked hoarsely, "U-Uh is-is it hot in here or i-is it just me..?".

Adora turns to face me and chuckles and walks over, taking my hand and pulling me out of bed and saying, "Come on, lets get you some water and then we'll get you in some clothes". I then realized I was shirtless and in some baggy khaki shorts. Fuck why does it have to be khaki? I hate khaki. I nod and let her drag me through the camp. I tried to ignore the daggers being thrown at me until a chilling voice stopped me in my tracks.