MCSM One Shots (2020 - 2021)

Late Night Candlelight Tales

Suggested by Goodboy26242

Jesse had been looking forward to autumn for ages. It was by far one of her favourite seasons – she loved the summer sunshine, the winter snow, and the first spring flowers, but none of it beat autumn. She adored huddling up in sweaters, drinking hot cocoa, watching the leaves change colour... just thinking about it was enough to get Jesse to count the days until October when autumn truly began.

However that year, things weren't quite going according to plan.

The first few blissful days of autumn, Jesse spent alone, in her office. She was up to her ears in paperwork thanks to the recent activities of a bunch of vandals who blew up part of the town wall. Stuck watching the leaves change colour outside her windows.

When she's finally sorted through the worst, Radar offered to finish off the rest for her so she could go ahead and finally take off the time she's wanted for ages. Finally she could begin the calm days of baking pumpkin pies and sitting by the fireplace, right?

Despite how much she had been looking forward to spending time with her friends, Olivia decided it was the perfect time to take an unexpected trip to Redstonia, and drag Axel along with her.

Alright, no big deal, they'd be back in a few days time! Jesse decided she could still enjoy the next few days with Petra and Lukas until Axel and Olivia returned.

Wrong again, a few of Beacontown's best builders were unavailable, so Lukas volunteered to go help with the repairs to the town walls. By that point, Jesse was feeling thoroughly fed up. At that rate, she was going to spend the entire, wonderful season alone.

Axel and Olivia were due to return soon, and Lukas had almost finished helping where he was needed, but Petra could still tell her friend needed some serious cheering up. However suggesting they go on a long trail ride outside town, turned out not to be the best idea either. Jesse was grinning from ear to ear when they left, but of course not even that could go smoothly. On the way back, the clouds that have been painting the sky for the past week finally gave way, soaking the two girls and their horses thoroughly for the last thirty minutes on the road. They arrived home cold, wet, and utterly miserable.

And the rain showed no signs of letting up for days to come.

Finally they were all together again, huddled up in the large wooden livingroom of their tree-house, a fire crackling in the fireplace. But instead of reading books or baking pies in the calm of autumn, they were listening to rain and hail furiously pouring down on the roof of the tree-house. Which wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the power constantly going on and off, the dozen buckets and pots laid out everywhere for the leaks, and the fact that them getting soaked in the rain had finally caught up to Jesse and given her a cold.

It hadn't turned out to be the season she had been looking forward to.

"Just decide!" Petra growled in frustration, falling down dramatically so she was sprawled out on the carpet. "Do you want to be on or off?"

As if to answer her question, the lightbulb flickered to life again, before promptly going out once more.

"I don't think there's any point in waiting for the power to become stable again, not with how bad this storm is tonight." Olivia said with a sigh, getting to her feet and flipping off the light switch, so the endless flickering was swapped out for just darkness.

"We might as well just go to bed." Jesse grumbled from where she was sitting against the couch.

"Oh come on, don't be like that now!" Petra said, propping herself up on her elbows. "We agreed we were going to have a game night!"