Candy Hearts
Ch. 1 Pt. 1
What more could she ask for
Vanellope woke up in the morning, Taffyta was right there, her face burried half way in the pillow and half way in Vanellope's shoulder. Taffyta stirred slightly at the movement of Vanellope moving her head out of the way and sitting up slightly, but she only groaned and fell asleep fully once more. Vanellope smiled down at her and snickered softly, leaning down to nuzzle her forehead with Taffyta's. When Taffyta let out a heavy breath and opened her eyes to see Vanellope's face so close to her own they both smiled.
"Morning beautiful" Vanellope chimed. Taffyta laughed lightly and rolled over to avoid Vanellope's gaze.
"hmmm" she sighed "How long you been up?" She asked, her eyes closed trying to rest as long as she could still.
"Only about a minute" Came the quiet reply of the black haired racer.
"Ah"
Vanellope laid back down and draped an arm over Taffyta's belly.
"you know, we DO need to get up before I have to assemble the racers for tomorrow's Roster" Vanellope stated sleepily. She had changed the annual Roster Race to the morning on weekends, so that they would have the entire rest of the day to themselves. Also so she could spend a little more time with Ralph. But, now she had a new reason for needing the extra time. On top of hanging out with Ralph of course.
"ughhhhh" Taffyta groaned.
"C'mon, get up" Vanellope urged, ripping the covers off of both of them.
"UHHHHHHHG!" Taffyta yelled, shoving her face into the pillow and covering her head with her arms, curling her legs to her chest so she was almost in a little ball.
Vanellope now stood at the edge of the other side of the bed, where Taffyta lay and refused to get up. She smirked and laughed evilly. Taffyta's eyes flew open at the sound, and she automatically knew something was going to happen that she had no time to even think about what it would be let alone prevent it. That's when Vanellope grabbed her arm at her bicep with both hands and forully yanked her out of the bed. Taffyta landed face flat on the floor, taking a head dive for it as she fell.
She lay there for a moment, face down butt up in front of Vanellope, who couldn't hold in a cocky smile and bubbling laughter. Taffyta looked up slowly, glaring at Vanellope as she realized what had just happened. Then her eyes widened slightly as she also realized what her current position was.
"on your knees already Taffy?" Vanellope laughed "We've only been together a night"
Taffyta scowled up at her, then growled lowly "you glitch"
Vanellope kept smiling but looked only slightly hurt at the tone of her voice, which although she knew it wasn't meant to be hurtful, was no longer coy and joking. Then she bent down to Taffyta's level and whispered in her ear.
"you still love me, don't cha?"
Taffyta felt a small pang of guilt as she realized the question was only half joking, so she turned her head to plant a soft kiss on Vanellope's cheek.
Then, growling against Vanellope's skin, she breathed "You are going to pay for that"
Vanellope's coy smile returned as she responded "oh really? Your going to have to catch me first" Then she took of running for the throne room, her laughter clearly audible even from down the hall.
Taffyta gave chase, but couldn't catch up with her glitchy president. So when she reached the throne room, Vanellope was already sitting on her throne, waiting, and smirking. Her eyes drooped to be half lidded while she kept her smile as Taffyta slowly approached the throne.
"So... Am I still gonna pay?" She asked coyly.
"Oh yeah" Taffyta rumbled.
"And how are you going to make me do that?"
"I'll show you"
As Taffyta stood over the throne and responded to Vanellope's cocky question, she lifted a knee so that it was resting at Vanellope's waist on the throne. She raised her arms to lean on the back of the fancy chair, so that they were on either side of Vanellope's head. And as soon as she went to lean in to kiss her, a small voice sounded from down the hall.
"Girls? Are you up? I heard laughing and running"
"Sour Bill" the two girls quietly gasped, as Taffyta quickly moved so she was innocently sitting beside Vanellope. As soon as she was, Vanellope's voice rang out through the corridor.
"Yeah, we're up!"
Sour Bill stood in the doorway, he looked them up and down realizing they were still in their pajamas.
"You girls might want to get some regular clothes on. It is almost time to assemble the racers for the Roster Race"
"Oh my gosh! I completely forgot that's the whole reason I woke up and came down!" Vanellope said, sounding slightly startled. Then she looked at Taffyta sharply through a side glance for just a moment. Taffyta smirked back as if saying 'not what I was thinking, but that's payment enough' And Vanellope knew exactly that.
The two girls ran off past sour Bill and back up to the royal bedroom. Once they were there, Vanellope quickly changed into her regular clothes, not stopping to think for a second that Taffyta was still in the room. But, the Pink themed racer didn't notice as she grabbed her own clothing from the previous night and went into the bathroom to throw it back on.
"You should go home and get some new clothes on for the day Taffy" Vanellope stated as Taffyta walked out of the bathroom.
"But, do I have time?"
"yeah sure" Vanellope blew off her question like it was nothing "Nobody races until I call them to the track and command for the race to start anyway... I'll wait up for ya, don't worry"
"Alright" Taffyta responded, walking out the door.
Vanellope watched her leave and stood there with a dumbfounded look at how she didn't even say goodbye. Then smiled as she walked right back through the door with a blank expression, placed a kiss on her cheek, then walked right back out with that same blank expression. She followed her retreating form with her eyes dreamily, then got to going out the door and down to the racetrack, where she would meet Taffyta and then assemble the racers.
Ch. 1 Pt. 2
Taffyta was in her room getting dressed into cleaner clothes than the ones she had on. She looked at her dresser and notice a small see through container containing little candy hearts, the ones people would usually hand out for valentines day. She had went out and gotten some a little early, simply because she like reading the messages and wondering who she could give them to. As she looked at the container she remembered that she had found three odd little hearts, with messages that seemed to fall into succession with each other. She had seperated them from the rest and layed them on her dresser top, just because she wanted to keep them grouped together to look at later. Then, she got an idea. She walked up and grabbed the three tiny hearts, putting them in a tiny pouch, and then stuffing that pouch in her jacket pocket. Then it was off to the track to meet Vanellope who would assemble the racers and call on the race to commence.
She reached the track, speeding all the way with her kart and feeling excited for the race. She sped up and let her kart come to a screeching halt right by Vanellope's. She looked over to the stands where the crowd was sitting, and right there in Vanellope's fan booth, sat Wreck it Ralph, and his other two friends. They had come to watch the Roster Race, but they would get a little more of a show than they, or even Vanellope, had expected.
'perfect' She thought to herself 'just what I need... This will end better than planned... Or blow up in my face... Oh well'
As she sat there thinking to herself Vanellope walked up to her.
"you good to go?"
Taffyta looked up, slightly shocked from being ripped out of her musings. She smiled despite the slight mental jog she had gotten, then replied to Vanellope.
"Ready, a rearin' ta go!"
Vanellope grinned widely "Great! As you can see, all of the racers are already here. They didn't expect there to be a delay so they came at the usual time instead of waiting for me to call the assembly for once"
Sure enough, what Vanellope had said was true. Although Taffyta hadn't noticed until now, all of the other racers were in fact gathered at the starting line, with their vehicles in place, ready to race. It was all Taffyta could do to move her own kart into its usual place (which just so happened to be beside Vanellope's) and wait for Vanellope's annual rev up speech to finish and for her to climb into her kart and the race to begin.
The flag fell and all the racers sped off. After about a minute the usual racers had taken their usual places. Candlehead right behind Rancis, Rancis right behind Taffyta, and Taffyta and Vanellope fighting for the lead. Anyone else just kind of fell into a slot behind them. And, as usual, the racers all sped past the finish line, Vanellope in first place, Taffyta behind her by a nose, and surprisingly this time, Candlehead and Rancis had swaped places. The other four racers consisted of Snowanna, Crumbelina, Gloyd, and Adorabeezle.
The winners took their places on the stands, Vanellope got her trophie, and the Wreck it Ralph gang all cheered as loudly as possible. Unlike other times, Taffyta had been planning for Vanellope to win this time. It all fell into her little plot.
As Candlehead stepped down from her third place stand, Taffyta stopped Vanellope from doing the same and stepped up to her on the first place stand, so that both of them were standing on the same small platform. Vanellope looked at her a little oddly, wondering why she had been stopped from getting off and dismissing the racers from the track for the day, but Taffyta just smiled. She took out the pouch, searched it for the right heart, read it, then handed it to Vanellope. Vanellope took it and held it up to her face to read it.
It read 'Kiss me'
Vanellope looked at Taffyta. Surprisingly she would have been glad to do it in front of everybody, but she wasn't sure if Taffyta could actually handle the pressure. Vanellope knew what it was like to be bullied, but didn't know if Taffyta was prepared to be tormented so harshly.
"Do you really want that now?" Taffyta only smirked, then handed her another candy heart.
This one read 'Yes now'
Vanellope laughed at how it seemed that the two candies were just made to be given in succession, then cocked an eyebrow at Taffyta with a smile.
"You sure?"
Once again, Taffyta handed her another candy heart.
The last one she would hand her, and it read 'I'm sure'
Vanellope couldn't help but giggle and give her a questioning look, saying "you had this all planned out, didn't you?" in a jokingly accusatory voice. Taffyta shrugged. With one more giggle, Vanellope replied with an "oookaay. You asked for it" then she pressed her lips to Taffyta's softly and held her by the waist. Taffyta leaned into the kiss and hugged Vanellope lightly.
It had only been a short kiss, but it was sweet. Though they did break off after a moment and look at the crowd, who were all wearing different expressions. Candlehead looked like she was going to squee with joy, Rancis had a 'What the Fudge' look on his face, most of the other racers had looks of dumbfoundment or shock. But, the most interesting reaction of all, was the agape mouthed, utter bewilderment of the giant wrecker sitting in the stands, who, along with the other two members of his little gang who were wearing similar expressions, had gotten out of his seat to walk up and see what exactly was going on with his little 'princess'
As the huge man approached Taffyta took a step back, then stopped herself from fully retreating. He looked her in the eyes and she smiled nervously. He then looked at Vanellope who looked a little too smug for her current situation and crossed her arms at him. The giant straightened up, now wearing a blank expression, looking back and forth between the two a few times before speaking.
"So when did this happen?" He asked casually, mimicking Vanellope's posture and crossing his arms over his chest. Taffyta breathed a silent sigh of relief 'so far so good'
"Last night" Vanellope answered with a shrug.
The tiny man who made his living as the wrecker's coworker ran up to the children and lost his dumbfounded stare, instead replacing it with a look of pure joy, almost reflecting the one Candlehead was wearing.
"Oh golly, oh jee. What a lovely couple you two make. Although a little shocking. I honestly didn't think either of you two swung that way, but oh well, no harm no foul. You know me, I don't judge!" He said more enthusiastically than one would have expected. Ralph let out a rumbling laugh, then looked at Taffyta.
"Yeah, except, as brave as she may be acting, I'm pretty sure little miss Bully over here was pretty scared when I walked up... Almost scared enough to leave, and let Vanellope deal with all the awkwardness. Or, at least thats what your her little back step there said to me"
Vanellope took a swat at him "Don't tease her! Now your being a bully!"
"Yeah, that's mean Ralph" Felix pitched in
"Alright, I'm sorry. I'm just jokin Taffyta" Ralph said, smiling at her and playfully poking her in the arm "I honestly don't care if you two are in a relationship... You just behave yourself" He pointed a finger at Taffyta. And right when Taffyta was about to look offended because he was only saying this to her, his finger moved to Vanellope.
"And YOU. You keep your little mits to yourself"
"Yeah, yeah. You don't have to be such a mommy you know" Vanellope complained, lazily swatting his finger away. Then all the attention turned to Candlehead as she came running up, unable to sit back and wait to get the couples attention any longer.
"oooooh, I'm so happy for you two. You are ADORABLE!" She squealed, bear hugging them both.
Once all the fuss had gone down, and Vanellope was able to dismiss all the racers, everyone went back to their respective homes, save for a certain strawberry taffy themed racer, and a group of three from other games. Although after a bit more talking and laughing (and even a kind word or two from Sgt. Calhoun) Everybody went home, and the two racers were left alone together once again.
"We'll be back for ya later small fry. Bring your girlfriend along to Tappers with us if ya want" Calhoun had said before taking off behind the other two.
"Thanks!" Vanellope called after her "And thank you for being so supportive!"
She turned to Taffyta who smiled smugly 'so didn't blow up in my face... I knew it would end well'
"See?... I knew what I was doing" Taffyta said smugly. Vanellope rolled her eyes, then giggled. She moved a little closer to Taffyta and rested her forehead against hers.
"Hey Taffyta... Has it ever occurred to you that we never actually asked the other or confirmed we are dating in any way?"
Taffyta looked up and blinked "Oh, yeah..." She said distantly.
"Ha hah... Well, who's gonna ask?"
Taffyta shook her head, then spoke "Alright Vanellope, let's humor you... Vanellope Von Schweetz, would you do me, Taffyta Muttonfudge, the honor of being my girlfriend?" She spoke slightly sarcastically, smirking and wrapping her arms around the others waist.
"Hmmmmm..." Vanellope played as if she were really looking thoughtful, rubbing her hand against her chin and looking upward. Taffyta rolled her eyes. Vanellope caught this and smiled.
"Alright I'll stop foolin'... Yeah, I'll be your girlfriend"
"Good. Because if you said no, I would have just had to persuade you"
"awwwww, you couldn't try anyway?"
Taffyta chuckled evilly, then let go of the other girls waist and walked away.
"Nope!" She called behind her.
Vanellope 'HMPH'ed' playfully and smirked and she ran after her newfound love. She may not be gettin' much tonight, but hey, she had a lover and friends who understood and didn't judge, what more could she ask for?
A/N: Look at the picture for the story, the candy hearts are real. I found them and laughed at how they actually seemed like they were supposed to go like that. So I wrote this story ^^
You'd be surprised what they are printing on candy hearts now O.o... I've found some odd ones...
Anyway R&R! and leave a comment with a request if you have one! Oh, and it has to be sugar rush characters... Sorry, but that's kinda the point of the title. Ralph and the others can be involved but the couple has to be sugar rushers.