I'm Only Me When I'm With You
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Ok, yeah, so this is my first TecnaxTimmy songfic, but not my first fic, and it takes place sometime in the future. Probably after the fourth season. And this is based off of the Rai English version of the show, so if you're not familiar with some of the place names, Linfea is where Flora lives, and Andros is Layla's home planet.
Chapter 1
Tecna looked up at the stars, connecting the minuscule pinpricks of light into constellations in her mind. It was a cool, crisp Friday night on Telex(1) and Tecna and Timmy were stargazing in one of the few natural fields in the Binary Galaxy. Coincidentally, that field happened to be right behind Timmy's house. Tecna wasn't completely sure, but she sensed that the field probably wasn't completely natural. The lingering traces of digital energy from the latest model of the bestselling Plantox digital flower and vegetation accelerator were enough to tell her that. But still, she appreciated the thought. A small smile graced her lips as her turquoise eyes searched the heavens. She had seen digitally enhanced skies on Zenith, naturally cloudless skies on Solaria, beautifully blue skies on Linfea, sulfur-yellow skies on Andros, and the ice-cold clouded sky of the Omega Dimension, but never had she seen a sky with so many stars as that on Telex. Unlike all the other digital realms, Telex had a naturally clear sky. No particles in the atmosphere clouded the view of the stars, allowing for the residents to stargaze all day. Somewhere in the distance, a chorus of crickets began to chirp loudly, interrupting her silent dreamworld.
This reminds me of Musa. She would tell me to listen for the melody behind what seems like a wall of sound. I wonder how she's doing?
Musa had gone back to Melody, her home planet, a few months back. It was summer, and the Winx were on their own. So far, Tecna had divided her time between her home planet, Zenith, and Telex, where she helped Timmy with the designs for a spaceship they were building. Sometimes they forgot that the spaceship even existed when they tried to beat each other at a game of who-can-find-the-most-constellations, though. And every night Timmy brought her home on a spaceship-ride through the clear night sky. Some days they made a lot of noise, and woke everyone in the digital realms (or so it seemed), but others, like tonight, they didn't have to say anything,because both of them knew exactly what the other was thinking. Tecna and Timmy had shared every single fact of their lives with each other, they trusted each other more than technology. And when you saw how much they trusted technology, well, you know they trusted each other a lot.
When Tecna had trapped herself in the Omega Dimension closing the portal on Andros, she had gotten a taste of what life would be like without the person she was closest to in the entire universe. She knew that if she ever had to go through that again, she would probably die. But it would be better to die than to never see Timmy's face again. She knew, although she would never tell, that she couldn't live without him. It would be too hard to face every day, knowing that she would never hear the voice of the one person she loved more than life itself again. Tecna found it hard to smile when Timmy was having a bad day, and if she got special recognition for accomplishments on a test he helped her study for, she would mention that she couldn't have done it without him. Sometimes she felt as if she would go crazy when he just didn't understand about what she was saying, or when he would act like he had no idea what she was talking about when she mentioned some of the events in the latest edition of Technology Times(2). But when he was really listening to what she was saying, he could provide helpful advice. Sometimes, Tecna felt like he was the only one who understood her. She was only truly alive, only truly Tecna, when she was with Timmy.
(1) The show never mentions Timmy's home planet, so I just made up something that sounded digital. It's also known as the Eighth Vector of the Binary Galaxy.
(2) Also an invention of mine. Sort of the newspaper for the Binary Galaxy.