RotG – Disney song challenge: Story 1

Title: won't say it out loud

Ship – SweetTooth (Don't like it; don't read and don't post any hate. We're all shippers of different ships.)

Based around the song: I won't say I'm in Love from Disney's Herculues

Disclaimer:

Rise of the Guardians (C) William Joyce and Dreamworks

I won't say I'm in Love (c) Disney (I removed the lyrics due to copyright issues so If you wish to listen to it, go onto youtube or itunes. Thank you. )

The early spring air that night just seemed perfect to her. Tooth had been making her teeth runs in Paris, France and stop to take a quick break to catch her breath. She sighed heavily as she sat down on bench in a lovely rose garden. Tooth had been flying around all day, and it was only now that she had the chance to catch a breather. She didn't mind collecting teeth for the children of the world, but it was still quite the handful. And she still needed to take a break every so often so to her it was only fair.

Tooth looked at the beautiful roses that were just starting to bloom and smiled. She always had loved the way roses smell and looked. It was just such a beautiful flower to her; despite the thorns. She reached over and gently plucked one off the bush and smelt it. Everything else that had been rushing through her mind at that given moment seemed to stop. She no longer felt stressed, and was at complete peace with herself. Well, she almost was at least. Just as she lowered the rose down so that it was resting in her lap, a sudden thought made her cheeks turn crimson. She brought her free hand up to her burning cheeks and groaned softly to herself. "Not again…." She murmured to herself.

Recently, Tooth was having difficulty looking at her friend the way she normally would. Her cheeks seemed to flush violently even if the two just made eye contact. Tooth didn't understand why this was happening all of a sudden. She had always thought of him as a truly loyal friend and nothing more. However, ever since that one day she had spent with him in his warren, she wasn't quite the same. True, it was her day off and she was supposed to be enjoying herself that day; but she had decided to visit him. And when she accidentally triggered some of his more painful memories, she ended up comforting him when he broke down in tears. She had always cared for him, but she never really got a complete understand how painful his past really was up until then. And, when he had finally calmed down she had done something that she was now beginning to regret. She meant nothing by kissing him on the forehead. In fact it was just a way of expressing that she did care for his well-being, and he didn't need to ever consider hiding his pain behind a tough guy mask.

But there was just something about him now that seemed different and she didn't quite understand. Maybe it was that he seemed to smile more now when she was around, maybe it was that he didn't lose his temper as easily. Perhaps he seemed more at peace. It had to be something right? These feelings just can't fall from the sky could they? Or was it something she just never noticed before? Tooth couldn't think straight anymore and leaned back in the bench. She moaned and rubbed her eyes. "I don't understand this at all! Bunnymund's my very good friend, but there's just something about him that's making my heart race all of sudden! I don't like that this keeps happening to me. I can't feel any different about him right? It's not possible right?"

Tooth laughed to herself. "Look at me I'm talking to the air like some goofball as if the air itself is going to give me therapy."

Tooth stopped laughing instantly. Her stomach started to turn and her face got even hotter. Her heart started to race and her hands began to shake. "It couldn't possibly be that. There's no possible way I'm in love with him; he's my friend and nothing more. We've always been friends ever since I met him. It can't change like that just over a stupid display of comfort right?"

Tooth fidgeted with the rose in her hands. "No, this isn't right to have these emotions running through me like this; especially when I really even don't feel this way about him. Emotions like these are too cliché and predictable. And what if I actually did lo- er like him like that? I couldn't tell him about my feelings. It would screw our friendship up, and everything would be completely awkward afterwards. "There's no chance; no way this even happening to me. It's a brief phase and I'll get over it."

Tooth shook her head, trying to get the voices in her head to leave her alone. Her head was throbbing from confusion. She was already feeling scatter-brained enough from work, she didn't need these outlandish emotions throwing her off anymore. "Stop it!" She cried aloud to herself. "You need to get a grip here. Bunnymund's a pooka; you're a half human, half hummingbird fairy. You're the tooth fairy for goodness sakes! You can't let his…. soft and sweet smelling fur, and his smooth Australian accent and good tasting sweets…. get the better of yourself."

Tooth stood up abruptly and flew away from the bench, hoping the voices in her head would leave her as soon she took flight. Sadly they did not. In fact, it only made matters worse. She almost lost complete control and nearly plummeted into the fountain, but she stopped and just slowly fluttered down so that she was seated on the side of it. By now she was losing her patience. She turned around, splashed water up on her face (hoping that would work) and looked up at the moon in desperation. "What in the name of MiM do I do? This isn't fair to me or Bunnymund. He doesn't like me like or love me." Tooth paused for a minute. "Then again, I guess it would be nice to cuddle with someone every so often when my schedule isn't as crazy. Cuddling is nice, and he's extremely cuddly. And he's strong too. I wouldn't mind cuddling with him I guess…. I'd certainly feel secure in his arms."

Tooth's face had just stopped burning, but the vision of her and Bunnymund cuddling was too cute to not blush over. A small smile drew across her lips and an even soft chuckle escaped them.

Tooth snapped back to her senses and shook her head once again. "Oh no! No, no, no, no no, don't do this to yourself, girl. You're species are different and you both have your duties… It'll never work. Your friends will question you, Bunnymund will feel more awkward around me and It'll all just be one big mess…"

Tooth looked into the fountain and smiled. Her chest was in knots beyond end and it was driving her crazy. Her face burned violently from blushing so much, and her hands were trembling like never before. But still in the back of her mind the scent/softness of his fur, the warmth of his body, the sound of his voice, the feeling of security in his strong arms, and the vision of them cuddling all seemed to linger. She chuckled and twirled the rose in her tiny little hand. "Well at least out loud, I won't I'm in love. But to myself, I know I am."

Tooth giggled one more time and brushed all thoughts of her decision to the back her mind where it would only arouse when she was free to herself in her bedroom; which were rare occasions. Nowhere else and no one else would ever know of her thoughts. And as of right now, that was fine with her. She then flapped her wings and took to the sky once more; she was the tooth fairy after all. She had her duties to attend to as a guardian for all the children of the world.

~END OF SONG CHALLENGE #1~