I'm back! Yay! See, I toldja all I'd be back! Yay! Hope ya'll like this!

Oh, and I know this is totally random, but has anyone seen Monsters University?! It's awesome! I've loved Monster Inc. since I was a little girl, and when I found out they were making a prequel, I was so excited! It's a great movie, and I'm considering making a one shot and/or story for it. Should I go for it? Don't worry, I will keep undating this. Oh, and for those Princess/President fans, I have a surprise for you…

Candlehead woke up in an unfamiliar bed. It was soft and plenty comfortable, sure, but it wasn't hers. And that frightened her.

Her mint green eyes fluttered open and she yawned slightly, bringing a hand up to her mouth. She felt a slight weight dragging her wrist down, and found with alarm that she had an IV in her wrist. She whimpered slightly and shifted around, green eyes growing large, filling with fear and sadness. Where was she? What was going on? The last thing she remembered… her brothers and sisters worried, murmuring voices around her, something old on her forehead, then… nothing. Nothing at all. It went absolutely black.

She swallowed down a bit of her fear- freaking out did her no good. She looked around, out the window; it was kind of dark. It was more that dark bluish black the sky turned before the sun fully rose, when it was just light enough to see if you squinted, but still enough to be considered dark. Five in the morning.

She whimpered and snuggled down into the blankets. She never liked the dark; her cupcake night light usually kept her fears at bay, but here, it was dark and scary. Not teddy gummy bear either. As she whimpered again, sniffling, eyes welling up, she heard a rap on the window.

"Mmm…?" she hesitantly brought her head out from under the blankets, just enough to let her eyes peak over the edge. She watched, awed and a bit scared, as a small fist no bigger than hers, knocked sharply on the glass again. Who could that be? Perhaps it was Taffyta, sneaking in to see her? Or maybe Gloyd, pulling another prank? But no, they both ought to be in bed at this hour- in fact, all of her siblings would. They were programmed to sleep an hour till their coded sun came up. So who in the world could that be? They were the only human characters in the game, except…

She shuddered and whimpered again. "Th- The glitch!" she squeaked out. She was terrified of 'the glitch'. She didn't even know if it had a given name, but perhaps it could have named itself. She didn't know a thing about it, only that her big sister insist she stay away from it. It was dangerous, it wasn't programmed, it wasn't natural- why should she not be afraid? She felt just the tiniest bit bad for being judgy like that- as the youngest and sweetest of them all, she tried to see the good in everybody. Even her sometimes bossy big sister. B-But the glitch… she was scared to death of her.

She whimpered and squeezed her eyes shut when a peculiar feeling came over her. Suddenly her blood ran cold and she shuddered violently, and for a moment, she could see nothing but a bright, vibrant blue, and she was frozen. She couldn't move. It was like her coding had suddenly been disturbed. What…

She was aware of the window sliding open as it happened again, whimpering, tears beginning to slide down her cheeks. She wanted out of this place, back home in her cozy bed, racing with her big brothers and sisters! She wanted out of here!

As it happened yet again, there was an amused sound, and a spunky, unfamiliar voice said "Jeez. You got it bad, girly."

She felt her face grow hot at the comment poking fun at her. When it stopped, she wiped her teary eyes and looked over… coming face to face with her.

She squealed and lurched back, making her IV tighten painfully and yank on her arm. "O- Ow…" she whimpered, rubbing along her sore wrist. She could only watch as the glitch came closer, shaking, terrified. Then the glowing and frozen feeling came back.

Vanellope watched as the other girl glitched, glowing bright blue and becoming momentarily pixilated, twitching. She'd watched secretly in curiosity as they rushed her to the hospital, and she'd just been dying to know why. What could she say, she had a strong sense of curiosity. And she knew this would be the only time she could see her. With luck, Candlehead would think it a dream or the doctors would blame it on feverish delirium or something.

She took a worried step closer. "Hey… are you ok?"

"N- No!" she moaned. "It- it hurts."

"I know." She responded, shoving her hands in her hoody pocket. Glitching was quite painful, but she'd grown used to it overtime, and found it no longer so much as fazed her. "Hey… I think I might be able to help."

"H-" the other girl choked on a sob, now hopelessly crying, both from fear and pain combined. "How?"

"Well…" she couldn't really explain. She just knew she could. She'd once come across a honey suckle flower (which produced real honey there in Sugar Rush), that was sick or something. It was 'glitching', twitching and turning blue. She took pity on it, even if it was just a plant. It looked half wilted and sad, honey dripping off it's petal like tears. All the other flowers were growing far away from it, in a large circle, as if purposefully avoiding it. It reminded Vanellope a lot of herself.

So she walked right up to that flower, making sure to step on as many of the snobby ones as possible, and sat down beside it. She gently touched it's petals, cupping her hand against them. For a moment she stared at them, waiting… a glitch came a few seconds later. For a moment she was paralyzed, but when I finally died down, she could almost feel herself sucking up twice as much glitch power. She fell away, dazed. When she regained her strength, she sat up and found the flower up and looking perfectly, no longer glitching every few seconds. So she figured, it she could take the glitching out of the flower, maybe she could do the same with Candlehead.

"C'mere." She held out one hand, and Candlehead impulsively flinched away. "I won't hurt you." The other girl slowly removed her arm, hiding her eyes, to look up at her that could beat a kicked puppy in a contest for the saddest, most afraid eyes. "I promise."

"P- Promise?" she squeaked.

Vanellope rolled her eyes, but forced herself to be patient. "I promise. Now are we gonna do this or not?"

"Oh, um…"she hesitantly began to put out her hand, the limb shaking slightly. Vanellope rolled her eyes again and surged forehead, connecting their palms. The other girl gasped and tried to pull away, but she held fast. Then she closed her eyes and waited.

While they waited, Candlehead swallowed thickly. "U- Um… wh-what's your- your uh, um- I mean-"

"I'm Vanellope."

"Oh, yeah! Ok! Vanellope…" she said it slowly, trying it out in her mouth. "That's kinda pretty."

Looking up in surprise, having been focusing on their interlocked hands, waiting. "Y- Ya do. Really?"

"Well sure!" she chirped, coughing lightly off to the side a couple times. "I don't lie. Well… except when I told Rancis his hair looked fine when Gloyd died it hot pink and broke all his mirrors…"

Vanellope howled with laughter. "I would give a gold coin to see that!"

Candlehead giggled. "Yeah? I think-"

She didn't get to finish, as suddenly, Vanellope glitched. She turned a brighter blue than usual, and for a moment, their connection stayed, both glowing and shaking. Then Vanellope was blown back.

Candlehead gasped as she was flown across the room. "A- Are you ok."

"…I'm good." She replied dazedly, sitting up and rubbing her head. "Don't think I broke nothin…"

The green haired girl grinned. "That's good, me neither." She yawned and rubbed her eyes. "Think I'm gonna go back to bed."

"Kay, you do that." Vaneloppe headed for the open window again. "Oh, and Hot Head?" she smirked at herself and hoisted herself up onto the window sill, swinging her legs over, grinning over her shoulder. "This never happened." Then she was gone.

For a moment, Candlehead could only stare. Then she waved slightly. "B'Bye… Vanellope."

Well? Was this decent enough, I hope? Please review!

SURPRISE! Vanellope's here! Hope ya'll like that!