The beam of the warp subsided into the pad, and Tourmaline held a warrior stance with her arms and feet spread out as if she was preparing to do battle. She looked around for her first challenger. The house was empty. She sighed, and all of the fight went out of her like a deflated balloon. She took a step off the pad. In front of her, abandoned on the ground, was Rose's sword. Her eyes followed the most logical trail to the front door, which had been left ajar. Tourmaline set Pearl's metronome on the kitchen counter and approached the weapon. She crouched down to pick it up. She cradled it in her arms, and her amber eyes came to rest on its hilt.
"This is my fault." She brought her gaze up to the door, "But you hurt me so much."
Tourmaline went to the front door. The cold air was now invading the house through the breach, but she couldn't feel it. The sensation registered in her mind, but unlike a human, she was disconnected from it as if observing the feeling from a distance. She could choose how to react to it. She shut the door. It felt numb. With the sword in one hand, Tourmaline climbed the stairs to Steven's bedroom. She knelt down and returned it to the spot underneath the bed, then stood up.
"Now I know why."
The warp pad behind her lit up and Tourmaline spun around to face the three gems that materialized. She made her way down the stairs to meet them.
"Well that was uneventful, I do hope that Steven and Connie have made better progress," Pearl said to Amethyst. The short gem wasn't looking at her, staring at the fusion instead. Garnet was frozen in place with her mouth open in what Tourmaline could only guess was surprise. They weren't sure they had ever seen it on her before.
"What are you…" Pearl followed Amethyst's gaze, "AHHHEEGHHH!"
Amethyst, without a moment's hesitation, summoned her twin whips and snapped them in the air with a crack, "You picked the wrong house to bust into."
Tourmaline held up her hands, "Wait! I'm…" She blinked, "Uh…"
Pearl's eyes bounced from Peridot's gem to Steven's gem like a pinball machine. Then, she finally managed, "S-Steven?!"
"What? Steven?" Amethyst's whips drooped like a pair of sedated snakes.
"And Peridot," Garnet answered with barely contained glee.
Pearl held up a hand to her mouth and stuttered a few words, but at the end of it, all she managed to do was prepare a fine word salad. Finally, she looked with desperation to Garnet, "What do you make of this?" Garnet was grinning so hard that her shades could have shattered. Pearl groaned, "Not again."
Amethyst squeezed her cheeks together, "They're adorable!"
Tourmaline put her hands on her hips, "I'm not adorable." She growled.
Amethyst snickered, "Yep, Peri's in there somewhere."
The gems gathered around the new fusion to take a closer look.
"So the corrupted gem was tough enough that you two had to fuse?" Pearl asked before realizing that they were missing someone, "Wait, where's Connie?"
Tourmaline lowered her head, "She left. She was hurt that Steven chose me over Stevonnie."
"Chose you over…?" Pearl's eyes widened, and she shook a finger at them as if they were a ghost who had manifested in front of her, "You two are…"
"A couple?" Amethyst gasped, "That's soooooo cu-"
Tourmaline glared at her, "Don't say it."
Garnet lifted the other fusion off the ground in a bear hug and swayed them side to side.
Pearl watched in horror, "Wait. I knew you two were spending so much time together but this?"
After Garnet set her back down, Tourmaline ran a hand through her amber locks pushing a bang out of her face. "I was waiting for a good time to tell you all. I didn't know how you would feel about it."
"You guys look amazing together." Amethyst said, "What's your name?"
"Yellow Tourmaline." She answered proudly.
Garnet shot them a thumbs up with a smile.
Tourmaline blushed and crossed her arms hugging herself, "I didn't know you guys would be so accepting…" The pool that connected Steven and Peridot had been sloshing and turning over end to end. Now, all the ripples of agitation turned smooth until there was only one last wrinkle. She looked to Pearl. The tall gem was looking between the other two before she noticed everyone had brought their eyes to her.
Pearl forced a smile, and she held a gaze with Tourmaline. The longer it went on, the more Pearl's smile slowly melted sincere. She stepped forward and put a hand on the fusion's cheek, "Steven, I've been so worried about you. It hurt me to see how sad you were but I won't deny how happy you've been lately." Pearl took a breath as if she would tear up, but she swallowed it down, "All I ever want is for you to be happy."
Tourmaline wrapped her in a hug, and Pearl squeezed back. Amethyst and Garnet joined in too for a group hug. Tourmaline closed her eyes and sunk into the middle of the embrace. The ache that Steven held in his gem, the restless spirit that smoldered behind Peridot's blue eyes, lived inside Tourmaline. Deep under the still waters that held their combined wills, it dwelled in the abyss, and as long as Steven and Peridot held onto each other, it wouldn't come for them. It couldn't pull them down and drown them. For a moment, surrounded by the gems, the watchful eyes of that monster turned away.
"I love you guys."
"We love you too." They answered.
As they parted, Pearl looked troubled. She held a hand to her cheek, "I hope that Connie is alright. I know she's going to need some time."
"Me too." Tourmaline looked away.
"You should enjoy yourselves," Garnet said.
"Yeah. What do you want to do first, Tourmy?" Amethyst asked.
Together Steven and Peridot pored over the list of winter challenges yet to be completed. Now that they were fused Peridot could get an idea of how long the list actually was. Tourmaline put a finger to her lips in thought, and she eyed a vacant spot in front of the window seats. They had always put the Christmas tree there so that it could be seen from the front.
"We should put up the tree and decorate it. We're a little late this year." She said.
Pearl held her hands together, "That's a fantastic idea."
"We can pick up a tree from Ray's place," Amethyst added.
Tourmaline tilted her head, "Aren't we banned from there? You scared away the other customers when you shapeshifted your hand into an ax."
Amethyst waved it off, "That was last year. He's probably forgotten all about that by now."
Pearl held her hand up to her gem, and with a soft glow she pulled a thin stack of money out that was clipped neatly together. She made Amethyst take it, "Pay for it this time."
Amethyst swiped it out of her hand, "How was I supposed to know you had to pay for trees? They're practically everywhere." She spun around, "Ooo! I'll race you there, Tourmy!"
"And Garnet could you help me find the decorations? I swear I can't find anything in that junkyard that Amethyst calls a room." Pearl said.
"Don't clean it!" Amethyst called, almost to the door.
"Hey, the tree farm is miles away. How do you expect me to race you there?" Tourmaline asked.
"You're half Peridot. Grab the sled! Duh." Amethyst said as she ran out the door.
A grin began to spread across the fusion's face. She had one better. Tourmaline ran after Amethyst and Pearl called after her, "Be safe...you two."
Outside, the cockpit of a purple helicopter was giving them a toothy grin. Tourmaline had to hold up a hand over her eyes to see it, her amber hair fluttering back. Amethyst hovered off the ground. Her rotor blades were whipping the snow up around her into a frothy white haze. "I never get to use this!" She said, "You're going to race me on foot?"
The fusion flipped over the side of the deck and floated to the ground. When she landed, she summoned her shield.
Amethyst eyed it's new color from above, "Tangy."
Tourmaline broke into a run, and she threw the shield out into a spin so that it skidded across the snow in front of her. It popped and flattened into a perfect disc, and the fusion leaped onto it with both gold stocking covered feet as it lifted her off the ground and into the sky tearing past Amethyst.
"NO WAY!" Amethyst boomed, and she whipped herself around and flew after them.
Tourmaline soared into the air riding it like a wave up and up and up over Beach city. Peridot was feeding her information on how to hold her body in flight and the correct angles to hold the board so that she wouldn't slip. Of course, there was wind resistance, weight, thrust, and lift to contend with as well. All these facts and figures swirled in the fusion's head. The beating of Amethyst's blades followed right behind them. But as soon as Tourmaline reached her peak, those factors faded into the background. She looked over her shoulder with a grin to Amethyst, "Winner gets to chop the tree!"
And when Steven told her to: Just. Let. Go. She obeyed. As if standing on a tall diving board, Tourmaline leaped off her shield just as Amethyst had caught up behind her. She plummeted with her arms tightly held to her sides, the wind tossing her hair back. Her visor provided the perfect protection for her eyes against the stinging air, but she squinted anyway. Below, people had stopped to watch. They were pointing up to her, and some were trying to get out of the way. Falling simultaneously, and parallel to her body was her shield. It had shifted from a disc into a lemon colored surfboard. When she got as close to the ground as she could manage, an estimate both eyeballed and calculated, the shield slid under her stomach and lifted. She shot back into the sky like a bullet.
"Whooohoooo!" She yelled as a blast of snow exploded behind her covering cars and people and buildings alike. She didn't look back to see, she was flying. They were flying.
Tourmaline tilted her chin up still laying flat on the board. Amethyst had decided to fly straight when they had jumped to try to beat them. She had already made it past the city. They were about to lose her over the hill. The fusion wrapped her arms around the tower shield and held on tight as it zipped over the trees to catch up.
"Show off!" Amethyst shouted up ahead. She lowered her nose to pick up speed, but Tourmaline was faster. The helicopter's big eyes bugged out as the fusion flew up beside her, "What?! No fair!"
"Clod!" Tourmaline said laughing. She stuck her tongue out and zoomed ahead.
Amethyst struggled to keep up, and Tourmaline slowed down so she could stand back up on her shield to make the race closer. It was clear who had won. The rest of the trip they took at their own pace. At last, they could see a few buildings in the distance and the trees opened into a field. They had reached Ray's tree farm. Both of them slowed down. Amongst the rows of trees were others, who were browsing for a tree for their home. As they came closer, all eyes were on them with Amethyst's rotor blades making the trees underneath them shudder and sway.
Tourmaline landed softly on the ground in the midst of the short fir trees and the shield poofed underneath her. Amethyst shifted back to her usual form except a purple parachute attached to her back that made her float down to the ground.
There were murmurs from the other aisles, but an older man's voice howled over them as he came charging through the pines, "Crystals?!"
"Uhhh. Maybe he hasn't forgotten…" Amethyst muttered.
Ray crashed through one of the aisles into the one they were standing in. He was a short stooped old man, but he seemed to have all the energy of a kicking mule. A prickle of white hair lined the jaw that he was squaring up for them. When he stopped, the flaps of his red plaid trapper hat flopped around like the ears of a hound dog.
"Crystal Gals? I told you last time when you started waving that…" He held up his hand and chopped wildly into the air like a madman, "Whatever it was around, Y'all are banned!" He sized up Tourmaline with an ornery eye, and she gave him an awkward smile. "I don't care what color you comin' in. Yeller, purple, or green!"
"Please sir, we won't make trouble. We just need one tree, and we'll go off and get it where no one is around."
He was shaking his head making the hound ears flap around, "Oh, no. Ain't gonna' get off that easy."
"We'll pay you double what the tree cost!" Tourmaline blurted.
Ray stopped and put a hand to his bristles, "Double you say?"
Tourmaline nudged Amethyst in the shoulder with an elbow.
"Double!" Amethyst repeated bobbing her head up and down, "Heheh…" She rubbed her shoulder.
Ray gave them the price. The purple gem took out the wad of cash and counted out double. The old man snatched it from her hand and carefully counted it himself. When he was satisfied, he stuffed it in his pocket.
"Alright, go off yonder," He pointed to a corner of the field, "That's a ways off from anyone else. Those are Douglas Firs. Take one and don't make too much of a ruckus when you leave."
He spun around and disappeared behind a tree before they could say anything more.
"Score! Nice going Tourmy." Amethyst said.
They took off together and headed to the corner that Ray had pointed them to. They passed all types of trees of different sizes and thickness of needle. Peridot's extensive research on Earth hadn't landed on the subject of trees yet, but this trip made her consider it. The rich scent of pine soon transformed into the subtle but sweet aroma of the Douglas firs. Tourmaline took a deep breath through her nose and breathed out. "Steven, it smells wonderful."
Amethyst chuckled, "You talk to yourself huh? You're weird, but you are a fusion of Steven and Peridot, so I don't know what else I expected."
"I haven't got used to it yet." Tourmaline answered.
The conversations and laughter of the families behind them slowly faded as they went even deeper in the field. As soon as they were alone, Amethyst looked to Tourmaline.
"I knew you guys were together all along." She said.
"Did not." Tourmaline paused then she glanced down, "How?"
Amethyst turned around and walked backward with her head resting back in her hands, "It was obvious." Her eyelashes grew comically large, and she batted them at Tourmaline, "Oh, Steven! Read my romantic fanfiction, tell me what you think of it. Let me tell you all about how my nerdy tech stuff works." She clasped her hands together swooning and Tourmaline rolled her eyes, "Oh, Peridot, watch Crying Breakfast Friends with me and snuggle real close to me while we do." She cooed. Amethyst laughed.
Tourmaline's eyes darted away underscored with an amber blush, "Okay, I get it."
A tree shook as Amethyst bumped into it from walking in reverse.
They stopped, and Tourmaline looked down at her, "So why didn't you say anything?"
Amethyst frowned and then shrugged, "I don't know, figured you'd tell me when you were ready." She grinned, "Besides, I'm not going to rat you out to mama bird. Shorty Squad gotta' stick together."
The fusion pointed to the tree Amethyst had run into, "This one seems adequate."
"Well, you won the race fair and square. You get to chop it this year." Amethyst held her head to the side, "I know you and Peridot are doing these winter trial things, but you're fused. Does it count for her if you cut the tree down?"
From the abyss, Tourmaline could feel a pair of dark eyes come to rest on her back. Her chest tightened as its hand reached out to grab her.
"(We're)I'm not defusing!" Tourmaline suddenly snapped. She gasped and held a hand to her mouth. The voice that had come out had split into two. Tourmaline had been given the power to speak for both Steven and Peridot, but through her, their separate voices had shouted. As if they had both grabbed a mic and yelled into it, so that one overlayed the other.
Amethyst held up her hands and took a step back, "Whoa. I was just joking. What was that?" and then more worried, "Are you okay?"
Tourmaline nodded with her hand still over her mouth. She slowly brought it away, "I don't know what that was." At least she was relieved to hear her normal voice again.
Amethyst ran a hand through her mane nervously, "You said you were new to this. The fusion must have become unstable for a moment? But you didn't break apart?"
Tourmaline didn't know what it was, but she knew for sure that it wasn't that. Steven had experienced an unstable fusion with Connie before. This had been the opposite. The two of them had squeezed each other so tightly that the feeling of their separate identities had vanished and all that was left was Tourmaline flailing to keep their head above water. The fear of floundering in that darkness, all alone again, made their heart race.
"Yeah. I think so," Tourmaline answered her. "I'm better now." She was trying to catch her breath from a dive she hadn't made.
"You sure?"
"Yeah. We just had a disagreement about the trial thing. No big deal."
"Sorry about that. I was only teasing."
Tourmaline gave her a reassuring smile, "It's fine. Now let's cut down a tree shall we?"
Amethyst nodded, but she was still eyeing them. Tourmaline summoned her shield and held it out in front of her leveling it out into a disc. Spikes shot out of the edges creating a transparent yellow blade. The fusion held up her hands and rotated them in the air, and as they spun, the disc copied the movement until it became faster and faster. She held out her hands and guided the makeshift saw blade into the base of the tree.
"I'm loving that thing," Amethyst said. She watched the shield slice through the bark sending bits of splinter out that bounced off Tourmaline's visor. When the tree tipped over, Amethyst caught it before it hit the ground then laid it down carefully on its side.
Tourmaline put her shield away, "You can go Helithyst, and I'll fly it up to you."
Amethyst took a look around, "I need to find an open space. Pearl didn't give me enough money to pay double for all these trees. Be right back." She disappeared into the brush.
As soon as the purple gem left, Tourmaline buried her face in her hands, "What was that?" The thing that frightened them the most was that neither of them had an answer. If they asked Garnet, then she might suggest they defuse. No. Whatever it was had passed, and they were fine.
Before they could have another moment to think it over, the sound of Amethyst's rotor blades had already spun up in the distance, and they were buzzing toward them. Tourmaline summoned her shield and dropped it to the ground where it flattened. She took the tree in her arms and batted the needles out of her face then stepped on her shield. It rose up in the air like an elevator to Amethyst and Tourmaline slid the tree inside the open cabin. Purple straps shifted out of the floor inside, and the fusion used them to buckle the tree in. She got in and sat down next it.
"All set!" Tourmaline shouted over the roar of the propellers. She patted the floor of the cabin. Amethyst took off and the fusion held on.
"Phase one of the challenge has been completed," Tourmaline said. She locked the Christmas tree into the stand as Amethyst held it into position. In the living room, Pearl and Garnet stood beside a cardboard box labeled "Christmas Decorations."
Tourmaline looked back at the box and watched as Pearl and Garnet began to take the adornments out. She put a hand to her chin, "Hmmm." A smile grew on her cheeks. She held up her hands, and the ornaments and tinsel inside the box started to float out on its own. Amethyst got clear of the tree as the fusion guided the decorations over to it. With a wiggling of her fingers, the tinsel and ornaments spun around the tree in a colorful tempest of red, green, and golden blurs. The torrent slowed as the tinsel set itself down on the branches and the ornaments found homes for their hooks.
Tourmaline beamed at her work and put her hands on her hips. She looked back at Garnet and Pearl holding loose strands of tinsel and one left over ornament. They seemed disappointed.
Pearl pursed her lips, "We always decorate the tree together."
"Oh!" Tourmaline slapped a hand to her forehead, "I'm sorry guys."
Amethyst shrugged, "I thought it looked cool."
Tourmaline raised her hands again, and the decorations shed themselves off the tree and gathered up into a pile on top of one of the window seats. Together this time, they all decorated the tree. Pearl draped the tinsel and Amethyst, who was shapeshifted into a purple Christmas elf hung the lights. Everyone placed ornaments. In the pile, Tourmaline spotted one that was shaped like a mint donut. She picked it up and held it in her hand. It was a limited edition that had been sold a few years back by the Big Donut. They had been discontinued, but Steven had managed to get one from Sadie before they were all snatched up. She cast her eyes down at it and Garnet, who noticed, put a hand on her back. Tourmaline looked up at her and managed a smile. She hung the donut up.
Pearl tapped her on the shoulder, and when Tourmaline turned around the tall gem pushed a golden star into her hands, "Peridot...you should put the star on top."
The fusion's mouth fell open, and she stammered, "Really?"
Pearl smiled, but it looked more like a shy grimace of admission, "I mean, for the winter trials."
Before Tourmaline could say another word, Garnet was already hoisting her up over her shoulders.
"Whoooaaa," They kept their balance and held the star over the top of the tree. Through the fusion, Steven could feel Peridot reach out to plant it on top. As he watched, Tourmaline whispered in his ear and pointed to something he could only see through her amber eyes. As Peridot placed the star, Steven could feel her desperate hope. The hope that she belonged, the way she had when everyone had hugged the two of them and said they loved them.
The star glittered, and Tourmaline looked down at the gems below her. The proud faces of her new family were lit up with the red and green glows of Christmas lights.
Pearl clapped, "Well done, Peridot."
"Yeah P-Dot!" Amethyst said smiling.
Garnet put her down and ruffled their hair.
And nothing in the room shined brighter in that moment than Tourmaline.
Later that afternoon, after building snowmen with Garnet, Tourmaline decided to settle in and continue writing her fanfiction. Steven had kept up with it after Peridot had finally been brave enough to let him read it. It hadn't been bad, but her descriptions had been hilarious. The green gem had insisted that he not laugh because it wasn't supposed to be a comedy. He did his best to contain the fits of laughter at phrases such as: "they locked lips tighter than a gryoclamp" or "his eyes shined brightly like the star of system X6GL".
Tourmaline flopped on top of Steven's bed and curled her legs up underneath herself with the tablet in her hands. When she powered it on, she had navigated her way to the last chapter that Peridot was working on before realizing that everything that came before it was in gem language. It only occurred to her the moment she was forced to transition back to English.
"Oh, that's so cool. I can read this."
Tourmaline leaned back against a pillow making herself comfy and thought about what she would write for the next scene. Peridot became clear in her mind offering the images and words and before she could get started on writing that down another voice began to add to it. Steven offered his own insight and suggestions. And Tourmaline, dumbstruck for a moment, lowered the tablet as Peridot started to consider his advice. At once, Peridot decided that for him to help he had to know where the story was going. Then Tourmaline watched Peridot, with manic energy, go on to spoil most of her story for him. By the end of it, the green gem went silent in the fusion's mind. All of the bouncing, waving of her hands, running, speaking so fast that it would slur together, the wide eyes, the giggling, the laughter, the love, the outrage...it all settled. She let her other half soak in the details.
At first, Steven was disappointed because the mystery was gone, but to Tourmaline's surprise, as Peridot began to pick up again describing what she saw should come next he joined in with her. He could see the same image that she saw. Tourmaline merely passed it on between them quietly. She waited to see what the two of them would do with such information. With ease, if Peridot said something in the story was red, he knew immediately what shade, whether maroon or scarlet. It was as if they were painting a scene but both of them held the same brush, and it went exactly where they wanted it to go. With giddy excitement, they began to create all types of things. Tourmaline in anticipation raised the tablet back up to her face, and her fingers were poised to type. As she passed the notes between them quickly and quietly so as not to disturb either of them, their brainstorming session soon turned into dictation with both of them telling her what to write down. She transcribed what they came up with together, and with amusement she watched them become lost in the adventures of Pierre and Percy. This time, when Peridot ran away to escape there, Steven came too. The both of them, hand in hand.
Tourmaline giggled at a clever turn of phrase, and when she looked up, she suddenly realized that she was sitting in the dark. The tablet's display was the only beacon of light in the whole house except the fire that burned downstairs and the faint glow of the moon through the window. She looked back at the screen. In the corner, the time read 3:27 am.
"Huh, I'm not tired at all." She remarked, but she had to admit that she could use a break. She locked the tablet and set it down on the bed as she got up.
The fusion descended the steps. She flipped a light on, and her eyes were immediately drawn to the bag of robonoid parts sitting by the couch. It was all that remained after creating the drones. Steven asked Peridot what had been left over and she gave him the list as Tourmaline thought it over. An impish smile formed on her lips. She dragged the bag into the middle of the floor and dumped the parts and tools Peridot had used out. She sat down in the middle of it all.
"Leverage optimizer please." Tourmaline chimed as if an assistant was dutifully awaiting her orders. She held out a hand, and the screwdriver lifted off the ground and floated over into it. While Tourmaline's hands worked on assembling a frame, Peridot put together a working schematic for the device that Steven was now describing to her that he wanted to build. With delight, the green gem listened to him rattle off design ideas using her own terminology with the fluency of a trained and certified kindergartener. She had never had a colleague before, the job of a technician was solitary. The fusion's mind became their new lab. Tourmaline sat in the middle of it all with a rolly chair scooting back and forth between their desks passing on ideas or lingo as needed.
"Oh no, that won't work. This tube is too small to deliver the corn crunches accurately." Tourmaline scratched idly at the back of her head with the screwdriver as she scrutinized the half-built machine in front of her.
The temple door opened and the fusion looked up. Pearl stepped out of her room and looked at them and then to the three empty mugs near them that held a rind of cocoa on their rims.
"You two have been up all night?" She asked a little surprised.
"All night?" Tourmaline looked outside. The sun greeted her blinking eyes. It was just beginning to rise, "Oh. Heh. Guess we have."
Pearl shot a wary glance at the cube-shaped device in front of them that looked like a large toaster with one big slot in the middle, "What on Earth is that?"
"It's a together breakfast maker. When I'm done with it, you should be able to put all the ingredients in, and it ejects the result out here." Tourmaline pointed to the open slot.
"Well at least it doesn't sound like its dangerous or could possibly kill anyone. That's an improvement." Pearl said. Tourmaline wore Peridot's scowl, but Pearl ignored it and busied herself by tending to the fire that had almost gone out. The fusion had been so distracted she had forgotten to take care of it. Pearl went over and added a few new logs. "Whose idea was that contraption?" She asked and prodded embers with the fire poker in an attempt to revive the kindling. When she didn't hear an answer, she looked back over her shoulder at them.
Tourmaline was pointing an accusing finger with one hand to Peridot's gem on her forehead and with the other hand to Steven's on her midriff. The fusion gave her a wide grin.
Pearl scoffed, "Very funny you two."
Tourmaline giggled and went back to work.
The tall gem put a hand to her chin, "So Steven doesn't need sleep in there?" She asked, leaning on the word in as if Steven wasn't fused at all but instead stuffed in the trunk of a runaway vehicle.
"Nope. I'm not tired at all." Tourmaline said answering for Steven automatically. She measured the diameter of another tube she could use for the popcorn feed.
Pearl tended the fire. When she had it going again, she turned back to the fusion still working on the breakfast maker and crossed her arms, "Well, how long are you two intending to stay fused?"
Tourmaline's hands stopped moving, and she slowly looked up, her amber eyes piercing through the clear visor, "I don't know." Then she shrugged, "Maybe forever." She added casually and returned to the device.
When Pearl jerked her head back in shock, the fusion gave her a teasing smirk, but Pearl couldn't tell if they were joking or not.
A/N - I always enjoy hearing from you guys. I got a few questions in the review section, and while I can't give spoilers, if you have a direct question shoot me a private message. I'll try to answer the best I can.
