Hello fanfiction! many thanks for the reviews, favorites, follows and support of these stories. Makes me insanely happy and when I'm insanely happy. i like to write. You readers are the best! a special thanks to H mae, SVTFOEfanatic, Sughman, hyper-blossom z, imaginitisc, and guest. I am immensely happy how much you loved Marco the spy. Maybe i will visit the pair in the future.

I would like to address Imagninistic's review specifically. I decided to keep in line with Marco's character because i feel he doesn't think too highly of himself. In that line of thinking, i think his spying isn't a life style but an actual job. Spies are suppose to be cool, calm, smooth and deadly so Marco thinks that way while he's working. it's a mask for him to cope with the job but in reality he is a shy, modest guy who gets nervous because in his spy life, everyone is probably out to get you so he's expecting betrayal, death and failure but in his real life, he has no idea what is going to happen.

Now i made a little changes to the chapter titles, Each one will say the type of AU it is. H mae helped me realize that they can be pretty confusing what the chapter is about, so a special thanks to her. If it says Random, it is going to be a oneshot no matter what.

So AU this takes place in the canon universe? (Still not sure how to call it), some time after blood moon ball and fortune cookies. Toffee has not been revealed to our heroes but they are starting to notice Ludo's plans are switching from brawn to deceptive.

Before i let you guys in on the story, i like to remind you today is the last day for you to request stories from me. If you have already requested a story, i will try to get them done soon but it may take a while. but no matter what I will finish your request. This i swear!

Well once again, thank you my amazing readers. I love each and everyone of you. keep being awesome! Oh! and the next AU is actually hinted somewhere in this story but I'm not sure if i'm going to work on that one today or if i say i miss you or just take today off. So thank you so much for everything, enjoy the story and I own nothing!

Star Butterfly let out a loud yawn, stretching the weariness of a good night's sleep away from her body.

As she made her way down stairs, not even bothering to change out of her blue sleep dress all in preparation for a lazy Saturday morning, she could see her favorite Earth family bustling around in the kitchen, working together to set up the table for breakfast.

Marco was casually walking back and forth between the cabinets and drawers, arms full of plates that he held onto expertly while smoothing and rather gracefully dodging the his waltzing parents.

Mr. Diaz held his wife close as they twirled around in the kitchen, laughing and giggling, paying no mind anyone else in the room. Marco rolled his eyes in embarrassment but Star caught the smallest grin of happiness on his lips. Marco could complain all he wanted but he loved his parents as they were.

Marco span around them to get some glasses, some forks and knives. As Mr. Diaz dipped his wife effortlessly with one hand, the other held a spatula pressing down on the still cooking pancakes, Star let out a small "aww" It was so cute.

All at once, the trio turned to face her and greeted her happily "Morning Star."

"Morning Diaz's!" She waved cheerfully while focusing Marco's gaze towards her. His eyes were bright and joyful like the best thing that happened to him was seeing Star.

Marco suddenly coughed, turning away rather hurriedly while he began searching through the fridge, probably for something to drink.

Star could feel her heart racing as she took a seat at the table, Marco swinging around to pour her some orange juice. "One order of orange juice for the magical princess from Mewni" Marco said in his best impression of a diner waitress "That all hon?"

Star giggled, eyeing Marco carefully looking for more clues, but he had slipped back into regular old Marco. He was very good at hiding his emotions as Star discovered.

"Nah, I'm good miss Marco."

Marco huffed, a false glare on his face but Star couldn't help but stare at his seriously too cute mole "I'm expecting a bigger tip, Who drinks orange juice with pancakes?"

"I do! There a problem Diaz?" Star called to his retreating figure, the angry tone as fake as his glare was.

Marco give her a soft smile as he sat across from her "Nope, not at all" Marco let out a small chuckle as Mr. Diaz and Mrs. Diaz danced around the table, dropping eggs, pancakes and some hash browns onto the plates without slowing or even dropping a single crumb.

"How do you do that?" Star questioned, her head whipping around so she keep eye contact with the two older Diaz's.

"A family trait. All Diaz's are excellent dancers" Mr. Diaz called cheerfully as he gently helped his wife into her chair.

Marco scoffed in disbelief "Not me. Must've skipped a generation."

Star stared, unable to believe what Marco had just said.

Did Marco seriously not remember the Blood Moon Ball? How casually he had stepped in and danced with Star, literally sending her into a dazed trance. Or did he really think so poorly of himself?

She remembered how she felt in that moment, how right it felt dancing with the masked stranger that seemed to know her every movement before she did. She could feel herself falling for him without hesitation, without pause. Like they were made for each other.

Star had to admit she would've never guessed that it was Marco under that mask. His movements so relaxed, so precise, so confident, so smooth.

Though, Star told herself as Mr. Diaz bowed to his wife, kissing her hand with a suave that could not be taught as she flushed as red as a school girl, perhaps dancing wasn't the only Diaz family trait.

"Star? Staaaar!"

Star shook herself from her thoughts as she stared across directly into Marco's eyes.

Marco was caught off guard and his cheeks became tinted red for a moment before he cleared his throat, the flush receding as his skin turned back to his normal color within a moment. He too good at hiding.

"You okay? You were staring off into a space for a while. You don't usually do that on pancake day."

Star smiled before shoving a whole pancake in her mouth, her lips grinning but she knew better than to smile. Food and smiling didn't go together.

Marco looked uneasy, concerned but deciding if Star wanted to tell him, she would do so at her own pace.

"Oh, by the way, Marco are you ready?" Mr. Diaz asked him. Marco eyed him like he could not believe his father was even asking that question as he gestured downward to show that he was dressed to leave.

"Ready? For what? We are we going?" Star asked quizzically, savoring the meal in front of her while reminding herself not talk with her mouth full.

"We, as in me and dad, are going to go pick up some supplies for my grandma's party next week" Marco told her as matter of fact.

Before Star could excitedly ask if she could come, Marco had quickly added "Just Dad and me."

Star frowned, unsure if she was more disappointed that Marco didn't want her to come or that she wasn't going to spend time with Marco.

"I'm going to check on my garden" Mrs Diaz told everyone when the meals had been finished. She rose up, kissing her husband lightly as she happily skipped to the outside world.

Marco came over to take Star's plate and empty glass, eyeing the door his mother disappeared through "It's not that I don't want you to come" Marco whispered into her ear, his breath tickling her and reminding her of a few days ago which brought a shiver down her spine "We need you to distract mom. Dad wants to surprise her but we need to get some stuff first and set up the place for them."

Star nodded in agreement as Mr. Diaz called from the other room "Marco, have you see my calaca mask? The one with the bluish green flora design around the eyes and thin mustaches?"

Star and Marco looked at each other, eyes opened upon realizing that was the very mask Marco had used to sneak into the Blood Moon Ball.

The matching flush on both teens told them they were thinking of the same thing.

"N-no dad!" Marco called, walking away from Star as he raced to his room to retrieve the mask "I haven't though I think I saw it somewhere in the house."

Star couldn't help but giggle at Marco's panic look as he ran up the stairs as if his life depended on it.

"Well I need it!" Mr. Diaz's voice echoed from somewhere in the house "That was the mask I wore when I managed to impress your mother. I wanted to surprise her with it."

Star's eyes widen when she heard that. Mr. Diaz was wearing that mask when he managed to sweep Mrs. Diaz off her feet?

"Found it dad, come on let's go! We don't have all day!"

Star walked gingerly over to Marco who was waiting by the front door, the very same mask that had hypnotized her carefully held in his hand. For a fleeting moment, Star was tempted to slip the mask on Marco to see she hadn't been dreaming.

"Thanks Star for helping out with mom" Marco told her with a grin "We'll be back in a few hours."

Star nodded in agreement as she reached out for a hug, Marco's eyes widen in surprise. Slowly he wrapped his arms around her, not as tight as usual. Star, on the other hand, held him as tight as she could and she realized once again, she could feel his heartbeat rapidly pulsing under her touch.

Marco pulled away carefully, just a hint a red in his cheeks once more but this time it took a bit longer to disappear "S-see you soon Star"

"Bye Star" Mr. Diaz happily smiled at her as the pair disappeared beyond the doorway.

Star let out a disappointed sigh as she muttered under her breath "So much for talking about that kiss..."

It had happened a few days ago.

After a particularly intense and fraying fight against Ludo, the teens were too keyed up to properly sleep.

Star stared at the incredibly tall ceiling of her room, wondering how Ludo was coming up with trickier and trickier plans. If it had not been for the timely arrival of Ferguson and Alfonso who managed to throw everyone off balance, Marco and Star might've lost the wand.

She let out a sigh as she looked over to the wall that separated her room from Marco's. She wanted to see if he was still up but it had been a long day and Marco needed his rest.

Star tried to fall asleep but sleep had decided it wasn't taking orders from the magical princess. She was tempted to use the wand to force herself to sleep but before she managed to wrap her hands around the handle, she heard low sigh coming from Marco's room.

Star knew Marco would be up, probably beating himself up for nearly losing the wand. Marco took his role as Star's bodyguard seriously, too seriously if Star was being honest. It was like he was trying to compensate for something. Like there was another, much deeper reasoning behind his fierce protection of her.

Star made her way towards Marco's room, quietly knocking in case she had been wrong but as Marco hoarsely called for her to come in, Star let out a sigh of relief. She needed to talk to her best friend.

Marco had slipped into his pajamas, looking curiously at his best friend as she made her way over to his bed.

"You should be asleep" Marco told her, straight to the point.

Star gently poked his chest, surprised how much resistance she had ran into "You should be too Marco."

Marco let out a sigh "We both knew we weren't getting any sleep tonight."

Star nodded in agreement "Yeah...it was pretty close huh?"

"Too close. I thought I almost lost..."

"The wand?" Star supplied "I know what you mean"

"No not the..." Marco stopped, suddenly finding the floor very interesting.

"Not the wand?" Star questioned, leaning closer to her best friend.

Marco wasn't answering

"Marco?"

"No" he murmured softly "Not the wand."

Star was confused "Then what?"

Marco took a deep breath, still refusing to look at Star "You."

Before Star could ask, Marco had answered "If you lost the wand, then you failed your job. Your parents might've sent you Saint Olga's..."

Star took a sharp breath in. She hadn't thought of that.

"And I would've lost you" he muttered sadly.

Star gave him a quick hug "Good thing that didn't happen right Marco?"

Marco gave no answer.

"Marco?"

Marco turned to her, his brown eyes reflecting her face back to her. His eyes were filled with fear, concerned and a host of emotions that Star could see were causing a deep conflict within the boy in front of her.

"Marco? What's..."

Without warning, and without much thought, Marco leaned forward, closing his eyes as he gently pressed his lips against Star's.

Star's eyes widen in surprise as she struggled to understand what was going on. Marco was kissing her. Marco had just became Star's first kiss. She didn't know what to do. Should she push Marco away? Should she kiss back? She doubt just sitting there like a lifeless doll would help much.

Star felt a well of emotions overtake her. This was Marco Diaz, her best friend. She shouldn't be kissing him, she liked Oskar right? But then why did it feel so nice? Was this his first kiss because he was way too good at it for it being his first time. But then again Marco always liked Jackie right? So why was he kissing Star?

Then Marco softly began moving his lips against her and the world slipped from under Star.

She began to kiss him back, ferociously, not caring how inexperienced she was in the matter. She began pushing forward, greedily trying to get more of Marco as she ran her hands through his incredibly soft hair, gripping it tightly as her mind began spiraling out of control.

They were going too far, too fast. Emotions began battling inside her. She shouldn't be doing this with Marco, it was Marco. Best friend...but it felt so good. But what about Oskar, the bad boy musician prodigy! But Marco! Oskar? Did she like Marco? Did she like this? It felt extraordinary but but but.

Star was becoming undoing as the situation began accelerating faster and faster. Her brain became blank as she struggled to comprehend what was going on. She dealt with disappointed parents, she's battled monsters out for her blood, she took a new dimension in stride and confidence. But this? She was lost, confused! She was being pulled in a million different directions and she wasn't sure which was the right one. She was being pulled further than she's ever gone and she was getting scared. She couldn't deal with this, she couldn't handle this. She didn't even know what she wanted! WHAT WAS SHE GOING TO DO!?

Star pulled away, surprised how much effort she had to put into the act. It felt like she was trying to rip off a vital limb from her body.

She began panting wildly, Marco silent, his fearful eyes staring at her as if he had just something wrong.

Her brains sluggish began to work once more. What happened? What just happened? Why did it feel like that, why? Why did it feel so good? Was it because it was her first kiss? Or was it Marco? Was it both? Neither?

"Star?" Marco couldn't keep the quiver of fright from his voice "I-I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that..."

Star's brain wanted to tell him no he shouldn't have done that, she liked Oskar...right? But her heart was practically shouting to tell him to shut up and do it again!

"I...I know you don't like me..." Marco's told her, his eyes downcast "N-not like that anyway. I...I get it. I...I'm sorry."

Star struggled to get to her voice to work. Words were being supplied from her brain but her voice refused to vocalize any of it.

"I mean...I'm sorry if I made it awkward between us...we're still best friends right? Right?"

Star's voice still refused to budge.

"Oh...I...I guess I ruined that. I...I suppose you'll be searching for another family to live with then..."

Live with another family? Star couldn't imagine it. Star didn't want to!

"N-no" Star croaked out, quickly coughed out "No of course not Marco. I-I don't know where that came from but...we're still best friends" she smiled brightly at him.

Marco nodded "best friends. Hugs?"

Star hugged him just as tight as she normally would but she could feel Marco distancing himself just a bit, as if he didn't want to lose control of his emotions again.

The pair spent the rest of the night joking around, being best friends and for a moment Star had forgotten what had just transpired.

Of course Marco was the one reminding her what had happen.

Ever since that day, Marco had been a bit more distant than usual, no doubt keeping his feelings for his best friend under lock and key.

Every hug, he did not held her as tight as he normally did. She could feel his heart racing every time her fingers made bare contact with his skin. Once in a while she would catch him staring at her for a moment. Sometimes, he would walk too close, gently brushing his hand against hers but whenever Star looked in his direction, he walked on blissfully unaware what had happened. He no longer shuddered and blush bright red when talking to Jackie though whenever Star managed to surprise him with a hug, his face became as red as his hoodie for a second before he willed it away.

He began pushing for Star to talk to Oskar, offering to talk to him to see what Oskar liked. It was clear Marco was just glad he had changed nothing between himself and Star and he was just helping her be happy.

Of course, something had changed in Star. It was like someone had blindfolded her whole life and just now introduced her to the sun. She saw all the little signs of Marco's feelings and briefly wondered had they always been there. Imagine her great surprise when she realized they had indeed been there the whole time. It had been weeks since Jackie had managed to make Marco blush and shift him into a nervous mess. She remembered the week before who when she surprised Marco from behind, his whole body stiffened at her touch.

Marco had fallen for Star and she had completely missed it.

The real question was why? Star was just a crazy girl from another dimension who didn't understand how earth worked? Reckless and irresponsible.

Star tried to talk about the kiss to Marco but some force out there decided she had her chance the night of and she had wasted it.

She left subject alone the first two days as Marco was clearly keeping an eye out for any negative shift in their relationship. When he found none on Wednesday, he reverted back to almost normal Marco. A little weary and clearly keeping himself under check but still her best friend. When Star attempted to approach him about the subject, that day Marco had been dragged to help out with some school poster. Star at once agreed to help but once it was discovered that Star was volunteering, half the entire school had done so too and Star found herself surrounded by a sea of fans all wishing for a bit of her time.

It was in that moment Star realized why Marco thought he had no chance with her. Almost every guy had some kind of crush on Star and Marco had already been crippled with low self-confidence for some reason. Star could pick anyone she wanted, Marco probably reasoned, so why would she choose him? Her reaction the night of the kiss probably solidified that line of thinking in his head though technically Star never actually answered Marco's question about liking him.

Star was plagued with thoughts that night. Did she like Marco? How so? As friend or as more? She was truthful enough to admit that the kiss felt good. But she had always been dreaming of her first kiss. Was that why she loved it so? Or was it because she really had strong feelings for Marco? She always had nothing but positive feelings about her best friend, already thinking he was incredibly cool and kind, so she really didn't have anything else to compare to romantic feelings and since romantic feelings were by their nature positive, it was really confusing to Star.

Star decided to kiss Marco once more. That should do it right? The novelty of the first kiss thrill would be gone and there would be nothing left but the straight forward feelings she had towards her best friend...in theory.

Thursday rolled around and Star was determined to kiss Marco for the sake of clearing her own head. The problem was apparently Marco was designated school guide and was called in to guide a trio of new students through the school. Star sulked through out the day, not having seen Marco at all except from afar, guiding a trio of absolutely breath taking girls through out the school. Star remember feeling a flair of anger as the girls were clearly paying more attention to their guide than what he was talking about.

Star tried to ask him for a kiss that night but as he turned around, giving her a small hug as an apology for not seeing most of the day, she felt her throat turn dry and her hearts turning bright pink. She muttered shyly it was okay before demanding he make her nachos and requesting a movie marathon. He gave her a happy smile, one that made her feel weak in the knees but before she fell to the floor, he had walked away to fulfill the princess's request.

Friday wasn't much better. Jackie Lynn Thomas had decided to hang out with the pair and for the first time ever, Star really resented the girl's presence. Especially when she began unnecessarily touching Marco, first a little slip of the hand here, a thank you hug there, a little too long of a handshake in between. The only thing that prevented Star from narwhal blasting Jackie was that Marco had no reaction to any of her attempts at flirting. No stuttering, no blushing cheeks, he wasn't even nervous around Jackie. And telling by how disappointed Jackie was, she knew she lost Marco to someone though she hadn't figured out how but Star knew and that filled her with a quiet glee for some reason.

Friday night she hadn't even bother to attempt to ask. Marco's parents had dug out their old karaoke machine and the household had spent the entire night singing their throats out. Marco was the only one who hadn't really been involved until some light teasing from Star. "Come on wild man" she smirked in his direction "Impress me" Marco took it as a personal challenge and boy did Star regret it. Suddenly the unenthusiastic, lazy Marco had became a suave, Star flushing singing machine. When he sang "Any Way you want it" with his father, both males were clearly had turned the song into a competition to see which one could get their girl to blush more. Star thought she was going to die from lack of blood flow to her heart because it was all pooling in her face, causing her face to become bright red and her hearts to turn pinker each passing note sang and the absolutely ridiculous yet somehow smoother than crystal dance moves Marco was doing.

And of course today was a complete let down. Marco was gone and Star was being driven up the wall from the lack of a real answer.

Hours had passed and the only thing that prevented Star from bouncing off the walls from impatience and lack of Marco was the fun time she had with Mrs. Diaz who treated just like she was family.

Night fell when Marco and his father returned. As Star and Marco waved goodbye to his parents, Star's hear began to hammer loudly in her chest. She was alone in the house with Marco. This has never happened before and suddenly asking to kiss seemed...terrifying.

"So" Marco said, turning to Star "What did you want to do?"

"h-huh? Oh!" Star quickly shook herself out of her stupor "How bout some nachos? Annnnnd a movie marathon?"

Star wanted to slap herself. She had already asked for those things on Thursday!

But Marco nodded in agreement "Whatever you want princess" and as he left to create Star's favorite dish, Star let out a breath of relief she hadn't realized she had been holding in. How on earth did Marco even manage to get the willpower to just kiss her? It was seriously impressive.

The two teens began snacking on Marco's dish for the 2nd time that week, content with each others presence as the Mask of Zorro played in front of them.

Star felt her cheeks heat up when she saw Zorro for the first time. Marco had mentioned he was planning to dress as Zorro for Halloween and Star excitedly agreed as Marco explained Halloween to her. Of course now that she had actually seen Zorro, she found herself wishing Halloween had been closer.

"Star?" Marco called to her. Star peeled her eyes off the screen as Zorro and the female lead Elena switched between swordfighting and Zorro stealing kisses from her. She had been lost in thought, playing the scene in her head, though in her version Zorro and Elena weren't the ones in the scene...

"Are you okay?" Marco asked quizzically.

Star nodded "Yeah...there's something I have to do but you know...it's a little weird."

Marco let out a cheerful laugh "Did you want to call Oskar? I still have his number."

"Huh?" Star looked at Marco and as she peered deeply into his eyes, she could practically hear his brain chanting "make her happy, make her happy, make her happy."

That was the final straw. No more stalling. This had been going on too long and she was tired of not having an answer.

So, not as gracefully as Marco had been, Star turned to her best friend and when he matched her motion, she simply let herself go and plunged herself forward towards him.

Marco was completely caught off guard by Star's movements but before he could back away from the rapidly approaching princess, her lips had caught his in a soft embrace and he closed his eyes, melting into something he never thought he'd experience again.

If the first time had been a spark, this was a firework display on the grandest scale. It didn't just feel good. It felt amazing. It felt right. It felt perfect. And there was no doubt in Star's mind. It was because of Marco. And as she ran her hands through his hair, she had an epiphany.

She liked Marco as her best friend but she absolutely loved him as something more.

And when they finally broke away not from wanting to but because in their inexperience, they forgot to breath, Marco just stared at her, shell shocked and like his wildest dreams had just come true.

"W-what just happened?" Marco croaked out, unable to stop the smile on his face.

Star grinned just as happily back towards him as she replied "I have no idea but I cannot wait to find out!