Disclaimer: I own nothing of Lazytown or Magnus Scheving.
A/N: WTF? my chap got shorter..ok that won't happen again. It's my mom's fault for ditracting me with "Go clean your sock draw so we can put your new ones in" lol gotta love moms. Ok, well... Here's more. I warn you.. Slightly (or maybe a lot) ooc. Strong T for whole story. There might be a third part of this if it goes where I think it's going. MERRY CHRISTMAS...even though it's four/five months away. YOU ARE A PIRATE!
Four
"Sportacus!" Stephanie entered a room wide-eyed.
There stood, in the center of the room, a tall, healthy, green Christmas tree lit up with white lights, and decorated with tinsel and ornaments. Around the tree was a pile of presents, wrapped in mostly gold and red. Stephanie's eyes wandered, but were soon drawn to the top of the tree, where a peaceful porcelain angel resided. It's hands were in prayer position and around its head was a gold halo.
Tears poured down Stephanie's face, but she didn't notice. The room was beautiful.. The only light was from the tree lights, which brought a romantic and dramatic presence to the room. Sportacus stood next to Steph, wrapping his arm around her shoulder. She clung onto his side and squeezed him, which was supposed to be her hug.
"What..." Stephanie cleared her throat, "What is this for? It's not Christmas.."
Putting his hands on her shoulders, Sportacus turned Stephanie to face him, "This is your Christmas. You've missed two with us.. I still bought you presents then, hoping you would return in time, but I held onto them for when you did come back. Hope you like the...Hope you like everything."
Looking at the tree, and then back at Sportacus, Stephanie happily grinned. She hopped over to the presents and began opening them. She frantically opened and thanked Sportacus for them one by one. He had given her a new diary, some cd's, a very pretty pink hat and mitten set, and a camera. There was one last present Sportacus had saved in his pocket for last..
"Thank you so much, Sportacus. You made my year!" She got up and hugged her superhero again.
He smiled, which lit his eyes up with reflections of love, "Wait..One more present."
"Huh?" Stephanie watched as he took a small box out of his pocket.
Opening it, Stephanie felt tears flooding back into her eyes. Glittering inside the case like a star was a silver ring with a heart-shaped diamond on top. Sportacus stared seriously into Stephanie's eyes, wishing the tears would stop. She shook her head, speechless and awe-struck. Her mind and heart raced as Sportacus knelt on the floor.
More tears spilled out of Stephanie's eyes as Sportacus spoke lovingly, "Stephanie, I wanted to give you that last year for Christmas. You weren't here.. I have to say, though, admitting this and giving you that ring takes a lot of bravery from me, even though I am a superhero. I love you, Stephanie, and I would do anything for you. Maybe you don't love me back, but I do want to take this chance.."
She knew what he was going to say, but she didn't want to hear it. Guilt flooded her, remembering Robbie and the day.. She couldn't let Sportacus go through with anything.. She couldn't let him love her anymore, for she was a horrible, sniful girl.
"No.." Stephanie blurted, "Don't say anymore.. Please.." Tears of sadness now spilled from her eyes, turning them red. She pressed on, "I'm horrible..You can't possibly want me, Sportacus. Please, don't go any further..I can't accept the ring."
Confusion struck Sportacus. He didn't understand why Stephanie wouldn't love him back. He had done everything for her, even make her own Christmas. What was going on with her? She wasn't the same Stephanie she used to be, and Sportacus remembered she was like this before she left for Italy. He needed to force the answers out of her..
"Why must you do this?" Sportacus began his queries, "Why are you acting like you don't even care about me? I thought you said you loved me!" He stood up and closed the ring box.
Defending herself, Stephanie raised her voice, "I do love you, Sportacus, but I can't put you through this.. I don't want to hurt you.. I don't want to hurt Robbie, even if he is only in it for..." She stopped herself, realizing that was it.. Obviously Robbie was only wanting Stephanie for physical attention. Why else would he have forced her to let him devour her innocence?
"For what?" Sportacus was concerned with Stephanie. "What happened...? I thought you said he loved you."
"Well," Stephanie glared at her feet, hoping they would run her out of the airship, "he's never actually said it... I think I may be the only one feeling love when we're around each other. Aww hell," she didn't mean to swear but went on, "I don't think I love him anymore. He made me feel great today, but now, looking back at it, I feel terrible..Like I should just disappear."
Taking the next step to forming conversation, Sportacus asked, "Why? What happened to you?"
"I...We..." Steph stuttered treacherously, "Both of us.. We.."
Placing his right hand under Stephanie's head, Sportacus lifted her head gently to look into her eyes, "What did you do?"
Gulping, Stephanie stared into Sportacus' icey blue eyes. She couldn't lie to him... "We..umm..We had sex."
Lowering his arm in an angry fashion, Sportacus shouted, "How can you do that when you don't even know if you love him? How could you?"
"Don't yell at me!" As if she hadn't had enough tears, Stephanie started to cry again, "I didn't mean to.. It just happened. We were kissing, which he started, and then he started to touch me..One thing led to another.. I was so caught up in the moment.."
"I see... " As his eyes watered, he could only think of one thing to say, "You let me down. I expeted better of you, Stephanie. I thought you had more respect for your body than that. How could you let Robbie go on with what he was doing? You could have said no.. I understand that you were caught up, but didn't the thought of saynig no cross your mind?"
Ashamed, Stephanie admitted, "No...I thought of you, actually. While it was happening, I choked on my words.. I thought about if you found out and didn't want to talk to me anymore.. I thought Robbie would hurt me if I didn't. I know he wouldn't harm me..He can't even harm himself unless it's by accident.. But so many thoughts crossed my mind, and I chickened out of saying anything against it."
Putting the ring box back in his pocket, Sportacus looked at the Christmas tree, "..And this..all of this that I have done for you.. You don't care? You obviously don't if you threw your virginity out of the window. You must not care about anyone, huh?"
"I care about you! What Robbie did doesn't effect my feelings for you, Sportacus! I love you!" Stephanie couldn't help but feel angered now.
In a bad mood now, Sportacus picked on Stephanie again, "You can't love me if you love Robbie.."
"I said I didn't love him like I thought, Sportacus!" She tried to make eye contact, but he wouldn't budge. "Whatever! If you can't even face me then maybe I was better off doing Robbie!" With irascible movement, Stephanie ran out of the room, called for the ladder and climbed down as quickly as she could.
Sportacus took the ring out of his pocket and threw it angrily under a desk. He would love to have a word with Robbie the next time he saw him.
