Context: Raven gets help to her doubts by Lizzie and Ashlynn. She tells them to Apple.
Others: Fluff and angst, because these two clearly can't have anything to be just pure fluff.
Raven Queen is lying next to Apple White. The blonde is sleeping while Raven stares into the ceiling. She sighs and slips out of the other girl's arms. She has done that too many times already to know how to move. She glances back at the girl who hasn't woken up. "Charm you later." She whispers and leaves their dorm.
Raven walks around campus. It is evening, so it's quiet. "Raven?" Asks a voice. "Hi Ashlynn. And Lizzie." Raven smiles tiredly. She glances at the girls and walks closer. The two girls are sitting at a table in Hocus Latte. "What's up?" Lizzie asks. Raven sighs and sits down. "Nothing big. Do you mind if I'm with you?" She says and the two royals nod. "Is it Apple?" Lizzie asks carefully. "I don't know. Nothing's wrong, and that's what I worry about." Raven tells them. "If nothing's wrong, then why would you worry?" Ashlynn asks and smiles sweetly. "We don't fight anymore. At all. And she's been so quiet lately." Raven sighs. "It can't be that bad. She would tell you if something's wrong." Lizzie shrugs. "Yeah, I guess so." Raven says. "So, what's up with you?" She asks. "Nothing out of the ordinary. Hunter and I had fight, but I know we'll make it up, eventually." Ashlynn says and sips her coffee. "I haven't found anyone yet, but I don't complain about it." Lizzie explains. Raven nods. "Why did you even come here?" Lizzie asks. "I just didn't want to be there." Raven says and leans back while looking down. "Are you doubting your feelings for her?" Ashlynn asks suddenly. "What? No! I doubt her feelings towards me." Raven says quickly, but quietly. "What were you even doing when you decided to come here?" Lizzie asks. "Sleeping." Raven answers and Lizzie raises her brow in question and Ashlynn chokes on her coffee. "N-not like that! We were just sleeping. And then I woke up and left after about 10 minutes." Raven explains very quickly. "Ok sure. Do you think that she would be upset if you weren't there when she woke up? I mean come on Raven. How many times have you done this?" Lizzie muses. "I don't know. Like the seventh, I guess." Raven sighs. "Raven, do you really think that she likes that? You're her girlfriend, you're not supposed to just dissapear any once in a while." Lizzie says. "She's right, Raven. If this is the seventh time, maybe she thinks you don't have any feelings for her anymore." Ashlynn says and drinks her coffee again. It dawns on Raven for the first time. "I've been such an idiot!" She sighs. "It happens. You've been dating for five months, she'll understand for sure. Why do even leave? Why did you leave the first time?" Ashlynn says sweetly. "I don't even know. I just didn't want to be there. I mean I want to be with her, but I just don't know." Raven doubts. "You need to find a reason, Raven. If you don't find a problem, you can't fix it." Lizzie shrugs. "I know. Maybe I do doubt myself." Raven says. "I mean not my feelings, but my worth or something." She continues. "I know what you mean. Hunter was the same at first. He doubted his worth, but he told me and we figured it out." Ashlynn smiles and puts her coffee back on the table. "Or in other words. Tell her about this." Lizzue says easily and leans back. Raven nods, thanks the girls and starts heading back to the school.
Raven opens the door and hears only silence. "Apple?" She asks. "You came back." Apple says quietly. Raven sighs and comes around the corner. Apple isn't facing her. She's staring out of their window. "Apple, I'm sorry I left. Again." Raven says, wincing at how bad it really sounds. She leans her side on the wall closer to Apple's bed. "But why?" Apple asks quietly. "I have doubts." Raven confesses. "What?" Apple asks and turns around. She has been crying. Raven can tell even if the blonde now looked perfect and put together. "Not about my feelings towards you, but your feelings towards me. And I've started to wonder if I'm really worthy to even be with you." Raven sighs. "Why on ever after would you doubt that?" Apple asks confusion present in her voice. "You've been distant. And I mean come on, you got woken up by Darling. She's your happily ever after." Raven says with a bit of a growl. "I've only been distant, because you've been so distant. You always leave me. Is it because of your doubts?" Apple tells her. Raven isn't mad or sad about anything that Apple had said. She just feels devasted. "What about Darling? She was the one who woke you up." Raven rolls her eyes a little. "But you weren't the villan of the story. You literally helped to save the realms with me. Against your mom." Apple smiles. "That still doesn't explain why you would be with me and not her." Raven shrugs. She feels more happy now, but she wasn't sure enough. "Because I don't love her." Apple says. The simple phrase swirled in Raven's mind. "You..., love me?" Raven questiones. She tries to wrap her head around it. She looks down and just tries to think clearly. She realises only that Apple is in front of her when her hands are beign held. "Yes." The blonde says sincerily. She was shorter, but not by a lot. Raven's mind short-cirscuits and she just stares at the royal. Her mind quickly racing up to the words the blonde had said to her. "I love you too. Even if it doesn't appear like it. I mean I-" Raven was cut off by Apple kissing her. They broke off. "I know. You don't need to explain." Apple chukled. They hold each others gazes. Raven didn't know what to say, so she didn't say anything. She cupped the girls cheeks and pulled her into a kiss.