Snowcrystal of Thunderclan- are you still sick? I hope not, but if you are I hope you feel
better soon! :D Hollyleaves is cute too! :D Jay's hilarious, what if Briarlight was there? She'd be excited to meet her brother in the ancients! :D :D(I can imagine how it goes! XD)
Fallen Leaves padded into the medicine cat den like Hollyleaf and Jayfeather had told him to and froze, his green eyes widening in surprise at the paralyzed she-cat who was sorting herbs near the back of the den, her mottled pelt unmistakable. "Prickly Briar?" he mewed in shock.
Briarlight looked up from her herbs, a small borage leaf on her nose. Her amber eyes widened with shock, "Fallen Leaves?"
Hollyleaf looked confused, "you know Fallen Leaves?"
Briarlight's ears twitched, "it's complicated," she mewed and dragged herself over to the three of them, "the borage's sorted Jayfeather!" she told the medicine cat, still not sure what to say about how she knew Fallen Leaves.
"I noticed." Jayfeather mewed curtly and plucked the borage leaf off of her nose before dropping it at his paws. "This is Briarlight," he gruffly introduced his assistant.
"Who's Prickly briar?" Briarlight asked Fallen Leaves curiously, before her amber eyes twinkled, "I sure hope you're not talking to me," she purred, "cause I'm pretty sure I haven't fallen into any briar bushes."
Fallen Leaves looked confused but seemed to get that Briarlight would explain later and dropped the subject.
I hope I answered your questions with my PM :D I got a little lazy on Holly's, but Briarlight's was going to be Briar's Thorn, but I found the idea of her falling into a prickly briar bush a whole lot more amusing, so I used it! :D I can change it, but I probably won't because it's the one thing that Jayfeather can hold over her head and tease her for :D
Wandering Snowleaf- the key is in writing a multitude of chapters at once! :D I'm nearly always writing a chapter for each story on here and this story happens to be easier to write, so I write more of it! :D
Featherflight- Yeah, Leon really does love Cynthia :) I wish they were alive too, it would be really cool to see their relationship develop over the years! :D
I don't know, I've always felt that Briarlight is portrayed as a side character who gets on Jayfeather's nerves, so I wanted her to be important! :D Now she's born into the ancient times with him, she knows about Rock and the prophecy, and helps Jayfeather "decrypt" some of it with a lot of thinking and guess work! :D plus, she's part of a prophecy that I have in the ancient times that Rock gives to her in the tunnels when she sneaks out to become a sharpclaw. Rock gives a warning her about Jayfeather staying with Halfmoon in the ancient times! It goes like this: when broken from the briar's protective thorns, the blue jay's wing will be lost in the past to the bright light of a gentle half moon. Be careful young briar, for a feather can easily be swept away.
She really doesn't interfere that much, she just tries to keep Jayfeather's attention busy with her running around and getting into trouble (she's a kit when Jaypaw first meets the ancients). Plus with her around it's easier for Jayfeather to remember that he can't stay there, he has the prophecy and another cat to worry about. Although Briarlight does argue with Halfmoon when Jayfeather's not there and isn't a big fan of the she-cat, not that she ever really was! XD
iDragonSpyro- I'm sorry I took so long! :( but it's up now! :D and it's a happy ending! :D :D I have three tests today, let's see if my brain survives! XD
Shadows of a Dying Soul- Oh! Sorry Echo! :D I'm glad you like the cat ones! They're fun to write!
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Finally! :D It's up! Hooray! :D :D Sorry guys, I've been working on my rewritten series and fighting for love and with constant hope lately, not to mention my brain has pretty much fizzled out with all of the tests I've been taking in school. -_- But I'm not here to complain! :D Before we get to the story, I have to ask you all if you'd like to see a chapter where some of the characters (they are over nineteen I think?...) ingest spiked drinks, like Leon, Jay (on purpose) Braxton, Brendon, and a few others *cough cough* Ivory XD
I Can't Do That To Her Dad, It's Not Her Fault Part 3 (Final)
"Hey, mom?" Leon asked as he jumped up on a kitchen counter and watched his mother wipe off the counters, "can I ask you something?"
"Of course Leon," Skylar replied sincerely and stopped cleaning the counter to look at him. "What do you need?"
"So you know how dad had me reject Cindy right?"
"If I didn't I must be blind and deaf." Skylar deadpanned, "but continue."
Leon shifted a bit nervously, he didn't know how his mom was going to react to the next part. "Well I'm trying to Wild Court her," he winced at the excitement in his mother's green eyes, "and was wondering if I can do extra chores and get money for some of the things I want to actually court her with." He tried to downplay it like it was nothing, hoping that she wouldn't go all crazy on him and hug him to death.
Skylar shrugged, keeping calm for the moment anyway, "what kinds of things and how much?"
Leon scratched the back of his head awkwardly, he didn't want to discuss the gifts he was going to get for the entire courting thing. "uh, her favorite candy, I want to make something for lunch on Friday for her, a new soccer ball, compound bow, a book, and Holly suggested jewelry, which I think is a good idea."
Skylar raised her eyebrows, "you think jewelry is a good idea?"
Leon nodded, "Cindy tends to wear a necklace I gave her for valentine's day last year so I figured she'd like another one… ooph! Mom!" he complained as Skylar enveloped him in a bone crushing hug, "get... Off!"
Skylar smiled at her youngest son, "I'm so proud of you! You're finally using your head!"
"I do use my head!" Leon complained and tried to escape her grip, "I've always used my brain!"
Skylar chuckled and let him go, her green eyes twinkling, "no you haven't Leon, and yes, I'll lend you the money, just be responsible with it."
"What're the extra chores I have to do?" Leon asked a bit worried about how many chores she was going to pile on him.
"None," Skylar replied and smiled at Leon's stunned expression.
"None?" Leon echoed, eyes wide with surprise.
"None," Skylar confirmed, "just make sure your father doesn't find out yet okay?"
Leon's amber eyes gleamed, "of course mom."
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"Hi," Leon greeted Cynthia as he approached her desk.
Cynthia jumped when he did so and nearly messed up her drawing of a silver coated cat curled up in a ball.
Leon smiled and leaned down, speaking in a low voice to avoid everyone else hearing him as he discreetly slid a few smaller cookies and cream Hershey bars under her drawing pad. "You're beautiful." he murmured softly and his smile widened slightly as he noticed Cynthia blush, clearly she hadn't expected the compliment.
Cynthia fiddled with her necklace and avoided Leon's gaze, her cheeks were lit with a pink blush.
Leon straightened up and went to his desk on the other side of Holly who gave Leon a discreet high five while Cynthia looked at them out of the corner of her eye, still blushing.
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Holly watched with a smile as Cynthia jumped when Leon leaned down and whispered in her ear while discreetly pushing a few chocolate bars of her favorite kind beneath her drawing pad. Cynthia watched him in shock, blushed slightly at something he said that Holly couldn't hear and fiddled with her necklace while looking down at her desk.
"Good job," Holly whispered to her brother and gave him a discreet high five, "that was perfect Leon."
Leon smiled, "I'm trying my best," he smiled warmly at Cynthia, amber eyes soft as he noticed her looking at him with a confused look on her face, she still didn't understand what was going on. "Just wait till she finds out what's written on the back."
"What did you write?" Holly asked as Cynthia looked back down at her desk and looked at what he had written.
"Something," Leon replied as Cynthia looked up at him, her blue eyes surprised.
"Tell me," Holly whispered and poked him, "I'm helping you remember!"
"Fine," Leon rolled his eyes as Cynthia looked back down at the candy bar, "I wrote that I'm sorry and I'm trying if she wants me to continue then do a braid like she had when I promised."
Holly smiled and looked at her friend who seemed to be thinking quietly. "I guess we'll just have to wait and see tomorrow."
"Yup," Leon replied and looked a bit nervous at the thought of her saying no.
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Leon had nothing to worry about as it turned out, Cynthia arrived at school the next day with her hair up in a ponytail with a braided headband across the front, just like Leon had asked.
Leon looked thrilled that she had accepted the first gift and promptly ran off to Cynthia's locker to put the next one, a white soccer ball with her name in bright blue.
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Holly watched, waiting for her brother as he talked to Cynthia, his friend didn't really say anything in return, but Holly could tell she was listening and smiling at him which was an improvement, that was for sure, and she could see the new white soccer ball tucked under Cynthia's arm. A moment later Holly was stunned as she watched Cynthia lean up on her toes and kiss Leon on the cheek before racing off toward her mother's car.
Leon wandered over to her and Jay, he looked rather stunned and dazed, having not at all expected that. "Uh…" he mumbled and awkwardly pushed his hands into his pockets. "I didn't know what was going to do that."
Holly smiled, "well you made a good impression then, right? What were you talking to her about?"
"I was apologizing," Leon replied still a little out of it, "but I didn't think she would do that."
Jay snorted, a smirk crossing his face, "do you want me to hit you with a bat? Maybe your brain needs a readjustment."
Holly laughed and Leon didn't react to Jay's joke, too stunned about Cynthia kissing him on the cheek to react to his brother basically saying his brain didn't work.
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"Hey Cindy," Leon smiled and scratched the back of his head, a small plastic container tucked under one arm, his backpack slung over the opposite shoulder.
"I'll see you later Haliah," she murmured, the words barely audible before she turned around and faced Leon as Haliah jogged off to their other sister Paige. Cynthia's expression was a little nervous, clearly, she didn't know how to react to him anymore. She raised an eyebrow in a questioning fashion and Leon felt a little disappointment, but he didn't comment on her choice to not talk directly to him.
"It's Friday," Leon said, speaking a little slowly, "and I know you haven't been eating lunch lately," a guilty look crossed Cynthia's face at his words as she tensed up and Leon hastily fixed his sentence. "I don't mean it in a bad way," he said hastily, "I just wanted to help out and brought you this." He offered the food container to her and rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly.
Cynthia looked surprised and took the container from him, curiously eyeing it and silently asking him what it was.
"It's nothing special," Leon said as he shuffled his feet a little, "I've been learning how to cook pasta and Holly told me it was your favorite…" he trailed off, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Cynthia smiled at him and spoke, her voice raspy from disuse. "Thank you, Leon, I'm sure it's great."
Leon's smile widened into a grin at both her speaking to him and the compliment. "I hope it is, let me know if you get sick from it okay?" He joked.
Cynthia's smile widened and her blue eyes softened. "I won't get sick, you've always been a good cook Leon," she said as she slipped the container into her backpack and slung it over one shoulder before she parted ways with him after the compliment.
Leon watched her leave, feeling pride well up in his chest at her direct compliment and he felt all warm and fuzzy, a feeling he didn't really mind having around, if only he had seen his father watching him from the front office where he was checking on a few things.
What are you doing Leon? Brad wondered before he narrowed his eyes and watched the two wilds' interaction. He's courting her!
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Holly laughed as Leon wandered away from Cynthia and over to her, Jay, and Bree after school with a goofy grin on his face. "What's gotten into you?" she joked, she knew exactly what he was grinning about, Cynthia was talking to him now and she had full heartedly enjoyed his latest gift. The gift had been a pasta dish that Holly had had the chance to steal a bit from her friend, and boy was it delicious, her brother was an amazing cook, he really was.
"Cyndy's talking to me," Leon smiled, looking a little proud at the small notion.
"Ooh!" Bree grinned, "and you're calling her Cyndy again!" she squealed excitedly and accidently rolled backward over Jay's foot with her wheelchair. "That's amazing! I can't wait for her to back to normal!"
Jay yelped and jumped backward, "Bree! That's my toes!" he snapped at her, narrowing his eyes to look at her.
Bree grinned sheepishly, "oops…"
"Yeah oops, that hurt you know!" Jay retorted scathingly and balanced on one foot to massage his now throbbing foot.
"I'm sorry!" Bree apologized sincerely, "I'm just excited!" she gave a little bounce.
"Ow!"Jay yelped again and glared at Bree, "Bree!"
"Sorry!" Bree apologized in a half wail, "I didn't mean to!"
"She's just excited about Leon and Cindy's partnership being repaired," Holly soothed her twin brother who stood next to Bree rather than behind her, probably to avoid her rolling over his toes again. "You know she didn't mean to Jay."
"I know," Jay grunted, "but it still hurts. She's not a feather."
"Hey!" Bree snapped indignantly, not appreciating the small jab at her weight, "I am not fat Jay!"
"I never said you were," Jay replied smoothly.
Bree crossed her arms over her chest and huffed, refusing to look at him for the current moment. "You implied it."
Holly looked a little amused, "he didn't mean it, Bree," she defended her brother with amusement in her voice. "Right Jay?"
Jay didn't say anything about not meaning it and Bree scowled before she leaned up and promptly smacked him upside the head.
"Ow! Dang you Firefly!" Jay snapped and rubbed the back of his head, "of course you're not fat, you weigh less than I do!"
"Don't tease a girl about her weight!" Bree shot back with a huff, "it's not funny!"
"I'm sorry," Jay apologized a moment later, his voice gruff but apologetic, "I didn't mean to upset you."
Bree sighed and relaxed her annoyed posture into a relaxed one as she leaned back against her wheelchair. "Sorry about smacking you," she apologized, "I really didn't mean to roll over your feet."
"I know," Jay replied simply, leaning sideways on Bree's wheelchair and showing that she was forgiven.
Leon smiled, his amber eyes gleaming brightly, "I hope Cyndy and I's partnership will be easy like your guys'."
Holly laughed, "nobody can be like Bree and Jay's partnership, theirs is unique and uncommon. Plus," she added, "their partnership is mostly platonic and laid back, something that yours and Cindy's won't be."
Bree hummed an agreement with Holly, she was now scrolling through her phone, looking at the messages her mother always spammed her with.
Jay shrugged, his glasses covered blue gaze directed toward Bree's phone as he too read the messages, a small amused smirk on his face. He was idly playing with Bree's ponytail, which was a rather unusual occurrence in of its own.
Leon smiled, "I mean the comfortability and closeness, I know my partnership with Cyn will be way different, I just hope it'll be easy to adjust to and get along with like how Bree and Jay's is." his amber gazed strayed over to where Cynthia was with her sisters. I want a partnership with Cyn, it'll be the best thing in the world.
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"So I heard Leon's courting Cynthia," Brad spoke a little slowly as his family's usual move on Friday after dinner. He was sitting on the couch next to Skylar, one arm wrapped around his wife's shoulders.
Leon, Holly, and Jay all stiffened and the three siblings glanced at each other, what were they supposed to do?
Jay sighed and took off his glasses to clean them as he spoke. "Yes," he grunted curtly, "he is."
"might as well tell him Leon," Holly sighed and accepted her fate of being grounded for who knows how long.
Leon looked at his father, amber eyes gleaming defiantly, "yes," he said with a hard edge in his voice. "I am courting Cynthia." his amber eyes flashed, "and you can't stop me."
Brad narrowed his eyes slightly, "you are not ready for that kind of partnership Leon, you don't know what you're getting into."
"Maybe I don't," Leon snapped, "but I am done with my friend looking broken and miserable! I want her to be happy, smart, beautiful, and funny! Not miserable, heartbroken, practically mute, and always looking wistfully at me like she wanted me to be her partner so bad that it broke her to pieces when you made me reject her!" he narrowed his eyes, "I want my best friend to be happy, and being her partner will make her happy, so that's what I am doing."
"I don't want my kids having partners this young-"
"Bull crap!" Jay interrupted with a grouchy snarl, "I already have a partner, Holly partially has a partner, all of us have a partner of some sort!"
"You and Holly's partnerships aren't anything close to intimate like a mate, both of yours are platonic, Leon's isn't." Brad replied cooly, "I don't want my son to be a mate when he doesn't know what it means."
"I know what being a mate means!" Leon retorted hotly, "being a mate means my mate is my sole focus, she is worth everything to me and I do my best to protect her from others and herself! Being a mate means I am very close to the one I am mates with and I don't keep any secrets from her, nor do I lie to them because they don't deserve that kind of treatment from me! Being a mate is being willing to give up everything to make your mate happy, safe, secure, and loved!" He snarled and Brad was surprised. "I'm not as dumb as you think I am," Leon growled and got to his feet before stalking towards the stairs.
Brad got to his feet and grasped Leon's shoulder, "Leon, I know you're not dumb," he said calmly, "but you have no idea what you are getting yourself into, I'm trying to protect you."
"Well Brad," Leon snapped and refused to look at his father, his body stiff and rigid. "I don't care, I am courting Cyndy, I love her, I want to make her happy, and nothing you can say or do can stop me."
"Leon listen to me-"
The sound of Leon's phone going off in his pocket interrupted Brad and Leon quickly answered it. "Hey Cyn," he spoke, trying to keep his voice calm and level. His amber eyes softened slightly as Cynthia's response.
"Are you okay?" Cynthia asked, her voice still a little raspy, "do you want me to come over? You sound upset." He heard movement like she had gotten up as she spoke.
"No, you don't need to come over, nothing's wrong Sunshine," Leon spoke warmly, "is something wrong over at your house?" he asked, his voice holding obvious concern. He then glared heatedly at Brad before he shrugged off his father's grasp and stalked off up the stairs, still on the phone with Cynthia.
"Besides Lily being a pain? Not really. My mom got a bunch of tickets to a movie and I was wondering if you, Holly, and Jay would like to join me, Haliah, Paige, and Bree…"
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"Are you ready Leon?" Holly asked her younger brother as they finished getting ready for school after a month of the actual courting part and two weeks after their fight with their father, it was time to see if Cynthia was ready to have him as her partner after the rejection and his courting.
Leon took a deep breath and straightened out the collar of his collared t-shirt before he nodded, "I'm as ready as I can be." He was dressed rather smartly, a spotless light gray collared t-shirt, black converse, and newer black denim pants with his hair gelled in neat spikes on the top.
"She won't say no," Holly reassured him, "she's always wanted you to be her partner remember? Even when we were kids."
"I know," Leon nodded a bit nervously and tucked a small envelope into his back pocket before he slipped on a black active jacket and slung his backpack over one shoulder. "Let's go."
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Leon took a slow breath to steady himself before he slipped out of his seat and strode over toward Cynthia who was looking uncomfortable with students staring at her. Like Leon, she was a little dressed up too, with a light blue collared shirt tucked loosely into light gray skinny jeans, white converse, and a light gray active jacket tied around her waist with her black hair up in a ponytail with a braided headband which had a thin soft colored light blue ribbon weaved into the braid and in the ponytail itself. "Hey," he whispered in her ear, "here," he slid an envelope taped to a new drawing pad across her desk, "give me your answer after school in the courtyard."
Cynthia nodded and drew the new drawing pad and envelope closer to her, her blue eyes a little nervous.
"I love you," Leon murmured in her ear.
"I love you too," Cynthia murmured before Leon straightened up and went back to his seat, now he just had to make it through the rest of the day, hopefully, he would.
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Cynthia found a secluded corner of the cafeteria during lunch to open the envelope to reveal a note and to her surprise, a silver chained locket in the shape of two cats curled up together, their eyes were different gemstones, one had blue sapphires, the other had yellow topaz. The edges of the locket were studded with tiny diamonds. Cynthia's eyes widened and she stared at the locket. Oh… wow… how?... She shook her head slightly to clear it and looked at the note.
~Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
And the sun shines just like you~
Well, that was terrible, sorry about that Cyn, but hey, I tried being
romantic right? Not that it really worked out… Eh, whatever.
Cynthia chuckled softly and lightly shook her head with amusement, of course, Leon thought he screwed up poetry when it really wasn't bad at all.
Anyway, so I've been courting you for a month now, and I hope
it wasn't too bad. I tried my best and gave it all I had,
now I hope that it's enough… So, this is my last gift Cyn,
this locket that I hope you enjoy it as much as your other one. If you haven't looked into the locket then do it now or this won't make any sense…
If you haven't looked into the locket then do it now or this won't make any sense…
Cynthia did as he directed and picked up the precious locket, she pushed on the sides and it swung open to reveal the words 'a piece of me'. She furrowed her eyebrows, Huh? She thought in confusion before she turned back to the note.
The words are an acronym, it goes like this.
A- my Angel
P- my Partner
I- my Idiot (occasionally)
E- my Equal
C- my Cynthia
E- my Everything
O- my Opposite
F- my Friend
M- My Love
E- my Example
You, Cynthia my Sunshine, are a piece of me that I never want to lose,
will you please forgive me for rejecting you? I love you and your
happiness is the main thing on my mind. So I plead your forgiveness
and ask you this question, am I worthy in your eyes to be your
partner? In my own eyes I will never see that I am, just like how
you think you aren't worthy of me (which is way wrong, you are way out of my league)
but what do you think?
I love you with all my heart my beautiful Sunshine,
Leon
Cynthia looked up from the note to look at Leon from across the cafeteria, her blue eyes gentle and loving, the life that had vanished at the rejection and had been slowly trickling back into her bright blue eyes was finally completely there and she looked extremely happy as she dropped her gaze back down to the glittering locket in her left hand. You've always been worthy Leon, no matter what you do.
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Leon fidgeted nervously as he waited for Cynthia in a corner of the school courtyard next to the tree that she had kissed him on the cheek a few weeks ago. Where is she? Did she not like it?... his thoughts stopped abruptly as Cynthia stepped around the corner of the school and approached him.
"Leon?" Cynthia said a bit nervously, noticing his zoning out.
Leon snapped out of his thoughts and smiled nervously before he draped his jacket on the grass and offered her to sit down on his jacket, "hey Cyn, would you like to sit with me?"
Cynthia smiled nervously as well and accepted his offer as she almost cautiously took a seat on his jacket while Leon settled near her. "Hey," she greeted him, her voice soft, "I read your note."
Leon tensed slightly and he looked a little more nervous, "what did you think about it?"
Cynthia smiled and leaned toward him slightly, "that you have the best cursive handwriting and that you are amazing."
Leon smiled weakly despite how her comment warmed his heart, he needed to know what her answer was, the suspense was killing him. "what about my question? What's your answer?"
Cynthia smiled and leaned a little closer, her breath fluttering over Leon's face. "Yes," she breathed, "you've always been worthy Leon."
The uneasy smile melted off of Leon's face to be replaced with an excited and happy one as he smiled at her.
For a few moments, neither teenager moved, both too happy to break their peace. Then Leon moved, he titled his head slightly and leaned closer, finally getting to properly give his partner a real first kiss.
They broke apart with a jolt a moment later as the partnership between them was finally kickstarted, giving both of them a short almost electrical shock which alerted them and their wilds that Cynthia's fate when it came to partnerships, was sealed.
Leon looked at Cynthia his amber eyes gleaming warmly, an almost lazy smile on his face. Cynthia's expression mirrored his own although her eyes were softer and the smile really was lazy as she leaned forward and kissed him slowly.
They could hear Holly, Jay, and Bree all giggling in the background with Cynthia's older sisters, but that moment, neither of them cared, they finally had their partner, and they had them all to themselves.
Additional scene:
Cynthia pushed her plate away from her, blue eyes dead tired. She then put her arms down on the table and snuggled her head into them before she dozed off, too tired to eat at the current moment. Leon, who was sitting next to her, kept jerking himself awake, trying not to fall asleep at the table. The new partnership between them was exhausting and sometimes their siblings wished the partnership wasn't active, while their parents were kind and seemed to understand, actually, they probably did, being wilds themselves.
Holly quickly pulled Leon's plate away from him as he face planted into the table with enough force to startle Cynthia awake and make the silverware rattle.
"Huh?" Cynthia lifted her head, blinked and rubbed her eyes, looking tired still.
"Uh… is he okay?" Paige asked worriedly, looking at the blonde who had his face pressed against the table.
"I think so," Holly replied and looked at her other brother, "can you poke him, Jay?"
Jay scowled but prodded his younger brother who just gave a tiny snore in response to the poking. "He's fine, just asleep."
Meanwhile, Cynthia got over her surprise and used Leon's position to her advantage. She put her head on his neck and shut her eyes, leaving her arms on the table in the process.
Sarah sighed and amusedly shook her head at the two of them while Bracken did the same and pushed his daughter's bangs from her sleeping face. "We should probably move them," Sarah said, giving her husband a hint and displaying how glad she was that her daughter wasn't miserable anymore.
Bracken got up and scooped up his second youngest daughter bridal style and walked off to Cynthia's room, which was a complete mess because of her, Leon, and their partnership. He carefully put her down in the fort the two had made of Cynthia's bed, desk, and nearly all of the extra blankets in the house. The floor was covered in soft blankets, some were rolled up against the walls as barricades, it basically looked like someone had childproofed her room and turned her into a child.
Cynthia stirred as Bracken set her down and she partially opened her eyes, "no Leon," she mumbled, and half-heartedly pushed herself away from her father, "I need a break." she snuggled into the blankets, her nose flaring slightly at the different scents of the blankets.
Brad came in a moment later, carrying his youngest son on his back, the teenager softly snoring in his ear. "What happened in here?" he asked Bracken as he and Bracken carefully maneuvered Leon to be lying down next to Cynthia.
"Cynthia probably hit something and it pissed her off," Bracken shrugged, "it's either that or someone turned them into kids.
"I think the first one's likely," Brad said as he briefly watched Leon snuggle up to Cynthia and lay on his side, effectively stopping the snoring.
"I agree." bracken replied before he left the room, brad on his heels.
The moment the door shut, Leon's eyes popped open and he squeezed Cynthia's sides, jolting her awake in a wild like daze. "Come on Cyn!"
"No…" Cynthia complained and curled up tighter, her black cat ears settling to be laid back as she relaxed and switched from wild to be normal. "I'm tired…"
"But we haven't done anything yet!" Leon complained and tried to rouse her by tickling her sides and stomach, "just once, please!"
Cynthia cracked her eyes open, "I'm tired Leon," she mumbled, "can't it wait till I can think correctly? My brain is mush."
Leon pouted and nuzzled her neck, "you don't need your brain," he mumbled disappointedly.
Cynthia gave a drawn out sigh, "fine, once, that's it."
Leon beamed and fiddled a little with their fort, making walls while Cynthia tried to somewhat wake up so he would let her sleep later.
Well, that took a while! XD I hope you all liked it and enjoyed the happy ending! :D