"So… where's your roommate?" Junior asked as Toadette led him inside her and Toad's house. Toadette shrugged,
"He might be working his night shift in Princess Peaches Castle" she twirled around happy, "But that's ok it'll mean we will have the house to ourselves" in reality she knew where Toad was. He was actually out of town with a few of his friends who were spending time with each other. They like to do that a lot…. Without her most of the time. She didn't know what time he would be back,
"Toadette it's close to evening" he replied catching her lie,
"More like 5pm" she replied. Junior side helping himself to sitting on her and Toads and couch and relaxing on it,
"You know what… I just need some rest" he breathed sinking himself back farther into the couch. He looked at Toadette who was staring up at him, "Come on up" he said lifting his chin a little as if he was wanting her to join him. Interested she jumped next to him blushing. He let out a laugh rubbing his muzzle above her mouth for a few seconds before letting her go.
He sighed looking up at her with a serious expression, "So… you said something about that Princess Peach promoted you to a guard?" he asked she nodded,
"Yeah I still have the letter if you want it" Bowser Jr adjusted his bandana,
"No, I don't need the letter. I'm just curious to know, are you actually going to take that job? I mean you do know being a guard is hard. You got to be ready to attack everything you see… you have to not let the enemies in I mean do you really think you can do something like that?" Bowser Jr exhaled. Toadette knew something was wrong just by the way he talked. Obviously, he was concerned.
She adjusted herself a bit closer to him, looking at him with her grey eyes, "Junior, what's wrong?" she asked, grabbing his shoulder as he began to shut his eyes,
"OK, I'm just worried I might hurt you" he let out a sigh. He adjusted himself on the couch raddling his fingers around his hands as he shut his eyes, "See. From my dad's commands I'm supposed to invade the castle and no matter what hurt any guard that gets in my way. Now this wouldn't be a problem if Kamek didn't push me around with it all." He adjusted himself a bit letting his right leg drag down on the couch. Toadette felt her stomach drop. She had never exactly thought about that before. Bowser Jr was a very high minion in Bowser's army it made sense he had to keep everything in order, even if it meant he had to sacrifice someone he loved.
"You wouldn't actually hurt me… would you?" she asked. Her braids spiting outwards in concern. Bowser Jr wrapped his arms around his neck,
"Of course, not" he replied. Toadette was unsure if she really wanted to believe him. While at this point it was very obvious he was kinder then he was when he was younger… Bowser Jr didn't always act this nice around her. In fact, at some points it was as if he was her enemy in the past. It made her start to think if he was actually being generally nice to her or was just doing it so he could get closer to Mario, "Of course as a servant you're going to have to look over the castle you know for people like me. it makes me wonder if mama peach only made you a servant because she noticed you hanging out with me specially" He looked up at the celling starting to heavily breathe with curiosity.
then he suddenly made out a clear smirk, "Unless you became my servant instead" he said with a sudden thought. Toadette looking up at him shocked,
"WHAT?!" she yelped Bowser Jr got up a bit liking his sudden idea, "Junior really I like the offer, but we've been dating for less than a month don't you think you would want to take this a bit slower-"she was interrupted by Bowser Jr looking at her straight in the face,
"Why not? His tail suddenly swishing back and forth excitedly, Toadette shut her eyes for a few seconds letting herself breathe heavily. She opened them again and glared at him,
"I can't just leave the Mushroom Kingdom" she replied, "Besides Peach already wants to see me tomorrow". Bowser Jr rolled his eyes,
"Yeah wants to show you how to be a guard blah blah BLAH. Look Toadette I am a guard myself I know everything to it. It's the easiest thing ever. You just stand and do nothing for like 12 hours" He replied with a sudden yawn in his mouth like he was going to fall asleep, "Trust me when I say this being a guard is boring don't get your hopes up" . Toadette looked at him with sudden sadness in her eyes. Was he actually being very honestly with his words? Did a guard mean nothing more than just a higher status minion?
"WELL then what am I going to do then?" she suddenly asked worried she was going into a path she didn't want to head into it. Bowser Jr just let out a snort,
"Obviously you got to not do your job as strict as she says for you to do" He let out a yawn, "Or do like I do and skip your job and hang around other kingdoms" Toadette titled her head,
"Yeah but that's your dad. It's not like I'm Princess's Peaches child" she replied with a sigh.
"But you are Toad's friend" he raised both of his eyebrows in enthusiasm as if he wanted to give her ideas, which truthy it did, "So you could technically leave and say it was for him" Bowser Jr turned his head a bit to look at the room, "or" he said with a bit of a smile, "I could come down there and sneak you off, I know a few escape places in the castle myself" Toadette looked over at him as he turned his head to stare at her. Her pigtails bouncing up and down furious,
"Are you crazy? They're going to think you're down here with your dad"
"Pffft, I'm so good at hiding in this kingdom they aren't going to care" he giggled. Toadette tilt her head. She hated that idea of him trying to pick her up from this job of hers and besides she didn't know what it was even like- in fact maybe she would actually like it unlike him,
"You know Junior, let me just give it a try first and foremost before you try anything" she replied, "You'll just have to figure out your way around not getting caught in the future- and besides aren't you planning to invade the Mushroom Kingdom in a few weeks? You do know if they trust you this much, you're going to blow yourself in the future"
Before Bowser Jr could even think about answering to that question a sudden door unlock could be heard. He let out a sigh knowing it was her annoying roommate. Toad slammed the door shut looking up at his friend, "Today was so busy I'm so glad you didn't have to go talk to Peach today" he said heavily breathing,
"We had a situation where some other toads freaked out today because of some rumors" he stopped for a few milliseconds to look up at Bowser Jr who was stretching his legs and arms, "that one of Bowser's minions has been snooping around the Mushroom Kingdom" Toad continued to give Bowser Jr a glare. Who cocked his head,
"What do you mean by minion? I've only been on the out skirts of Toad Town." He replied while Toadette only put the palm on her hand across her face, she knew at this point there was no argument that theses two would start to fight again.
Toad adjusted his vest and let out a sigh, "I know it wasn't you. Because the last time I saw anything it looked to me like a koopaling. Though I'm still skeptical" Toadette pushed her best friend back,
"You should probably go make some super for yourself. You're probably so hungry after working all day" She continued pushing him trying to lead him into the kitchen, hopefully to side him off the entire kingdom invasion thing. She honestly just didn't want to here them fighting about it back and forth,
"That is true… but-"
She pulled him even faster "GREAT, then go eat then!" she said before pushing him into the kitchen. She walked away as fast as she could so she could come back to her own boyfriend giving him a look, "Junior, what did you do?" she asked. Bowser Jr jumped back in surprise,
"I legitimately didn't do anything" he snarled, Toadette clearly noticing he was beginning to boil with anger, "What are you going to blame me now every single time one of my dad's minions comes into the Mushroom Kingdom to spy? I have no control over that!" He suddenly crossed his arms pouting in anger,
"I know that but-uh you know what never mind, at least he doesn't think it's you. Trust me, you don't want to deal with drama with him, he'll literally tell everyone he knows about it. Anyways, I do have to ask are you going to tell your dad about any of this information in the coming weeks?"
"Hell no" he replied. Toadette looking at him shocked, "My dad doesn't desver that type of info" then Toadette noticed he suddenly began to stall with his answer "… I just don't want to see you… and I guess that stupid friend of yours hurt" He held his breath a bit blushing. Toadette letting out a giant smile at his reply. She could tell he was very softhearted deep down when it came to protecting over things he liked, even if he was so selfish about it at times. At the end of the day he was just trying to prove himself to everyone he just wanted someone to talk to- maybe to even come his friend… in some ways even she felt the same.
She sat next to him on the couch suddenly and gave him a slight kiss on the cheek, "You would rather take it over by yourself huh?" she asked. Bowser Jr blushed knowing full well she was right,
"…yeah…. I would rather have myself take it over than my dad… it's kind of why I've been stalling the idea we've been working on… he isn't to smart when it comes to taking over the Mushroom Kingdom… or dating Princess Peach really" He sighed collapsing on the couch suddenly tired, "I don't want to go back and work on it if I'm honest" he growled. Toadette looked back up at the clock seeing the time reaching down to 7:00 with the sun beginning to set in the far distance,
"Well you got all the time in the world to spend the rest of the night with me before you got to go back… is there anyway you could possibly tell him off?" she asked. Bowser Jr nodded his head,
"He would probably be highly disappointed in me if I did that" his hair suddenly flipping to his left side in disappointment, he looked down at the floor disappointed at himself knowing his dad would already be yelling at him by the time he got home,
"Really? For that?" she asked. He nodded his head,
"When he want's something done, he wants it done as quick as possible" he squeezed the couch cushion suddenly angry, "I just wish he would just let someone like me lead for once instead" Toadette touched his left shoulder,
"Want to watch some TV to take your mind off it?" she asked. She looked down at the floor grabbing a remote and handing it to him, "This is your day off, you shouldn't be so worried about it" while cautious at first. He suddenly grabbed the remote with ease. Toadette noticing he began to adjust himself by laying down and pressing the on button on the TV,
"You know what? Sure, get a sense of what a normal non-royal goes through" he growled. Adjusting his head, a bit to where it was touching a few inches into his bandana. Toadette couldn't help but to suddenly feel large amounts of joy for the prince. He seemed to be so stressed about the invasion and talked about it so much with her, that he-or guess she, didn't realize it was taking over their minds and it would just be more important to really focus primarily on other things… which was the reason he had come down to her house in the first place.
Her plan seemed to have worked as well, as Junior calmed down and began to slowly settle himself into the couch looking up at whatever was on the TV at this very moment,
"Just take all the time you need" Toadette laughed while rubbing his ponytail. Suddenly she noticed a sudden smile appear from his own face and then a bit of a chuckle as he grabbed her waist line suddenly putting her on top of his stomach. He took his right hand putting it up onto her side while taking his left hand and rubbing her cap for a few seconds before deciding to speak again,
"You know, you're right. It would be better if I just relaxed instead of focusing on my dad" Bowser Jr rubbed her side a bit encouraging her to snuggle against him. Which she could gladly be ok doing, it seemed as if Junior's mood had suddenly changed when she had suggested this offer, almost as if he liked the idea of just relaxing instead, something she had never seen from him before.
As a young child, she always saw Bowser Jr as this lazy no good spoiled brat. Nothing seemed like there was anything in the future for him at the time. She could recall all the fights that broke up between the kingdoms when Bowser used to attack more brutally, she could even remember when she had to go out of her way at some points to defeat Junior herself. He would always run away from her instead of wanting to chat ranting about how Mario and his friends were nothing but mean to him and wouldn't let him have his way. The more as she looked at it… it just seemed like he was lost… a bit similar to her. She kissed him on the cheek once again before relaxing with him on the couch, trying to keep him safe.
Toad, a few minutes later coming back into the living room. Looking at them both as they cuddle on the couch. At first, he seemed concerned, but a few seconds later he relaxed himself when he realized Bowser Jr had no intention of hurting her or him. Toadette looking up at him when she noticed his presence, "I'll be in my room if you need me" he said before heading off. Toadette nodding her head before relaxing back down with Bowser Jr, who stayed with her for basically the rest of the night.
She couldn't even express how amazing it felt to actually stay with him this long. He proved himself to be stable and actually wanting to do what she wanted to do. She couldn't express how much empathy she had for him when he continued to mention how he had never felt this relaxed in his life. How he was always being towered over by Kamek or Bowser to do what he was supposed to do. She just hoped he would be ok when he returned back home to all of it…