A/N: Good lord that took longer than it needed to. There was just a full writer's wall in the way for a good seven hours there; I had to get up and just leave it a couple of times to clear my head out. But as all things do, the wall eventually fell and here is the result!
A Potato: Ahh! I love hearing about how a chapter relates to your own love. From what i've heard, you two sound like a simply wonderful couple and it makes me happy that this fictional couple of my creation can compare! Thank you friend!
Magicantix: Yeah I'm not sure what's going on with ff dot net's email services right now but I sometimes don't get a notification for a reviews or the confirmation email when I post a new chapter. Weird. I'm so glad you caught up and enjoyed though! That's a juicy suggestion, I will think about it this week and perhaps get to work on it soon! Thank you!
DuwangChew: THIS JUST IN: AKKO IS A FUCKIN COWARD. Thank you so much friend! Yeah me too. I think that's probably why the princess/knight Au works so well for this pairing. Akko is s t ronk and Sucy is highly appreciative of this fact.
Some Random Dude: Yeah I know, but it just comes with the territory. It's not healthy but it's very very common for content creators to hate their stuff; perfectionists all of us. But perfection isn't a real thing and you gotta just be happy with what you end up with. That's why I fuckign super appreciate all of you always reviewing, some of you are super quick with it too, leaving me only minutes at most to wallow in self hate. Thank you so much my friends!
The college stuff is a favourite of mine too, I will definitely do more of it soon. Oooh the briiiidge~ That would be a very good place for confession and kisses. IM INTO IT.
DarkyLonewolf: Yeaaahhhh, but that's the fandom life aint it? Especially with LWA where everything is up to interpretation. Ships tend to snowball as the more people who like it means more people making art which means more people see art of the ship which means etc. And yeah in this canon (if you can call this mess a canon) Akko really only has eyes on thos s. MARRIED FUTURE YOU SAY? I LOVE MARRIED FUTURE. I have a few suggestions pending but yeah I'll definitely jot that down. Thanks!
I hope you enjoy friends, this one comes from another suggestion from our friend ThatFanFicGuy! (Who is currently posting lots of glorious Sukko/redteam crack)
Akko couldn't sleep.
As the moon rose higher and higher into the night sky and her best friends slowly drifted off to sleep, the brunette remained wide awake. Her head was a whirlwind of thoughts: hopes, fears, what ifs, centered around the one person she could never take her mind off of.
Turning in her bed, Akko glanced wistfully across the dark dormroom where Sucy slept soundly, stiff as a corpse. The alchemist looked so adorable while she slept, the white sleeping cap that covered her head adding a touch of innocence to a girl who was very much lacking in that department otherwise.
She still remembered the moment clearly, that fateful afternoon when she first realized just how deep her affection for the mischievous puce haired witch went.
Sucy had asked her for help that day and she had accepted, this was a common enough occurrence that Akko no longer asked for the specifics before consenting; it wasn't like the alchemist ever told her even when she did ask.
It turned out to be long string of errands, from buying hydroponics equipment to picking fresh ingredients straight from the ground, and Akko was the alchemist's designated pack mule, carrying whatever she was asked to.
Their day ended inside of the school's greenhouse, oranges and yellows of the setting sun filling the large glass dome. She remembered looking up from the ground exhaustedly as Sucy set up everything the had bought with precision, her long slender fingers carefully untwisting bolts and changing tubes.
The alchemist's hair looked so lovely against the setting sun, and such a sight spurred Akko into slowly scanning the witch up and down, taking in her every feature and listing off her favourites.
It wasn't long before Sucy's entire body was on that list, and Akko's brain followed that train of thought to its natural conclusion with a longing sigh:
Sucy was simply beautiful.
She remembered freezing at the thought, blinking rapidly and burning a flustered red; she said that, and she meant it, truly and deeply.
That night she tossed and turned, similarly to how she did now, asking herself impossible questions and looking back on months and months of interactions for any signs of these feelings in their infancy.
Surely she couldn't be in love with her best friend? She was just being silly. Right?
Akko had long since come to terms with the answer to that question: a resounding no on all fronts.
She was in love, and there was no turning back.
As the night carried on, the brunette found herself sitting down next to her crush's bed, her cheek resting against folded arms on the alchemist's bed.
"I wish I knew it would be this hard." She murmured, watching her friend's chest rise and fall with every deep breath.
While the brunette's feelings had been verified and accepted into herself, Akko had no idea where to go from there; the thought of making her love known was a towering anxiety looming over her head. Especially with Sucy, who was usually quite distant when it came to these matters; the alchemist might not even be interested in her, or interested in relationships at all. The risk of heartbreak was astronomical.
'It would be nice to talk to someone about this...' She mused internally. Lotte might have had some good suggestions, had she not been dead to the world for the past several hours, and there was no one else in the entire school that would be awake at such an ungodly time.
Well there was one person. Someone who seemed to always be awake no matter the time of day; who listened to her problems on an almost weekly basis.
"Akko? What are you doing up?" Professor Ursula peeked around the door, her glasses barely making it onto her face.
The brunette shuffled nervously in place, holding her left elbow with her right hand. "Um... I- I couldn't sleep and-" What could she say? 'I couldn't bear wallowing in my own gay and needed advice'?
Taking a moment to think, Akko didn't see any better way to word it.
"Brain too busy again?" Ursula offered an understanding smile, stepping aside and gesturing for the brunette to enter. This was a common enough occurrence that Akko knew where to go, settling onto her designated stool next to the desk.
It was a long stretch of uncomfortable silence before the young witch sighed, bringing her arms around herself in a hug. It wouldn't do much good to just sit and stay quiet, she needed to talk, and here was someone willing to listen.
"Have-" She choked on the words as they came up, her courage evaporating as quickly as it came. "H-Have you ever been in... l-l-love?"
Ursula tilted her head slightly to the side, her concerned eyes becoming warm. She quickly glanced down at her hands, folded neatly on her lap, before focusing back on her student.
"I have." She answered without hesitation. "And I still am." Akko met her gaze, a brief flash of curiosity that was then overpowered by desperation.
"How did you deal with it? I-" The girl bit her lip; she was so far out of her depth when it came to love that simply thinking about it was a quick ride towards becoming overwhelmed. "I don't even know if they even care about this feelsy stuff, or- or about me! What if I tell them how I feel and they don't-"
"Akko. Breathe." The former performer clamped both of her hands down on Atsuko's shoulders, grounding the girl to reality as she took deep breaths. "Let's start with something simple: are they your friend?"
The gears in the brunette's brain clunked and turned as she slowly analyzed the question and thought of an answer.
"Y-Yes." She stuttered, her breaths equally shaky. "One of my best."
Nodding with a warm caring smile, Ursula slid her hands down to gently rub the sides of the brunette's arms. "If they're your friend, of course they care about you. It just might show itself in different ways. Let's think about those things."
Akko's mind was suddenly filled with Sucy, images of ridiculous pranks and rude remarks that slowly gave way to ones of soft genuine smiles and little gestures. After she had lifted of the ground with a broom for the first time, the alchemist's shocked gape curled up into a smirk that almost seemed proud; after she had mixed her first and only successful elixir, Sucy had wrapped an arm around her neck and held her tight.
"That look on your face says everything." The bespectacled professor chuckled. "Not everyone is as forward and easy to read as you, Akko."
"What do I do?" She asked quietly in response, a light pink flush to her cheeks as she began to fidget uncontrollably. "How do I let her know?"
Grasping Akko's hands, Professor Ursula leaned over to look her in the eyes. "Like I said: not everyone is so forward, and you don't need to be either. Stand a little bit closer to her, smile at her more; show her how much she means to you with actions."
The brunette mulled over her teacher's words before nodding. "I- I can do that. But... will it really work?" Doubt bit at her heels, trying to drag her back down into the dark, but Ursula's smile and motherly voice burned it all away.
"You'd be surprised what a smile or a hug can do."
A/N: Ursula for best mom? I mean she did do that thing with the moon but... still. Mom.
Akko you poor gayby, just give Sucy some more attention and she'll be the one to crumble first. Have you seen that girl's brain? She digs you.
Something something spring break. something something I don't want summer; summer's hot and shit.