What You Did
"Bye Margo!" Jackie waves as she leaves the Diaz's house. Margo closes the door behind her. She smiles wistfully for a second, before dancing through the house, up the stairs and into the hallway to her room.
"So... Jackie has left?" Star is standing in her door way, looking very sad.
"Oh yeah, I told her obviously." Margo gestures with her skirt. "Uhmm... Are you... Did you... Are we..."
"I am so sorry, I shouldn't have said any of what I did. Janna helped explain a bunch of this, but I still don't really get it, but Janna explained that too, that it is okay not to get it. I am rambling. I'm sorry, I screwed up again, but bigger than ever before."
"Thanks Star. I think I am going to head to bed now..."
"Oh are you sure you don't want to talk. Like... tell me... about... this." Star gestures at Margo, at all of her.
"Uhmm, it has been a long day, Star. I mean... I know you are sorry, I knew you would be, but what you did..." Margo stops short, she doesn't know what to say. She sighs. "Star, you hurt me. We are still friends, but I can't do this right now. I'll see you in the morning."
Star is down, but she understands, "Goodnight, Marco."
"Margo," Star looks up at her best friend confused, and then it clicks.
"OH. Oh, I'm sorry. Goodnight, Margo."
Margo walks to her room looking as tired as she said. Star stares after her, feeling low. As Margo disappears through her door Star sighs and slowly enters her room. She drags her feet back over to her bed, slowly turns around and flops back into her depressed state. There she is lying back, staring up. "Good job, Star. It is over. You ruined everything."
"That is not what he said."
"That is not what she said."
"See, you can't do this. You are just going to keep screwing this up..."
"That's what I do, I screw things up."
She lays there silently for a while, before inspiration hits.
"Wait... I screw up all the time, but that doesn't mean everything is ruined. I can fix this."
Star shoots up to be sitting. "Think Star, what can you do for Mar...go. Ha, got it, not so tricky. But, now what? I need to do something for her."
Star brings her hand into frame, now holding the dimensional scissors. She taps the scissors' closed blades against her forehead thinking.
"Come on Star, you gotta have a good idea, some where in there." Star suddenly stops and looks at the scissors in her hand, shocked at noticing them. "That's it!" She is elated, not horrified. "Hecapoo wrote Marco on these, I should get them changed to Margo."
Star jumps up and cuts a hole in the air, it burns open. The castle Star opens into is empty and a storm is raging outside. "Uhmm... Hekapoo! Anyone!"
A new fiery red portal opens in the castle. Hekapoo comes through pulling Nachos, the dragon-cycle. "No. Walk is over. Get in here you stupid..."
"Hekapoo!" Star calls out waving across the room
"Ahh! Hey... How did you get in here?" Hekapoo drops the leash and Nachos shoots right back the way he came, before the portal closes. "Oh come on!" Hekapoo opens a new one and Nacho comes tumbling out, she closes it before he can get back out, "Hahaha, no more dog park for you." Nacho growls at Hekapoo's gloating. "Okay, why are you," she points at Star, "in my castle."
"Well... You need to fix these." Star holds up the scissors.
Hekapoo inspects them up close, "Oh, Marco's scissors!" She cuts a portal with them. "They work fine." She hands them back to Star like an IT guy who doesn't understand your computer problem.
"Yeah they do, they even got me back in here. But the name is wrong."
Hekapoo looks at Star doubtfully. She waves her hand to reveal the writing, a red Marco appears. "Nope, just like I left it."
"Well you see, Marco isn't Marco anymore, I mean Marco is actually girl, and she is Margo now. So can you change it?"
Hekapoo looks bored. "I mean... I guess..." She waves her hand over the scissors again. The name Marco just flashes a little brighter for a second, but remains unchanged. "Hey what's the bright idea here?"
"Uhmm... is it The Fritz."
"It won't be," Hekapoo pushes her sleeves up and begins hissing a language. The name lights up again but remains unchanged. The scissors then lift up and snip a portal on their own. "What?!" Heckapoo is outraged, and her flame shows it. She marches through the portal. Star follows despite being unsure what is happening. Nacho follows, but Heckapoo shoots her head back through. "No!" and closes the portal behind her, leaving Nacho at home.
Hekapoo's head returns to the other side of the portal, revealing they are in the Bureau of Magic. In front of a help desk. "Hello may I help you."
Hekapoo: "Yes I want..."
"I'm sorry, I wasn't finished. May I help you get a number for the help line?" Shaun gestures to a line surrounding the room, winding out doors and back in, crisscrossing itself. Star is at the end of the line waving to Hekapoo with a numbered slip in her
"Uhmm. No..." Hekapoo eyes burst into flames and Star's ticket burns up. "I am Hekapoo, forger of all dimensional scissors, member of the High Commission, and I want to know why I can't change a name on these scissors."
"Oh, of course Miss Hekapoo. You need the Department of Magic Name Changes." Shaun points down the hallway. "It is straight down the hall."
"Okay..." Hekapoo waits for the other shoe to drop. She turns to leave
"And then a left, a right, two lefts, the third left, the middle left path, the least rightward door and five rights till you are at the heart of the labyrinth..."
Hekapoo holds up a finger to silence Shaun. She pulls out her dimensional scissors.
"Ms. Hekapoo, no magic inside the building."
"High Commission, sucka." She opens a portal and jumps through. Star chases after and catches the portal as it is closing. Star finds herself in an identical looking foyer with a reception window, with Shaun behind it.
"Would you take a number?"
"Nooo... Shaun we have been through this."
"Yes, Ms. Hekapoo. What is the name of the item you would like to change?"
"Yes I need... Wait, I need to change a name on scissors, not the name of the scissors."
"Oh... this is the Department of Magic Name Changes. Department for changing magical names, names for magical items. To change a person's name you need the Department of Name Changing Magic."
"This is where we need to change the name on the scissors?" Star is suspicious of Shaun.
"Oh, yes Princess Star."
"To be clear, if we go to the Department of Name Changing Magic, we can fix the name on the scissors."
"Oh, no Princess Star. To change the names on those scissors from Marco to Margo you need the Magical Department of Name Changes."
Hekapoo lifts up Margo's scissors. "Where too?"
"Down the hall."
Star looks at him very annoyed. "AND..." she says tapping her foot.
"It is the next room down the hall." Shaun smiles, maybe obliviously.
Hekapoo and Star both make faces at Shaun. They then turn on their heels and march to the hallway door. After a little marching they relax. "Soooo. Marco is Margo now..."
"Yeahhhh... It is this whole thing... Or... I sorta made it a whole thing. I don't know. I screwed up when Margo told me about... this..."
"So you mean that he is a girl now, or something."
"Yeah... I mean no. No that is all wrong. Janna told me about this, and it is not like that. She was always a girl. And" Star does sound like she is reciting now, "her identity is her own; what is important to her is what is important about it."
Hekapoo laughs at her. "What was that?"
"It was what I was told." Star looks embarrassed.
"Okay... So what is up with Marco? Like who is he now?"
"No. No! NO!" Star halts and stomps her foot down to make a point: listen now. "IT IS MARGO! AND SHE IS A GIRL! She was never a boy! We just never understood. We still don't. I don't... and you super don't. But this is... this is who that person... that person we thought of as Marco... as a boy... This is is who she is... This is who she says she is, and if we ever liked her than it was this person we liked. It was always Margo. It was always HER. We just don't know everything!" Star is staring very seriously at Hekapoo.
Hekapoo laughs and starts walking again. "Of course we don't know everything. Only Glossarick knows everything... and he is gone. Well Glossarick and... Shaun." Hekapoo looks annoyed, and then throws open a door.
"Hello Ms. Hekapoo, and Princess Star. This is the Magical Department of Name Changes."
"Just tell us what to do Shaun." Star is exhausted.
"For a magical official name change you will need a magical birth certificate, magical proof of new name, and 5 seperate magical signatures accrediting it."
Star pulls her wand. "Make it Margo. Now."
"Oh the name on the scissors is Margo." Somehow, Shaun is holding the scissors and the name Margo is glowing in red letters. "This is Hekapoo's magic. That is just what is required for a magically official name change."
Hekapoo sighs. "Okay," she snatches the scissors out of Shaun's hands and cuts a fiery portal. She steps through, and, after a second, pokes her head back through: "Are you coming?" Star's mouth is gaping open in exasperation as she walks through the portal.
Her mouth still open, "What! What?! What was any of that?!
"Magic is weird. It's totally annoying." The two are in Star's room now. "Well, this was fun. You are way cooler than your mom, but I gotta go. I am important. Tell Margo I wish her the best." With that Hekapoo blows Star a kiss and then one towards the door. She throws Margo's scissors to Star, who catches them, and then uses two fingers, like scissors, to cut open a portal. "See ya."
Star hears a knock on the door. She runs over and throws the door open. Margo is there, in her normal red hoodie and new flared jeans. "Uhmm, I think... I think I can... I think we can have that conversation now."
"Wait! LOOK!" Star sticks the scissors towards Margo's face.
Margo very reasonable freaks out. "Star! SCISSOR SAFETY!"
"Oh, OH. OHHHHHH!" Star finally realizes how dumb she has been all night, and morning with scissors. "OH NO!" "Oh, but, look. She holds up the scissors, at a distance. Look."
Margo looks, and sees her scissors. "Uhmm..."
"Oh! Uhhh... Rainbow! Name!... Reveal!" A rainbow beams reveals Margo written on the scissors in red runes.
"Ohhh, wow. Ohhh, you did that! Thank you Star." Margo looks really, really happy at seeing the magic writing, but she looks back up at Star, and her face falls a bit. "Yeah, this was, uhh, great."
Star's excitement turns to crestfallen. "Do you need more time?"
"I need more time." Margo looks a little embarrassed, realizing her emotional state for the first time now as well.
"Okay." Star looks very disappointed.
"But... Star, this is amazing." Margo is looking at her scissors with love. She looks up and everything is mixed. "But... us... it is different.. you... hurt me."
"Yeah... I know what I did... It was bad. Please, just don't... just don't forget me, at the end of the hall." Star holds back her tears like a champ.
Margo looks down and then back up, her eyes are full of tears, barely away from breaking, but her smile is genuine. "I couldn't, best friend."
Star smiles as Margo leaves. Tears roll down her face.