"Do you think that I'm just helping her for some selfish reason?"
The question caught Scorpia off-guard because Catra never asked questions like that or at least she never asked Scorpia questions like that.
"Why do you ask? But I don't see how you could be selfish about wanting to be there for someone who has just had the worse week in their life." Scorpia answered carefully, moving to sit beside of the other girl who was currently staring out their kitchen window.
"Because that's all I did with you and Entrapta. I used you for a place to stay and I only started talking to Entrapta because I needed that piece of shit of a computer worked on! I mean I know things have changed between us now but that doesn't excuse what my first intentions were!" Catra confessed, not daring to look at the taller female who just squeezed her shoulder.
"Hey, you think I didn't know that? But I can tell you this much: I have never seen you this protective toward someone. Even before Mara you always seemed to keep an eye on Adora." Scorpia answered simply and for the first time Catra found herself lost for words.
She knew? Yet she still tried...
"You still tried to be friends with me even when you knew what I was up to?" Catra questioned, wondering why anyone on the planet would be willing to try to befriend anyone who was just being a total ass?
"Yeah, I mean...You scared most people off but I know how hard it must have been for you, being alone like that. Being hurt over literally nothing...having your best friend seemingly leave you like that." Scorpia answered, her voice holding such a dejected tone that it caught Catra by surprise.
She had similar shit happen to her before.
The voice in the back of Catra's mind seemed to remind her as she turned her full attention to the platinum blonde.
"I want to thank you for that. Most people would have given up on me but you didn't. You and Entrapta honestly are the only two that wouldn't." Catra found herself saying as Scorpia's words turned over and over in her head.
Glimmer wasn't surprised at all when Catra showed up at her place that Friday, carrying a bag of day old pastries from the shop that she worked at and covered with something that smelled like a mix of espresso and ruined pumpkin.
"What happened to you?" Glimmer couldn't help but ask as Catra practically shoved the bag of food into her arms.
"Two words: Newbies are dumb-asses. Can I use your shower? I would go home to do it but I don't particularity feel like getting attacked by bees." Catra replied, earning a chuckle.
"Sure, I think you left some clothes over anyway. I'll go get them for you. Adora had to go to the doctor this evening to see how well she was healing up. They should be back soon." Glimmer said, earning a sigh.
"Hopefully she can come off those crutches. I am getting tired of listening to her bitching about them!" Catra stated before heading toward the bathroom, muttering under her breath all the while about idiots and ruined clothes.
Glimmer couldn't help but wonder how she had ended up becoming somewhat of a friend to one of the biggest jerks in the school—and that was saying something.
Catra wasn't sure how long that she had stayed in the shower just trying to get the gooey mess of caffeine and syrup out of her hair but she didn't think that it had been long enough for anyone else to get there, much less did she think that she could zone out in her own thoughts that she wouldn't hear people talking in the living room. But the biggest surprise was the fact that when she walked into the living room she was met with a stark blue gaze.
One that lingered over her choice of outfit, which happened to be a tight fitting Tank-top and a pair of ball shorts.
"Okay...Either I missed some gunk or Adora just broke" Catra joked as she finished toweling her hair dry, taking note of how Glimmer and Bow were whispering to each other and giggling like children as Adora's face flushed and she quickly looked away.
"What? No! Sorry! I just didn't know you were here!" Adora rushed to say, earning a chuckle from Catra who couldn't keep from smirking at her childhood friend.
"Sure Adora, whatever you say." Catra retorted, tossing the towel at the flustered blonde before taking a seat on the far end of the couch beside Bow.
Well I had no idea that she could turn that shade of red. I wonder why she freaked out so bad? I mean she's seen me in less than this in the changing room. Unless...No, stop it Catra. You're projecting. There is no way for that to be the reason. Catra mentally scolded herself as she swiped a crosant from the plate that set on the table in front of the sofa.
"So what did the doctor say about ya?"
Glimmer knew that if she and Bow was caught by either of the two girls that they would be dead but if they didn't notice something as obvious as this, then they never would. Not without help that was...Help that involved Scorpia and Entrapta.
So while Catra and Adora were distracted with some kind of game that Bow had brought, Glimmer decided to pull Scorpia and Entrapta into a group chat, after all this would take more heads than one to plan out without getting caught under normal circumstances and that went double when it came to dealing with people as stubborn as Adora and Catra.
If these two are too stubborn or dense to actually talk about what's going on between them then we'll just have to force it. Glimmer thought as she sent a text to Scorpia, wondering just how that the plan they had tried to put together in the library would work—if at all.
"You sure you're okay with me sleeping over?" Catra couldn't help but ask later that night as she followed Adora upstairs, earning a look from the blonde that she wasn't sure the meaning of.
"We used to sleep together all the time as kids. Why would it be any different now?" Adora answered, earning a sigh from Catra who shrugged and answered
"Just making sure, I don't want to seem weird or something."
The heavy silence that filled the room then didn't go unnoticed by Catra, who was sure that she had just made things even weirder than they already were but then Adora spoke, her voice really timid—more so than Catra had ever heard it before.
"I know this is going to seem really friggin' weird but after you went home the dreams started again. I don't know what difference it makes but you're the only person I really trust to ask to stay. You know?"
Thing was Catra did know.
"Yeah, I get it. Sort of." she responded softly, reaching out to take her hand before adding softly "Don't be embarrassed by it okay? I meant it when I said I'd do anything I can for you."