Random Reviewer: Yeah I know that I should be separating speech from different characters onto different lines, I thought it wouldn't look good in this format, but I'll do it from now on until someone has a problem with it because I know it can be annoying seeing incorrect grammar, also, do keep in mind that what the story looks like in word is different to what it comes up as on on - the page width is different so sometimes it might look like speech is on another line to me but when I upload it, the sentence length changes.

EDIT : Yes I have reuploaded this chapter a couple hours after it went up. More on that at bottom. Enjoy.

The last time Marco knew what was going on was when he fell asleep last night, but now he's being pinned up on the wall by a demon prince demanding to know why he broke Star's heart. "Marco you prick! What the hell was that on Mewni?!" The fury in Tom's voice was abundant and there wasn't much room for misinterpretation of what he meant. Yet our young man Marco who had woken up roughly 20 seconds before this due to an unlatching of his window, followed by a heat that could rival the sun heading towards his bed, couldn't understand why on Earth Tom was so livid.

After a few seconds to recollect his thoughts he answered with a simple "What are you on about Tom?!" However this seemed to have the opposite effect of what Marco had intended; instead of buying him a few moments to get a straight answer from Tom it only riled him up even more, making him start to shift into his demonic voice with red-eyes. "What the hell do you mean! You honestly intend to act like you haven't done shit when you've caused Star so much pain?!" The end part was delivered with a subtle hint of pain in itself that was left unnoticed by Marco.

"I caused her pain? Do you hear yourself right now? What about all the times she's completely ignored me to be with YOU, what about the time when she cancelled our movie night to be with YOU, what about when it was my last day on Mewni – and she didn't even come to see me off?!"

"Yeah I have been taking her away from you, because I love her – and I know that she doesn't love me! I want to be with her as long as possible because you'll take her away again! Oh and that wasn't her choice to not see you off, you left her no choice, you didn't consult her, or tell her what was wrong – you just left it; left her."

The room remained silent after this for a couple minutes, neither of them could say anything to either one. All their feelings were out on display, Tom had let Marco down at this point, and began to wander over to his desk. Leaving a stunned Marco computing what information he had just been delivered, Star loves me? What, no. No. She loves him, right? I mean they've always been perfect, the prince and princess - their happy story of how they combined the two kingdoms. And I left her… No I didn't, I mean from that perspective it might have looked similar to that, but I didn't mean to. I didn't want to leave her. During this time, Tom had spent it calming down – slowing his breathing and remembering his anger control techniques.

In light of his kind personality, Marco had initiated the next conversation, "How has she been?"

"Not good." Was Tom's harsh but honest reply.

"You know I didn't mean to hurt her when I left, right? I was trying to stop myself from hurting." Marco had confessed.

"I know, but a part of me will always be like that I suppose – when I pieced it together I couldn't help but feel fury towards you. I know that it must've been really hard for you to be living with your crush who was taken." In this Tom had shown a bit of empathy, contradictory to his character – but it makes sense, he's been trying to get Star's attention for years, but suddenly this 'Marco Diaz' shows up and swoops her away.

"Yeah. When we were at 'Lava Lake Beach' I saw you two kissing, and Tad told me that I was – quote ' The master of making yourself miserable ' – end quote. Kelly and I then went and talked for a bit about it all. She's a really nice person and all, and I'm sure that we could become great friends, maybe even more – but I don't' want her to be a rebound for me from Star. And no matter how hard I try I can't let go." This confession hit home with Tom, he's had the choice of all the girls in the underworld and yet he can't let go of Star.

After a few moments to let Marco breathe and take in what he just told Tom, "Yo Marco. We cool?" Asked Tom, realisation that they weren't so different in many respects and that Marco had been hurting just as much as both Star and himself. "Yeah. We're cool." Was the last thing Marco said before his doorbell rang.

Both of the two men walked down the stairs and towards the door, surprisingly it was Janna at the door. "Uhmm, hello Janna?" Marco asked through the door,

"Hey Marco, you left your cheap sunglasses in my bag yesterday. They're really cramping up my whole 'BDSM' bag." This left Tom and Marco staring at each other for a moment, both trying to process why a 14/15 year old had a 'BDSM' bag. However, after those moments had past, Marco had opened the door just enough for Janna to peek inside and see Tom. "Oh hey Tom, can I ask you a quick question about torture and the afterlife?" Tom simply looked at her for a moment before looking her dead in the eye and saying

"No."

Marco then proceeded to close the door and left Janna simply sticking her tongue out at the two through the window before walking off. "Well, now that that's done, want to get some breakfast?"

"Oh thanks for the offer and all but I need to be getting back to the Underworld, Mom's gonna be pretty pissed if she finds me not there when she wakes up." Even just the thought of this seemed to frighten Tom which made you curious just how bad his mother could possibly be if it makes him scared?

"Okay, but do you even have any dimensional scissors to get down?"

"Nah but it's fine – my lift should be here any sec—" as if this entire thing had been perfectly constructed by Tom, the ground began to vibrate and rumble before cracks appeared and the seeping hot Magma below could be seen. From which a dark carriage had risen up and opened, prompting Tom to enter. Tom climbed in and bid goodbye to Marco – and then the entire process happened in reverse, except for this time it was taking Tom down to hell, quite literally.

After it had finished it's little performance Marco could see Janna simply looking in awe and glee at the scene that had unfolded before her. He had decided to just ignore her and grab some breakfast.

Same Time – Mewni

Star had awoken feeling heavy and unresponsive, Hey this is what it usually feels like when Tom uses magic, oh no did he put me to sleep yesterday? I can't remember what happened. Her assumptions were correct and this made her quite mad but at the same time thankful since he had given her at least another hour of sleep considering what the running time of that movie was. Her hair was a mess and her pyjamas were tucked inwards and all sorts of weird things were going on, Oh well, can't expect Tom to be able to dress someone in clothes he's never worn before.

After getting washed and dressed for the day she had just noticed out of the corner of her eye some white fluff pass by her window, curious she looked out and noticed another one – and then one more, then more. Until she saw a flood of the white particulates fall from the sky, oh. It's snowing, that's pretty. She looked at them for a few minutes before moving on and running down to get some food.

Earth – Jackie's Home

Jackie woke up due to a door closing – presumably due to her father leaving for work, almost as if she were a machine going through it's start-up process, she eventually made it to the part where she was meant to eat breakfast but her brother had just finished the last of the cereal, "Oh Jackie, if you wouldn't mind could you run to the store later to pickup some new cereal and milk?"

"Yeah no problem mom." Replied Jackie. She then moved on back up to her room, despite being a teenager she was still a child at heart – and so she moved over to her advent calendar that had chocolate in it and opened the 20th day. There was always a short message behind the paper too. It read, 'Good things come to those who wait.'

"Good things come to those who wait huh? Recently it feels like all I've ever been doing is waiting."

Diaz Home

Marco's parents were out shopping early morning because of some winter sale apparently, they still needed to get some small presents for people that they had completely forgot about until last minute. That left him alone with nothing to do – so naturally as any bored teenager would do he found something to entertain him. I grabbed his dimensional scissors and cut open a portal of orange and red, the light emitted lit up his entire bedroom and caused a gust of wind that knocked over his papers on his desk.

Once Marco had been sure to collect everything he needed and packed it into his fanny pack he stepped into the mystical portal and into Heckapoo's dimension, because time flowed much quicker there he didn't need to worry about overstaying, I mean 16 years equated to about 8 minutes in Earth's dimension. Last time I was here was when I was helping fixing Star's portal opening habits. Boy was that a ride.

Marco began to make his way to Heckapoo's place where he'd hopefully run into some trouble or something that would make up for the adventure that he missed yesterday for not being on Mewni. Once he got close enough that he could see Heckapoo's house he began to hear his favourite dragon-cycle: Nachos. *Knock Knock* "Hang on a second, *Bang* *Thump* Get back! *Crash* Out. You. Go! *Whoosh*." A few moments had passed before the door was answered, a sweaty and exhausted looking Heckapoo was present – with a curl of hair near her eye which she blew away casually. "Oh. It's you Marco."

"Tadaa… What was that there?" Marco curiously asked regarding the bangs and whooshes and badumps he heard a minute before. Marco could tell however that Heckapoo's entire house seemed to be a mess, books everywhere – torn pages, the foundry had a leak in it too. "Oh that? *sigh* there were some baby mutant octopi that fell in through a portal I was testing."

"You were testing portals?" Another excellent question by Marco.

"Well yeah. Obviously – part of my job is to maintain portal connections and test new ones to recently discovered dimensions – you think every portal that your dimensional scissors takes you to is just magically stable?" You could tell she was slightly frustrated when telling this, most likely due to the fact that Marco had been around her for so long and yet never knew this little part of her.

"Okay, okay. So… You got any good jobs?" Marco questioned with a smile as wide as the planet.

"I might have. But it's dangerous."

"How dangerous?"

"Really."

"I'm in."

10 Hours Later

The two adventurers had just emerged from a green and amber portal with bruises covering them head to toe – "Wow I thought we were done after that seventh one but then—BAM, there's number eight." Marco commented.

"Yeah and then the way you rode Nachos onto four's spine and cut along it, that was sick." An excited Heckapoo mentioned.

"I sure do miss these little adventures we have Heckapoo. We should do this more often."

"Yeah. We should." The two then proceeded to head to the bar and celebrate as they had been victorious in their battle.

Earth – Marco's Room

After saying his farewell to Heckapoo he returned back to Earth and checked the time. Yep, only a few seconds had past. Marco then moved on to the downstairs, where he melted some cheese on a bowl of nachos, turned on the TV and just mellowed out for the rest of the day.

Thanks to Gold Testament for the recommendation of having Tom confront Marco at the start. I thought that'd fit really well into the story so I used it, if you have any ideas, do leave them in reviews and I'll be happy to oblige the ones I feel work. Sorry for any spelling mistakes too - the fact that I have 2 hours a day to write a chapter means that I can't proof read the chapter :P

EDIT: I actually uploaded this chapter a couple hours ago, but I really disliked the fact that nothing really happened, it was a very boring chapter to read, so I decided to add more onto it - we had originally ended with Jackie saying she's been waiting. But I added this little tidbit at the end about his adventure with Heckapoo to make it feel like some mini-adventure has happened. Sorry that it wasn't very descriptive but I'm already pushing my time constraint with even just adding those 300 words.

Anyway, that's all from me, Peace~