Really Venomous Thoughts
Akko and Sucy tiredly walked inside their empty room, both witches just got back from town to pick up various necessities while their bespectacled friend had a book reading session with Barbara. Sucy stretches her arms up after setting her bag, full of potion ingredients, on top their table. Looking to the side, she caught the brunette starting right at her.
"Enjoying the show freak?" Sucy asked in a sarcastic manner as she bends her back and puffed her chest to emphasize them more.
Akko, caught red handed, loudly gulped and shyly nods her head while still starting at her fine curves.
"Really now?" The alchemist walks towards the staring witch. "Can't let you have all the fun, now could I?" She wrapped her arms around the brunette's waist and presses their bodies together.
"..."
"Is she high or what?" Amanda asked an open question, mostly towards the red team, as she watches Akko giggling and mumbling to herself while drowsily staring and playing with her half-eaten lunch with a red face.
"She slept pretty early last night, but she looks very tired when she woke up." Lotte said with a hint of concern.
Sucy said nothing as she continues to eat her lunch. If she told them about Akko's episode last night, it might scare off the brunette by their worries and isolate herself more.
"Did you check if she has a fever?" Jasminka asked the blonde.
"Yes, she seems to be fine, but then she gets distracted and blanks out now and then." The bespectacled witch replied worriedly.
"There's probably something bothering her. If you corner her she might just run away, so we just have to wait for her to tell us herself." Sucy reasoned. She herself is just as worried but pressing the matter would just make it worst.
"Really think that's such a good idea?" The redhead contested. "You do know she's stubborn enough to keep whatever's bothering her to her grave right?"
"Good point..." The pink haired witch murmured. "I'll- We'll do something about it... after class." She glances at her other teammate.
"You're not just gonna waterboard her in potions 'til she talks will you?"
"..." The alchemist contemplated for a moment. "We'll see. But first..." She then proceeds to spike Akko's drink with an energy potion that will 'theoretically' get her through the rest of her classes.
Akko flopped in her bed face first as all the fatigue came crashing down in her mind and body. She quickly fell asleep while hearing both of her teammates discusses Professor Ursula's class or something.
After confirming that Akko is fast asleep, Sucy and Lotte talks about on how to handle questioning their teammate. They conclude that Akko might only vent her feelings if there's only one person with her.
Sucy might be able to get some answers via truth potions but Akko might lose her trust in her potions or just run away before getting close. That said, she suggests that Lotte will be the one who comforts her. 'Besides, I doubt she'll let me get close enough to ask her about it.'
Sucy left the room as Lotte waits for Akko to wake up. She sighs as she walks aimlessly down the hallway. 'Now that I thought about it... I should have brought a couple of experimental potions with me so I could test their effectiveness.' She thought to herself as she made her way towards the campus' garden.
"I guess even Akko's getting me distracted. What the hell is bothering her so much anyway?" She growled quietly.
"Bothering Akko, you say?" The alchemist sighed tiredly as she face the platinum blonde with tea-green highlights. "No wonder she has been acting so... tamed for the last few weeks."
"None of your business." She said dismissively as she heads back to leave.
"It is very much my business Miss Manbavaran. Akko is my friend as well." Diana crossed her arms but didn't move from her place. "Though I will not do anything as dense as just cornering her and ask her what is wrong. If there is something I can do to help Akko in anyway, please do tell me."
"..." Sucy didn't like it. She hates the thought of it. But if Diana can help Akko and turn her back to how she used to be then... "For now, Lotte is waiting for her to wake up so she and Akko can talk it out, face-to-face. Depending on how it turns out... You might be able to help her in your own way, since the both of you have more similarities than the rest of us."
"I see. Is there perhaps a clue on what is bothering Akko? I cannot think of anything that would depress Akko for so long." The heiress placed her hand under her chin as she thinks back to when Akko had ran away from campus.
'She has been keeping her distance from me for a while now.' For some reason, she can't bring herself to say that.
"Who knows...?"
Akko sat up as she stretches her arms up and yawns loudly. It's been a while since she's been fully rested.
"Did you have a nice nap Akko?" Lotte set aside her Night Fall book and faced her chair towards Akko's bed.
"Yup!" She cracks her neck loose and continues to stretch. "By the way where's Sucy?" She quickly glanced around the room to search for the stoic witch.
"She's out right now Akko... There's something we need to talk about." The blonde rests her hands on her knees and gave the brunette a worried smile. She begins to tell her teammate their concerns and her sudden actions for the last month.
"Did I really cause that much trouble?" Akko said dejectedly as she stares at her knees. "I'm sorry Lotte, it's just..."
"I'm here to listen to your problems Akko. Whatever it is, we'll do whatever we can to help you know." Lotte grabbed both of Akko's hands as she gives her a patient smile.
"It's... Well, it's..." She hesitates to answer Lotte and avoids eye contact. "I... I..."
"What is it Akko? You can trust me! You know you can!"
"I THINK I'M IN LOVE WITH SUCY!" Akko yelled as she shuts her eyes tight.
"...Eh?"
Akko slightly opened one eye to see the blonde's reaction. She saw her wide-eyed with her mouth hanging open. "Uuuuu." She unintentionally made a weird noise as she covers her scarlet face with both her hands and falls back to her bed. She tightly hugs her pillow and rolls around her bed while continuing to make weird sounds, muffled by her pillow.
After watching lively teammate thrash around her bed she finally voiced a proper response.
"I think that's great Akko. There's no reason to hide your feelings." Lotte tries to console her.
"This is Sucy we're talking about Lotte!" She sat up to look at her straight in the eyes. "I don't even know if she's, you know, into that kind of stuff!"
"Oh right. Um." Lotte thought back to her numerous knowledge of romance novels. To her surprise, she can't think of any character that is most alike with Sucy. "Stoic, logical, sadistic, vengeful, mushroom lover... Hmm." She mumbles.
Akko tilts her head as she wonders what she's thinking about.
"Hmm. Since she's such a calm and composed person I'm sure she'll definitely respect your feelings Akko." She encouraged. 'Probably...'
"You really think so?" Akko peeks from the pillow covering her burning red face.
Lotte had her doubts, but for the sake of her friend's new found feelings; she just nodded her head.
"Hey quit leaning on me will you-" Both witches was startled when their room burst open. They saw the green team in a three person pile. "Ah crap. Um. Yo! Just uh, trying to see if you're alright and all. We definitely didn't hear the lovey-dovey part- Ouch! Hey!" Constanze lightly hit Amanda's head with a wrench while Jasminka got up and dusts herself clean.
"We're so sorry for eavesdropping Akko, we were just worried for you." Jasminka apologizes with Constanze nod in agreement with her.
However, Akko didn't hear any of that as she was already in a cocoon of her own sheets. Lotte sighed tiredly as she watches the sheet cocoon thrash around the already messy bed.
'This is gonna take more work than I thought...' She quickly shook her head and put on a determined face. 'No! Romance belongs to everyone! Even Akko and Sucy can make it work! ... Somehow...'
Sucy rejoined her group by dinnertime but all of them ate in silence. She notices right away that the other witches are glancing at her, though one witch annoyingly snickers now and then. 'It seems that I really was the problem huh?'
"I'm assuming you and Lotte had talked it out and you will stop being a depressed idiot now?" She saw the witch in question lowered her head to stare at her dinner with a reddening face. One witch chuckled but she chose to ignore it.
"Y-yeah. I'm fine now, thanks Sucy."
'For what?' She thought but didn't bother. "Well whatever. As long as you're back to normal... though normal is a bit of a stretch." She said with her signature smirk.
"What does that supposed to mean!" Akko took the bait, line and sinker with her signature pouting face.
"There she is." She chuckled. Akko then began to rant regarding her normality. She continues to eat her dinner as she uses the brunette's ramble as white noise.
"Sheesh. Just hook up already." Amanda quietly muttered.
'This... might just work out better than I expected!' Lotte does a guts-pose in her mind and think of a way to fully strengthen their new (probably one-sided) relationship.
'I wonder what chips I should eat for midnight.' Jasminka thought as she finished her third serving of dinner.
A/N: I don't really have anything to say today. I just been so distracted (or rather addicted) by idle mobile games.
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