Character(s) Bloom the winx club

Genre/Story Type hurt/comfort

Rating T

Prompt/Beginning Sentence

i know what it's like to take a life

Submitter: knight 7572

Guilt

"I know what it is like to save a life." Bloom buried her head in her hands, the shame rising in her voice. Around her were the Winx Girls. It was late at night and they started to talk and a few hours later, Bloom had made this startling confession.

"Bloom," Tecna broke the silence, "what are you talking about?"

"It was when I first realized how strong my powers were. I was alone over the summer and I thought that I was helping but I realized that all I did was hurt someone." Bloom sighed as she looked up at the girls, tears threatening to fall from her eyes.

"What happened, Bloom?" Aisha asked.

Seeing the distress on Bloom's face, Flora placed a comforting hand on Bloom's knee.

"You don't need to tell us, sweetie. But nothing will change our love for you, Bloom. You are our best friend."

Bloom took a deep breath. "No no, I need to tell someone about this and I think that you are the best people to tell."

"It was last summer, I was traveling through the magical dimension by myself, visiting some of the sights that I never got to see."

"Yeah, we saw the magical sundial in Solaria." Stella interjected.

"Let Bloom speak." Musa demanded of Stella. Stella frowned in an apologetic gesture towards Bloom.

"I was almost done with my vacation when I was visiting Trollton. I visited the capitol to see the Bridge of Time that houses the magic to make the portals to take us to and from...well...everywhere. I was taking photos when I heard a distressed cry. I turned my head to see a large troll picking a fight with a smaller troll. I marched over there and demanded what was going on. The smaller troll told me everything. I then took the small troll away from the situation. I felt this need to protect him. He told me his name..." Bloom paused, sighing.

"He told me his name was Archie. He was the cutest thing that I had ever seen," Kiko lifted his head, "besides you Kiko." Bloom giggled.

"I took his for ice cream, I asked him about his family. We were walking through the park when the larger troll came back and demanded that Archie go with him. I could see the fear in Archie's eyes and the anger in the larger one's. The large one started to charge towards me in the hopes of taking Archie. I stood my ground and sent a warning shot at him. He kept persisting. I reckoned that I had a fight on my hands."

"I transformed and the large troll and I began to fight. It wasn't a long fight. I struck him down and I thought that he was unconscious. I left my Winx state and I saw Archie running up to the larger troll who was lying on the ground."

"I walked up to Archie, a smile on my face because I had saved him but when I got to Archie, there were tears streaming down his cheeks. I became confused Archie told me..." tears started to fall from Bloom's eyes as her friends hung on to every word.

"He told me that the larger troll was his brother. He was a mean and nasty brother but he was still his brother just the same. The kind that picks on their younger sibling and also the kind that makes sure that they come home at the end of the night because he loves him."

"I assured Archie that his brother would wake up in a few minutes, he might be groggy, but he would be awake. But Archie began to wail. It was then that I looked down at the bigger troll and saw that he wasn't breathing. He was dead. I had killed him."

Bloom burst into a muffled sob as she remembered what she had done.

"Bloom," Aisha sighed, "it was an accident. You didn't mean to."

"But that doesn't change the fact that he is dead." Bloom responded.

"But you now know better. You know how to control your powers. This won't happen again." Tecna said.

"Yeah," Stella smiled, "you are an amazing fairy and we still love you. Nothing can change that."

The girls all smiled and nodded towards their red headed friend.

"Really?" Bloom asked as she wiped her eyes.

"Of course." Stella said as she brought Bloom and the rest of the girls for a hug.

"You are all the best friends a girl could ask for." Bloom smiled as she pulled out of the hug.

"Come on," Flora said, "I think that it is time for bed. I can make you some tea in the room."

"I agree. Good night, girls." Musa said as she stood up and walked with Tecna to their room. Aisha and Stella did the same as they walked into their room.

Flora helped Bloom stand up from the sofa and they walked into their room.

Once in the room, Flora filled up her tea pot with water and Bloom placed her hands on it to heat it up. Flora took the hot teapot and poured the hot water into mugs with tea leaves.

"Here, it is my special calming blend."

"You need a calming blend?" Bloom giggled as she took the mug.

"How do you think I stay so calm?" Flora rolled her eyes as she sat on her bed facing Bloom.

They each sat in silence as they sipped their hot tea. Finally, Flora broke the silence.

"Have you been back. To Trollton that is?" Flora asked.

Bloom lowered the mug from her lips, "I have."

"Did you apologize?"

"I tried to. They weren't ready and I understand."

"At least they know that you are sorry. I am sure that Archie and his family will forgive you and know that you are a good person. The kind of person that likes to save people, not harm them."

Bloom was silent as she looked down at her mug before taking another sip.

Flora leaned forward, "Maybe we can all go to the village sometime and talk to the family. We can say how great of a person you are and that it was truly an accident."

"We can't."

"Of course we can. We can go next weekend. It isn't a far journey." Flora smiled.

"No, I mean we can't go to the village because there is no more village." Bloom exclaimed.

Flora furrowed her eyebrows in confusion and looked towards Bloom.

"What do you mean there is no more village?"

Bloom looked up at Flora with a blank expression in her eyes, the kind that could freeze fire.

"Because I burned it down."

Sorry that this one was a little short but I think that it adds another dimension to Bloom. I have been getting a few NSFW requests so I will have another story called Reader's Choice: NSFW in the M section. Feel free to review there with your hot and spicy fic ideas and I will gladly write them. I think that it will be fun. Whatever you want, whoever you want, how ever you want.