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Virgo, wearing her blue blouse and pink skirt, is looking around in wonder. "So many people…"

Lucy points out, "Well this IS an amusement park."

As they continue to walk along, Lucy thinks about the events that brought them there.

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Yesterday

"Seriously, Virgo, I want to treat you to something. It doesn't count if that something is "whatever I want to do"."

"I don't care what I do, as long as I'm with you while I do it."

It had been about a week since Virgo's manacles had been removed, and her wrists had more or less healed. There were still scars, but all of the open wounds were gone. Lucy was trying to plan an activity for her and Virgo to do together, but Virgo seemed incapable of wanting anything, making it impossible for Lucy to find something that she knew Virgo would enjoy. She thinks she has an idea on how to find something, but wasn't sure if it would work…

"Hey, Virgo?"

"Yes, Lucy?"

"If I could say that I wanted to do anything, what would you be happiest to hear?"

"That is what I would be happiest to hear."

"Huh?"

"You saying that you wanted to do anything is what I would be happiest to hear."

"That makes no sense to me."

"If you want to do anything, then that means that we can try all sorts of new things, and you will be happy to just be doing something, while I will be happy just being with you."

Lucy's cheeks tint slightly, but she's too busy ripping her hair out to notice or care. "AAAAARRRGH! THIS IS SO… wait… have you ever been to an amusement park?"

"No, I haven't."

"Ok then, an amusement park will have lots of new things for you to try!"

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Today

"So, Virgo, what do you want to do first?"

"How about… that one, over there?"

"That one, over there… REALLY helpful."

"I'm sorry."

"It's ok. So which one were you talking about?"

"The one that looks like a giant diamond."

Lucy spots the ride she's talking about, and reads the name. "The Gravity Sphere? But it's shaped like a diamond!"

The two head over to the ride and get in line. When they get to the front, Lucy hands over the three tickets required for each of them to get on. She could have gotten some wristbands instead of this roll of tickets and saved some money, but she felt that those were just a bit too similar to the manacles that Virgo's wrists had just recovered from.

As they step inside the ride, they see that the inside shaped like a dodecagon, and has walls that slope so that the ceiling is larger than the floor. One side of the shape is the door while the rest each have two cushioned panels resting against them. They see that everybody else is leaning flat against one of the panels, so the two of them find a pair of open panels and lean back. After a few more moments, all of the panels are taken, and the door closes. A small light at each corner of the room keeps the ride lit.

A couple of seconds pass, then they feel the ride jerk in to motion. But the initial jerk is all they feel.

"Did it stop?" Lucy asks.

Then they notice that they are gradually being pulled against the walls.

"What's happening?" Lucy asks, "It's like gravity's… shifting… so THAT'S why it's called the "Gravity Sphere"…"

Soon, Lucy can't pick her arms up off of the panel. Then she finds herself sliding upwards. Wait, no, it's the panel that's sliding upwards! Lucy shifts her head to the right seeing that Virgo is moving her arms as if she's trying to figure out how to use them in these new conditions. After a minute or two, the panels slide back to the floor, and they feel gravity gradually shift back to their feet.

"That was kind of fun…" Lucy comments, "I wonder how they did that?"

Virgo looks at her and says "The diamond was spinning, creating enough centrifugal force to simulate three Gs of force pulling us against the wall, overriding the one G pulling us against the ground."

Lucy sighs. "That was a rhetorical question: I wasn't looking for an explanation of how they did that."

Virgo hangs her head, "I'm sorry."

Lucy waves it off, "No, I'm the one who should be sorry. You're always trying to help, so when you hear a request, you don't stop to consider it, you just do it. That's one of the things I like about you." 'Wait, did I just say what I think I just said?'

Virgo seems to brighten up a little bit. "Thank you, Lucy."

"No problem."

The two wander around for a little bit longer before Lucy notices something nearby: "Ooh! A Ferris wheel! I always loved those when I was a kid!"

The two get in line for the ride. Every 30 seconds or so, one of the carriages would empty, and new people would fill it back up. After a long wait, the two of them are finally at the front of the line.

"Big…" Virgo comments, looking up at the wheel.

"Yeah, that's kind of the point. It doesn't move all that quickly, but it's the view you have when you reach the top that attracts people."

Lucy coughs up the 10 tickets required to get the two of them on, and they load in to a newly emptied carriage. The wheel turns for a few seconds, then stops.

Virgo looks around with confusion, "Why are we stopped?"

"They're letting the next couple people on. Due to its size, they can only let people off and on a carriage that is at the very bottom of the wheel. So whenever a carriage reaches the bottom, they let the people in it off of the ride, and let anybody who's waiting on."

While Lucy was explaining this, the wheel had cycled the next three carriages. They spend the next few minutes sitting in amicable silence, enjoying the view.

Or at least that's what Lucy's doing.

As they near the top of the wheel, Lucy turns to Virgo to comment on the wonderful view, only to see Virgo staring straight down, wide-eyed and hyperventilating with panic. Lucy shifts so that she's sitting right next to her.

"Virgo?"

No answer.

Lucy grabs Virgo's shoulder.

"Virgo? What's wrong, Virgo?"

Virgo starts, then turns and throws herself at Lucy, almost tackling her to the floor of the carriage. Before Lucy can ask what's going on, Virgo starts sobbing into her shoulder. Lucy holds Virgo and whispers soothing noises, smiling softly as she remembers the first time this had happened; the night that Virgo had revealed her true form.

Some 10 minutes later, their carriage reaches the bottom. Lucy climbs out, practically carrying a still-crying Virgo. The two get a lot of stares, but Lucy ignores them in favor of getting Virgo someplace quiet, where they can talk. She soon finds a bench in a neighboring park, and sits down with Virgo.

"Do you mind telling me what's wrong?"

Virgo, who has more or less calmed down by now, answers, "I don't know. It's just, as we got higher in to the air, I started feeling afraid. I didn't know why I was afraid, and I knew that there was no reason to be, but I still was. And as we continued to get higher, it just got worse."

Lucy gives her a strange look: "Are you… afraid of heights?"

Virgo pauses. "I… I don't know. That's the first time that I've ever been more than twenty feet off the ground."

Lucy gives a rueful chuckle and comments, "Well, if just now is anything to go by, you are definitely afraid of heights."

After a few minutes of peace and quiet, Virgo leans her head against Lucy's shoulder. Lucy looks at her in surprise, before her expression softens as she realizes that Virgo fell asleep.

"Well, being scared out of your mind IS pretty draining."

Lucy leans her head against Virgo's, and her last thought before she falls asleep is:

'Hmm… this feels nice…'

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Lucy yawns, slowly waking up as the sun begins to set.
*Yawn…* "Huh?"

She notices that her left arm is pinned in place. When she looks, she sees that Virgo is still leaned against her shoulder.

'Huh…? What happened…?'

Then the events from earlier that day flood through her mind, causing her to jump a little and start blushing.

'What… oops!'

Before she can even start her train of thought, she notices that her little jump caused Virgo to slip enough to start falling off of her shoulder. She catches Virgo and props her up again. As she watches over the sleeping Virgo, she doesn't realize it, but she has the fondest of smiles on her face.

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About half an hour later, as the sun finishes setting, Virgo starts to stir.

Lucy smiles at her. "Good morning, sleepyhead."

Virgo sits up with eyes half-closed, and looks around while mumbling, "Good morning."

Her brain finishes processing where she is and what just happened, causing the exact same reaction as Lucy. Namely, a small jump and a light blush. "I'm sorry!"

"It's ok, I fell asleep too. I guess we were both exhausted from earlier. Anyway, you should probably be getting back to the celestial world."

Virgo gets a bit of a disappointed look on her face, which Lucy completely misses. "Ok…"

A flash of light, and Virgo disappears. Lucy gets up and brushes herself off, then comments, "Well, I guess it's time to go home, then," before walking back towards her house.

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That night, as Lucy lays asleep, there is a flash of light. Lucy rolls over, cracking an eye at what disturbed her rest.

"Hey Virgo…" she mumbles.

"Hi Lucy. I had a bad dream. Would you mind if I slept with you tonight?"

"Sure, go ahead…" Lucy mumbles before falling asleep again.

Virgo climbs in bed with Lucy and snuggles up against her before falling asleep herself.

And then Lucy's brain finishes processing the conversation that just happened.

She shoots up into a sitting position, "WAIT WHAT!?"

Virgo is out like a light, though, and doesn't answer.

'What just happened?'

Lucy looks down at the sleeping Virgo and smiles.

'She looks so peaceful…'

Then Virgo lets out a small whimper in her sleep and starts reaching her arms forward.

Lucy thinks, 'Well, one night can't hurt, right?' and lays back down, allowing Virgo to pull her into a hug.

'So warm…'