Ok, first off, I know "An Emotion's Emotional Night" wasn't exactly the greatest fanfic I wrote, being real, I've been on a case of Writer's Block recently, which is also what stopped me from posting anymore Elemental fanfics as well. However, I might turn that into a 2 or 3 parter fanfic, as I do believe I could've added more to it.

Second, my profile initially stated that this was titled "Cupid Met His Match", but that title I found just sounded anything but what this endeavor is about. But then again... working titles exist for a reason.

Okay, here goes!

"Look, like I said, this isn't anything you need to worry about. I get the other team was a bit better than that of Riley's team was, but for the last time, none of us had any involvement in that last bit of the game." I was saying to Sadness, try as she might to go around picking/choosing who gave her the advantage to lose.

Oh wait, we need context behind that, don't we?

It was the third round of playoff's for Riley's hockey team that day, and let's just say that the opposing team she faced, as much as all of us were rooting for her to win (giving that it was my first time watching such event), was a bit more skilled than her team was. While Riley was understandably a little upset about it, it wasn't anything she would worry about too much, besides, it ain't the first time this happened. What made this anything but ordinary was that this was the round that decided who was moving on to the San Francisco championships round. Ah well, there's always next year.

"And besides, there's always next year" I finished, after I gave her another talk about how some things were just out of her control (I'm a therapist too, remember?). This made her perk up a little bit.

"Ah! There's a smile! Ha ha. Anyway, you know where to find me if you need to talk about anything bothering you." I responded to that before Sadness went her separate ways for the day.

"Anyway, you know where to find me if you need to talk about anything bothering you."

Soon as I said that, realization hit me like a dump truck. I should've said this to Disgust a while back.

Lately, a sense of falling in love was eating at Disgust. This was on top of her insomnia, which was slowly getting better by now. How I knew this? I got a "little birdie" (God, I hated hearing that phrase) from Fear about how Disgust would hide herself every time I came around the corner and she was in my sight. In addition to this, he said he heard "I didn't even do much for him! How can I already have a mass amount of feelings for Cupid!" from her after a really stressful night from everyone here in HQ (completely unrelated to any of Disgust/Envy's fights). Maybe my thoughts were coming into reality, and I just was unaware of this yet.

As I would, I just left a note on her nightstand in the middle of the night while I was doing my own thing (Tuning into a concert in Imagination Land in my room on the TV, akin to that of The Clash), as I couldn't stop thinking of Disgust's stressed out feelings about me recently. A couple of things that happened during that time.

First off, she nearly lost consciousness when someone "put her on the spot" about me. Anxiety & I were able to stop this in time before anything bad happened.

Second, she became super stressed out while I ran the console at one point, trying to help Riley find someone to begin a relationship with, that she (Disgust) felt a wave of nausea hit her, something that she DEFINITELY would only feel if something trying to poison any of us or Riley came under her watch, or just another bad memory in general. Except nothing was made better, and it turned into her taking that next day off the console (yeah, she became sick that day, more on this another time).

And more recently, she became ill, again. This time, in the form of her running a fever (a body temperature of 105, to be precise). If it weren't for Anger pointing this out to me, I wouldn't have noticed this, and things would've turned out horribly.

The note I wrote read:

"Disgust... we've recently noticed that you've been acting a little strange recently around me. You know... if you ever want to talk about this, then let's do so. You know where to find my little corner in HQ if you want to talk."

Disgust noticed this after her & I woke up for the day (as the both of us were no longer waken up by Joy, much to her dismay after finding out why, but understood, and this was around 8:45 that morning), skimming this, she began to think "Uh... what? How did he know?", and became a tad bit stressed. After getting my coffee, I went back to Disgust's room to find her in that state.

"Look. I know that came out of the blue, not referring to Sadness here, lol... but I'm being serious. Is something bothering you that you've been having abnormal actions happening to you?" I said to her while calming her down.

"Well... kind of. I just don't know who to talk to about it." Disgust answered. My eyes slightly widened.

"Oh? About what?" I responded.

"I don't know why... but my mental health once again is acting up, and now... it's only really bad around you... I don't know what's causing this!" Disgust answered frantically.

"Ok, calm down... look. I might know why. Generally speaking, anyone can get these symptoms if love hit them. I should know, as that's what my main purpose is here, helping Riley find love! But... Disgust, are... are you in love with me or something? Since you stated that it's really only bad around me." I said back. This made Disgust finally realize what I was talking about, and an audible gasp came from her.

"WHAT!? I said no such thing! Don't be ridiculous!" Disgust was trying her hardest to hide the fact that her recent stress attacks said otherwise.

"Eh... I'm not so sure about that... your recent stress attacks said otherwise. Are you sure that's not what's happening?" I responded a bit sternly. Let's just say, this went back & forth between us for 5 minutes before, of all emotions here, Envy broke the fight up.

"Ok, just 'cause I broke a fight up between you & Disgust the other day, doesn't exactly mean you use the exact same words I did!" I responded back to Envy, before we all went near the console to go about our day.

9:30 PM

I bought up the idea of having a game night the second that we sent Riley's memories to long term for the night and, welp, she fell asleep. For some reason or another, Disgust opted to run Dream Duty that night, to which Joy granted her permission to do. Needless to say, everyone but Anxiety, Boredom, Embarrassment, and Envy were stoked to do so. As Disgust stayed behind to get herself a cup of tea to get going for the night job, the rest of us headed to my office to get this game night under way. It was a standard round of Uno Flip! that I pulled out for gameplay.

However, unbeknownst to me at the time, things at Dream Duty would go awry pretty soon.

12:45 AM

"And... DONE!" I exclaimed, dropping my last card for the win. "Told you I was a crack-shot at this!" I taunted at Fear, who thought I wasn't playing fairly. This had gone on about 3 and half hours, with everyone in the table winning at least one game, and mine, a second time. We were so into the game, that none of us were watching the time at all. Until I did so after that game.

"Oh uh... I think that should do for the night. It's about to be 1 AM soon. You all are good to go for the night, I just need to finish up a few things, and check in on Disgust." I said after collecting the cards and cleaning up the area.

1:00 AM

As Joy, Fear, Anger, & Sadness split ways for the night, I was just finishing an experimental way of building a relationship, with a test dummy I made to practice on. Problem is, when Riley even attempts to build a relationship with someone when I'm running the console, Anxiety ALWAYS has to step in & ruin it for me. I was for sure thinking this wouldn't attract Anxiety this time. At this time, I decided to check in on Disgust.

"Disgust! Everything going okay up here?" I tried asking before seeing no one at the console. I got a slight panic attack seeing that.

"Disgust?" I tried calling out.

No answer.

"Disgust!" I tried again.

Nothing

"Ok, very funny Disgust! Show yourself!" I tried yet again, being stern about it this time.

I then had a thought come to me.

"What if she got bored and went off to get a drink or something? I know Dream Duty can get boring sometimes but still..."

I gave it 5 minutes. Nothing changed.

"Okay mate! Seriously, Joy is gonna kill me if she finds out you left your post under my watch! WHERE ARE YOU!?" I yelled, albeit a little angrily.

Gave that a minute, STILL nothing!

"Alright, fine! I'll find you myself!" I said, a bit mad that I had to find her myself. I still thought she left her post cause she got bored. So the search began...

25 minutes later

"How am I gonna tell Joy this..." I kept asking myself in a panic. Disgust was NO WHERE to be found. Another thought rushed into my head.

"What if she accidentally ejected herself from HQ!? I REALLY don't wanna have to go rescue her right now!"

I was so panicked I couldn't hear my thoughts past that one. However, it was around this time, yet another realization hit... I never checked around the console itself.

"God! How could I be so stupid to not check around the console!?" I asked myself in a bit of self-anger. So, that's exactly what I did.

And guess who I ended up finding, passed out underneath the back of the console?

Disgust.

I breathed a sigh of relief finding her. "Thank... God!" I quietly said. Checking her pulse, thank goodness she was still alive. Maybe another stress attack hit her? Either way, I carried her back to my office, and got a cold wet rag, and placed it on her forehead so as to cool her down. as she was very warm to the touch.

Another 15 minutes later...

The whole time I waited for Disgust to wake up, I was in guilt of letting such event happen under my watch. I'm usually never afraid of such events, which doesn't help. I kept thinking of what I was going to have to tell Joy... that was until I saw Disgust finally regain consciousness.

"Ugh... w-what happened?" Disgust asked in a daze, noticing the rag on her head. "Huh?" was her reaction to that.

"Cupid?" Disgust called out. While it didn't get my attention instantly, I did hear her. What did get my attention was her walking over to me.

"Oh, Disgust! You literally had me worried sick about you. Back on the couch please... you still need rest after that fall you took." I said to her. I could see her getting noticeably confused.

"What fall?" Disgust asked me, still confused as to what had happened

"You fell unconscious right under the console. What happened, and more importantly, are you feeling alright?" I said back to Disgust.

However, this made Disgust remember her past actions her body reacted to whenever I was in her vision. It felt like life was flashing before her eyes.

"Disgust? Can you hear me?" I asked her. Few seconds later, a heavy sigh came from her.

"Cupid... there's something I need to tell you, and I didn't know how to put it to you." Disgust answered.

I got a bit surprised hearing that.

"Isn't that why we're here? Whatever it is you need to tell me, just tell me. I wanna help with whatever is going on with you, but I can't help if I don't know what's going on." I answered back to Disgust. She still had a bit of nervousness on her face, otherwise, continued.

"There's no easy way to say this, but... you're right... I have been falling in love with you... I just wasn't comfortable talking about it because I didn't know if you would find it awkward, or... whatever." Disgust said back.

Welp, there was my damning evidence that I was right the whole time.

"You... you really are?" I said, trying not to directly be all like "I told you so", cause why would I do that. A simple nod was all I got as a response.

My "I told you so" behavior diminished by then. While I wasn't shocked myself to know this, I was shocked to hear it from Disgust herself, normally someone that cared about fashion & the latest trends, not love!

"Well, first off, it ain't awkward, say that all you want. I just wished you'd have told me a bit sooner, believe me, I know when someone's in love. I've seen it happen a billion times!" I exaggerated that bit.

"Oh REALLY!?" Disgust playfully sassed back at me, wearing a smirk on her face.

"Mate! You'd have to see it to believe it!" I said back to her.

After a good laugh, I came back with, "Ok, so... I might have another thing on my mind to tell you as well."

Disgust, still being the sassy one she was, just titled her head to the side. Being all like, "I'm waiting!"

"This might be a bit unexpected seeing as I help find love, but... I actually felt the same way about you... When Anxiety, Boredom, Embarrassment, Envy, and myself came about in HQ... your appearance set something off in me that I couldn't have possibly explained to anyone else. However, since I'm used to this feeling, I could just brush it off easily. Also... that fall you took... it's not your fault... and you never did tell me what happened exactly, unless Dream Productions used me in one of their silly little productions AGAIN without my consent!" I responded back.

Disgust was still trying to process this information, and a while later, responded with "Uh... yeah... someone that looked like you popped up... and it felt like I just saw you, and you only."

"Those BASTARDS! I told them a million times, I DO NOT WANT TO BE A PART OF THEIR PRODUCTIONS! This is the 5th goddamn cease & desist letter I'm gonna have to send them!" I responded a bit angrily. Yes, Dream Productions & I are not on good speaking terms, someone over there, I still don't know who, has been messing with me through dreams, and the best part, I find out instantly every time! 4 other cease & desist letters were sent in an attempt to stop this from happening, but NONE of them made anyone budge.

"I do NOT want to deal with this in person... oh, uh... anyway... one other thing." I said back.

"What's that?" Disgust asked.

Right before I went in for a kiss with her. This lasted for about a minute.

"That... that kind of felt amazing." I said quietly. Disgust, again, still processing what just happened.

"I... I never even got taught how to kiss like that! Well... guess we know now for when... well, you know." Disgust said back. I knew exactly what she was talking about.

"Alright, it's a little late, how about I walk you back to your room?" I offered, and after agreeing to do so, it's exactly what happened.

This was going to be fun to share to Joy in the morning...

8:45 AM

Waking up that morning was no different than the others, just put the bow/anti-love arrows on my back, along with my iPod I carry all day as my way of music listening (Particularly enjoy Classic Rock), what made this morning a bit anything but ordinary to the others was that Disgust & I were now holding hands that morning, something all only agreed to do if one of us emotions happed to be in a relationship many years ago.

Oh, this also meant that all of her stress attacks were washed away knowing that we were basically boyfriend/girlfriend now.

"Oh? What's this about?" Anxiety asked, being the first one to notice.

"Oh uh... it's nothing, really." I tried to brush this off. I didn't really want anyone to know about what happened overnight... except Joy. To no one's shock, she asked me how Dream Duty went for Disgust soon as she saw me that day.

My face went a little pale hearing that. Joy also silently took notice of our newfound relationship.

"Oh... uh... interesting to say the least..." I responded. Disgust ad-libbing on top of this, "Yeah, totally fine... definitely not boring at all."

"Oh really... what's happening here then?" Fear asked next. "Nothing that concerns you!" I yelled back to Fear.

"So, what happened was Disgust fell unconscious under the console... I had thought she'd have left her post, but that wasn't so apparently, turns out Joy, we now what the reason is for her sudden strange behavior recently. That being... we fell in love, hard, with each other, however, love hit Disgust the hardest to where her body did everything to prevent it from telling me otherwise. Long story short... she worked up the courage to tell me how she felt about me, and now... we're kinda boyfriend/girlfriend now, hence the handholding, per the oath you pledged that I took your word for. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner that I also had a bit of love built up in me, however, I could just easily brush it away since I'm used to this by now." I went on.

The rest of the emotions heard me, so felt the need to gather around what was now the center of attention, Disgust & I's relationship. As soon as I saw this happen, I deviated from my original conversation with Joy and directed this to the rest of the emotions.

"deep breath... Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, Boredom, Anxiety, Envy, Embarrassment... you all gotta promise both Disgust & I that whatever happens going forward... that NOTHING will change between all of us. I haven't had a proper girlfriend in about 5 years... and all I ever wanted was a fresh start with someone up here in HQ, and... well... I just got my start. Do you all agree to change nothing between any of us, and our jobs/goals with Riley?" I finished, anticipating approval from the rest, not expecting it at the same time.

Disgust also wore a face of "Please have this end well..."

To our shock... all were supportive of this! I couldn't have been more happier.

"Well Cupid... honestly I can't wait to see how this all goes!" Disgust said back to me in an extreme happy tone.

And man... I can only tell this will be great!

They say that there's always a Cupid around to find a match, but Cupid here... found his match (I guess my working title was still accurate, lol).

AND NO, DO NOT TAKE THIS IN THE WRONG WAY, EVERYTHING DEPICTED HERE IS AS SFW AS POSSIBLE!

Anyway... this should be fun to depict... Disgust/OC... told ya I could muster this up! Now I just need a few ideas to really kick this off. Requests are open if you wish!

Also, I'm working on another fic right now, so if the ending is rushed, I apologize.

Have a great day/night!