#blossom zurilyne

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I don’t honestly need to post this anywhere but I mean, I have a blog so I may as well abuse it. :/ yeet me into the sun fisjkdgioj.

Some part of her wished the last few months were the result of a fever dream. That she had caught something while she was out picking the next stack of movies with Blossom for obligatory movie night and that right now she was lying in bed, unconscious, and experiencing a fever dream. That nothing in the past few months was real and just the result of her feverish mind creating a wild dream she could laugh about later.

Neo could easily see it. She’d wake up and her fever would break, and Ace would half-yell at her for getting sick and then tell her everything she’d missed. Like Blossom making a mess in Nyx’s room that would result in Nyx chasing Blossom around with a broom, yelling in another language while Blossom cheers happily and throwing papers behind her. Or Glow stealing Desiko’s karambits again and hiding them somewhere in the bushes and the two of them spending a whole day of hide-and-seek that wound up with Glow in a headlock and Desiko stealing Glow’s array of crystals. And Eve and Ace creating a ruckus at the nearest coffee shop that causes them to be ‘politely escorted out’, which everyone knew they’d been kicked out.

She’d get up and Glow would literally tackle her to the ground in a bone-crushing hug and reprimand her for getting sick, rephrasing exactly what Ace would’ve said to Neo prior. Blossom would sneakily hand her a sugar sachet and distract Nyx by sending her into a science spiral that would inevitably become an argument of how stupid science is. Nyx would sigh and shake her head, telling them all that Neo was always going to be fine, it wasn’t serious at all. Desiko would snort and comment how Glow thought the opposite, and it would quickly spiral into the usual banter as Ace joins in and the topic changes five times in a minute.

At some point, Neo would bring up her strange dream. Nyx would shake her head and list all the ways it was impossible, chronologically and alphabetically. Blossom would look completely ecstatic and go into detail about random things. Desiko would snort and say Blossom was sneaking Neo sugars somehow and inevitably end up in an argument with Glow, who would’ve looked at Neo like she’d grown two heads, about if she really did have a secret life they didn’t know about. And Ace and Eve would look at Neo for moments of silence before practically demanding details about who they were in her weird fever dream.

All would be as it should.

Which is why Neo wasn’t sure why the image of that being true felt so…wrong. Uncomfortable. The part of her that wanted it to be true crowed on and on about the idea she wasn’t really awake. But the other part of her felt like it was wrong, in some twisted way. That the world she wished was real felt…empty, somehow. Like it was missing something.

Someone, it supplied.