#maybe she'll pull through somehow but im just gonna go to bed...

[infinitystation]

did it work. is stein president now. did it make you feel better

[polaris-likethestar]

you drew stars around my scars (and now im bleeding)

alriiiight tonights fic is completed here u go !! (really quick its basically what if rio didnt break away from the almost kiss)

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Rio knows this is a bad idea. She knows she should stop her; she should say something, she should do something. Something to be a better person. Agatha deserved better. She saw the way Agatha looked at Teen. Rio knew what she saw. She saw Nicholas. Whether or not Agatha truly thought that was her son or not was beside the point, it was dangerous either way. Agatha was going to get hurt. And it wasn't her fault, not really. It was Rio's fault. After all, that's what she's always done. Hurt her. She made so many promises to her, she always did. But they were just empty promises, stuff she couldn't keep. She wishes she would've kept them.

She feels Agatha cradling her face, leaning into her touch. Rio's leaning in too, like it's a routine. It used to be. A long time ago it was. She knows she was stop it, should call it off but she doesn't. She doesn't want to. She sees Agatha leaning in for a kiss, and she just goes for it.

It's not like it's gonna last between them. Might as well just have some fun with it.

𝑻𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒕𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅

She felt Agatha's hands in her hair, softly carding through it as if she was something fragile, at this point she probably was. "I miss you." Agatha murmurs against Rio's mouth, and as happy as she is, all she feels is terrible, terrible that she's just leading Agatha on, letting her believe that they could be happy, letting her believe that maybe, somewhere, somehow, Teen could be Nicholas or some sort of makeshift version of him. She didn't want to allow Agatha to think that. But she was never strong enough to say no, not to Agatha, never to Agatha. She wasn't strong enough to deny her, even if it's just for a night. Maybe tomorrow she'll tell her, just to clear things up.

(She knows she won't, she wouldn't, but for now she'll just let herself believe that she would.)

"Missed you too." Rio nodded, feeling tears well up in her eyes. "Missed you a lot."

Agatha looked at her, sadly smiling, in a way that said 'dont worry, i get it.' What exactly it is that she got, Rio didn't know. Rio herself didn't get anything that was happening, how could Agatha?

So she just hummed softly and kept kissing her, as if that would make anything easier, maybe it did, just a little bit. "I thought about you a lot." Agatha pulled away, gently resting her forehead against Rio's. I meant it when I asked for a truce, I really did. I don't want to fight. Not now, not-" "Okay, truce." Rio cut Agatha off. She couldn't let her finish the sentence. Agatha looked confused but nodding anyways. "Alright, good. That's good." She said quietly, almost as if it was more to herself than to Rio.

"We should go back." Rio slowly exited Agatha's embrace but was pulled back. "No, just two more minutes." She said. Rio saw the look in Agatha's eyes and knew she had to stay. "Please." Agatha asked faintly, as if she was about to cry. "Yeah. Okay." Rio said, trying to match Agatha's softness in her voice. They stayed like that for a little bit, just hugging each other in silence. Rio was content, she was more than content, she was also insanely conflicted. She was a bad person, she thought. Good people don't lead on the people they love like this. Good people don't do bad things to someone and then proceed to take advantage of that person. It wasn't fair.

𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝑰'𝒎 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈

Hours later, Rio was lying in Agatha's arms as the other witch was fast asleep. The witches were taking a rest for the night and Rio and Agatha were lying on a pile of leaves because unfortunately they didn't think to recruit a witch with bed making abilities. It was comfortable enough, Rio supposed. She traced hearts around the back of Agatha's neck, her face buried in her shoulder. "I'm sorry" she whispered against her skin, soft enough so she wouldn't wake up. "Baby I'm so sorry."

"I don't think she's going to hear you."

Rio immediately looked up, to see Teen staring down at her. "What's your play here, Rio?"

She just blinked at him, slowly trying to remove herself from Agatha's arms in order to talk to him privately. Eventually she got up and yanked him by the arm. "Come on." She murmured.

They made it somewhere private from the other witches, and Teen just stared at her expectantly. "Well?" He asked. "What's the goal here, Rio? Why are you here? What are you doing and what do you want with Agatha?" Rio rolled her eyes and scoffed, looking elsewhere, trying to act all whimsical or whatever, anything but serious and emotional, anything but sensitive. "I don't know what you're talking about." Rio internally cursed herself for being a usually good liar but falling flat when it really mattered. "I don't want anything to do with her."

"Hmm, sure. Alice told me about the whole storytime situation. Basically confessing your love to Agatha while simultaneously apologizing for whatever happened way back when? Chasing her down after she leaves? Rio, I literally found you alseep in her arms, you obviously don't want nothing with her." Teen gave her a look, and Rio knew he wasn't doing it to be mean or harsh or whatever, but that kid really needs to mind his own business. She wasn't even actually asleep. "Stay out of it, Teen. I mean it." She said, glaring at him and she left, walking away towards to the 'beds.'

"I'm sorry, Rio. Didn't mean to pry. But it's just....I see the way you look at her. You want to gain her trust back. You would die if it meant she trusted you again."

"I would burn down the world if it meant she trusted me again."

Rio shakily exhaled, staring back at Teen. "Didn't mean to snap at you." She admitted. "Good night, Teen. And please, just stay out of this." With that, she turned around and headed back, knowing she wouldn't be getting any sleep that night, their conversation bound to be playing in her head all night long.

𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒅 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒌𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕-𝒊𝒇𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒎𝒐𝒌𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 '𝑪𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝑰'𝒅 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓 ��𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏' 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒅 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏' 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒆

Teen was right. She would die if it meant saving Agatha, helping her, anything really.

If only one of them makes it out, she's gonna do everything in her power to make sure it's Agatha - and that's a promise.