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Soft moonlight krept through the cracks of the light purple and golden curtains down the glimmering hallway. It gave a free but almost haunting look to the sparkly school for good. Each step passed, that light beautifully highlighted half of the rosey face of Lady Lesso. Her black leather boots clicked along the floor with her powerful walk, her cane closely leading her into the direction of the groom room where she would meet Professor Dovey. Meeting her once already in the afternoon from a fail defense in class, she was told to visit her again to get her wounds cleaned once more.
As Leonora reached the path to enter that room, she hesitated. Her nose inhaled deeply to settle her sudden unexpected nerves and urged herself on, finally stepping through.
"Dovey?"
Without even glancing the redheads way, the woman now in a slimmer golden gown from usual, wooshed over a blue cushioned bench and waved her over.
"Come. Sit. Let's have a looksie, yes?" She directed as she patted the seat a little too hard, a fake smile dressing her.
"Oh~?" A sharp eyebrow arched with her words in response. "I'm sensing something."
A small smirk formed on Lesso's face as she flicked to the atmosphere infront of her, waiting for any type of true acknowledgement from the other. She examined the good woman with her devious eyes as the other simply turned on a close lamp that hardly lit up the room.
Leonora humphed lightly.
"Clearly good isn't doing it's job right now is it?"
Leonora stepped closer to the woman.
"Really now, no need to be so apathetic Sunflower."
Finally turning to take a look at the redhead, Clarissa pierced a cold distant look through the taller woman, just wanting her to sit down.
Looking into those dark eyes, Leonora hesitantly glanced away, pursing her lips a tad to bite the inside of her cheek.
"Remove any unnecessary clothing that will get in the way."
The taller looked up the shorter before setting her cane aside and taking off her cleaned suit jacket like she was told. Removing her black vest and making sure to roll up her shirt sleeves as well.
"Hmm, someone angry."
"Angry? What ever cause would I have to be angry dear Lesso?"
Clarissa beamed a toothy smile at the woman as she watched her take her seat on the bench.
"Empathetic enough?"
"Hmm," She hummed again. "Very angry then." She spoke as she flopped to the side a bit, her left arm holding up her balance on the seat.
The woman in gold stood in front of the other as she poofed up a beautifully decorated red first aid kit, a kit she must've put wholely together herself Leonora thought.
"Now, be still and sit straight. I need to clean up your mistakes."
Reaching out her hand to grab the paler woman's wrist, she lifted up the sleeve higher above her elbow. Leonora couldn't help but immediately take notice of Clarissa's usual soft touch, never truly wanting to harm in any way.
Unlike herself.
She scoffed. "My mistake? Oh please Dovey." Spitting out, she pushed a bit of her frizzy curled hair from her face elegantly.
"You don't have to be so carping do you?"
The woman tending to her many arm wounds said nothing as she removed and poofed away the bandages. Quietly standing there, she cleaned the wounds out with a strong alcohol, knowing the pain wouldn't effect the dean.
"Wont you respond to me?" She simply asked.
"No!"
The golden woman snapped as a groan followed her word.
"Lesso please," She whined. "I really don't want to talk. Unless it is about your health or any injury I can not see-"
Pausing for a moment, she stared into the green eyes of her 'friend'.
"-I do not want to hear it. Okay?"
Leonora deeply stared back into sparkling brown ones, flickering between each one to read.
Her chest quickly took a breath.
"If you wish it."
"I do."
"Fine," Leonora said with her head raised high with a false confidence she didn't know of.
"Fine!" Clarissa snapped, darting her head to the side in stubbornness for a second.
Pure silence washed over the two childish women, letting them sit there with their own thoughts for a moment or two. Looking away, looking somewhere elsewhere, Lesso softened the breath she was holding with a long exhale through her nose. Leonora knew she had messed up in Clarissa's book but she felt as if it truly wasn't that wrong of her, surely she could understand from her point of view.
Letting her emerald eyes flow back up the form of the woman standing a bit above her, they scanned across her bronze face and admired the soft but sculpted features. Lesso thought highly of the golden woman, though, she thought the other dean could be quite a pain in her side at times.
Well, most times.
Though yet, she loved that pain she admits. Her whole being represented evil, ugliness, and pain, how could she not? Especially when it comes from someone so suspiciously good.
"I didn't mean to hurt you, Princess. That was never the intention of my actions."
Without meaning it, her tone was one of sarcasm with that nickname.
"That's something new." Clarissa seemed to hiss.
Looking down at dark hands on her arm, she grazed her long fingers across Clarissa's own exposed arm in a delicate and soothing way.
"I want you to talk with me. The unseen wounds that do not bleed can be... severe." Her eyes peaked up at her again.
"You know this all too well Dove."
The golden woman stepped away for a second and grabbed a aloe healing cream, quickly dabbing it over her cuts before wrapping her arm.
"What I feel is my own to deal with, Lesso. You have no order of it."
Clarissa used her pinky to push up the paler woman's chin towards her, removing a bandage from her cheek to expose a magic burn.
"Ugh! Just look at you." She quickly let out before shaking her head.
Leonora rolled her eyes at the quick complaint.
Instantly turning against her own words, Clarissa lets more of her feelings spill out.
"Why Lesso? Why couldn't you have just come and gotten me? Why let it get like this? If I was there, this could have all been prevented. Why must you be so stubborn Lesso?"
She angrily threw the used bandage away with her magic.
"You need to rely on me to protect you."
Leonora's jaw clenched.
"I shouldn't have to rely on you!" Leonora spat.
"I'm a big girl," She explained while dragging her hand to her chest in defense, crossing her legs.
"I can handle things my self! It was a simple accident, it happens."
Leonora peered into the eyes of Clarissa, a frustrated glare taking over.
"I don't need a fairy godmother to come in and save the day for me like some damsel in need. You are not higher than me Dove! You are not better than me. I have just the amount of capability as you!"
"You're right!" Clarissa let out painfully. "I'm not higher than you!"
Her eyebrows turned up in an angered sadness.
"Of course I'm not any better than you Lesso, I didn't mean that.. I shouldn't have made it seem like I was. You're a wonderful fighter, a brilliant one! I just..."
She stopped for a moment, letting a hand press against her head in a quick panic. Calming herself, she let that hand calmly fall to Lesso's arm, holding it firmly. She lightly dipped her thumb into it as she gently caressed it down to the woman's palm, rubbing soft circles into it.
Her chest heaved from the intensity of the situation, holding herself back.
"I just... Didn't like seeing you like this."
Clarissa used her free hand to reach up and lightly rest it on the seated woman's cheek, making sure not to touch her burn as she used her thumb to follow the outline delicately.
Leonora stiffened by the action.
"Over something I thought was so careless and stubborn." She sighed.
"I never mean to make you feel... Lower..." She frowned at the word. "Truly! I wasn't looking into my fault, that was my deepest mistake."
Her chocolate eyes darted to look into the eyes of evil.
"I just... wanted you... to want me, my help."
Those eyes of evil sparkled at the good golden woman in front of them, constricting from a light shock. Leonora's breathing hitched at the specific set of words from the other. She sat still and tense under her as she watched the woman, feeling her soft hand hold and pinch at her own.
"It was silly of me to try and hide away my feelings... Ugh! You always yank my words out of me."
She sighed frustratedly in defeat, turning away to get the aid she needs for the magic burn. Leonora didn't know what to say, what could she say? She wasn't necessarily in the wrong she thought, but, she didn't like this feeling.
"Maybe... It was a bit stubborn.. of me." She said lowly.
"I'm..." The redhead continued.
She didn't quite know how to say it at first. Rather complicatedly, poetically, delicately, she didn't care, she just wanted it to be true.
"I'm sorry Clarissa." Was all Leonora said.
To Clarissa, it was more than enough.
"I'm sorry as well." She replied as she lightly dabbed a cream against the burned cheek.
"I'm sorry for... Getting angry, for holding back on you yet, letting it out on you. I'm truly sorry for my behavior. Your feelings are not your fault."
"-Those damned nevers just got in my way," Leonora quickly cutted in as she irritatedly looked to the side with an intense brow.
"Allowing such a foul beast to make a fool of me."
Clarissa smiled softly at that.
Her hand let go of the other woman's before using it to hold the non-burned cheek, keeping her face still as she put medicine on the burn before bandaging.
"Just like how you want me to talk with you, I want you to talk with me. Don't ever allow me to make you feel such a way Nono."
Leonora inhaled sharply at the sound of her nickname, a smirk forming on her lips as she scrunched her nose from it.
"I'll be better on what I say and do, just... Come to me. Rely on me for help when you need it. I know you can handle things on your own Lesso, you always have beautifully, but..."
The golden woman moved away, getting rid of the aid she used on the redhead, keeping her eyes off of her.
"Lately I just... I don't know. Hearing you were hurt... Scared me."
Emerald eyes shook at the words, noticing her breathing picking up all of a sudden.
"Well... I might as well be in your position by how it made me feel." She vocalized with a small chuckle.
She turned to look at the Dean of Evil again, her cheeks hinting a color to them.
"I don't ever wanna see you like this again. Even the smallest mark gets me... Angry? Sad? I'm not sure really. It just... feels wrong."
Clarissa bit her bottom lip nervously, peeling a bit of the skin as she stepped to Lesso. Her hand went to touch the side of the woman's neck, not really knowing what to say as she did so.
Leonora simply watched, keeping quiet, keeping her eyes on the beautiful bronzed woman, not wanting to somehow ruin this... Whatever this was, like everything else she thought.
Her eyes squinted at the golden woman, desperately trying to read her herself.
Clarissa softly stared back into those eyes, feeling her heart thump at the gaze. Grazing her delicate hand gently up the woman's rosey neck, her index finger followed the line of her sharp jaw bone.
Leonora's heart began to thump as well, her eyes softening at the feeling, at her brown nurturing eyes.
Without thinking, Lesso tenderly allowed her hand to reach up and over the dorsal part of the hand feeling her. Her silver manicured fingers guided the woman's to her pink lips, lightly placing a kiss upon them before moving her hand down to the palm. Leonora placed another loved kiss onto Clarissa's knuckles, her lashes fluttering shut as she did.
Wanting eyes widened at the gesture, her heart thumping louder and louder against her chest. She wondered if Leonora could possibly hear it from her level.
As her hand was kissed, Clarissa angled it to where it would cause the frizzy redhead to place one onto her palm.
Leonora did so without hesitation, deciding to move her lips down her wrist and arm, placing yearned kisses upon her.
"Mmm," Clarissa sighed, letting her eyes close to melt into the sensation.
Her fingers reached behind and tangled themselves into the Dean of Evil's hair as she moved up her arm, causing the softest groan Dovey has ever heard from the woman.
It sounded like magic to her.
Why?
Clarissa wanted to know why.
Why would it?
Leaving no arm left to place kisses on, Clarissa pressed her forehead down against Lesso's, her breathing shaking and wantingly for her.
"Thank you... for helping me." Leonora spoke finally.
"Your help means so much to me~"
The words could have almost made Clarissa cry she assumed. It was all she wanted to hear, to truly know.
Without warning, without thinking, Clarissa passionately almost hesitantly placed her full plump lips against Leonora's thinner ones, craving more as their lips made contact.
Leonora was stunned but instantly kissed the golden woman back, allowing the fervent moment to fill her body. Pushing herself off the cushioned bench, her arms quickly wrapped themselves around the woman's back, her left hand holding the back of the shorter woman's neck.
Their sweet kisses sped up, wanting to express the pure longing they always had for the other all along.
"Mmmn~" Leonora hummed velvetly into the long shared kiss.
Clarissa's dark hand combed it's fingers through red curls as her free one tugged at the black tie around Lesso's neck, pulling her in closer to her lips and body.
Leonora loved every second of it, every action of the other's need for her.
Finally needing but not necessarily wanting a breath, Leonora fiercely pulled away.
"Ah~"
She inhaled and exhaled deeply, her chest heaving greatly from the passion.
Lustful eyes stared longingly into fervid ones, her already pink cheeks heating to a red color infront of Clarissa's eyes from true realization. The haze in her eyes twinkled away as she just stared at the beautiful good woman in her hold, her breathing starting to even out.
Clarissa softly stared back to admire her supposed rival, eyes taking note of how beautiful the woman looked in the lamps low light.
As a silence began to wash over them again, the golden woman quickly cleared her throat, her cheeks obviously blushing as well.
Leonora found it adorable.
"Wow," Leonora expressed. "Do you think the Storian put us up to this?" She smiled genuinely.
Clarissa blinked for a second, her hands resting on the woman's shoulders. Closing her eyes, she inhaled deeply through her mouth.
"You are so..." She hesitated, "Annoying."
The redhead busted out a chuckle, causing Clarissa to do the same joyfully.
The opposite women gently laughed together before Dovey moved her hands away, patting Lesso's shoulder from a slight awkwardness.
"You should probably get going you know."
Checking the time, Leonora bit her lip as she looked up the woman like usual.
"Damnit," She gently whispered.
Huffing quietly before turning to put on her vest and jacket. Grabbing her cane, she turned to the Dean of Good.
Smirking, she watched Clarissa rock against her heals as her hands were held together infront of her innocently.
"I'll see you first thing in the morning Princess." She said with a quick nod.
"I'll see you~"
Clarissa said calmly but responded with a childish wave and genuine almost suppressed grin as she watched the evil woman leave. Her green eyes peaked at her from behind over her shoulder as she walked away from her sight.
Noticing the woman's clicking heals fading away in the distance, the golden woman released a deep and satisfied sigh as she magically brought a extravagant couch to catch her dramatic pretend faint, squealing like a teen.
"Oh Leonora~"
Letting her eyes close, she touched her puffy lips, still feeling the warmth of the kiss. Peacefully beginning to fall into a soothing sleep, she shyly thought about what was to possibly come now.
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