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F-ck it
Okay listen, she’s never been one for breaking the rules. As ironic as that sounds, watcher rules was not something you wanna break.
Plus: it was grians dream to be a lover. Not hers. Idk it’s odd but in some way it feels like she should make up for the fact he’s breaking that rule so she fallows it like it’s the most important thing to exist yet..
Feeling her hands tighten around her waist, a blood lusted giggle coming from her as she leans onto her back, pointing excitedly at the next target.
Eye bloody dam it, what is Pearl bloody hell thinking?! She’s the rule follower (this one rule) not some girl falling head over heels with curly ginger hair, a warm giggle, soft hands, beautiful dear horns on her head, a cheerful and sweet demeanour yet being an absolute murdering phycho path, even with that she’s so careing and adorable and-
Oh f-ck, was Pearl sooooo much deeper than she’d thought
“There!! There they are! They ender-pearled! They ender-pearled!!” Gem smiled and giggle happily, hand tightening around pearls waist. Sure logically Pearl knew it was so she wouldn’t fall of the camel while on a murder spree but… dam shes cute like this
Gem excitedly pushed another arrow into pearls hand and pointing all jittery and happy
“Nah yeh! See her!” Pearl exclaimed grabbing the arrow and shooting with dangerous aim at Cleo
One more arrow and-
Down to red Cleo goes
“Wow!! You did it Pearl you did it!!!” Gem sing song said behind her, hugging her tight to her chest
A warm, fluffy, gentle, disgusting, homey feeling bubbled up in her chest.
Gem was so happy and cheerful yet dazed with a murderes and psychotic intent
Even as they went over to the others and teased Cleo of her death, saying “I told you I’d kill you yk”, gem still hugged her so tight, head laying on pearls shoulder. She was adorable and always so shiny and happy yet when you dug deeper she was an absolute murderer…. And was it wrong for Pearl to think it’s hot? I mean straight women fawn over these killer men all the time! What about a red head cute but deadly girl ay? Who’s gonna love her? Well apparently Pearl now
No wait. No! No Pearl was not gonna be that person!! Maybe instead of thinking of this as a sweet hug she’s actually trying to crush pearls wing as an attack!! Moth wings are incredibly fragile so she must be using that against her!! But.. that doesn’t explain why she’s being so gentle with them and putting a hand in between herself and pearls wings making sure their safe and she’s not crushing them
Ugh!! It’s so infuriating! Why can’t she just follow a simple rule?! She hasn’t even wanted a lover! That was Grians thing!! And she knows that for sure. 1, red lives remember a bit more just to be emotional aka suffer 2, winners remember more 3, watchers remember more. Pearl knew she never wanted to be a lover before, so where the hell did this come from????!!
Trotting away from the crowd of people now swarming the newly dead zombie mutant, gem still whispering praise to pearl for her kill and her archery
“Oh! We gotta go kill Etho next!” Gem chirped in behind her as they went out of ear shot of the crowd
“Really? Hm. Good point I guess he did escape alive after all so why not. Let’s make their whole team red like the rest of us.”
She could basically feel as gems smiled warmed from behind her.
Oh she can already picture that blood lust eyes warming up, smiling ear to ear, small little dear tail wagging- no! Stop it Pearl! Just go kill Etho and it’s fine!!
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“Got em boys!!” Scar exclaimed as the message rang that etho has been killed
Camel peaking over the hill showed a blood splattered scar. He mostly just tagged along for the heck of it but Dam
“Nice!! That was a good catch scar” Gem exclaimed with a thumbs up
Hm. Well I don’t like that. She was praising me a second ago, it wasn’t thaat impressive. Sure she gave me more praise but… don’t like her praising others
Her wings slightly puffed up and splayed defensively like scar was some type of threat, of course he wasn’t they were teammates (and he’s gay) but.. wouldnt mind if he got a little bit further away from gem. Thou can’t say that so
“Yeah that was real nice scar, good one”
“Thanks!” Scar smiled as he got out the crater hes killed Etho in a moment earlier. Blood still splattered him and lined his sword
Why the hell is grian crushing on this man? Gem has always and will always look better blood covered
“think imma go back to my base and just try to re gather. Next week and it’s task is probably gonna be the last so may as well prepare”
“Mhm! See ya around scar!” Gem happily exclaimed
With that they waved each other off, scar wearing a proud smile as he walked away, cane clicking in between foot steps
Maybe Pearl was still a bit pissy about the praise so she didn’t really properly wave him off and instead only half waved goodbye
“Hey can we go over to cottage’s? Wanna go check in on impulse and Scot if that’s okay”
“Yeah sure of course! I’ll lead the way my lady” pearl said with a Shakespearian tone getting a laugh from gem and her hand tightening a bit around her waist
Didn’t help the situation as Pearl guided the camel to start moving towards the cottage’s, that gem sat up more checking on pearls wings. Gently letting her hands glide over all the intercept patterns of pearls wings.
Unlike Grian who chose, her wings always had a pattern to them. Of course she could change them which she has now and then but not this time. She actually kinda likes her wing pattern, concerning level of eye imagery and all.
Does gem know thats a love language to take care of moth wings and make sure their in one piece or? I mean Pearl barely knew so there’s no way gem knows!!
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“Pearl how dare you! Trying to kill impulse like that when he was sacrificing himself for me. How dare” gem scoffed jokingly as they continued to trot away, now heading for the secret keeper as it was a Saturday and they needed to hand in their task so they could get a new on Monday
“I’m still mad he died the moment before my arrow hit. Dam glitch or smth”
“Or you’re just salty you’re slow” gem leaned in with a darker tone
Hm.. yeah no that was too hot to be fair game
Gem just giggled and hugged Pearl again
“Hey so yk how basically everyone agrees Sundays no one does anything and just gathers themselves. Do you maybe wanna like.. just hang on Sunday?” Oh thank eyes she changed back to a normal tone
“Like.. just us two?”
“Yeh! Just us two” … is that worse or better?
“Hm. I mean I got nothing going. Gonna have to check if the other mounders are cool with it thou”
“Oh come on! We’d have so much fun! Just us two ladies hanging! Girls night! Pleeeeease Pearl?”
Honestly Pearl was gonna spend the day with her no matter what the other thought but… Dam was she cute all whiney
What the hell was Pearl doing honestly? She has absolutely no reason to fall this hard this fast
“Okay okay, you can spend the day with me. Hell if you want you can spend the night tonight so you don’t need to make the trip. We’re not that far from the cottage rn if you wanna run up and grab something”
With that gem basically squealed with excitement, hugging her extra tight for a sec, giving a pec to her cheek then swinging her two dear legs off the camel and climbing down, the clacking of hooves fallowing as she ran up the stairs of the cottage base
Wait.. give her a pec on the cheek?
“Murder camel did you see that?! Did she actually do that?!” Pearl whisper screamed at the camel who’s only response to no one’s surprise was their ear flinching for a sec trying to get a fly away
Pearls “heart” raced like all holey hell. What the hell was that?!
Absolutely far too soon came the clacking of hooves back into ear shot
“I’m back! Give me a hand will you? I can’t get up on the camel while carrying my bag by myself”
Pearl rushed to help her. Her mind was way too scattered to actually process anything rn. Cause honestly, what the f-ck was that?!!
And so they continued to trot along to the secret keeper
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“I don’t have a second bed so unless you brought one with ya we’re gonna have to share if that’s cool, I gotta go tell bdubs that you’re here”
“Mhm!”
Now what the hell was going on. This shouldn’t be happening!!
Pearl was in her pj’s. Leaving her house and making a left for Bdubs. He was outside of his house fully armoured so he’d probably just come home
“Yooooo Bdubs” real smooth Pearl
Bdubs slowly turned with a suspicious look at Pearl
“What happened?”
“What nothing happened idk why you presume that of me Bdubs”
“Mhmmm. Right. So, why’d you wanna talk?”
“Yk just..” think Pearl! Think!
“Just checking in on you!” Close enough Pearl
Bdubs suspicion slowly took a face of pity with it
“I’m good. You?”
“yeah I’m… yeh! Yeh I’m great”
Pearl was basically panicking her head off by now
“Right. So. Any reason why the shadows through the window of your door has dear antlers?”
Well flip the f-ck that wasn’t good
“Oh you… you um. Saw that..”
“Hey in your words, ‘I already know you sleep in ethos bed’ so now I will say. I know gem sleeps in your bed, no judgement. Just don’t let her kill any of us. Then again it’s Sunday tomorrow so it’s all good, now I’m way too tired to keep being in armour. Night Pearl”
“… night Bdubs”
honestly. Went better than expected
So off she went. Antenna still all static from anxiety, wings ruffling behind her again and again.
Stepping in to her house she saw two things: gems blanket in her bed. Shirtless gem.
Now she wasn’t naked of course!! She was wearing a sports bra. A perfectly reasonable thing to wear to bed. But good eyes, can Pearl not stop staring
“How’d it go with Bdubs does he want me to get out ooooor?”
“Hm? Wha- oh yeah right Bdubs um” pearl kinda got half snapped out of it trying to line her head in a straight line instead of this seemingly very gay one “he doesn’t care. Reminded him of last Monday where I said a joke about him waking up in ethos bed and then he didn’t care”
“Pfft- hehehe. Bdubs really is a etho girl huh?” Gem said with such a simple happy smile. Didn’t even acknowledge what that implied of etho and Bdubs and that also being implied on them rn
Her little dear tail wagging was so cute
“Oh you can say that again! Swear he spends more time with etho than here”
From there they both managed to get into bed, laughter and small talk fallowing them
“Pearl! Jes! What did you do with your hair, it’s a mess!”
“Hey in my defence you were pressed against it!” Pearl argued while gem was already going for her hair brush in her bag
“You have long hair girl! You gotta at least slightly braid it or something to protect it. Same way I do. Now come here!” Gem argued back. Sitting down on pearls bed, legs crisscrossed and patting the space between them to signal Pearl to sit down, hair brush in hand
Pearl sat (unwillingly as she got pulled onto the bed), started with gem just separating the hair which admittedly, hurt more than it should
“I hate having it set up! Feels like I’m being tied down or smth. I wanna know it’s free and feel it on my wings”
“Then you gotta brush it more. It’s a mess!”
“Yk im not making you brush it, just stop brushing.”
“No!”
“Why??”
“Cause I’m not leaving you like this Pearl! I care about you you idiot!”
Hmmmmm. Yeah no it’s brain damage. There’s absolutely no other explanation for Pearl to be so happy at hearing the words “I care about you”
After like half an hour of half arguments, yelps of pain, and in and out jokes, her hair was finally finished
“Jesus that has my hand cramping, but now I’m all done!” Gem exclaimed
Pearl ran her fingers through it with a smile
“Okay yeah no you’re right this feels better… thank you gem”
“Of course any time!” With that followed a big yawn “Jesse it’s really late huh. We gotta get into bed”
“Mhm. I mean it’s just getting under the covers and well sleeping so. Ladies first?” Pearl jestered at the pillows
Gem happily unwinding her legs from Pearl and pouncing on her pillows, her braided hair flopping on her back. Giving one big stretch and then looking back at Pearl
“Btw so yk, I kinda have to sleep on my side. It’s that or have my horns ache”
“Oh yeah same with my wings you’re all good”
A few minutes later and they were all cuddled up in her blankets. The lamp had been lowered to a softer flickering flame that’ll die out any minute
“Mmm your bed is so warm Pearl”
“Yeh I like keeping it warm, moths don’t regulate heat the best it turns out”
“Heh. Sucks you freeze but your bed is really comfy… might have to spend the night here again if it stays this comfy”
Gems eyes were closed thankfully but Pearl was as red as a dam tomato. What is she even on about?????! Staying here cause of her bed???? I mean.. not like illl complain- no wait!! Yes I will! I’m supposed to!
Well isn’t this a mess
Pearl stayed there panicking and going through a hundred different thoughts, staring at the wall tills she felt a nudge at her chest
One very asleep gem cuddling into her, arm slowly leaving her blanket and curling around Pearl, head half laying on her chest
God why was she so cute?! This is ridiculous!! No one should be allowed to have such cute dear ears and small freckles and beautiful ginger hair and such a beautiful face! No one!!
Eventually Pearl just took one deep breathe and stared at her, hands gently and slowly going into gems soft hair and playing through the strands, cheeks still so red
She looked so happy and peaceful like this
God, Pearl really was in love wasn’t she?
What a shame she’s a watcher who must hurt and feed on the hurting, bared from being a lover. Grian already tested that one, just got him a widow curse for punishment