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They were running out of time, literally and figuratively as Wednesday stood next to the ancient alter that promised to renew her psychic ability except she was clearly missing something.
“Wednesday we’ve got to hurry-”
She immediately cuts Tyler off with a glare that screamed “I know stop rushing me!”
Time was a luxury they no longer had as the Morningsong cult that should have been disbanded after the death of both of their leaders Gideon and Dort. But come to find out another entity was brewing the background all along, ready to usurp the Morningsong cult into their blood thirsty and abhorrent clutches.
Now they were on a timetable to stop a potential all out war between normies and outcasts.
Wednesday must die
Circles the back of Wednesday’s mind as she stares harder at the alter it’s symbols spelling out instructions that she didn’t know if she was capable of.
Her Aunt Ophelia had forseen her demise..anticipated it even…finding her locked up in her grandmama’s house had been a surprising revelation indeed.
But the woman didn’t seem tortured..instead she seemed only truthful in her statements, non threatening as she foretold Wednesday’s demise leaving her with nothing but questions.
Questions that looked like would soon have answers as her mind began processing what she must do.
Making up with her mother had only been the first step in regaining her psychic abilities back Weems had told her before she vanished into the unknown.
Now she was beginning to understand exactly what she meant as she looked at Tyler before her.
Their journey thus far had been everything but smooth, she accidentally stumbled upon him after searching for Enid. She had found Capri’s little outcast community that to her surprise housed a group of Hydes with no place to go.
It was there she found Tyler and to say his transformation from the last time she saw him had actually stunned her more than she cared to admit.
He looked healthier..less grief strucken, and more mature as he passed out coffee and cakes in the dining hall of the community compound.
When they first saw each other time itself seemed to freeze before she marched right up to him knife already starting to come out when she was stopped immediately by him saying her name in a way that gave her glimpses of the past.
“Wednesday?” He breathed out her name like she was both the question and answer all wrapped into one.
And from there a silent alliance formed.
Tyler had agreed to help Capri track Enid because he claims he owed her for sparing his life and giving him the opportunity to start over at the Hyde community, which introduced him to a number of people around his age and even some younger ones who seemed to look up to him as big brother.
And Wednesday never one to turn down a Quid Pro Quo agreement, agreed and let her biggest question follow her around on the journey to track Enid.
They eventually found her, but like all good things..
That single fleeting moment of relief came to a screeching end when the next big threat showed up and put everything and everyone at risk.
Now here she was, time running out, completely out of ideas, stuck with her biggest regret in life, and she knew exactly what she was supposed to do.
And it absolutely killed her.
She stepped back slowly from the alter, head down, fingers interlaced as she took a deep breath, her nerves running a marathon through her body.
“Wednesday what are you-”
“Quiet, I have to say this because if I don’t..it’s over.” Wednesday spoke swiftly, yet anyone who’s known Wednesday would immediately be able to pick up on the unsteadiness that lined her voice.
Wednesday for once in her life was completely rattled.
So Tyler straightened is posture and answered her with silence, wondering just what she had to say at a time like this.
She took another deep breath, her eyes still planted on the floor, but she began anyway.
“You scare me.” She said admittingly all of a sudden.
His eyebrows rose in bemusement but he kept still and quiet letting that admittance linger through the air like a firework losing it’s spark.
“But..not in the way you may think.” She continued.
The wind picked up slightly blowing the lose strands from her dishelveled braids around as her head remained bowed.
“You see, When I met you I actually really liked you, you told me you couldn’t be bought right away..that was different because no ones ever told me that before. Either I scared people into submission or I bought them..there was never any in between.”
Another pause of silence filled the rising air.
“But you said that..and I couldn’t fathom that someone else existed with a backbone besides me.” She scoffed lightly.
“Then things progressed..and soon you were checking off boxes that I didn’t even know I had implemented, yet there you were passing every single test.” She said pacing around Tyler her head still lowered to the ground.
“I didn’t know it then..not fully..because if you haven’t noticed I’m really bad at feelings..” She dryly laughed to herself.
“But I think that’s when I started looking at you as more than a friend or ally..but someone that could be a real part of my future a partner..” She confessed lowly, but loud enough for Tyler to hear her fully, his breath hitched.
“And I didn’t know how to process that because people were dying..I was getting people hurt, and I didn’t want you to be another victim.”
She stopped pacing for a second then continued.
“Then I solved the mystery..or so I thought, and the first thing that came to mind was you.” Her voice cracked with a mixture of disappointment, resentment, and dramatic irony.
All the things one would find in her own novel.
“So I walked all the way from my dorm to where you were, one thing on my mind, and that was putting you first.”
“Wednesday-”
“No! Let me finish!” She snapped looking at him for the first time since she had started, and her look was stunning.
All the emotions layed there in her eyes, and what couldn’t be stored in her eyes was written all over her face, her lips were stuck between a scowl and a frown, her skin looked paler than usual, her body language as a whole was tensed up like she was trying to hold herself together with cheap tape, her eyes watery with tears she refused to shed, because again, this was Wednesday and she was bad with emotions.
“So then I kissed you and next thing I knew..I had no idea who I was looking at.”
Tyler found himself gritting his teeth and shaking his head ready to protest but again she kept going before he could get a single word in.
“This person I had spent the better part of months with was suddenly a complete and total stranger..a monster..but not just any monster, no..”
“A smart one.” She breathed like she was still in disbelief even after all this time.
“I mean..you breaking my non existent heart was just the icing on the cake.” She chuckled dryily again continuing her pacing around him like a shark circling it’s prey.
“So I took a second, I processed and I figured the only thing left to do was hate you right?” She asked the question but he doubted she wanted the answer so he remained still teeth still gritted in regret and something else.
“Because hate is the opposite of..” She trailed off not daring to finish that sentence.
But he got the point.
“So I hated you..I tortured you..or at least I tried until you dad showed up..I should probably go to his grave and thank him for the interruption..because I probably would’ve ended up killing you out of spite.” She said stopping her pacing one again.
“So our dance we shared at the Rave’N turned into a new one..a more deadly one as you got locked up at Willowhill and I was left to pick up the puzzle pieces.” Wednesday shook her head.
“I spent most of my summer tracking down serial killers, but the days in between I spent going over and over in my head how me of all people allowed herself to be fooled by someone like you.” Her tone was dry again, as if was still trying to find the answer to that question.
“Wednesday-” He tried again only to be met with another stare that immediately shut him down.
“So I burried myself into the mystery of one of the most elusive serial killers, mastered my psychic ability, just to prove to myself that Wednesday Addams is still Wednesday Addams, and she will not be outsmarted or played by a simple man ever again.” Her tone held a sharp edge in this statement.
“So I did it..I found the scalper, and I was headed back to Nevermore where little did I know, even more mysteries would surface..and in the end they would lead me once again back to you..” Her pacing continued.
“So I visited you at willowhill after your father’s sudden dark demise and there you were, in all your patronizing glory, spewing facts about schizophrenic werewolfs like that was supposed to be impressive.” Sarcasm oozed off her voice.
“But then you said something that took me by surprise, you said I sensed the monster in you and fell in love with it and I didn’t know how to process that, because for the first time since you revealed yourself to me that day in the station..you suddenly didn’t look that smart for once. Because if you were, you would’ve realized that I had no idea you were the monster until that kiss..I mean yeah..you did display some dark tendencies at times..like saying you liked me after my attempted murder with pirhana’s at my other school, but I just chalked that up to you being a kiss up.” Wednesday admitted before pausing again for a second.
“Guess I'm not always the smartest person in the room.” She whispered humbly.
Another sigh escaped her throat before continuing her pace around him, “Anyway..you threatened Enid and that finally gave me the best excuse to hurl every insult imaginable out you, I wanted you just as broken, hurt and confused as me, I wanted you in pieces for wasting my time, my patience..and what little heart I had.” Her voice broke for a split second before pulling itself together just as quickly.
“Thought I knew every insult I laced you with wasn’t the truth and that’s when I realized you had outsmarted me again..reducing me to just like every other teenage girl who whines and cries and shouts over a man who betrayed her trust, absolutely ridiculous.” She cursed at herself.
She shook it off again and proceeded, “Then things got messy..I accidentally broke everyone out of Willowhill..and you threw me out a window and sent me into one of the best vacations I ever had..and even unknowingly to you, help me get back on track to regaining my abilities..I guess I should thank you for that.” She said looking at him again.
“But I won’t, Because I tried to come up with a potion to control you against my better judgement, but your mother ruined it and then you and your family tried to bury me alive and even when I had the best opportunity thus far to take that axe and hack off your head, for the life of me I couldn’t figured out why I didn’t do it.”
“And now here we are.” Tyler finished for her.
“And now here we are.” She repeated in agreement.
Another moment of silence filled the air as the wind itself suddenly stilled.
“We just can’t seem to kill each other huh?” Tyler laughed a little the irony weighing down on him.
“No we cannot.” She agreed again.
“That’s why I said I’m scared of you..but not in the way you think.” She continues quietly. “I’m not scared of you because your the monster..I don’t hate you because you lied.. I’m scared because you make me feel things I don’t want to feel..and I hate you because you don’t even realize that it was your natural normal self that made me do it.” Wednesday admits finally.
Tyler eyes widen as he searches her eyes for the lie..because that’s all women had done to him in his life..but he couldn’t find one.
“And throughout this entire journey that’s when I started to realize that me and you are like puzzle pieces.” Wednesday continues suddenly stepping toward him her eyes lifting to meet his.
“Sometimes we don’t make any sense together apart..but together as one for some odd reason we fit, why is that?” She asks holding out her hand for him to take.
“I don’t know but..can we figure it out together this time?” He asks quietly a small smile finding his lips.
She squeezes his hand and nods knowing the second part of regaining her abilities was finally over and they had a war to stop.
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Hey thanks for reading I really wanted to write a fic on what I think might happen in the future season of Wednesday between her and Tyler, and I could easily see a conversation like this unfolding! Hope you enjoyed, let me know what you think might happen between Weyler next season!
Oh and in case you didn't pick up on why Ophelia was saying "Wednesday must die" in this fanfic..it was because she basically had to kill her old self in actually addressing her emotions for once, something the old Wednesday would've NEVER done.