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Summary:

Pure Vanilla Cookie: Please don't be mad

White Lily Cookie: oh no

Dark Cacao Cookie: Oh no

Hollyberry Cookie: Oh no

Golden Cheese Cookie: oh no

Pure Vanilla Cookie added Shadow Milk Cookie

Many cookies are typing...

Or, Pure Vanilla Cookie adds Shadow Milk Cookie to the Ancients group chat. That's it that's the plot.

Notes:

I needed something to get back in the writing groove and hey, apparently all the cool kids are doing chatfics.

Some things before we start: Golden Cheese and White Lily are cool with each other and the timeline is kinda nebulous. The beginning will focus mainly on shmilk and the ancients but I may bring in more characters and ships later.

God I swear half the word count is just their full government assigned names

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

Chapter 1: mind if i invite my arch-nemesis to the chat?

Chapter Text

Soul Jam Gang

(Members: Dark Cacao Cookie, Golden Cheese Cookie, Hollyberry Cookie, Pure Vanilla Cookie, White Lily Cookie)

Golden Cheese Cookie: and that's how I swallowed seven marbles at once

Dark Cacao Cookie: Horrible

Hollyberry Cookie: Hah! I've eaten worse

Dark Cacao Cookie: This is not a competition…

Hollyberry Cookie: I ate an entire tree once!

Dark Cacao Cookie: It was about a third of a tree and you got a stomachache afterwards

Hollyberry Cookie: No hangover though!

White Lily Cookie: i'm afraid to ask what other things you've eaten under the influence

Hollyberry Cookie: Girl.

Hollyberry Cookie: I have a list

White Lily Cookie: …can i see it?

Golden Cheese Cookie: wow, no concern for my health about the marbles

White Lily Cookie: did you want us to be?

Golden Cheese Cookie: maybe!!​

White Lily Cookie: oh nooo golden cheese cookie are you alright?

Golden Cheese Cookie: hah! like a few marbles could affect the immortal and radiant golden cheese cookie!

Dark Cacao Cookie: Of course

White Lily Cookie: of course

Hollyberry Cookie: They're just sugar though??​ Of course you'd be fine

Golden Cheese Cookie: shush

Golden Cheese Cookie: you ate a tree

Hollyberry Cookie: Also made of sugar!

Hollyberry Cookie: And cream. And chocolate.

Hollyberry Cookie: Very stale though

Dark Cacao Cookie: Yes that is typically why we don't eat trees

Dark Cacao Cookie: Who knows how long they've been there

White Lily Cookie: oh i wrote a paper on this!

White Lily Cookie: roll cake trees can be dated by how hard they are. it's their staleness that gives them the qualities that makes them usable for woodwork!

White Lily Cookie: it's a topic that's actually been done before a few times but of course i did my own research

Golden Cheese Cookie: let me guess

Golden Cheese Cookie: you wanna infodump

White Lily Cookie: please

Hollyberry Cookie: I will not understand a single word but go for it!

Golden Cheese Cookie: yeah same

White Lily Cookie: oh wait

White Lily Cookie: pure vanilla's not here

White Lily Cookie: he's always willing to discuss my research

White Lily Cookie: and he asks the best questions

Hollyberry Cookie: Yeah he's usually always on isn't he?

Hollyberry Cookie: I sometimes drunk text him at 3am and he always responds

Golden Cheese Cookie: is that concerning?

Hollyberry Cookie: Maybe

Hollyberry Cookie: But drunk me at 3am can usually convince him to grab a midnight snack so… lesser of two evils

Dark Cacao Cookie: Perhaps he's busy

White Lily Cookie: oh he's always busy

White Lily Cookie: but he told me he does his paperwork while he puts our chats through text-to-speech

Golden Cheese Cookie: talk about multitasking

White Lily Cookie: maybe i'll just send him the paper in dms

Pure Vanilla Cookie: Everyone

White Lily Cookie: oh pure vanilla cookie!

Hollyberry Cookie: Heyyy PV!

Golden Cheese Cookie: it's good to see you pure vanilla

Dark Cacao Cookie: Welcome back, Pure Vanilla Cookie

Pure Vanilla Cookie: Please don't be mad

White Lily Cookie: oh no

Dark Cacao Cookie: Oh no

Hollyberry Cookie: Oh no

Golden Cheese Cookie: oh no

Pure Vanilla Cookie added Shadow Milk Cookie

Many cookies are typing…

Shadow Milk Cookie: The master of deceit makes his grrrand entrance!

No cookies are typing

 

New Chat

White Lily Cookie made a new chat

White Lily Cookie added Dark Cacao Cookie, Golden Cheese Cookie, Hollyberry Cookie, and Pure Vanilla Cookie

White Lily Cookie renamed the chat 'what the fuck pure vanilla'

White Lily Cookie: title

Pure Vanilla Cookie: shadow milk has been living with me the past month

Golden Cheese Cookie: oh so we're just jumping straight into it

Pure Vanilla Cookie: you all deserve an explanation

Pure Vanilla Cookie: ive felt guilty about hiding it this whole time

Dark Cacao Cookie: You kept this from us… for an entire month?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i didnt want to keep this from you guys for so long

Pure Vanilla Cookie: but shadow milk has been… volatile

White Lily Cookie: he's the beast of deceit

White Lily Cookie: volatile doesn't begin to cover it

White Lily Cookie: you were there in the faerie kingdom. you saw what he did

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i know

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he did more to me in the spire

Pure Vanilla Cookie: much more than ive told you

Pure Vanilla Cookie: it was… bad

White Lily Cookie: and you still do this??

Pure Vanilla Cookie: look i dont want to get into everything

Pure Vanilla Cookie: please

Pure Vanilla Cookie: but i know hes capable of change

Pure Vanilla Cookie: hes been here a month and im fine

Pure Vanilla Cookie: doesnt that speak for something?

Dark Cacao Cookie: Why wait this long? Why introduce him to us over text? Why in our private chatroom?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: a show of trust

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he was rather adamant about staying unknown forever

Pure Vanilla Cookie: it was this way or not at all

Golden Cheese Cookie: …our private moments

Golden Cheese Cookie: you weighed our secrets against his redemption

Pure Vanilla Cookie: …yes

Pure Vanilla Cookie: and for that i am truly sorry

White Lily Cookie: why?

White Lily Cookie: why do all this? what is he worth?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: …

Pure Vanilla Cookie: I want to be his friend.

Golden Cheese Cookie: well

Dark Cacao Cookie: Well

Hollyberry Cookie: …Tell us about him

White Lily Cookie: hollyberry cookie!

Hollyberry Cookie: You guys know what PV's like

Hollyberry Cookie: Bullheaded in the name of friendship

Hollyberry Cookie: Nothing's going to stop you is it?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: hollyberry cookie!

Pure Vanilla Cookie: thank you

Hollyberry Cookie: Hang on you've still got to convince me

Hollyberry Cookie: You did still let him invade our private conversations

Pure Vanilla Cookie: …

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he will be annoying

Golden Cheese Cookie: wonderful start

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he will make a nuisance of himself. he will bring up old conversations to embarrass you. he will dig into old hurts

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he wants you to hate him

White Lily Cookie: …

Golden Cheese Cookie: hence this entire situation we're in

Pure Vanilla Cookie: yes

Hollyberry Cookie: Not doing much to convince me on him, PV

Pure Vanilla Cookie: oh of course

Pure Vanilla Cookie: hes surprisingly good with kids

Pure Vanilla Cookie: strawberry crepe cookie has taken a liking to him

Pure Vanilla Cookie: espresso cookie has told me that he has some insightful observations on his research once you learn to parse the truth from the deceit

Pure Vanilla Cookie: ive even seen him speak to black raisin cookie amicably. i fear they may be conspiring against me in some form

Hollyberry Cookie: And what about you?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: … i have grown to enjoy his company too

Hollyberry Cookie: …

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he… has been insisting i eat dinner? i think black raisin cookie said something to him

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he is a surprisingly good cook

Hollyberry Cookie: Okay I'm sold

Hollyberry Cookie: We're doing this

White Lily Cookie: hollyberry cookie!

Hollyberry Cookie: Wouldn't it be nice to see the beasts redeemed? If for nothing else then so they wouldn't be threats anymore

Dark Cacao Cookie: That's an unusally rather pragmatic view, Hollyberry Cookie

Dark Cacao Cookie: And correct, of course. If we remove our feelings from the equation, this will do nothing but benefit us

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i still hurt you

Dark Cacao Cookie: Yes… and you will have to earn my forgiveness

Dark Cacao Cookie: But… I can put those feelings aside for now

White Lily Cookie: …

Golden Cheese Cookie: pure vanilla, tell me something

Golden Cheese Cookie: would you consider shadow milk cookie to be your treasure?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: … yes

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i would

Golden Cheese Cookie: then i say let's go for it!

White Lily Cookie: you too, golden cheese cookie?

White Lily Cookie: … i can see i have been outvoted

Pure Vanilla Cookie: white lily cookie…

Pure Vanilla Cookie: shadow milk cookie has done a lot of bad things

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he has hurt many people

Pure Vanilla Cookie: … so much so that he doesnt believe he deserves redemption

White Lily Cookie: he'd rather us prove him right

White Lily Cookie: i'm familiar

White Lily Cookie: that was what you were getting at, right?

White Lily Cookie: that we're similar?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: white lily cookie…

White Lily Cookie: i

White Lily Cookie: i'm sorry

White Lily Cookie: i know that, if you're right…

White Lily Cookie: then this would be for the best

White Lily Cookie: and if he's really not hurt you in an entire month…

White Lily Cookie: but how can i forgive him? after what he did?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: you dont have to

Pure Vanilla Cookie: but please give him a chance

White Lily Cookie: …

White Lily Cookie: alright

White Lily Cookie: i'll trust you

White Lily Cookie: after all you're

White Lily Cookie: bullheaded in the name of friendship

Pure Vanilla Cookie: and has it ever steered me wrong?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: were friends after all

White Lily Cookie: … yes

White Lily Cookie: we are

 

Soul Jam Gang

(Members: Dark Cacao Cookie, Golden Cheese Cookie, Hollyberry Cookie, Pure Vanilla Cookie, Shadow Milk Cookie, White Lily Cookie)

Pure Vanilla Cookie: were back!

Shadow Milk Cookie: Back from your new private chatroom where you discuss my fate?

White Lily Cookie: were you reading over pure vanilla's screen?

Shadow Milk Cookie: Pssh, give me some credit, it was obvious.

Shadow Milk Cookie: You don't want me here! You make a new chat. You talk about me behind my back.

Shadow Milk Cookie: It doesn't take a scientist to figure out this flow of events.

Shadow Milk Cookie: Although, I am an accomplished scientist, among other things.

Hollyberry Cookie: Quite the yapper aren'tcha?

Shadow Milk Cookie: Well if it isn't the tree muncher!

Shadow Milk Cookie: Gotta get my words in before you kick me out!

Shadow Milk Cookie: It's healthy to talk ten thousand words a day!

Pure Vanilla Cookie: its walk ten thousand steps

Shadow Milk Cookie: I prefer my interpretation better.

White Lily Cookie: you can stay

Shadow Milk Cookie: Oh?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i told you i could convince them

Shadow Milk Cookie: Well.

Shadow Milk Cookie: Well.

Shadow Milk Cookie: I suppose I'll just help myself to allll your juicy dark secrets!

Pure Vanilla Cookie: you were already doing that

Dark Cacao Cookie: Of course he was

Shadow Milk Cookie: Shhh, don't ruin it, Nilly.

White Lily Cookie: good luck

White Lily Cookie: we established this chat room not long after we first acquired our soul jams

White Lily Cookie: about a thousand years ago

White Lily Cookie: have fun sifting through it all

Shadow Milk Cookie: Wait.

Shadow Milk Cookie: How.

Shadow Milk Cookie: Phones have barely existed a decade.

Shadow Milk Cookie: You're lying.

White Lily Cookie: i can assure you i'm not

White Lily Cookie: why don't you figure it out?

White Lily Cookie: former fount of knowledge

Shadow Milk Cookie: I don't know how but I think I hate you even more than I already did.

Shadow Milk Cookie: I didn't even know that was possible.

White Lily Cookie: trust me, the feeling is mutual

White Lily Cookie: i expect the essay on my desk when you're done. 12 pt font. make sure to properly cite your sources

Shadow Milk Cookie: Are you teachering me?

Shadow Milk Cookie: How dare you.

Shadow Milk Cookie: Who says I'm gonna even do it?

White Lily Cookie: well, you'll never figure it out otherwise~

White Lily Cookie: unless you're okay with that

Shadow Milk Cookie: … Fine.

Shadow Milk Cookie: Give me a week.

Hollyberry Cookie: Y'know, I think we're going to get along just fine

Golden Cheese Cookie: … i think i understand now

Pure Vanilla Cookie: understand what?

Golden Cheese Cookie: you

Pure Vanilla Cookie: ????​

Dark Cacao Cookie: Ah, I see

Hollyberry Cookie: It's obvious, isn't it?

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i dont follow

Golden Cheese Cookie: don't worry about it

Golden Cheese Cookie: nilly

Pure Vanilla Cookie: ????​

 

It's so over

(Members: Dark Cacao Cookie, Golden Cheese Cookie, Hollyberry Cookie)

Golden Cheese Cookie: purelily gang assemble!

Dark Cacao Cookie: Here

Hollyberry Cookie: Here!

Hollyberry Cookie: I suppose we should change the name now

Golden Cheese Cookie: if we're keeping the same naming conventions i guess we're calling it puremilk

Hollyberry Cookie: Is that right?

Golden Cheese Cookie: we'll workshop it. it doesn't really matter

Dark Cacao Cookie: How can we be sure for certain?

Hollyberry Cookie: We're all on the same page aren't we? We all clocked it immediately

Golden Cheese Cookie: perhaps it won't lead anywhere, but we can all see it

Dark Cacao Cookie: Yes, Shadow Milk Cookie shares many similarities with White Lily Cookie

Hollyberry Cookie: And PV never really got over her… it'd make sense

Golden Cheese Cookie: he lets him call him by that nickname

Dark Cacao Cookie: That is quite compelling, yes, though Shadow Milk Cookie seems like the type to do what he wants, regardless of Pure Vanilla's wishes

Hollyberry Cookie: Yeah except our polite and formal Pure Vanilla Cookie's only known him a month and has already dropped the cookie suffix

Golden Cheese Cookie: so you noticed too

Golden Cheese Cookie: plus he did not seem at all bothered by the nickname

Golden Cheese Cookie: and so quick to claim him as his treasure too

Dark Cacao Cookie: So we have evidence, but nothing concrete

Golden Cheese Cookie: perhaps this will not go anywhere

Golden Cheese Cookie: ideally it won't. this is a beast after all

Golden Cheese Cookie: but we all know pure vanilla

Dark Cacao Cookie: That we do…

Golden Cheese Cookie: i think i can confidently say

Golden Cheese Cookie: prepare for the worst yearning we have ever experienced in our lives

Golden Cheese Cookie: again

Golden Cheese Cookie renamed the chat 'why were we baked? just to suffer? (electric boogaloo)'

Golden Cheese Cookie: amen

Dark Cacao Cookie: Amen

Hollyberry Cookie: Amen

 

May the Sun greet the Moon

(Pure Vanilla Cookie and White Lily Cookie)

Pure Vanilla Cookie: please dont antagonise him too much

White Lily Cookie: you're asking a lot of me, pure vanilla cookie

White Lily Cookie: he makes it so easy

Pure Vanilla Cookie: yes i noticed

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he threw a bit of a tantrum afterwards

White Lily Cookie: i know what would annoy me and applied it to him

White Lily Cookie: seems i was right

Pure Vanilla Cookie: still ive never seen him so engaged in research

Pure Vanilla Cookie: he rather detests books

Pure Vanilla Cookie: but i suppose he hates being ignorant more

White Lily Cookie: you could help him. this is your area of expertise

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i could

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i think this would be good for him though

White Lily Cookie: you know, the others never believe me when i tell them you have a mischievous streak

Pure Vanilla Cookie: i dont know what youre talking about

 

New DM

(Shadow Milk Cookie and Strawberry Crepe Cookie)

Shadow Milk Cookie: Oi, brat.

Shadow Milk Cookie: You're good with tech, right?

 

Notes:

Nobody questions the very edible world if it's all you've ever known. Some things just aren't worth eating though (like stale trees)

The purelily (puremilk) gang is sort of a tongue-in-cheek naming scheme; it's more of a chat about the shared suffering of having to experience PV's very painful and obvious yearning than one where they plan to get them together. For puremilk they'd rather they didn't get together (but of course, we know where this fic is going)

basically what happens this chapter:

PV: i wanna be his friend
The Ancients: welp, nothing we can do now. he's going to be his friend

I realised halfway through writing this chapter that GC would probably actually capitalise her sentences too but it was too late so whatever. she can do what she wants