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“Woah… Fuzzy…”
The revenant had awakened from the explosion almost instantly. That… Had been weird. The cauldron was bubbling… But his mind couldn't exactly focus on it as the main point. Not even the heaviness on his heart, it almost seemed to disappear completely, switched to a weirdly nice feeling inside.
As Rev held onto the borders of the cauldron, his mind went to other places, not even noticing the hearts on his eyes. Bella rushing out, the fight with Sera, Wendy in the clinic… Wendy…
He didn't even catch the smile slowly appearing in his face as he thought of her. That wendigo got on his nerves so much… So why…
“YOU!”
The familiar voice took him off his trance, but it had taken him to an almost worse one as Wendy entered the room. She was bandaged all around, a bit on her arm, on her leg, and she finally removed the last piece of her head. Her endurance and resistance were admirable, just as she was.
Looking at Wendy, something awakened inside Rev very intensely. It was confusing. He hated her, she brought him nothing but misery to him, and yet here he was, thinking about how amazing she looked.
“What the hell are you doing now!? Just because that angel interrupted us doesn't mean y- Wuh?”
The wendigo was taken aback when Rev started to walk towards her. It was different from how he normally walked too. This time it wasn't with an angry sight, it was… Just weird.
“W-What the hell do you think you're doing!? If you don't stop I'll…” The threat was more empty this time, her body still hurt from the angelic, but she would certainly try.
It did come to a halt when Wendy was backed into the wall, and Rev was just a couple centimeters away from her. Looking into her eyes… The dark sclera was charming, it really bought her yellow eyes into more light, they were beautiful.
Wendy was more confused than anything. Rev, directly in front of her, doing nothing but looking dumb. She could just strike him down now, punch through his heart and take it, that would teach him something, and yet, she didn't, not now.
“What's with you? Don't think that by acting nice I'll forget how you embarrassed me!” The anger in her eyes almost seemed to lit again, and with that, the want to strike, even holding her fist again.
“I… Need you.”
“Huh???”
The situation was confusing, yet Rev couldn't be more sure of what he wanted. What he needed. Wendy. He wasn't even sure when he started to feel this way about her, she had done nothing but try to kill him or get him in trouble! But… There was something endearing about that. Without her, the life in this place would be more boring, he wouldn't have someone else that could pay attention to what he does and his rage, he wouldn't have a target for his anger because of his other mixed feelings. He wouldn't have that feeling when he was about to sleep that maybe he should make peace with her already.
“I… Wanted to prove that I was better. To you. That I'm not just any zombie or anyone… I'm sorry for everything, Wendy. I never wanted you to be angry at me, I just didn't know how to act… Please, let us try to be friends. And… Pherhaps…” Rev gave one more step, being even more close to Wendy and putting his arms at the wall besides her. He closed his eyes and approached her face. “More…?”
Wendy looked as Rev approached her face more and more with slight panic in her eyes. The words he said… Sorry? Friends? More!? This was all too much! She didn't know what to do, but if she didn't act now, they would… They would…
Wendy pushes the revenant off her to the floor with more strength than necessary, making him make an audible sound as he falls. Wendy was still looking confused at him, but now looking more like a mess, with not even her mask being able to hide the slight blush in her face.
“Ow…”
“Are you freaking insane!?” Wendy started again, finally moving from the spot in the wall as Rev slowly got up. Her face was trying to be more angry, but the embarrassment behind it was difficult to ignore. “Is… Is this some sort of prank, punk??”
“I mean it, Wendy.” Hearing her name in that tone from Rev was already weird, especially with how his face looked so calm. He held himself onto the caldron, after getting up, and her eyes got to it too. “I didn't want to hurt you at first, it was an accident that kept escalating… I don't want it to escalate more.”
“That cauldron… You… You made some sort of potion!” Wendy points at him. Of course, of course this was it! Rev had taken some sort of potion before the fight with her, and he was weird today… This was it.
“Maybe… But I'm telling the truth. Don't you want all this fighting to be over? I would…” Rev walks over to where she is, and holds Wendy's hand. “... Love to be with you.”
The wendigo stills seems conflicted, but her tensed shoulders calm down a bit more, looking at her and Rev's hand. She felt a weird feeling. Rev… Wanted to be her friend? Someone wanted that? To be with her? That seemed impossible.
“I could get used to this. Hanging out with you… Making fun of others… Not… Not worrying about escaping or being the smartest. Having fun with you.”
“You… You could?”
It seemed too surreal to believe it. From anyone else it would already be hard, but from the Rev Vennett? It was almost laughable. She still wasn't even sure he wouldn't laugh at her the moment she let her guard down, but everything else had felt weirdly sincere.
“Yeah. Being happy for once… With you. So… Please, Wendy, let us be happy.”
Her breath quickened with that. Almost every instinct she had was telling her to just punch him and bolt away, but she didn't. She just closed her eyes. Rev always made her feel weird, from how he always had an answer to everything to how he had embarrassed her, it was a weird mix of anger with something she couldn't quite identify, maybe it was just her masking that weird feeling with anger, but here, and like this, she couldn't find that anger in the moment. She wanted this. Someone close, a friend… More.
“Okay…”
Rev approached again until he felt the girl's breath on his, holding her hand tighter. He appreciated her beauty one more time before closing his eyes and pressing their lips together, before going for the full kiss.
Wendy's mouth was so… Warm, an alive kind of warm. Rev quickly had gone further into her mouth like he wanted this since he saw her. He could almost feel a taste of pork off her too, a bit bitter, but it wasn't bad, he wanted more. And to feel her sharp teeth like that too…
Wendy was feeling hot all over her face from the sudden rush of blood. It was almost weird, especially from kissing an undead. And she still couldn't believe it, kissing someone, Rev…
The wendigo had never kissed someone before, so she mostly let Rev to lead, as much as she wanted to lead the kiss. And it was a good idea… The kiss simply felt divine. She could accept being like that for so many more minutes…
“Did I hear an explosion just now? Rev, did y- WO- WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING!?”
The moment Bella entered the place and made herself known, Wendy pushed Rev with all her strength again, making the revenant strike the opposite wall.
“I- uh- YOU SAW NOTHING, WITCH!” Wendy looked around for one more moment as Rev let himself up again by holding onto a few bookcases, feeling the familiar embarrassment rush to her head again from just being seen like that, as well as kissing her enemy, before bolting out of the door. “I'M OUTTA HERE!!”
“W-Wendy, wait!” Rev tried to call to her, but it was already too late, the wendigo was surprisingly fast.
Bella was simply dumbfounded when looking at the room and remembering what she had just seen, with a tinge of heartbreak. It was only when she noticed the bubbling cauldron that the pieces fell into place, giving herself one small winning sigh, before remembering the implications.
“You idiot!! YOU MADE A LOVE POTION!?”