Chapter 6
Catra was nervous, to say the least. While Bow did his check-up on Adora, Glimmer stopped by to talk to her.
“So, you really didn’t make up the valkyrie I guess,” She wiggled her eyebrows suggestively, Catra groaned.
“Sparkles I swear to the gods don’t you dare--”
“Hey! I’m a demigod of love and you’ve been pining over her since long before we met. I literally refuse to promise not to at least try,” She pointed out. Catra really couldn’t do anything against the daughter of Aphrodite, she should’ve known better than telling her about Adora a few years ago-- but she also knew that it wouldn’t take long for Glimmer to figure it out regardless.
“Hey Catra, know a way to get Adora to sleep?” Bow asked, peeking his head out. Catra thanked him in her head and slipped into the room.
“Yeah, I got it from here. Just make sure to grab us before the campfire.”
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“Hey, Adora,” Catra’s voice was softer than usual as she sat down on Adora’s temporary bed. She looked at Catra, with her ears and tail and mesmerizing heterochromatic eyes. Her tail curled around Adora’s arm and she couldn’t help but instinctually play with the appendage and twirl it around her fingers as Catra calmly watched her. Adora knew the look in her eyes-- she remembered it from when they were kids, from before she was adopted, from just last night in their dorm room. Adora shuffled over in the bed, and Catra didn’t waste any time slipping under the blankets and joining her in bed, draping her warm body over Adora’s and starting to-- to purr? Softly.
Adora had never felt so comfortable in her entire life.
Adora woke up groggily to Catra prodding her face. “Come on Adora, we’ve only got like, half an hour-ish before the campfire.”
Adora first noticed how Catra had stopped purring, and was only now starting to sit up and stretch on the bed. Adora propped herself up on her elbows as she watched Catra stretch with her arms up high above her, twisting her torso and cracking her back. Her tail-- which was apparently curled all along her forearm and fingers-- extricated itself from her grasp as she stood up off the bed. Her ears were pinned back, and Adora recognized from the rest of her body language that she was anxious.
“I’ve got to go to my cabin, Sea Hawk will take you over to the Hermes cabin. God of travelers and everything, if you don’t get claimed tonight or Hermes is your dad then you’ll be sleeping with them.” Catra explained calmly before letting a guy with a meticulously groomed mustache into the room and slipping out the door.
“Hello, Adora! I hear you’ve had quite the ADVENTURE today!” He beamed at her as she sat up and off the bed. Adora sighed and mentally groaned at the guy-- she was so disoriented and wanted to go back to bed and curl up with Catra like normal and stay like that for days; but no, here she was, following this man-child to his cabin and walking over to an area with a bunch of people she didn’t know.
Adora saw Catra on the other side of the campfire with a bunch of other kids. It passed in a breeze-- and Adora had never seen Catra more comfortable with people other than herself… let alone seen Catra singing in front of anyone else. Even if it was a sing-along and mandatory. But that had never stopped Catra from not doing something before.
Adora’s gaze kept finding its way back to Catra, only to find Catra looking back or quickly turning away to look as if she wasn’t looking at Adora just seconds before. The smores were some of the most delicious she’d ever had, and she could see Catra smiling at her from across the forum as she inhaled them.
And then all of a sudden everyone was staring at her.
The group of jock kids all started yelling and cheering and whooping like they’d just watched the winning score of the Superbowl.
“Hail Adora Horde, daughter of Ares, God of War.”