Adora and Catra (part 2)
Walking inside what seemed to be a make shift dining hall, the chatter that could be heard through the door silenced a bit when Hordak walked through the door with Kadroh and Adora by his side. Hordak looked towards the ground and just let Adora and Kadroh lead him where ever, not wanting to face others at the moment. Though when he was sat down he was horrified when he looked up and saw that he sat with other princesses and a bit far from other clones. He only remembered then that Adora said that he was a clone of interest and he knew that they wouldn't want him so far away.
He would be tensing up, but the food in front of him confused him more than his fears. His ears twitched in confusion and looked at Adora and asked, "Why are the unprocessed food gigantic?" The princesses who were looked at him with either fear, anger or indifference soon changed to confusion besides Adora who had laughed. 'They're not huge, Entrapta just likes tiny food", She explained as Entrapta burst through the door with Catra behind, now causing all chattering to stop from the surprise from her screaming Hordaks name.
She bounded over to him, wrapped herself on his back, with her arms around his neck and legs on his waist. He was in so much pain, but could only softly, 'Entrapta you're hurting me" Entrapta squeaked and quickly let go, caressing his shoulders with her hair in worry when getting off him. "I'm sorry! I just got excited!', she apologized and held him softly from behind. He leaned to her touch and smiled when she slithered between him and Adora. Catra finally caught up to the excited bunch and sat next to Glimmer and Adora, smiling at the overjoyed princess. "It's alright, but I do have a question", Hordak began. Entrapta hummed as a plate of tiny foods was laid in front of her and started to munch on them.
"Why are food so huge?", He asked as he looked at his own plate compared to hers. This cause Entrapta to go on a tangent on how regular food was too big and how tiny foods are easier to process, faster to cook and better to look at. Kadroh was intrigued as well as he munched on his regular sized food as a few others groaned when they all realized that she would not stop until she had brought up data to prove she was right. That is until Adora cleared her throat, "You two should eat before your food grows cold" Entrapta snapped out of her tangent and started munching on her food happily.
Hordak looked back to his own food and slowly began to eat. Though when everyone else was done, he couldn't finish even half his plate and he looked like he was about to hurl as he held on to the table. He mumbled on how to food was too big and too much to handle in a single sitting even on a day where he would be starving. Entrapta rubbed circles on his back as she brought out data pads and rambling about his new armor as the dining room started to trickle out. All those who were left was him, Entrapta, Kadroh, Catra, Adora and a weird animal Hordak barely took notice of that he would learned to be called "Melog'
Adora and Catra had already finished eating, but still stayed with the three and listened tiredly to Entraptas ramble. Entrapta only stopped for a moment when she realized that they were still in the dining room. She looked at Adora and Catra confused and asked, "Why are you guys still here?" They both looked at her in confusion and Adora explained, "Entrapta we said that we would take day shifts on looking over Hordak" Entrapta cocked her head, "But I'm not going to leave Hordaks' side any time soon. Having Kadroh here is the metaphorical bow tie on the gift"
"Entrapta, we have talked about this. Although I doubt Hordak wants to do anything right now, but if he's pushed enough by you he'll do anything for you", Catra explained. Hordak nodded in agreement, but Entrapta still looked confused as she took her data pads and drew up different charts. "Based on my analysis of the previous days, the silent agreements, the consequences that arise from hurting others and the benefits of following the rules- I don't see why Hordak being with me alone would cause problems!", She tried to explain.
The three looked at each other, Kadroh still confused on what was going on, and faced Entrapta again. Adora hummed, "Well seeing on how Hordak went against Prime to just save you, don't you think he would do anything for you to be happy?" Entrapta looked down for a moment in thought, looked at Hordak and asked, "You would do things just to keep me happy?" A slight blush appeared on his cheeks before stammering out without thinking, "You are the most important being for me in the universe, so yes I believe so that for you, I would do anything to make you smile"
Entrapta squealed and wrapped herself and her hair around Hordak, picking them both up from the table. "You're also the most important being to me!", She squealed as she twirled him around, causing him to go painfully red and embarrassed when he heard the two girls snickering and Kadroh awing. When she put him down, he was a bit more dizzy than before and if it weren't for Entrapta, he would have fallen over and embarrass himself even more. Still though Entrapta was still giggling in her giddiness before slowly becoming a bit serious.
She held onto to Hordak, finally snapping out of his dazed state and softly asked, "You know I'm happy to just be with you right? I love being with with you just like I... love you" There was a fruit that etherians have that is called a tomato, that was what Adora, Catra and Kadroh could explain how Hordak was looking like right then. Now they couldn't help but laugh,even Kadroh could barely hold his giggles. There he was, former warlord, feared leader just by his name alone, and one who could destroy; blushing madly and being held by a short princess who was basically declaring her love to him.
Though for Hordak, he would stop time if he could hear that from her again. He slowly hugged her back and rested his head on her shoulder, nodded, and whispered, "I... love you too" They both blocked out the laughter and just held on. Not letting go. Not letting each other go now that they understood that they had felt this love, not platonic, but romantic love to each other for quite sometime. The others laughter slowly came to a stop as they noticed that this should have been in more of a private setting and it got more awkward for them for the fact that they were laughing at what was an emotional moment for the two. They moved around in their seats awkwardly until the pair let each other go except their hands.
The pair looked at the others and a still silence waved over them, making things even more awkward until Melog meowed at the silence. Catra cleared her throat, "So, uh, are you guys like partners now?" They looked confused and Hordak said questioningly, "We're already Lab partners?" Kadroh became confused as well and looked at the two as well, waiting for an explanation on what was going on. "No, um... are you guys 'romantic' partner. Like do you love each other enough to call each other, um, 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' ", Adora tried to explain. Then Hordak was back looking like a tomato and all Entrapta could do was grin when she heard this.
Entrapta lifted herself with her hair and gave a kiss on his cheek. Hordak seemed to almost pass out, but stopped himself before he could fall down and composed himself. He cleared his throat and leaned down and set a soft kiss on her cheek. Entrapta looked at them, blushing and having a huge grin, "I think that's a yes"
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They spent the day with the girls, mostly being in Entraptas guest room who somehow made a mini-lab and already starting to finish Hordaks armor. The two girls laid on each other and Kadroh sat next to them as they read out to news to the two about what was going on around the world. Many had calmed down Clones, found their bodies and started to get them at least mentally ready for them to go to Dryl when Entrapta would send out her robots. They as well told about the private trials of people who were taking advantage of the clone situation or were former fright zone soldiers ready to face their judgement. In brightmoon, the princesses in charge of their own groups of clones were teaching them about moral and laws about Etheria to get ready for their trials. During this, Hordak had helped out with Entrapta to speed up the process and were still holding each others hand, not wanting to let the other go.
When the day came to a close and Hordak had to go back to his cell with Kadroh due to curfew, they bid fare well to their caretakers of the day and were greeted by guards holding their night time clothes. Giving them a bit of privacy, Entrapta babbled on to the guards as the two clones changed inside their 'cell' about how their armor limited them and how she wished she could give them more of an easier design to move around in. The guards were getting intrigued until she was called in by Kadroh that they were finished changing.
Kadroh was in a long light green nightgown with soft tight light green pants and was dancing in circles for the nightgown to fly up. Entrapta giggled at his enthusiasm and turned to Hordak who laid on his bed in a bit of pain after the struggle of changing clothing. He wore a similar nightgown as Kadroh, but was more of a light magenta and wore black sock tights instead of pants. "You both look great!', She complimented as she helped Kadroh twirl around. "Such praise coming from you sister!", Kadroh grinned before sitting down as he was filling a tad dizzy.
A light blush came upon his face as Entrapta laid next to him and just stared at him lovingly. "I-Is there... something on my face Entrapta?", Hordak asked. She grinned and held the side of his face that wasn't on the bed and said, "Only my love for you" That sent Hordak into stammering mess before Kadroh jumped on to the bed in between them as he felt a bit left out. Kadroh and Entrapta laughed together as they proceeded to make the other jump and Hordak could only chuckle at the two he cared for and feel a bit nauseous as he was moved around crazily.
They only stopped when Entrapta said, "Well I have to change real quick! I'll be back, but I don't think I'm going to be back in time when you two are falling asleep" "That's alright sister! If I do not see you I bid you a good night!", Kadroh grinned and out through the window Entrapta went again. Kadroh laid on his stomach and turned to face Hordak who was thankful he didn't hurl from the amount of movements the others did the bed. "Brother Hordak, sisters Catra and adora had told me about love", Kadroh began.
Hordak took a bit to compose himself before asking Kadroh to elaborate. "When you declared your 'love' for each other, I was confused what it meant. They had told me about different loves like the romantic love you and sister Entrapta have, platonic love that 'friends' have and even familial love like we have of each other", Kadroh explained. Hordak gave a small smile to his brother and patted his hair, "That is true that I have familial love for you, but why bring this up?" Kadroh hummed in thought, trying to process his thoughts into words.
"I believe that I have two of those loves, but the one love I don't think I understand is the romantic love. Do you think you can explain it to me in more detail?", Kadroh asked. Hordak blushed a bit and coughed before proceeding, "Well, personally I have not felt that kind of love until Entrapta, but from what I can understand..." Hordak looked at the ceiling before continuing, "Romantic love is what you feel like when you want to spend moments with the other, grow together physically and emotionally, take a whole new view from them as they try to make you happy as you try for them, and you want to care for them more than any other being in the world and just generally be happy with them as you love them with deepness of your own emotion"
Kadroh hummed and the two laid in comfortable silence before Kadroh surprised Hordak by asking, "Do you... do you believe I can love someone like that one day?" Hordak looked at Kadroh puzzled, but Kadroh did not want to face him as he didn't know why, but he might have felt embarrassed if he looked at him. Hordak hummed and said, " You might" Finally Kadroh looked at him and Hordak continued, " It might take a while, but you might find the right person for or even persons as maybe one is not enough for you to love and you want to love many as you have so much in your emotions. Even then, you might find out that you don't have romantic love for another. I have seen that in some as they see romantic love as unnecessary or simply do not want to engage with it"
Hordak painfully turned his body to face Kadroh and finished," If you want to find your true romantic love or loves, you can, but if in the end you don't find one, it is not end for you and perhaps you are going to be okay with that. Who ever you end up with or without, know that your brother is here for you" Kadroh gave a small smile and asked, "May I hug you brother?" Hordak thought for a moment and finally decided it was okay to start with Kadroh to start physically being okay with others touching him.He held out his arms and Kadroh scooched over to him and gave him a warm hug.
"Thank you brother", Kadroh said after a while of hugging. He got up from the bed and yawned. Kadroh looked back at Hordak and gave him a genuine smile before tucking him in. Hordak huffed, "I can do it myself" 'I know, I just wanted to do this for you", Kadroh explained as he helped Hordak settle pillows under his major joints. "...Thank you...", Hordak mumbled and looked away from Kadroh. Kadrohs' smile seem to grow and before turning of the lights gave a small, "your welcome"
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The sound of the window opening woke him and smiled when he felt Entrapta lay next to him once more. Hordak turned his head towards her to see her in similar clothing as him, but instead she had a pink nightgown and gray sock tights. She grinned and snuggled with him under the blankets as a blush crept to her face. "You're my boyfriend now...", She whispered excitedly. He blushed and hugged her, "And you're my...'girlfriend' " They laid in each others arms and before saying, "partners is a better phrase"
They joined in a small laugh before looking at each other. Their blush had increased before Entrapta buried her face in his chest, asking " Did you really mean it when you said you love me?" Hordak sighed and brought her head with his hands and smiled, " I would never lie to you Entrapta. When I lost you I learned how truly I felt about you. I do love you Entrapta and for the rest of the foreseeable future, I will continue to love you" Entrapta held onto a squeal and buried her face in her hands.
Hordak let her calm down from her emotion and when she looked up to him, there were tears trickling down her face, but he knew they were happy tears as she couldn't stop smiling at him. "Can I... Can I kiss you Hordak?", Entrapta asked in a low whisper. His face glowed even more and it was his turn to cover his face due to his emotions and slowly nodded to her request. They faced each other once more and slowly brought their lips to each other.
They closed their eyes to the feeling of the others kiss. Taking notice of how their hearts beat, how their bodies intertwined with each other and how much they loved each other. Once they pulled apart, they just stared at the other breathlessly and only then Hordak bravely asked, "May I kiss you again?" And kiss they did. They kissed each other over and over again until finally they lulled themselves to sleep after their emotions slowed down just a bit. They held on to each other like they were going to lose the other again, leaning their foreheads against each other and slowly let the night take over them.
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Hordak dreamed of growing old with Entrapta, but when he woke bit before dawn, he had to hold on to his tears as he knew that he was most likely going to face his death and have to leave Entrapta all alone. His grip tighten just a bit on Entrapta before slipping back into a dreamless sleep.