“Maybe, but still…” Clover lamented as she hung her head low. “Because of a fairy I lost everything. I lost you.”
“It’s horrible to be alone,” Zoey empathized, lifting Clover’s chin up to her. “You know that pain well, don’t you?”
“Every day… it hurts so much not having you here with me.”
“Then quit it,” Zoey ordered with a smirk. Clover showed a puzzled look as Zoey giggled and shook her head. “Quit being alone. The only one causing that is you.”
“What do you mean?”
“Don’t give me that,” Zoey laughed. “Ever since I left there’s been an unbreakable wall set around your heart. You always had a rough persona and could come off as mean to some, but I know that there’s a sweet, innocent girl in you. I met her myself after all, so don’t you go trying to deny it. You need to open up again. If you don’t want to be alone then let others into your life.”
“I’m not letting anyone else in here,” Clover promised, holding a hand over her heart with a troubled frown. “It nearly killed me inside when I lost you. I can’t go through that again. I can’t lose anyone else important to me, I just couldn’t survive if that happened.”
“Clover, you really are stubborn sometimes,” Zoey sighed with an amused smile.
“I’m not letting anyone else in. My heart will now and forever be yours and yours only. I’m never going to love anyone else ever again.”
“Fuck that,” Zoey argued, catching Clover by surprise as the elf walked up and grabbed her shoulders. “Clover, I’m dead. You’re not. I want you to live, I want you to be happy, and I don’t want you to become some fucking bitch to the world all because you’re afraid of losing someone else. I love you, so much, and that will never change. Love me all you want, know that I’ll always be your elf, Clover, but please don’t shut out the world all because I’m gone now.”
“Zoey, I can’t-”
“Move on?” Zoey finished knowingly. “You have to otherwise you’re going to waste the life you have. You were so lucky to survive that day, to have a chance to live on, and I’m thankful you did. Please, understand that what happened then wasn’t your fault. I’m as much to blame as anyone; I only wanted to see the good in that fairy, to know that she wasn’t just some horrible demon. And I was right, she wasn’t, and still isn’t. She was only afraid, alone, and heartbroken.”
“She took you from me.”
“No, she didn’t. I took myself away from you,” Zoey confessed with remorse. “I’m sorry, I really am. I just couldn’t stand for her to be alone like she was, to be so sad in life. I wanted to make her happy. She was like me.”
“Like you?”
“Remember how we met?” Zoey asked softly.
“Yeah, you shot me,” Clover dryly remarked with a dull smile.
“The only elf to miss a target during practice by, oh, thirty feet,” Zoey sulked with a sigh. “I was the laughing stock of our people. And to make it worse I shot the lead huntress right in her ass in front of so many of our sisters.”
“You were off by more than thirty feet,” Clover mentioned with a raised eyebrow.
“Yeah, we get it, I suck at archery,” Zoey remarked with a shrug. “I still think the wind carried my arrow like that, I don’t know how else it could have curved that much with its flight.”
“I remember that day. At first I wanted to kill you for what you did, or at least string you up by your hair and use you for target practice.”
“But you didn’t,” Zoey gratefully said. “You took pity on me with how horrible I was. You were the only one to be so kind to me. I had nobody in our grove before I met you. I had no friends, no mother, nobody. The first friend I made was one who I shot with my arrow, the lead huntress of our grove no less. You took me under your wing, taught me to use my bow properly, and scared off all the bullies that kept picking on me. Clover, you weren’t my slave, I was yours.”
“I preferred it when I was yours,” Clover mused with a coy smile.
“You saw the good in me, even though I had a horrible reputation,” Zoey explained, with Clover showing remorse as her partner had a saddened smile now. “Tell me, how was I different than that fairy?”
“You shot me in the ass, she blew up everybody,” Clover answered with a small shrug. “You’re the less painful monster here.”
“Clover, you know what I’m saying.”
“I don’t want to know what you’re saying,” Clover pouted.
“Well you do. And you saw it yourself, you must have seen how sad that fairy was for so long. Even with us being friendly with her she still yearned for a family, for love. It wasn’t her fault what happened, it was ours. We could have done more for her.”
“Zoey, she… I…” Clover started, then fell silent and lowered her head as she thought about those words.
“It’s alright,” Zoey assured, resting a hand on her shoulder. “Clover, you made my life heaven when we were together. I can never thank you enough for all you did, and for putting up with me when I had to have been a real pain in your ass.”
“From start to finish,” Clover softly quipped with a small smile at her.
“But I don’t want to be the cause of you being alone for the rest of your life,” Zoey continued with concern. “Please, try to move on and find someone else. Be happy, Clover.”
“I can’t do that, I can’t love anyone but you,” Clover insisted shaking her head.
“Clover, I don’t want you sealing away your heart like this. You’re never going to be happy in life if you keep pushing everyone away from you.”
“Fuck them and fuck the world, I only want you. I only need you, Zoey.”
Zoey sighed then pulled Clover into a kiss, the two holding each other close while the forest around them remained peaceful under the moonlight. After the kiss ended Zoey smirked then grabbed and yanked back on Clover’s hair, holding her tightly with one arm around her waist while keeping her head pulled back with a surprised gasp.
“Alright, we’ll do this your way,” Zoey cooed before pulling Clover down some to gaze downward at her stunned face. “Since appealing to you as your lover does nothing to melt the ice around your heart, how about your mistress just breaks that hindrance instead?”
“Zoey?” Clover gasped before she was spanked hard by her partner.
“That’s mistress to you, right?” Zoey snapped before slapping Clover’s rear again. The elf screamed and squirmed about in her hold before nodding with a timid expression. “That’s who needs to talk some sense into you, isn’t it? You need your mistress’s lessons again, don’t you?”
“I… um… maybe?” Clover breathed out while feeling her legs wobbling beneath her.
“Yes you do,” Zoey lectured before spanking her again, causing Clover to squeal and wiggle her rear from the feeling. “Now you listen and you listen well, my dear Clover. You’re going to do exactly as I say, and I will not hear a single complaint out of you, is that clear?”
“Y-Yes…”
“Yes what?” Zoey demanded while yanking back on Clover’s hair.
“Yes, mistress!” Clover cried out.
“Good girl,” Zoey cooed while nudging Clover’s nose with her own. “Now, first thing’s first. You will not continue to hold such a harsh grudge against fairies. They are not horrible monsters, they are frightened and lonely creatures who need to be nurtured and cared for, understand?”
“Yes, mistress. I understand.”
“Secondly, you are not going to keep your heart locked away from the world. You will find another to love and who will love you, you will find happiness again, I promise that. So no more pushing everyone away from you, it’s time for the Clover I love and hold dear to come out again.”
“How am I going to do that?” Clover innocently asked.
“When you awaken you’re going to be surrounded by those who do care about you,” Zoey explained while gently rubbing Clover’s rear, getting an aroused murmur out of the elf who continu
ed to watch her with longing eyes. “They’ve tolerated your foul behavior and have shown you such kindness. And now you’re going to open up to them. When you wake up I want you to kiss the first person you lay eyes on.”
“What?” Clover gasped before Zoey held her head and gazed deeply into her eyes.
“Kiss them, like you would with me. Whether it leads to love or not, I want you to come out of that shell you’ve put around yourself and take a chance at life. Kiss them, Clover, with everything you have, and see if you could possibly feel anything for another again.”
“Do I have to?”
“I order you to.”
“That’s not fair,” Clover whined. “You know I can’t say no to you.”
“I know, it’s so cute actually,” Zoey mused with a curious smile.
“But I don’t want to kiss any of them.”
“Do it,” Zoey sternly ordered with a grin. “Big kiss, use tongue, and if you like a little light nibbling of their lip at the end go for it. Time for you to feel alive again, Clover. Whoever it may be that makes you happy in life, please open up to them. If not because it’s for your own good, then for me.”
“Alright, I’ll do it. For you.”
“No,” Zoey corrected with a gentle smile and a shake of her head. “For you, Clover.”
Slowly she let go and began backing up, the world fading to white around them as Clover started crying and shaking her head as Zoey moved away from her. She tried to follow her partner but her body suddenly felt heavier, a few steps seeming to be all she could do while she got a strange sense that she was actually off-balance on the level ground.
“Wait, don’t go!” she pleaded, reaching out for her friend who blew her a kiss and waved while slowly backing up into the light.
“I love you, Clover. Be happy, and kick ass at life for both of us.”
“Please! Zoey!”
“Goodbye, my love,” Zoey gently called out before vanishing into the blinding light that slowly engulfed the world around Clover. Everything started fading away as Clover made a desperate attempt to chase after her partner.
“Don’t leave me!”
Everything flashed to white then instantly fell into darkness, with Clover feeling her body tumbling about in the unseen as she screamed from losing sight of her fallen love. With a sudden jolt she hit the ground, feeling no pain from the fall but rather the heartache of Zoey’s final words to her.
“I LOVE YOU!” she screamed out with all her might, praying Zoey would hear them somehow.
“Clover?” Daniel’s voice softly asked.
The elf jumped with a startle as she awoke from her dream then saw Daniel’s surprised face watching her as she lied atop him on the floor. After a long pause her mind finally clicked that she was awake, her eyes staring at Daniel in awe as she slowly sat up on his lap while he remained frozen on the ground. Slowly she looked around and saw everybody in the cabin watching her with surprise while thunder echoed outside from the storm.
“She did not just say that,” Triska said while shaking her head in disbelief.
“Oh hell no, no no no no,” Specca fretted.
“Going to have to kill her now. What a shame,” Alyssa muttered with a dull stare at the elf.
“Is she going to join Daniel’s harem too?” Luna curiously asked with a growing smile.
“Hell would freeze over first,” Falla growled through gritted teeth.
Squeak nodded in agreement to that while watching the elf with obvious discontent from her declaration.
“Daniel, you must stop being so desirable to others,” Kroanette worried while holding a hand to her cheek.
“Are you okay now, Clover?” Doku asked softly.
“She’s naked, I see her boobies!” Cilia giggled while pointing to the elf.
“Hee hee, boobies!” Pip cheered as she did the same.
Clover blinked then looked down to see that she was completely nude while straddling Daniel, her long blonde hair resting down her back while she trembled a bit in shock at realizing she had no clothes on. She then growled furiously at Daniel whose expression shifted from confused to scared as the fiery elf gripped his chest painfully tight with both hands while baring her teeth in her rage.
“What the fuck?” Clover yelled out. “Just because you fuck those other girls whenever you want you think you can have your way with me anytime as well? You think I’m your bitch too? Is that it? What the hell were you doing with me while I was sleeping?”
“Nothing!” Daniel cried out with genuine fear for his life. “I wasn’t doing anything with you, I swear!”
“Why the fuck am I naked then?”
“Your clothes were all wet from the rain,” Luna mentioned pointing over to the wardrobe. “We had to get you out of them before you caught a bad cold.”
“They why the fuck am I naked on the floor with you?” Clover shouted while getting her furious face close to Daniel’s.
“You were having a nightmare, you just jumped out of bed and-” Daniel started before Clover hopped onto her knee next to his waist and brought back the other to bash down on Daniel’s crotch.
“I’m not your bitch too!” Clover yelled before thrusting her knee towards his privates. Before hitting she stopped and froze in place, staring at Daniel with wonder as he shut his eyes and prayed for the angels above to save him. All the girls watched Clover with surprise as she at first tried to strike Daniel in the crotch like she always did, but only to stop right before doing so and remain silent. After a long pause Daniel slowly opened his eyes a peek to see Clover just staring at him with a curious expression on her face.
“C-Clover?” he shakily asked.
“Oh my, please don’t hurt him like that,” Doku pleaded with a worried frown.
“If you hit Daniel down there again I swear you’re going to be sorry,” Alyssa growled with ire.
“There is nothing you could possibly do that would incite more anger with us,” Specca scolded.
Clover slowly rested her knee back down on the floor while keeping herself above Daniel, her eyes going over his face and chest for a moment before she closed them and took a shaky breath. She then looked at Daniel with the gentlest expression he had ever seen on her as she leaned closer to his face. Without a word she then kissed him deeply, with all the girls and himself watching in shock as the elf wrapped her arms around his neck and pressed her body close to his.
“Except that!” Triska yelled as she pointed to them.
“What the hell is she doing?” Kroanette cried out.
“She’s kissing him,” Luna told her. “You didn’t know what that was?”
“I think she means why the hell is Clover kissing Daniel?” Falla shouted at her.
Daniel stared at Clover with wide eyes as he felt the elf kissing him with incredible passion, her tongue rolling around his while a gentle sigh came from her mouth. She hugged close to his body, her hair draped over them like a golden blanket as she kissed Daniel with all her might. After the long kiss finally ended Clover leaned back with a gasp for air, her eyes deeply gazing down at Daniel as he remained stunned from the elf’s sudden gesture.
Silence filled the cabin as all eyes were on Clover, the elf slowly licking her lips before she sat upright on Daniel’s lap and just stared at him with a look of wonder on her face. She opened her mouth to speak, hesitated, lowered her head in thought as she seemed to be considering what to say, and then watched Daniel curiously with a raised eyebrow.
“So… how was that?” she softly asked.
“How… was what?”
“The kiss,” Clover clarified with a sharp eye. “How was it?”
“Um…” Daniel slowly said, with Clover narrowing her eyes at him while waiting for the answer. He looked over to the other girls who turned to him for his response then back to Clover as her lips flinched in her scowl.
“Well?” she impatiently asked. “I fucking opened up to you and gave you the best kiss I could. Was that alright for you or
not?”
“You… um… well… it was…” Daniel stuttered, looking back and forth between the elf who was growling at him between her teeth and the other girls who waited to hear what his answer would be. After thinking hard about his options and realizing he was trapped with the question he turned to Clover with a weak smile and chuckled lightly.
“It was… nice?”
“Are you asking me or telling me? Be a fucking man and just answer the question!”
“It was good! I mean it wasn’t like a kiss from my mates, but it wasn’t a kiss from a total stranger, although you and I don’t really know each other that well, but… um… it was okay, I mean that’s good, right? Right?”
“Just good?” Clover yelled out at him. She promptly hopped onto her knee and bashed her other one down between his legs, striking him hard in his crotch with him crying out in a high-pitched wail while the other girls jumped in surprise.
“You bastard!” Clover shouted before bashing him again. “I poured my heart out into that kiss! Goddammit! You’re such a jerk!”
“I’m sorry!” Daniel squeaked out with his face turning red.
“Daniel!” Triska cried out grabbing her hair.
“Oh my,” Doku fretted while covering her face with her wings.
Clover snarled and got off Daniel who promptly rolled onto his side with hands held down between his legs and tears dripping from his tightly shut eyes. The other girls rushed over to him as Clover backed up and looked away with a frustrated grunt, crossing her arms and trying to fight off her blush while the girls gathered close to the incapacitated boy.
“Daniel, say something!” Specca pleaded as she quickly held his head on her lap and tenderly caressed his head.
“I’m… alright,” he breathed out while trying to force a smile, which did nothing to hide the pain he was feeling from the mighty blows he suffered.
“Daniel, please be okay!” Pip wailed as she clung to his chest.
“He doesn’t look too good,” Cilia mentioned shaking her head. “I think Clover popped him.”
The other girls gently touched and rubbed his arms and legs while watching with remorse as Daniel tried to catch his breath and stop crying in front of so many girls. They then turned to Clover as the elf looked around the cabin with a raised eyebrow and noticed the poor condition it was in.
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