I wish you would write a fix where Angel is depressi (for any reason) and Fell decides to do something to cheer her up
“So this is where you’ve been hiding.”
With a start, Angel looked up from her notebook only to come face-to-face with a plate of what she assumed to be pancakes. They were a little… overdone, though. Having the plate so close left her no choice but to lean back, and raise an eyebrow at one of the last people she expected to see around this time. In all fairness, she didn’t really want to see anyone around this time, needing a little while away from the entities of chaos that were her housemates.
“I wouldn’t call it hiding, just…” Taking a break, she wanted to say, but thought better of it. “Making the most of the quiet around here.”
Fell waited for a moment, having no trouble looking her ‘alternate’ in the eyes. In the back of her mind, Angel recognised the behaviour as her own; remaining quiet to encourage the other person to keep talking, and studying them simultaneously. She made a point to hold her gaze and smile.
Whether or not Fell was satisfied with that answer, she couldn’t be sure, but the plate was nudged into her hands before she could refuse. “Siren made them,” Even without an invitation, Fell took a seat on the stone wall opposite, crossing one leg over the other and effectively blockading Angel’s exit, “She seemed excited about trying what the neighbor taught her.”
Angel flipped shut her notebook, containing various concepts and diagrams of all sorts, and set it aside while her friend spoke. Her practiced smile briefly twitched into a smirk at the mention of the neighbor - particularly the way Fell scrunched her nose at the mere thought of them. Really, none of them were quite sure what to make of their newest acquaintance; Angel thought they were nice, but she knew that not everyone in the household agreed on the matter. Fell included in those skeptical of them, of course, but she had a suspicion that that wasn’t the only thing her counterpart thought of them.
Idly, she picked at the food now situated on her lap, but after a few moments decided to direct the conversation onto a different topic instead. There was no use trying to dig about what Fell really thought of their neighbor right now. “Didn’t you have a job to do today? That man with the AC unit?” Really, she should’ve known that the lack of tools accompanying her friend was a giveaway to the answer, but if she knew anything about Fell, it was that she had a particular love for recounting the different fix-up’s she gets hired to do around town.
This time, though, the topic was shot down immediately. “Cancelled,” Her tone left no room for further discussion, and Angel resigned herself to a small nod. She leant back against the wall of the small shop she worked in, tilting her head to the side in order to observe the few people milling around the town instead. She regularly stayed on the steps outside of the shop when she needed a break, and it seems that someone had finally caught on. Her smile eventually dropped along with the conversation.
The silence dragged on, only interrupted by the waves washing over the sand not too far away, the steady murmur of townspeople, or an occasional cry of a seagull. That was, of course, until Fell decided to break it.
“You miss your home, don’t you?”
The blunt accusation was nothing short of expected from someone as straightforward as Fell, but Angel found herself shrinking away from it anyways. She had no excuse to be surprised - who better to see through her than herself, after all? Still, she only hesitated for a moment before putting on another smile once she met her alternate’s eyes.
“Is it really that obvious?” That got her a huff that she assumed to be from amused exasperation, at least. It always was so much easier to make people laugh than to face more serious matters. If one could even call homesickness a ‘serious matter’, that is. “Well, I suppose you’re right - but there’s really no reason for me to get so...” She paused, one corner of her mouth briefly twitching as she thought of the correct phrase, “To get so hung up on it. You certainly don’t need to worry, at least.”
Fell barely waited a second before she got up, proceeding to crouch down in front of her and take the abandoned notebook in her hand. She held it up and waved it idly in Angel’s face, as if presenting foolproof evidence for some kind of investigation, “Of course it’s obvious, tonta, you only sit out here when you’re upset, and you only poke holes in the pages of this things when you’re really upset,” She flicked through pages until she reached the most recent one Angel had been writing in, presenting it in all its punctured glory. Angel was usually quite particular with her work, she was aware of that, but Fell was right in pointing out that she always tore holes in the pages with her pencil whenever things got too much. Seeing the borderline ruined diagrams now made her internally cringe.
Even if she was avoiding eyecontact like a coward, she was aware that Fell was expecting her to say something. With a small grimace, she tried to take the notebook back, but was only met with resistance in the form of Fell holding her arm out behind her to keep it out of reach. Finally, she met her gaze with an incline of her head, a subtle challenge that was, in turn, shot down with a glare. It lasted only a second or two before Angel relented with a sigh.
“Wouldn’t you be a little homesick too if you had something to go back to?” She asked, and - not for the first time today - Fell’s response surprised her.
“I never said I don’t have anything to go back to, the difference is that I know we’ll all get back someday.”
It was incredibly rare that Fell of all the house’s residents gave hints to what things were like in her home universe, save for it being incredibly unpleasant on the whole. To know that, according to her, there was something worth returning to in that world, was a piece of information Angel decided to file away for later. She wasn’t given much chance to think on it either way, as Fell decided to finally give back the notebook as she stood. To replace it, she took the now cold plate of pancakes in one hand and held out the other.
“On a walk. If we’re as similar as the esqueletos say we are, then I know that exersise will help get your mind off things,” For once, Fell returned the smile Angel gave her, “And you can tell me about those new level designs for the app you and Bubbles keep rattling on about.”