71. GeminiTay. Wild Life SMP.
You're Too Sweet for Me
#71 - Too Sweet (Hozier)
Gempearl
Wild Life
"Aren't you cute?"
Gem's voice had a purr to it, warm caramel dripping from her words. She smiled as she said it, head tilted to consider Pearl up and down. Her canine chewed into her bottom lip, thinking carefully as she considered the red name before her.
Pearl was fuming, red glint to her eyes as she narrowed them at Gem. All this season she's been nothing but cruel and distant. Now she stands before her, an innocent smile on her face that draws out her dimples.
Gem tangled a finger around her own hair, humming. "I've always loved this outfit, y'know. You look so bloodthirsty."
Pearl's lip curled, showing her fangs as her ears pressed back against her head. She growled, the sound deep in her chest, and it only made Gem giggle.
"You're being nice."
"I am," Gem agreed. She clasped her hands behind her back as she took a step forward, movement like a waltz for one. She looked up at Pearl, innocence in the yellow of her eye. "Is that okay?"
Pearl's ear twitched, a betrayal to her annoyance. "Not with how you've been treating me all season."
"Oh that?" Gem shrugged, reaching up to pluck a white hair off Pearl's shoulder. White. Like Tilly's. "Well, we were green back then. Things were different. Now--"
"Now, I could kill you in an instant."
"But you won't," Gem sung. "Because I know you, Pearl. Sweet like honey, pretty as can be. You're not gonna hurt me."
It's spite that caused Pearl to pull her sword, diamond glinting in the midday sun. At once it was at Gem's throat, blade all but splitting skin. And Pearl grinned, furious and wild and undeniably red. "Is that so?"
Perhaps it was naivety, perhaps it was pride, but Gem only smiled. Her eyes flickered down to the blade then back to Pearl, expression nothing but affectionate. "Cute."
"Stop that."
"Oh, c'mon Pearly, we know how this goes." Gem stepped forward--stepped towards the blade--and Pearl withdrew ever so slightly. "You threaten me, you try to kill me, but inevitably you can't. This same dance over and over again. How predictable."
Pearl growled again. She wanted Gem dead, wanted her to suffer, to die slowly and alone knowing who she'd taunted.
But her blade sat still.
There were no words to be said, silence hanging thick between them. Gem only tsked, shaking her head.
"How pathetic."
Then she reached over the blade, tangling her fingers in Pearl's hair and pulling her down to her level.
And they kissed. They kissed with a blade between them, yellow and red combining in a burst of orange. They kissed, and Pearl lost her fury, lost her hate, lost her spite.
She was nothing but Gem's. A wolf and her master.
Gem pulled away, a breath between them, and smiled.
"My Pearl..."
And by the gods above, she was.
