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Mew Mew opened her eyes, consciousness slowly coming to her. She groggily got up from the ground, needing more than just a moment to get her bearings.

The first observation she made was that she was in a super fan’s room, who was also concerningly violent. A well-kept collection of knives was kept on a rack, and in the corner was a… dummy of sorts? It was brutally thrashed and trashed and torn to pieces.

Other than that, it was girly as girly could get. Pink paint job, tons of Mew Mew branded posters, pillows and comforters. All of them were seemingly maintained regularly, which was much more than anyone else would do typically.

A invisible girl opened the closet, the suit gloves and tights hugging her beautiful and bountiful buxom body making something very, VERY repressed deep inside of Mew Mew feel awestruck and awkward.

”MEW MEW!?”

”Hey…” the catgirl waved back awkwardly in response. “Did… Did Kris tell you about me? I was knocked cold from the thingy I did to be here… so I wasn’t really all there when they gave me to you.”

“They did,” Maddie confirmed, scratching the back of her head, gaze casted to the side. “I-I’m sorry for dismissing you earlier, it really should have been obvious you were the same Mew Mew that was in the dark world n stuff.”

”No, no, no, it's fine! Don’t blame yourself for something you couldn’t have figured out.”

“…King clearly told us that they remembered what lightners did to objects.”

”OK maybe A LITTLE obvious, but it's fine! We-We’re still friends, right?”

Maddie glanced at a certian door in her room, and suddenly an intense, invisible blush took over her face. “What? WHAT?? **WHAT???** I-I-I SHOULD BE ASKING YOU THAT! Look at this place, it makes me look like I’m some weird, obsessed stalker!”

”I mean, if a stalker looked like you I wouldn’t mind at all…”

that slip of her tongue made Mew Mew clap her hands over her mouth, and Maddie audibly gasped, confused and flattered and flustered. But before anything could leave her lips Mew Mew shouted at the irritable ghost. "I-I-I'M NOT GAY!!!"

"Yeah, you're obviously pansexual."

"MYUH!? N-NUH UH! I'M STRAIGHT AS A NOODLE!"

”oh man, I can’t believe the world famous Mew Mew has homophobia…” Maddie said in earnest disappointment to get a reaction out of her. “Looks like I have to leave all of this behind… forever… Goodbye, my oshi.”

**“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!”**

Mew Mew’s hands reached out to Maddie, as her clothes fell to the floor, her spirit forever at rest. A rictus of sorrow and agony coursed through her as she grieved on her hands and knees… for a total of 10 seconds before she decided to get up and abuse Maddie’s “absence” to peek into her closet.

As it turns out, the ghost’s commitment to the bit was stronger than the instincts screaming at her to pull Mew Mew away from her wardrobe.

She actually wasn’t quite sure why she wanted to. She was homophobic right, right? It’s not like she would sniff her- “Maddie, why do you have Kris’s sweater in your closet?”

 

…oh my god.

 

"TH-THEY GAVE IT TO ME ALRIGHT!? So, it's not weird or whatever, okay!?" A teasing smug grew on Mew Mew's face as the opportunity to get back at Maddie presented itself.

In the mist of a fit of villainous laughter, Mew Mew gave the ghost girl a knowing look. “You’re a freak like me, aren’t you?”

“NUH UH! NO PROOF! NONE AT ALL! YOU’RE **PROJECTING!!!**” In response, Mew Mew silently took a very suggestive set from its packaging, displaying it to the empty room. She did not have to say anything in order to convey her point.

”OK, LOOK! When you cannot feel anything, you uhm… obsess over the idea of… feeling anything. Especially pain.”

“Honestly, mood,” Mew Mew agreed, adding in that “When you hate yourself, being punished sometimes feels like a release from that pain… At least for me.” Maddie was really quiet for a while, before she stated how “This is the weirdest thing I have ever bonded over, honestly.”

”well, do you hate it?”

“No, but, isn’t this like… super homoerotic? I-I mean… you should only discuss this sort of stuff with… people who mean more than friends to you, right???” Mew Mew quickly interjected, a blush overtaking her face. “I-I MEAN, friends with benefits exist, so LIKE I THINK we’re still friends… right? RIGHT!?”

”Though, we did share a body… and thats a really intimate thing. Since like… you’re allowing me to have so much of your control to myself. Thats… **A LOT** of trust to give to someone you only think of as a friend, right?”

Can… can we not? I don’t think I’m ready to discuss this with you… I-I need time to think and sort my feelings out.”

“I… wait,” Mew Mew almost gasped, as ghastly hands held her shoulders. “I think I understand… You made yourself vulnerable to me, and… a part of you doesn’t want to offer your heart, since that means you would be even more exposed, right?”

Maddie patiently waited for Mew Mew, allowing her the time to collect her thoughts.

The diva realized that… she was afraid, now that she looked back on it. While Maddie was sharing her body… a part of her was holding her breath, worried about if and when she would take over. Tear away all of her autonomy as she did to a thousand others.

“Yeah, and I still do.”

”Thats a valid concern, as much as I hate to admit it,” Maddie sighed. ”I don’t think I could ever make you feel safe, since I’m a ghost… and no matter what, I’ll always will be a ghost, so I could just… yeah.”

Maddie voice became quiet and solemn as she realized that “I’ll always have the power in our relationship.”

Mew Mew was silent, her gaze casted to the floor.

Maddie tilted Mew Mew’s face upwards to meet her eye to eye. “I-I want to show you the form I’ve always wanted. Something that… I’m not fully confident in. Something I’m afraid will be something I’ll just… stop loving one day.”

”Something that makes me afraid of the possibility that… I only like this because it’s new, and not the me I knew before.”

“So please, can… can I show you the parts of me that I make disappear? The truest pieces of my soul, that I don’t have the strength to show to the world…”

”please.”

A saddened smile went across her lips. “Thank you for not saying no, Mew Mew. I hope you can see how much this secret of mine means to me with… with how I-I’m delaying it for as long as I can.”

”You’re scared,” Mew Mew duly noted. Though, instead of a swift and profuse denial, Maddie could only agree. “I am… a-and I’m sorry.”

”It’s fine. I can wait the entire night, honestly…” Maddie pinched her cheek with a barely visible hand. “No you can’t, silly. You’re really impatient, especially with love.”

”Well, let this be the one time I’m willingly taking it slow,” Mew Mew retorted softly. She walked over to the wardrobe’s lights, a sudden click causing the entire space to be swallowed by darkness. “I know you glow, but I-I hope this makes it better.“

“You idiot…” Maddie said with a pout, her words defanged and deprived of any venom. “You know I’ll be the only thing in your sight that you’ll be able to actually see, right?”

”O-OH! I uhm…” Maddie’s held Mew Mew’s hands together in her grasp, her utterly embarrassed expression erased by the umbra. “Don’t be sorry. If anything, I-It means that… I can’t hide my true colors… my true light from you.”

Maddie took in several deep breaths, knowing that she’ll never be ready for what’ll happen next. In a burst of courage, Maddie told Mew Mew that ”I’ll show you just who *I really am.*”

And then, the closet was blinded by golden light.



DELTARUNE PINK CHAPTER 6 DEMO