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Hecatia Lapislazuli awoke suddenly in the middle of the night only to find herself cold and alone in bed, the covers pushed over to her side of the bed and the bedroom door slightly ajar, a slight draft and ray of light bleeding into the room. As she looked over to her right and saw the bed empty, it didn’t take her long to figure out what was going on. Quickly picking up an old T-shirt and dress from the ground and throwing them onto herself, she left the bedroom and began to walk through the halls of her mansion in hell towards the garden, where she knew she would be in the dead of night.
Silently, she made her way through the lavish halls, sliding down the handrail of the stairs before coming to a stop on the ground floor and continued to silently walk towards the back. Approaching the sliding glass doors of the garden, a blistering heat washed over her as she began to sweat. A blinding, purple light shone through the glass doors into her face, and it was at that moment she knew something was wrong, very wrong. Junko was not okay, not one bit.
She took a step back to regain her breath after taking the sweltering heat emanating from the bright lights of Junko’s tails head on, she was used to it by now, but it never got any easier. She had a good idea of why she might be feeling why she is on this day specifically, ever since her son died and she became who she is today she had never bothered keeping track of any dates besides that, as no other date mattered to her anymore. But today was not that day. Hecatia remembered that it was 10 years ago to this day that those four people from Gensokyo stopped one of her plans for revenge against Chang’e, her plans have been stopped many times in the past, but none quite hurt her as much as this one failing, as it was the first one in which her and Hecatia had worked together on.
Knowing this, Hecatia took a deep breath and walked back towards the sliding glass doors of the garden, opening it up as she saw Junko, standing perfectly still save for the swaying of her hair and tails in the wind, with her head raised up, focused on the moon directly above her. Hecatia watched as she stood in silence, the only noise being the crackling of her flaming tails and her deep, heavy breaths in through her nose and out through her mouth.
After a quick knock on the wall behind her to get Junko’s attention, Hecatia smiled slightly as she saw her ears rise above her crown briefly, before lowering back down slowly as the flames of her tails dimmed ever so slightly. Junko knew who it was without even looking back to see her, Clownpiece and Reisen know better than to disturb her while she is alone, so it left only one person who it could be, the person who she know when she was around she had nothing to worry about, her beloved goddess of hell.
Pulling out a small step ladder used for trimming hedges, Hecatia made her way over to the back of Junko, placing the step ladder down at her feet and stepping onto it before resting her head on her broad shoulders and wrapping her arms around her body, pulling the larger woman closer to her as she held onto her tightly. Junko knew why Hecatia was here, they both knew what the date is and why this matters so much to her. Surrendering herself to her embrace, Junko let out a long, deep breath, and lowered her head, turning away from the moon for the first time tonight. She rested her head onto Hecatia’s as her tails dimmed down, going darker and smaller until they were gone, and all that was left was her robes. No words needed to be said, the two women knew exactly what the other one was thinking in that exact moment.
As Hecatia felt her tails go darker and smaller, until they were no more, she leaped off of the step ladder and grabbed Junko’s hand in hers as they both walked back inside together, through the sliding glass doors, up the stairs, quietly past the rooms of their sleeping daughters, until finally reaching their own bedroom. Closing the door behind her, Hecatia began to strip her clothing off as Junko did the same until they were both stripped bare. Her face just couldn’t help but flush red slightly as she watched Junko collapse back into bed naked, she immediately threw herself onto Junko’s body and held onto her closely, pulling the covers over them both as she wrapped her body around hers and drifted off to sleep in her arms.
Yet Junko couldn’t sleep, not yet. She lay in bed with her eyes closed and reflected, thinking about her past and what dates mattered to her, but more importantly, what dates mattered to Hecatia. Wrapping an arm around her body, she pulled her closer and thought about the times they had shared together, the important dates what led her to where she is today and what made her the woman she is. Thinking back to the incredible times she had spent with Hecatia over the past 10 years, she smiled, before slowly drifting off to sleep herself, with her treasured Hecatia in her arms.
It may have been 10 years since her and Hecatia first worked on a plan to take revenge on Chang’e together, but it wasn’t the only date she would be keeping track of from now on, as it was only a week before she would move into hell properly with Hecatia and Clownpiece. A month after today, it would be the date her and Hecatia took in the former moon rabbit now known as Reisen Udongein Lapislazuli, and not too long after that, it will be the date where her own name would change as well…
It will be 10 years since she would be known from now on as Mrs. Junko Lapislazuli.