Epilogue:

Catra raises an eye as she hears a loud crash as she grabs an apple flying from the dropped lunch tray. She's none too surprised to see Adora already by Glimmer's side helping the girl up. "Glimmer are you ok?" The blond girl quickly kneels beside Glimmer helping her up.

For her part Glimmer is a mix of embarrassed and annoyed. "Adora I'm fine! It was just a little trip."

Mostly ignoring the girl's frustration Adora helps Glimmer up and grabs a towel to help clean the spilled food off of her. "Still I should have helped carry your food. You are still recovering."

Through Adora's worrying she misses the way Glimmer's eye twitches.

"Are you feeling tired? If you want we can take the food to your bed?"

Glimmer exhales sharply.

"Or maybe you should go rest more, you don't want to over exert yourself."

Glimmer clenches her fist and Catra decides to intervene before she has to watch Adora get punched. "Relax Adora. Glimmer's fine. The queen said as much and if watching you hover around her is starting to annoy me I'm sure Glimmer is tired of it."

"Thank you!" Glimmer takes a seat at the table crossing her arms ."Listen to your girlfriend Adora. Mom said that all I needed was time to rest under the crystal. I'll be back to one hundred percent in just a few days."

"But-" Adora bites back the words noticing Catra's expression before sighing. "Alright I get it. But you will let me know if you need anything right?"

Glimmer can't help but to relent at the girl's earnest expression. "You'll be the first person to know I promise." She gives Adora a pat on the shoulder and a smile before sitting down placing her now empty tray in front of her. Grinning Catra places the caught apple in the center of it. "Thanks Catra, I'll just get more later."

Still grinning Catra stands up. "No need princess, just take Adora's food we're leaving anyway."

Adora looks up confused. "Where are we going? I'm pretty sure we don't have anything else to do for at least a few hours?"

Catra smirks as she takes Adora's hand, "I can think of one thing for you to do."

Glimmer Audibly groans as Adora slowly stands up confused. "I'm pretty sure I didn't forget anythin-" Adora is cut off as Catra tugs on her hand pulling them more inches apart. She looks into Catra's mismatched eyes and gasps. "O-oh right, that."

While already eating Adora's food Glimmer remarks. "We get it already, now can you two please get a room?"

Catra laughs as she leads Adora by the hand into the hallway. "That's the plan, princess!"

"That's amazing!"

"Isn't science always amazing!"

Adora walks around the corner of the dimly lit room to see Bow and Entrapta excitedly standing over a small glowing piece of technology. "There you guys are." She moves a little closer to look at their project. To her it looks like a glowing cube with some wiry technological parts sticking out of it. "Oh that's a really cool…lamp?"

Bow pats her on the shoulder. "It's much cooler than a lamp. Entrapta?"

The purple haired princess claps her hands together before snatching the cube off of the table. "Oh this is perfect, time for a live test!" She bolts to another table in the room where a disassembled Horde rifle lays with some wires poking out of it.

Bow takes a step away from Adora pointing at her sword. "You might want to use that."

Confused and alarmed, Adora puts a hand on the blade, "Wait why would I-" small lights on the rifle light up and Adora jerks the sword of protection in front of her on reflex. With a deafening bang the rifle explodes leaving only a twisted heap of metal and fried wires in its place. Adora blinks, only lowering the sword after a few seconds of silence. "Uh, was that supposed to happen?"

"No." Bow sighs as he walks over to the now scrap metal. "Entrapta and I have been experimenting with First One's tech to try and automate some defences for the border. Entrapta came up with a way to try and store the magic of forest as a battery."

Adora takes another look at the blasted heap of metal on the desk. "I'm guessing it's not going well?"

Before Bow can answer Entrapta pops in between them with an excited smile on her face. "Well? It's going great!" Entapta gestures wildly towards the site of the explosion. "The prototype battery held enough power to blast apart a rifle made of Horde steel, with that kind of power storage we could create automated turrets and defenses that would be functioning for weeks! Or I suppose bombs if we're feeling lazy. And that's only the prototype! If we can get enough copper wire to-"

Adora can feel her eyes glaze over as Entrapta launches into an entire techno babble lecture. Bow interrupts with a question causing Entapta to launch into another lengthy monologue. Slowly Adora steps back towards the door, "Yep defenses sound good, I'll just leave it to you then." And she quickly makes her escape before she can get dragged into an electronics lesson.

"C'mon, you're almost there." Ahead Catra opens the door to Glimmer's room, Adora starts to nod in thanks but has to shift to support Glimmer as the girl stumbles again.

"Sorry Adora... I'm just so… tired." Glimmer yawns between every few words, eyes drooping as she fights to stay awake for just a few more steps. "It just...hit me... all at once."

Gently Adora smiles down at Glimmer as she half pulls the Glimmer into her own room. "It's ok, Glimmer. You're still recovering, don't worry your mom said you'll be better in no time, you just need rest."

Still outside Catra closes the door behind Adora and Glimmer turning towards the new set of footsteps approaching. Mermista walks towards her raising one hand in a lazy wave. "Hey Catra. Is Glimmer around?"

Shaking her head Catra pushes off of the wall towards the Salinean princess. "You just missed her. Adora's putting her down for bed now. Better luck tomorrow."

Confused Mermisa looks out the nearby window. "Uh, bed? It's like, two thirty, and is Adora her mom now or something?"

"Adora seems to think so." Catra smirks at the thought. "Oh yeah I guess you haven't been around. Glimmer is still recovering from our fight in the Fright Zone. She's been sleeping through most days. Today she managed to stay up for.." Catra glances out the window at the sun. "Eh, about 4 hours? So it's progress."

Before Mermista can reply the door behind them opens and Adora quietly steps out closing the door behind her. She looks up surprised to see someone other than Catra in the hall. "Mermista? What are you doing here?"

"Wow, I feel soooo welcomed." The water princess rolls her eyes while smiling at Adora. "Maybe I haven't heard from you guys since the battle ended so I came to make sure you weren't all dead? You're welcome by the way."

Catra rolls her eyes, at Mermista's response. "Gee… Thanks."

"Your welcome." Mermista flips some hair over her shoulder. "So how have things been around here? I saw a bunch of those, robot-gun-thingies on the way here."

Adora nods, "Oh, the turrets? Well at least they're supposed to be. Bow and Entrapta have been working on some automated defenses. After last time we've decided not to rely solely on the magic forest for our defences."

"And we're going to be the first of these idiot kingdoms to have an actual wall to defend us." Catra crosses her arms in annoyance. "Feel free to take notes."

Grinning Mermista, places her hand on her hip. "Maybe some of us are tough enough not to need walls?"

"What about the Sea Ga-"

Adora is silenced by Catra placing a hand on her mouth. "Correct me if I'm wrong Adora, but does this princess think she's half as tough as I am?"

"Catra I don't think that-"

"Half?" Mermista laughs. "I admit that you can fight Cat girl, but you've never fought me." The Salenian princess smirks placing a hand on her trident.

Catra's eyes light up in excitement but before she gets too carried away she looks over to Adora, who smiles back at her. "Go ahead. She's tougher than the other princesses so you don't need to play too nice. Just don't tell Bow, you know how he is."

"You aren't going to come watch?" Catra's ears flatten slightly in confusion.

"I would but I promised Entrapta I'd help her test her targeting thing. She needs someone who can get shot at and not die." Smiling Adora leans in and kisses Catra on the cheek. "But i'm happy to switch if you want to dodge bullets instead."

Laughing Catra pulls back and starts walking down the hall with Mermista. "Not a chance. I'll see you tonight then." She says winking at Adora.

Mermista fakes a gag, "Ugh, Can you guys stop being cute for like ten seconds?"

Opening the door to their room Adora smiles, seeing Catra already laying across the bed using a knife to sharpen her claws. "So how did the fight go?"

Catra smirks up at Adora while making room on the bed. "How do you think it went?"

With a relaxing sigh Adora eases onto the bed putting an arm around Catra who is already pressed against her side. "Hmmm, I haven't heard about Salineas declaring war on us yet. You held back?"

The cat girls grin widens as she holds two of her claws an inch apart. "Only a little. She's actually pretty tough. For a princess of course."

Grinning Adora reaches over to the sword that lay against their nightstand while simultaneously rolling over on top of Catra. She grins at Catra, "I think I know one princess that you don't have to go easy on." Catra is trapped looking into Adora's blue eyes. Adora whispers, "For the honor of Grayskull"

The bed shifts as Catra can feel the weight of She-Ra, of Adora pressing down on her. Slowly Catra reaches up and places a hand on She-Ra's cheek. With her eyes half lidded, Catra practically purrs. "Heeey, Adora."

Authors Note:

Hello, before I say anything else I just want to thank all of you for reading! Writing this story was a blast for me. So much so that I came back and made this epilogue, to put a nice bow on things.

That being said, I've gotten a few people asking if I plan on continuing this story in a similar manner for the later seasons, so I want to make clear that I have no intention of continuing this story beyond this point, I consider it finished.

My goal in writing this was always to mirror the first season with just the idea that Adora would have at least tried to bring Catra to brightmoon with her. Mostly because when I re-watched Season 1 it really bothered me how Adora cared so much for her friends but it seemed like she completely forgot about Catra for like 3 episodes. Just to clarify I don't think the direction the show went was bad in any way, I only write fanfiction about stories I love, this direction just personally interested me more and fanfiction is my way of exploring those ideas.

So yea, that's pretty much all I had to say. Just to wrap up tldr style.

I enjoyed writing this, I hope you enjoyed reading this, but like all roads this has come to an end,

Good bye!