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As I said, these ficlets are completely platonic, but I hope you enjoy it!

10: "You need to take a break."

Enchancian siblings fell in love with Avalor as soon as they saw it. Of course, during their first visit almost five years ago the circumstances weren't the most peaceful, and as it turned out neither were they during their last visit for princess Elena's coronation, but that didn't dampen their enthusiasm. So it wasn't a surprise when they visited again, when both kingdoms had their summer break from school.

Sofia wanted to catch up with Elena, since coronation ball wasn't exactly the right place to talk about fighting with evil. Evils. Since apparently Avalor had his own fair share of these. Amber of course wanted to use this opportunity to learn about foreign politics, since she learned that she's the heir to the throne, she used all their trips as a a lesson.

James didn't have any old friends to reconnect with and he definitely didn't want to think about learning during his vacation, so he gladly seized the opportunity when princess Isabel offered to show him her inventions. They talked a little during his previous visits and even danced together at the ball. He knew she was smart, he heard she helped to engineer the gondola system in Avalor City, but only now, when he saw her workshop he realized just how smart she is.

"Whoah..." He sighed, too impressed to say anything coherent. He turned around few times, taking in all the fantastic stuff around him. "You mean you made all of this yourself."

"Well, most of it." Isa shrugged modestly. "But you said that you're somewhat of an inventor too, I'd love to hear about your projects."

James laughed nervously, his "rolling wheely shoes" didn't really look like an invention in comparison to what Isabel was making.

"Oh I didn't really have time to invent lately, you know, training at Chivalry Hall's quite time consuming." He quickly changed the subject to hide his embarrassment. "But I'd love to see what you are working on at the moment."

"Oh, sure." Isabel led him towards a table where tons of weirdly shaped parts where assembled over a vial with water. James went around it, looking from all sides and angles.

"Oh wow, it's a... Uh..." He looked up at Isabel. "I have no idea what it is."

Isabel smiled, excited that she could tell someone about her invention again.

"See, I discovered that if you produce enough steam under high enough pressure, it's force can be used to push things. I was trying to use it to power my auto-dresser but I can't even make it work in this mechanism."

James came closer to the weird construct and spun one of the cogs thoughtfully.

"You know, I know quite a lot about wheels and air resistance and the like, from my uuuh... other project. I could maybe help you with this?" He looked at Isabel and his hopeful gaze was answered by a wide grin. That was all the answer he needed.

The next few hours were filled with metalic clangs, clings and whirring of sprockets, mixed with their exclamations along the lines of "Hey how about..." or "If we put this thing here and that thing there" and "Yes, yes! Oh no..." They were so busy working they didn't even notice that the morning turned into afternoon and afternoon turned into evening. The machine kept breaking, so they kept remodeling and rebuilding it in every possible way. They have just finished the version 7.2.5 when a sound of knocking broke through the racket.

"Come in!" Isa called out, not letting go of the cog James was just seeing down.

"See? I told you they'd be here." They both finally turned around, hearing Sofia's voice.

The younger Enchancian princess was standing in the threshold, clear amusement on her face. She definitely found this situation much more funny than Elena, who stood with crossed arms behind her.

"Oh, what brings you two here?" Isa asked, wiping her hands into a dirty rug and passing it to James.

"I don't know," Elena raised her eyebrows and Sofia tried to hide her smile. "Perhaps the fact that you missed dinner and supper."

"Wait what?" James exchanged glances with Isabel. "What time is it?"

"It's ten. P. M." When James realized just how long they have been working, he suddenly felt exhaustion and hunger hit him at the same time. "So you better go to the kitchen this instant or I'm gonna tell abuela where you are."

Isabel lingered a little at the table even when their sisters left. James stretched his back, not realizing how stiff he was from all this work. He quickly got to the door and was just about to jump down the stairs when he realized Isabel is not with him.

"You're not coming?" He asked turning around.

Isa hesitated, looking between him and their machine.

"But it's going so well!"

James, shaking his head came back to her.

"Isa you have to take a break too." He put his hands on her shoulders. "We missed two meals. You don't understand, I've never get missed an opportunity to eat in my life."

Isabel laughed, seeing his seriousness.

"Okay, okay, you're right." She finally agreed hearing her own stomach growl. "And I wouldn't want to wait and meet my abuela's wrath."

I hope it's in character, since I haven't watched StF in a long time and had to help myself with the wiki. Anyway, thank you for your request!

Prompt list #1

ughh they all imitated their dad figures AND ONLY JAMES IMITATED ROLAND... That says a lot abt this man I HATE ROLAND UHH