The Other Smurfette/Part 7

Tapper and Duncan gathered around Empath after the court case had ended. "Consmurfulations, laddie," Duncan said, shaking Empath's hand. "You've just beaten that evil witch at her game."

"This smurf doesn't feel like this smurf has beaten anyone, Duncan," Empath said. "That Attorney Smurf just came out of nowhere and won the case for us."

"If that Attorney Smurf is who I'm thinking him to be, Empath, it means that the Almighty is smurfing out for you," Tapper said.

Empath saw Smurfette standing by herself, crying her eyes out in deep sorrow. "Excuse this smurf for a moment, my friends," he said as he went over to see Smurfette. "Smurfette, are you all right?" he asked gently. "What's wrong?"

"I feel so shameful of what I smurfed to you, Empath," Smurfette said, whimpering. "I was thinking the worst of you when you smurfed out of Tapper's Tavern last night with that Wonderette, and then she smurfed home and told me that you forced yourself on her, and now I find out that she's not even a real Smurf, but Hogatha in disguise. She used me to hate you, and I smurfed right along with it because I hated what I thought you would smurf out to be. I'm so sorry. I wouldn't blame you if you hated me for it now."

"Smurfette, what you did to this smurf may have hurt this smurf, but it wouldn't make this smurf hate you at all," Empath said, putting his arms around Smurfette to comfort her. "We were all used by Hogatha, made to believe that she was something she really wasn't, and she tried to use that against us to destroy us. If anything, this smurf is grateful that we are still looking out for each other."

"If only I have known what Wonderette really was on the inside before she smurfed what she did to you that night," Smurfette said.

"Now we know, and now that she's exposed for what she really is, she can't hurt us like that anymore, Smurfette," Empath said.

"So you're still in love with me, as the only Smurfette you have in your life?" Smurfette asked.

"This smurf is still truly, madly, and deeply in love with you, Smurfette," Empath answered, standing there with Smurfette and holding her closely to soothe the pain away. - Soon the Smurf Village Voice published a special edition of the newspaper with the headline reading WONDERETTE EXPOSED. Even though most of the Smurfs were there when the exposure of her true identity took place, they nonetheless snatched up as many copies as they could of that day's edition until they were all gone.

"Sacre bleu, I can't believe it!" Painter said. "That mademoiselle is actually a femme fatale."

"I'd say," Poet said. "I can't believe that I even found her that attractive in the first place."

"Well, if you ask me, I didn't think she was that attractive to begin with, at least compared to me," Vanity said.

"Gosh, Brainy, who would've thought that that Wonderette was actually an ugly old witch?" Clumsy said.

"I knew it all along that there was something strange about that would-be female Smurf, Clumsy," Brainy said.

"I hate that Wonderette," Grouchy said.

Empath, Smurfette, and the Smurflings looked at their fellow Smurfs all reading the daily newspaper and discussing the hot topic of the day. "Breathing bloodhounds, Smurfette, what made us think that Wonderette was even a nice female Smurf to be around, if she was actually an evil witch?" Sassette said.

"Yeah, even if she was really attractive," Slouchy said.

"Well, even if Wonderette really was a witch, I still would have wanted to smurf out with her if I was old enough for her," Snappy said.

"You can thank Mother Nature that you're not, Snap," Nat said.

"I guess that every Smurf in the village is sorry that they ever have met Wonderette in the first place, Empath," Smurfette said.

"That's what this smurf is sensing, Smurfette," Empath said. "But this smurf has a feeling that they will get over their disappointment and be satisfied with what they have now with them."

"I still can't help feeling sorry for them, that I'm the only female Smurf that they will ever have in their lives," Smurfette said.

"But at least you'll always be there for them, and you'll always be thinking of them, even when the other Smurfettes with their beauty and charm become passing memories for them," Empath said.

"And we'll always have each other, when all the other Smurfs in our lives become memories for us, Empath," Smurfette said as she looked into his face.

Empath also looked into hers. "There's just no other Smurfette like you, Smurfette."

To be expanded on.