Hey everyone! Ideas for scenes you want to see are very welcome! It might take me a while to get to some of them, but if I'm inspired, I'll write it up. I've also got a very special Yukiya one-shot series coming up that will probably be it's own separate story because it's really long and will have to be broken up into several parts! But it's going to be great!
Elias and Sabrina have graduated, grown up, and had children. Currently, Sabrina is talking to her twelve year old niece, Elyse, and nephew, Klaus Jr. (Klaus had twins)-the two are staying with their uncle and aunt while their mother and father are taking a trip to help out an old friend- and Sabrina's seven year old daughter, Nessie. Nessie was curious about what her mother and father were like when they were younger, as well as how they met (she's in that romantic phase and has been asking all the adults she's friendly with about this sort of stuff, and it occurred to her to ask her mother). Elias is sitting next to Noah (their youngest son, age five) on the couch (he's not very interested) while Sabrina is sitting on the floor, between Elias's ankles, with Nessie and Elyse sitting in front of her, while Kay, as Klaus Jr. is known, is sitting in a chair next to the couch reading and pretending he isn't listening. Let's see how this goes.
"Momma, you promised to tell stories about you and Daddy when you were younger!" Nessie was ecstatic, because she had heard from Uncle Klaus that the stories about her parents were quite amusing, especially when they were back in school.
"I did, didn't I?" Sabrina leaned her head back to look at her husband, albeit upside down. "I think I'm going to start from the beginning, those first two weeks."
"Oh my goodness, 'Rina," Elias groaned, "Those were both the best and worst weeks in my entire life. I was such an idiot back then."
She patted his knee, laughing and shaking her head, "Says the one who was at the top of the class. And the one who pretty much had to teach me magic. And the one who put up with all of my many, many blunders."
He shook his head as his wife turned back to the girls. "What should I start with…?" She thought for a moment.
"What about your first kiss?" Elyse prompted, thinking of how most girls, including herself, dreamed about her first kiss. She remembered her own mom telling her how she and dad had their first kiss when her father had pretty much attacked her out of relief because she hadn't died in an episode she'd tell her daughter when she was older. Her mother told her this while laughing.
"Pfft!" Sabrina full out laughed, "That's a fun one, but I'll get to that specific story later-it's funnier in context." Elias groaned and let his head fall back onto the couch, muttering something about Sabrina's messed up magic.
"Okay," she continued, completely disregarding her husband's angst, "I'll start with my acceptance to the academy. Oh, I was so excited. I had always dreamed about going to the school. Let me tell you-the letter was so freaking sassy! It was the younger brother of my favorite grimoire, as we found out a few weeks later." Said grimoire chuckled from the nearby table where it rested, and Sabrina went on to tell them about her adventure trying to get to the girls dorm. Two of her good friends, who she met then, had given her either poor, vague directions (Yukiya) or just entirely wrong instructions (Luca, of course, did it on purpose.) She told them of how Elias fixed the door to the boys dorm, and showed her to her room. "You wouldn't believe how rude he was! He just scolded me without even fully hearing me out! Though the face he made when our emblems lit up was, looking back, pretty dang funny." The older Elias poked her in the back of the head, making her turn it to grin at him. "Love ya!" she covered.
"You better…" he mumbled.
She turned back to the girls and continued her tale-she'd became Elias's buddy, they didn't get along, "At first, I really just did not like him. In fact, when his crazy fan club"-she had to stop and explain the three sisters with the names of flowers who were obsessed with poor Elias in a very creepy way, even up until the day him and Sabrina were married, when they finally gave up on him-"surrounded me before class one day, I was at my desk, and they were making all sorts of accusations of how I was trying to steal their idol and contaminate him and the like, I just lost my temper and told them just how rude and mean he was, and that I thought he was a complete, uppity snob. Turns out, he was right behind me with his do-you-want-to-die? smile! It scared me, though I announced I wasn't going to take it back. I still don't by the way." She informed her husband, who gave her a what-the-heck?! kind of face. "That's what I thought of you at that point. I can't change the past, nor will I attempt to. I'll assure that my thoughts are very different now, though." She grabbed his hand and kissed the wedding band on his finger, to show him how much she meant it.
She went on to tell the girls of her constant blunders and her arguments with Elias, then got to the part where he started helping her study. She moved to a specific lesson. "And one day, I messed up a spell so much. Elyse? Remember how I said I'd tell you about our first kiss? This is technically it.
"So what happened is I somehow screwed up and turned your poor father into a wild...boar. A baby wild boar." The girls burst into giggles and Kay, who had long given up on pretending not to listen, smiled and held in laughter, a trick he had picked up from his own father. "And trust me when I say I was tempted to leave him like that, if only for a moment. He was just so adorable!"
The grimoire, which had been listening in amusement from the nearby coffee table, piped up here, "Yes, she did. And she didn't have enough power to turn him back, so I told her she had to resort to the age-old spellbreaker of everything from sleeping spells to transformations."
"A kiss!" The two girls squealed.
"Yes, a kiss." She laughed. "I was so freaked out inside-my first kiss, wasted on fixing my magical mistake! I was so embarrassed! It was probably the most awkward moment of my entire life."
"I agree with that statement." Elias sighed, "Well, actually, I take that back. It the second most awkward. The first was when I was trying work up the courage to ask her to marry me when we were twenty-two. It is a lot harder than it looks, kids. A whole lot harder."
"When did you realize you were in love with her, Uncle Elias?" Elyse inquired all of a sudden.
"A little bit before that incident. I was in the middle of trying to forget about it and focus on my studies like I always had and bam! That happens." He shook his head, cheeks slightly pink at the memory.
"Wait, you were? Oh…no wonder you panicked so uncharacteristically and cancelled training the next day. I thought you were just really mad at me for screwing up so badly!" Sabrina threw her hand up towards the sky, "The world makes sense!" she shouted to the ceiling, causing the girls to giggle.
"So when did you realize you loved daddy, momma?" Nessie asked, eyes glinting with excitement.
"Not much later. Oh! I just came up with the next story to tell! Elias, remember our first date in the town on the visit day? It was so strange and then so funny when it was over!" She then proceeded to tell the children of a certain day involving a witch's prediction, a date, and a potion. Oh the giggles that resulted-along with a very embarrassed father.