A/N: Okay, so this is my 2nd fanfiction. Yeah! I wrote this for cutiereader968's 'A New Fairytale' challenge. Puckabrina fans, or just Puck fans in general, will thank me in the end (I hope). So read on!
Sabrina POV
"Ready for sword practice, Grimm?" My absolute least favorite person in the world walked up to me (well, one of them anyway) with his normal mischievous smirk. His green eyes sparkled, matching the mischief in his smile.
I snorted. "It's not practice as much as a game of 'Sabrina wins constantly' when I'm fighting against you, .fairy-boy. Your wooden sword doesn't do much against my metal one."
Puck shrugged. "Well it's just that, you know with the curse thing and stuff-" he cut off abruptly, as if he had been saying something he shouldn't have been.
I straightened. "Curse? What are you talking about, Puck? I've got a curse on me?"
He shuffled and looked down at his feet muttering something. Then I got what was going on.
"Oh," I said, wanting to smack myself for being an idliot. "You're just trying to distract me so I'll lose when we fight. Well, it's not going to work. You have your puny wooden sword and I have a real one. I'm definitely going to win."
He straightened and his mischievous smirk turned into a predatory grin. "Fine, Grimm, if that's how you want to play it, I'll use what you called a "real" sword." His pink streaked wings popped out of his back and he flew off to the armory. He returned a minute later, his wooden sword gone, a metal broadsword with a ruby in it's hilt taking it's place. Maybe it hadn't been such a good idea to taunt him….
Puck advanced quickly and took a swing at my head. I ducked and took a jab at his midsection, which he had to jump back to parry. I slashed at his arm, but missed. He laughed and began advancing. I spotted movement coming from behind him and focused on it, seeing Daphne running towards us with a panicked expression on her face. I dropped my sword without thinking and held my hands in front of me in a stop motion.
But I hadn't noticed that Puck had already taken a swing. He tried to stop it and had only part success, stopping it just as the point touched the middle of my left pointer finger. I we both watched as a small crimson droplet of blood welled up around the bright silver metal. That was the last thing as saw before blackness fell over my eyes. The last thing I heard before the darkness could cover my ears was Puck, saying softly what might have been "I'm sorry."
Puck POV
I saw Sabrina (I had long since given up on calling her Grimm inside the privacy of my own mind) begin to fall and dropped my sword, rushing to catch her. I managed to and set her gently on the ground. Marshmallow ran up.
"Puck? What happened? I was just coming over to tell you something awesome and then you hit her or something and she fainted, like she is now. Why did she faint? It only looked like a little prick and it's not like Sabrina hasn't seen blood before. It's weird, I thought-" she babbled, so fast I had a hard time picking words out of the chipmunk chatter.
"Marshmallow, I need you to get everyone. Something has happened to Sabrina and I need to tell them about it." I said, surprising myself at how sharp my voice sounded.
She must have heard it too, because she said "Okay, I'll be back in a jiffy." (AN: hehe, jiffy. I love that word, and I never use it, but it sounds like something Daphne would say.)
True to her word, Daphne was back shortly after with the whole crew: Granny Relda, Henry and Veronica, Jake and Briar Rose, Mr. Canis and Red, along with Charming and Snow White. They saw me sitting next to an unconscious Sabrina and began asking questions a million miles an hour. But the person who's voice cut through the noise was Henry. His face was red as he screamed "What the heck is this hoodlum doing with my daughter? Why is she unconscious? What did he do to her?"
"I think you've just used up your question marks and exclamation points for the day." I told him and his face grew even more tomato colored. The Old Lady laid a reassuring hand on her son's arm.
"Now, Henry dear, I'm sure there is a perfectly good explanation for this." she said to him, then of course turned to me. "Puck, please explain how this happened."
I took a deep breath and told them. "About a week ago, I heard one of the Hand members that we have surveillance on saying that the Master was going to curse Sa-Grimm with the Sleeping Beauty curse." We all seemed to glance at Briar Rose at the same time. She blushed and looked down and I continued my story as everyone's gazes (or glares in Henry's case) returned to me. "They said that to make it easier, it wouldn't take a spindle, just any sharp metal object to prick either of her pointer fingers, and then she would fall asleep for the hundred years. I was going to tell you, but then I figured you wouldn't let Sabrina fight and then she would get mad at you, and of course she would figure out that I had something to do with it and then she would be mad at me, which of course I didn't want. So I've been using my wooden sword when we fight, but then she was taunting me and saying that I wouldn't win because I was using my wooden sword, so I was stupid and rose to meet the challenge, thinking hey it's not like I'm going to manage to prick one of her pointer fingers with a sword except she threw her hands up, I think because she saw Marshmallow coming toward us. I had already begun to swing it and it just managed to land on her pointer finger. And so the curse happened."
They stared at me for a few seconds, taking in my story.
"So it is your fault my daughter is doomed to a hundred year sleep!" Henry raged and punched me in the nose. I heard it crack a split second before it started flowing blood.
"Henry! Why did you do that? Now we have to wait before he can wake up Sabrina!" Veronica chastised him.
I blushed and Henry's face grew angry again. "I am not letting that…that… fairy kiss my daughter!" He said 'fairy' like it was a curse. Which it totally wasn't, because, hey, fairies rock. Or at least this fairy does. Jake put a hand on my shoulder. "Come on, Puck, let's get you cleaned up, and we can come back when Henry's come to his senses."
I didn't like the sound of that, but I followed him anyway. By the time we got to the bathrooms, my nose had stopped bleeding, but my face and hands were red from dried blood. He helped wash the blood off and then took my favorite green hoodie, claiming he could get it stain free. That left me in just my t-shirt, which I wasn't to happy about. When I was deemed clean, we walked back to where this others still were, waiting around the sleeping Sabrina. All the women- Briar Rose, Veronica, Red, even the Old Lady- looked happy. Daphne was biting her palm.
On the opposite side of things, Henry was scowling, looking angrily at me, and Mr. Canis wore his regular straight faced expression.
"If you're going to do it, kid, then hurry up and do it while my back's turned." Henry growled.
I shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot, my face flushing. "Um…."
"Come on, Puck! It will be fine!" Daphne cheered. Or at least I think that's what she said, because she was speaking around her palm, which hadn't left her mouth.
I still hesitated. Yes, I wanted to kiss Sabrina. I had wanted to for a long time. But I didn't want it like this, with her whole family around us and her unconscious. I wanted to kiss her when she was awake and we were in private and she had a say in what was going on. Something is better than nothing, right?
Giving up all my inhibitions, I bent over and kissed her. Her sparkling blue eyes opened immediately and as soon as she realized who she was kissing, she pulled back and punched me in the nose. As blood began spurting everywhere, my only thought was Now I'm going to have to go around shirtless.
A/N: Okay, so I'm sorry if Puck was OOC, but that's how I write, and I think Puck is better that way. So, how was it? Horrible? Awesome? Awwww worthy? tell me in a review. Come on, press the little button, it doesn't bite! :)
Queen of Air and Darkness
