UGH! SORRY! I've had this ready for like...a week. I'm not even joking. I've just been soooo busy, and whenever I tried to publish it, my comp. would scream at me so...sorry!!!!! Please don't hate me!

Chapter Three

Sabrina and Puck exchanged a worried look. Sure, they had Uncle Jake now, but he was exhausted and without magic. Puck was broken and powerless. Sabrina was the only one in any position to fight, and she was just one small, slightly malnourished girl. How was she supposed to defend them all against an insane guy?

"Is this Darren?" Jake whispered. Puck nodded, and Jake rolled his eyes. "You're afraid of this…this…child?"

Darren's face started to turn red. Sabrina started to panic. What was wrong with her uncle? Why was he taunting someone so obviously dangerous? Someone he knew for a fact was insane? Someone who had managed to kidnap, restrain, and beat two people at the same time, one of whom was a Grimm and the other a fairy?

"Honestly," Jake continued. "I don't see anything," he looked at Sabrina, "that should make him dangerous. At all. It isn't as if he's dangerous."

And Sabrina got it. She grinned a bit. "You know, Uncle Jake, you're right," she said. "Darren really is nothing to be afraid of—just an insecure little boy."

As Darren charged Sabrina, she took a step to the side, causing him to run into the wall behind her. She kicked him in the side and grabbed his arms, pulling them behind him and sitting on his back. She pulled them into as uncomfortable a position she could, and Jake pulled a rope out of one of the many, many pockets of his coat.

He grinned at Sabrina. "Good job, 'Brina." He kicked Darren in the gut and started tying the young man's wrists together.

"Get off me!" he yelled in a muffled voice. "You can't do this to me, you stupid slut!"

Sabrina's eyes flashed. She stood up and used her feet to turn him over. She stepped between his legs, stepping where she knew it would hurt the most. She dug her foot in.

"Don't. Ever. Call. Me. A. Slut," Sabrina said. She stomped, hard, and Darren yelled in pain. Sabrina kicked him in the side one more time and then walked out of the cave, tears in her eyes.

Puck and Jake exchanged a look. Neither man really wanted to go after her.

"She's your niece!" Puck said.

Jake grinned. "You're wife."

Puck groaned and followed Sabrina. She was sitting right outside the cave, her legs brought up to her chest, her arms around them. Her chin was resting on her knees, tears rolling down her face.

It isn't fair, Sabrina thought. Why did I get stuck here, why am I the one cursed with this life?

Once upon a time, Sabrina would have thought this job was great. Working with fairytale creatures was something every little girl dreamed about. And then Sabrina grew up and got over it, and somehow, got stuck with the damn gig anyway.

"Sabrina?" Puck said softly. He was standing just outside the entrance of the cave. She didn't turn around, and Puck came out to sit next to her, in the same position. "Sabrina, are you okay?"

Sabrina let out a bit laugh that, towards the end, turned into a sob. "No, Puck, I'm not okay. Why would I be okay? In what universe would I be construed as okay?" Sabrina was slowly letting out her anger at the world.

"How would you feel if for the first nine years of your life, you were happy. You had a family, and friends, and a normal life. Then, suddenly, your parents go MIA, and you're being bounced from one horrible, abusive family to the next."

Sabrina had to take a deep breath before continuing. "How would you feel if you had to grow up so damn fast so that your little sister didn't have to know what a horrible place the world really is? How would you feel if finally, after a year and a half, you got sent to someone who was actually nice, and then they turn out to be seemingly insane?

"How would you feel if then that woman, the only person who seemed to care about you and your little sister, suddenly got kidnapped, thus setting off a series of events so horrible…so…so terrifying, and you could do nothing about?"

Sabrina buried her head in her knees, barely able to breath anymore. She was so afraid all of the time, so unhappy, and the blows just kept on coming.

Puck turned his head so he was looking at her, his eyes sad. He wanted to comfort her, but how? He wasn't good at this type of thing, and Sabrina wasn't the kind of girl who liked to be comforted.

Sabrina continued talking, her voice muffled by her legs. "Then you finally, finally, after almost two years, find your parents, and they're under a spell! You spend so long looking for a way to break it, and when you do, your father isn't who he used to be, your mother has a secret life that suddenly comes to light, and one of your best friends is the evil villain who did that horrible shit to your family!"

"Sabrina, listen," Puck started, but Sabrina interrupted.

"No, Puck, you listen!" Sabrina yelled, standing up. "For once in my life, will somebody please listen to me!? Doesn't anyone understand how stressful this is for me? How much I do, how much I give? Sure, I complain, but I still do it!"

Sabrina fell onto her knees, her tears falling freely now. "Doesn't anyone understand? Do any of you actually give a damn, or have I been right about the world all along? I ran away from home because I didn't think it was fair of them to send you away. I ran away because they wanted to use me, and I was so sick of it.

"Don't you think it's funny how even when I'm trying to do the right thing, I still get screwed? I come here, and I get attacked by trees; I get engaged to you; I get stalked by a crazy guy; kidnapped by said crazy guy; and then, my uncle shows up to force me home where I'll be thrown right back into the loop. Right back into the loop of despair, and hurt, and anger. Back into the loop where I give everything and get nothing in return. Back into the loop where I have to fight in a war for no reason I can see.

"And I'm so sick and tired of it." The last sentence came out in a whisper and Sabrina sat back down in her original position, her tears beginning to dry up.

Puck bit his lip and moved closer to her. He slipped his arms around Sabrina's shoulders, holding her tightly. She let her head fall onto his shoulder, under his chin.

"I'm just so sick of it all…so sick of people trying to control me, and trick me, and hunt me. I miss my normal life, Puck." Sabrina paused for a moment. "Sometimes, I wish I couldn't remember anything. I wish I could just start over. I wish I could get that innocence back; the innocence that the rest of the world seems to have."

Puck tilted her head up so he could look her in the eyes. "I wish I could make you feel safe," he whispered. Truer words had never been spoken.

She smiled a bit. "You already do," she whispered back. "You're the only one I feel safe with anymore." And then she pressed her lips to his.

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A/N I hope I made it up to you, and I'm working on more!!! Bye, lovies!