Hi you all, sorry for the late update but I've been trying to adapt my new school year. Anyways, thank you Katie (a.k.a the lovely Bigtimebooks) for helping me proofread or rather beta read my messy story. Hope you like this chapter and don't forget to review, I will definitely try to respond to every review!
Sabrina did not wake until she was shaken so tremendously as if they had only a minute left to for her life. Unwillingly, she opened her eye lids to figure out who it was that woke her, only to be blinded by the sunlight. She immediately shut her eyes and mumbled, "What time is it?"
"It's 'bout time you woke up, sleepyhead!" A familiar voice giggled.
"What the-!" Sabrina yelled, jumping so suddenly that her head throbbed slightly,"Daphne? I thought it was Puck! How did you get up even earlier than me?" The blonde asked, clearly still in a shock mood.
"Oh! I woke at the same time but look at the clock" Sabrina turned to where Daphne was pointing at. "It's already passed ten! Beat you!"
Sabrina was dumbfounded. Obviously, all those dramas that have been going on must have caught up in her head, making her brain automatically forcing her to shut down for a longer time. However, there were no good results as expected; her mind was still messed up. Still drowsy-headed, Sabrina pulled over the first tee-shirt she spotted from her closet, wore a pair of shorts and headed downstairs to have brunch. Out of her surprise, the table was filled with food that she really ate or even loved- mixed fruit pancakes made by her father.
"So does it mean dad has forgiven me?" thought Sabrina, scratching her neck confusingly. Without another thought, she picked up a fork and started stuffing the food ravenously.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa... calm down, have you not eaten in months?" A familiar voice said.
"This is the first normal meal I have had in three whole months- literally! Thanks dad!'' Sabrina said then continued to dig in.
"No big deal, ask me if you want it anytime," Henry answered. There was an awkward moment for a long while when the two remembered it was just yesterday that they had a quarrel.
"I'm sorry dad, I know how much you disapprove of me dating an Everafter, but Puck and I are destined to be together, and I am not kidding." Sabrina said in a serious tone that she had been using a lot recently with all those grown up things she had to deal with.
"Don't try persuading me that I only bore those thoughts just because I went to the future." With those words, Henry shut his mouth which had wanted to argue.
"We have gone through life and near deaths for the passed years only to fight the Scarlet Hand army and the Mirror; do you possibly believe that I, as your daughter will not be able to distinguish love from all his acts?" Sabrina's voice got stronger and stronger as she went on.
Henry tried to talk back but stuttered, realizing truly this time after two years waking up from the coma that his 11 year-old daughter was no longer a little girl who needed her parents to protect her, but a 15 year-old young woman who established her own very thoughts.
"I'm sorry, Sabrina," said Henry in a regrettable tone while pulling Sabrina in his arms to give her the hug she had longed for after last night's quarrel which seemed like years. "I'm sorry for not being by your side for those two years. But no worries, your mum and I will never leave you again without even a single note. To be true, I had been constantly hoping desperately to
retrieve the years I spent in my coma that I neglected that you have already grown up so fast into a teenager of 15. I was only trying to protect you from anything I distinguished to be a threat or would hurt you."
Happy tears threatened to flow through the blonde's eyes, but instead of holding back like she always did just to be the stronger sister, her walls finally broke down, letting those tears just rush like a raging river.
Meanwhile, Puck who was hiding in the corner upstairs nodded his head and smiled teensy one, happy that Sabrina could broke the ice between Henry and her which was a regret for him that he could never achieve this with his own deceased father. He was also glad that she could finally face the fact that she was in fact vulnerable and not superwoman she acted to be.
"Maybe my turn to set things right with Henry would be soon." The fairy boy thought, not sounding quite as persuading as he would hope it to be. "What if it ends with a fight again? I wouldn't want to disappoint Sabrina again; after all, there's high chance that he would be my father-in-law." He then turned to walk back to his room quietly, only to be called by his name.
"Puck!" Henry called him in a fatherly voice. The fairy jumped slightly as if being caught doing something bad.
With heavy steps, he walked down the stairs to prepare taking in any harsh remarks he was about to receive.
Instead, the girl's father walked to him and spread his arms to hug the dumbstruck boy. With much difficulty, Puck who was always awkward at intimacy with anyone, especially in parent-and-child manner, too hugged his most-probably-father-in-law-in-not-long-a-future. At the same time, Sabrina who had been standing beside them smiling happily joined in the hug.
"I know you do not have much of a chance to escape from being my daughter's groom, so I figured: Why not just accepting him earlier than to argue about something so meaningless. So here I am to accept you as a part of the family!" Henry said smilingly. With those words of reassurance, Puck thanked Henry for the more-or-less-an-approval and took a stroll outside the house with Sabrina to clear their own heads after all those things happening in such a lightening motion.
"Finally, we can be together without anyone to stop or disapprove of us!" Puck made a huge sigh as soon as the door closed behind him.
Meanwhile, Sabrina who had been with a smiley-face seemed to be deep in thought. "Am I going to ask him the question or not? Or am I to bring that with me to my grave?"
Thanks for reading my chapter and hope you enjoyed it. I really hope that I could make time to update a new chapter in no time! Thanks a billion!
