AN~ As usual, unconnected drabbles spanning different genres, mostly Puckabrina, though there are a few others thrown in now and again. I got an overwhelming number of suggestions from a small number of people, so most of these are a little over half of those requests. If I didn't do yours here, I will soon, I promise!
This chapter is twice as long as the previous three. Tell me how you feel about that.
Izyss (from chapter one): There have probably been even more 'evens' since you reviewed, and if they bother you I'll try to cut back on them, but it probably won't work too well. I know about those mistakes and am going to remove them soonish. Pink is my favorite in the first chapter. :)
Silverwombat: Your account appears to be under a different name... I'm glad you liked them so much! :D
Titanic
Puck is the Trickster King, the lord of hooligans and pranksters and layabouts and everything disgusting, evil, and vaguely repulsive or annoying was his territory. He's seventeen, handsome, built, tough, and everything a guy should be.
So of course there's no way he'd be crying while watching the end of Titanic with his girlfriend.
She knows this, so she only lets the side of her face he can't see smile as she subtly pushes the box of tissues closer to him. It's a sign of how much she loves him that she will never, ever tease him about this moment.
Halloween
Halloween is a great opportunity for the two of them to sneak off and get some alone time, in the years before they tell anyone they're together. They both say they're going off to trick-or-treat with friends, and Daphne pouts, but understands, and they tell their friends they'll be doing something else. And then they sneak off into the woods with a mixed bag of candy one or other of them picked up somewhere so it looks like they've actually been out, and they spend a glorious evening together with no interruptions, just the two of them enjoying each other.
Rabbits
One of her clients gives her a rabbit in payment- she thinks it's actually Alice from Wonderland, but she doesn't ask them to actually tell her who they are, so she's not sure, and she doesn't really want the rabbit, but she's not sure what else to do with it, so she brings it home and leaves it in the living room.
The next morning, she goes downstairs to find Puck giving her a 'what have you done now' fake-stern look, and six baby rabbits lying on the floor, while their mother chews through the edge of the table leg.
Alone
Puck wanted this. He left because he knew he was wrong for her, and that they'd make each other miserable if he stayed.
He wanted this. He wanted, more than anything, for her to be happy, for her to move on and find another guy who was compatible and wouldn't fight with her over everything.
He wanted this. He left her, not the other way around.
He wanted this. Really he did. Really.
So why does he feel so miserable?
He thinks it's because, despite everything, he didn't expect her to actually move on and make him really be alone.
Rain
She thinks he's gone for good- maybe dead, maybe not (please not please not please not)- and she's almost ready to go back inside and stop waiting for him to come back because she's almost convinced herself that he's not going to but she can't just leave because she can't count the number of times he's not given up on her and waited for he to come back so when he comes walking through the rain to her, looking half dead, she runs out to meet him, not bothering that she's still in her lawyer clothes and they'll get soaked.
Letter
She watches as Puck writes a letter to Titania- she doesn't believe in email or phone calls- and she smiles, because he's absolutely adorable when he's writing. His tongue sticks out of the corner of his mouth (she didn't think anybody actually did that), his brow furrows in concentration, and his hand moves slowly, carefully, forming each letter as neatly as he can.
She can't resist him when he's like that, and even though he's actually doing it because he needs to, not because he wants a kiss, she kisses him anyway. He complains about the distraction, kissing her back.
Kiss
She learns that the real definition of 'kiss' is actually just 'a light touch,' not necessarily 'mouth to mouth contact,' and takes great pleasure in, every time he asks for a kiss over the next several days, brushing her fingers over his arm, instead of beginning a makeout session like he obviously wants. He doesn't understand, for a while, until, one day when he complains, Daphne hands him a dictionary without looking at him, and then, suddenly, he does. She's messing with him as bad as he's messed with her in the past, and he doesn't like it one bit.
Date
Daphne's upstairs getting ready for a date. Pinocchio wishes she'd come down and the date would be him, but he knows better. She'll keep going out with her plethora of boyfriends, and he'll sit at home and wait and hope. Because to her he's half uncle, half cousin, and all family.
But she comes downstairs in sweatpants and a stained tank top, and he's confused. "I thought you had a date."
"I did," she says, "but I changed my mind. Didn't want to leave you here alone."
They watch an old movie, and he can almost pretend it's a date.
Goodbye
She knows he has to leave, but that doesn't make it any easier. She's going to miss him so much, and the minutes will seem like hours until she can see him again, sliding along slower than molasses. She doesn't know if she'll be able to bear being without him, it's too hard for her.
"Goodbye," she says sorrowfully, clinging to him tightly.
"Jeez, Grimm," he says, rolling his eyes. "I'm just going to the grocery store. I can't wait until you're not pregnant anymore. You get so weird." But he still enjoys every second of her passionate goodbye kisses.
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Wind
Mirror doesn't die when he sinks into the ground- that would be too easy, he thinks. No, he doesn't die. He simply becomes the earth. He likes it this way. He can watch and hear everyone and everything, even though he doesn't have eyes or ears, and he finally has the freedom to be everywhere- all at once. He sees when Puck leaves, and how Sabrina longs for him to return, how she tries and fails to find him. Mirror knows where he is, and he longs to tell her. But he can't. His voice now is only the wind.
Purchase
He buys her a sword for her sixteenth birthday, a real one, from one of the people he's met while he's been traveling with Jake. He knows she'll love it- it's as sharp as she is and just as beautifully deadly, but he's not sure her parents will be okay with his choice of presents. She's had to keep her weapons training secret, and he thinks he might be the only one who knows just how good she is at swordplay. So he gets a spell to disguise it as a letter opener when not in use.
She loves it.
Catchphrase
Daphne's always had some sort of catchphrase. It's just the way she works. But she's never thought her catchphrase would be "He's changed! Really he has! Just give him a chance!" because that's just not cool enough for her- it has no rhythm to it, and doesn't sound exciting. But now that she's dating Toby, that's what her catchphrase has been for the past two months. It makes her kind of sad. Bella and Natalie are good now. Is it really so hard to believer Toby is, too? It just took him a little longer to find himself, that's all.
Dung Beetle
"The dung beetle was worshiped by the Egyptians, because they thought it was the way their sun god, Ra, moved the sun across the sky- he was a giant dung beetle. They thought it was a great, noble animal, and that only the most powerful shapeshifters, the most worthy, could ever turn into one." Puck tells her loftily.
Sabrina shakes her head and then says. "That may be true, Puck, but that doesn't change the fact that if you turn into one and come near me, I'm stomping you flat. I don't want to be a murderer. So don't, okay?"
Stage
He stands behind her on the stage and he realises that she's wonderful up here, that these people love her as much as he's starting to, and even if she's only reading her mother's words, she believes them and, better yet, means them. He realizes in that moment that he's going to have to change if he wants to measure up to this girl, standing there reading her heart out with her back to him, because she's destined for great things. And he's afraid maybe he's not. But he's only afraid because he thinks she's going to leave him behind.
Behind the mask
Technically, Sabrina is a lawyer. She follows in her small-scale politician mother's footsteps and helps Everafters out by working within the law- mostly. Fake identities aren't exactly legal, even if they are necessary. But dig a bit deeper, and her cases come together on the unlikeliest of evidence, and it's usually provided by Sabrina herself, who is surprisingly fond of nighttime wanderings, and rarely explains her proof comes from.
She's always searching for someone, too. She's keeping her detective skills active, as most people are aware, on some level, and she's doing it for a reason. She will find Puck.
Barrier
The barrier around the castle is the veteran's shared duty to watch. They all take turns checking up on it- they've decided that once a week is plenty, though occasionally Sabrina will go more often- she and Puck are living closest to it, downtown in the rebuilt Ferryport Landing, while Daphne lives in Granny's old house- because she likes to talk to Morgan. She's not totally sure, but she thinks she's beginning to understand what it means to love someone so much that you'd trap yourself just to be able to visit their grave. And only Morgan really understands that.
What keeps us apart
"When should we tell them?" Puck asks, looking at his daughters- four and six, respectively.
"About Everafters?" Sabrina asks absently, cooking dinner. "Not 'til they're older. Emma would hate us if we told Allie first, and we can't tell Emma 'til she can keep secrets."
Puck nods. They're good reasons, and they make sense, since they've decided to live in the human world instead of hiding. But they'll cause problems. His family will always have to come to visit, never the other way around, and their friends will have to act the whole time they're around- so will he, actually.
Forever
She's been gone for a good century now, and they never have found a body or anything, so he keeps looking. They've started to try to convince him that he should move on- go out on a date, spend some time with his daughters, who gave up looking ages ago, stay at home for more than a month- but he can't. He'll never stop looking 'til he finds her, because he knows she hasn't run away like he did. She wouldn't do that. She knows how it hurts. She's out there somewhere, so he'll look forever if he has to.
Scandal
It's a scandal in Faerie, that they're dating. Well, everything about Puck is a scandal in Faerie, and an even bigger one back in the Fey community in Europe, the big one that's actually still a community, not just a ragtag bunch of leftovers. He loves it, and she enjoys antagonizing the fairy godmothers who think she doesn't deserve Puck. But still, it's a bit embarrassing to know that all these people think she's a gold digger and not worthy of him- no matter what they think of Puck. So she goes out of her way to prove them wrong.
Candle
The power is out and it's dark as heck and Sabrina's walking down to the fuse box in the basement with a lit candle in her hand because she can't find any stupid flashlights in the whole stupid house and she's not sure if they blew a fuse or if someone cut the power lines again, and then, halfway down the stairs to the basement, she sees a glowing light, and there's Puck with Basil, making hand shapes against the walls in the dark. She throws her candle at him. Thankfully- sort of- it goes out before it hits him.
Foreshadow
"If I ever lose my memory," Daphne says, "Make me watch the Keira Knightlely version of Pride and Prejudice, then the Colin Firth one, okay? And then have me read the book."
Sabrina laughs and agrees. Daphne has been in love with Pride and Prejudice since she saw the connection between Sabrina and Puck in it.
Three weeks later, she wonders if Daphne learned how to see the future or something, and she sits her sister down in front of the TV before putting in the DVD and sitting down as the words "Pride and Prejudice" appears on the screen.
Bigfoot
They're on the hunt for bigfoot, because there have been way too many claims that he exists in Maryland, of all places, in the past couple months, and Granny's worried about it. But they're the only two that can be spared. They find a conspiracy that's twenty Everafters big- enough that they both admit it's too big for them to handle alone. One of them will have to go for reinforcements while the other stays to keep an eye on them. They spend almost too long fighting over which one will go and be safe, and they almost both die.
Cadaver
She doesn't want to touch the dead body, even if it is just a cadaver for biology class. She's seen enough dead people over the course of her life that she doesn't need to see another one, ever again. But it's part of their grade, so she takes the scalpel and begins.
Puck, two tables over, is pulling out his organs one by one, gleefully and with a number of disgusting sound effects.
She remembers why she went against her first instinct to take Puck as her lab partner, even though he was the only one she knew in class.
Electronics
Electronics are still a bit of a mystery to Puck, and he can't really understand them much at all. He doesn't particularly mind, though. Because he can always call Sabrina over and ask her for help with them, and even though she'll give him an exasperated look as she shows him what, exactly, he's doing wrong with his new computer, and how he can fix it easily, she'll do it while leaning over him, her arm over his shoulder and her hair draping down between them, and it's worth it just because she's this close to him- touching him, almost.
Earplugs
He knows she's wearing ear plugs. How else could she still be asleep when Alison is crying that hysterically just one room over? He got up last time she started crying, too. So it's only fair that he wake her up and make her take her turn- she's not the only one with work in the morning. But she murmurs in her sleep and shifts, cuddling into his side, and he makes the mistake of looking at her, and she's just so adorable that he simply kisses his wife on the forehead and goes to see what's wrong this time.
Sims2
He borrows Daphne's copy of Sims2 and makes their family- him, her, Daphne, Relda, Canis, Red, Pinocchio, Jake, and her parents live in a different house because he can't have ten people in one Sim house, and Sabrina refuses to show him how to cheat to get more. She's all right with it, but then she sees that he's forcing the sim-her to date the sim-him, and she's not longer okay with this.
But then a month later he's gone and she finds herself playing the sim game over and over, because it's the only way she can see him.
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Sugar
He only calls her 'sugar' once. It's a mistake he won't repeat, because she looks at him incredulously, then demands "Sugar? Sugar? Sugar?" repeatedly, in a number of different tones of voice, before she bursts out in hysterical laughter.
"What's so funny?" he asks, sounding grumpy. He'd been trying to be suave. Or sweet. One of those.
She finally stops laughing and looks at him, wiping tears of laughter out of her eyes as she says, "Puck. You and I know I'm about the least sugary person you've ever met, or ever will meet. Figure out a different pet name."
Suitcase
He tries to pack himself into her suitcase when he realizes she's going off to school and not coming back to visit for a long time. But then, once he's side, he discovers that there's no way to close a suitcase from within, nor a way to hide him beneath things so that she won't notice- he's already unpacked everything so he could fit.
She comes along a bit later and laughs for a long time before ordering him out of her stuff. It's the promise that he can come with her to orientation, at least, that moves him, finally.
Trophy
Puck was supposed to have a trophy wife, he knows. Sabrina knows this, too, and he knows she knows. He knows she's embarrassed because she's not tall and willowy and graceful like the women of Faerie, and because she was a human not even fifteen years ago, and because she's allergic to magic and can't fly. So he spends extra time with her at the party, because he wants to show her that he doesn't want one of those girls- he wants her, short and firey and not in the least squeamish like those girls are, and so, so beautiful.
Chapstick
Her lips naturally get chapped in the wintertime, and she finds that kissing makes it worse. She complains to Puck about this, though he doesn't understand- his lips don't get chapped, the lucky fairy. All she wants is a little understanding, maybe some sympathy, and an agreement that maybe they should kiss a bit less until the air gets less dry. He doesn't like that idea one bit, and gives her none of what she wants. She threatens to withold all kisses. He buys her chapstick. The issues is resolved, fairly satisfactorally to all. They kiss as much as ever.
Ear buds
Even she can't put up with Daphne's jabbering forever, so she puts in her ear buds on the car trip, after the second hour of listening to her sister, who has just made a new friend, babble for an hour. It's a blessed relief, to listen to someone else's voice.
Puck gives her a look so pathetic that eventually, even though she's kind of angry at him still for what he did to her food, she takes pity on him and offers him one ear bud, even though this means she has to half-hear Daphne.
She decides it's worth it.
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