DGG: Hello, everyone! I am back with the final chapter! Yes, it is over already. I've never really written a short-story before...or do you count one-shots as short stories? I don't know. Whatever. It was something a little different to do. So here it is! Enjoy!
There weren't many things that scared Mama Cosma, but losing her baby boy topped her small list of fears. She'd already lost him once to that pink-haired temptress, but she was bound and determined to get him back.
But now Mama Cosma had a new fear: the fear of her son hating her. She never thought such a thing could happen. He'd never raised his voice to her before! He must have gotten that mouth from Wanda. That girl did nothing but teach her precious son bad manners! Cosmo couldn't see it, but she just wanted what was best for him, and that was to get him as far away from Wanda as possible.
Cosmo was just confused. He wouldn't just not talk to her anymore! She was his mother, after all. She was the first person to ever be there for him. She was the first person to ever love him! There was no way he could overlook that. Then again, that hussy was able to take her precious boy away from her. She caused Cosmo to constantly sneak around and tell her lies when he was younger, so who knows what sorts of things she filled his head with since they'd been living together! Well, if Cosmo was even thinking about alienating her, then clearly Wanda must have convinced him that a mother was just not important anymore.
The mint-green fairy fumed at that thought as she drummed her fingers on her kitchen table. The sooner she turned in Wanda's grades the better. She would lose her job and be away from her precious Cosmo-lo-lo forever.
Yes. It was coming together. Soon Wanda would be out of Cosmo's life for good. She would make sure of it. But what if Cosmo held true to his word? What if doing this actually did make him hate her? Cosmo wasn't usually one to get mad, but she knew that if he ever was, just the slightest distraction would cause him to forget about his bad mood, so with any luck he had forgotten all about what he'd said the night before.
Then again, as much as she didn't want to admit it, Cosmo had changed a lot. He certainly wasn't shy and timid like he was while growing up; he'd come out of his little shell. He wasn't afraid to stand up for something anymore, and as much as she hated to admit it, she knew he loved that other woman. But he was still the same deep down. He would always listen to his mother in the end. He always did anytime she was around, so she had no doubt in her mind that she would win her son back.
Then again, what if there was that small chance that she couldn't?
She shook her head. What was she talking about? Of course she could! But…No! This was what she'd always wanted. This was finally the perfect chance to get Wanda out of her son's life! She'd thought about this! The female gulped as she picked up her folder, which held Wanda's grades, and poofed herself to the Fairy Academy.
Ever since Wanda woke up, there were tears streaming down her face. She'd tried her best to stop them, but her imminent job-termination kept looming over her like a dark cloud. Currently, she was flying around hers and her husband's room slowly grabbing some of her things and putting them in a suitcase, which sat open on top of her dresser.
"Wanda," Cosmo suddenly poofed into the room. "Wanda, what are you doing? You've been in here all morning."
"What's it look like?" she asked while trying to restrain a sob. "Today is when your mother shows the Academy my grades. My career is over, Cosmo."
"No, it's not, Wanda," he frowned as he flew toward her.
"Yes, it is!" Wanda suddenly snapped, causing the male to jump. "Cosmo, I'm going to lose my job! And if the Fairy Academy revokes your license, you can never get it back! It's not like retiring or letting it expire. You can always get it renewed if that happens, but if the Fairy Academy takes it away themselves, then there's no renewing it ever. There's no talking them into getting it back either! If they think someone is a danger to the kids, then they'll never let them near a human child again! Because of my probation level and the grades your mother is going to turn in today, they're going to think I'm completely inept! I can't believe this is happening!" Wanda plopped down on the edge of the bed, placing her head in her hands.
"No, Wanda," Cosmo sat beside her and placed his left arm across her shoulders. "I won't let them. You don't deserve to lose your job. You love it too much. I can't see you being anything but a godmother."
"Thank-you, Sweetie," she lowered her hands and smiled at him. "That's very sweet."
"But, Wanda, if you can't be a godparent anymore, then neither can I. You're the only reason I'm a godparent in the first place. Remember? They almost didn't let me be one."
"I remember," Wanda placed her right hand on her husband's cheek.
"They said if you weren't there, then I couldn't be a godparent," Cosmo's voice cracked as his eyes filled with tears.
"Oh, Honey. You're an excellent godfather. Even when I'm not around."
"But…you've never not been around," he blinked at her.
"Not true," she sat back. "What about the time Timmy switched brains with Vicky's dog?"
"I didn't grant any wishes though."
"Well, what about this past week? You did all right. Well, you did until two days ago."
"See? I always mess things up," Cosmo bowed his head in shame.
"Maybe, but you went for a couple of days without anything major happening," Wanda smiled at him as she cupped his face in her hands. "You're perfectly capable at doing this alone."
"But I don't want to do this without you!" he cried. "If you can't be a godmother, then I won't be a godfather!"
Wanda smiled as she pulled her husband into a grateful hug.
"But what about Timmy? We can't just leave him. That's not fair to him," Wanda pulled away from him.
"But…it's not fair to you if I'm a godparent and you're not," the male blinked.
"Maybe not, but it's even more unfair to Timmy. He'll either be assigned new fairies or he'll have his memory erased. We can't let that happen to him. I want you to stay with him until he outgrows fairies."
"But, Wanda…"
"No buts, Cosmo," the swirly-haired female held up her index finger to silence him. "Once Timmy's too old for fairies, then you can join me back in Fairy World."
"But you'll be so far away, Wanda," the male's lip quivered.
"We'll still be able to see each other sometimes," Wanda stroked his left cheek to calm him. "It's just that unfortunately, if I'm not a licensed godparent, then I'm not really supposed to be anywhere near Timmy."
Tears filled Cosmo's eyes again. He didn't want Wanda to be so far away. None of this was fair! Wanda was going to lose her dream job, Timmy was going to lose his godmother, Wanda couldn't be around them, and it was all his doing. He just didn't want to get Wanda in even bigger trouble, so that's why he'd sent her to Chocolate City, Utah in the first place. But his good intentions backfired – like always – and it caused Wanda to lose her job. He pulled her back into a warm hug. How did she ever put up with him?
"Cosmo, Wanda!" Timmy called from his bedroom.
The two fairies reluctantly pulled apart then poofed themselves into Timmy's room.
"We have company," Timmy frowned as he motioned toward the large, muscular fairy standing on the other side of the room.
"Wanda," boomed Jorgen's voice.
Everyone gulped as they awaited his news. He stared them down with a look that could peel the skin off an apple. The silence was almost too much. If he was going to say it, then why couldn't he just get it over with?
"Wanda," he spoke again in his authoritative manner, "we received your grades from your punishment of fairy summer school. And although it pains me to do this, it comes as no surprise to me that," he whipped out a tiny piece of plastic and extended it to the female fairy, "you passed."
"What?" the three tinier creatures gasped.
"What?" Jorgen raised an eyebrow at them, confused by their surprise. "If you don't want your license back…"
"No, no! I do!" Wanda took the card gratefully.
"You are no longer on probation. Your name has been cleared. But don't think this means the two of you can slack off now. I won't hesitate to put you back on probation, understand?"
The fairies nodded, and Jorgen banged the base of his massive wand on the floor, causing a massive explosion as he left the room.
"Wanda, you got your license back!" smiled the child. "But I thought Mama Cosma was going to fail you."
"I thought so too," she spoke quietly as she just stared at her re-issued license.
"This is great, Wanda! Now you can still be a godmother!" Cosmo smiled as he hugged his wife happily.
"Yeah," she smiled back, still in a state of shock.
"Let's celebrate by getting some ice cream!" suggested Timmy.
"Yeah, Wanda, let's go get ice cream!" agreed the green-haired male.
"Um. You two go ahead. I'll catch up in a second."
"What's wrong?" Cosmo frowned as he cocked his head to the side.
"Nothing," she shook her head numbly. "I'll just be a second, okay?"
"Okay. Come on, Timmy! Ice cream!" the eager male took out his wand and poofed himself and Timmy to the kitchen.
The pink-haired fairy stayed hovering in place above the floor for a moment as she kept her eyes firmly upon her license. How? How was it possible? Her mother-in-law had told her specifically that she was going to fail her. And how could she have passed when all her grades had been F's? It just wasn't adding up.
"There are other ways of separating the two of you," spoke the older female's British voice from across the room as though she were reading her daughter-in-law's thoughts.
Wanda gasped as she turned around to find Mama Cosma hovering a few feet away.
"I…I don't understand," the pink-haired female raised a skeptical eyebrow at the older woman. "I flunked everything. How could I have passed?"
"Are you complaining?" she raised her eyebrows.
"No, I'm just confused. It's not like you to grant me any form of mercy."
"As it happened there were more important things at stake," Mama Cosma folded her arms across her chest.
"What's more important to you than trying to get Cosmo back all to yourself?" Wanda knitted her eyebrows.
"Cosmo's love for me."
"What?" the godmother blinked.
"He came to me last night begging for me to not fail you in this course."
"And… you listened?"
"He threatened to never speak to me again. The risk of losing my baby boy's love was more important to me. So I changed your grades and presented them to the Fairy Academy," the mother frowned.
"Wow. I…I don't know what to say…"
"Oh, please. Don't flatter yourself," she placed a scowl on her face. "I wasn't doing it for you. I was doing it for Cosmo. Like I said before, there are other ways to separate the two of you, and one of these days it will happen."
"I doubt that," Wanda huffed as she placed her license into her back pocket.
"We'll see, Dear. Don't get too comfortable. You may have won this round, but this is far from over."
"I accept your challenge. And…thanks."
"Hmph," the older woman snorted. "Consider this the last time I do anything even remotely nice for you. I'll get my Cosmo back. You'll see."
Wanda gave the mother a smug smirk as she poofed out of the room and back to Fairy World. The pink-haired fairy shook her head. That woman was just going to have to realize that nothing she did would ever break her and Cosmo up. Wanda chuckled as she looked down at the "ring" on her finger, which was actually the chewed pen cap of Cosmo's favorite pen. He had gone to his mother to try and make her change her mind? She hadn't known that. But it obviously worked. Cosmo may be a bit slow, but he was certainly the sweetest fairy she'd ever met. The godmother smiled again before finally poofing downstairs to join the boys who were munching away on their bowls of ice cream at the table.
"Took you long enough," Timmy looked up.
"Yeah, what were you doing?" asked Cosmo.
Without answering, Wanda flew over and gave her husband a tiny peck on the cheek.
"What was that for?" he grinned.
"For being the best husband I ever could have asked for," she batted her eyes.
"Really?" he blushed.
"Mhm," the female nuzzled her nose against his.
"Child in the room!" Timmy piped up as he gagged from their show of affection.
Wanda laughed as she poofed herself a bowl of ice cream and joined the boys at the table. She didn't contribute much to the conversations that were happening. She mainly just listened, relishing the fact that she was still able to listen to their conversations since just moments before she thought she'd have to leave the two of them. She still couldn't truly believe that Mama Cosma would actually change her grades so that she could keep her job though. She thought nothing could change that woman's mind, especially when it involved getting rid of her. But Cosmo had been able to do it, and now Wanda could keep her job! Cosmo may have been a mama's boy, and may not always be able to catch on when something bad was happening, but if need be he would stick up for his wife, and that was way more than Wanda could have ever asked for.
So let Mama Cosma attempt to break them apart. She knew nothing would work. Cosmo loved her, and she loved him. But she wasn't going to worry about that right now. Right now she just wanted to spend time with her boys. After the turmoil she'd been in for the past five days – and especially the turmoil she'd been in since the night before – she was going to make every minute count.
She loved her job. She loved her husband. And even though she had to deal with Mama Cosma's crazy schemes, she wouldn't trade her life for anything.
DGG: Aw. Such a sweet little ending...I always feel like my endings are weird or cliche or something. I don't know. Oh well.
Thanks to all that have read and reviewed. I hope you all enjoyed it!
