Sabrina and Puck are 17, but the Everafter war ended about 6 months prior to this story. I've decided to try out Puck in first person.
"I would have thought your puppy-dog crush on my daughter would make you more protective." Henry's words echoed in my head. Henry was right, I did need to be more protective of my future wife, but at the time I knew that Sabrina needed to save the world. I huffed and made a promise to protect Sabrina better from this point on.
I eyed Sabrina from across the school yard, which had recently been rebuilt. She was talking to another boy probably in their grade, but I didn't like how close he was to Sabrina. Frankly, Sabrina didn't even look all that comfortable with the boy either. I strolled confidently over to Sabrina and wrapped my arm around her shoulder. I gave her a peck on the cheek and smiled at her.
"Who's this?" I asked gesturing toward the nameless boy.
"This is Derek. He's new," Sabrina said. I could tell that Sabrina was shocked by my affectionate actions, but she didn't pull away.
"Is this your boyfriend?" Derek asked.
"Yep! The name is Robin Goodfellow," I said and stuck out my free hand to him. Derek ignored the hand and looked at Sabrina.
"You didn't tell me you had a boyfriend," he seemed annoyed.
"You didn't ask," Sabrina huffed and rolled her eyes.
"Well I'll see you guys around," Derek said after an awkward pause and stalked away disappointedly. I removed my arm from Sabrina's shoulder and looked at her from the corner of my eyes.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Yeah. It's just really disappointing when all a guy wants from you is to get in your pants," Sabrina said and started the walk home.
"Guys like that don't deserve you," I said and we were silent the rest of the way home.
"That sounds dangerous," I stated after hearing Sabrina pitch her plan for the current mystery they were trying to solve.
"Since when do you care if something is dangerous?" Sabrina asked looking at me skeptically.
"Puck's right you shouldn't break into Rumpelstiltskin's house. He'd kill you if he found out," Granny said looking thoughtful.
"I've done much more dangerous things," Sabrina pointed out.
"She led an army into battle," Daphne defended her sister.
"We aren't at war, Marshmallow. We don't need to do anything stupid," I argued.
"Are you serious? You love doing dangerous things! This is a great plan!" Sabrina was starting to lose her cool.
"Yeah I like to do dangerous things. You do not do dangerous things," I said thinking about all the times Sabrina had complained about the family business.
"Oh. He's kind of right," Daphne said and Sabrina gave her sister a look of betrayal to which Daphne returned with an apologetic look.
"Then it's settled! Puck will be doing the breaking and entering," Granny said.
"Wait a minute! You trust Puck to do this?!" Sabrina was completely baffled.
"I can handle it Grimm," I said and walked out of the room.
"Sabrina you should definitely stay here," I said and headed to the door.
"What?! You don't get to tell me if I'm going or not!" Sabrina shrieked. "Daphne is 11 and she's going!"
"Daphne's good with magic!" I argued. Sabrina looked hurt, but emotionally was much better than bringing her home bleeding because I couldn't protect her and Daphne.
"I'm not useless, Puck! I can fight just as well as anyone else! I was trained by Snow White and even you!" Sabrina was fuming.
"You trained with me for one day," I said flatly. Sabrina rolled her eyes and walked to the door, but I blocked her path.
"Please, Sabrina. Don't make me tie you down," I threatened.
"You're being ridiculous," she shoved me away from the door.
"You're both being ridiculous now let's go!" Jake said and pushed both of us out the door. My heartrate tripled and I could hear it pounding in my ears. We made it to the town square in record time, but most of it was destroyed already.
"What is that thing?" I asked as I stared at the large bird looming over the square.
"That would be a jubjub," Granny answered.
"What the crap is a jubjub?" Sabrina asked.
"It's from Alice in Wonderland. Very dangerous," Jake said. Great, very dangerous.
"Can't you just turn into a dragon and burn it to a crisp?" Sabrina asked with a hopeful look.
"I can't turn into anything that large," I answered with a shake of my head. Daphne pulled a wand out from her pocket and gave it a flick. Suddenly the bird was wearing a ball gown. It gave a mighty cry of anger and flailed wildly. We all took the opportunity to go into action. I flew to its face and with my wooden sword began to jab at its eyes. Jake began throwing every magic bottle in his pocket. The bird was very unhappy about this and tried to fly away. Unfortunately, because of its lack of eyesight from me hitting it, it was unable to fly high enough. The bird flew straight into the gazebo. The debris from the gazebo sprayed everywhere and I spotted Sabrina running trying to avoid them. The bird hit another small building causing it to crumble and this time I knew Sabrina wouldn't be able to move out of the way.
I dove for her and wrapped her in my arms around her just before the building collapsed on top of me. Thanks to me being a fairy I was strong enough to hold up the parts of the building that would have crushed Sabrina. She stared up at me in shock.
"Go!" I ordered as my limbs began to shake from the weight of the stone wall. She obeyed and ran out from under me to safety. I couldn't hold the building any longer and let it crush me. I fell with a loud thud.
"Puck!" Sabrina screamed and I groaned. Regrettably, the bird had gotten away in all the commotion.
"Puck?" Sabrina said. I looked up at her and I was sure the pain was evident in my eyes.
"I'm fine. You know, just taking a break," I said and lowered my head to the pavement.
"Uncle Jake! Granny!" Sabrina called sounding a little panicked. They rushed over and surveyed the situation.
"We'll go get the blue fairy! You wait with Puck," Granny said and the three other Grimms were off to find the fairy. I groaned and Sabrina took a seat beside me.
"I told you to stay home," I said and she glared at me.
"I can take care of myself!" She said.
"Obviously you can't! You would have been dead Sabrina! If I weren't a fairy, I'd be dead!" I exclaimed.
"You don't get to tell me what to do! Enough people tell me what to do all the time. There's my parents, Granny, Mr. Canis, Uncle Jake, and even Daphne! I don't need it from you," Sabrina was so mad at him.
"I'm just trying to protect you," Puck said and tried his best to crane his neck to look at her. Her face softened a little as she looked at him, but she didn't say anything.
"Why?" She finally asked.
"Why what?" I asked confused. They had been silent for a while.
"Why are you trying to protect me? Recently you've been trying to- I don't even know what you've been trying to do. Like last week with that creep Derek, then not letting me break into Rumpelstiltskin's house. And then again yesterday when Granny left the stove on and the pot caught on fire and I was about to put it out with a fire extinguisher like a normal person, " She shoots me a glare, "you go and take it with your bare hands and throw it in the sink! And now you're shielding me from crumbling buildings? What is up with you?" She asked.
"I'm always saving you," I responded with a smirk.
"Yeah, sure, but you've never been this overprotective," Sabrina said.
"Isn't that how I'm supposed to be? As your future husband, aren't I supposed to protect you?" I asked finally letting the truth come out.
"You are such an idiot," Sabrina scoffed.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Couples make decisions together. They don't try to control one another. We protect each other," Sabrina said and looked at him very seriously. This statement left me very confused. She hadn't denied that they would eventually end up married. I felt her hand brush against mine and I looked up at her. She gave me a shy smile before grabbing my hand and giving it a slight squeeze. She didn't let go until the rest of the family returned with the blue fairy.