Today Was a Fairytale
A Sisters Grimm Fan Fiction
A 100 Word Challenge Entry
Chapter 25: Happy
A/N: I'm 1/4 of the way done! WOOOHOOOO!

Sabrina Grimm was happy. It was a regular, every day feeling for most girls her age. Most fourteen year old girls could claim their were quite happy, despite their birthday having gone by unnoticed. When the girl was Sabrina Grimm, however, it was rather hard to find happiness in every day life. She was stuck in the middle of a war, surrounded by people-who weren't really people at all-who wanted her family dead. Yet, she was happy right now. Happiness didn't mean that everything in a person's life was perfect, after all. It just meant that they'd finally decided to look beyond all of the little imperfections.

"Hey there," Puck smiled, swinging an arm around her as he reached her, falling into step besides her. "You know what I've noticed?" He asked her.

"What?" She giggled, loving the attention she was always given from her wonderful boyfriend. That was a large part of her happiness. It seemed like their relationship had been close to perfect ever since their discussion the previous week.

"The saddest person I know, happens to have the world's most beautiful smile," He grinned, kissing her on the cheek and earning another giggle from the blonde haired girl. He tightened his grip on her waist. "But, besides that, I've noticed that your birthday seemed to have gone by without any notice at all. And that's just a shame, really," He nodded.

"I don't mind it," She shrugged. "I'll have more," She said honestly. In all honesty, though, she was not at all okay with her birthday having passed by unnoticed. That just made her realize exactly how bad the war was getting, and she didn't want to think about something like that.

"Well I do mind," He said. "So, we're going to have to do something about this situation, because I happen to be a kind and I always get my way," He said. She sighed, rolling her eyes as she shook her head. This would be funny, if it wasn't so true. Puck had a way of always getting exactly what he wanted. She was just a little jealous of that fact. Until she realized that he had her, which must mean that he actually wanted her. And that made her feel just a little bit special.

"What are you going to do?" She asked him, looking up at him. It was a fair question. They were stuck in this camp and if they left, they'd most likely be rewarded with immediate death. Sabrina was sure he'd find that entertaining, but she did not want to celebrate her birthday that way. For some odd reason, it didn't sound like fun to her.

"Oh, come on Sabrina," He rolled his eyes. "If I told you, that would just ruin the surprise," He rolled his eyes.

"What about your birthday?" She wondered. He turned to her and gave her a confused look. "Well, I've been in Ferryport Landing for a while now-two years at least," She explained. He continued to just stare at her in wonder. "I'm just saying, we've never celebrated your birthday and that means I don't even know when it is," She shrugged. He shook his head at her and his shoulders shook. He was laughing at her! "Don't laugh at me! Why are you laughing at me?" SHe glared.

"Because you're being so stupid," He rolled his eyes. She glared at him. Everybody knew that Sabrina hated to be called stupid, almost as much as she hated to be laughed at. Puck should know that better than anybody. "Sorry, but it's true," He shrugged. "What's it matter when my birthday is? It's not like a keep track of how old I am anymore. Besides, it just means I'm another year older than you are, and that doesn't excite me," He shrugged. "It's not that tempting to be in your four thousands when your girlfriend's in her early teens. It's the weirdest form of pedophile-ness that I've ever heard of," He shrugged.

"Oh my god," Sabrina paused her steps and studied him.

"What?" He asked, eyeing her. He knew she had some crazy idea up her sleeve. And he was fairly certain she was about to guess his real reason for not wanting to answer her question.

"Oh my god," She repeated, shaking her head as she studied him. "I can't believe this," A wide smile started to take over her face. She was excited. He sighed. There was no point in trying to take this from her. He decided to just let her go with it. "You don't know when your birthday is!" She exclaimed. He shook his head at her. There was no point denying it. She'd just argue. Besides, she was right.

"It's not that I don't know, per say," He told her. Her laughter made him happy-at first-but it was starting to bother him that she didn't understand the real reason behind what she was laughing at. "It's just that Fairies don't keep track of birthdays and things like that they same way you humans do," He shrugged. "We know general years-have a general idea, because we know the season and all, but the exact date just doesn't really matter to us," He shrugged. "I'm sure at one point in time, I knew it, and my family probably did too, but it's been forgotten in history," He said as if it didn't bother him. And it didn't. Of course, Sabrina wouldn't believe that for a second.

"That's awful!" She gushed. "So, you've never had a birthday before?" She asked him, staring at him in wonder.

"I have," He nodded. "When a fairy is growing up, until they reach the age of adult hood-which is fourteen for us-their birthday is celebrated for the entire season that they were born in," He shrugged.

"What if two fairy families had multiple children born in the same season?" Sabrina wondered, finding the fairy culture quite odd, but also rather interesting. After all, who wouldn't want to celebrate their birthday for days, weeks-months? She sort of wished humans had that belief. Then again, she also thought it must be pretty awful to now know when your actual birthday was. Her parents had always kept it well documented and always worked hard to celebrate the day however she wanted.

"Not possible," He shrugged. "Fairy families can only have four births anyways," He explained. "And it's just not possible for them to have kids born into the same season for the same family," He informed her. "It's a lot of odd scientific facts to back it up and I don't feel like getting into it. Fairies are wired differently than humans, remember? Even Ever Afters," He sighed.

She thought about that for a few moments as they resumed their walk. Everything he was saying just seemed so odd to her. She felt like she was lost in her life science class again. Finally, she spoke up, asking the question that had been bursting inside of her but she'd not wanted to ask, due to its content. "So, when we get older and have kids..."She began slowly. This intrigued him. He turned to her and raised an eyebrow at her. "Well, I was just wondering...which customs would be follo-"

"Sabrina," He laughed. "Do you think a fairy and a human have ever fallen in love before? Do you think they've ever acted on those feelings before if it's ever happened?" He wondered. She frowned, slightly confused. "Sabrina, it's just like in those silly vampire novels you read where the human and the vampire end up together. Whatever happens in their relationship is a mystery to everybody. Nobody is sure what will happen if you and I ever decide to have kids, but let's not worry about that, alright? We're young," He shrugged. "Besides, the whole birth thing is different with my family. We're the royal family because we're the fairies closest to humans," He shrugged.

She widened her eyes, her jaw ready to drop. She'd never heard that one before. This information was news to her and she wanted to know exactly what he meant. She wanted to know right this very instant. He couldn't just start to explain something and then leave it unfinished. That wasn't fair! That was like giving her a box of chocolates but telling her that she wasn't allowed to eat them. It was cruel and unusual. Some twisted form of punishment.

"Explain!" She snapped, stomping her foot.

"Sabrina," He sighed. He fell backwards, arms and legs sprawled out around him. "You're killing me here!" He said in exasperation. She rolled her eyes, quickly growing tired of his dramatics. "Can't we go back to walking and kissing and joking around? And end this fairy informational lecture?" He sighed.

"No," She shrugged. He rolled his eyes. He should have known as much. "Are you going to tell me or not? And how come Peter's so human? Isn't he a hybrid?" She wondered.

"His father's an everafter," Puck said. "It's different there. Anyways, the royal family in Faerie has always been the family that has the most human like traits. Their guards are the same way, but that's due to the magic the royal family has. Tinkerbelle is your average fairy. If you tried that whole I don't believe in fairies thing, it would work on fairies like her, but now me," He sighed. He didn't want to think about this stuff. It was educational, and he didn't do that stuff. "Can we be done now? No more questions?" He asked. She opened her mouth to say something else, but he cut her off with a kiss. She might now be done learning, but he was done teaching.