Breathe-Taylor Swift
I sit up in bed from the dream I had…it was summer vacation now, and I was staying at my parent's house. I slept in the attic-guest room. I sigh as I lay against my pillows sadly. I had another dream about Basil; we were solving a mystery together…I grab the locket from the side table and stare at the inscription. We had all tried finding Nim…but she seemed to have disappeared. I feel anxious…I needed to go back to Baker Street. We all missed Mary, Dawson, Mrs. Judson, Toby, Olivia, Mr. Flaversham, Vicki, and Basil. I never thought I would feel heart ache, but I did. I was worried and disheartened to think that I would never be able to go back to him. I suddenly hear Poesy lumber up. I smile as I see her swollen belly. My loyal mastiff clambered onto my bed and I rubbed her head gently. She was pregnant and it was no mystery who the father was…Toby and her were head over heels—er paws— over each other. It made me sad that Toby wouldn't be able to see his pups…
I sit up as I heard someone walk up the stairs. Marten sits at the end of my bed. "Hey,"
"Hey," I nod back to him. I saw how tired he was.
Marten lay down and stared at the ceiling. "I miss them."
"So do I."
"The girls and Nick want to know how to get back."
"So do I." I repeated earnestly.
"I'm worried that everything that happened…was just a dream." Marten looks at me with uncertainty.
I shook my head. "No, I can't believe that, and neither should you. Do you still have the ticket?"
Marten fishes through his pocket and looks at it, and soon he smiles. "Yeah, I guess you're right. It has just been so long since we saw them."
"Two months." I assented.
"I can't believe Nim is our ancestor—"
"She does look a lot like mom—she has her eyes." I remember the amazing amethyst eyes they both had; just like Mia and Nick.
"Do you think that we should learn magic?" Marten sits up and pets Poesy. "Do you think we should let the others learn too?"
I thought about the dangers and the amazing possibilities. I then look at the clock; it was 2 in the morning. "I think we should learn about magic…it's too big a part of our lives for us to ignore it. I don't know about you, but it isn't easy to go on like nothing happened."
"But you do."
"Yes, because I have to. This is our home."
"You miss him." Marten watches me as I sigh.
"It's strange…I feel like I left myself back there. It's hard not to be with him. Is that insane?"
"Maybe…but that's love."
I shake my head at him. "You're too young to know about love…"
"No one is too young to know about love. Love for a friend, for a sister or brother, for a companion." Marten smirked at me. "You know, I'm not blind to these sort of things."
I smile at him; he was growing up too fast. "You always know what to say."
"Yeah, I got it from this girl who always told me these stories to make me stop crying while we sat in a dusty closet…she was kinda' crazy and clumsy, but she always helped me and everyone without a thought about herself. She's my best friend and I owe her a lot." Marten paused. "Oh yeah, then there's you." He joked.
I hug him. "Thanks,"
Marten pats my back. "Anytime Donna."
The next morning; the kids were at the pool and I sat on the coach reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries sadly while my mom was chopping onions for dinner.
My mom looks over at me and raises her eyebrows. She then stops chopping and asked. "Who?"
I look up from my Kindle in surprise. "What?"
My mom walks over to me and sits down next me. "You fell in love; who was it?"
I stare at her; I was so down about being away from Basil, but I never thought my mother would notice. "How—"
"The way you've acted; it's like you're somewhere else, and the way you sigh…What happened bambi?" My mom looks at me with concern.
I hold my locket, but didn't answer. "Mama…this is different from anything else."
My mom listens patiently as I continued. "He understands me, saved me, and I've known him for almost my whole life…but I had to leave him."
My mom holds my hand. "You have a broken heart."
I nod. "I miss him…and I have magic."
My mom's eyes widen as she stares at me in bewilderment.
"Mama, I have magical abilities and I went to London and the kids did too…I fell in love with Basil of Baker street, I fought against Ratigan, and had the adventure of a lifetime…"
My mom stood up quickly; I was worried at the look of anger on her face, but she surprised me when she shouted: "Nim!"
With a puff of smoke Nim appeared at our counter and watches my mom good-naturedly. "Hello Meg—"
"Don't 'Hello Meg' me! What did you do?" My mother snapped at Nim.
Nim answers calmly. "I sent them to Basil's world, so they can discover their powers and learn their lessons—"
"Dammit Nim! I can't believe you did this!" My mom looked extremely pissed as she glared at Nim.
I look between them and sputter: "Wait! Mom—you know about magic?"
My mom peers at me and nods. "Yes…I once had magic, but it disappeared when I first married—"
"What?"
My mom waves my exclamation away. "Nim! What the hell is wrong with you?"
"Belladonna came back to life." Nim whined defensively.
My mom gaped and then screeched. "You better hope you can come back to life after I'm finished with you!"
I grab my mom and held her back as Nim told her everything; my Mom listened and sat down in shock. When Nim finished I told mom. "Mama, I can't say I regret what happened, but yes, I did fall in love…"
My mom glares at Nim and sighs. "Okay, okay, I'm happy for you bambi, but I don't know about you learning magic…it takes a lot of commitment and it's so dangerous…"
"But it also saved me! It healed me so much and I promised Basil I would come back to him. Please let the kids learn magic Mama; they need it." I pleaded with her. "I need it."
My mom gazes at me and sighs. "I'm just trying to get over the fact that you fell in love with Basil of Baker street…"
"I know Mama, but…it happened." We all turn around when my siblings walk into the kitchen; dripping wet from swimming.
Mia exclaims. "Nim! Where have you been?"
Nim smirks. "Is that anyway to greet your aunt?"
Nick and Cassie run over and hug Nim, but Mia and Marten stay where they are to glower at the sorceress. I step up to Nim. "Nim we need to go back to Baker Street—"
"Yes, yes, all in good time Belladonna," She grabs something out of her bag and continued pulling it out until she had a 6 ft. staff in her hand.
Marten interjected. "We want you to teach us magic—"
"Well of course, but I won't be the only one." Nim winks. "Now hold hands!"
I grab Nick's hand and Cassie grasps my other as we seemed to speed through the air. When we stop we are in a room with large bookshelves and strange objects. Hundreds of books were piled to the ceiling and strange skeletons of flying machines hung from the ceiling; hovering above the books. I see my mom was holding Nick's other hand and was looking around her with a fond look on her face. We were suddenly greeted by an annoyed screech: "Nimue! I thought Merlin told you not to pop in the study!" We look up to see a brown owl glaring at Nimue as he spat down at her from his perch.
My mom smiles. "Nice to see you Archimedes."
"Who?" the owl snapped as he looks at mom. "Meg! What happened to you and why are you surrounded by these whipper-snappers?"
Mom's grin grew as she explained. "These are my children."
"Children? Blah," Archimedes flew down and landed on a chair. We instantly recognize him from The Sword in the Stone; Merlin's sassy pet owl.
Cassie was so excited that she picked up the owl and hugged him.
Archimedes sputtered. "What! Let me go! Confound you!" he flew away from her with his feathers ruffled in annoyance. "Children; pah!"
Nimue taps her staff against the post the owl perched on. "Now don't get your feathers in a twist."
Nick looks around in amazement as he reaches out to touch a book.
Archimedes sees and hoots. "Don't touch that boy!"
Nick jumps back and keeps his hands to his sides.
"Wow," I gasped. "Nim, do you live here?"
"I visit; I used to live here when Madame Mim took over my cottage."
"Oh yeah, when she pretended to be you…but she did go by Mim…" Our mother reminisces.
"Yeah, I can't believe Marten thought you were her!" Mia giggles.
Archimedes starts laughing. "Hooohooo, he thought you were Mim? Haha! That's rich…I can see why he would think that—there is a resemblance!" the owl jeered as he laughed.
Nim's nose wrinkles as she glared at the owl. "Don't compare me to that psychotic hag—she stole my powers, identity as the Magnificent Marvelous Nim, and ruined my lovely cottage…And if you ever hoot that I look like her again—" Nim points her finger at him and a rain cloud appears over Archimedes' head and started pouring out rain onto the poor bird. "Oh-ow! Nim!"
"Consider yourself lucky I didn't add lightning." Nim sniffed.
The cloud suddenly shifted away from the owl and into the middle of the floor. The cloud took a shape of a man with a pointed hat as lightning billowed around it. With a huge clap of thunder and a rush of wind; an elderly man in a blue robe steps out of the cloud and adjusted his spectacles. "Ah, Nim, Meg, Belladonna, Marten, Nick, Mia, and Cassie—so sorry I'm late. I had an extended meeting with Yen sid and Micky Mouse about David Stutler." Merlin sits down at a table and starts pouring the tea. "Meg; five spoonfuls of sugar and a sprig of mint?"
"You remembered," Meg smiled as she hugged Merlin. "It's good to see you Merlin."
"And you as well," Merlin tells her he looks over at the children. "Well, these must be your children. Belladonna—white tea with honey? Marten hot chocolate? Nick, green tea? Mia Latino-style hot chocolate? And Cassie would you like some sweet tea with a lemon slice?" We all nod as Merlin listed off our favorite drinks. He poured each drink out of the same teapot and we watched in amazement as each time he poured a cup; the liquid would magically change into our favorite beverages. We then see a sugar bowl hop over and give our mother's cup five heaping scoops of sugar. Nim and Merlin then conjure some chairs which flew down the stairs and sat in front of the table. We all sit down and sip our tea—it was delicious.
Merlin peers at us and finally says. "Nim…"
Nim looks up sheepishly from her soda she conjured up for herself.
"Why would you send your descendants to Basil's world?"
"So they could learn and discover magic and life lessons." Nim answered nonchalantly.
"Oh—well did you all learn something important?" He asked curiously.
We look at each other and nod. I spoke up. "Merlin, we wish to learn magic—"
"Wonderful! Expanding your mind is a useful tool in many worlds." Merlin seemed happily excited as he gazed at us. "And I see that you all have powerful magic within you."
I quickly tell him. "I need to learn how to go back to Baker Street!"
Merlin looks at me for a moment and then smiles. "You want to go back?"
I stand up as I told him. "I promised someone I loved that I would come back."
Merlin jumps up. "Well then, we should start your training!" He points to us all and everything disappears in front of us.
Merlin walks up to me and inquires. "Now, I must warn you; magic is a very dangerous thing…it is very similar to the properties of fire; it does what it wants, can burn anything in its path, only needs a spark, and is very beneficiary. It has it good and bad…agreeing to learn is agreeing to live with the good and bad."
I peer at my family; we've been through so much…and we gained many new scars, but also many new friends…I stare at Merlin and say. "I accept."
"And so our training begins!" Nim exclaims happily as blows purple smoke around us.
The adventure may have ended, but it always begins anew.
Author's Note:
"One more chapter and then the author's note chapter-" Author sobs.
"Yeah, you're really dragging this out, aren't ya?" Brother asks.
Author swats brother with tissue. "Shut up-there is no limit on creativity."
"There are limits on attention spans and patience; you're just lucky your chapters entertain me."
"Why?"
"Because, there would be no other reason for me to read this...I also like that Marten charater; he's pretty cool. As well as Nick."
"Well, I did model them after you-"
"What! Without my permission?"
"Do you seriously mind?"
"...No." ToT
"Thought so," *o*
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