I'm back as you can see! And with a chapter, nonetheless! This one is just
small, random highlights in their lives, but it all leads up to a big
realization. And while you read the chappy, I'm off to read Sherlock
Holmes. Enjoy...
~*~ Millenniums Gone By ~-*-~-*-~-*-~ Chapter 6
"How 'bout we breeze through this?" Rick said. "Give me some life highlights, Ma."
"There's not much in my life that you'd find interesting..." Wanda said, "and Cosmo's life is boring."
"It's not!" Cosmo shot back. "It has monkeys!"
"Oh boy!" Sparkle cried out, jumping up and down in her chair.
"Exactly my point," Wanda muttered. She sat up straight and thought deeply. "Well, if you really need to know, my social life was so-and-so. Having Cosmo around really made a difference in my popularity."
"Sure it did," Cosmo said smiling. "'Cuz everyone loves me!"
"Actually Cosmo, everyone wouldn't stand withing 10 meters close to you. But I had my share of friends, of course. It was sometimes an advantage, too..."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
A particular day at the restaurant, Wanda meets with some friends of hers. The waitresses would look at them and immediately notice Wanda (since she was awfully short compared to the rest). They would go up to them and ask if they need a booster seat.
"If you're a good girl, you get free dessert!" the waitress said, patting Wanda on the head.
Wanda never seemed to mind. She just smiled back and proceeded to talk with her friends.
"Um, doesn't that stuff ever bother you?" a girl asked her once.
"Heck no! I get free ice cream everytime I'm out with my friends! You should see me when I go to the clubs, too! They'll ask for my ID, find out I'm 17 in fairy years and all the guys wanna buy me drinks 'cuz I'm so cute and tiny."
"Oh, man... What would I not give for such powers..."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"Did you and dad work alot in school together? You know... after you met in academy?" Rick asked.
"We worked on projects together sometimes," Wanda started.
"Which means Wanda worked on my projects sometimes," Cosmo added.
"But I never let him get away with it. He was obligated to work in class, but it was huge, huge mistake often..."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
After quite a few accidents, Wanda had enough of acting like Cosmo's school nanny and started working on her own. But seeing him by himself and working on chemistry without assistance made her nervous. She signaled him from the other side of the room, making sure the mentors didn't see her.
Cosmo didn't understand what her intention was, so he continued. In a poof, Wanda moved from her seat to the one beside Cosmo.
"Why don't I help you with that?" Wanda said to him.
"No, don't worry; I got it," Cosmo reassured.
"You got it wrong... I don't think it's a good idea--"
"Nonesense, Wanda! I can handle it! All I have to do is--"
As the readers may have already guessed, whatever reaction Cosmo put together in his work had blown up. He tends to do that alot, doesn't he? If it wasn't for the dark ashes, you would have noticed Wanda's face flush with embarrassment. The whole class glared at them angrily.
"Well... you were saying??"
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"Dad? Do you like to blow things up or sumthin'?" Sparkle said cautiously.
Cosmo just grinned idiotically, not sure how to explain himself.
Wanda closed her eyes and held her head. She knew what this was about... couldn't she just think of something that made her day? Something that tightened the bonds or made her smile?
"Dad was just a little independant, that's all Sparky..." Rick said while writing down something. Sparkle mumbled something about the name 'Sparky' angrily.
"Uh... ma? Are you okay?" Rick asked concerned, looking at Wanda.
"Yes, sweetie. I'm fine. Anyways, I know what you were going to ask now, I believe. If you want to know some sort of cornerstone... I just remembered something... a week before graduating Magia."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"Yeah, I brought the work," Cosmo said.
"Well, I brought your dumb tools. And we're going to sit down and work on your dumb little task and see what we come up with..."
Neither Cosmo or Wanda wanted to have part in this. Sure, they demand responsability... but she expected something much smaller than refurnishing the entire school. It wasn't fair for him to put up with so much work, as Wanda figured. And even if he didn't mind, just thinking how the place would look after a remodeling from him just creeped her out. So she asked if she could help him.
Hours later, they were practically barely awake. They dropped whatever task they were with and talked, awaiting the time for them to head home.
"Gosh, I hope Mama doesn't take long today..." Cosmo said to himself, gazing outside.
Wanda scoffed. "Oh, please! How could she be late more than twice in your life? The woman's obsessed with you! I bet she has pictures of your first movement, your first drool stain, your first blink..."
"Yeah, she does."
"... ohh. Well, you see my point, right?"
Cosmo shook his head 'no'.
"Wanda-- every time I mention Mama, you act... weird."
She looked at her feet, feeling uncomfortable. To confess, or not to confess... that is the question.
"Hey! Don't you try to Shakespere me, Jedi!!"
"Who are you talking to??"
". . . . . nobody. I-- I used to have a little imaginary friend or whatever you call it when I was young and-sometimes I..."
"Really? Oh, so do I! Mine's called Waffles!"
"Waffles? Why Waffles?" Wanda said, stifling a laugh.
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"So THAT'S why you called him Waffles!!" Sparkle cried out, holding up her unicorn. "I was gonna ask Ma why did she called it that, but then that means that dad named it instead! Unless Ma liked the name so much that she was the one that--"
"SPARKLE! Stop interrupting, you-- you..." Rick looked sideways at Wanda. "... you... little annoying...-- aw heck. Just don't do it again, Spark."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"'Cause I like them! What's the name of yours?"
Wanda tried her best not to lose it.
"Cosmo, I wish I had a mom like yours," she confessed.
"How come?"
"My mom thinks I have it all well and good, but how could I? She never helps me, never reasons with me... she doesn't even hug me anymore. I would do anything to get my mother to at least talk to me when she returns home. In fact, I bet the only time we were the closest was when she held me in her arms when I was born."
Wanda stopped to catch her breath. Her eyes welled up in tears.
"A-And I don't think we'll ever be close again! Dad always works and my brothers never want to talk to me 'cuz they're the favorites and they think they're too important to talk to a runt like me. It hurts! Why can't I--"
Wanda couldn't finish the sentence. She buried her face in her hands and stayed silent.
"Why can't you what?" Cosmo asked worried.
"Why can't I just have at least 1 person that shows affection?? I know mom loves me, but she never shows it... unlike yours. I just wish someone would tell me that they really love me... and that they mean it."
"Don't act like nobody loves you, Wanda. 'Cuz that's not true."
"Oh really?" she responded, sarcasm in her voice. "I'm pretty sure you can't point me to someone who does, can you?"
Cosmo hugged her tightly and Wanda let the tears run down. Every sob she let out felt like a torrent of pain within Cosmo. Thankfully, she was feeling better after the embrace.
"Thanks, Cos. Even without the words you can give me so much peace," she said with a smile.
Cosmo let out a self-satisfied sigh. He loved it when she called him Cos.
"Well, I just want'cha to know that... I love you."
Wanda grinned. "Aw thanks, Cosmo! I love you, too... and we'll always be friends forever, won't we?"
Cosmo shrugged. That's not how he really meant it, but as long as she was happy...
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
Cosmo wiped the tears from his eyes and Wanda sniffed. She moved closer to Cosmo, leaned on his chest and hugged him. Cosmo hugged her back with a wince.
"You don't still feel that way, do you?" he asked softly.
"Sometimes," she confessed. "Recently."
"Why?"
"I was afraid you wouldn't love me anymore because of the way I've been ignoring everyone. And then we started fighting and I kept it up and... oh, God. I began acting like my own mother."
"Don't be silly... you know I still love you no matter what."
The fairy woman smiled in relief and comfort. She was late for work... but what did she care now? It's just a bunch of stupid flowers. What was really important is that things were going back on track.
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Oh, please... this is like a crappy soap opera... but who doesn't like to watch a crappy soap opera every now and then?
I make this sound like an ending-- but it's not! The next chapter MAY come just as late (hopefully not), but I promise - PROMISE - that no fanfic I write will go unfinished! You can trust me on that! ^_~
((A/N: Yeah, yeah, I know... that little 'cute and tiny' skit is from the webcomic 'Queen of Wands'... but that's the only QoW's strip that I liked the most of all! I just HAD to metion something like it in the fic!))
Stay tuned for the next chapter!
~*~ Millenniums Gone By ~-*-~-*-~-*-~ Chapter 6
"How 'bout we breeze through this?" Rick said. "Give me some life highlights, Ma."
"There's not much in my life that you'd find interesting..." Wanda said, "and Cosmo's life is boring."
"It's not!" Cosmo shot back. "It has monkeys!"
"Oh boy!" Sparkle cried out, jumping up and down in her chair.
"Exactly my point," Wanda muttered. She sat up straight and thought deeply. "Well, if you really need to know, my social life was so-and-so. Having Cosmo around really made a difference in my popularity."
"Sure it did," Cosmo said smiling. "'Cuz everyone loves me!"
"Actually Cosmo, everyone wouldn't stand withing 10 meters close to you. But I had my share of friends, of course. It was sometimes an advantage, too..."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
A particular day at the restaurant, Wanda meets with some friends of hers. The waitresses would look at them and immediately notice Wanda (since she was awfully short compared to the rest). They would go up to them and ask if they need a booster seat.
"If you're a good girl, you get free dessert!" the waitress said, patting Wanda on the head.
Wanda never seemed to mind. She just smiled back and proceeded to talk with her friends.
"Um, doesn't that stuff ever bother you?" a girl asked her once.
"Heck no! I get free ice cream everytime I'm out with my friends! You should see me when I go to the clubs, too! They'll ask for my ID, find out I'm 17 in fairy years and all the guys wanna buy me drinks 'cuz I'm so cute and tiny."
"Oh, man... What would I not give for such powers..."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"Did you and dad work alot in school together? You know... after you met in academy?" Rick asked.
"We worked on projects together sometimes," Wanda started.
"Which means Wanda worked on my projects sometimes," Cosmo added.
"But I never let him get away with it. He was obligated to work in class, but it was huge, huge mistake often..."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
After quite a few accidents, Wanda had enough of acting like Cosmo's school nanny and started working on her own. But seeing him by himself and working on chemistry without assistance made her nervous. She signaled him from the other side of the room, making sure the mentors didn't see her.
Cosmo didn't understand what her intention was, so he continued. In a poof, Wanda moved from her seat to the one beside Cosmo.
"Why don't I help you with that?" Wanda said to him.
"No, don't worry; I got it," Cosmo reassured.
"You got it wrong... I don't think it's a good idea--"
"Nonesense, Wanda! I can handle it! All I have to do is--"
As the readers may have already guessed, whatever reaction Cosmo put together in his work had blown up. He tends to do that alot, doesn't he? If it wasn't for the dark ashes, you would have noticed Wanda's face flush with embarrassment. The whole class glared at them angrily.
"Well... you were saying??"
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"Dad? Do you like to blow things up or sumthin'?" Sparkle said cautiously.
Cosmo just grinned idiotically, not sure how to explain himself.
Wanda closed her eyes and held her head. She knew what this was about... couldn't she just think of something that made her day? Something that tightened the bonds or made her smile?
"Dad was just a little independant, that's all Sparky..." Rick said while writing down something. Sparkle mumbled something about the name 'Sparky' angrily.
"Uh... ma? Are you okay?" Rick asked concerned, looking at Wanda.
"Yes, sweetie. I'm fine. Anyways, I know what you were going to ask now, I believe. If you want to know some sort of cornerstone... I just remembered something... a week before graduating Magia."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"Yeah, I brought the work," Cosmo said.
"Well, I brought your dumb tools. And we're going to sit down and work on your dumb little task and see what we come up with..."
Neither Cosmo or Wanda wanted to have part in this. Sure, they demand responsability... but she expected something much smaller than refurnishing the entire school. It wasn't fair for him to put up with so much work, as Wanda figured. And even if he didn't mind, just thinking how the place would look after a remodeling from him just creeped her out. So she asked if she could help him.
Hours later, they were practically barely awake. They dropped whatever task they were with and talked, awaiting the time for them to head home.
"Gosh, I hope Mama doesn't take long today..." Cosmo said to himself, gazing outside.
Wanda scoffed. "Oh, please! How could she be late more than twice in your life? The woman's obsessed with you! I bet she has pictures of your first movement, your first drool stain, your first blink..."
"Yeah, she does."
"... ohh. Well, you see my point, right?"
Cosmo shook his head 'no'.
"Wanda-- every time I mention Mama, you act... weird."
She looked at her feet, feeling uncomfortable. To confess, or not to confess... that is the question.
"Hey! Don't you try to Shakespere me, Jedi!!"
"Who are you talking to??"
". . . . . nobody. I-- I used to have a little imaginary friend or whatever you call it when I was young and-sometimes I..."
"Really? Oh, so do I! Mine's called Waffles!"
"Waffles? Why Waffles?" Wanda said, stifling a laugh.
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"So THAT'S why you called him Waffles!!" Sparkle cried out, holding up her unicorn. "I was gonna ask Ma why did she called it that, but then that means that dad named it instead! Unless Ma liked the name so much that she was the one that--"
"SPARKLE! Stop interrupting, you-- you..." Rick looked sideways at Wanda. "... you... little annoying...-- aw heck. Just don't do it again, Spark."
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
"'Cause I like them! What's the name of yours?"
Wanda tried her best not to lose it.
"Cosmo, I wish I had a mom like yours," she confessed.
"How come?"
"My mom thinks I have it all well and good, but how could I? She never helps me, never reasons with me... she doesn't even hug me anymore. I would do anything to get my mother to at least talk to me when she returns home. In fact, I bet the only time we were the closest was when she held me in her arms when I was born."
Wanda stopped to catch her breath. Her eyes welled up in tears.
"A-And I don't think we'll ever be close again! Dad always works and my brothers never want to talk to me 'cuz they're the favorites and they think they're too important to talk to a runt like me. It hurts! Why can't I--"
Wanda couldn't finish the sentence. She buried her face in her hands and stayed silent.
"Why can't you what?" Cosmo asked worried.
"Why can't I just have at least 1 person that shows affection?? I know mom loves me, but she never shows it... unlike yours. I just wish someone would tell me that they really love me... and that they mean it."
"Don't act like nobody loves you, Wanda. 'Cuz that's not true."
"Oh really?" she responded, sarcasm in her voice. "I'm pretty sure you can't point me to someone who does, can you?"
Cosmo hugged her tightly and Wanda let the tears run down. Every sob she let out felt like a torrent of pain within Cosmo. Thankfully, she was feeling better after the embrace.
"Thanks, Cos. Even without the words you can give me so much peace," she said with a smile.
Cosmo let out a self-satisfied sigh. He loved it when she called him Cos.
"Well, I just want'cha to know that... I love you."
Wanda grinned. "Aw thanks, Cosmo! I love you, too... and we'll always be friends forever, won't we?"
Cosmo shrugged. That's not how he really meant it, but as long as she was happy...
~-*-~-*-~-*-~-*-~
Cosmo wiped the tears from his eyes and Wanda sniffed. She moved closer to Cosmo, leaned on his chest and hugged him. Cosmo hugged her back with a wince.
"You don't still feel that way, do you?" he asked softly.
"Sometimes," she confessed. "Recently."
"Why?"
"I was afraid you wouldn't love me anymore because of the way I've been ignoring everyone. And then we started fighting and I kept it up and... oh, God. I began acting like my own mother."
"Don't be silly... you know I still love you no matter what."
The fairy woman smiled in relief and comfort. She was late for work... but what did she care now? It's just a bunch of stupid flowers. What was really important is that things were going back on track.
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Oh, please... this is like a crappy soap opera... but who doesn't like to watch a crappy soap opera every now and then?
I make this sound like an ending-- but it's not! The next chapter MAY come just as late (hopefully not), but I promise - PROMISE - that no fanfic I write will go unfinished! You can trust me on that! ^_~
((A/N: Yeah, yeah, I know... that little 'cute and tiny' skit is from the webcomic 'Queen of Wands'... but that's the only QoW's strip that I liked the most of all! I just HAD to metion something like it in the fic!))
Stay tuned for the next chapter!