So I'm just going to say that, for the purpose of this fanfic, Mustardseed is still going to be Puck's younger brother, but he has aged himself so that his body is older than Puck's. This just made the most sense with the way I wanted to write the chapter. This chapter also has more cursing in it thank the others, one reference to sex, and a kissing scene. Just a warning. I probably won't post any more warnings after this though, unless there is something a lot more explicit than what's in this chapter. Which I don't think I am going to do.
"Puck!" Sabrina yelled at him. Every inch of their bodies were pressed together, and Puck had gotten tangled in her skirt. "Get off!"
"I'm trying!" he groaned. "This thing has too many layers! And I can't see a thing!" Suddenly, he yanked on the wrong piece of the dress and they both fell forward, this time Sabrina landing on top of Puck in the middle of the floor. Something else went clattering to the ground, and they both froze.
The voices outside had gone quiet.
"No no no no no, what are we going to do? Someone's going to come in here! Move move move!" Sabrina shoved Puck, and he was finally able to roll off of her. When they had fallen, he had become untangled from her dress.
"Get up!" Sabrina whisper-shouted, and not a second after she had dragged him up the door swung open. Standing before then was the girl in the ruffled lavender dress, three other girls and two young men standing behind them.
"Oh my word!" Exclaimed the girl, and the two groups stared at each other for a few seconds, no one knowing what to say. Then, one of the young men standing outside started uncontrollably laughing.
"Puck, oh God, Puck… What have you gotten yourself into!" Immediately, Sabrina realized that it was Puck's younger brother, Mustardseed.
"Mustard-" Puck gave her a warning look, and Sabrina cut herself off. Mustardseed had never met her in this time, so there was no reason that Sabrina should know him. Luckily, everyone else was staring at Mustardseed as he guffawed, so no one noticed her slip-up except for Puck.
"Come here, brother," Mustardseed managed to say as he got his laughter under control. "The rest of you, return to the ball." The girls and other guy eagerly turned around, no doubt ready to spread their nice bit of gossip to the whole ball room. "You, stay here too," Mustardseed said, pointing at Sabrina. She sighed. How were they going to explain this one away?
Mustardseed opened the door to a small parlor, and motioned the two of them through. Hesitantly, Sabrina and Puck walked in and sat down together on a small chaise lounge. Mustardseed closed the door, and turned around to face them. He looked at Puck.
"Last time I saw you, you were about twelve years old." Puck nodded in confirmation. "Why did you decide to grow up now?"
"None of your business!" Puck answered hotly. Sabrina realized that he had been holding it together in front of the others, but now that it was just her and Mustardseed his barriers were coming down.
"Okay the, easier question. What were you doing in the closet?" Sabrina blushed and looked down. She knew what it must have sounded like… But before she could say anything, Puck answered.
"It's not what you think! We just needed a minute to talk in private! Then we heard those girls coming, and we knew what it would look like if they saw us there alone, so we just went through the nearest door!" Puck glared at his brother. "And anyway, I don't have to explain anything to you!" Mustardseed smiled understandingly.
"Puck, I get that you haven't had an older body for long. And I get that you may want to… well… do things… But that doesn't make it appropriate. Especially during a ball! I mean, of all times-" At this, Sabrina had had enough. She knew that she wasn't supposed to act this way, it being the past and all, but she had to say something to stop Mustardseed if Puck wasn't going to.
"Shut the hell up!" she yelled. Mustardseed looked taken aback, but Puck just smiled. He knew what was coming. He was about to witness a full-on Sabrina moment.
"First of all, you have no idea what just happened, or what kind of situation we're in. Second, Puck is your older brother so stop telling him what to do! Third of all, why do you care about his sex life? It's none of your business! And anyway, we are not even dating! Why would I ever date him? He's disgusting half the time and spends the rest of his time insulting me! He puts spiders in my bed! Why would we ever 'do stuff' in a closet? But I suppose you don't know any of that, do you? Because you don't know me, you barely know your own brother, and you're not going to know either of us for two hundred years!" As Sabrina finally finished her rant, she noticed that Mustardseed's eyebrows had slowly traveled higher and higher the longer she spoke, and now he had a small smile on his face. But, when she looked over at Puck, she noticed that he looked slightly hurt. Before she could say anything, Mustardseed's face became suspicious again.
"What did you mean, he puts spiders in your bed?" Whoops, didn't mean to say that, sabrina thought.
"It's a long story." Mustardseed gave them a searching look.
"I suppose I'll believe you for now. Just prepare yourselves for the accusations as soon as you get back to the ballroom. Especially from our parents. Gossip travels fast around here." Sabrina's eyes widened. She had forgotten about the other people who had seen them in the closet.
"Well," said Puck, who had been silent for a long time. "Thank you, Sabrina, for setting my brother straight. And thank you, Mustardseed, for looking out for me. But you really don't have to do that. I am a different person than you remember." Over the course of the conversation, Mustardseed had realised how much his older brother had matured. He realised that he actually did hold quite a bit more respect for him than he had just moments before, and that is exactly what he told Puck.
"Thank you, brother, but I think it is time that we return to the ball. Perhaps you could take Sabrina back in through a different entrance, as to not add to any rumors?" Mustardseed agreed.
A few minutes later, Mustardseed and Sabrina were standing outside a small door on the other side of the ballroom. Before they went in, he turned to Sabrina.
"You're different," He simply stated. Sabrina was a bit startled, but decided not to hold it against him. She was definitely different from all of these fluffed-up, prissy 1800s girls.
"Yeah. Yeah I am."
"I can see why he likes you." Sabrina narrowed her eyes at him.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I mean I can see why he likes you. You are outspoken, argumentative, and seem to have a temper. But he is very protective of you." Sabrina was offended. For all Mustardseed knew, they had known each other for just a few minutes! Who was he to judge her? But then she remembered that she had cussed at him, mentioned sex, and called him out. That was not considered normal for 1800s teenagers, especially teenage girls.
"I don't agree with you about any of that, but he definitely doesn't like me like that. And I have years of experience to prove it." It was true. After they had gotten over their little twelve-year-old crushes on each other, it was like they had been arch enemies. Every time Puck and Uncle Jake came to visit, she woke up to some prank or argument. After Puck had moved back into the Grimm household, it hadn't gotten any better. But in the last month or so, they had been acting nicer to each other. The screaming matches had become limitless teasing, and the pranks had almost stopped. But Sabrina simply put that down to them growing up and being more mature.
Mustardseed broke her out of her thoughts when he offered her his arm. Then they silently opened the door and slipped back among the crowd in the ballroom. Once they were hidden among the fluffy skirts and dancers, they decided to do one dance together while they looked for Puck.
After dancing with Mustardseed, Sabrina realized that Puck was actually an extremely good dancer. It's not that Mustardseed was bad or anything, but she found it much harder to follow his movements than it had been with Puck.
When the dance was almost over, Sabrina finally spotted Puck. Unfortunately, he was right next to Queen Titania and she seemed to be lecturing him. Luckily, Oberon was nowhere to be found. At least he probably hadn't heard the rumors yet.
Sabrina circled the ballroom with Mustardseed until Puck walked away from Titania. He immediately walked towards them, and Sabrina moved from Mustardseed's side to Puck's.
"How bad was it? What did she say?"
"Luckily, she managed to cover it up. With you and Mustardseed coming in from the other door, she just told people that you were 'visiting the powder room' or something like that. And my father had to leave for some urgent business, so he hasn't heard anything about it." Sabrina sighed in relief. They were in the clear.
An hour and a half later, Sabrina was exhausted and starving. They had spent the rest of the evening making polite conversation with various important people whose names Sabrina (And Puck) had immediately forgotten. Sabrina had also figured out that while the maids had been getting her ready she had missed dinner.
"Hey Puck," she gently pulled on his arm. "Can we leave soon? I'm really hungry."
"I'm ready to go too. I'll go ask mother if we're allowed to go." Even though she disapproved, Titania could see how stressful it had been for her son to maintain a polite facade through the whole ball. She reluctantly gave them permission to leave, and Puck led Sabrina out of the main ballroom doors.
"We can go to my room, and I'll send for some food," Puck suggested once they were down the hall from the ballroom. "That's probably the easiest thing to do at this point."
"Sounds food, I mean good," Sabrina said distractedly. Puck grinned.
"Wow, Grimm. I haven't seen you this tired for a year! Remember that night?" Sabrina blushed. She had been hoping that he had forgotten about that. A year ago, when she was fifteen, she had gone to her first real high school party. Coincidentally, Puck had been visiting the Grimms that week. That night, she had her first real kiss (She didn't count the one she and Puck had shared when they were twelve) with a boy named Adrian. One of her older friends had driven her home, and she hadn't gotten back until after midnight.
When she had gotten home, her parents had yelled at her for ages, and grounded her for weeks. When she finally trudged upstairs, she had been surprised to find Puck waiting for her.
"How was it? Did you have fun with all your normal human friends? Did you kiss lots of boring, normal human boys?" Her hand had flown to her lips. There was no way Puck could have known about Adrian! At her movement, Puck's face had darkened.
"Did you kiss normal human boys?" Sabrina was prepared to tell him it was none of his business, but that was not what came out of her mouth.
"Not you kiss business!" she had yelled, barely able to keep her eyes open. When he started laughing at her, she had stomped to her room and held up a certain finger in his direction.
Now, Sabrina laughed at the memory, but it had been really embarrassing in the moment and she did not want to repeat it.
"Just forget about that!" She said, shoving Puck.
"Hey, you're not allowed to shove the Prince of Faerie!" He said.
"I'm going to shove whoever I want!" Sabrina retorted. "Especially when I'm this hungry!"
After a few more minutes of arguing back and forth, they arrived at Puck's bedroom door. He opened it.
"Ladies first!" He called.
"Ha. And I thought chivalry was dead." Sabrina said dryly. But as soon as Puck had closed the door behind them, her heart started to race. The room was large, but it wasn't very personal. In fact, it was the opposite of his old room at the Grimm's house. It was sparsely furnished, with a king sized bed, dresser, desk, and a few chairs and couches. There were two doors on the wall to her left, presumably leading to a closet and bathroom. Sabrina gulped as her gaze strayed back to his bed.
"A maid should be coming with some food pretty soon. I asked right before we left the ball." Sabrina snapped her head over to look at Puck. With a shock, she realized that he was undressing.
"Puck?" she asked nervously. "What are you doing?" He glanced at her.
"Relax. It's not like I'm going to strip or something. I just want to get out of the most uncomfortable clothes." Sabrina hadn't realised that his clothes were super uncomfortable as well, but as she looked at him she noticed what he was wearing.
He had a weird sort of black suit jacket on that was long in the back. Under that, he was wearing a white collared shirt, a vest-looking thing, and a weird little tie called a cravat. She guessed that was very uncomfortable compared to his usual green hoodie, t shirt, and jeans.
Pretty soon, Puck noticed that Sabrina was watching him.
"Are you going to take any of that off?" He asked, waving his hand at her dress. Sabrina flushed a little.
"Actually, I don't think I can get it off by myself." Puck raised an eyebrow.
"Are you asking me to undress you?" Sabrina flushed even more.
"Of course not! I'll just wait to get back to my room so that the maids can do it." Sabrina haughtily walked over to his bed and tried to flop down dramatically, but her clothing worked against her. Forgetting that she could barely move her torso, her legs went over her head and her large, frilly skirt fell around her head.
"Puck!" She yelled. He heard the panic in her voice and immediately rushed over, but started laughing when he saw what she had done.
"Geez Grimm, how many layers of fabric does this thing have?" He teased as he pulled the layers back from her head.
"I don't know! It wasn't my idea! Just get me out of this!" Her voice was slightly muffled from the fabric, and Puck smiled. She was cute when she was upset.
Finally, Sabrina was upright again with her skirts in their proper place.
"Fine," she admitted. "Maybe you can help me take some of this off." With much difficulty, they finally managed to get her main overdress off and unearth her corset.
"Okay," She instructed. "This is the main thing to get off. I just want you to loosen it. Find where the laces are tied, and just undo the knot." Silently, Puck fumbled with the laces. Sabrina shivered at the feeling of his hands on her back, and he froze.
"Sabrina," he asked hesitantly. "Earlier, when you were yelling at Mustardseed, what did you mean when you said you would never date me?" His question hung in the air for a moment, and Sabrina turned to face him.
"Doesn't matter. It's not like you've ever thought of me that way. Not since we were kids, anyway." Puck looked pained at her words.
"What would you say," He started. "What would you say if I told you that wasn't true?" Sabrina looked at him, suspicious. There was no way he was telling the truth. This had to be an elaborate prank on his part. Get her to admit her feelings for him and be able to tease her for all of eternity.
"Cut it out Puck!" She snapped. Puck looked hurt.
"What do you mean, cut it out?"
"Don't say stuff like that if you don't mean it, okay?" Sabrina's voice cracked on the word 'okay'. Puck moved forward, and cupped her cheek with his hand. Sabrina froze. Could he be serious?
""I've never meant something anymore in my life." He leaned forward, so that their faces were inches apart.
"Really?" Sabrina wondered if she had heard him right. She wondered if his hand on her face and his lips inches away was real or just a dream. She wondered if she should kiss him.
"Really," Puck confirmed, and then their lips met. She didn't know who had kissed whom, but she did know that kissing Puck was everything she had ever secretly imagined in the farthest corners of her mind.
Puck's other hand immediately came up and tangled in her hair, finally messing up the hairstyle the maids had spent an hour perfecting. One of Sabrina's hands came up to his shoulder, the other on his chest, and she leaned into him.
All of a sudden, there was a knock on the door and Puck abruptly pulled away. Silently, he tucked a stray hair behind her ear and went to answer the door. He came back with a small basket of cookies, cakes, muffins, strawberries, and rolls.
"That's some real health food," Sabrina said, breaking the silence. Puck nodded.
"I may have specifically asked them for sweet, sugary stuff. I mean, who wants vegetables?" He set the basket down on his bed, and tilted his head at her. The butterflies in Sabrina's stomach came back full force as she looked at him. What did she just do? Were they going to talk about that? Instead of saying anything, she walked over to sit next to him on the bed. Wearing only the shift and loosened corset, she could sit with her legs crossed with nothing to worry about.
Sabrina knew she should say something, but the delicious smell wafting up from the basket was too much to resist. She grabbed a muffin and bit into it, savoring the sugar on top. It was the first food she had eaten since lunch that day, when they were still in the present. Puck smiled at her, and as soon as she swallowed her first bite she decided to say something.
"Soooooooooo… what exactly was that?"
"Well," Puck started. "First we undressed you, then I admitted my long-hidden feelings for you, then I'm pretty sure you said you liked me back, then we kissed and ate muffins." Sabrina blinked at his quick explanation.
"Okay, first of all, we did not undress me. I mean, technically this is just underwear, but I don't think that counts. Second-" She paused, unsure how to say what she wanted to say. "Yeah. I do like you back." And then they were kissing again, and it tasted like muffins and sugar and their fingers were tangled in each other's hair, and it was perfect.
Finally! Puckabrina! They're just so cuteeeeeeee! Sorry if this chapter was a little OOC. Pls review! Also I wrote most of this from 12-2am, so sorry if there are grammar errors/spelling errors/ things that don't make sense. I'll probably edit then re-update tomorrow.