So, I know it's Sunday and I didn't update on Thursday-or Friday or even yesterday-and I do have a very good reason. Guess what I woke up with on Thursday morning...at six AM. A stomach bug. Yeah, so I've basically been vomiting or sleeping for the past three days. But, luckily, the stomach bug has gone away and I am well enough again-though I'm still nauseaus and dizzy when I stand up for too long, fun I know. Enough about my problems, but that is why I haven't updated because I haven't had access to a computer and I can't access this section of the site that I use to publish with my phone. Anyways, I'm back. With the chapter I had ready on Wednesday night, the chapter I'm supposed to be publishing today will be published tomorrow when I, you know, finish it. I really am sorry though, guys. I'M ANSWERING REVIEWS AT THE BOTTOM! Just so you know. I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Sisters Grimm is owned by Michael Buckley, not I.
And Handcuffed Together is Daphne Powell's and Michael Buckley's characters and partial scene.
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At the end of another long day, after Uncle Jake dashed off for a late dinner with Briar Rose, Granny suggested everyone else get some sleep. She was sure tomorrow would be a big day in Mr. Canis's trial, perhaps even the day their old friend will be freed.
"Wait, wait, wait. This was during the period while Mr. Canis was on trial? That means...a couple of months-weeks?-before Mom and Dad woke up." Daphne confirmed.
"I think so...I just hope...I'm not even going to jinx it." Sabrina said, biting her lip.
"Jinx what?" Pinocchio asked.
The girls and Puck said goodnight to Granny and Elvis and climbed the steps to their bedrooms. The girls said goodnight to Puck at their door.
He grunted and kept walking down the hall. Unfortunately, Sabrina was dragged along with him.
"Crud." Sabrina muttered. "It is while we were handcuffed."
"Handcuffed?" Henry demanded.
"Grimm decided to sneak out, so, I did the only logical thing I could while Canis was in lock up….I handcuffed myself to her." Puck said simply.
"Excuse me, logical, liebling?" Relda chuckled.
"Not a day goes by I don't regret drowning you in the lagoon while we were handcuffed." Sabrina said dreamily.
"Sabrina, you disturb me." Mustardseed said simply.
"Good."
"Oh, I forgot about you," Puck said, eyeing the handcuffs and wondering why he'd done this in the first place. Why didn't he just hire more bodyguards?
"Good question." Pinocchio interrupted logically.
"Uh, duh! Grimm snuck right past the useless buggers."
"You, idiot, are an idiot."
"What are we supposed to do, fairy boy?" Sabrina cried. "We are not sleeping in the same bed." She felt a small blush creep onto her cheeks and hoped Puck couldn't see through the dimly lit hallway.
"Damn right you're not." Henry muttered furiously.
"Chill, if this is anything like really happened-and hopefully it both is and isn't-then we sleep on fairy's trampoline."
"What happened the night of...oh shi…"
"Puck!" Relda interrupted fiercely.
"Yes, fairy boy, yes."
"Crud."
"Who cares about that? I'm going to have to go to the bathroom eventually," Puck mumbled. Sabrina's cheeks heated up even more.
"He could sleep on the floor in our room," Daphne said.
"Me!? Sleep on the floor?" Puck scoffed.
"Give it a few years." Red chuckled.
"This is going to be great if it's anything like the real story." Jake snickered.
"Shut up." Two voices exclaimed.
"What!?" Henry demanded.
"Just wait." Daphne sang cheerfully.
"I'm not sleeping on the floor. I'm royalty," Puck declared as he puffed up his chest. "Sabrina can sleep there." The girl in question rolled her eyes.
"I am sorry, what did I just call her!?" Puck half-yelled.
"You heard it." Canis grinned.
"This is fantastic." Pinocchio smirked.
"That's not going to happen," Sabrina said. Puck huffed and frowned. She could be so stubborn sometimes. Of course that is partly why he likes her. As a friend of course. Yeah, a friend.
Puck let out the longest and most pained groan in all of Everafter history. "This. Is. Sickening."
"Fine, come with me." He led Sabrina down the hallway to his bedroom. The door was covered in signs: DEATH AWAITS ALL WHO ENTER HERE! And WARNING! FALLING ROCKS! There was also a picture of a kitten with the words CUTENESS WILL NOT BE SPARED! Puck pushed open the door and impatiently ushered her inside.
"I remember those signs, those signs were dumb." Sabrina commented.
"So are you, Grimm."
"You both are." Mustardseed told them.
Sabrina had been in Puck's bedroom before, but it never ceased to amaze her. It wasn't like any bedroom she had ever seen. The night sky was the roof, the first ground the floor, and a trickling brook led to a lagoon in the distance. The chirping of crickets and the rustle of woodland animals drifted across the air like a lullaby. The room was magical, and from Sabrina could tell, endless. Who knew how far the water rolled downstream? If you followed it, would you find an ocean at its end? Sabrina didn't know though she thought about it from time to time.
"Even I haven't been all over my room."
"That is such a bizarre thing to hear." Red giggled, taking a quick break from reading.
Puck dragged her down to where the room's serene beauty came to a dismaying end. There they found a path littered with broken army men and parts from old skateboards and microwaves. Sarbina nearly stepped into dozens of half-eaten birthday cakes.
"Yeah...those are there." Puck said cheerily.
"Why am I not surprised?"
They climbed up an embankment, where they found a trampoline. A panda bear was asleep on its surface. Puck shooed it away. It staggered off, looking for somewhere else to sleep, barking and growling grumpily with each step.
"Okay...this might not be that bad." Puck said half-hopefully and half beggingly.
"That's adorable." Red grinned. Mustardseed, knowing his girlfriend had read further, bit back a smile.
Puck placed his hands on Sabrina's waist to help her onto the trampoline and her breath hitched under his touch.
"Nevermind." He sighed.
"Do they think I'm that short!?" Sabrina demanded.
"Well you are really sh…"
"Fairy boy!"
She looked at him to see if he heard but his face was completely emotionless. Once, she was up she tried to help Puck up but he shooed her hand away and got up on his own.
"My question is this:how tall is the trampoline in this story?" Mustardseed laughed.
Puck laid down, forcing Sabrina to do the same. She nudged as far away from him as possible, feeling entirely uncomfortable.
"You think?" Pinocchio asked drolly.
The handcuffs forced them to sleep on their backs. It was hard to get comfortable and Puck's hand dragged Sabrina's this way and that, and the crude handcuffs kept digging into her skin. No way she was going to sleep.
"Wait, I just realized why this is so much more uncomfortable then the real one." Sabrina groaned.
"Why?" Puck asked. "Cause it definitely is."
"Daphne's not there." She replied simply. "She was in the real version."
"This is going to be good." Daphne smirked widely.
Puck didn't seem to be faring any better. He kept the same emotionless expression as he moved this way and that trying to get comfortable. After a while of that, he growled.
"This is all your fault, Grimm." He grumbled.
"Here we go."
"My fault?" She shrieked. "You're the one who handcuffed yourself to me and then swallowed the key!"
"I still haven't forgiven you for that, fairy boy."
"Yeah, yeah."
"Well, you were the one who snuck out and said you'd keep doing so despite the bodyguards. I had no other choice!"
"Yes," Sabrina began with a heavy layer of sarcasm. "Because that's everyone's first thought. Oh she snuck out, better handcuff myself to her!"
Although, that wasn't completely true. He'd pondered other options but he knew this one would annoy Sabrina the most. Plus, he hated to admit it, but, he kind of had a crush on her…
"NO!" Puck yelled.
"It's there." Mustardseed said rather unhelpfully.
"This is awful, so awful." Sabrina groaned.
... and thought it would be kind of cool being around her more. Not that he'd ever tell her that.
"Yeah, I won't. Cause it is not true!"
"It was for the best. I had to get that weapon." She said softly. "Can we not talk about that anymore?"
"If I start crying I will break the laptop." Sabrina announced.
Puck realized she felt really bad about it. It probably was hard for her to go against her sister and everything. For the first time in ages, Puck actually shut up for once.
"The novelty."
He scooted closer to her, ignoring her protests and questions, and once they were side by side he rubbed her back in what he hoped was a comforting way.
"Oh that's even worse."
"Why?"
"I hate this."
"Kill me."
This wasn't something he'd usually do but he hated seeing her upset.
Puck let out a derisive laugh, "I love seeing Grimm upset."
It was absolutely empty words and everyone—except maybe Sabrina—knew that but he needed to make himself feel better.
Sabrina gaped at him, cheeks heating up. She turned away so he couldn't see. This was so un-Pucklike, even more so than when he'd wrapped his wings around her.
"The old lady would've yelled at me if she'd arrived and you were a popsicle." Puck objected.
"Though I did, at that time, think it was un-Puck-like, these ain't my words."
After a while of this he stopped and she felt the ghost of his hand and soon that was gone to. She missed it, how he knew where to put pressure, how each touch sent an electric current through her, but she didn't say anything.
"I can't decide if this is better or worse than the last one."
"The last one was definitely worse for you two." Pinocchio said reasonably.
"By the way," Puck said softly. It had been about an hour after he'd stopped rubbing her back and she was startled to hear him still awake. "You don't need the makeup."
Puck cringed and made a face, Sabrina winced.
"Damn."
"What?" Basil inquired suspiciously.
"Nothing." It was too fast and too blurt-esque to be casual.
"Did something just happen that happened in real life?" Relda asked with a warm smile.
"No!"
"Did Puck say you didn't need the makeup?" Daphne questioned.
"NO!"
"Hmm." Mustardseed gave them both a disbelieving look.
Sabrina felt like her face was on fire. He knew about her late night beauty sessions.
Puck muttered something like, "Freaking Grimm, infecting me."
And, if she'd heard him correctly, he was also admitting that he thought she looked pretty.
"That is not what just happened!"
Sabrina kicked him. He quieted reluctantly.
She looked over at him and found he was looking at her.
"If. We. Kiss. I. Will. Kill. Somebody."
"I kind of wish I hadn't said that," He said.
"Me as well, fairy boy."
Sabrina's first instinct was to say 'me too' try to forget this awkward moment ever happened, but it isn't everyday that your crush tells you they think you're pretty.
Sabrina made a pained noise. "Okay, that was actually way worse."
Ah-not that she was saying he was her crush. Anyways, this was too good to pass up.
"No he really isn't or wasn't."
"Um, Puck?"
They were both tensed.
"Yeah?" He asked, suspicion clear in his voice.
They swallowed—why were they synced? Nobody really knew for sure...but they suspected. However reluctantly *cough* Henry *cough*.
"I'm glad you did." She said somewhat sheepishly, hyper-aware of his lanky body next to hers. She could see his surprised expression even in the dark. And then he smiled.
Sabrina and Puck were cringing almost violently.
"Get some sleep, stinky." She nodded, and after a while, fell asleep with a smile on her face.
"Thank the lord."
….
"Hello!" Uncle Jake's voice called from near the lagoon, waking Sabrina up. When her drowsiness went away she realized she'd been sleeping on top of the fairy boy, head on his chest, their legs intermingled.
Daphne screamed with laughter, Puck completely gave up on life and slumped to the floor, Sabrina banged her head against the side table, Henry looked ready to explode with fury, and everyone else was trying hard not to die from laughing.
His non-handcuffed arm was wrapped around her waist and as she tried to get up, he pulled her back down in his sleep.
"I'm going to cry." Sabrina muttered angrily.
"I'm going to kill the author of this crap." Puck added.
"Bad teddy bear, you are too soft and warm to get up." He said groggily. If Sabrina hadn't been on top of him she probably would've laughed.
"You realize that…" Daphne quickly shut up off of both her elder sister's and surrogate brother's scathing glares. "Nevermind."
"Puck, wake up!" She said, pounding on his chest, hard enough to wake him but not hard enough to hurt him. She watched as his eyes flickered open and realized he'd been holding her on him.
"Kill. Me. Right. Now."
"Ah! Ew! Germs, get them off of me!" He was horrified, pushing Sabrina off of him but their handcuffs didn't let him push her far.
Sabrina muttered something that sounded like, "Germs? I have germs? Calling the kettle black."
"Hello!?" Jake called out again, a bit closer now.
"Over here, Uncle Jake!" Sabrina called out. She shared a glance with Puck saying 'If you don't say anything I won't' and they went and joined with Jake, trying to pretend that didn't just happen.
"Somebody unwrite this. Get it off the internet. I am so effing done!" Sabrina bellowed.
"It was hilarious." Daphne grinned.
"No, it damn well was not!" Puck argued vehemently.
"Language." Veronica reminded them, glancing at Basil who-unbeknownst to his mother-had heard this language before. Not just from his siblings, but also from older classmates at school.
"What the...what was that damn crap!?" Henry bellowed, seemingly regaining control of his extremities and mouth which had been frozen.
"What did I just say?"
"It's exempt, Mom, this is terrible and awful. And, you know what, I know why this site is anonymous." Sabrina said menacingly.
"I'll track whoever wrote this down and kill them, I swear to god." Puck maintained.
"Okay! Okay! Enough, the book opens now." Jake said loudly.
"You still reading?" Veronica asked.
"I can take over." Sabrina volunteered. "Better than plotting that fanfiction's author's demise."
Jake handed her the book. She took a deep breath, and began to read.
So, hi again. Sabrina is reading now, yay! Since this is her life story it's rather appropiate, dontcha think? Anywhos, I'm sorry I didn't update again and I will be updating tomorrow. Now...to the reviews!
Emily-I like Puck and Sabrina as well, I act like Sabrina an embarrasingly amount of times. Protective Parent mode was activated in the last chapter. I do, yeah. He didn't exactly have the easiest and greatest life. Thank you! I had a pretty good week save the last three days of it! I hope yours was good. I am so sorry, I hate disappointing you guys and I am so sorry again.
Zay Zay-Yeah, I've done that a lot as well. I'm just waiting for somehting and then I'm reading fics...and then I'm hooked again. I really like Mr. Canis, is that weird? And I've always loved Granny Relda cause she rocks. Yes, I am updating every Sunday until this story is finito..unless something important comes up or I'm vomiting repeatedly. I know I didn't update on Wednesday and I am seriously sorry. It is a special chapter, the normal one is being posted tomorrow. Okay, then, you like every single character. Fine with me cause I love almost all of them as well. Again, to your second review, I am super sorry. Thank you! I can't believe I hit 100 reviews! 100 reviews! Can you believe!? Even if half of them are death threats. It is a wonder how they got there, hmm...I know, I know, and I can never express how apologetic I am rn. But here it is! Yeah, sorry.
M-Yeah, when I finally wrote that Puck arrived I was so happy I could've done a jig. Sabrina was a really great character, she certainly made a lot of mistakes, but...hey, don't we all?
Sisters Grimm4ever-I know this ain't the most monumental chapter in history but it's also a Special Fanfic chapter. I'm not sure how I would integrate skipping around, but I am adding something at the beginning of the next chapter which is going to be super fun to write(and hopefully read).
Alright! That's all the reviews finished and now I have to publish before my readers come knocking on my door to kill me for not updating sooner. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I'm not going to ask any questions today but I shall tomorrow.
Book Out.
