Tricks
A/N: Its that time again, that right, it's time for another Other story, featuring your favorite creepy spider thing, the Other Mother yay!
-T-
For a creature like her, tricks were second nature. She did them all the time, to anyone whom she felt deserved it, or in some cases, anyone whom she wanted to eat. She tricked that miserable old well dweller, and she was certain that he would never get back at her; that mangy creature should never have set up shop near her, if he hadn't, she wouldn't have had to arrange for one of her meals to set up a fairy ring around his home, the fool.
She tricked those annoying little gnats, those so called "tooth fairies" who lived under that house she had considered. All it had taken was a few iron screws, courtesy of another of her soon to be meals, and they were trapped; served them right.
But the ones she tricked the most were the children, oh those poor, silly little children. It really was too easy most of the time. The hardest part of hunting, as any creature like her knew, was finding the right bait. What does your meal want? And what child doesn't want a loving mother. A little twisting here, a glamour there, and presto, mother dearest. She tricked them into coming into her domain. She got them to eat her food, she got them to come back. Trick, trick, trick, but for them, there was never a treat; no those belonged to her, and her alone.
She tricked them into trusting her, she tricked them into letting her bind them with her buttons. She tricked them right out of their eyes. But most of all, she tricked them into thinking that she cared.
And that was the cruelest trick of all.
-T-
A/N: Alright there we go, another Other Mother fic down, next time, it will be a one maybe two shot on Coraline herself during one of my favorite seasons, want to take a guess which one, the first to get it right gets to ask me to do a Coraline one shot, yay. Also, for any of you care (Which is no one) I am going to be taking all of my Other Mother fics and turning them into a collection of short stories, to save space on my profile, I'll call it, The Other Collection, what do you think? Anyway, see you next time, bye.