Yo Side If The Bed - Trey Songz
Okay, so for people who don't know this song, it was written for the soldiers over in Afghanistan. I suggest that before you read this, you go listen and watch the music video to this. That was where I got my inspiration (for this fanfic) from. It's honestly such a powerful video and brings out a lot of strong emotion so I highly suggest that. Also, if you see any spelling errors, I meant to put them there because you know, little kids can't talk perfectly. I wanted to dedicate this to my cousin Colin who's there right now fighting. Be safe, cousin, I love you!
Puck walked into the kitchen on an early Saturday morning. He had serious bed head and was shirtless with black basketball shorts on.
"Good Morning, Daddy." a high pitched little voice piped from the high chair in the middle of the room. Puck smiled and picked the happy 3 year old into his arms. "Goodmorning to you, my little Lacey." He whispered into her ear tenderly as he kissed her chubby little cheeks. She went into a fit of giggles as he set her back down into the high chair.
"So I get left in the dark?" a teasing voice said as she came from around the corner with a big box of cheerios in her hand and continued to move swiftly by him into the refrigerator to get a Sip-e-cup full of apple juice.
Sabrina Grimm. The beautiful blonde woman was breathtaking, naturally. She had long blonde hair the color of liquid gold, and skin the color of almond milk, pale white and perfect. Which left her eyes sparkling against her pale skin like two huge pools, a crystal clear blue color.
"Yeah, well good morning to you too, Stinky." He said with a sweet smile and an even sweeter kiss on her lips. Sabrina poured a handful of Cheerios onto the toddlers tray and handed her the cup full of juice.
Puck's life was perfect. When they were 19, Puck and Sabrina finally put aside their pride and had admitted their feelings for each other. They dated, and by the time they were 23 they were married. Lacey showed up about a year later.
He had a beautiful and strong wife, an amazingly cute daughter, and a nice little apartment just outside of the barrier and in between Manhattan. The Everafter War was still going on, but since Sabrina got pregnant, Charming had released them of their ties to the war because of Lacey and her protection. Puck couldn't really ask for much more than what he already had.
The rest of the morning had been filled with giggles from Lacey, jokes from Puck, and tiny little smirks and laughs from Sabrina as they both sat on stools in front of Lacey's high chair, trying to feed the playful little girl without getting things thrown or stuck in their hair.
"RING, RING…"
Then the phone rings.
"Hey Puck could you get the phone for me?" Sabrina asked as she bit her bottom lip and concentrated on trying to shovel another spoonful of applesauce into the tiny girl's mouth without getting it everywhere.
"Um.. last time I checked, I was the one who was royalty. You get it, Stink Butt." Puck said as he slurped back milk from the carton and plopped down onto a stool near the island.
"Puck I'm not in the mood for jokes. Please just go get the phone." Sabrina said as frustration rose inside of her voice.
"Well who said I was joking?" Puck said as he slurped back more milk and took a bite from an apple. Sabrina growled and stomped her way across the tiled kitchen floor.
Puck turned and watched Sabrina's back as she continued to stomp to go get the phone. Puck smiled and slinked over into the seat across from his beautiful daughter's. "She doesn't like when I mess with her, Lacey." He said as he tried to poke the spoon into her mouth, but apparently she didn't want to and made her lips into a tight line. "C'mon Lacey…" Puck begged, as he tried again with no success. He threw the little plastic spoon down in frustration right as Sabrina walked in with the phone.
"Okay so.. What do you want me to do?" Sabrina said defensively into the phone, as she scrunched her eyebrows in confusion and made a solitary vertical line right in between her eyes.
"Who is it?" Puck asked as he nodded towards the small silver phone stuck between Sabrina's ear and her shoulder blade.
"Granny." Sabrina mouthed back as the look of confusion on her face turned to worry, sadness, and then fear.
Sabrina didn't talk for a long time. She just listened and then would nod her head, as in she was taking in and processing all of the information herself. "Granny, are you sure there's no other way… no one else?!" Sabrina said as she walked in a pathway circle around the island in the center of the bright kitchen.
"Granny but…Granny but-" Sabrina sighed as she got cut off in her stressing conversation with her grandmother. Sabrina sighed and looked over at Lacey and Puck. Her eyes locked on the pretty little blonde toddler sitting 10 feet away from her, with hair and face like her, but eyes like Puck. A thing that was apart of her…
"What about Lacey, Granny?" Sabrina desperately whispered into the phone. Hot tears started to prick in her eyes and as she quietly hit the end button and put the phone down on the counter, the tears started to pile out of her eyes and down her face.
"What's wrong?" Puck asked as the alertness started to enter into his voice. Sabrina snuck a look over at Lacey who was singing to herself and eating her Cheerios with her big, bright green eyes. Then looked at Puck sitting across from her.
"We're losing the war. Badly. Army's been completely wiped out and Charming's bringing in new recruits. New trainers. New troop leaders. Everything." She said as she wiped the tears on her face with her fingers and crossed her arms across her chest.
Then there was silence. The air inside of the kitchen was so tense that Puck and Sabrina could feel it hanging around their heads like thick clouds. Sabrina stared off into space, not really looking at anything, and chewed on the tips of her fingers. Something she did often when she was thinking or nervous.
Puck's head hung low as he thought over what the phone call had led to. Sabrina Grimm-Goodfellow never cries. So for a phone call that was maybe 5 minutes long to end in Sabrina having tears run down her face, must've been pretty terrible.
"You got called back into duty in the War, didn't you?" Puck whispered as he looked straight into her brilliant blue eyes. Sabrina was taken out of her frozen state and turned her head to look back at Puck's dazzling green eyes. She opened her mouth to say something, but it was a couple of long seconds before anything even came out.
"Yeah." She whispered back as tears started flowing from her eyes again. She quickly wiped them away and blinked the rest back. So she was left with nothing but glassy looking eyes and a blurry vision. Puck eyes were somewhere in a mix of shock and disbelief. Both of their eyes looked grave, and their faces were fallen with sadness and confusion. Puck had his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands as he looked at the floor.
He sat up and swallowed the lump in his throat and looked at his wife. He swooped over and tightly hugged her. Her tears that had started up again ran down his bare chest. Then sobs racked her body and she wrapped her arms around his torso and laid her cold, soft hands across his shoulder blades.
"No. I don't want you to go back in there. I'll take your place." Puck whispered into her ear in a strong, definite voice. As he quickly rested his chin on the top of her head and rubbed slow circles into her back with his thumb.
Sabrina stepped back from Puck and composed herself. She took and deep breath and wiped her eyes.
"No. It has to be me. If you go back inside the barrier, Granny might not be able to get you out again. And you have to be here for Lacey." Sabrina said as she put on a fake smile to appease her daughter so unaware of the panic both of her parents were experiencing. "Besides.. Granny wants a Grimm. Our name brings people into the army."
"Sabrina… I didn't like you being in the War even when I was there to help protect you. I couldn't let you be there on your own." Puck said as he cleaned Lacey's messy tray.
"Puck, I'm more then capable to take care of myself. I'll be fine. And all the Everafters will be there. And I'll have Uncle Jake." Sabrina replied. But her eyes looked scared. Even she couldn't hide her fear from Puck of all people.
"How long?" Puck asked as Sabrina put Lacey on the floor of the living room surrounded by toys.
"What do you mean?" Sabrina asked as she made herself a cup of coffee.
"I mean… how long do they need you for the War." Puck replied as he took out 4 turkey legs and a block of cheese for his breakfast. Sabrina poured her coffee and leaned across the table from Puck. Her eyes misted over and her eyes began to look glassy again. She shifted her head down and looked intently to her cup full of dark brown caffeine. Her hair cascaded around her face like a blonde curtain. But then she sighed and started drawing make believe patterns on the granite table.
"Charming and Granny said about 9 months. That's the minimum." Sabrina said while still drawing slight circles and swirls on the tabletop.
"9 Months!? Sabrina, that's a long time. What's the maximum?" Puck asked as he fiddled with his many turkey legs. Sabrina chewed on her bottom lip feverishly and dumped the remains of her coffee down the drain.
"2 years…is the maximum." Sabrina said as she started washing out her cup. Puck came up beside her at the sink.
"2 years?" he asked desperately and hopelessly. "What am I supposed to do with just me and Lacey for 2 years?" Puck wrapped his arms around her shoulders and pressed his lips against her temple.
"Puck, I don't know. It could just be 9 months. It depends on how fast the magic works on the dead and sick Everafters. Apparently, the Coven has worked on some deep magic. Able to bring back the dead, but it takes some time. And until our numbers are recovered, I need to be there." Sabrina said as she rubbed her face with the palm of her hands. "And I leave in 2 days." Sabrina said with apology in her eyes. Puck's face fell and he swallowed the other lump that appeared in his throat. His heart felt like it fell into his stomach. Like a 100 pounds of bricks filled his body. He didn't know what the hell he was going to do without her here. The War was taking his heart from him. If she died, he might as well be dead to.
Puck, Sabrina, and little Lacey stood at the train station waiting for the train that would take Sabrina away. Possibly for 2 years.
She stood in her uniform for the Everafter War. She had on her black long sleeve shirt, cargo pants and black combat boots. She had her bullet proof vest strapped across her torso and various weapons strapped across her left held Lacey in her arms and against her hip and held Puck's hand firmly in the other.
"Our bed is going to be so lonely without you. Your sheets and your pillow will be all sad and cold." His voice had a playful tone in it, but you could tell the other half had some sort of seriousness to it. But he smiled anyways and flashed his beautiful eyes towards Sabrina.
"Yeah well keep my side warm for me, okay?" She asked as she squeezed his hand tighter.
"I'll try." He said simply and a couple seconds later the train rolled into the station. They had literally a couple minutes to try and make up for months, or maybe even years of little or no communication. Sabrina blinked her eyes really fast. And surprisingly no tears escaped her eyes, although, Puck could see she was trying really hard.
Sabrina let go of Puck's hand and squeezed Lacey so tight, Lacey actually let out a cry of discomfort.
"Oh, I'm sorry baby. I'll miss you okay. So be good for Daddy. I'll see you soon." Sabrina said as she kissed her daughter on the cheek and twirled her hair around her slender finger. Then set her down on the bench next to them. Then she turned to Puck and hugged him tight.
"I hope you know I won't sleep until you get back." he whispered as he smoothed her hair against her back. She smiled as her cheek was pressed against his hard chest. She would miss these type of hugs.
"Yeah well try… for me and Lacey." She said as she leaned up and kissed him hard one time for a couple of seconds. Puck would have to remember those couple of seconds for a couple of months… or years. Sabrina grabbed her one duffel bag and walked up the train stairs and onto the locomotive.
"Puck. Take care of my baby." She commanded as she pointed to tiny Lacey in Puck's arms.
"Well I thought I was your baby." Puck replied with a grin and joking in his eyes. "Well take care of our baby, too." She said as she smiled. And stepped farther into the train's entrance.
"Wave bye-bye to mommy, Lacey." Puck whispered into her ear as he took Lacey's arm and sloppily waved bye to Sabrina on the train. They both blew her kisses from the stairs and watched as she caught them and held them to her chest.
"I love you both so much!" Sabrina yelled back with a big genuine smile on her face. But then her face fell as the conductor came and ushered her out of Puck and Lacey's sight. Puck and Lacey waved bye until the train was out of sight.
"Well Lacey Baby, I guess it's just you and me for a while." He said as he adjusted Lacey and flew back to his lonely home.
It had already been two months, and Puck was already starting to lose his mind. He hadn't slept since Sabrina left. Mostly because Lacey finally understood that her mom wouldn't be there, and cried all night, and also because every time he closed his eyes, he would see a horrible scenario happening to Sabrina in the War. He became paranoid, and couldn't sleep without being disturbed with visions of blood.
One time, he even looked at the huge mirror in front of his bed where Sabrina usually got ready in front of, and saw her inside of it. Mirror had trapped her there and Puck, being in between the world of reality and one of his nightmares, jumped up and punched the mirror, causing it to shatter, blood to drip from his hand, and the startled cry of Lacey in the next room waking him up completely and cursing himself for being so dumb and paranoid.
Finally, Puck just got to the point where he had to move Lacey in to sleep with him. She wouldn't sleep at all, and really, the constant cold of Sabrina's side of the bed made him have constant insomnia . He really waited for her all night. He knew that the physical Sabrina wasn't coming back soon, but she promised a call or a letter or an email… something would come. And his heart would race every time the phone rang. Even though it never really was her.
At least with Lacey, he saw the familiar blonde hair and felt some type of warmth, and felt a heartbeat when he held Lacey against his chest.
So far 10 months had gone by, and apparently Sabrina wasn't staying the minimum of 9 months. Everyday was a struggle for Puck and Lacey. He had to get a 2nd job to pay for the income of the apartment because Sabrina had to leave work without pay to go to war. Veronica offered to babysit while he worked since Henry and Daphne were there with Granny continuing to fight too.
"Puck, what's wrong?" Veronica asked worriedly as Puck showed up at her door once at 2 a.m. He was crying (but unsuccessfully trying to hide it) and holding an even more red faced crying Lacey in his arms.
"Could I just get some help, Veronica. I know it's late but-" Puck asked as he fiddled with Lacey in his arms, and he was trying hard to keep it together. But Puck was crumbling under the pressure of everything going on.
"Nonsense Puck. Come in. I really couldn't sleep much either." Veronica admitted as she brought Puck into the living room to sit down. Lacey soon stopped crying when the toddler was given ice cream and some chocolate milk to keep the tears away. Puck sat in the rocking chair in the corner right next to Veronica's overstuffed love-seat with tears coming down her face.
"Talk to me, Puck. What's going on?" Veronica whispered as she nudged her son-in-law's arm. Puck ran his hand through his hair in frustration.
"I'm just really tired, Veronica." Puck admitted as he leaned his head back and rolled his head around to relieve the nerves he had. "I don't know what else to do. I just can't sleep with Sabrina away. And then Lacey, won't stop crying without Sabrina here. And I work 13 hours a day to keep up payment for the apartment until Sabrina gets back… it's just everything." Puck whispered as he fiddled with the zipper on his jacket. Veronica nodded in agreement.
"I understand, Puck. I'm so paranoid that Charming or Relda will call and say that Daph, Henry, or Brina's been hurt or-" Veronica started but her voice had cracked on the end of 'or' and Puck had looked up. Veronica Grimm was crying and wiping her eyes with a tissue crumbled up in her hand. Her hands trembled and shook so much, it looked like a hard task just to wipe the tears streaming down her eyes and her nose. Puck nodded slowly knowing what Veronica was talking about.
Then there was a type of silence. All that was heard was the mumblings from Lacey in the next room, the sniffs from Veronica as she tried get her composure together, and the slow creaking from Puck's chair.
"Has she called you yet?" Veronica asked as she slowly sipped water to calm her nerves. Puck shook his head without really looking at her. He just looked straight ahead and tried to keep the bad thoughts away. Puck could see Veronica nod solemnly out of the corner of his eye.
"Henry called me once just two days ago. He told me that apparently, someone in the troop had called a loved one back home and then the Hand had tracked the call signal and killed his family. Sabrina's probably just worried about the call getting tracked." Veronica assured as she rubbed Puck's shaking arms.
"I really love her, you know. I know that Henry still doesn't approve of me, probably never will…" Puck smiled at the last part but shrugged his shoulders nonchalantly. "Thinks that my love for her is a joke or something. It may seem like I don't take our marriage seriously but… I love her. I couldn't live without her." Puck confessed as he felt his face get red with embarrassment from the out-of-character confession, but he felt like he needed to tell her for some reason that he didn't quite know.
Veronica smiled so sweetly and genuinely at Puck and tapped his knee compassionately three times. "I know, honey." She said simply. And then there was peaceful, comfortable silence again.
A couple of weeks went by since the conversation Puck had with Veronica that night. And since then, he gave up the hopeful thoughts of Sabrina ever calling. He knew that she thought it would be too risky and wouldn't do it.
So when the phone rang in the middle of the night while Lacey's was tangled up in his arms and he stayed awake looking at the dark ceiling, he didn't think anything of it.
"Ring, Ring, Ring…"
Puck quickly reached over and picked up the phone praying that it didn't disturb the little girls sleep.
"Hello, Puck talking. What do you want?" He demanded sleepily as he rocked a slumbering Lacey in the crook of his right arm.
"Oh, so that's how I get treated?" A mockingly shocked voice comes from the other side of the phone. Puck's heart fluttered at the voice, well at the possibility of who the voice could belong to.
"Sabrina?" Puck asked as he laid Lacey down gently and started to sit up. Trying not to wake the girl because she would start crying.
"Duh, Pea Brain." Sabrina replied. Puck could tell she was grinning really hard by the way her voice sounded like it was being squeezed through her stretched lips and perfect teeth. He laughed into the receiver and quickly bit his lip and looked over to see if Lacey had woken up. But thankfully she hadn't moved.
"Why are you calling me?" Puck asked.
"Well, I thought my husband would like to hear from me since we haven't communicated in almost a year now but, if you don't want to talk I could hang up…" Sabrina taunted as she talked farther away from the phone.
"No! Don't you dare!" Puck urgently whispered back into the phone, even though he knew she would never do it. He laughed and then Sabrina started laughing. The sound of their giggles and laughter faded into each other's voices until they both stopped.
"I miss your laugh." Puck whispered back simply as he twirled some of Lacey's hair that's so similar to Sabrina's very own blonde locks.
"Mm… I miss you, period." Sabrina whispered back.
"How are you calling me? Henry told your mom that it wasn't safe to call." Puck asked as he continued to play with Lacey's strands of silky hair.
"It isn't safe calling from Fort Charming." Sabrina agreed back through the receiver. "But, I'm not at the Fort right now, per say. I took Aladdin's carpet to a payphone a couple miles out of the radius of the grounds." Sabrina confessed.
"Sabrina that's dangerous. You should get back to the Fort. What if the Hand members saw you and chased you down?" Puck asked as he started to sit up against the headboard.
"I made sure no one was chasing me. I had Uncle Jake keep look out for anything outside of the Fort. But, I had to talk to you. I tried to get here earlier so I could talk to Lacey, but… stuff happened and I got called to take care of some responsibility." Sabrina said casually as if talking about the weather.
"Are you okay? Any injuries?" Puck asked as a serious tone invaded his voice.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." Sabrina groaned into the phone like a whiny teenager complaining to her father.
"Tell me all your injuries though. Maybe I could send you something." Puck said.
"Nothing you could send really. I got a black eye that's already basically healed, a couple cuts on my arms and legs but, Charming already stitched up and put medicine on. I'm really fine Puck. 10 toes, 10 fingers, 2 arms, 2 legs, 2 feet and hands…" She said back boredly. But Puck was mad at the fact that anyone had cut Sabrina to the point where she needed stitches.
"I wish I was there with you. I feel like if anything bad happens it'll be my fault for not protecting you. It's always been my job to make sure nothing ever happens to you." Puck said complaining.
"Puck I wouldn't want you here. Things are really bad…." Sabrina said sadly through the phone. "But I think things are getting better! And I'm a really good fighter and the people on my troop are really smart, agile, and strong. Some soldiers are even coming back in big numbers. Granny said I should be home in maybe like 2-3 months." Sabrina rushed through knowing that her last sentence may have upset Puck and make him question her safety. "And besides, your new job is to protect that little girl in our apartment." Sabrina said back as she leaned against the dirty slender door of the payphone booth.
"How is my baby?" Sabrina asked as she smiled thinking about the little her and Puck.
"Oh my God Sabrina. You wouldn't believe how much she's grown in a year. She's started to run, and can read a little bit of words now. Sabrina, she looks just like you! She's gorgeous." Puck gushed about his daughter as he smiled at her sleeping.
Sabrina bit her lip to keep the tears away. She took out the picture of Puck and Lacey in Central Park feeding the ducks. The small blonde beauty smiling at the picture, her eyes like beacons of light and her little tiny teeth dazzling and adorable. Sabrina smiled adoringly at the picture taken just 2 weeks before her call of duty that one morning.
"And she misses her mom sooo much." Puck whispered into the phone. Sabrina smiled hard at the picture and then tucked it away in her vest inside pocket.
"I miss her so much it hurts." Sabrina confessed as she let a couple of tears fall from her eyes.
"Should I wake her up?" Puck asked, knowing that Sabrina was probably fighting back tears at the moment.
"Oh no, no, no. Don't wake her up. She's too young and it's too late at night." Sabrina said into the phone as she wiped away her tears again and toughened out her voice.
"Yeah well, I'm waking her up. She misses you and needs to hear your voice." Puck concluded as he put the phone down and gently woke Lacey up.
"It's your momma, baby girl. She wants to say hi to you." Puck gushed to the half asleep girl. Sabrina heard the phone rumble and then a small voice come in through the phone.
"Hi mommy." A cute little high pitch voiced squeaked through the receiver and into Sabrina's ears. Sabrina couldn't help it and her tears came out in quick sobs. But she laughed sorrowful giggles because she was so happy to hear her voice.
"Oh hi baby! I miss you so much. Mommy's gonna come home and see you real soon." Sabrina said as her voice cracked on most words but she didn't care. At this point, she couldn't express the joy of hearing her daughter's voice after a year.
"I mish you too, mommy. Dadda mishes you to." the toddler piped in through the phone. Sabrina smiled.
"He does?" Sabrina asked while playing with the picture in her pocket.
"Mhmm! He cry subtime, mommy. I cry to. Cos I never see you no more. Where you go?" Her daughter asked innocently through the phone. Sabrina felt guilty that Puck and her daughter cried over missing her.
"I went to go help Grandma and Auntie Daphy with some things. But it's taking a really long time. But I can't leave them to do it by themselves, can I?" Sabrina said back into the phone. But then Jake came busting in.
"Sabrina, we gotta go like, now! Charming said that they found some Hand members scoping around the Fort. Their might be an attack tonight. Let's go!" Jake yelled as he ushered Sabrina out of the little booth and tried to pull her arm out.
"I love you to the moon and back, Lacey Baby! Tell your dad I love him and I'll see him really soon!" Sabrina spoke as fast as she could before she hung up the phone and ran back onto the carpet with Jake.
"What's going on Lacey?" Puck asked as he heard the urgent yells from Jake and Sabrina coming through the phone. He took the phone from the little girls hands and pressed it to his ear.
"Hello!? Sabrina, Jake!? Hello?" But it was too late. He heard the dial tone. Sabrina had already hung up. His heart fell into his gut and he was furious that there wasn't enough time that he had wanted to talk to her. He got 10 minutes to account for the one year.
"Momma said she lub you and see you soon." Lacey said with a big smile. Completely unaware of the importance that phone call meant to her mother and father. He smiled and kissed her on her forehead.
"Shhh.. Go back to sleep now." Puck said as he laid her tiny head on the pillow where Sabrina slept and wiped the strands of hair off of her face. And for the first time in a while, Puck smiled and went to sleep.
Sabrina had went back to camp, there was no attack, but they did catch a couple of prisoner's. And Sabrina did have to do the interrogation process, but other then that, no big deal. Charming gave her an hour long lecture on why it's not okay for her to venture off into a war zone for a phone call, but she didn't care. She smiled as she remembered the conversation with her family. She laid down on the extremely hard and uncomfortable army cot in her tent with her sister on the other side snoring away, and 3 other troop's sleeping silently in their tent.
Even though her tent was packed with people, as Sabrina laid down and tried to go to sleep, she felt so lonely. Her heart ached for the stupid war to be over and so she could go to sleep with her family. She couldn't wait for life to get back to normal. As she drifted through the world of consciousness and dreaming, she reached over and felt her heavy weapon vest instead of the warmth of Puck's body. She took the pillow from underneath her head and held it in front of her in a death grip.
The pillow, wasn't efficient enough, but it made her think of Puck, and really a pillow was all she had at the moment. But soon, she drifted off to sleep ready for another day of plotting, planning, or fighting during the next day.
"Sabrina Grimm." Mirror growled as he came face-to-face with the eldest Grimm girl.
"What do you want from me, Mirror?" Sabrina said menacingly as she held her sword in front of her defensively. Her mouth was already bleeding from a little punch from a goblin in the previous fight that day. Her face was smudged with dirt and little knife cuts were evident on her shoulder, her stomach, and her arms. Apparently, their captives were some of great importance to the Hand fort and they decided to attack Fort Charming, and they got in.
"I want your blood." Mirror said with fire and hate burning in his eyes. "I want your heart to stop beating. I want your life terminated. I want to see the pale flesh on your bones turn gray from death. I want to see those pale pink lips of your icy and blue. That's what I want, Sabrina Grimm." Mirror said with venom spitting and piling into every word he said. Sabrina had never seen him speak with such hate for her. She knew he wanted her and her family dead. But the graphic visions he was describing to her, showed her how sick he really was.
Mirror made a quick slash from his sword but Sabrina defended it with the blade of her sword. He leaped and tried to pierce her heart but Sabrina leaped out of the way.
"So Starfish, I heard about the new baby girl. I never did get to say congratulations." Mirror said with a sick grin plastered on his face. His eyes were dark as two black holes and his smile was that of a scary clown. Fire burned inside of Sabrina's chest and her blood started to boil, making Sabrina very hot. "Don't you ever talk about my daughter! I don't want to hear you say a single thing about her!" Sabrina screamed murderously as she lunged forward and tried to swipe at Mirror's head. But he ducked and missed her blade by a couple of inches and slid out of the way.
"No need to get so defensive, Sabrina. But you finally married the dumb fairy didn't you? So what does that make your precious baby? A Goodfellow? Or a Grimm?" He spat her last name out so heavy with disgust that spit actually flew out of his mouth at the name.
"That's none of your concern. But I promise that you will never find out, because you'll never touch her!" Sabrina screamed as she lunged again at Mirror and managed to snip a bit of flesh at his shoulder. But he barely even noticed. Mirror laughed at the hot temper from the Grimm girl. He thought her emotions were easy to abuse.
"Don't underestimate my power, Mrs. Goodfellow. But answer me this, what would happen, if I do win this war -which I will- and I kill every single Grimm. You, your chubby little sister, your dear old Granny, your dad, your uncle, and as your mother's on her way right now to help with the war, she dies to." During every family member that he named, Mirror would swing and nearly miss Sabrina's flesh and their swords would clash. "Then the barrier goes down and all hell breaks loose in New York City. We find your little husband and your toddler child. And your husband Puck is so filled with grief from the sudden death of the love of his life,that he is easy to kill and leaves your poor girl left…alone….and….defenseless." Mirror continued, but by this time, Sabrina had been scared and the story nerved her body and made her mind space out. Mirror had flung her sword out of her hand when he sneered out the word 'alone' and had hit her in the head with the butt of his sword on the word 'and' and 'defenseless'. Mirror had his knee pressed on Sabrina's chest and held his sword at her throat.
"Last words?" Mirror asked menacingly as he looked straight into Sabrina's eyes full of fear from the gruesome story Mirror filled her mind with, and determination. She spit blood and saliva right into Mirror's eye. Leaving him stunned enough for Sabrina to push him off and make a dash for her knife. But as she turned around to lung forward and finish Mirror off, He deeply plunged his knife right into the middle of Sabrina's stomach.
Sabrina took a quick breath in and accidentally dropped her sword. Mirror smiled creepily and his eyes blazed with a reddish tint of blood in the pupil of his eyes. Sabrina looked into his eyes with pain and determination in her blue orbs, but the red tint in his eyes scared her, but she couldn't look away. Sabrina clutched at the sword right in the middle of her ribcage and tried to take away some of the pain, but Mirror held onto his sword tightly, and backed Sabrina into a tree. "Who's. Winning. Now. Starfish!?" Mirror screamed. And with each word he said, he would forcefully shove the sword deeper and deeper into Sabrina body. Causing her to scream in agonizing pain. Tears flowed from her eyes and she looked down and saw blood pouring out of the hole in her body with the glittering blade of metal still wedged inside of it. "Look at me you pathetic girl." Mirror spat at her but still had a smirk on his face. Sabrina looked up in rage and spat in his face again, and in result, Mirror slightly turned the blade inside of her body tearing the flesh even more and making blood drip from the wound and splatter onto the sword's shining surface.
"AHHHHH!" Sabrina screamed in pain as sobs and tears exploded from her body. She sounded like an animal, which she probably looked like right now. A gigantic hole in her body now with flesh and blood and mangled fabric. Sabrina felt the blood fill her lungs and it was getting harder to breath. Blood started leaking from the corners of her mouth, not because of the goblin's fist from earlier, but because the blood was circulating up to her neck and making it impossible to breath. Sabrina coughed up blood and spat it onto the ground and got some onto her shoes.
Mirror plunged into her hard one last time, and then yanked the sword fast from her body. Sabrina fell to the ground, not knowing that the sword had been keeping her up the entire time. Her hands covered her wound, but blood poured over them within seconds. Mirror went over to her and put the tip of the sword onto her neck one last time. "See, Sabrina? I always win in the end." Mirror said like he was explaining it to a 5 year old. Sabrina smiled, showing bloody teeth, but didn't care.
"No you don't." Sabrina said in a simple whisper but started to cough and spit out blood again. Mirror laughed at her but still kept the tip of the sword on the thin flesh of her neck. "Don't tell me your that dumb!" Mirror laughed as he pointed to her with his other available hand. Sabrina shook her head minutely, being very aware not to tear her skin against the sword.
"It's a tie." She whispered back. And while Mirror cocked his head in confusion, Sabrina took the small knife strapped on her thigh and shoved it straight into his neck. Mirror was thrown to the floor with the force and never moved.
Sabrina smiled and breathed a semi- sigh of relief. She crawled over to some shade in a tree and fell flat onto her back and felt the sticky feeling of blood loom and stick to her back, neck, and hair. She took the whistle from her pocket and blew into it hard one last time. She couldn't see anymore, and breathing was becoming such a hard and tiring task. She blew it and let it fall out of her mouth and she closed her eyes. So this was the day that Sabrina Grimm died. If she was going to die, she wanted someone from her troop to find her and take her back to at least have a body to be buried with. She saw Lacey and Puck and Daphne, and her entire family swim before her eyes. She saw the first time she met Puck, their first kiss, their wedding, she saw the moment her parents woke up after 8 years of sleep, she saw everything. And it made her cry. Then she felt hands squeezing her own.
"SABRINA!? Sabrina can you hear me, sweetie?" Sabrina heard a distant voice that sounded like her mom. Then she felt hands all over her body. She could still hear the sounds of screams and gunshots in the background. But it was like someone had shoved cotton balls into her ears or put her into a thick helmet. Sabrina didn't even try to open her eyes, her eyelids felt glued shut and knew she didn't have the energy to open them. "Mom?" she mumbled out through lips that barely moved.
"Yeah, baby, I'm here." her mom said back through words thick and heavy with tears.
"I promised Puck and Lacey I would see them soon. Will I make it?" Sabrina mumbled as voices and sounds started to get more distant.
"Your not gonna die, honey." Veronica said with tears cascading down her eyes like waterfalls. But Sabrina could hear the words etched with uncertainty, and she knew her mother was lying. Sabrina felt a loss like none other. Never having closure, never telling holding Puck one last time, never seeing her daughter's face. The one that looks so much like her, and just like Puck at the same instance. She wanted to cry, but instead her thoughts were ripped from her mind, and she fell into a black sea of nothingness.
Puck sat on the floor of the living room with Lacey while she explained what every single toy is.
"This is a cup-e. For juice . Hold dat." Lacey said as she shoved a tiny pink teacup from her kitchen set into Puck's hands. "And this school bus. It sings." Lacey said pointing to a bright orange bus and when she put it on the ground and rolled it, it sang "The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round".
"Hold dat to, Daddy." Lacey said as she ran and got another plastic toy from the many piles surrounding the two Goodfellow-Grimm's. "And this Elmo from Sesme Stweet…" Lacey explained but then the phone rang.
"Okay I love Elmo. But hold on baby I got to get the phone okay?" Puck asked as he laid the many toys in his hands on the floor where he sat and jogged around the corner to get the phone.
"Hello, Puck talking. What do you want?" He asked with his signature greeting for the phone.
"Puck!?" Daphne screamed/cried from the other end of the phone.
"Whoa, Daphne, what's wrong!?" Puck asked his heart already started to beat faster and bile started to rise in his throat. This could only mean bad news.
"Puck, it's Sabrina! She….she…she….." Daphne started but exploded into a fit of hysteric tears and sobs. Puck started to get hotter and his chest rose and fell so quickly he thought he would have a heart attack.
"Daphne, pay attention. What happened to Sabrina?" Puck asked hysterically. He knew whatever Daphne had to say was never going to lead to a good thing. Either she was seriously hurt -not good. Or she was… Puck couldn't even think of the other alternative. It couldn't happen to him or Sabrina.
"I'm in Ferryport right now at the train station and then Granny told me…." Daphne started but another fit of hysterics took over her body and she couldn't say anymore.
"Goddamnit, Daphne just tell me!" Puck screamed through the phone.
"Puck, Sabrina's dead!" Daphne said and then there was silence. Well, in Puck's world there was silence. He dropped the phone onto the hardwood floors in the hallway and the phone broke apart, but he didn't care. His blood ran cold, and his heart began rounds of uneven palpitations. He fell to his knees and screamed. He placed his head into his hands and released every horrible feeling out into the world.
"NOOO!" He screamed/cried. He could feel the air around him break and shiver from the sound waves of his voice but it didn't matter. All he saw was the image of Sabrina plastered behind his eyes. That beautiful person was gone.
"What's wrong, Daddy?" Lacey yelled. He heard her bare feet tap against the floor as she ran toward him. She stood in front him and look wide-eyed at her dad. She started crying silently, her dad was really scaring her. Puck moved his hands and tried to compose himself for his daughter, but he was inconsolable. He just picked his daughter up and flew out through the door. He flew all the way to Ferryport Landing, even though Lacey was only in a long sleeve cotton pajama shirt and matching long tight pajama pants.
Without thinking, he had crossed the barrier, and people in New York probably saw him flying, it was only 9 in the morning, but none of that mattered. He flew to the train station where Sabrina and Daphne had first come in when they were only 11 and 7. There was Daphne.
Her face was red, puffy, and swollen from the crying. And her whole body was slouched as if she was too tired to even try and stand up straight. It looked like the energy had been completely drained from her.
"Puck!? What are you doing here!? You weren't supposed to cross the barrier. I was supposed to come to you!" Daphne said as she took in the appearance of Puck and Lacey.
"What happened?" Puck asked as if Daphne hadn't said anything at all. Her eyes immediately clouded over and her bottom lip trembled as if she was going to start crying all over again. She opened her mouth to say something but looked over at Lacey.
"Puck, it's almost November and you have Lacey out here with no socks or shoes on….no coat." Daphne said as she took off her sweater and wrapped it around little Lacey like a blanket.
"I forgot, I'm sorry. What happened?" Puck asked desperately as his eyes got glassy. A few tears slipped from Daphne's eyes and she swallowed and cleared her throat.
" I dunno what happened myself.." Daphne admitted, shrugging her shoulders. "Give me little Lacey.." Daphne said as she gingerly picked Lacey from Puck's arms and held her tightly against her body and making sure her sweater covered the girl from head to toe.
"You should go to Charming and find out." Daphne finished as she tucked Lacey in carefully. Puck nodded and sprouted his wings to take off.
"But Puck!" Daphne called and grabbed onto his arm looking him straight into the eyes. "Be careful." she whispered as she took a step back waiting for him to take off. He nodded once and then flew down the all-too-familiar town and towards the Fort.
When he got there, he saw the tents and the huge gathering of people. Some were mourning, some were cheering and drinking and clapping. Others were packing their things and flooding out of the gate to go home. Puck flew above the crowds and found Charming in the corner with Granny Relda. Puck flew down and turned Charming around to face him. The prince's eyes grew in shock but he quickly composed himself and returned back to normal.
"Puck, you are not supposed to be here right now." Charming said as he looked to Relda for some help.
"Where's Sabrina?" he demanded looking Charming straight in the eyes and trying his hardest not to cry or let a tear fall. Charming's eyes looked sad and he turned to Granny Relda. She let a tear fall herself and then nodded at Charming. Charming turned back to face the young man and looked him in the eyes. Charming shoulders slumped and motioned for Puck to follow him. Puck pushed through the crowds trying to follow Charming and they came to the outside of a small tent. Charming put his hand on the flap to push them through but hesitated and turned around to face Puck.
"Puck, Sabrina really looks… gruesome. So you might not want to go in there yet until-" Charming started but was cut off from Puck.
"I don't care! That's my wife in there, Charming." Puck growled as he pushed inside of the tent. There was Sabrina completely lifeless and still on the cot. It was stained and dark where her blood had leaked onto the fabric of the tiny makeshift bed. She had blood and dirt all over every inch of her body, and the worst was the huge hole in the middle of her shirt with dried blood crusting around the edges.
"Oh my God Sabrina!" Puck shouted as he fell to his knees at the side of her bed and held her hand. He didn't care about keeping composure, or trying not to look like a punk, he had to cry. He held onto her one small hand with both of his and it was cold and smooth to the touch. But nonetheless, Puck held onto it and cried into it. He kissed the palm of her hand, hoping to feel some warmth or a pulse like he used to before but it was gone.
"Mirror." Granny said simply as Puck continued to be in his own world and cried into Sabrina's hand. "She faced him and she killed him, but he killed her, too." Granny said as her voice cracked from sorrow and old age. All that was heard in the small tent was the small cries from Puck. Begging Sabrina to come back, or just crying out her name alone.
"We tried every magical potion that there was known to Everafters. But it just didn't work." Charming further explained as he rubbed his hands together lightly.
"Why did it work on the troops that Sabrina filled in for!?" Puck screamed in rage as he stood up and faced Charming and Granny.
"Puck…" Granny started and put a comforting hand on the boy's arm, but he jerked away and avoided their touch. Granny nodded her head and continued. "The troops were all Everafters. They have magic in their blood and it was easier for the magic to grab on and hold onto and fix the broken bones, hearts, and wounds that could be touched and healed. Sabrina got here and her heart had already stopped, liebling. The magic couldn't hold onto anything. We tried electrocuting her body to get the heart to start back up but it won't, Puck. We really tried." By the end of her explanation, Granny was crying and fussily wiping away the tears with a handkerchief that Charming pulled from his pocket and handed her.
Puck looked back at the dead and lifeless Sabrina and just pulled up a chair and held her hand and stared at the wall.
"Puck, the longer you sit in here with her, the harder it's going to be to let go of her later." Charming explained as he put a reassuring hand onto the fairy man's shoulder.
Puck turned around and flung the princes hand from his shoulder. His whole body turned to hot hate, and his head filled with livid thoughts. "Shut the hell up, Charming. For once in your life, just shut up! My wife just died and her mangled body is in front of my eyes, I have a 3 year old daughter that will want me to explain why her mom's not coming back home, I have bills piling up on my kitchen table, and to top it off, I don't need your big ass mouth to tell me what's good for me right now!" Puck screamed as he picked up a picture frame and threw it past Charming's head. And Puck started silently crying again, pacing the floor, and running his hands threw his hair.
Charming straightened his jacket and the cuffs on his suit before putting his hands on Puck's shoulders and sitting him down in the chair facing away from Sabrina's body.
"I know things may be hard now Puck, and I know you think that you're not going to survive without her, but things get better." Charming said as he patted Puck shoulder.
"How!? How will this ever get better Charming? I built my whole life around her for 15 years. Sabrina was the only thing I've had since I was 11!" Puck said as he stood up so fast that the chair knocked over and he started pacing again.
"Time. Time heals all wounds, Puck. You lived without Sabrina Grimm for 4,000 years. And I know it seems like the world is falling apart. I know it's hard to really love anything else right now, or really give a solid fuck about anything, but time will heal your heart." Charming said as he took his pointer finger and pointed it hard into the place where Puck's heart was.
"How do you know all of this, Charming?" Puck spat like Charming didn't really even give an out-of-character speech on how to get through the death of someone you love. "How do you know what it feels like to have one really, really good thing in your life taken away from you? So what you lost a kingdom? I lost mine, too. How do you know what the fuck I'm going through right now?!" Puck screamed as he pointed at Charming and Puck's green eyes burned into a deep red and his wings popped out on instinct.
Suddenly, Charming's eyes became tinted red with deep flames of hurt, anguish, and anger in his own pupils. "Did you forget that I watched the love of my life die twice Puck? Snow White was the solitary thing I cared about or had feelings for, and I watched her die…twice!" Charming hollered. Soon the only thing that was heard was the heavy nostril breathing coming from both Puck and Charming. "I'm just trying to help you. I know you're hurt, I'm not asking you to stop feeling. Just to take in mind that you're still alive...you're still here and you shouldn't take that for granted. You're not the only one who was hurt by love, Puck. My wife is 6 feet in the ground, and I'm still here! You don't think I don't want to break down everyday?" Charming said as tears started brimming in his own eyes. He ran a hand across his face and took a deep breath before he continued. "You have a daughter out there. The strongest thing that connects you and Sabrina together. Why don't you give a fuck about her, and go mend your broken heart with hers. She'll be the closest thing to Sabrina you have."
Charming said and then turned and walked out the tent.
Hours went by and Puck just stayed by Sabrina's side. Many times he wanted to go and check on Lacey and would walk to the tent flaps, but then look back at Sabrina and walk right back to her side. If he left, it would be like closing the deal that Sabrina really wasn't coming back.
But then he thought about how Lacey looked like Sabrina so much. Lacey was really all he had now. Puck turned to Sabrina's cold body. He leaned over and kissed her cold lips just for a couple of seconds. "I love you." He whispered against them as he felt a tear drip off his face and onto her cheek, and then turned and left the tent.
"So, mommy went to go help angels now?" Lacey asked as she sat on Puck and Sabrina's old bed combing her dolls hair sloppily, making it a big knot on the top of Barbie's head. Puck smiled at his daughter and kissed her cheek. "Yeah baby, she had to help them or we would all be in trouble." Puck mumbled as he kissed her cheeks again and again.
They were back in their old apartment, but things felt different now that Sabrina was dead. Her funeral was in Ferryport Landing and it was too depressing to really enjoy, but Sabrina looked beautiful. And as Puck laid in bed that night by himself, he realized that this bed would never feel the same. He wouldn't feel Sabrina's warmth, her hair, or the springs move whenever she would scoot closer to him during the night. And yeah, some nights Puck wouldn't sleep. But then some night he went to bed with a warm heart and he could sleep and things weren't so bad.
Some nights, Lacey would wake up crying, even as she got older, she would crawl into bed bawling her eyes out. She would be in the middle of sleeping and thoughts would dawn on her that Sabrina was gone. "When's mommy coming back? I miss her soo much, Daddy?" Lacey cried as her father tried to console her. Puck would hand her a framed picture of Sabrina and Lacey would clutch it tight. "Now go to sleep, and when you're asleep, she'll come back just for a little bit to visit you in your dreams, okay?" And then Lacey would drift off. And the next morning, she would smile because mommy actually visited her.