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This is the 1st chapter of Forever Is A Long Time.
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Chapter 1: Blood Red Is A Dangerous Colour
Light shone through the spaces in the curtains. The birds chirped merrily, and everything seemed like the beginning of a beautiful day.
Something was wrong.
As soon as Sabrina opened her eyes, she felt it.
The terrible stench that clouded the air.
The slimy wet substance that slipped down her neck.
She lifted a hand warily up to her hair and it came away wet.
And blue.
"PUCK!"
Almost as if he had been waiting right outside her door, Puck came sauntering in.
"Morning, Sunshine"
Sabrina glared up at him, before yanking away her blankets and scrambling to her feet.
"What did you do to my hair?"
Puck gave her his signature smirk.
"Why Grimm, isn't it obvious? I dyed it blue"
Sabrina let out a roar of rage and grabbed her bedside lantern. Ripping it out of its wall socket, she flung it at him with all her might.
He deflected it easily, before calmly answering,
"You should thank me. The colour matches your eyes"
Sabrina froze, halfway to the baseball bat she kept beside her bed. She stared at him, wide-eyed.
"Did you just say-"
Realising his mistake, Puck turned bright red and immediately tried to backtrack.
"Um, I mean- no! You look terrible! Like a smurf!"
Sabrina let out a snort.
"If I dyed your hair red, it would match your face right now" she scoffed.
Puck scowled at her.
"Have fun at school looking like that today"
Sabrina whipped back to the mirror. Her hair was a shocking, electric blue. Although it looked terrible, she hesitated. The fairy was right, it did match her eyes.
That was no excuse.
Turning back to Puck, she picked up her hairbrush and flung it at him.
"I AM GOING TO-"
Puck dodged the object calmly.
"Kill me?"
He smirked at her, and strode over purposefully until his face was right above hers. He sneered.
"You know what I think? I think you're becoming predictable"
Sabrina smiled. It wasn't one of those pleasant smiles that conjured up images of flying ponies and rainbow unicorns.
It was a scary smile. Any poor unfortunates who faced that smile usually saw their lives flash before them.
But not Puck.
He returned the smile with ease.
"Predictable as an alarm clock"
Sabrina's eyes turned hard, and she snatched her baseball bat from beside her bed. She strode purposefully towards Puck, who had his arms out, ready to defend himself if there was a need. Instead, she brought the bat down on her alarm clock, which was resting on her bedside table.
Smash! Smash! Smash!
In mere seconds, the object had been reduced to a crumpled heap of wires and broken bits of plastic.
She turned victoriously to Puck.
"Still predictable, am I?"
Before he could answer, the door to the bedroom burst open.
The rest of the family (even Elvis) came bustling noisily into the room, full to the brim with questions.
Veronica was worried, "What was that sound?"
Henry was protective, "Why is that fairy in here with my daughter? Alone?"
Mr Canis was calm. "Your hair is a strange colour, child"
Jake was practical, "That alarm clock did not come cheap, kiddo"
And of course, Daphne and Red were romance-addicts, "Did you kiss and make up?"
Puck rolled his eyes at the questions. "The usual. Grimm was in here having a mental breakdown, and I was trying to stop her from going out in a full-on rage"
Sabrina glared at him. "I thought I was predictable"
Just as Puck walked out the door, he called back over his shoulder, "That, too"
Sabrina snarled.
"That little-"
The rest of the family had to restrain Sabrina from going after him.
~Sisters Grimm~
After a few minutes, when Sabrina had been forced into the shower to wash her hair, the house was quiet again.
The family was downstairs eating breakfast.
Puck sat down, and was immediately grilled by Veronica.
"Puck, you have to stop pranking her!"
He nodded slowly, but he wasn't really listening.
Until she mentioned the Old Lady.
"You should try and get along with Sabrina" Veronica sighed, "It's what Relda would have wanted"
Puck froze, his spoonful of cereal, halfway to his mouth.
Silently, they all turned slowly to the photograph on the cabinet.
The Old Lady.
Her memory was fresh in everything. From the absence of her strange food, to the colour of Basil's JR's green eyes. Her absence was everywhere.
It wasn't manly to cry, but Puck wasn't ashamed of the stingy prickliness at the corner of his eyes. He cleared his throat shakily, and picked at his food.
Pancakes with maple syrup
He smiled sadly as he remembered the Old Lady's glow-in-the-dark pink waffles. His smile grew even wider when he remembered Sabrina's reaction to them. They all sat in silence.
Until Sabrina finished her shower.
She seemed to have calmed down a bit. After angrily informing everyone that her hair was still blue, she headed back up the stairs.
"Where are you going?" Veronica called up to her.
"I'm just going to the Hall of Wonders to see-"
She froze. She had almost said it.
It was silent downstairs. They had all heard her slip-up. There was no antidote to betrayal and hurt, and no magic could cover up the pain that Mirror had caused her.
Shakily, Sabrina cleared her throat.
"Umm, I mean- I'm going to the Hall of Wonders library to see if there are any books on removing hair dye"
It was a weak cover-up and she knew it.
When Sabrina did reach the entrance room, she was met with a surprise.
The door was open.
Her family rarely entered the room these days, and it was usually either her, or her Uncle Jake, who visited the Halls.
"Umm…guys? You might want to come upstairs"
She could hear the grumbles of everyone downstairs; as they scraped their chairs back and crawled up the stairs.
Jake was the first to reach the top.
"What is it, kiddo? I promise I didn't touch your bubble bath"
Sabrina snorted.
"I don't have any of that"
Veronica came up and glared at Jake. "The bubble bath is mine. So are the bath salts and the candles. You didn't use them, did you?"
Jake's telltale reddening ears gave him away.
"You used them, Jake? Seriously?"
Before they could start their bickering, Sabrina diverted everyone's attention to the open door.
As everyone started asking each other if they had entered the Hall, Sabrina crept closer, and closer.
Until she saw it. And her heart nearly stopped.
Veronica's voice rang out clearly above the others.
"If no ones been in that room, why is the door open?"
Sabrina answered quietly, "I think I know"
She pointed at the wall opposite, inside the Entrance room. The others gasped, even Puck, when they saw something they believed they would never see again.
Something dangerous.
The blood-red handprint of the Scarlet Hand. The organisation that had killed her grandmother.
Ok, so that was my failed attempt at being mysterious. This was more of an informational lead-up chapter.
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