Simon

This cannot be happening.

Penelope

"Ugh" I groan, what is it now? I think to myself.

My phone is ringing, I roll over to get it from the bedside table, it's Baz.

"Can you come over?" he says as soon as I answer, sounding as if he's somewhere between excitement and worry.

"Baz it's- " I pull my phone away from my ear to look at the hour, "-three in the morning." I'm too tired to be surprised by it. "Couldn't this wait until after the sun rises?"

I will end up going, I always do. Something is bound to happen whenever Simon doesn't spend the night at our flat. Frankly, I'm surprised when nothing does. Like that one time he and Baz went for a drink and accidently walked into an obscure vampire bar, or when Simon's tail was showing and none of Baz's spells worked. But they're already in Baz's flat, what could be so urgent?

"Sunlight burns me, Penelope." Baz replied, not fully kidding.

"That hasn't stopped you before, Baz."

"Look, Penny," the worry is definitely getting the best of him, he rarely calls me that," can you get here or not?"

I sigh. "What is this about Baz?"

"I think Snow's getting his magick back." Baz says.

I stand up at once and say: "How do you know that?"

"You'll see when you get here." Baz answers, he knows I'm already out the door.

Simon

Baz is standing in the corner, speaking into his phone quietly. His eyes are focused on me.

I try to get out of bed to wash my face hoping this would make me feel better, but only make it to a slightly different sitting position: with my legs hanging over the edge rather than under the covers. My head is spinning and I feel as if I'm in a cloud. I try standing up but fall back on the bed. Baz's face changes as I do it, his tone becomes tenser.

He seats down next to me as soon as he's finished talking. Put's his hand on my leg, squeezes. I lean against him and he puts his arm around my shoulder.

We stay like that until the doorbell rings.

"Open sesame!" Baz casts to let Penny in.

"Crowley," she says as soon as she sees me, "Simon you don't look good."

Penny rushes to the bed and tugs on Baz's sleeve so she can talk to him in the corner.

"He has to relax first, he's terrified and shocked. That's never led to anything good with Simon's magick." I hear her whisper.

"I guess you're right." Baz whispers back and lets out a sigh.

They walk back to the bed and star casting relaxing spells on me; I feel my eyes fall shut.

Baz

I shouldn't have agreed to this. Spelling Snow unconscious was an awful idea. Seeing him asleep glistening with magick is too similar to when I used to watch him in Watford, when I couldn't decide if I need to kiss him or kill him to solve my problems.

I can feel his magick now. He's powerful, at least as Bunce is, but he's not bursting at the seams like he used to. It feels as if he has a healthy amount of magick for his body now. Hopefully it stays that way; another humdrum is the least we need.

I told Bunce what happened and she didn't say much, only that we should call her father in the morning.

"Baz?" she says after about ten minutes of silence, "Remember that theory you had about Simon's magick? That he had some and was had extra put into him?"

I nod.

"What if the extra is what caused the holes to appear?"

"I guess that makes sense." I say, I've actually thought about this before. I think every option regarding Snow's magick passed through my head at some point.

"So when he fought the humdrum he only gave him the extra. The rest was simply gone from exhaustion; he was temporarily out of magick." Bunce says, not paying attention to my commentary.

I look at her with my mouth hanging open, not being able to believe such a simple theory never occurred to me.

"Baz? Penny?" Snow says from the bed. Both of us are next to him in an instant. He's glow is fading, thank magick.

"Are you feeling better?" Bunce ask, not missing a beat.

"Yeah, I think so. Am I still magickal?" he says with half a smile.

"You've always been magickal for me, Simon." I say it just to mess with him, it never gets old.

He drops he's head and shakes it, a smile creeps to his lips. Bunce sighs.

"Simon." she says, he looks at her, "Try making your tail disappear."

Snow looks puzzled for a moment, then stands up (Shaky, but definitely more successful than his previous attempt). He steadies himself against the headboard and looks like he's trying to remember a long forgotten spell. The tail vanishes.

Snow turns around and tries to find it but it's not there. Bunce looks as if she's about to bounce from excitement.

"Oh, thank magick!" I say breaking the silence, "I thought I'd have to spell that devil tail of yours invisible for the rest of your life." They both look at me and we burst out laughing.

A/N: Hey, I just wanted to say that this is my first fic that I'm posting so I'd love to know what you think about it and any constructive criticism you might have. Also, I'm not a native English speaker, please let me know if you notice any grammar/ spelling mistakes so I can fix them( I got rid of as many as I've noticed, but probably missed a few). I have more chapters to come so stay tuned :)