Chapter Thirteen - Was It All Too Much?

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Finally, the coughing settles down. "T-Teague?"

I stay silent, pressing up against the tree. Stopping asking about me. My resolve to hide from her already weakened slightly when she said my name. She needs to stop calling for me.

"Tea-Teague, please don't leave me..." She whimpers the words, and I realize how weak she is. And she doesn't want me to leave.

I step out with a small sigh. "Why? I've been horrible."

"Teague." She stretches a hand out to me, and I kneel beside her, taking it. "You came."

I nod. "Of course I did. I wasn't going to let my favorite Grimm drown. Especially when she called to me."

"Y-You do realize I'm not going to make it if you leave me...Right?"

Somewhere deep down, I do. But I don't want to admit it. I don't want to admit it because I want to protect Mina. And protecting her includes protecting her from being broken by me.

"Teague, Teague, please don't shut me out again!" She stares up at me with her big, brown eyes, and my resolve melts like jelly. I can't be the one that let's her die.

I pull her into my arms. "I'll take you back to the palace. I'll keep you safe, Mina. I promise."

She nods, and buries her face in my shoulder. Hiding? It's kind of cute. I snap my finger, and then we disappear back to the castle. I'm going to win Mina over fully now. And I'm going to do it properly.

Mina's POV

I stand in the kitchens, frowning at the icing tubes on the table. This is going to be dangerous, because I really don't want to have to bake another cake.

Since I had nothing better to do - and Teague needed to do something which he refused to tell me - I decided to try and improve my baking skills. Considering they never existed in the first place though, improving them is kind of hard. I had decided I wanted to bake a cake, and I did. Except it was rock hard. So, I tried again. And again. And again. After around two hundred tries, I finally made one that tasted like an actual cake.

Except now I was faced with a new problem. Icing it. I brushed a stray lock of hair from my eyes. How it exchanged the ponytail I don't know, but I didn't want any hair on the cake. That was for sure.

Maybe if I started by covering the cake with white icing, and then adding the details. I grabbed the white icing to do just that, and prepared to squeeze whenever I heard something. A door?

"Mina, what on earth are you doing?" The voice seemed shocked.

I couldn't help it. I let out a short squeak of fear, whipped around, and squeezed the tube at the attacker. A large glob of icing went hurtling at Teague, landing on his shoulder, and I covered my mouth to hide my small grin. "Oops."

The look on his face made it all worth while. It was priceless. It was a mix of disgust, and horror, and confusion. I should've known it was Teague from the voice, but I didn't, and it was too funny. I began to laugh, and he scowled.

That's when a large glob of pink icing flew by my head, barely missing. "Teague!" I squealed, moving away as another glob of pink icing followed.

"Nope. You need to pay for what you just did. This suit was a perfectly good suit! What did it ever do to you?" He's playing around, but I duck under the table as a green glob flies at me. I shoot another glob of white at him, managing to hit his left foot. Bulls eye!

I don't know what color it is, but something hits me in the back. I let out a startled squeak, and go running across the room to find a new place to hide. We return fire back and forth, both of us getting pretty covered, and finally as I try to run by, he grabs me.

"Eek, Teague, let go! I don't want to get covered in icing, thank you very much!"

"Aw, and here I was about to give you a hug." And he proceeds to do just that.

"Ack, Teague, let go!"

"Nope."

"Yes!" Finally, I manage to wriggle out of his grip. Some how, my cake survived the onslaught of icing, and relief floods through me. Thank goodness.

"Care to explain what you were doing now that you're done shooting icing at me?"

"That was an accident." I roll my eyes at him as he casually leans against the wall. "Besides, you're the one that continued it."

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"You're hopeless." I give a mock huff, and shake my head. "I was doing something called baking. Ever heard of it?"

"Of course I've heard of baking! I wanted to know why you were doing it."

"Because I wanted to make a cake? Why? Is that illegal? To want cake?"

"I can make it illegal." He smirks.

"Don't you dare! I haven't even been able to decorate it yet!" I protest, and his smirk widens.

"Well, let me help you. I happen to be an expert at cake decorating."

You know? I highly doubt that. But I let him help anyways. By the end, we have a nicely iced cake, done with no Fae magic. Teague wanted to a few times, but I slapped his hand and yelled at him. I think he might've done it anyways, but I can't be sure. It's iced all white, with red flowers on it. After it's finished, Teague and I end up eating it too. Well, he eat most of it. I had around two slices.

"You pig." I poke him in the arm. "You just ate an entire cake!"

"Peasant." He shoots an insult right back.

"Stuck-up prince."

"Commoner."

"Psychopath!"

"Foolish mortal!"

"Fish!"

That makes him pause, and raise an eyebrow. "Did you just...Call me a fish?"

I go a little pink. "Maybe."

"Where on earth did that come from? It's such a stupid insult!" He starts to crack up, and I go pinker, crossing my arms again.

"Says the one that said foolish mortal!"

He rolls his eyes. "Fine, fine, I get the point. Anyways, I came to get you for a reason."

"You did?"

He nods. "Yup. I want you to come with me."

"Alright..."

"Great!" He scoops me up, and I let out a loud protest.

"Teague! You're still covered in icing! Even worse, I'm still covered in icing!"

He snaps his fingers, and it all goes flying off. "Mina, my dear Mina, what on earth are you talking about? You're just making excuses." He shifts me so he's carrying me bridal style. "Now, come on then!"

This chapter was a little sillier than usual, but I felt like we needed a happy one. cx Don't worry, our drama will be returning soon!

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~ Dagger