an~ counterpart to sunshine. i think its going to be a three parter. go check out my poll people!
dramaqueenruling: i like doing other stuff than puckabrina. and that last one sort of was.
Sabrina has always loved the moon.
When she was a little girl, she had stared up at the moon from her apartment window, enjoying the feeling that there was something wild, something free, something mystical even in this city of neat orderly down to earth things.
On the night her parents disappeared, she felt so much worse because the moon wasn't there to comfort her. The moon had become a confidant for the 10 year old Sabrina, and without it, her worries built up inside of her, and she almost screamed to let out the tension.
In the orphanage over the next year and a half, the moon became more than a confidant. It became a friend of sorts, someone who understood about all her worries, her problems, her fears and responsibilities. It also became a symbol for her. The moon changed constantly, according to situations and other things, but still stayed the same. It always showed the same side to everyone, never changing to suit someone else's desires. The moon took care of itself, which was a big necessity in Sabrina's eyes. Plus, it helped others by causing tides, which were very important to the ocean's ecology, according to some teacher.
Escaping from foster homes, the moon became not only a friend, but a help. Sabrina has particularly good night vision, and she used the moon to see when the foster families were practically blind compared to her. Daphne didn't have a problem seeing either, even though she said she preferred using the stars for some reason.
When she moved to Granny Relda's house, she no longer needed the moon to escape, and even though there was actually more going wrong in her life, she had other ways to vent. The journal really helped. She relied on the moon less and less, but it was still a sign of all that was untamed, and a role model of sorts, a goal for her to reach.
She spent quite a bit of time outside at night, especially when she couldn't sleep. It started with walks in the moonlight, though those became more rare as the town became more dangerous, and morphed into just sitting on the porch roof, looking at the moon. Occasionally she even fell asleep there.
As her life became more hectic, Sabrina started spending more and more nights on the roof. She became slightly nocturnal, thinking into the early hours of the morning. She solved quite a few cases that way. She also made some discoveries about herself. She realized how messed up she had become with her time in the orphanage, and she made a concious effort to try and fix that. It worked.
The biggest realization she made was of her feelings for a certain boy who slept in the room down the hall. He had kissed her that day, in the sunlight, and she had left feeling more confused than ever. The thought had been surpressed until she was on the roof that night, where she had no choice but to think about it. She did something she hadn't done in years that night. She talked to the moon.
"I don't know how I feel about him... He's kissed me twice, and both times, I liked it, even though I punched him the first time, and I think I might like him... but I'm not sure... I think about him a lot, and I don't want anything bad to happen to him, and I kind of care more about him than anyone else in the family, ok, so maybe I like him... no, I love him." That was how her conversation with the moon went. And the next day, Puck found her sleeping in the sunlight, with the moon still visible, and he joined her there.
That next night, Sabrina thanked the moon for sticking around to watch one of the most momentous days of her life, because without it, she wasn't sure whe would have been brave enough to stick around for it herself.