AN~ I would've updated yesterday, but the site wouldn't let me get to the documents page. Anyone else have that problem?
elliegoat: It's all right. I am capable of thinking up my own ideas, you know. I'm going to incorporate the barrier, but not like that.
sistersgrimmlover: eventual puckabrina. I like to focus on their friendship first. And I picked Bella 'cause I never wanted her to be evil. Sabrina needs a friend.
That night, Sabrina was sitting on the porch roof, contemplating everything that had happened that day, when Puck climbed out of the window behind her. "Whatcha doing?"
"Thinking." Sabrina replied.
"What about?" Puck asked, sitting down next to her.
"Everything."
"And what do you think about 'everything'?"
"I think that we can't trust Bella, that the house is going to run out of room, that the Scarlet Hand is going to make some major move soon, that we need a spy, and that all this is happening way too fast." Sabrina said.
"Wow." Puck blinked. "Anything else?"
"That it'd be nice if I had some training of some sort, if my dad approved of us staying, if I wasn't so exausted all the time, and if I knew what 'that sword' was."
"I might be able to help with the training and finding out about the sword. The tired thing will go away eventually. Don't know about your dad."
"Is the energy thing normal?" Sabrina asked.
Puck shrugged. "I wouldn't know. I was born like this. Your body has to adapt to it."
Sabirna sighed. "I can't do anything without almost falling asleep, and then when I wake up, I'm still tired!"
"Sorry." Puck said. "There's not much I can do about that, though."
"Yes you can." Sabrina stated. "You're doing it right now. You're listening."
After a moment of silence, Puck spoke again. "I don't think we should let Bella know you're an everafter."
"Me neither." Sabrina said. "We'll have to make sure no one else tells, though."
"Yeah." Puck said.
Sabrina shivered. "It's cold."
"'Course you're cold!" Puck exclaimed. "You're not wearing a sweater!"
"I can't." Sabrina said. "None of them fit over my wings."
Puck shrugged off his own hoodie. "Wear mine. " He said.
Sabrina shook her head. "What'll you wear?"
"I've got more." Puck said.
"You never wear them." Sabrina noted.
"This one's my favorite." Puck held the sweatshirt in Sabrina's direction. "Come on, it'll fit over your wings, and it'll let them out when you need them to. My mom made sure of that."
Sabrina sighed and put on the sweater. "I'm surprised Bella didn't see my wings today."
"Me too." Puck said. "I wonder why."
Sabrina shrugged. "I dunno."
They sat in silence for a few minutes. Again, Puck was the one who broke it. "What are you looking at?"
"The trees." Sabrina said, leaning tiredly on Puck's shoulder.
"Why?" Puck asked.
"Cause they're-" She yawned. "They're cool. Look at one, really look."
Puck looked. They were pretty interesting. He looked over at Sabrina to tell her so, then realized that she had fallen asleep. He laughed a bit, then picked her up and carried her back through the window into her bedroom.
Red was in the living room that evening, about to go upstairs after watching a movie with Dapne, when Bella appeared at her elbow. "Can I talk to you for a minute?" she asked.
Red shrugged, stopping. "Sure."
"They don't trust me." Bella said bluntly, sitting on the couch.
Red followed suit. "You didn't really give them much of a reason to, form what I heard."
"I hoped-" Bella paused. "I hoped they'd forgive me for that."
"For being in the Scarlet Hand, they might." Red said thoughtfully. "They forgave me, after all, and I tried to kill them. Granny's probably mostly forgiven you already."
"Do you trust me?" Bella asked.
Red thought about it. "I think I do."
"Why?"
"Because the Scarlet Hand doesn't use spies. They want the Grimms to know who they need to be afraid of."
"They do, don't they?" Bella blinked. "How can I get them to see that?"
"Daphne will trust you, in time." Red said. "She likes to trust people. The adults will need it proven, probably. Your biggest obstacles will be Sabrina and Puck."
"They're the people I'm here for, though." Bella said.
"Puck won't trust you because you pretended to be Sabrina's friend, then you hurt her. Puck doesn't like anyone who hurts Sabrina. Sabrina won't like you for the same reason."
"Can I- can I prove that I'm not going to do that again?"
"Maybe." Red said. "Not likely. Because betrayal is the worst thing you could possibly do, in Sabrina's eyes. It's the most horrible sin you could commit. She's been betrayed twice, and she didn't like it."
"But there must be something I can do, to make her trust me!" Bella said desperately.
Red shrugged. "Keep trying. Go out of your way to be nice to her. Tell her the whole story. And don't give up. It'll take a while, but you might be able to do it. There's something about you..."
Bella smiled. "Thanks, Red."