Drabble:158
In retrospect, Sydney acknowledged that it really was her fault. If she hadn't encouraged Adrian to go for it, he never would have…and her life would now have been free from what she had named 'the bane of her existence'.
It all started with a trip to Disneyland.
Adrian and she had gone for an outing to the 'most magical place on Earth', and it had been a ton of fun, and she had even gotten a picture with Bugs Bunny, who had been her favorite Disney character as a kid. There had been rides, and music and fireworks, and all in all it had been pretty close to perfect.
And then, when they were about to leave, they came across a souvenir shop.
Adrian hadn't even wanted to get in, but she insisted. (Who goes to Disneyland and comes back without a Mickey/Minnie Mouse cap? It was practically blasphemy!). So while she hunted for rodent-themed accessories, Adrian wandered around the shop, searching for interesting knick-knacks. And he finally came across something he wanted…a talking coin.
A talking coin with Sebastian the Crab.
Which, when pressed, burst into Under The Sea.
At first it had been funny, and Sydney had even found it adorable how Adrian knew the song word for word. And she actually cooed when Adrian confessed that Ariel kinda had been his first Disney crush, and that whenever he hit an all-time low in his teenage years, he'd see the movie to cheer himself up.
So, she tolerated it good-naturedly when Adrian made the coin burst into the song about 50 times on their trip back home. She even let it be, when he insisted on playing it before sleeping, or randomly, during the day-around his friends (who knew Dimitri adored the song too?) and their children, sometimes at mealtimes, or while painting, and once even in the shower.
While Sydney loved that the singing coin was making Adrian so happy, it began to piss her off. Hearing the song all the time, every day began to mess with her head. She started to phantom-hear the song both lucid and asleep. So she tried to misplace the coin whenever Adrian left home without it (usually only for his classes, 'official work' or meetings with his family), but he'd find it every time. Every. Single. Time.
In agitation, Sydney decided to take things into her own hand and mess up the coin, so it would stop its blasted singing. But..it was complicated.
She couldn't pry open the coin without breaking it-which would totally defeat her purpose of making it seem like it had stopped on its own-and nothing she did magic-wise affected it either. (Later she was to learn that Adrian had some of his Moroi friends charm it so it would not break if he dropped it or stepped on it by mistake)
The coin, she found out, was waterproof (she may or may not have tried to 'murder' it with bathwater, and boiling water, and in one instance, vinegar). Dropping a knife or a hammer "accidentally" on it did nothing other than dent it, which made Adrian only grow more protective of it.
The one time Sydney tried to electrocute it, The Court's power supply suffered from load shedding. For the first time in maybe 50 years.
Nothing she did could get her rid of the annoying coin and stupid Sebastian's voice, which had started to haunt her dreams.
In the end, all it took was for her to blurt out to Rose how terrified she had become of the annoying song and how the coin had become the bane of her life. Rose only smiled and reassured her she'd set things right.
The next day, Adrian dutifully handed over his precious coin to his godkid, Christian's son, who had 'somehow' formed an attachment to the shiny coin overnight. Five days later, Sydney came across Christian trying to eviscerate the coin using his fire-magic and various kitchen utensils.
Later that night, they both buried the coin deep in Liss' personal flower-garden for good.
My head is a weird place, I have no other explanations for this .
But I hope you liked it, so let me know what you think. Cheers!