Just a Little Pixie Dust

Jacob (Chapter 11.)

There were a lot of things on my mind right then. Why she still couldn’t forgive me, but she was so willing to be with me that night. Why she was avoiding the fact that she knew she wanted to try with us but just wouldn’t let herself. I wanted to scream at her sometimes and just ask her, just get the answers I wanted out of the damn woman but if life had been that simple, I wouldn’t be in this situation. 

It was ironic that I was falling in love with another writer’s creation, she was special though. Far from the fairy that was once written about it seemed that, over the years Tink evolved to become something a lot greater than just what was written on a page of a book for children. I loved her for it though, I wasn’t afraid to admit that but I knew she was afraid to admit it. It drove me crazy to have her so close to me all the time and be unable to even touch her without her wanting to give me the cold shoulder and runoff for god knew how long to avoid me.

Walking into my room I set my phone and wallet down, grabbing a towel and clothes to change into I walked into my bathroom and started the shower. My brain kept drifting back to her though. Was that man that important to her? Jasper… The Mad Hatter, he had gotten himself in trouble and I was forced to put him in the banishment book though even I thought he wasn't guilty. The thing no one but me and Jasper knew though was that I told him I believed he was innocent and that I was going to do what I could to get him out. 

I did too, I had been since that day. But, no matter how hard I tried it seemed everything in the world was working against me to keep him in there locked up as long as possible. Jasper was nothing more than a good friend to me for years and for Tink? Well, he was her first love to say the least. Losing him broke her at first and she went down hill pretty damn fast until she joined the Police and at first things were fine until she found out I had to put him in there. Since then? Well she didn’t even want to look at me most of the time. 

Getting her to talk to me without sounding angry was the highlight of my day and the times she forgot who she was talking to was the best but most of the time she remembered vividly that it was me who did it.  Sighing I stepped into the shower and closed my eyes thinking to myself. She was downstairs, in my living room right now, I could easily walk up to her and kiss her and I knew she wouldn’t push me away. 

I knew she wouldn’t even try, I could take her to my room and say f**k going back to the office just this second. My mind went a little too far though in that moment and I found myself placing a hand over my crotch groaning, he’d sprung to life just from that little bit? Hell, I was worse off than I thought I was then. Breathing slowly I did my best to calm myself down and showered quickly, I had work to do and Tink was never one for waiting. 

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Once I was done with my shower I put a towel around me quickly and glanced down at my phone. Notifications were going off and then there was one from earlier, Tink… she was listed as “ICE” in my phone and if she knew that? Well I was pretty sure she was going to kick my ass if that information came out anywhere for her. She expected me to have Will in there and granted I had him in my phone he wasn’t someone I wanted to call if something happened to me, he wasn’t around enough and as it was I had no clue where the f**k he was at. He just up and vanished one day and hadn’t been in touch since but that was normal for him. 

Going through my room I picked up what I knew I’d probably need the next few days and shoved my laptop under my arm. I’d be in my office the next week more than likely and I wasn’t looking forward to it at all but I couldn’t really control that. These cases, they were piling up and this wasn’t normal for this town. Calls about loud noise? Fighting? Arguments? Car crashes? That was normal for us but this? This was anything but normal for us. 

Heading downstairs I yawned quietly and stopped at the edge of the stairs looking into the living room. I could see her, laying on the couch and well I was pretty sure she was sleeping. Smiling to myself I shook my head and slowly walked across the room setting my stuff down. I had to get dressed yet but I knew if I had i’d forget about all of this. Looking over at her I just stood there, I wanted to take it in. I knew if she woke up she’d have my ass but damn, I never got to see her like this… It was nice.