🏁 To Love A Myth - Book 2: Mr. Higgs and the Lady 🎩🔨🤕🐌 ⏯ 🚩🔮 🐇

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a/n: apologize for it being extremely long

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Finally, the wedding came for Fuchsia and Boston.

Merida was dressed in one of the dresses Higgs had gotten for her earlier and was helping Edgar with his clothing.

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"Ye look like a fine man. All grown up." She said with a look of pride.

"You look beautiful, Ma."

"Oh, tosh, ye flatter. An yer done, go down to the low mansion and wait for us there. Make sure to watch ye step and not get yer clothes dirty."

"I know how to get down to the mansion, Ma." He said with a roll of his eyes.

Merida smirked as he left the room. Merida went to Higgs' door and knocked on it. After a couple of minutes, she opened the door and found the room astray and Higgs as a young boy in the middle of a bunch of clothing.

"Mr. Higgs?" He looked up at her. "What are ye doing?"

"I'm having a nervous breakdown?"

"Why? Ye're not getting married, yer sister is."

"I know, but it has to be perfect and look at me already? I haven't even gotten there and I've already changed. I woke up a child and now... This wedding needs to be perfect but I'm not."

Merida knelt in front of her employer. "None of us are perfect, Mr. Higgs."

"I don't mean in action and stuff... By the way, you look beautiful."

"It's just a dress, nothing new."

"But it's on you, so that makes it even more beautiful."

"Ye're trying to change the subject. An ye'd get dressed then we can look beautiful together."

"How can I be beautiful when I'm a monster? What if I mess up?! What if I get nervous again and burst into flames while I'm walking down the aisle?"

"An ye dinnae calm yerself, then ye'll be back to a child again. Yer sister is prepared for everra situation that could come up. That's why she asked what everyone was at the beginning of the month. An ye turn, she has something for it, an ye dinnae, then ye have what ye have. Ye're focusing too much on ye, not yer sister, who is the one who should be having cold feet and doubts and the like. She needs ye to be there and help her stay calm."

"But who will keep me calm?"

"Me of course." She said with a flick to his forehead. "Ye divvy, tis my job, ye ken." Higgs smiled at her as she stood up and held out her hands. "Come on, let's pick out something to wear."

"But I'm not my age."

"An ye stay calm, ye should return to it by the time ye get to the church. In the meantime, we'll get some clothing that ye can literally grow into.

"It will look silly."

"Nonsense. Trust me."

Higgs sighed but took his maid's hands as she helped him up.

Merida looked through the clothing strewn about the floor and found the appropriate clothing they had bought specifically for the weddings happening that month. She handed them to him and he put them on. Even though they were at least five or six inches longer due to his adolescent figure as well as two times too big, she knew what he would look like when he was himself again.

"I look stupid."

"Ye look fine."

"I look-"

Merida grabbed his face. "Look at me, Higgs. Fuchsia needs ye and so does Boston. Ye are his best friend and Fuchsia's only brother. Ye ken ye arenae important but ye are to so many people. Be proud of that. I will make sure that everything goes smoothly for ye as well as yer sister. An ye dinnae turn back in time, dinnae ye worry about it. I am here to serve my laird and make sure ye are well taken care of. I've been doing it for four years, I ken I have it covered. Do ye get it?"