Medusa (A Fairytale Green FanFic)

Chater 2.75: The Blue-Footed Booby

(Where Brennan and Stone go shopping for "school" supplies before school starts. A wholly original chapter not featured in Fairytale Green.)

*A Blue-Footed Booby is an actual bird. 

**There are important pictures in the chapter (including a list in the Notes app on Stone's phone) which may not be viewable if you read offline. Not sure. Just a head's up

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Sunlight pierced my eyes as I woke up, sprawled on my stomach with my hand perched on my closed laptop. I'd stayed up late watching The Addams Family, and then I watched the sequel when I found out there was a sequel.

I discovered, very quickly, that though I more or less share the appearance and mannerisms of Lurch with my stoicism and size, I am Gomez at heart, and Medusa will be my Morticia – a love of the ages.

'I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way, what bliss.'

Everything about their romance gave me hope. Their love was so passionate, so ever-lasting and eternal, and I wanted it with Ella so acutely that I knew the rest of my life would be either Heaven or Hell, and it was entirely dependent on a fiery, green-haired-ant of a girl.

"Spirits above me, give me a sign. Shall I be joyous or shall I be damned?"

Indeed, Gomez. Indeed.

Sitting up, I rubbed my bleary eyes, resting my head on the wall with a thump.

"Stone!" Brennan barged into my room without knocking, and his eyebrows shot up. "You're not awake yet?"

I stared at him. "I'm clearly awake, you absolute wet muffin."

He ignored my insult. "Usually you're up by like five in the morning to run, work out, do weights and shit? What are you doing in bed still?" He wiggled his brows in insinuation and made an obscene gesture.

Rolling my eyes, I picked up my laptop and wiggled it in the air with unnecessary aggression.

"Watching porn?" he asked with an innocent expression. As if. Glowering, I nearly chucked the laptop at him but paused and swapped it for a pillow in a moment of clarity. He caught it with a laugh.

"I was watching The Addams Family, if you must know."

"I don't believe you."

"Oh no, how will I ever survive," I said, deadpanning. Cocking his head to the side, he observed me with a look that reminded me a hell of a lot of Kelly.

"You really watched a movie last night? You never watch tv. Why The Addams Family?"

I refused to answer him and instead waited for him to tell me why the fuck he was in my room. Raising my eyebrows slowly, I crossed my arms and stared.

"Okay, I'll ask again," Brennan said, and I grumbled under my breath about him being 'an annoying fuck-head'. "Why The Addams Family?"

"Because Ella called me "Lurch" and I wanted to know why!" I said, suddenly so exasperated by his questions that I would answer anything he asked simply for peace and quiet.

"So, did you?"

"Did I what?"

"Find out why she calls you Lurch?"

"Yes."

"And?"

"Because I'm tall, and I grumble."

"Yup. That's you."