Wizard's Wish - (Kinda) Yandere SGE x reader

Chapter 41: Doubt

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"She's turning into a witch! She's turning into a witch and she doesn't even know it!" Y/n choked, rushing with Dot into the Charity Breezeway.
"Oh, she knows," Dot snapped. "She's just playing innocent. Why do you think she's wearing that stupid shawl!"
"We have to tell Lady Lesso– she'll know what to do–"
"No! You saw what happened with Professor Dovey. We can't put the teachers in danger!"

"Sophie was Good when we were in Gavaldon," Y/n cried. "She was happy–"
"You want to see her happy? Wait until she does to Agatha and Tedros what she did to that pigeon!"
Thankfully, Y/n wouldn't see Sophie for the rest of the afternoon, and Agatha assured her that she would manage, and look out for anything suspicious around Sophie. With challenges complete for the day, their classes diverged until Forest Groups, so while Sophie and Agatha had Female Talents with Hester and Anadil, Y/n hurried to history of Heroines with Dot.

"You and Agatha can't be alone with her again! Dot said as they neared the mass of girls filling into Good Hall. "Hide in Hester's room after classes!" All Y/n could see was the pigeon's gaping eye... its blood seeping towards her... She stopped against a sapphire column.
"This is all because of my wish."
"No this is all because you chose the wrong ending last time."

Y/n looked up at Dot's reflection in the polished glass.
"You heard Hester. Tonight's your last chance to do what your heart really wants," Dot said. "Or Sophie will be a witch forever."
Y/n's throat tightened, afraid to let the words out. "And if... if I kiss him?"
"She'll go home to her father safe, like you promised. The witch locked inside."

Y/n said nothing for a moment. Finally she turned. "How do I escape guard duty tonight? The other girl will tell the Dean–"
"Will she?" Dot took her arm. "Just 'cause I'm popular and wear glitter doesn't mean I'm a better student."
"We're on guard... together?"
"If you haven't noticed, I've been failing every challenge worse than you. And I've been trying!"

Y/n looked at her, scared. "But even if I do escape... what if I can't get into the boy's castle?"
"You will."
Y/n felt the unspoken ending in Dot's grip.
Because our lives depend on it.

Good Hall had the same briny smell and humid haze as last year, like a cathedral that had been sunken in seawater. Chipped marble murals on the wall depicted the history of the Great War, ending in the triumph of the Evil School Master over his own Good brother. As Y/n sat down in the pews, she found it odd that the Dean hadn't changed the murals to reflect either the School Master's death or the Boy Eviction. Surely she'd want history revised in her own image?

Odder still, though History was the Dean's class to teach, she failed to appear at all, leaving Pollux fumbling before half the school.
"Our Dean had urgent business, so I offered to present a comprehensive review of Male Brutality through the ages, with a pointed emphasis on the persecution of those who do not display conventionally masculine traits." He pursed his lips. "But the Dean preferred you each introduce your lineage instead."

Y/n tried to focus on paths into the Boy's school, but found herself turning into the girl's introductions. All the students at the School for Good and Evil came from fairy-tale families, except Sophie and Agatha, the two unenchanted Readers kidnapped from Gavaldon. Y/n was from a fairy tale family of some sort, but she knew nothing about them, being kidnapped from her murdered parents at a young age.

She remembered Hester's mother being the now-deceased witch who tried to kill Hansel and Gretel, while Anadil's grandmother was the notorious White Witch, who wore little boy's bones, and then Dot's father who was the Sheriff of Nottingham, who never managed to catch his nemesis Robin Hood. But now Y/n also learned Beatrix's grandmother was the maiden who outwitted Rumpelstiltskin, Millicent was the great-granddaughter of Sleeping Beauty and her prince, and Kiko was the child of one of Neverland's Lost Boys and a mermaid. Y/n started to feel a little sad she knew nothing of her parents, her lineage.