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

Chapter 84: The Perks of Being a Reader

(Btw, the charterer Nicola is introduced in this chapter. She will have a crush on Y/n, but it will be very much one-sided. Nicola is 16, and I will not create a relationship between them. It will just be a one-sided crush.)

(Sorry for the wait, Wattpad seems to have had some issues with publishing stories)

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Sophie might be a Dean, but that didn't mean Nicola had respect for the girl or would join her ranks of fawning students.
For one thing, she'd met Sophie back when they lived in Gavaldon, but Sophie was acting as if she'd never seen Nicola in her life. For another, Nicola had read The Tale of Sophie & Y/n & Agatha and thought Sophie was a class-A brat. And then on Nicola's first day, Sophie had blamed her for caving in a classroom when it wasn't her fault at all!
For these reasons (and more), she'd been giving Sophie hostile looks ever since she got to school two weeks ago and Sophie had been giving them back. She started to send threatening letters too, but those had never been answered (and Sophie was not the only one she had written threatening letters to).

So imagine Nicola's surprise when it was Sophie herself who barged into her room tonight and dragged her onto this boat, helped by Hester, Dot, and Anadil, three witches she'd only seen in a storybook.
No one told her why. They'd just acted like she was their prisoner and gave her thirty seconds to pack before they flung her aboard and dumped her in the worst room. She didn't even know who else was on the crew, except one. Y/n.
Nicola had always liked Y/n. Who in their right mind wouldn't? She was the sweetest girl there was in Gavaldon, and everyone already knew she was prime picking for the school for Good. So who didn't have a crush on her? Sure, there was a bit of an age gap between them. But Nicola could probably make it work, right?

Either way, Y/n had come down to give her a personal welcome, shaking her hand and everything, before quickly leaving to set sail. No one else had even bothered to come and check on her once.
It had hurt her feelings, to be honest. Hester was one of her favorite characters in The Tale of Sophie & Y/n & Agatha and being treated like a stray dog by your favorite characters is worse than never meeting them at all. Even Dot, who seemed so jolly and sweet on the page, hadn't even managed a proper "hello."
I should have known, she thought. Girls like me are always left out of fairy tales.

Nicola steeled herself. Well, if this crew couldn't show her the most basic of manners, then she wasn't going to make an effort either. Instead, she would handle them the way she'd handle rude customers at Pa's pub in Gavaldon; with grace, dignity, and pity for their souls.
Thunder blasted outside and a slash of lightning lit up her window.
Nicola unpacked her toothbrush, soap, and comb in her tiny bathroom. The boat had been swerving and lurching through this storm for the past hour. Whoever was steering had no idea what they were doing.

"Man the sails?" Y/n cried, soaked to the bone as she gripped the captain's wheel, clearly not sure what to do–
Nicola snuck closer to the galley door so she could peer through the crack and survey the whole deck. Lightning ripped through a sail and the Igraine lurched off course, rain flooding over the rails. The storm had exploded only a few hours after they left, caging them into whirling winds they couldn't escape. Hester and the witches were siphoning water off the deck using their fingerglows–
"Lady of the Lake controls these waters! Should be giving us easy passage!" Hester was shouting at Anadil and Dot.

Meanwhile Nicola's classmate Bogden was clutching a red-haired boy as he puked overboard; Sophie was crawling on all fours up the deck, Agatha batting down the hatches, which kept coming loose, and lastly heard someone else, Hort. Nicola didn't like any of them. Agatha, nor Sophie, nor Hort, nor Tedros who didn't even seem to be there. They were all twisted in the head, one way or another, and needed serious help, and Y/n needed serious help to get away from them. She was more neutral on Agatha, and Hort was mostly irrelevant. She could at least survive with those two. Maybe.