Big Book of Hatsome One Shots

The Curse Of The Selkie (S)

TW: Rufus the stuffed walrus, Breaking and Entering, Rock through the window, Fae manipulation, Curse of insanity, Magic Circle, witchery, Urban Magic Yogs!AU

The sound of glass shattering snapped Nano from her meditative state. She was sitting in the floor of the living room. The large magic circle surrounded her pulsating as she muttered intelligible and non human words. The circle's golden chalk form glinted in the artificial light coming from the bulbs and from the sun coming from the windows.

She stood up quickly, stepping away from the circle, it's light and pulses dying once she stepped away. She poked her head around the corner, locking her eyes on a medium sized rock that lay on the entrance mat, shards of glass laying around it. Nano narrowed her eyes as stepped towards, careful not to cut her foot open.

She snatched the rock from the ground, finding that it had a scrap of paper tied to it. Before she could look at it, the sound of tires squealing against pavement could be heard. She looked through the new jagged hole in the doors top glass frame and spotted a dark green SUV racing away. The sound of raucous laughter could be heard from where she stood. Once she recognized those laughs and that car, her normal eye, the one that was not surrounded by purple sigils and was milky white, twitched.

She gritted her teeth as she hissed to herself.

"Garbage Court."

***

"I'm telling you, Lal, it was them!" yelled Nano into the phone's receiver.

"You really don't know that!" yelled back Lalna, his voice crackling because of bad reception.

Nano snatched up the note again and repeated what it said to Lalna.

"'Dear Tramp and Blondie,
THIS MEANS WAR!' Who else would it be?!"

Nano could hear Lalna sigh and could practically see that goofy face of his with an expression that Nano knew meant he didn't believe her.

"But we haven't done anything to them!"

Lalna waited for Nano to respond, but all he could hear was silence. "Nano? Nano did you do something?"

Silence for a few seconds, then Nano quietly spoke. "I-I baked them a pie."

Lalna would furrow his brow at her if he was there. "OK? Why would a pie make them-"

"I emptied two boxes worth of laxatives into it," Nano said, interrupting.

A sharp intake of breath came from Lalna. "What have you done?! You just started a war with one of the most powerful fae courts in the city!"

"Well then there's only thing left to do," said Nano.

Lalna sighed as he replied. "What?"

"We fight back."

***

The lock on the door gave an audible thunk as the door swung open. Nano smiled at Lalna as she stuck the bobby pin back in her pocket. The blonde shook his head at her and made a unbelieving noise. "You really have to teach me that protection charm disarm spell."

Nano snorted as she stepped inside the Garbage Court's apartment. "It's called demon magic for a reason, Lal. Not something I can just teach you."

Nano looked around the apartment and whistled approvingly. "Not really what I was expecting. Kind of expecting trash everywhere, an unholy scent, and rodents scampering about."

Covering the right wall was an assortment of cabinets, counter tops covered with appliances, and a fridge and oven. To the left was a short wall that ended halfway, opening up into a living room. A three seater couch and a recliner took up the back wall, a tv with a gaming system against the far wall, and a sliding glass door that led to a balcony on the left wall.