Cherry and Atticus's Magical World

chapter 7

There was soon a knocking at the front doors.

"Who could that be?" Belle wondered as she was passing Mo talking with Lumiere about his and Babette's anniversary.

"I'll get it!" Atticus called out rushing to the doors, having a feeling someone he knew in a good way was there.

Belle then smiled and continued her way.

"Hello?" Atticus opened the doors to see who could be at the castle at this time of day.

And where he saw a familiar Spellman witch making him smile.

"Hilda." Atticus smiled.

"Uh, have we met?" the woman asked, she didn't seem to have changed that much, aside from her clothes of course.

This caused Atticus to go face-palm, he should have remembered that this was the past only for him then to hear a giggle from Hilda as if she was kidding around.

"Wait... Hildegard Antoinette Spellman, do you know who I am?" Atticus folded his arms and tapped his foot.

"Hey, cool it with the Hildegard Antoinette stuff!" Hilda glared slightly.

"Sorry, sorry." Atticus said.

"And yes, Atticus, I know who you are," Hilda giggled. "I had a feeling you and the others would soon end up here one of these days."

"So, witches know all about time travel?" Atticus asked.

"Yes," Hilda replied. "Of course, you need permission in order to have a time based spell."

"How'd you get permission?" Atticus asked, remembering when Sabrina asked to turn back time after she first found out she was a witch.

Hilda sighed as she thought back. "Let's just say I owe a certain someone dinner and dancing."

"Let me guess, Drell, right?" Atticus smirked.

"You got that right," Drell said behind him, startling the strong Wiccan as he got punched in the stomach due to reflects. "Ow..." he groaned and fell to his knees in the snow. "I totally deserved that..." he then fell back and held himself.

"Oh, Drelly..." Hilda sighed to her husband.

"Drelly needs sweet lovin' therapy..." Drell put his hands together and pouted to her with puppy dog eyes.

"I am so sorry about that, Drell, but you should never do that to someone that has reflexes." Atticus said, arms folded.

"I'll make a note of that." Drell groaned.

Hilda patted Drell on his head, then wrapped her arms around his neck. "Oh, my poor Drell~..."

Drell purred lustfully with a cheeky smirk to her with a wink.

"So, anyways, why are you two here?" Atticus asked.

"Why do you think? To get you and the others out of here." Drell said.

"But we are gonna get out of here," Atticus explained. "As soon as Belle and the Beast officially fall in love, the spell will break, and then everybody will become human again."

"You do realize that you are stronger than him and can get yourselves free whenever you want, right?" Drell asked.

"We already promised the Beast that we wouldn't leave." Atticus said.

"You did?" Hilda asked.

"Yeah, after we traded places with Belle's father to save him, we promised the Beast that we would stay here forever," Atticus explained. "We gave our word... He got pretty mad at us when we came into the Black Forest, we're just lucky that he forgave us after that since it was Christmas."