Magic

Once back in the day where wearing big puffy dresses and corsets was the fashion for women and men wear pants and a vest is where the story starts.  Even though all the other women go with the fashion of the day, I most of the time prefer to where pants and vests along with the men.  At the present time I was sitting in my common room after being invited to the home of Tim Holmes son of a fantastic detective, Sherlock Holmes, and a criminal mastermind, Aaron Adler.  I am really great friends with him, but I love him too.  He is in love with someone else.  As am I.  I was invited because he wanted to see me and he needed some personal help.  Both of his parents were sick with a disease he has never seen before and not only were his parents infected, but his Uncle John Watson, Aunt Mary Dawson, and lover Rose were too.  He didn’t know if it was contagious and he didn’t know any other doctor that could possibly keep it quiet.  I had yet to send him a reply.

            Even though we are great friends I have one secret that I have kept from him and I refuse to tell him until the proper moment.  Actually I had two secrets.

“Did you just get home?” asked my love Sam Merlotte surprising me with his plaid shirt behind his vest and his messy blonde locks.  We both always looked out of time, but he always looked good in anything with plaid.

“Sam!  I didn’t even hear you come in!” I said as he kissed me on the cheek.

“You know I have my ways,” said Sam standing beside me.

“I was invited to Tim’s house today,” I said showing him the letter.

“Oh, really?  What does he want?” Sam asked sitting beside me.

“His whole family is sick with a disease he has never seen before.  He needs medical help,” I said looking at Sam.

“He needs a doctor?  We can’t he see a specialist?” Sam asked.

“He doesn’t want it become an epidemic and he also wants to keep it quiet,” I said as I stood up. 

“Do you want me to go with you?” Sam asked looking at me stand up and at first I was going to shake my head.

“Yes, but not as yourself,” I said turning into a Siberian husky.

“Oh I see.  You want me to be your pet.  Ok,” Sam said turning into a golden lab after stripping.

            I am Kimberly Jean Schnell and this is my secret that I share with my other secret which is also my lover Sam Merlotte.  We are shape shifters.  I can also conjure things out of thin air, but I don’t use that power that often.  Sam knows of course, but only him.

            We ran to Tim’s home and once I got onto his doorstep I changed under the steps.  Same looked at me with his sad dog eyes.

“I’ll properly introduce you someday Sam,” I said kissing his nose and he licked my nose.  I put on my elegant dress and walked up to Tim’s door with Sam at my heels.  I knocked and it opened two seconds later.

“Oh Kim you got my letter!  Come in come in,” Tim said and he looked at Sam.

“Can my dog Sam come in as well?” I asked smiling and Tim looked back at me.

“Yes he may.  So you have a dog?” Tim asked and he waved me in.

“For now,” I said walking into a quiet living room.  “What you wanted me to come for was your family.  Can I see them?” I asked looking at him.

“I know I brought you here to see what it is, but what if it is contagious?” he asked giving me a fearful look.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if it was because if they all got it we need to keep them contained.  We might even need to keep you contained even though you seem immune to it, but you might also be a carrier.  Let me see them,” I said and he ran out of the room.  I looked at Sam and he looked up at me.  He was just as surprised as me. 

            A minute passed and the nanny came giving me some tea.  I said my thank yous and I waited for him.  Sam sniffed the tea and he doggy sneezed.  He looked at me and shook his doggy head.  I didn’t drink it.  I decided to go look for Tim and his family.  I searched the entire house and I couldn’t find him, so I went after the nanny.  When I found her, I confronted her.

“Where’s Tim?” I asked her as I saw the surprised look on her face.

“H-He is down in the basement,” she stuttered.

“Show me,” I said and she strolled past me.  Sam and I followed her to the other side of the house.

“He should be down here,” said the nanny pointing down a set of stairs.

            Sam went ahead of me and we slowly went down the stairs.  What I saw made me gasp.  He had hospital beds full of people.  Family I’m guessing, but that was not all he had.  Once I got to the bottom of the stairs I saw the truth.  He had my family too.  That’s why he got me involved.  My sister Nicole Jenna, my mother Pamela Jane, and my father Albert John were infected.  I looked around the room and I saw Tim beside Rose’s bed talking to her.  My rage was building until I heard a voice.

“K-Kim?” asked Nicole waking from her sleep.  I looked at her and I was about to break down and cry.  How could he?  HOW COULD HE DO THIS TO HIS FRIEND?!

            I ran back up the stairs and through the house to the backyard.  I stood at the end of the path and I was getting angrier.  My rage was building.  My family was infected too and he was trying to poison me as well.  Why?  WHY?!  Suddenly I could feel myself transform as the cup of tea ran through my head and I felt my dress fall to pieces as I became a massive creepy werewolf.  His backyard was perfect.  A nice mown lawn.  A birdbath and a garden surrounding the yard.  Two lawn chairs and a beautiful swimming pool.  After I was done with it, it looked like an animal was set loose.  The pool was shredded and the chairs were pieces.  The birdbath was pebbles.  The garden was dirt.  I was ripping up the lawn when I saw a naked man under my claws with his arms crossed.  Sam.  I couldn’t bring my claw down to hurt him, so I crumbled and became myself.  I fell into his arms sobbing.  I conjured clothing on both of us as he held me.  He just let me cry in his warm arms.

“Sam,” I said in between my tears.

“He has your family infected too doesn’t he?” he asked.  He always seems to know what I am going to say.

“Yes,” I said looking into his eyes.

“Go back in there and get an explanation from him.  Maybe there is reasoning behind this madness,” Sam said turning into a golden lab and giving a loud bark making me jump.  I smiled.  He always made me smile.  I walked back inside with the same clothes and Sam at my ankles.

            I walked down those basement steps again and I tried not to break.  I almost walked right into Tim.

“Why didn’t you drink the tea?” he asked with his arms crossed.

“It smelled bad to me.  Why do you have my family?” I asked crossing my arms.  “Also if you think the disease is so contagious, why aren’t you infected?”

“I am infected, but somehow I am immune,” he said with his frown enlarging.

“Is it something in the tea or is it airborne?” I asked glaring at him.

“Both,” he said gritted his teeth while glaring at me and Sam growled.  I put my hand on Sam’s head to calm him. 

“Do you have a cure?” I asked looking at my sickly mother.

“No,” he said with no emotion.

“Did you cause this?” I asked looking him in the eye, but there was something strange about his eyes.

“Yes,” he said.

“Why?  Are you a mastermind or a criminal?” I asked.

“I am son of both.  I wanted to be a hero,” he said smiling.

“By making a cure for something that you created?  What if you failed at finding a cure?  What would happen then?” I asked.

“I wouldn’t let that happen,” he said glaring.

            “Is there anything else that you are hiding from me?” I asked in a huff.

“Are you?” he asked cocking his head and grinning.

“What do you mean?” I asked looking innocent.  I had it coming.

“You have a boyfriend, right?” he asked and I sighed, but I glared at him again.

“I am not letting you infect him either,” I said and Sam growled.  “I don’t remember telling you that I had a boyfriend.”

“So you confirmed it.  I thought we could become rich together,” he said smiling.

“I wouldn’t do such madness,” I said taking a step back.  This didn’t sound like him.  He loved and adored Rose.  We were only friends.  “Does your girlfriend realize what you’re doing and your parents?”

“Their brains do not comprehend anything that is going on,” he said smiling.  “Until they are cured.”

“You’re mad,” I said frowning taking another step back.

“Not as mad as your sister or your father,” he said stepping aside and I looked over at my family.  There was a Saint Bernard where my dad was and a poodle where my sister was.  The secret is out.

“It scared me at first, but then I thought this was side effects.  Except your mother and no one else did,” he said smiling while putting his hands on his hips.  “Since when did shape shifting course through your families veins?”

“A while,” I said in a daze.

“Is that the only secret you are keeping from me?” he asked looking into my eyes.  “Can you shape shift like your father and sister?”  I felt I had to answer like a little voice was telling me to do it.

            Before I could get the words out of my mouth Sam was standing in front of me human and naked and Tim was on the floor with a bloody lip.

“Stop mind controlling,” Sam said lowering his fist.

“Oh so you found a fellow shape shifter.  Would you be courteous and put some clothes on?” Tim said smiling as he wiped the blood away.

“No,” Sam said as Tim stood up.

“Kim.  I thought you loved me,” Tim said looking at me with puppy dog eyes and I looked at Sam with his arms crossed.

“I thought I did, but this is not like you at all.  I love Sam,” I said and looked at Tim.  “Call the nanny.”

“Why?” he asked and smiled looking over at a bed.  I looked in the same direction.  The nanny was in that bed and she was just as infected as everyone else.  Next to her was another occupied bed between the nanny and Rose.  It was Tim Holmes and I looked back at the man that was posing as Tim Holmes.

            I watched his face form from a short skinny and reserved red head to a tall modern and creepy black haired man.  This man was holding Sam by the neck and to the world all thought that he was dead.

“Lord Ganon,” I hesitated fearfully.  “I thought you were dead.  Along with your father Blackwood.”

“Not as soon as your boyfriend is going to be,” he said strengthening his grip.

“Kim!” Sam choked.

“No!  Stop!  What do you want?  I’ll do anything and you don’t even have to mind control me as long as you don’t hurt him,” I said looking into Sam’s pained eyes.  Ganon dropped Sam and appeared behind me.  Once he grabbed me the room disappeared and we reappeared in my house.

“What are we doing here?” I asked pulling away from him.

“I want to ruin Sherlock Holmes and his family because he ruined me.  My father and I became more powerful though once we died and with our resurrection everyone will no longer question our magic,” he said smiling.

“Where is your father?” I asked.

“For me to know and you to find out, but now for my magic,” he said and I shook my head.

“I won’t allow it,” I said conjuring a hand grenade and I pulled the pin.  “Prepare yourself for some real magic.”

“No!  You’re a conjurer!” he said and I closed my eyes.  Once I blinded myself from the world the grenade exploded along with my house and everything within it.

            Among the crackling flames I could hear a voice, but I remember this voice when I had hands and feet.  Except I didn’t have any human qualities.  I felt like I had antennas, little legs, and a hard shell.  The voice I could hear belonged to a male and in the background I could hear sirens.  A minute later I could hear rushing water, but that was no matter to me.  The male voice was talking to other new male voices.

“I’m sorry.  We haven’t found any living casualties,” one voice said.  All I could see was ash and water around me, so I lifted my wings and flew to another home I know so well.  My tiny eyes looked at the source of the male voice and he was crying on the ground.  I changed course and landed on his shoulder.  He looked at my cockroach form and I flew the course I originally was headed.

            I landed on the destroyed birdbath in Tim’s backyard once I left the smoke behind.  I turned human again and I just lay on the lawn naked.  I pictured his lawn being perfect and I looked around me.  The backyard looked as if I had not ruined it.  I turned into a monarch butterfly once I sensed someone coming.

“I knew that cockroach were you and you fixed this place up,” said Sam except I stayed a butterfly.  “You probably think I’m Ganon.  Does he know that your favorite color is pink and you cry every time that Jack Dawson dies in the Titanic Musical?  Does he know when you laugh it is so obnoxious that it is beautiful even when your head goes back?”  I began to cry butterfly tears and he was looking at my butterfly form.

“Does he know that when you get angry you storm out of the room and then return all sorry?  Does he know that you play the violin and your favorite music is heavy rock on the violin?” said Sam and he just kept looking at me.  “Does he know that when you kiss you grab the back of my head every time?” I turned human and I embraced him while clothes formed on my body.  I kissed him and I grabbed the back of his head.

            After a while of tasting his doggy breath I got an idea and I looked at him in the eyes once our lips unlocked.

“Is everyone else ok?” I asked.

“Once you killed Ganon everyone woke up like nothing happened.  They only seemed to be under a spell,” Sam said and I smiled with satisfaction.

“Good.  I knew killing him would save them all,” I beamed.  “I want to tell Tim about us and our secret.  I want to see if he is a true friend as much as you’re my true love.”  We kissed and I turned into a beagle.

“This is introducing me and telling him your magical secret?” he said smiling putting his hands on his hips.  “Ha ha very funny.  You are so creative.”  Sam picked me up and walked to the front door.  Once he knocked the nanny opened the door.

“Who are you?” she asked blocking the doorway.

“Kim sent me to talk to Tim,” Sam said holding me.

“Why isn’t she here?” the nanny asked and Tim walked up behind her.

“Let him in Cassy,” Tim said and Sam walked past her.  They both sat down in the living courters and Rose was with him along with their families and mine. 

“You’re Kim’s boyfriend aren’t you and her dog,” Tim said and he looked at the ground.  “It was really me when I answered the door Sam and when I ran off I was going to him.  I heard everything even though I was in that bed.  So is that beagle, Kim?”  I turned human right in front of everyone and Rose jumped backwards.  I formed clothes on myself before they got a real glimpse of me.

“Yes.  It’s me.  He threatened your life didn’t he and your letter to me was your cry for help,” I said with a comforting face.

“Yes thanks to you we’re all alive,” Tim smiled.

“Thanks to magic.  I’m no hero,” I said and I smiled.  “I’m glad to see you’re all alright though.  I have to go repair my house.”  I transformed into a tabby cat and ran towards the front door.

“What happened to her house?” I heard Tim ask Sam.

“Wait for me!” exclaimed Sam and he answered back.  “Long story.” Sam transformed into a tom cat and ran after me.

THE END