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salmon_pinkTitle: Fairy Dust Wishes
Fandom: Once Upon A Time
Pairing: The Blue Fairy/Nova
Rating: G
Words: 475
Notes: Spoilers for Season Three's "Quite A Common Fairy". For![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
1drabble, prompt "defeat".
Nova tries so hard. It’s obvious to everyone, her determination, her spirit, always reaching for her dream of being a fairy godmother.
The Blue Fairy is trying too.
Because no matter how hard Nova tries, she never quite gets it right. Magical artefacts are broken, fairy dust is spilled, sensitive deadlines are missed. Nova is sweet and kind-hearted, but she’s also a wreck, more often than not leaving chaos in her wake.
A few years ago, the Blue Fairy might have been content to allow another fairy to take charge of Nova, if only because her own patience is at its limit. But she can’t accept that, not anymore, and so Nova remains under her watchful eye, even when it pulls her from more important duties, even when it leaves her with headache after headache.
She can’t fail again. Not after what happened with Tinker Bell.
She looks at Nova, with her shining, trusting eyes and her burning desire to be the best fairy possible, and all the Blue Fairy can hear is the sickening thud of Tinker Bell’s body falling to the ground, her wings lost because she failed. Because the Blue Fairy failed her.
So she perseveres with Nova. She keeps Nova on her path, pushes her towards her goal, even if she knows it’s so far off it’s practically cruel, Nova in no way ready for the responsibility of being a fairy godmother. She chases away the lovesick dwarf and she deals with Nova’s heartbreak, because she will not lose another fairy.
And that unsuspecting night when Nova kisses her, sweet and soft and tasting of tears, the Blue Fairy does not push her away, because that seems the quickest path to failure. She allows it, holds Nova close as she cries yet again for a boat and a dream that never really belonged to her, and the Blue Fairy tells herself the kiss was a one-time mistake, that it will not happen again.
Only it does, and soon the kisses do not taste of tears, and Nova begins to smile again. Slowly and not as bright as before, but the smile warms the Blue Fairy’s heart, and she realises she has already failed. She is supposed to be strong and impartial, she is supposed to be above reproach, she is supposed to guide them all with a firm hand. But at some point she stopped pushing Nova and began coddling her instead, and now she thinks of Nova’s lips, even when they are apart.
It is a different kind of failure, Nova’s dreams of being a fairy godmother farther away than ever. But more damning is the fact that the Blue Fairy does not care, her legendary resolve finally crumbled, because she has failed but this time no fairy was lost to her, Nova safe within the circle of her arms.
Fandom: Once Upon A Time
Pairing: The Blue Fairy/Nova
Rating: G
Words: 475
Notes: Spoilers for Season Three's "Quite A Common Fairy". For
1drabble, prompt "defeat".Nova tries so hard. It’s obvious to everyone, her determination, her spirit, always reaching for her dream of being a fairy godmother.
The Blue Fairy is trying too.
Because no matter how hard Nova tries, she never quite gets it right. Magical artefacts are broken, fairy dust is spilled, sensitive deadlines are missed. Nova is sweet and kind-hearted, but she’s also a wreck, more often than not leaving chaos in her wake.
A few years ago, the Blue Fairy might have been content to allow another fairy to take charge of Nova, if only because her own patience is at its limit. But she can’t accept that, not anymore, and so Nova remains under her watchful eye, even when it pulls her from more important duties, even when it leaves her with headache after headache.
She can’t fail again. Not after what happened with Tinker Bell.
She looks at Nova, with her shining, trusting eyes and her burning desire to be the best fairy possible, and all the Blue Fairy can hear is the sickening thud of Tinker Bell’s body falling to the ground, her wings lost because she failed. Because the Blue Fairy failed her.
So she perseveres with Nova. She keeps Nova on her path, pushes her towards her goal, even if she knows it’s so far off it’s practically cruel, Nova in no way ready for the responsibility of being a fairy godmother. She chases away the lovesick dwarf and she deals with Nova’s heartbreak, because she will not lose another fairy.
And that unsuspecting night when Nova kisses her, sweet and soft and tasting of tears, the Blue Fairy does not push her away, because that seems the quickest path to failure. She allows it, holds Nova close as she cries yet again for a boat and a dream that never really belonged to her, and the Blue Fairy tells herself the kiss was a one-time mistake, that it will not happen again.
Only it does, and soon the kisses do not taste of tears, and Nova begins to smile again. Slowly and not as bright as before, but the smile warms the Blue Fairy’s heart, and she realises she has already failed. She is supposed to be strong and impartial, she is supposed to be above reproach, she is supposed to guide them all with a firm hand. But at some point she stopped pushing Nova and began coddling her instead, and now she thinks of Nova’s lips, even when they are apart.
It is a different kind of failure, Nova’s dreams of being a fairy godmother farther away than ever. But more damning is the fact that the Blue Fairy does not care, her legendary resolve finally crumbled, because she has failed but this time no fairy was lost to her, Nova safe within the circle of her arms.
