another dream

[beccaelizabeth]

weird dream.

There was the world's most extravagant wedding. They had kind of a Noah's Ark theme, only starting with velociraptor and t-rex because the BBC had some left. And there were giraffes. They wanted purple baby giraffes but they only got regular colored grown up ones. And then when all the animals were done with there was a sort of cultures of the world revue, people from all over the place in little traditional costumes. But only little girls.
Because the bride & groom wanted a little girl more than anything.

The wedding was so extraordinary it actually got the attention of the fairies. The real fairies though, so while they could look sparkly for the occasion, they were not safe. They granted wishes, exactly what you wished for, no less and no more.

So the best man let the fairy princess in, looking all sparkly and offering them three gifts. They didn't think they really needed gifts, they had so much money they'd told everyone no gifts, they were giving all their money away. Once they got married they'd have a whole new lot of money, so why have gifts? Give stuff to charity instead.

But the fairy princess looked calm and shiny and asked them what they *did* want, the things that money couldn't buy. And the groom thought that one was easy - he wanted a little girl. Fairy pointed out they'd bought many little girls. But the groom was not so easily pleased - he didn't want just any girl, he wanted one just like his bride. So the fairy nodded and asked the bride what she wanted. She said she wanted what he wanted. The fairy said that wasn't what she asked, what did the *bride* want? Bride got all confused, turned away and said she guessed she wished she knew. Fairy nodded again.

Then the best man came back in with all sorts of busy and timetables and stuff, and the fairy asked him, if he could wish for anything, what did he really want? He says "True Love. Well it's the only thing worth wanting, really. I'd wish to find my true love." And he's looking over at the bride and groom being smoochy in the corner, all wistful. So the fairy nods again.

When she leaves, she leaves a bowl of sweetcorn.
This strikes everyone as somewhat peculiar, but, you know, fairies. What can you do?

So everyone goes off being busy, and the bride has another look at the sweetcorn. It smells kind of funny. Like sweeter than sweet, but bitter too. Interesting smell, so she takes a piece and tries it. Then her head goes kind of fizzy and she shakes it. And she finds herself sitting in her room with a bowl of sweetcorn, and it smell kind of funny. Interesting. So she takes a piece and tries it. And... When the other two get back, they find, sitting in the bride's dress, a little girl of about six years old, with an almost empty bowl of sweetcorn in her hands. And she's forgotten everything, one bite at a time. And every time she tried a bite she forgot she'd done that, so she kept doing it again. And when they see her take another piece they figure it out and grab the bowl away.

There isn't any wedding that day.

The best man blames himself. He brought the fairy princess, sent the invite even, and brought her gift in with him.

The groom blames himself, because this is after all the only person in the world *exactly* like his bride was when she was small.

So they decide to stick together, look after her, until either they can find a way to undo it or... she gets grown up on her own.

There's a few problems though, because without the wedding, all the money went away. The new money has conditions attached. They can't get at it, even for important things. They're basically left with health insurance and the promise they'll never starve. Which is a bit hard to live on, and doesn't cover things like education or rent, just for instance. So instead of being richer than princes they're suddenly poor as almost anything; and they're still gossip fodder for the paparazzi. The newspapers, oddly enough, don't quite believe the story about her being youthed, and think someone sent an unacknowledge offspring round to meet her father on his wedding day and that made the bride run off.

So they move across the country to somewhere nobody could care less who they look like, somewhere they'd never have thought of going before, and change their names, and try and live like regular people, which they're somewhat short on skills to do.

Then social services get to hear about the man saying the little girl is actually his bride, and things get very nasty. Cause that sounds like sexual abuse to them, and they want to take her away and make sure she's safe, and when they do tests they'll find they're not related, and the names and dates of birth and stuff are false, and all is a mess.


I don't know how to get them out of that, but it does not involve more magic. They were only in fancy magic world when they had all that money. Now they've got to live in normal people world, where things are messy and you have to worry every day and save up for stuff and live slow.


It probably involves a slashy ending where the True Love turns out to be a m/m thing, except for the real 'find' would be the parts of his heart that could settle down and look after a stroppy six year old on next to no money, which hadn't previously got any exercise. Quite a different sort of guy to the one who was mooching off his best friend playing at being in love and knowing he'd always have all the shiny he could ever want that way.


Possibly also the way the world has changed since the bride was six the first time would be important. Different set of stories, thinking the sparkly fairy tales she used to like are too small and everyone looks the same and nobody has two dads.


So it's a self-knowledge sort of thing, realisation, and sort of a happy ending in a way.


But it's a bit of a creepy way to make happy, so I don't much like it.