ChrisCalledMeSweetie
April 6, 2015, 7 p.m.
The Land of Stories: Gleefully Ever After: Chapter 30 - The Fairy Godfather
T - Words: 609 - Last Updated: Apr 06, 2015 Story: Complete - Chapters: 30/? - Created: Jan 18, 2014 - Updated: Jan 18, 2014 202 0 0 0 0
Author's Notes:
I'd like to thank you all for reading, especially those of you who took the time to write reviews. I hope you enjoyed the final chapter of this story. I'm currently working on the sequel - The Land of Stories 2: Gleeful Days Are Here Again. It's based on Chris's book The Land of Stories: The Enchantress Returns, which features Jack and Goldilocks as main characters throughout, so it will have a lot more Kurt and Blaine than this story did. I hope to have it finished within the next couple of months, so that I can post it over the summer to coincide with the publication of Chris's next TLOS book.
P.S. For anyone who was speculating about the identity of the Fairy Godfather, Chris made it perfectly clear that there was only ever one real contender: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn0OgB-Qa8o&feature=youtu.be&t=1m48s
P.P.S. I apologize for taking so long to update. Ive been sick with pneumonia for the last few weeks, but Im finally starting to feel like Im going to live. :)
P.P.P.S. Thanks again for your support! <3
Once Rachel had been revived with lavender water, and everyone had finished Ooohing and Ahhhing over the fact that Froggy had turned out to be the long-lost Prince Finn Charming, Finn turned to Chris and Darren. “The Fairy Godfather thanked me for bringing you guys here, and he said he knows how to send you home. He'll be here in a minute.”
“Wow,” Darren breathed. “This has been such a magical trip. I don't know if I'm ready to go back yet. How about you, Chris?”
Chris felt a swirl of emotions that left him dizzy. He gazed at Darren, unable to formulate a reply.
When Chris's silence stretched on a little too long, Darren began to sing:
Do you hear me?
Im talking to you
Across the water across the deep blue ocean
Under the open sky, oh my, baby Im trying
Finding his voice, Chris came in with the next verse.
Boy I hear you in my dreams
I feel your whisper across the sea
I keep you with me in my heart
You make it easier when life gets hard
Taking each other's hands, Chris and Darren sang the chorus together.
Im lucky Im in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
Darren pulled Chris into an impromptu dance on the next verse.
They dont know how long it takes
Waiting for a love like this
Every time we say goodbye
I wish we had one more kiss
Ill wait for you I promise you, I will
Chris smiled into Darren's eyes as they swayed in each other's arms.
Im lucky Im in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Lucky were in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
Chris forgot all about their audience, losing himself in the sound of Darren's voice.
And so Im sailing through the sea
To an island where well meet
Youll hear the music fill the air
Ill put a flower in your hair
Darren twirled Chris out and then reeled him back in, running the fingers of one hand through Chris's hair.
Though the breezes through trees
Move so pretty youre all I see
As the world keeps spinning round
You hold me right here, right now
As they sang the final chorus, Chris let the joy he was feeling bubble up out of him.
Im lucky Im in love with my best friend
Lucky to have been where I have been
Lucky to be coming home again
Im lucky were in love in every way
Lucky to have stayed where we have stayed
Lucky to be coming home someday
Ooohh ooooh oooh oooh ooh ooh ooh ooh
The sound of applause snapped Chris and Darren out of their reverie. Tearing their eyes away from each other, they discovered that their audience had grown. The Fairy Godfather stood before them.
Chris blinked twice. “Ryan?”
“You always said I was your Fairy Godfather.”
“But –”
“We'll have plenty of time to discuss everything,” Ryan said, with a significant look from Chris, to Darren, and back again, “once you're back where you belong.”
Ryan waved his wand, and a door appeared in the middle of the room.
“So,” he asked, “where would you like this door to lead?”
Chris gave Darren a long look. “My house?”
Darren squeezed his hand, nodding.
“As you wish,” Ryan said, flourishing his wand once more.
Chris placed his hand on the doorknob. With one last, fond look around at the assembled crowd, he and Darren stepped through the doorway together.
And they lived Gleefully ever after.
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Stay tuned for The Land of Stories 2: Gleeful Days Are Here Again… and, eventually, The Land of Stories 3: A Very Gleeful Threequel…