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In Cafae latte, Bob was manning the front as Oscar Rethu and Cyrus was in back. Drek was dishwashing and JC was baking.
The customers were served and Bob was taking a few minutes to relax and catch up on a book.
One customer came in as Bob put the book down
“How can I help you?”
“Did you really think that you hiding what you’ve done is really going to make up for the wrongs you’ve committed?” The customer said before in a swift motion pulled out a lock of her hair.
“Ow hey wait!”
Before she could finish a spell was casted at the lock of hair that was pre-prepped before he entered the Cafae as he began to chant “hanc creaturam Demonicam iuvenes convertat ut eos denuo benedicat ad iniuriam sanationis quam huic mundo aspergunt.”
as Bob’s body began to shudder and she let out a scream.
Immediately all the staff looked over to the man who had a wicked smile on his face as both JC went to try to intervene by drawing there gun but unfortunately they were holding a tray of cookies
Cyrus had fumbled his knives and Rethu was over the counter already
However it was too late as a puff of purple smoke Bob’s clothes apron and hat Dropped to the ground.
“Hahahah-!”
The man was cut off as Rethu literally crushed their skull in an instant out of sheer rage.
Rethu panted and snarled while Cyrus looked over the dead body
“Bastard.” Cyrus cursed.
“Did we get that guy's name or anything?” Husniya asked as Rethu went through his pockets.
“No nothing.” They said
“Alright torch the body out back we don’t want cops asking any questions about this.” JC said
Rethu nodded and went out to do just that.
“I’ll get the cleaning supplies.” Husniya said
“I think we should shut down we don’t know how long this is gonna take.” Cyrus said trying to come to terms with Bob’s death.
JC went to sort through Bob’s clothing when suddenly they moved on there own as Both JC and Cyrus zeroed in on the pile. To see an infant Bob poke her head out of the shirt. Body purple as all hues and clearly Quiet Fae.
“Shit!” Cyrus cursed.
“What?” JC asked
“Shit.” Baby Bob parroted cutely. As JC practically gave themselves whiplash looking back at Bob.
“I should have known that that man wouldn’t have been able to kill Bob but he could do the next best thing.” Cyrus said
“Is she?” JC asked
“A baby yeah. The boss, is now a child. Which mean we either have to raise her ourselves. Or find a way to reverse it.”
JC blinked “you want me to get Mike?”
“I think that might be best. I’m not skilled at Magic but I do know fae culture. So while I take care of Bob the hard way Nicole and Mike can focus on reversing the damage.”
At this point Bob was starting to crawl out from under the clothes showing that infact she was fully naked as JC averted her eyes as Cyrus acting quickly wrapped her up in her shirt.”
“JC can you grab boss’s clothes and put them in a bag please?”
“I Um…sure.”
“I got it. You call Mike.” Husniya said as she just finished wiping away the blood.
JC did exactly that as Husniya came back. And piled the Clothing into a bag. As the cellphone rang before Mike picked up allowing JC to explain the situation.
{“…What happened to Bob?”} Mike the witch said from the other side of the line.
“She is literally a baby.” JC explained.
Mike blinked “that is…horrifying in its implications how did that happen?”
{“The guy stole a lock of Bob’s hair.”} JC said from the other end of the line
“Ah that will do it. Well unfortunately I’m not an expert in this but I might have a way to counter the spell if you bring Bob over to me.” Mike said.
JC nodded and parroted it to Cyrus.
Cyrus “we’ll be right over.” He said as he hopped into Bob’s car and drove over to Stoughton street.”
At stoughton street Mike was looking through all the tomes he had flipping for the right spell for this exact use case.
He also kicked everyone out so he had all access to all the ingredients and space to preform the spell. If he had to empty his stock to save bob he’d damn well do it she deserved it.
Finally Mike got the right spell as he looked over
“Nicole I need 3 sprigs of Tyme, and a bundle of both Blue and white sage.”
The door opened as Mike looked back to shoo a costomer away knowing that Cyrus would come in from the back
“I’m sorry we’re not open for business right at the moment.”
Only to find Linsey at the door with a shit ton of good luck charms.
“I heard about what happened through the grapevine so I made these as fast as I could use them for the spell. No charge.”
Mike nodded “thank you much appreciated. Um before you go can you help set up the ritual?”
“Um yeah sure what do you need?”
“I need a ton of iron we need to make a fae circle.”
“I’m sorry but why?” Linsey asked
“Because the idea of this spell is to revert reality around the general perception of this person before whatever incident occured. Useally it’s for healing like a gunshot wound or a broken leg. But seeing as I’m aging up Bob, I need a way to maintain the energy’s of the Fae.”
“And a Fae circle contains A fairy both physically and magically.
“Exactly.”
“I have a bit of iron supplements but I’m not sure that will be enough.”
“How many?” Mike asked
“I have two bottles.” Linsey asked
“One should do, do you mind crushing it up?”
Linsey shook her head and moved to a mortar and pestle and began grinding.
While that was happening Nicole came back with the herbs. “What’s next?” She asked
“Next we just need Cyrus to arrive with Bob and the rest of the Stuff.” Mike said as Linsey finished grinding and Mike began to pour the iron into a circle. Along with Several lines to a table that held a baby pillow as magic channels.
“How do we know this spell will work?” Linsey asked
“Hope mostly. I know the exact chant he did so I can counter that but other than that it’s hope that Bob’s magical energy that we know her as is intact for it to repair itself.” Mike explained.
Suddenly from out of the window a car pulled up to the farmhouse and out to the back.
“That’s Cyrus.”
Cyrus walked in as Mike stood by the door.
“Do you have her clothes?”
Cyrus held up the bag.
“Okay you can toss that to Linsey.”
Cyrus did just as Linsey caught it and put it on the table for later.
Mike stepped forward as behind him Nicole began to purify the space with The sage. Cyrus went to step towards the table but Mike stopped him
“Give Bob to me.” Mike said
“Excuse me?” Cyrus asked holding Bob more protectively in his arms now because of that.
“Look, we have a fairy circle here for the ritual, and if you get stuck in it you’ll mess up the ritual.” Mike said explaining as well as trying to calm Cyrus down.
Cyrus sighed before conceding and handing the infant Bob over to Mike. Literally putting the Boss’s life in Mortal hands. As Cyrus stood by the door “I need to know how to get into magic.”
”well for you our spells are open for you all the time. We can’t do Fae magic but we can do just about anything else.” Mike said as he took the child.
Bob was held by Mike as he laid her on the table and covered her and began to preform the ritual.
After a long moment the lights shut off and crackled into a purple hue before blowing up into a big smoke cloud as Bob appeared sitting on the table.
“Did it work?” Cyrus asked
“Bob can you hear us?” Mike said
“Yes I can hear you… I’m okay…” Bob said as everyone took a sigh of relief.
“Oh good your minds intact, that was up in the air.” Mike sighed
“Nope my minds intact same when I was a baby I just couldn’t speak at the time. The vocal cords weren’t developed enough.” Bob explained
“Well that was fun… why am I naked?” Bob asked
Fortunately the lights were off so nothing was revealed preserving her dignity.
Suddenly by a shot in the dark a blanket was tossed at her by Someone which she used to cover herself
“I’m decent.” Bob announced as the lights turned on.
And Bob was revealed… To still be a child…
“Ah! That’s an issue.” Bob said looking at her feet being closer to her face than she was use to. Being around the Size of Drek now her feet dangled off the table
“I don’t understand how the spell failed everything was right.” Linsey said
Bob nodded “yes it was, it wasn't the Spell that failed it was the ingredients. The binding broke before it was completed.” Bob said as she got off the table so everyone looked to see her point to a salt line with her foot which was broken.
“My essence rushed out before I could collect it all and bring me back to my true adult form.
“So how do we go about making this right?” Mike asked
“The area is to Ladin with magic at the moment for another attempt any attempt and it will be like trying to light a fire in a smoke filled room it will work but it will only make the problem worse. And it won’t be anywhere near as successful.” Bob sighed
“Plus that spell used A lot of ingredients. It used ALOT of luck to get you just that amount. If we want to give you all 1200 years we’re gonna need a literal shitton of luck. I’m gonna have to gather ingredients.” Linsey said
“How long?” Mike asked
“Probably a months worth.” She said
“Shit.” Bob hissed as everyone looked at the child Bob curse.
“Language.” Cyrus said grinning ear to ear being able to say it to Bob for once.
Bob ignored her ward but did make a face in response. Before focusing back on task
That’s gonna pose a problem.” Bob said
“How so?” Nicole asked stepping forward. Stimming at the disastrous situation.
“Well you see I’m not just younger again like shrunk down I’m physically younger mentally as well, I have all my knowledge and experience but I’m still young. By my count I’m about just around 200, so about 16 in human terms. Just on or around the cusp of Fae puberty.”
“Oh no!” Cyrus groaned
Everyone understood now.
“I don’t see exactly how big of a problem that is however you went through it once before.” Nicole said
“You have NO idea how…active I was in my youth.” Bob said diplomaticly.
“Please don’t share any details.” Cyrus groaned in pure Ace drama.
“I wasn’t.” Bob bit back.
“So what’s the plan while we gather ingredients are we just going to go about our lives?”
“That’s all we can do. I’m gonna try to at least prepare myself for the next attempt which will hopefully allow us to get it done on the second attempt.”
“Great in that case let’s get you home Bob.” Cyrus said
“I’m not your ward!” Bob said dramatically however Cyrus being the lawyer argued.
“You are as of now technically younger than me. Who in Fae culture is still a legal adult child I’m not gonna pull rank often but you’re definitely showing that childish behavior on your sleeve.”
Bob grumbled “fiiine.” She said as she grabbed her stuff and headed to the bathroom.
“I’m gonna shrink my clothes down so they fit and then we’ll be ready to go.” Bob said as she headed to the bathroom.
Or tried to only to bump into the air. And huffed
“As soon as someone takes down the circle.” She said
Once Nicole broke the circle Bob walked into the bathroom later walking out fully clothed the Apron was too large to fit around her as it enchanted to be Magic negated so it would protect her against spells thrown at her. She didn’t expect this to come up however, so she carried it in her arms. She’ll get a shorter one tomorrow at The Cafae.
As bob walked out of Stoughton street with Cyrus and seeing her car she immediately made a beeline for the drivers side only for Cyrus to stop her.
“No!” He said
“Why not?” Bob asked
“Because your not tall enough to safely drive. If you were as tall as me i would allow it but your not.” Now I won’t tell you to sit in the backseat because I know that’s too diminutive to you but you at least have to sit on the other side.” Cyrus said
“This is gonna be such an annoying month.” Bob said
“Oh believe me I know I don’t want to be your chauffeur, 24/7.” Cyrus said
We’ll get use to it. If anything this is an excuse for you to be ready for when you get to do this with Rethu.” Bob said teasing Cyrus.
Cyrus shuddered “ah no!” As Bob laughed while getting into the passenger side.
The coven watched as the car drove away “I think we just released a monster onto the world…”
“This is going to be quiet interesting.” Nicole said
“Indeed.” Mike said
In the car Bob sighed as she tried to comes to terms with her body.
“So how’s your magic feeling?” Cyrus asked as Bob looked over “huh?” She asked
“You mentioned previously that as a Fae ages there magic gets weaker… or is it stronger? Anyways it change significantly, so I’m wondering about how your magic feels seeing as your body is different?”
Bob sighs “well that’s the thing I’m not able to tell, my body is too chaotic Hence why I need the time to prep for the ritual.”
“Ah gotcha.” Cyrus said as they pulled into the driveway and both hopped out. Bob got to the door the unlocked it and basically got ready for bed. Or at least comfortable. Bob had an idea for dinner before but seeing exactly how tall she was. That wasn’t going to happen.
Bob huffed “Cyrus do you mind making dinner tonight I’m, unable to reach.” Bob said
“Yeah sure.” Cyrus said as he began to cook dinner.
Dinner was fantastic despite Cyrus’s hazrpdus cooking skills (he nearly burned the food twice)
After that Bob went to sleep and focused on what tomorrow would bring.