I wanna thank the Saw fandom, specifically the Amanda x Lynn side, for your work. I have not seen the Saw movies nor do I plan to, but I see your toxic yuri all over the place and your playlists have become a valuable resource for my Ready or Not 2 yuri, Ursula and Grace. Toxic yuri always wins and keep up the good work
Ship Week Day 1: Animagus, Anniversary, Adornment (Receiving Gifts)
💚🐍 Gracie/Merula, Fourth Year
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Gracie squawked as she fell out of the sky, transforming back into her human form just in time to get the wind knocked out of her when she hit the ground. She had no choice but to lie where she was for a moment, the fight for air more important than trying to save her dignity.
“Wha - Chiva?”
Shit. Shit shit shit.
She tried to sit up, but coughed rather pathetically and flopped back down. This really wasn’t how she’d wanted her girlfriend to find out that she was a bird sometimes. Professor McGonagall had told her and her sister to keep their Animagus status a secret despite being registered - likely because most students weren’t given the opportunity and the professor didn’t want to be pestered about it - but Gracie was planning on telling Merula eventually. Girlfriend privilege, and all that. It was just that despite how much Gracie may like her, she knew that Merula was the exact type of self-important student that Professor McGonagall didn’t want knowing about such things. She figured she’d wait until they’d been dating at least a few months before spilling the beans, and they’d barely been dating three weeks at this point.
Of course, perhaps Gracie should have expected that she’d be caught one way or another, but she wasn’t expecting to be sniped out of the sky.
Merula came to kneel by her head, appearing more confused than anything.
“Hi,” Gracie said stupidly.
“Hi,” Merula responded slowly, as though speaking to a child. “Want to explain yourself?”
“Want to explain why you hexed me?” Gracie shot back.
Merula huffed, indignant. “How was I supposed to know that the bloody bird dropping rocks on my head was you? I thought I was being pranked!”
“I didn’t drop them on your head.” Finally able to sit up, Gracie rubbed a hand over her back. Yikes, that had really hurt. “They landed next to you.”
“Right, yes, my mistake. Why were you throwing rocks at me in the first place?”
And, well, that was the embarrassing part, wasn’t it? Gracie was sure her face was turning red.
“They were shiny.”
Merula stared at her like she was an idiot. “Shiny,” she repeated.
“Well, y’know, birds and shiny things,” Gracie said, as though that made sense. How was she to explain that as a bird, whenever she saw a pretty rock, she had to give it to her girlfriend? It was an instinct she had yet to figure out how to deny.
“And that’s another thing,” Merula said, crossing her arms across her chest and glaring accusingly. “When did you become an Animagus? How?”
Gracie winced. “Two months ago. Professor McGonagall offered to teach me and Tessa to try and distract us from the Vaults.”
“And because you have bird brain you thought it was a good idea to throw shiny rocks at me.”
“I was not throwing them at you! They were supposed to be gifts!”
Merula stared at her. “Gifts.”
“It makes sense when I’m a bird,” Gracie defended.
Merula smacked her hand onto her face, sighing heavily. When she reached into her pocket, her cheeks were faintly pink. “I was going to give this to you next week,” she said, “but since you’ve apparently been giving me gifts this whole time, I think it’s overdue. Can’t be the type of girlfriend who only gives you things on special occasions, now can I?”
Gracie held out her hand, and Merula dropped a chain into it. It was a necklace, silver with a little heart charm engraved with an M. Without a doubt, it was the most beautiful necklace she’d ever seen.
Wait. Next week, special occasions...
“You got this for me for our one month anniversary?” Gracie asked, delighted.
“Shut up,” Merula snapped, looking away. “I can be sentimental. When I want to be.”
Gracie pulled her girlfriend into a hug, thrilled when Merula automatically hugged right back. Neither of them were very physically affectionate so when they were, it was something to savor.
“It’s beautiful,” Gracie said. “Thank you.”
“I’ll graciously ignore that you kept being an Animagus from me, as long as you stop dropping rocks on my head,” Merula said, sinking deeper into the embrace. “Buy me things like a normal person.”
