#periliz

Liz just sat there gazing down at the gorgeous ring and shifted her lovely dark brown eyes over to her fairy lover. She felt like she was dreaming. Did he just…just asked her to marry him? For real? She was at a complete loss for words. Her breathing was shallow and deep. She couldn’t believe this was happening. 

At least this wasn’t the Love Ball where they were made to be a big public spectacle, no, this was something she always fantasized about. About how she wanted to be proposed to, not mattering if it was from a man or a woman she fell in love with. 

It was now a reality, was it? She wanted Peri to propose to her like this eventually, but it was really happening. Oh, she hoped it was. She hoped it wasn’t a dream. Noting her silence, Peri felt his heart drop. Oh crap. Was it too soon? He knew how traumatic the Love Ball was for her, so maybe he should have waited. 

The poor fairy was feeling like such an idiot right now. A small distance away from them, Dev, Irep, Hazel, Cosmo and Wanda silently continued to spy on them. Dev mumbled, “Come on, Lizard, say something.”

Hazel felt her heart shatter for Peri, “She’s gonna say no, isn’t she?”

“Just give it time.” Irep said trying to be the voice of reason once more. 

“Come on, Girlie. Say something. Don’t leave Cotton Puff hanging.”

Cosmo felt tears well up in his green eyes, “W…Wanda…is….is she….”

She came to her husband’s aid, “Come here, Sweetie.” she brought his small body into a comforting embrace, maintaining her strong mafia daughter mask, “Like Irep said, give her time. There’s no way Elizabeth will reject our baby. She loves him too much to.”

Cosmo nodded, snuggling close to his beautiful strong wife, listening to her steady heartbeat. Liz looked at the gorgeous engagement ring and back to the fairy she loved. She felt so breathless. It was like she was lighter than air. My god she loved him so much. The lovers locked eyes with each other, dark brown boring into violet. 

“My goddess, like I have said before, the first night we made love to each other, I promise, I promise, I’ll be a good husband to you. I love you, Elizabeth. I’ll make you the happiest woman in the world. I’ll gladly give you anything you want because you deserve nothing but the best.”

Her dark eyes teared up as one slipped down her pale porcelain cheek, “Yes….yes, Peri. I’ll marry you. Oh my god, yes!”

A wave of relief washed over him as he slipped the ring out of the box, gently taking her left hand. Slipping it onto her ring finger, he felt so much happiness swell in his chest, feeling so elated, “Elizabeth…this is only the beginning…” he paused for a moment, “....of what is to come. I can’t wait to be your husband.”

He let go of her left hand as she gazed at her new engagement ring. Liz’s dark eyes shimmered. She loved it. It was so much better than the piece of crap her father forced upon her. This ring was actually her. She loved how the pink heart shaped diamond and the two rose shaped rubies glittered in the moonlight. 

“Do you love it?”

She tore her gaze away from her ring to be met with Peri giving her the look she loved. Her heart raced as she eagerly nodded, “Yes. Yes, I do. Oh Peri, how….how….?”

He chuckled, grabbing his cane, “Dev helped me. You should also thank him.”

Poor Peri grit his teeth trying to stand from his kneeling position. Holy crap, his poor knees were hurting but it was so worth it. Catching his pained expression, Liz took her ring’s pink heart and red rose box from his hand, setting it down on the table next to the halibut dip, “Lover, here, let me help.”

She stood up from her seat, gently linking her arm with his free one as he tightly gripped the handle of his cane, “As your soon to be wife, girlfriend, best friend, lover, and eternal mate, it’s only right if I do.”

Her fairy fiance felt his heart flutter with joy. Oh how he adored her loving, kind, caring, and compassionate nature and he was determined to give her the same treatment. Letting her slowly guide him to a proper standing position, he chuckled, “Thank you, my goddess. What would I ever do without you?”

Meanwhile backstage, Trev fixed an angry glare onto Dev wanting to rip him apart. How dare he insult him! If he thinks his humiliation is over, he’s got another one coming. He’ll just ramp it up and hopefully, he’ll get kicked out of school, thrown off the hockey team, and possibly be sent back to the institution. Demented Dev Dimmadome will continue to suffer. He deserves it. The message still hasn’t permeated his thick skull.

He then tore his eyes away from the Dimmadome heir as he, his sister and his former anti-godparent’s partner pretended to be shot and slowly collapsed onstage to play dead. As Dev sang the final line of that shortened and altered version of the song, Trev eyed Hazel, Jasmine, Winn and even Alan with scorn and ire. He raised an eyebrow at the young kindergartener as he looked like he was about to pounce on him. Trev then scoffed. That Turner boy thinks he’s so tough? Yeah right. If he does try anything on him, the little brat will get his ass kicked.

With Hazel giving him the stink eye while she, Jasmine, and Winn along with her human disguised fairies guarded the cabaret props, Trev walked away to stew in his anger, mumbling to her, “Bitch.” 

She rolled her eyes at him and shifted her attention to Alan, “Don’t let him get to you. Just ignore him.”

Alan’s small body began to shake in his anger. He must protect Dev. His super cool older friend. Plus, he just called Hazel a bad word! Rude! That Trev kid is such a jerk and deserves to be punched in his stupid face. 

Hazel knelt down in front of him to speak to him at his level, “Alan, we don’t want you to get in trouble. I know you really like Dev and he’s your friend but don’t let Trev get that satisfaction of seeing you get angry. That’s what he wants. He wants to see you get in trouble. Okay?”

Tearing his blue eyes away from Trev, Alan then looked at Hazel. Seeing her pleading look, he then took a deep breath. She was right. Hazel is also his friend and not wanting to make her mad, he nodded. 

Back onstage, the overture going into the cabaret portion of Dev’s act began to play. As the Dimmadome heir continued to lay on the stage playing dead, the stage floor opened, the red couch with Peri and Irep, dressed in their cabaret costumes, sitting on it rose up while Liz and Skye stood up and rushed backstage. While the two businesspeople with the assistance of Cosmo and Wanda began to slip out of their marching band attire, the cabaret portion of the backing track began to play with its interlude. 

Once Peri gained his bearings after Irep helped him stand, The Terrible Twosome walked over to the pretend dead godkid and lifted him up. Holding his upper body, Irep asked, “Got his legs, Puff?”

Peri nodded, so glad most of Dev’s weight was on Irep, one hand clutching the handle of his cane, “Yeah. Even though Dev is a small kid, he’s not exactly light when he plays dead.”

Irep just silently snickered at that as they carried Dev over to the red couch. They let him go as Peri sat down behind Dev, sitting him up, fanning him off, and like during the Eras Tour with Taylor and Kam the dancer, Peri decided to play with the limp Dev by making him wave his arms. It took every once of Dev’s self control to not laugh at his godparent playing with his arms like he was a doll. 

The crowd and everyone backstage burst out laughing. Like with Alan’s act, Timmy held his phone, recording it. He had to show Peri and Liz this later. He was enjoying every second of this. Back onstage, Irep knelt down in front of Dev to remove his marching band shoes leaving him in his Duckworth socks as Peri continued to wave his arms, having way too much fun.

Peri then grabbed his cane as Irep made his godkid stand up. When he gained his bearings, he removed Dev’s marching band jacket before his godkid pretended to faint. He and Irep grabbed him, making him stand up. Dev pretended to faint again, then Peri and Irep made him stand. Dev and The Terrible Twosome repeated that bit one more time before the young boy pretended to wake up. 

Like they have rehearsed, Dev perfectly imitated Taylor pouting like she did during the Eras Tour while Peri undid the velcro on the back of his marching band uniform. As Dev was still pretending to pout, Irep turned him around as Dev slipped out of his marching band uniform to reveal his white and gold cabaret costume with a white shirt and bowtie, a gold tux and white pants as Peri prepared his godkid’s gold cabaret jacket.

Still pretending to pout, Dev acted to reluctantly turn around as Peri slipped his gold jacket over his tiny shoulders. As Dev used his godparent’s body for support, Irep helped him put on his gold cabaret shoes while still pretending to pout. Peri gestured to the crowd, smiling, making them all laugh.

Finished with fastening the ties on his shoes, Irep stood back up. Peri let him go before he and Irep “presented” Dev to the crowd. Then the human disguised anti-fairy shoved a microphone into Dev’s hand. The Terrible Twosome gently shoved him backing up onto the platform in front of the red couch.