Not All Fun And Games
Title: Not All Fun And Games
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Warnings: None really
Summary: Alex learns that being a wizard can be dangerous.
Note: Doesn't use the word "trapped" but this is what I came up with when I considered the concept and I think the story does reflect the feeling of being trapped. Please let me know if it doesn't count and I'll take it down. Formerly Invertedtime.
On the surface, magic meant freedom to Alex Russo. The freedom to do anything she wanted. Get the guy, get the outfit, and just take the easy way through life.
However, she never forgot that day when she was 9. She was in that period between levitation for lesson 5 and suffering through the humiliation of that awful hat when she first learned that magic wasn’t all fun and games. She’d been in the cafeteria when she’d had a small glitch, one that ‘caused a chair holding one of her classmates -an Anna by name- to lift several inches into the air. Soon as the chair hit the ground Anna fled the cafeteria leaving everyone whispering and staring.
Alex made a quick exit out the door as well, but she was trailed by a larger boy who followed her around a corner before he slammed her into a wall. “What are you?” He snarled. Alex swallowed. She was too scared to speak. “You know what you look like to me?” He grabbed at her hair and pulled her closer. Alex cried out and tried to push him off but he was too strong. “Dark hair, dark eyes. I think you’re a witch.” Alex stopped breathing. The boy laughed and continued. “Did you know they used to burn witches?”
Suddenly the boy was pushed back hard and slammed into a locker across the hall before he slid to te floor, knocked out cold. “C’mon!” Justin grabbed her arm and they ran.
At home, Theresa had held Alex while she’d cried and Jerry had paced angrily around the lair. Justin had been quiet. Alex never knew for certain, but she was pretty sure he’d used magic to push the larger kid off her.
That was the day she’d learned magic wasn’t all fun and games.