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Title: blocked off pathways
Characters/Pairing: Aislinn; gen
Rating: PG
Warnings: None
Summary: Faeries and college clash, as Aislinn learns in the most difficult way possible.
Notes: I just realized that I hadn't posted this here and thought at least someone would enjoy it. I remember Aislinn applied for college even though she was a faerie and found that idea interesting enough to explore. (Also on FF.net under the same title)
Aislinn desperately wanted the idiom 'Be true to yourself' to apply because applying for college suddenly became ten million times more difficult due to her new transformation into a faerie. She was literally not human (or a mortal, for that matter) and therefore pretty much lacked any obligation or reason to be a college student among other mortal humans. Who needed college when you were an eternally young, beautiful creature with powers beyond belief?
She didn't really need any extra schooling, when Aislinn thought about it. The type of intelligence that college offered wasn't the type she would have to use as the Summer Queen. It depressed her more than she cared to admit that applying to college was a fruitless effort. She wanted to feel the same rush of adrenaline to flow through her veins and the same overwhelming, genuinely fantastic feeling of pure joy that everyone else felt when they got accepted to their top choice of college. She wanted to feel the crushing devastation everyone else experienced when the fated rejection letter arrived in the mail.
She wouldn't be normal, and that wasn't such a great gift to be bestowed with upon entering adulthood. The gift Aislinn received for transforming into an adult is a metamorphosis into a creature that haunted her life for too long.
Ruling a faerie court would be harder than she thought.