You are most abruptly woken up to Mister Mim pulling you out of your birdhouse while now being cupped within his hands. Your drowsy state of mind was barely comprehending what the heck was going on as he so very suddenly snatched you right out from your little birdhouse. You were having such a wonderful dream about becoming a powerful sorceress until he had to come and so rudely interrupt it. "Oh, my dear adorable wittle' (Y/n)~! Wakie, wakie my sweet little birdie! TIME TO WAKE UP! GET YOUR TAIL FEATHERS IN GEAR! WE GOT MANY IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO! WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP! WAAAAKKE UP~!" He started off speaking so soft and gently at first but that all went crashing down in seconds flat as he most ear-gratingly started shouting ridiculously loud right in your face, which almost made you practically fall right out of his hands from being so startled by the commotion. You gazed up at him in obvious annoyance but that didn't last long either as he suddenly randomly threw you straight up into midair before you transformed back into a human in a puff of smoke. You yelp rather pathetically and stumble gracelessly forwards from being so carelessly thrown like you had. Once you somehow regain your shaken composure. You look at Mim in confusion and were just about to ask him why he did that to you, but you never got the chance as he so excitedly spoke up again. "Guess what today is, (Y/n)!?" 

"Uh… Tuesday?" 

"No, no~ (Y/n)! It's much better than Tuesday! IT'S POTION DAY! WHOO-HOOOO!" Mim bounced up and down on his heels like an overly hyperactive child before rushing on over to the cauldron with you following behind in tow and having a newfound forming curiosity. Mim peeked inside the cauldron at the liquid inside that was still a bright pink color but now it had a slight unnatural glow to it. "Ooh, it's looking absolutely marvelous! Now it's only a matter of drinking~!" Mim took out a cup and then the ladle as he scooped up some of the mysterious glowing potion inside before pouring it into the cup. Turning over to you a wide catlike smirk graced his lips as he handed you over the cup of his unidentified magical brew. Hesitantly, you accept the cup and take it into your hands before looking down at it very skeptically. You really didn't want to drink whatever this potion was… 

"Uhm, I know this is all supposed to be uh… in good fun as you had said before but…- I really think it would be better if I at least knew what I'm about to drink…" You insisted to your wacky teacher as you stared down at the pink liquid in the cup with nervousness written all across your face. In return, he scowls and places his hands sassily onto his hips with an overly offensive look at what you had dared just utter to him. 

"Now what was that about doing 'anything' I tell you to do without question!? What!? Do you not trust me enough as your teacher!? HUH!? Is that it!? Maybe, you would prefer Merlin!?" His glare became much darker before two seconds later he began grabbing and yanking ridiculously hard at the sides of his lilac-colored hair, just like he had done so childishly before. "I HATE MERRRLIN! HATE, HATE, HATE MERLIN!!!" 

You gawk at him in bewilderment as his hissy fit commenced at full force, over his obvious hatred of Merlin once again. You didn't want him to hurt himself with all that hair pulling he was doing so you quickly shake your head in defense, "Oh n-not at all! I do trust you Mister Mim! I-I'm just uncertain that this potion is safe-" Mister Mim suddenly harshly snatches the potion from your hands while still glaring you down in anger. He holds the potion close and protectively against his chest and replies snappily at you.

"Oh no! No, you don't! Don't even try! I don't wanna hear it! You don't get to have the fun of it anymore! You just lost your chance! I'll be the one to prove to you that this potion is most perfectly safe all by myself! Thank you very much!" Your eyes widen by what he says and you try to stop him but he shoves out his hand to block you from halting him in his tracks as he brings the cup up to his mouth to drink. You could only stand there helplessly and watch with worry as he begins to start guzzling down the potion until there was absolutely not a drop left. He puts down the cup and looks over at you as you stare back at him with very wide (e/c)-colored eyes. What would that potion do to him!? You watched him very carefully as he seemed to be normal…- er well as 'normal' as Mister Mim could ever be. 

"Oh dear…! Mister Mim are you feeling alright? Can I please know what this potion does now? It doesn't seem to be doing any…-" You cut yourself off as you briefly noticed Mim's typically bright lime green eyes flash a strange pink hue before fading back to their original color in seconds time. It was then things started to get very uncanny and awkward from here on out as he strangely started ogling at you in such an odd peculiar way. You hadn't ever seen him look at you like this before. Him now forming an unreadable smirk that sent shivers down your spine. He very eerily rose a finger and began silently gesturing for you to come close towards him. 

You didn't know why he was doing what he was doing, but you very hesitantly obeyed him and began timidly stepping over towards him. Stopping right in front of him at a rather dangerously close proximity. He gazed down upon you while still wickedly smirking before most suddenly grabbing onto the sides of your forearms. You gasped in shock and looked down at his hands in alarm. Just what in the world was he doing now!? You could say you were taken back even more so, if that were even possible, when he leaned in so painfully close to you before roughly smashing his lips up against your own. Your eyes widen completely in a terribly confused stupor as he was kissing you so fiercely with an extreme amount of passion mixed in between. You at first honestly didn't know how to respond and didn't do anything as nothing was making sense anymore! You knew Mim was unpredictable but this was even a little over the top for even him! 

Being terribly irritated at the lack of reciprocation he was receiving from you. He stepped purposely hard down onto your foot and made you gasp out loud. You could hear him snickering in pure delight at his little success over you, before finally gaining full access to your mouth. His wet muscle claimed dominance over your own that you somehow found yourself eventually kissing back too - for some strangely mad reason. This was so wrong of you! … However, for some reason it felt so strangely right at the same time. No! Wait!? What were you thinking!? He was your teacher for goodness sakes! … But then again… the way that he was kissing you like a passionate lover made all your screaming thoughts of protest and logic ebb away temporarily for awhile. That was until your sensibilities finally after a minute or two did decide to finally kick back into full swing.

"Mi-Mister Mim!" You squeaked into the kiss. 

"No squeaking!! You're not a mouse, my dear! Not unless I turn you into one!" He suddenly said as he broke away and continued to smirk at you in a way that was extremely smug, but also hinted at the pure extreme happiness he was feeling at the moment from kissing his favorite student. 

"W-why did you just k-kiss me?"

He chuckled lowly and fluttered his eyes at you, "Why not~?" He seemed to purr deeply as he took a hand and brushed some of your (h/l) (h/c) hair from your face whilst tucking it behind your ear sweetly. "I LOVE YOOOOU, MY DARLING~!" He then screeches like a bloody maniac before clinging onto you with an embrace that was much too close for comfort. He buried and obsessively nuzzled his face into your hair as he breathed in your scent way too obnoxiously loud to not be surpassing the creepy scale by way over 1000x. "YOU are now my favorite scent! Even better than any flower or freshly baked cookie~! … Oh and just to make one thing clear, my dearest. From now on you are all mine, (Y/n)! MINE! MINE, MINE, MINE~! Only MINE! NO ONE ELSE'S, BUT MINE! JUST MINE! MINE~ AND MINE ONLY! MINNNNNEEE~!"  

"Huh..!? W-what!? I-I don't understand, Mister Mim! J-just what kind of potion did you drink, anyways!?" 

He grinned so painfully wide like the mad lunatic he truly was as he began playfully rocking you back and forth as he hugged you without loosening up his boa-constrictor like hold on you by any chance. You were as tense as a solid board as you were completely at his mercy from within his strong arms. He very briefly dropped his hold on you as he was planning to go and shower you in nonstop kisses. However, you retracted away from him and soon began cautiously backing away from his prowling form while vigorously shaking your head at him. "N-no, please stop this… what potion did you just drink Mister Mim?"

"OOHH who cares about that stupid blasted potion!? All I care about is you, my sweetie-pie gumdrop snookim-wookims~!" 

You weren't getting a sensible answer that you so very desired from his more than delirious self, but you were putting two and two together from his strange actions alone towards you, "D-don't tell me that was a love potion!!!" You blurted out in utter disbelief. He kept skulking towards you and you only kept backing away from him as he was stalking you down like some kind of prey. 

"Sooo? What if it was? Just come here and give me a kiss or two…- maybe three! No! Or better yet a trillion billion kisses! Ehh..- whose actually counting anyways!? Am I right?" You kept shaking your head most worriedly at his sudden major obsessiveness towards you while backing away. That was until you gasped loudly when an unseen magical force seemed to so very unfairly propel you forward and right into his clutches. He tightly wrapped his arms around you and was leaning in to give you another sweet overly-eager kiss on the lips that was making him giggle madly in excitement by having you all to himself to love all over. You struggled to get free of him but it wasn't working out all too well for you… and soon enough you had to give into kissing him again (even though it wasn't as horrible as you tried to make yourself believe it was). When the kiss was finally over and you had forcefully retracted yourself away from him (once again). You got maybe one or two good seconds of down-time, before he was trying so desperately to yank you straight back in towards him. The abrupt roughness of his tug only managed making the side of your face collide and become buried into his chest, to much of your dismay and his victory.  

"Out of all the potions we could had made together why a love potion!? There must be an antidote for this!" 

"No! I don't want an antidote! All I want is you!" He whined very childishly and buried his face into your tousled hair and breathed in your lovely aroma in that overly creepy obnoxious way of his. 

You cringe and were a blushing mess as he possessively holds you and rocks you back and forth in his arms with a wicked wolfish grin. "Mine, mine, mine, minnneee~! All mine!" He cackled in a sing-song voice and then kissed you on the cheek. You tried prying yourself away from him but it was proving to be rather difficult especially when he was using magic to literally force you back into his arms! 

"M-Mister Mim, y-you're not in your right mind! Please, we need an antidote for this! Try to focus!" 

"Focus!?" He uttered suddenly in over dramatic disbelief as he flung his head back finally from burying his face into your (h/l) (h/c) hair. "I'll focus alright!…-  On you, of course~!" He keeps giggling inanely to himself and was absolutely long gone from any logical senses (not that he started with much to begin with). You sigh heavily in extreme frustration and humiliation as he keeps you pinned to him in a tight loving embrace. 

"Mim, please…"

"Ooo, you're begging? If you're going to beg, you should beg like an adorable little puppy dog~!" He squeals as he swooshes his finger pointedly right at you and suddenly transforms you into an adorable miniature chihuahua. You let off a high pitched yelp that sounded more like a bark as you look down at yourself in bewilderment. 

"M-Mim! Change me back now, this instant! Please!" 

"You're gonna have to keep begging for it, my little sweet yippee dog! ARF~! ARF~! Come ere', my puppy-dog! Give Mimmsy some of your puppy lovin~!" Mim kneels down to your level while holding his knees as he looks down at you and coddles over you like a newborn baby. You sat down and made a pathetic whimpering kicked puppy noise that only made Mim tilt his head curiously to the side. "Aw? What is it, my cute wittle' puppy dog? Need a puppy playmate~?" Mim now rose his finger and pointed down at himself and suddenly shrunk down and changed into a giant terrifying looking lilac colored doberman. "Let's play then~!" He started snarling and barking ferociously after then baring his very sharp canine teeth down at your little pitiful shaky self. You made a high-pitch yip in fear and started panicking as you sped away from him throughout his cottage as fast as possible. "I'm going to get you, (Y/n)! OOH I JUST LOVE ROUGH HOUSING WITH YOU~!" He hightailed after you so viciously that he was constantly smashing roughly into different things and making total chaos and disarray in his wake, wherever he chased after you throughout his home. 

You ran while pleadingly crying out every two seconds for Mim to stop his more than horrifying and very pointless chase after you. He was insanely laughing out loud like a complete psychopath while obviously ignoring your desperate pleas for him to stop acting like an insane obsessive jerk. You finally sped under a coffee table and then right after that slipped down to hide under Mim's bed where he wouldn't be able to fit inside due to his larger doberman form. You cowered while trembling from underneath and very fearfully watched him from under the bed where Mim was forced to come to a screeching halt in his pursuit. You could see him try to still lower down to pointlessly attempt to shove his snout under the crack of the bed, but that was about all that could fit underneath. His vibrant and very crazed green eyes seemed to glow vividly in the darkness from under the bed. "Come out from under there, pooch! Hiding won't do you any good!" He kept trying to force himself under the bed, where you had your front paws holding the front of your face in fear. You were absolutely terrified of Mister Mim right now! You'd like to think he wouldn't actually hurt you, but you just couldn't be certain from how truly insane he was! Especially right now!

He kept making one heck of an effort to get under the bed with you, until after a minute he finally eased up and pulled away then things got spookily quiet, almost too quiet... You slowly remove your front paws from your scared face and look to see that Mister Mim was no longer in front of you from outside the bed. You were uncertain of leaving your sanctuary from under the bed would be a very good idea, so you sat there watching warily to make sure he wouldn't come back. It wasn't until you felt something creep up and brush up against you, when you looked behind yourself to see a giant light purple tarantula spider crawling up to you. You screamed bloody murder and in a blur of color, flung yourself out from under Mim's bed and went scurrying as fast as lightning away from the bed to get away from the approaching creepy arachnid that was definitely Mim. 

You were staring most stupidly back behind you back at the bed while you kept sprinting forwards. You weren't at all paying attention as you went slam straight into a wall at full impact. You actually saw blackness and stars for the slightest of moments as you collided into the solid wall. "Oww!!!" You cried out in pain while holding your swollen head with your little cute puppy paws. You weren't expecting Mister Mim to suddenly pick you up from behind when he had apparently transformed back into his original human form. 

"D'aw did my sweet wittle' puppy hurt herself? Let me kiss it to make it all better~! Mwah! Mwah! Mwah!" Mim began placing messy kisses all over you, in which only made you nothing more than just plain embarrassed by his overly affectionate kisses all over the place. You wished you knew how to change yourself back to normal! You tried withstanding Mim's many dozens of annoying kisses. It wasn't until there was suddenly several knocks made on the front door when Mim finally came to a halt in his flash flood of over-the-top love for you to look over at the door with an irritable glare for interrupting him and his precious time with his most beloved student. You were still in Mim's arms and were left in a stupor when suddenly you transformed back into your normal human self. You were now being held in Mim's arms bridal-style which was just slightly awkward. 

"What's this? I wasn't expecting anyone!" Mim ever so begrudgingly put you back down onto your feet to much of your greatest relief. Mim saunters over to the door and opens it with obvious annoyance. You looked over curiously and your eyes widen in size when you saw just who was standing there outside Mim's front door. It was THEE actual Merlin! You instantly felt overly star-struck that you were in the presence of two legendary famed wizards of England! 

Mim took one sour glimpse at Merlin's person before his dark glare hardened incredibly at the very terrible sight of his much older rivaling wizard. He was just about to as quickly as possible roughly slam the door shut on the familiar face of the elder wizard. However, Merlin just as quickly put his foot out in front of the door before Mim was able to successfully close it on him. "WHAT are 'you' doing HERE!? I didn't invite you! You big old ugly goat!" Mim hollered furiously at Merlin right in his face. You stared over at them and happened to also notice there was a much younger blonde boy that you assumed was Merlin's apprentice, Arthur. 

"Mister Mim…" Merlin started to say most politely in greetings even after being treated so very 'welcomingly' by Mister Mim.

"UGH, just what do you want!? Can't you not see I'm busy?! Go away!" Mim complained irately while still glaring Merlin down like he was the ultimate bane of his entire existence and even more. 

"I'm just here to see if the rumors are true that you, my good sir, have an actual student in your midst! I want to make sure she is safe... I do know how you are…" Merlin told him as he gave Mim a rather dubious look. Mim snorted nastily and VERY begrudgingly let Merlin walk inside with young Arthur quietly following behind him. 

"I know exactly what you're doing here, Merlin! You're just here to try and steal my student away from me! Well, I'll have you know, you're not getting her! She's ALL mine! She came to ME for a reason! It's just TOO bad she didn't go to you! She's a fast learner and many, many times better than YOUR student will ever be!"

"I assure you, I'm not here to 'steal' her away from you." Merlin assured the not so assured Mister Mim before finally glancing over at you with a polite friendly smile appearing on his aged face, now that he was looking at you and not your overly attached and possessive magical teacher. "You must be his student."

You nodded with a polite smile of your own, "Why yes, sir. I am." 

"Very good then. What is your name, Miss?"

"My name is (Y/n) (L/n). I must say, sir! It is such an honor to actually meet you in person! You are the best wizard in England-… uh…- w-well next to Mister Mim, of course!" You most rushingly corrected yourself of this major error when you saw probably one of the scariest expressions you had ever seen Mister Mim produce contort onto his face when you were praising Merlin. 

"Ah, well then! It is a greatest pleasure to meet you, Miss. (Y/n)."

Mim couldn't stand it anymore and had to butt into this horribly dreadful and boring conversation you were having with Merlin. Mim went over and very possessively grasped onto your shoulders from behind, "It is certainly NOT a pleasure to meet you, ya big old wrinkly goat!" Mim scoffed very grouchily while you smiled sheepishly at Merlin in amends for Mim's very crude behavior. "(Y/n) is MY student! MINE! ONLY MINE AND NOT YOURS! You already have one so bug off!"

"I'm just here to see how you are fairing, Miss. (Y/n). Arthur here was very curious to come and meet you." Merlin inquired while gesturing over to the young golden blonde boy who smiled sweetly over at you and waved in greeting. Merlin during the same time as this was so obviously blatantly ignoring Mim's whiney cries of jealous outrage. You smile back with friendliness and also wave back at the boy. 

"I'm doing quite well, Merlin. Mister Mim has taught me a lot so far." You mention with an affirmative nod. Mim was still murderously glaring down Merlin while he remained stiffly behind you as he held very tightly onto your shoulders. You couldn't believe just how ridiculously possessive Mister Mim was being right now. Although, you assumed much of this fanatic behavior towards you had to do with the love potion he had drank, or at least, that it what you assumed.

"Really now? Well, I must admit, I'm very quite surprised to hear that." Merlin replied as he began stroking down at his long white beard in deep thought. You glanced behind your shoulder at Mim who wouldn't quit glowering viciously at Merlin. You figured a good way to hopefully get Mister Mim back to his normal self would be to ask Merlin if he knew of any antidotes for a love potion. 

"Um Mr. Merlin, sir. If you wouldn't mind me asking… I do have a question for you." You bring up as you somehow managed to break away from Mister Mim's dominating claws latched onto you. Merlin looked intrigued to what you had to say as you wave him over off to the side. Mim grumbled rather unpleasantly under his breath as he stared you two down extremely carefully with more than evident annoyance teeming off of him. You had better make this quick before Mister Mim decided to pounce on Merlin like a crazed starved animal for even stealing you away for a second of his time.

"What is it you need to tell me, Miss. (Y/n)? … Is there something wrong?"

You briefly glanced back at Mim with a concerned frown who was VERY impatiently waiting for you to stop conversing with Merlin any day now. "Um, well sir... It is sort of important. You see uh - Mister Mim and I had made a potion together recently. However, Mister Mim kept refusing to inform me what it actually did until it has been consumed. I ended up refusing to drink the potion like Mister Mim wanted me too, and now he was the one to decide to drink it, instead. And er..- well it appears that the potion that he had drank was actually a love potion. Now, Mim believes he's madly in love with me and I don't have as to any clue what the antidote might be. So please, sir… Tell me there is a way to counteract this spell. I-It's uh..- rather quite embarrassing having my own teacher completely infatuated with me." 

Merlin looked very flabbergasted by what you had just told him as he took a highly disbelieving glimpse over at Mim and then back at you. "A love potion? Seriously? Oh my, you poor, poor thing…" Merlin began to say, "Unfortunately, love potions are very difficult to impede. There really is no known official antidote for it. I truly do wonder why Mister Mim out of all potions would go ahead and teach you how to make one. Did he really try to make you drink it first?" You nod towards him with a overly troubled expression. Merlin adjusted his glasses on his face and frowned, "Well, my dear girl… I can see you are in quite a bit of a predicament here. It still boggles my mind why Mim would do something so incredibly foolish. What you should do is come with me for the time being. The love potion might wear off if the 'object of affection' is taken away from the one who drank the potion…- at least at early stages."

"O-Oh… Well, I would go with you, sir … b-but- uh there's no way Mister Mim would just let me go so willingly with you."

"Don't worry, Miss. (Y/n). I will try to persuade him." Merlin kindly reassured you before going back over to Mim. You watched Merlin very nervously as the two rival wizards were now staring each other down with spiteful glares. "Mister Mim, it has just come to my attention that you are currently under the influence of a love potion. I'm terribly afraid I will be needing to take (Y/n) from you until the spell wears off." Merlin explained as civilly as possible but at the same time being very serious about that matter.

Mister Mim snorted loudly at Merlin's ridiculous words, "You're not taking my (Y/n) from me! Not on your life, old man! She's MY student!"

"Indeed, your student...- that you have made the incredibly foolish mistake of consuming a love potion for. I'm afraid you are in no mental shape to keep (Y/n) here with you. Once this predicament subsides, you may have her back." Merlin continued to explain before going over to head towards the door with Arthur whilst you followed behind rather unsurely. Mim's bright lime-green eyes darkened immensely as he most suddenly pointed at the front door and conjured up a giant padlock and chains that magically appeared out of nowhere on the door.

"You'll never take my (Y/n) away from me! She's mine, Merlin! ALL MINE! MINE, MINE, MINE!" Mim barked madly like a feral dog with rabies as he angrily rushes over and grabs onto your arm extremely tight. Merlin openly frowns at this and grabbed onto your other arm very firmly. You felt like you were in the middle of a deranged tug-a-war match as each well-acclaimed wizard began rather childishly tugging you back and forth. "(Y/n), stays with me, old man!"

"No, she will not, Mister Mim!"

"YES, SHE WILL!" Mim squeals whilst suddenly yanked you hard enough from Merlin, that you stumbled helplessly right into Mister Mim's arms. He goes to securely wrap his arms around your waist and held you protectively to himself. You stood there awkwardly in his clingy arms as he kept shielding you away from Merlin. Mister Mim started petting your head while venomously glaring Merlin down. You didn't want to admit that you were indeed in fact blushing and actually kind of oddly enjoying the soothing sensation of his fingers stroking through your hair gently. 

"Humph! Now, good sir! You will hand over (Y/n)! She does not wish to be with you! Isn't that correct, Miss. (Y/n)?" 

"U-uhh…" You looked apprehensive by what Merlin just said. If being completely honest with yourself, you really didn't want to leave Mister Mim and go with Merlin. You just really wished that he hadn't drank that silly love potion in the first place! You still desired more than anything to remain here and learn magic from him. You held no eagerness to depart away with Merlin and Arthur. Mister Mim gazes down at you in the eyes, as if he was impatiently awaiting for your response to Merlin's question. You didn't know what to say because you truthfully did want to stay here with Mister Mim, but it might mean he'd never get over this love potion he had drank if you stuck around. "I-I don't know..- I-I just want to learn." You say rather pathetically to everyone. Merlin was incredibly taken back that you weren't siding with him after seeming so dead-set on getting away from Mim's obsession with you, but rather you appeared to be taking Mim's side. 

"Oh and learning I shall give you, my dearest." Mim said tenderly to you as he went to affectionately tap you on the nose with a sweet smile, "See?! She doesn't want to leave me! (Y/n), loves me, NOT you!" Mim asserted with a mockingly smug and victorious grin towards Merlin. 

Merlin sighed heavily in frustration and shook his head, "She stated she wanted to learn, not that she wants to remain here with you. (Y/n), I have decided you can learn from me now. I will take you in alongside Arthur. So what will it be?" Merlin asked you tiredly, which only utterly shocked you to the highest degree. Merlin was actually willing to take you on as a second apprentice!? You most suddenly felt like you were at a life-chaning crossroads with what you truly wanted and what seemed right. Your heart wanted to stay here with Mister Mim, but your mind was telling you that Merlin would be the much better and logical choice to go with and learn magic from. 

You kept silent for awhile and lowered your head dejectedly as you stare down at the floor with troubled (e/c) eyes. What on earth should you do? Merlin was not at all understanding why you weren't rushingly striving to get away from the ever so infatuated Mister Mim. He had initially thought you were genuinely trying to get away from Mim only minutes ago, but your sudden apparent lack of enthusiasm to get away from him was a bit…- disturbing. Your deep thought-induced silence was all that filled the cottage for a moment in time. Mister Mim soon began to smirk catlike more and more within seconds as he knew you couldn't resist him in the end. You obviously wanted to stay with him! Merlin scoffs and glances over at Arthur who was remaining mute the entire time, but was still paying full on attention to everything that was happening around him. 

"I…- I don't know." You finally confess as you looked at Merlin with stress-filled eyes, "I do want to learn from Mister Mim- however…-" You pause and glance at Mister Mim who was appearing more than smug because he knew more than anything that you genuinely desired to be with him and not Merlin.

"-However, you would much rather stay here with me~! Ahah! Did you hear that Merlin, ya old wrinkly lout?! She wants to stay HERE and learn from ME! That means not you! So go ahead! Don't be shy, get outta' here already!" Mim clamored out at the elder wizard. Merlin rose up a finger in protest but before he could even bother to muster up a single breath of air, Mim instantly interrupts him. The side of Mim's lip twitches up into an impish smirk as he dramatically waves around his finger and invokes vivid very colorful multicolored magic. The rush of magic made the padlock and chains disappear off the door and poof away into a blast of various fireworks that shot out and started haphazardly exploding around Merlin and Arthur. The very unlucky pair were left jolted in shock as the rainbow arrays of fireworks crackle and pop around them ear-gratingly loud. You gasp audibly in nothing but extreme surprise. You were powerless to remedy the impeding mayhem as the front door of the cottage magically slams open and poor Merlin and Arthur are hurled straight out the door by an unseen powerful force. Mister Mim's cackling laughter suddenly resonated throughout the entire place deafeningly loud in everyone's ears. Mim skips over to the wide open front door like a blissful little school girl. You remained behind and could only pathetically watch as everything was taking place so very fast you could barely comprehend it. "Toodle-loo~! You nincompoops~! AND DON'T YOU EVER COME BACK!" 

With that stated ever so 'charming' by Mister Mim. The very last faint glimpse you get of Merlin and Arthur was of them both laying on their backs on the ground outside, whilst appearing like they were left in a dazed bewilderment at what had just happened. Mim now grins toothily and with an overly melodramatic gentlemanly bow of grandeur, he most carelessly hurls the front door back shut with strikingly powerful brute force. It was then you finally came to recognize that your one and only form of liberation from Mim's inane obsession from the love potion over you was a total and complete…- flop. You could very faintly hear Merlin and Arthur saying something to one another from outside the cottage, but it was much too distant for you to make out just what exactly. Mim still staring right at the closed door, he places his hands onto his hips and shakes his head with a faint breathy chuckle. Standing there idly in muteness with your hands now positioned at your chest in front of you. You fumble around with your hands anxiously as you gawk meticulously at your lavender-haired spellbound teacher that still had his back turned to you. "Mister Mim?" You gradually come to speak up meekly after about a minute or two of daunting eerie stillness from Mim. 

Mim's flashy lime-green eyes were not yet seen by you, but they were shimmering brightly with so much humor and mirth. He lowers his head while placing one hand onto his mouth as he was left induced into nothing but an uncanny fit of giggles, almost like he had been just told the funniest pun in the entire world. Not at all understanding this immensely abrupt mood swing of his that he seemed ever so prone to falling into. Unconsciously you incline your head to the side like a befuddled puppy dog. Just what was he thinking now? Saying he was an unpredictable sort was kind of the understatement of the century. You were about to question him on why on earth he was giggling about in such a way but he beat you too it. "Phew, that certainly was close~! I was almost beginning to think I'd never get rid of that senile dodo-bird and his little pet sidekick. If they would had stolen you away from me that would had only made this game a lot less entertaining or funny to say the least!" 

"Game..?" You inquire uncertainly, being as you were now excessively baffled by him and his choice of words. 

Mister Mim rather belatedly turns on his heel playfully to mirror your own gaze that was still set on him. His expressive brilliant eyes now held a shrewdness that almost insinuated in a zany way that he knew something in which you obviously didn't. Just the juncture that he wasn't currently seizing you in an some kind of fanatical forceful embrace or trying to completely consume you with unrestrained kisses was rather staggering from how he had been behaving before. Now what was he planning? You were so very confused! Mim saunters up much closer to you in the most casual manner. You didn't retract away from him since he wasn't for some reason pinning you down like he had been before. Still... the proximity he was at in front of you was still a bit disconcerting. He smiles warmly down at you and reaches out and pinches your cheek affectionately but not so overwhelmingly so that it was intolerable. 

"Awh, why yes, of course! A game, my wittle' honey-munchkin!" He now coos down at you with a cheery disposition. You flinch a bit from the pinch on the cheek he had given you that didn't last long but it still felt slightly unpleasant. 

"I - uh wasn't aware we were playing a game, Mister Mim. Are uh -… Are you feeling okay?" You ask him with worried filled eyes. For some really bizarre reason you were getting a sudden distinct vibe like never before that Mister Mim was suppressing something from your knowledge. He clasps his hands behind his back and began to rock back and forth on the heels of his feet in a tongue-in-cheek manner. He almost looked like he was now stifling a humorous laugh that wanted to burst forth. 

"Oh I'm feeling peachy~! Absolutely stupendous~!" He starts rambling off before sniggering to himself. You finally raised an eyebrow at him suspiciously. Why was he acting so... - well…  normal? (For Mim standards).

"Uh-huh… Uh - no offense, Mister Mim but I am, I admit, a teensy-bit confused right now. Have the effects of that love potion suddenly worn off?" You continue to investigate this rather strange and sudden turn of events that just seemed to occur right after Mim magically casted Merlin and Arthur out of his home. Mim stopped swaying back and forth on his heels as he now brought his hands back onto his hips sassily. He offers you a very silly closed-eyed smile that was rather adorable, even if you were still totally lost in all of this strangeness.

Now chuckling to himself again, Mim reopens his eyes to smirk back at you again as he speaks up."You know that little ol' saying some wrinkly old goat kinda like Merlin came up with that goes, 'ignorance is bliss'?" 

"Uh well… Yes? What does that have to do with anything though?"

"It only HAS to do with EVERYTHING, my dear!" Mim rolls his eyes in exasperation and snickers as he now pokes you on the forehead obnoxiously before withdrawing and extremely randomly wandering aimlessly throughout his cottage as he begins to spin around in never-ending circles. He had his arms extended outwards as he spun around in glee, "Hehehe~! Oh (Y/n) you make my whole world spin in circles~! I'm so very pleased, I had decided to take you under my wing as my special student of mine when I did! You are just SO adorably naive, my dear girl! Almost sickeningly so! And I usually hate adorable things! BLECH! HATE THEM! Ooh~ but not you, my dearie! No, I very much like you a lot, (Y/n)! And yah' wanna know why..?" He asked overly sweetly as he finally stopped spinning around so childishly as he turned to gaze back at you with a playful knowing smile. You didn't even get the chance to response as he goes on to answer your unspoken response. "I like you because you are too much fun! I haven't had this much fun in ages~! You're so harmless, innocent, and wide-eyed like a baby doe! So painfully gullible! HAH!" Mim within milliseconds practically bounds over to you in leaps exceptionally fast. You take a wary step away from him in surprise to his abruptness as he was now back in front of you. 

"What? I-I don't understand…"

Mim rolls his eyes again in amusement at your simplicity, "Do I have to spell it out for you, my silly-goose? Come on, (Y/n)~! Did you really honestly believe that I would have had instructed you to make a love potion and then go and drink it myself!? HAHAH! You're too funny, (Y/n)!"

"W-w-what!? You mean that wasn't a love potion!? Then what was it!? W-why did you act that way and say all those things then!?" You utter in obvious extreme disbelief to what your very insane teacher was apparently confessing to you all of a sudden. "I even saw your eyes flash a- a pink color and everything! A-and..-" Mim shuts you up by placing a finger to your soft lips as he smirks more with a twinkle in his green eyes.

"Ffff, oh brother! You really do desperately need my help if you ACTUALLY think love potions are supposed to be all adorably pink and even smell all flowery and gimmicky like I'm sure you led yourself to believe! WROOONNG! NO! The potion WAS in all honesty made for you to drink… until you so very rudely refused too, humph! However… I will forgive you though... - but only this once since I like you so much!" Mim grins joyfully down at you and you could do nothing else but look absolutely taken back. You were utterly speechless. Was all of that just one big… joke? That love and obsession with you was all a cleverly put on fraud?!

"Then if it wasn't a love potion… just what was it?"

"Didn't you notice, (Y/n)? I personally thought it'd be a dead givaway but obviously not!" He snorts loudly and shakes his head in amusement, "It was an eye color enhancer potion, duuuh~ dummy! Don't you detect my eyes are one shade a brighter green?"

"…"

You straightforwardly frown at this and couldn't help but furrow your brows as you lean in a lot closer towards him whilst squinting your (e/c) eyes to try and get a better inspection of his apparently 'one shade brighter' green eyes. To be quite honest, you really didn't notice any difference… But of course, right after you make your close examination over his 'brighter' eyes, he had to take full advantage of this more than opportune moment and force it to be highly awkward and humiliating for you. "Oh my, dear (Y/n)… Don't you know staring is rude, (Y/n)?" Mim mentions in a much lower voice that emphasized greatly on it's seductive edginess that was obviously him shamelessly flirting with you. Apparently, even if that potion wasn't a 'love potion' like he decided to reveal to you. It didn't at all seem to make him anymore less apt in romancing you, no matter how incredibly improper it was since he was your teacher and you his student. So did he like you or not? The mixed messages you were receiving from him were quite frankly getting extremely irksome.

After his comment was made to you in such a frisky fashion, your entire face warms up exceptionally with a rosy red blush appearing that was ever so memorable in Mim's deranged mind. You shyly advert your eyes away from his own that now suddenly became most intimidating from his words and the fact you were blushing so obviously in front of him. You mumble a fickle apology which only makes Mim chuckle in delight at this desired reaction of yours. "Don't apologize! I thought I made it pretty clear to you when I told you before that I like that about you! I just looove~ how terribly rude you are, sweetums~! There is nothing more I HATE when someone can't appreciate the fine art of perfected rudeness! You my dear darling of mine are perfectly boorishly crude, painfully ignorant, so gullible, and ooh so very adorable… - but in an amusing adorable way! Not in a so un-amusing adorable way! I deplore adorable things! - especially happy things! Like bright wholesome sunlight or pretty little rainbows! BLEH! The very thought of it is sickening! SICKENING, I SAY!" Mim's whole face contorts to one of utter disgust while sticking out his tongue from being repulsed by such seemingly cutesy ideals. 

"I don't believe I'm a rude person or rather any of those things but-… " you trail off and frown a bit in confusion."But Mister Mim… I don't understand something. If that potion wasn't a love potion... - why did you act so uh… madly in love with me?" You inquire as you finally look back at him with some seriousness that you so highly doubted would ever be returned considering this was Mister Mim and Mim didn't do 'serious'. 

Mim stares blankly at you for a moment in prolonged silence that was a bit unsettling. He then smirks devilishly and shakes his head a few times before he steps over to your side and wraps one arm around your shoulder, bringing you in dangerously close to himself. This course of action especially did not help your blushing predicament but rather made it much worse. "Simply because I am madly in love with you, (Y/n)."

"W-what!? But how can that be!? We haven't even known each other that long!"

"… Sooo? I'm an impatient man and time takes much too long for my liking. So I hurried up the process to fit into my very busy schedule." Mim says while ever so casually shrugging his shoulders like it was not a big deal in the slightest that he had just professed that he was madly in love with you after only knowing him for a rather condensed short period of time.

"Mister Mim, you cannot rush something like love! To love someone takes a lot of time together and hard effort on both ends! You can't love me! That's complete madness!"

Mim only chuckles amused at your words with a very mysterious glint flashing through his electric green eyes, "Why, there's always a reason in madness, my dearest."

You stood there left to silence as he slinks away from your side but only before pecking you on the cheek with a gentle kiss. Your heart was pattering inside your chest from this show of affection. You could only watch him mutely while trying to take in what he had just so cryptically told you. "But- I-I don't-…" He interrupts you as he shushes you by placing a finger to your lips again like he had done once before.

"Hush, my little cardinal~.You still have so very much to learn from me! And standing there gawking for hours on end at me, as amusing at it is, won't be much good on your part if you truly want to become a sorceress, like you say you want to be so terribly bad. Perhaps, for you it will take time to come to love me as madly as I love you - but that's fine by me. You'll eventually learn to be as impatient as myself at some point down the line. Not all of us can be perfect, after all." Mim says to you coolly before waving you over with his hand to follow him. "Now (Y/n) for your next lesson I will teach you how to become invisible! POOF! Completely untraceable~!" 

You blinked a few times in both shock and complete awe, "Oh…? How will I do that?"

Mim pauses as his smirk that never truly left his face now turned into something much more mischievous, "Just like this!" Mim snaps his fingers and all of a sudden you transformed back into your little red cardinal bird form. 

"MIM..!?" You squeaked out in alarm that once again came out more like a chirp since you were back in this form.

Mister Mim flashes you a goofy-made toothy grin before he also suddenly transforms in a puff of smoke into a lilac-colored falcon with notably very sharp talons at his disposal. "You know what they say, (Y/n)! Birds of a feather fly together~! I might suggest you better start flying away now and making yourself invisible, my little cardinal! Now let our lesson begin!" Mim starts diabolically cackling in mad hysterics as he lets out an ear-piercing shrill of a falcon as he embarks on chasing straight after you in mid-flight. 

Your (e/c)-colored eyes widen in extreme size as you scream out in fright as you immediately take his 'advice' and start hightailing it away from him. "THIS IS DEFINITELY NOT WHAT I HAD IN MIND, MISTER MIM!" You cry out fearfully as you instantly start flying aimlessly around the cottage, in any kind of poor attempt to flee away from his deadly talon's grasp. Mister Mim only continues to laugh madly as he doesn't let up in chasing after you around the entire place and causing absolute havoc and disarray everywhere you both went.

You really didn't believe you would ever fully come to understand his reason in madness…

 However, you'd be flat out lying if you said it wasn't strangely a bit of fun in some kinda twisted way. Perhaps, you could get used to this every day insane life with Mister Mim.

…

That is to say, of course, if Mister Mim didn't actually get you killed after this lesson on 'invisibility' with him…

Oh well...