Just Be Normal

Part of The Secret Trans Writing Lair's annual Secret Santa event

Lauren works a dead end job at the most boring company on Earth. While her coworkers celebrate a finisbed project at a potion shop she has the flu. Magic exists and she can't see it. Her only solace? A pretty coworker who seems geniunely interested in befriending her

Cw: transphobia internalised and not, cops, self loathing

Prompt from JAW:

In a world absolutely filled to the brim with the extraordinary: supernatural occurrences, incredible creatures, every type of fantasy/sci-fi trope you can possibly imagine, lives a character. A character so fascinated with all of these occurrences that most people find mundane at this point. That's because, somehow, by sheer awful luck and happenstance, they're the only person in the world who has yet to see any of them! All of their coworkers are boring humans, whenever cool and fantastic stuff happens around them they happen to be tying their shoes or looking away, and even their supposedly werewolf neighbor always seems to be out camping. They're sick of never experiencing the amazing world around them. Until one day…