Once upon a time, an evil queen ruled her land with an iron fist. A queen that hated everything and everyone good, a queen that...well let's just say that anyone who crossed her seemed to disappear. However, what no one knew was that there was more to the stories that we have grown up with than meets the eye. The evil queen was not as evil as the books made her out to be and snow white was not as pure. What most people did not know was that...well lets just read and find out.
Emma was currently in a state of shock. It was all true, everything she had believed her whole life was a lie. Fairytales where real, just outside these walls the big bad wolf was running around, doing...well nothing at the moment as it was still daylight but still...big bad wolf, her parents where actually Snow White and Prince Charming. The woman that she had grown up calling aunt Fae was actually the wicked witch from the wizard of oz (long story) and her dad, oh my god her dad.
"Mom are you ok?" asked Henry, worried when he saw the blood drain from her face.
"Henry you need to get dressed," replied Emma, ignoring Henry's question as she frantically pulled his cloths out of the drawers that the nurse had placed them when he had arrived.
"Mom what's going on?" wondered Henry, as he tried to get ready as quickly as possible. The panic radiating off Emma was starting to scare him.
"It's not safe here," explained Emma, as she stuffed his things into his bag. "I need to get you out of here."
"But the evil queen..." stammered Henry, who had always believed that once the curse had been broken, good would win out and everyone one would live happily ever after.
"It's a long story Henry but Regina isn't as evil as you think," replied Emma, as her took his hand and moved quickly to the door.
"Emma..."
"Henry I promise I will explain it all later but now we need to go" interrupted Emma, herding him towards the door but stopped abruptly when Mary Margaret and David rushed around the corner.
"Emma..." breathed Mary Margaret, as she cupped her daughter's face. " You found us."
"ah...we have to go," stammered Emma, not sure how you are meant to react when you meet you long lost parents for the first time in 28 years and not only are the same age are you. They are also Snow White and Princess Charming.
"Emma, we had no chose." Explained David, stepping forward to stand beside his wife and daughter. "Only one person could go through the wardrobe."
"Ya about that," said Emma, her voice laced with guilt
ONCE
On the other side of town Regina had made it home without being burned at the stake by any of the town's people and was currently pacing her office trying to figure out what happens next. The curse could not be broken yet, I mean Daniel was not here. They were not ready yet.
How had they managed to poison Henry? Magic was not meant to work in this realm.
So how had Emma managed to wake him up with true loves kiss?
Was Cora in town? Was she the one that tried to kill Regina's son?
Was there someone else in town that was working with her? If so who?
Now that magic was back, there was a very good chance that none of them was going to make it out of this alive.
Just then a bang and shouts of 'burn the witch' broke her from her thoughts and an overwhelming feeling of dread over took her. They where going to kill her. there was no way that she was going to survive a hundred people that wanted her dead and where willing to do anything that would make that happen. The front door would not hold them back for long and once they got into the house...she was dead.
"Spread out," instructed Grumpy, who seemed to be the leader of the mob. "Find her. But be careful, now that magic is back she is more dangerous then ever and bring her to me alive, I know the queen will have a lot of questions for her."
Once
By the time the charmings had arrived at the manor, the mob had taken over the house and there seemed to be fires at random parts of the grounds.
"Mum," shouted Henry, making a dive towards the house
"Henry no," said James, grabbing his grandson before he could get away.
"Let me go," demanded Henry, as he tried in vain to get out of his grandfather's arms "my mum is in there. I have to get her."
"It's too dangerous;" explained James gently "there is too many angry people in there."
"But..."
"No kid they are right," spoke up Emma, who had been watching the whole thing playing out. "You need too stay here with them and I will go and get your mom."
"No," snapped Snow, grabbing her daughter's arm to stop her from going nowhere near the house as well. "You can't go in there either."
"No wait..." started Emma, ready to going into a whole rant about the fact that she is an adult and that she did not need 'protecting from the people that abandoned her 28 years ago. What it is going to take more than knowing that they sent her here to protect her, to get over the fact that she had to grow up with out her parents.
"Emma...Snow's right," said James, jumping in before they started arguing. Know that no one was going to win that argument. "To those people in there you are an outside. In the mood that they are all in there is no way they are going to listen to anything you have to say."
"Any you think you can do any better," snapped Emma, resenting the way they seemed to think that they had a right to any say in her life.
"Most of them are our friends," explained James, with a sad smile. "Plus we are king and queen. They have to listen to use."
"Please don't let them hurt my mom," whispered Henry, breaking through their bickering.
"Look go back to the apartment," instructed Snow, looking her daughter in eyes. "It will be better for everyone if we get Regina as far away from here as soon as possible."
ONCE
The minute the couple walked into the building they knew that it was not going to be as easily as they thought for them to get Regina out of the building. Their friends had become a 'pack' and Regina was the pray that they where going to hunt until she was dead.
"Grumpy," shouted Snow, when she saw her best friend rushing along the landing. "What happened here?"
"Snow," said Grumpy happily, as he rushed down the stairs to give his best friend a hug. Or as happily as Grumpy can be anyway.
"grumpy why is everyone here?" demanded Snow, looking around at the fairy tale characters that had stopped trashing the house once they realised that their king and queen had arrived.
"Magic doesn't work here," shouted someone from the back of the crowd
"Ya, that bitch has to be made to pay for the hell that she had put us all through." Shouted another.
"And for the first time in years we are more powerful that she is. Now is the only time we have a hope of over powering her."
"No," bellowed James, standing to full attention every bit the king that he was. "No one will be laying a figure in her."
"She must pay for everything that she has done to use."
"We will not let her away with it." Insisted James, trying to calm down the crowd. "But doing all this just makes you all as bad as her."
"But..."
"No," spoke up Snow for the first time. "We know better than you what she is has done. She has done most of it to me. But killing her is not the answer."
"She's not here anyway," explained Grumpy, giving his best friend a guilty look. "We have searched the whole house and there is no one here."
"Ok I want everyone to go back to their home at once and wait there until you hear from use." Ordered James before turning to his wife "Snow pack a bag for Henry there is no why he can come back here at the moment."
About 30 minutes later, when Snow can back down the stairs with two bags full of cloths. The only person left in the hallway was her husband who had started to block up the broken glass.
"Did you get everything?" wondered James, once his wife was close enough to hear without him shouting at her.
"Ya," said Snow, "can you grab the other two bags that I left at the top of the stairs?"
"What, did you pack bricks in here?" grunted James as he felt just how heavy the two bags where.
"Nooo," said Snow slowly, not looking her husband in the eye. "I packed some things for Regina as well. I mean if and when we find her there is no way that she can come back here."
"Remind me again why we are protecting her again?" Wondered James as they walked outside and made their way towards the car.
"Because you grandson would never forgive us if anything happened to the only mother he has known for most of his life" explained Snow. "And anyway she hadn't always been evil. When I first met her, she was...so kind. She actually saved my life when I was a little girl and then as thanks, I destroyed her happiness...if it was not for me she would still have her happily ever after. "
"Snow no matter what she has told you, none of this is you fault," Replied Charming, trying to make his wife feel better.
"Yes it is," replied Snow, turning to look James in the face. "I broke the only promise that she ever asked of me and because of it Cora murdered Daniel in front of her."
