So this story will be a multichapter story for SQ week days 5 to 7. Hope you guys like it. Let me know what you think. Reviews help. A lot.
It wouldn't be Storybrooke if a curse didn't strike every other year taking people's memories away. Henry had to wonder whether or not the people of Storybrooke will, long term, suffer any permanent brain damage. Hopefully not.
This time the curse happened while he was away on space camp. His mom came to pick him up from the town line. There was a bus stop just meters from the line now. The first thing he noticed that seemed odd was that the baby car seat was missing from the car. His mom always had the car seat on, unless she cleaned the car, but then would put it back in. His 4 year old sister needed it. When they entered the yard he saw more things missing. There were no toys here and there around the house. The Trampoline in the back yard was missing. His room was just as he left it except that the photo of his mothers, his sister and himself were missing. He went around the house and saw that more photos were missing. There were those of him and his mom but not one single photo of Emma or Sofia. It was as if they never existed.
"Mom, did something happen while I was gone?"
"No honey, nothing happened."
"Why are there no photos of Emma and Sofia?"
His mom looked at him odd.
"Why would I have photos of Emma and her child around my house?"
Henry gulped. Why would Regina refer to Sofia as Emma's child? Sofia was the product of true love, both of them were her mothers. She looked at his mom and that's when she noticed, his mom's wedding ring and engagement ring were missing.
"Mom, why are you saying Sofia is Ma's child, and why did you take down your wedding ring?"
His mom looked at him odd.
"Henry, Emma and I have been divorced for the past 5 years. Ever since she cheated on me."
"Cheated on you? Ma would never do that! She loves you."
"Henry, we've been through this."
"No, you're not divorced, and Sofia is your daughter too, she's the product of true love, the true love between you and ma."
Regina sighs in defeat.
"Henry, you mother is many things to me but she's not my true love. Anyway, honey, I need to leave. I have a tough case on Monday and I need to prepare before I appear in front of the judge."
Henry stares after his mom as if she's grown a second head. What the heck was going on? His parents were not divorced! They were in love, deeply in love, he was in constant gag mode from the public display of affection from his mothers. No something was wrong. He went to his room and started taking notes his one note app on his phone. He wanted to see what else was different this time so he created a new notebook in the app calling it Mission to Mars. Given his recent space camp trip no one would think twice of this name.
What I know
Mom and Ma are divorced
Mom doesn't know Sofia is her child too
There are no pictures of the 4 of us
There's no trace that mom ever cared for Sofia
Mom is not a mayor but a lawyer
What I need to know
Do they remember their fairy tale identities
Where is Emma
Who's the villain
What I need to do
Get mom and ma to kiss, their true love kiss could break the spell
Who can I trust
He pondered on that page for a while his brain on a constant loop of "trust no bitch". He decided to leave that blank. He looked for his fairy-tale book and he was happy to see it was safely tucked into his closet. He looked through it in great detail making sure nothing's changed and made a note on the app that nothing's changed in the book.
"Mom, I'm going out for a bit," he yelled and he grabbed his laptop, put it in a backpack and went to grab his bike. He rode around town on a recognisance mission. First stop was the clock tower which was surprisingly not stuck. He took a note of that. He also took a note that the clock was only stuck in the first curse, not on any other curse. It was as if fate worked in such a way that his mom had to be stuck until she met Emma, as an adult and they could both work on parenting him. He opened a new subsection called "vs the first" and noted the difference with the clock.
He went to the town hall and looked inside. The door no longer said Regina Mills - Queen as it had for the past 5 years. Instead it said Nehelenia Zircon - Mayor.
Henry started to scratch his head. The name sounded familiar but he couldn't put a finger on it. He opened his app and took notes again.
What I know
Someone called Nehelenia Zircon is the Mayor
Vs the first
Clock still moving
Mom is not mayor someone else is
He opened the internet browser on his phone and googled the name of the mayor. He had to try even though he knew it couldn't be that easy. But to his surprize it was. The very first article opened with "Zirconia was created from Queen Nehelenia's fears of becoming ugly." (Zirconia Sailor Moon Dub Wiki). He smacked his forehead. Of course. That's why the name was so familiar. It also explained the eerie light. Not that he noticed it before but there was noticeable less light even if the sun was shining. It was rather creepy. It was as if the town was stuck in a partial solar eclipse. Was there a real solar eclipse happening? He googled that and saw that there was no partial or full solar eclipse on that day anywhere in the world. But of course Storybrooke had to be special.
He started reading on the villain to refresh his own memory. Then a thought came to him. Did that mean that Sailor Moon was in town? She could finally give his moms a run for their money on how many times a person can be targeted by villains. He opened his phone app again.
What I need to do
Find out if Sailor Moon is in town.
What were the characteristics of Sailor Moon? He needed to do some research to refresh his memory. He went to Granny's ordered a drink and opened his laptop to start reading. After 1 hour of reading the plot and watching a few videos on YouTube he starts to make a list.
SM -
He deletes it. Looks too much like the initials of that actor he hates that started a personal war against his fandom.
Starlight
Blonde
In love with a brunette (*LI)
Said brunette loves to tease the blonde
They make magic together
The blonde's magic is stronger when the brunette helps
They have a child that does time travel
Said child also crosses realms and they cross realms for the child
Brunette is sometimes corrupted to be evil but the blonde always breaks the spell
Kid has her heart stolen and is kept alive by magic until heart is recovered
Kid also has magic that helps
The blonde usually has a lot of guys trying to get in her pants but she only has eyes for her LI
The blonde has a stalker that tried to kill her family including her child - stalker was killed
Brunette had a few people hit on them both male and female
Brunette thought to be a villain turns out was a hero all along
Brunette loses memory more often than the blonde - usually the blonde kinda saves the day with help, mostly they save the day together, or the kid helps
He looks at his list and can't put his finger on it. His phone beeps with a message from his mom asking him what he wants for dinner. He thinks about it and then he orders Cannelloni please. He turns back to his list.
Blonde eats a lot - mostly junk
Blonde can't cook
Blonde is always late
Brunette has a neat organized house
Brunette can cook and is a natural with babies
Brunette can sword fight
Blonde can throw things with precision (tiara magic)
They're both royalty
They end up ruling a city together
Blonde spends way too much time at the arcade/food place - she's friend's with the owners
Blonde hated school - writes badly, lacks good vocabulary
Blonde is clumsy
Brunette dresses really well
"What are you doing Henry?"
He looks up startled. It's just Ruby though.
"Nothing, just making a list."
"A list? Are you trying to parent trap your mothers?"
"Why would you think that?"
"Some of your list sounds like Emma and Regina. Except the magic part and swords."
"Oh," he looks at his list. "Oh," he wonders if he can trust Ruby. He needs his mother's together to true love kiss, so if Ruby is game, he could use some help.
"As a matter of fact, I do want to parent trap them."
"Ahh great. I can take a break in 10, and we can discuss this," Ruby says as she leaves him alone to look at his list. Henry looks at the list again and converts it in a to do list instead and marks every item that suits his mothers. In the end he realizes they all have a tick. Well shit is all he thinks. At least he doesn't have to look further than his own family. That made things easier all of a sudden. The smile forming on his face could rival that of his paternal grandfather.
Notes: If you've followed my stories you would have noticed by now I am a huge Sailor Moon fan. Like massive huge. Anyway let's just say the list Henry compiled is a list that I usually compile when I look at my two OTPs with massive heart eyes in my eyes - aka Mamoru/Usagi and Emma/Regina. Emma and Regina are my F/F version of Usagi/Mamoru so it's really hard to write a SQ story without being influenced by Sailor Moon. SQ makes it far too easy.