I have no idea, none were this idea came from but I'm deciding to run with it and see what happens. Be prepared for fluff, angst and same sex love, and heaven knows how many other odd couples. I work very hard on my fictions, I have dyslexia and writing for people with my condition is actually very hard work so please don't go on about my spelling and grammar. I have no beta I haven't for years mostly because they just vanish on me which is annoying half way through a story.
Royal heart
Chapter one Raven's heart:
Apple was sitting on her bed watching her friend who was sitting across the room at her desk absorbed in her home work. Noticing that the other princess was watching her Raven looked back at her and said softly. "So Daring and Rosabella..."
"Yeah, that was unexpected but perhaps for the best." The blond said with a small smile for her friend.
"They do seem to suite each other but if he hurts Isabella I will hex him." Raven said quite clearly meaning her words.
Apple chuckled. "I can't say I blame you for saying that. Isabella has such a gentle heart I wouldn't want to see Daring hurt her either."
"I have to say you seem almost happy to have lost Daring to Rosabella." Raven said her purple eyes openly assessing her friend's emotional state as she crossed the room to sit on the bed beside Apple.
The blond princess blushed in a pretty way that only she could. "In a way I am glad. Everything was so strained between us after my curse and things just didn't feel right any more. To be honest they hadn't been right for a long time we where both so wrapped up in completing our destinies that neither of us had thought to do anything about the fact we were no longer in love as we once had been."
"Well at least now you have the chance to find someone to give your heart too completely."
"Oh Raven I wish that was the case but everyone expects Darling and I to start dating, after all it was her kiss which saved me. But enough about my troubles what about you though Raven?" Apple asked softly as the witch rose from the desk and joined her friend sitting on the bed beside her.
"I don't understand what you are trying to ask me Apple."
"Isn't there someone special in your heart?"
The pale witch flushed a deep red and her purple eyes suddenly found the floor extremely interesting. The blue eyed princess let out a squeal of excitement and she bounced on the bed slightly with happiness. "I just knew it! There is someone! Who is it?"
When those purple eyes came up to meet the blue of the other princess they speared her with the pain in them. "It doesn't matter. I can never have the one I love."
"But..." Apple could see the sadness which now draped over her friend, Raven's shoulders which were slumped forward and the daughter of Snow white could almost feel her pain. "Oh Raven...How long have you been truly in love."
The head of the witch snapped up and she asked amazement in her voice. "I'm what?"
"You are truly in love. I know the signs for it, my mother taught them to me and well you have been showing them for a little while now that's why I wanted to know if you were in love."
Slowly Raven lowered her head into her hands. "Great so I'm truly in love with someone I can't have. I must have the worst luck in ever after."
Sad for her friend Apple slid an arm round her and pulled her in for a hug. "Oh Raven. It must hurt a lot, I know it must because mother told me unrequited true love is extremely painful. You've been holding in all of that pain for such a long time haven't you?"
"Yes." Raven muttered a deep sadness in her voice.
"You know a wise friend once told me it's alright to cry." The blond told her dark haired friend softly.
The shoulders of the witch shook, without commenting Apple gently but firmly turned the witch towards her, the blond held the other princess close letting Raven hide her face and muffle her crying against her. The blue eyed princess softly stroked the witch's hair in soothing motions and simply let her friend cry as she needed to.
Neither princess was aware of the Evil queen watching from a nearby mirror, for once it was not to cause trouble she was actually worried about her daughter. It was rare the dark woman felt this way, but hearing the heart break of her only child was enough even to move her dark heart. The queen couldn't help but feel no one not even her daughter deserved this kind of pain, especially when she had her father's kind and gentle heart.
Slowly Raven stopped crying, she moved back from Apple, the blond princess wordlessly handed her friend a handkerchief. Raven took it from her with a grateful smile, carefully she cleaned away her tears and then addressed the other princess. "Thank you."
"You're welcome. Do you feel a little better now?"
"I think so. Now I know I'm truly in love I need to think about what I'm going to do."
The tone of those words caused sudden concern swept through the daughter of Snow white. "Raven what do you mean?" The witch refused to meet her intense blue eyed gaze. "Raven, please don't do something rash." Apple begged the other princess without shame.
"Apple I have to do something. Don't you see? Don't you understand? I'm a freak, a fairy tale abnormality!" Raven suddenly pushed herself away from her friend, she rose to her feet and dashed from the room.
Concerned Apple went after her but soon lost her friend in the congested castle hall ways. The blond let out an aggravated grumble, before going in search of other people to help her find Raven before she could do something harmful to herself. It did not take long for search parties of Raven and Apple's many friends to gather together, they were quickly dispatched by the blond princess this way and that all looking for the dark haired witch in every place they could think of.
It was Daring who found Raven hiding in one of the empty class rooms, their eyes met, he let the door close and the prince approached her slowly. "Everyone is looking for you. In fact I'd say you have half the school is frantic with worry about you."
Slowly Raven wrapped her arms round herself and looked away from the blond man. "Go away."
"I think not. Apple would kill me if I told her I'd found you and not brought you back." Daring told her coming to a standstill in front of the paler than normal witch.
"Fine I'm coming back. Is that better?" The daughter of the Evil Queen asked him with a glare which would have done her mother proud.
"No." As he said this Daring stepped forward quickly he swept Raven up into his arms and started to carry her out of the room.
The dark haired princess cried out with surprise and started to thump to the chest of the prince. "Put me down!"
"Not happening." The blue eyed man told her, Daring carried the witch back through castle and he only put her down once he had found Apple in the main entranceway to the school.
As soon as the blond princess set eyes on her friend she let out a relieved sigh. "Raven thank goodness you are alright. Thank you Daring for finding her."
"You are welcome Apple." The prince told Apple with a smile.
With a few calls on her mirror phone the blond princess had the search called off. Once the searchers had returned to were Raven and Apple stood the blond princess looked round at them. "Thank you all for your help today."
Without a word Raven permitted Apple to take her back to their room, once they were safely inside and the door to their room was closed behind them the blond princess turned to the other woman and spoke. "Raven I know you are in great pain but at least tell the person you love that you are truly in love with them before you think about doing anything rash."
"What's the point? I told you I can't have the person I truly love." The purple eyed witch told her friend defeat etched in every line of her body.
Apple took the other princess's hand in hers the blond princess led her friend across the room and then carefully settled Raven onto the edge of her dark bed before the she sat down beside her. "Yes you did mention it, why can't you be with this person?"
The raven haired witch let out a deep heart filled sigh before answering that question. "Because they are truly in love with someone else."
The blue eyed princess shook her head slightly. "Curses what a mess!"
"I know." Raven told her roommate with a dry tone to her voice.
Apple turned to look at the lady sitting next to her and asked gently. "Raven I'd like to know what were you thinking of doing?"
The witch looked down for a few moments then answered this question. "A hundred years sleep sounded good to me."
"You can't! You mustn't!" Apple cried shocked and filled with horror at the thought.
Raven glared at her. "Why not? Is it because I'd be taking your best friends destiny away from her? Is it because I'm not pretty enough to be considered a sleeping beauty? Or is it because I'm to evil to be good enough for the part of Sleep Beauty?"
"No that is not why I said that." Apple said softly trying to sooth the witch.
"Then why not? At least I would know whom ever woke me is truly in love with me and I would love them." As Raven spoke a wistful tone entered her voice.
Apple took both of the witch's hands into hers and gazed into her eyes. "Because we'd all lose you and I don't want that. No one deserves to sleep for a hundred years not you or Briar."
"But what else can I do?" Raven asked her friend brokenly.
The blond shook her head. "I don't know but there has to be a better option then you going to sleep for a hundred years. You need to give the knowledge you are truly in love time to settle inside you Raven. After all true love is one of the rarest fairy tale gifts and one of the most powerful. The one you care for may need that true love of yours to save them from something terrible some day."
The witch gave her friend a nod of understanding and decided that Apple did have a good point as hopeless as her feelings might be for her true love giving herself some time before she acted couldn't do any harm. It was also kind of nice to think that somehow, some way her true love might be able to protect or save the one she truly loved one day.