I don't own Once Upon A Time or Avatar

Before you ask the third person narrator in this story who uses terms such as "You" and "I" is me, artsoccer AKA the author, not an official character in the story (I like to put myself into my work)

It had been years since people had stopped staring at Blue Fox's ears with a mix of horror and confusion. (Blue Fox is human, just saying). These days they generally looked at her ears with a sense of hope and relief. The ears of Blue Fox were quite predictably, blue fox ears. The ears of Emma Swan are far more human, just slightly tinted blue at the top. Despite this, Emma Swan felt far more fear at the prospect of her boyfriend, Neal, seeing the tips of her ears for the first time, than Blue Fox had ever felt at showing her ears for the first time.

'Of course,' Emma tries to reason with herself, 'When Fox first became Blue Fox she was ten, and ten year olds tend to be far more fearless than almost 18 year olds. 'Sides Blue Fox is just in my dreams.' Emma knew in her heart that Blue Fox is far more real than any dream; the blue tint in the tips of her ears was proof of that... or so Dragon Jacket tried to claim, but Dragon Jacket would claim such foolishness.

Emma reasons with herself even further, 'Neal loves me, he would never leave me.' She doesn't care that within her dreams Dragon Jacket constantly warned her about him. 'She's just jealous, and more importantly, just the girl of my... IN my dreams...' Emma is jolted back to the present by the feeling of Neal pulling her hair behind one of her ears.

"Is this why you've never let me play with your hair before now?" Neal whispers.

The feeling of his hot breath so close to her ear causes Emma to shiver.

"I didn't know how you'd react." Emma explains, almost breathless.

"I love it," Neal nibbles the tip of Emma's ear, "Just as I love every part of you."

A few love and lust filled hours later, Emma Swan falls asleep as she listens to her lover's, sleep induced, deep breaths.

In another world, at the exact moment that Emma Swan falls fast asleep, a hero by the name of Blue Fox wakes up in a bed. The bed is in a small room within a relatively seedy Inn with a Feudal Europe vibe about it. The Inn goes by the name Olim[1]. There is nothing unusual about this; Blue Fox and her partner Dragon Jacket often sleep in seedy Inns whilst on jobs. Or rather, nothing unusual except the fact that Blue Fox is alone in the bed.

Don't get this wrong, the relationship between the two girls is completely platonic. Blue Fox and Dragon Jacket are friends, the best of friends, but definitely not a couple, not even friends with benefits.

Blue Fox got up with a sigh as she remembered that Dragon Jacket had left the night before to go on an independent 'job'. Blue Fox thought about what her friend might be up to. 'It was normal to miss one's best friend this much, right?' Blue Fox wonders. [2] As Blue goes about her morning routine, she can't help but think of her friend, Dragon. The 18 year old that stood 5'4", and had brown-green eyes (depending on the light), straight auburn hair that goes just past shoulder length, her two scars, the diagonal one going across her right cheek and the horizontal one crossing her neck (Blue has never actually learned the story behind either of the scars, but Dragon has had them since before the girls first met) and her signature blood/dragon red jacket.

Blue had to remind herself several times that morning that, A: she had a wonderful boyfriend named Neal, and B: she was straight, very, very straight (like a bendy ruler ;). Blue sighed, again as she contemplated the girl who looked back at her in the mirror. Picture an 18 year old Emma Swan minus the glasses and instead of normal ears, pointy fox like blue ones (some say that her ears look more like blue elf ears... idiots...) and a blue tipped nose. She touched the fox pendent the hung around her neck. Emma Swan had been given that when she was five by a former foster sister. The foster sister had told Emma that as long as she was as clever as a fox, she could always survive whatever the world threw her way. So maybe said foster sister said it a bit more eloquently (you get the idea), and she had been talking about the real world and not this weird dream world, but regardless it was the almost 18 year olds' most prized possession.

"Fuck!" Dragon Jacket cussed for like the gazilioth time that day, and it was only like 8:15 in the morning. And she had woken up like 25 minutes ago.

Dragon Jacket downright hated the weather in the country of Avalon. (The weather in Avalon is comparable to the weather of England). It never stopped raining. And as we all (should) know, excessive rain leads to excessive mud.

"I fucking hate this damn mud." Apparently in Dragon's case excessive mud also leads to excessive swearing.

Worse, Dragon forgot to bring a tent, she just spent the night open to the elements on the cold wet ground. She can't even get a stupid fire going. So, I suppose that Dragon has every right to be cranky.

"Why did I take this fucking solo almost damn worthless job in such a shitty place again?!" Dragon asks, rhetorically.

Dragon does, however, know the answer.

"This so would have been better if I could have been able to complain with Blue!"

And in that comment lies the problem. Dragon Jacket knows full well why she didn't ask Blue to come with. It's very simple; Dragon Jacket is head over heels in love with her best friend, Blue Fox. And lately, Blue Fox won't shut the hell up about this boy, not even a girl, that Blue claims to be completely in love with. Worse still, this boy exists in what Blue claims to be the "real world" and that Dragon's entire world, and Dragon herself is nothing more than a series of complex dreams. Well, Dragon knows that to be complete Bull Shit. That's right, with a capital B&S.

To be fair, Dragon Jacket is completely correct in the fact that herself and the world that she lives in is completely real, and far more than Emma Swan's dream world that her subconscious created for her to escape the harsh reality of the foster system. How Emma/Blue Fox is able to coexist in these different worlds, well for now think of it like the movie Avatar, you know the one with the blue aliens.

[1] If you translate this from Latin into English, I think you'll find my name choice amusing (don't bother translating any thing else, it's either English or made up)

[2] From this point on, I am mainly going to refer to Blue Fox and Dragon Jacket by just their first names