A Fractured Fairytale: An Alternate LTC Story
By Vinkunwildflowerqueen
DISCLAIMER: The characters you recognise from Wicked aren't mine, obviously. But the other characters are.
Prologue: To Recap
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, there was a girl was born cursed with skin the colour of emeralds. She lived with her father, who hated her for her skin, and planned to keep her locked within the house for her life, to care for her younger sister. He didn't care that this wasn't the life she wanted for herself.
One night, she ran away from home in search of her dreams, another life. She hid herself in a city of emeralds where she met a prince. And despite herself, they fell in love.
Although the prince made no secret of his love for her, the girl was too afraid to tell him that she returned his feelings. She'd never known love or happiness before, and didn't trust it when it was before her eyes. She was afraid if the words were spoken, it just might break the spell.
When the prince's father, the king, fell ill suddenly; the prince took the girl back to his kingdom and promised to marry her. The king and queen accepted the girl warmly into their family, but not long after, the king died.
As the prince prepared to take the throne, the girl discovered that she was pregnant. But before she could tell the prince, she caught word that the prince wanted her to leave- that she wasn't suitable to be queen.
Broken hearted, the girl felt she had no other choice but to leave, without telling the prince that she was expecting his child.
The prince too, was tricked into thinking that she had left because she didn't love him, and took the throne with a broken heart and no idea where the girl had disappeared to.
But this is where the story you know changes….
In other words, chapters 1-11 of Long Time Coming still stand, as do chapters 13-14, 17-18, and 21 (ie. All the flashback chapters).
But I wasn't going to post all those chapters again, and this was a nicer way to recap so you may not have to re-read those chapters of LTC again (unless you want to).
AN. So, when I wrote LTC some people expressed an interest in an alternate timeline/ what if story; kind of like what I did when I wrote May I Not Lose You and then But For A Moment. I wasn't so sure.
But then Maddy (Ultimate Queen of Cliffies) had a birthday, and (as she was one of the aforementioned people who expressed interest in the idea) I thought I'd write it for her. As a oneshot.
A oneshot became 6 chapters, she loved it and wanted me to post it, I added another chapter and a prologue and here we are.