CHAPTER 1: SHATTERED

"...And I've lost who I am, and I can't understand. Why my heart is so broken, rejecting your love, without, love gone wrong, lifeless words carry on. But I know, all I know, is that the end's beginning. Who I am from the start, take me home to my heart. Let me go and I will run, I will not be silent. All this time spent in vain, wasted years, wasted gain. All is lost, hope remains, and this war's not over. There's a light, there's the sun, taking all shattered ones. To the place we belong..." - Trading Yesterday.

"Where are we going?"

"A place without magic," Regina said with an evil grin, looking down at Snow White and her dying husband, Prince Charming, "A place without happy endings... Where the only happy ending is mine."

"You're going to separate everyone, aren't you?" Snow whispered, looking down at Charming and her infant baby girl in her arms, tears falling from her eyes.

"Yes, I am," Regina said, another grin forming on her lips as she looked up at where the large cloud of purple and green smoke was, just outside of the palace.

"Please, Regina, I know that you are doing this to ruin my happy ending. I know that. But please, do not let Katerina live without her mother," Snow sobbed, looking up at the woman who had ruined everything for her.

"Oh, your child will have a mother, Snow White," Regina said, bending down and taking the crying baby in her arms, looking at the bright blue eyes that the infant had, "It just won't be you."

With that, the curse enveloped the castle and seeped through every crack and crevice around them, entering the nursery, covering the Charmings and the Evil Queen.

"When we reach the cell, stay out of the light, and whatever you do, do not let him know your name," a soldier said to Prince Charming and Snow White. The husband and wife were going to see the Dark One, a magical man who was close to insanity.

"If he knows your name, he will have power over you," the soldier continued as the three of them walked down the dark, dirty tunnel, "Rumpelstiltskin. Rumpelstiltskin! I have a question for you."

"No, you don't," a voice said, a voice that came from the cell at the end of the tunnel that sent chills down Snow's spine, "They do. Snow White and Prince Charming. You insult me. Step into the light and take off those ridiculous robes."

The couple did as they were asked since there was no more harm in doing so. Rumpelstiltskin already knew their names, they were in the light, and he'd seen their faces before.

"Ah. That's much better," Rumpelstiltskin said with a cackle.

"We've come to ask you about-" Charming started but was cut off by the Dark One.

"Yes, yes! I know why you're here. You want to know about the Queen's threat."

"Tell us what you know!" Snow commanded and Rumpelstiltskin giggled, "Ohh. Tense, aren't we? Fear not, for I can ease your mind, but it's gonna cost you something in return."

"No. This is a waste of time," Charming snapped but Snow had to know, stepping closer to the cell, she asked "What do you want?"

"Oh... The name of your unborn children?" Rumpelstiltskin asked and Charming snapped again, "Absolutely not."

"Deal!" Snow said, staring at the green and sparkly man, "What do you know?"

"The queen has created a powerful curse, and it's coming. Soon you'll all be in a prison, just like me, only worse. For your prison, all of our prisons, will be time, for time will stop, and we will be trapped somewhere horrible. Somewhere everything we hold dear, everything we love will be ripped from us, while we suffer for all eternity while the Queen celebrates. Victorious at last! No more happy endings."

"What can we do?"

"We can't do anything!"

"Who can?"

"The first-born of those two little things growing inside your belly," Rumpelstiltskin said, reaching out to touch Snow's large stomach but before he could, Charming unsheathed the sword on his belt and hit the Dark One's hand, "Next time I cut it off."

"The first-born infant is our only hope. Get the child to safety. Get the child to safety, and on its..." Rumpelstiltskin paused as he focused on telling the future, "On its 28th birthday, the child will return. The child will find you, and the final battle will begin!"

"I've heard enough, we're leaving," Charming said, grabbing Snow's arm but she wretched it out of his grip, turning back to Rumpelstiltskin, "What about the second born, my second child?"

"Your first-born shall be the Savior. The second... The second born shall be the one to save us two months after the first. The second born... She will cause you great pain and anger. She will seem like a disappointment," Rumpelstiltskin said and Charming growled out, "Now I've really heard enough. Let's go, Snow."

Snow seemed to agree with him because she started walking with him out of the tunnel until Rumpelstiltskin screamed, "Hey! You! We made a deal! I want their names! WE HAD A DEAL! I need the girls' names! T-T-Their names!"

"They're boys," Charming said, correcting the mad man from when he said that the children would be girls.

"Missy. Missy, you know I'm right. Tell me, what's their names?"

"Emma and Katerina. Their names are Emma and Katerina," Snow whispered and Rumpelstiltskin grinned, "Ah. Emma and Katerina."

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hello! This is a very short chapter but it's a very important part of this story. I'm just going to come out and say it: I'm very lazy and tbh I don't feel like writing for season's one and two so here's basically everything you have to know...

1) Katerina Charming is the twin of Emma Swan.

2) Katerina was taken with Regina when the curse was cast.

3) She's lived with Regina since then and knew her only as her mother, not the woman who was once an Evil Queen.

4) Katerina still thinks of Henry as her little brother even though she is technically his aunt.

5) During the curse, Regina had used up a bit of her magic (a bit of the bit she had left lol) on a separate curse so that way Katerina would age. Regina stopped the curse when Katerina turned eighteen.

6) Katerina is eighteen.

7) When the curse broke, she was left behind with David/Charming and Henry while her sister and Mary Margaret/Snow went back to the Enchanted Forest.

8) That^ makes Katerina closer to David than Emma and that^ also makes Katerina get more angry with Mary Margaret.

9) Katerina is angry with Mary Margaret because she blames her for being raised by Regina and for not sending her away with Emma even though she knows it was impossible because she is a very irrational thinker.

10) Katerina has never called David or Mary Margaret "Dad" or "Mom" yet.

11) Katerina still sees Regina as a motherly figure more so than Mary Margaret, she isn't very angry with Regina because she had been the one to safely raise her and Henry.

12) Katerina is (obviously) going to be the love interest of Peter Pan.

13) Peter (in this fic) is NOT Rumpelstiltskin's father. They aren't related. At all. You'll see sooner or later how they know one another.

14) Emma and Katerina had grown close in the time under the first curse, yet Emma doesn't really accept Katerina as her sister and as far as Katerina sees it: The relationship that she had with Emma is destroyed because of the fact that Emma treats her like a child still and because Emma sees her as the one that the Charmings loved more (though that isn't true, they're loved equally and she also doesn't know the whole prophecy that Rumple told the Charmings before).

15) During season 2 time - Katerina had discovered her Light magic and ever since then, Regina has helped her train.

16) Katerina's magic specialty is fire but she can do whatever she wants with her magic just like every other character.

17) Over the short amount of time that Hook spent in Storybrooke during season 2, Katerina became close with the pirate; understanding how he thinks.

OKAY THAT'S IT AND I HOPE THAT EVERYONE READING THIS LIKES THIS FANFIC, PLEASE REVIEW, FOLLOW, AND FAVORITE! OKAY BYE I LOVE YOU GUYS33333