Max and Maddie sat in Granny's Diner, eating their breakfast. They were twins, the two women. Max had brown hair with blonde stripes, and Maddie had the opposite. Blonde hair with brown stripes. It's natural of course, they didn't dye their hair. Their most beautiful feature are their eyes, though. They're a violet color.
Max works for Madame Mayor as her secretary and lives with Mary Margaret. Maddie lives in a small house out in the woods, and works at the diner. The two girls are total opposites. Max is the more responsible twin, the calm, rational one. And Maddie, well she's the partier. The... irrational one.
"What are you doing with the evil queen Regina today?" Maddie asked her sister, sipping on her tea.
"You've been hanging out too much with Henry." Max replied before taking a bite of her scone.
"Oh, come on. You know it's true, the curse." Maddie responded.
"No, it's not, Maddie. You're crazy. You need to stop with your fantasies and come back into the real world. I'm sick of hearing about your fairy tales." Max said, standing up and leaving.
Maddie sighed, feeling the emptiness inside her. Only few people knew, but everyone in Storybrooke is a character from fairy tales. And Max isn't exactly her sister. They're one person, in the fairy tale world. When the curse took place, their personality was split, and created two people. One remembered, the other didn't.
Put together, the girls are Maxxie. Maxxie was the Hatter's companion when he was stuck in Wonderland after the evil queen trapped him there. She kept him company as he made hat after hat after hat. They told each other stories of their lives. The Hatter had a daughter, Grace. And Maxxie had a younger brother, Tristan.
But now, Maxxie was separated into two bodies. And her little brother was apart of a different family.
"Hey, Maddie. Time for work." Ruby called out and Maddie stood up.
"Right." She threw away her tea and tied on her apron.
"Yes, she's always like that." Max said to the blonde woman, Henry's birth mom, Emma Swan, after she talked to Regina.
"A bitch?"
Max laughed, "Yep. And I should know, I work for her."
"You're her secretary?"
"Yeah. Get her coffee in the morning, schedule all the appointments and meetings. It's not much, but at least it pays well." She answered.
"You don't sound really happy about your job." Emma commented.
Max shrugged.
"Hey, do you know a place where I could stay? Like a motel or something?" Emma asked.
"Oh, yeah. Granny's Bed and Breakfast is on the main road that takes you through town." Max answered.
"Thanks. I'm Emma Swan, by the way." Emma introduced, holding her hand out.
"Max Hart." Max replied, shaking Emma's hand.
"I had a little brother." A woman said, laying down with a hat covering her eyes.
"What happened to him?" A man asked, with an orange coat and wild hair asked.
"I don't know. I told him I'd be back. I promised." She answered.
"I promise to help you get back to your brother." The man said.
The woman took the hat off and looked into the man's blue eyes, "And I promise I'll help you get back to your little girl."
"Here you go." Maddie said, placing a hot chocolate onto the counter in front of Emma.
"Max?" Emma questioned.
"No. That's my sister. I'm Maddie and you're Emma Swan." Maddie replied, smiling at the woman.
"Oh, um, nice to meet you. But, I didn't order that."
"Yeah, I know. You have an admirer." Maddie responded, looking towards the direction of Henry.
But instead, Emma went over to Graham. Soon she left with Henry, since he had school.
Emma was arrested for 'stealing' Henry's files from Dr. Hopper. Once she was bailed out by Mary Margaret, Regina called her to talk. Once Emma walked into the office, she went up to Max.
"Hey, Max. I have a meeting with Madame Mayor." Emma said.
"Yeah, she told me. Go right through that door." Max replied, pointing towards Regina's office entrance, "Good luck."
"Thanks."
Around five, Henry came in.
"Hi, Maxxie." Henry smiled and jumped onto her desk.
"Henry, my name is Max. Not Maxxie. I'm not a character in your book." Max replied.
"Oh, I know. You're half of a character, and Maddie is the other half. Is my mom ready?" Henry asked.
Max sighed, knowing that she won't get through to the kid, "She's talking to Emma right now."
"Cool. I'll just go in." Henry jumped off the desk and went towards his mother's office.
And moments later, he ran. Not even stopping when Max called out for him. And following was Emma.
"Wait, Emma!"
Max quickly grabbed her jacket and her bag before following Emma out the door,
"What was that about?"
"I was talking to Regina about how Henry believing that the characters in his book are residents of Storybrooke is crazy and he thought I was calling him crazy." Emma answered.
"My sister is the same. She thinks that the characters from Henry's book are real. I call her crazy, but she prefers to be called 'mad'." Max said.
"Yeah, I met Maddie today. I thought she was you for a moment." Emma commented.
"Does no one notice the hair?" Max questioned.