Outsider

by World.Has.No.Right.To.My.Heart

Emma and her husband Neal are visiting Storybrooke, when she is carried away to a world of fantasy and magic at the old clock tower. She falls in with a group of rebel misfits from the Jolly Roger, who are being pursued by the Evil Queen's army. She marries the Captain of the Jolly Roger out of necessity but they quickly fall in love. Can Emma get back to Neal or will she be stuck?

Prologue

People disappear all the time. Young girls run away from home. Children stray from their parents and are never seen again. Housewives take the grocery money, and a taxi to the train station. Most are found eventually. Disappearances, after all, have explanations. Usually. Strange, the things you remember. Single images and feelings that stay with you down through the years. Like the moment I realized I'd never owned a vase. That I'd never lived any place long enough to justify having such a simple thing. And how at that moment, I wanted nothing so much in all the world as to have a vase of my very own. It was a Tuesday afternoon. Six months after the end of the war.