Title: The Puppet Man & the Acrobat AU
Characters: Emma, August, Regina, Snow, Charming, Graham, Jefferson, Henry, Ruby, Neal
Summary: AU Emma and August are apart of the circus, and, unfortunately, star crossed lovers.
Copyright: I don't own anything.
A/N: This is a prompt from .com. I wanted to do this because I'm obsessed with circuses in the old days. I watched my two favorite movies (Moulin Rouge & Water for Elephants) to get a general idea of how a circus was. I'm going to make this longer than a one-shot. This is going to be a few chapters.
Chapter One
The year was 1900 and a circus was in town. The circus was called Magical. It was owned by a couple named Mary Margaret and David who went under the names Snow and Charming.
This circus was very successful. It toured through multiple cities, entertaining people and producing smiles and laughter along the way.
There were many acts in the circus like Regina, the woman who could disappear and reappear within the matter of seconds. Jefferson or Mad Hatter, what people liked to call him, was a magician who could do anything with a hat. Graham was a Lion Tamer. The seven dwarves were the "little men" of the show, which people found quite entertaining.
But the most favorable acts of the circus were that of the puppet man and the acrobat. The puppet man was played by August who would have a wooden puppet named Pinocchio, who, while August drank water, would crack jokes to the public without August moving his lips.
The acrobat was performed by Emma, Snow and Charming's daughter. She would glide, slide, and swing gracefully across the stage. She would amaze the crowd by her flexibility as the petite girl would wrap herself around a shear cloth and swing herself out of it.
This is a story of two star- crossed lovers hiding their love from those around them.