So I know fairytales are the premise of Once upon a time and love at first sight is entirely possible. However I wanted to create a story canon to the show that also gave Ruby and Dorothy a back story. Perhaps there is one we are not aware of yet, the show enlists alot of flashbacks without actually boggling our minds, like some other shows that the past flashes are actually very annoying. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to do this however as I've just stated flashbacks can be irritating and if all of you have to check dates, times or instances if I swapped back and forth it could get very confusing; making you wish you'd not even begun reading. I don't own the show nor characters, therefore no infringement intended; we all know Ouat loves the fandom anyway and listens to them occasionally. Unfortunately when checking yesturday there wasn't even a Dorothy character option, so this will have togo under Red/Ruby alone for now. Fair warning, I'm a glass half full type of person but can see the beauty in things others don't, abit of a hopeless romantic, emphasis on the word hopeless.
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Love comes in many forms, be it parental, friendship, kinship , and even the ellusive promise of true love. But what is love? and how could you define it?... the more scientific among us would state it doesn't exist at all, a mere hormonal phantasm. Severe sceptics would say a illusion of hope, something we tell ourselves to get out of bed each morning, when the reality of it is; we came from nothing and shall return unto nothing. The general populations across all realms claim love is the happiness we all seek...well besides the ones in which love is seen as trechery, entirely illegal and comes with a supposedly fair penalty of death. Finally the hopeless romantics, some may not seek it, it being true love but it doesn't mean they do not believe in it. The all encompassing sense of finally being whole, It is said that humans once upon a time had great power so much so it threatened to conquer the Gods. This was due to the fact they possessed four arms, legs, eyes and even magic all because... they were undeniably one. Zeus in his rage concocted an idea, to split humans in half using his lightning as punishment for such arrogance. Apollo after the fact took pity sewing each now individual back into some semblance of humanity all be it half of what they'd formally been. Each human befell such harrowing sorrow, profound loss and despair having been in their new eyes ''cursed''. Forever longing to be reunited with the other half of both their body and soul; their sight and magic now halved making it almost impossible to distiguish who the other may be...Or so the myth says. Although similar to the wind, just because you cannot see something...doesn't mean it doesn't exist and in turn that it can't be felt.
Ruby had been silently struggling lately, though she had brushed it off blaiming external circumstances of yet another curse being enacted, then subsequently broken and returning to Storybrooke with a year missing from hers and everyone elses memories. This for a acute time span simultaneously consumed her energy and focus, as Ruby and the townspeople strove to regain the unrefutable gap they were all missing. 'Snow was heavily pregnant!...really heavy' Ruby had previously shuddered at the momentary thought, anyone of them could have returned in the same boat with no recollection of who the father was;'Luckily her and Charming come as a pair'. She'd gone back to working at Grannys' like always, ''Just because you can't remember shit, doesn't mean you don't have to pay rent apparently''
Fortunately for most but unfortunately for Ruby the lapse of Storybrookes inhabitants memories was restored by true loves kiss between Regina and Henry not too long after. If Ruby was certain of one thing the burden of her past and guilt over things beyond her control were almost unspeakable, as was the overwhelming feeling as though she might drown beneath the mundane life of waiting tables. That being said when the first curse was lifted she was one of the few, if not the only one grateful for what Regina had done. Others ofcourse she empathised with them endlessly, Personally though when the memories seeped through onto their new found reality Ruby nearly broke, there was no consoling herself over the lives she had taken, whether or not she had been willing to. It was when a large portion of the town who were currently celebrating their newest victory and the birth of Snow and Charmings second child after the most recent year of memories flooding back; that Ruby Lucas was once again hit by a tidal wave of hopelessness or grief, maybe even loss?. Somewhere not nearly as deep down or as subconcious as Ruby would of liked, felt as though no one had noticed her demenour since the recent curse was lifted. This belief no doubt led her to forgo hiding what she felt in that moment, as she held a suddenly cold but elegantly long hand to her chest trying to dull the ache and sinking sensation. Shuddering whilst deeply inhaling, Rubys' eyes so full of emotion slid slowly up trying to regain composure...only to meet Snows' concerned brow from across the Diner; as if She had been watching over her all along.