*So the idea popped into my head to do a retelling, my own version, of Disney's Princess movies (it may extended to others ((including non-Disney movies)) after I have finished, if I finish, doing all of them). These aren't planned on being super long, but who knows, especially on my favorites, haha. I hope you enjoy. For this story, at least, I might follow this pattern with the others, but I am going to do one Chapter of Snow, then one chapter of Grimhilde. The Queen's chapters probably won't be that long, but they will show her side of things.*
Snow White stood by a well outside of the castle that had once been her home. More and more lately it had felt like a prison, however, one she couldn't wait to escape. Her stepmother, a beautiful woman whom when she had first married Snow's father had been so kind and gentle, had lately been cold and angry with Snow. If her father was still alive, Snow had no doubt that she would still be the way she had been, but he wasn't.
Grimhilde had once been Snow's favorite playmate, the one she went to when she needed someone to tell a secret to, etc. But now… now she didn't know what to think. Sighing, she looked over the edge of the well and softly said, "I wish I could figure out why she hates me so." "What are you doing?" came a masculine voice.
Snow stifled a scream, she hadn't heard him enter the courtyard that she was in, so lost in her own thoughts was she. I'm sorry, I didn't me to frighten you. I am Prince Ferdinand." He said with a bow. Snow recovered from her scare quickly and returned his bow with a curtsy while saying, "I am Snow White." "Pleased to meet you Snow White. What were you doing just now?"
She hesitated a second before saying, "I'm wishing. What are you doing here?" "Oh forgive me, I am here on behalf of my father on business." "Then let me take you to my stepmother, Queen Grimhilde." Snow said, before leading him into the castle. Ferdinand tried to restart the conversation a few times, but Snow replied in short answers like Grimhilde had told her to.
"She is just inside these doors." Snow said, "Excuse me." With that she pretended to head down the hall, but the moment he was in, Snow returned to the door and looked into the door. She muttered some magic words Grimhilde had taught her when she was little, so that she could see and hear what was said in the room. It was mainly the normal boring stuff, but one thing stood out to her.
As Ferdinand was getting ready to leave, he said to the Queen, "By the way, who was that beautiful young lady who led me here? She is the fairest maiden I have ever set eyes on." The look in the Queen's eyes was something between jealousy and rage, so much so that Snow stopped listening and went to make herself scarce. As she hurried through the castle to her room, she thought to herself, "Is it possible? Is that the reason the Queen has been the way she has been with me lately?"