Title: Once Upon A Tangled Story…
Pairing: Emma Swan & Killian Jones/Captain Hook [Captain Swan]
Rating: T+ (for potential violence, and other things…)
For those of you who frequent the Captain Swan Tumblr tag, this won't be news. I've been inspired by all the wonderful and feelsy Tangled comparisons, and I've decided to write up my own take…hope you all like it.
~Elizabeth
Prologue
The Power of the Sun
This is the story of how I died. But never fear, this story is not as dark as that sounds, and truth be told, it isn't even mine. This is the story of a girl, an extraordinary lass named Emma.
It all starts with the sun. Once upon a time, a single drop of sunlight fell from the heavens, and from this small drop of sun grew a magic, golden flower, with the ability to heal the sick and injured. Centuries passed, and down the hill and across the water, there grew a kingdom, ruled by a beloved King and Queen named David and Snow White. Before long Snow White came to be with child, and she became ill, very ill. Her time was running out, and David, the King, began a search for a miracle, or in this case, a magic golden flower. But the magic flower was being kept hidden by an old woman, Mother Cora, who hoarded the sun's gift and used its healing powers to keep herself young for hundreds of years. All she had to do was sing a special song:
Flower, gleam and glow
Let your power shine
Make the clock reverse
Bring back what once was mine
What once was mine
And they've called me selfish. But in spite of her efforts, the golden flower was found by the King's people, and its magic healed the Queen. A healthy infant girl—a princess—was born, with beautiful golden hair, and I'll spare you the need to guess. Her name was Emma.
To celebrate her birth, King David and Queen Snow White launched a floating lantern into the sky, and for that one moment, everything was perfect. But then that moment ended. Cora stole into the castle, intending only to take a lock of the little girl's hair, but once it was cut, its power faded and it changed from bright gold to black. So instead she stole the child, and vanished from the eyes and ears of the kingdom. They searched and searched but could not find the princess, for deep within the forest, in a hidden tower, Cora raised the child as her own. She had found her new magic flower, and this time she was determined to keep it hidden.
But the walls of that tower could not hide everything. Each year on her birthday, the King and Queen released thousands of lanterns into the sky, in the hope that one day, their lost princess would return.