Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 13, Chapter 1

The following occurs before during and after the events of the thirteenth episode from Season 1 titled "What Happened to Frederick."

Note: I've rewritten much of this chapter. The story involving Fawn will be pushed back a few episodes in favor of a story involving Tina and her past as Tinker Bell.

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Over dinner at the Nolan house, Kathryn revealed to David that she had applied for law school and was accepted. However, the university was in Boston. She had hoped that they would move out of Storybrooke so they could get a fresh start. David was impressed by this bold move. He wasn't even aware she had such aspirations, but the prospect of moving out of Storybrooke clearly bothered him. He decided to take a walk to think about it.

David went for his evening walk. He was clandestinely meeting with Mary Margaret. David explained Kathryn's desire to move away, David had no desire to leave.

"Have you told her about us?" she asked.

"No, and I don't think I should," he replied.

Mary Margaret was worried that if they couldn't be truthful with others they could not be truthful to themselves. She asked him to make a choice and he chose Mary Margaret.

"Then it's time to tell Kathryn," she said, encouraging him.

~ O ~

"I thought we weren't going to do this anymore?" Claire asked.

He replied, "So did I." He kissed her lightly on the neck. Claire and Hartley had had another date this evening. It was supposed to end with a nightcap at Granny's. It didn't. They were laying on the couch, wrapped in a blanket and completely bare underneath. They had made love again.

"We can't keep doing this," she told him.

"That's what you said last time," Hartley reminded her. "And the time before that."

She glared at him playfully. He kissed her on the lips. Hartley pulled her close as if initiating another round of lovemaking, but she put a stop to it immediately. "No, Hartley, we can't. I have work tomorrow and my girls need me."

"Of course," he agreed.

Claire dressed wondering why she wasn't able to stop herself. She didn't want to stop dating Hartley, but if her impulses couldn't be controlled she might have to do just that.

"Can I see you tomorrow?" he asked. "Perhaps dinner and a walk in the park."

She almost said no, realizing that they might end up like this again. But she had been without companionship for so long. "Okay. But you take me straight home afterwards."

~ O ~

The next morning Emma was walking into Granny's Diner when she ran into the tall stranger as he was leaving. He wanted to take her out for a drink, as he had promised earlier. She refused because she didn't know anything about him, like his name.

"It's August W. Booth," he relented.

"Really, with the 'W?'"

"It stands for Wayne."

Emma agreed to meet him after work.

"Now that wasn't so hard," he said before roaring off on his bike.

Inside the diner Swan met up with Mary Margaret. Emma was more than aware that her roommate was still seeing David even after saying she would give him up. "How did you know?" Mary Margaret asked.

Emma told her that Mary Margaret wasn't particularly adept at hiding her tracks. She had left plenty of obvious clues lying around the house.

"Why didn't you say anything?" Ms. Blanchard asked.

"I'm not your mother," Emma replied.

Mary Margaret took a sip of her coffee. "According to Henry, I'm yours." She informed Emma that David had made his choice and was telling Kathryn everything.

~ O ~

That same morning David regretfully told Kathryn that he would not be going with her to Boston. He claimed he wasn't able to make any kind of connection with her. David wanted her to find someone she could make a connection with so she could start fresh the right way.

Kathryn was devastated by this confession.

David left out the part where he was leaving Kathryn for another woman. She was still in the dark about the relationship he had been developing with Mary Margaret.

~ O ~

THE ENCHANTED FOREST

Prince James had been captured, but not by whom he thought. The prince was running from his adoptive father, King George. James had decided not to marry Princess Abigail a woman he did not love. Snow White, the woman he had fallen for, had come to castle and explicitly told him she did not love him in return. It broke his heart. Rather than wed a woman he had not feelings for, he fled hoping to seek out Snow White and perhaps change her mind.

When the blanket was thrown over him James fully expected to face the wrath of King George. Instead he stood in front of Abigail. She was protecting him. Princess Abigail did not want to marry James, either. As it turned out her heart also belonged to another.

But there was a problem.

Abigail brought James to a gazebo in the woods which was built around a golden statue of a man drawing his blade into a defensive posture. James was impressed, the intricate detail was incredible and the statue looked more lifelike than any he had ever seen.

There was a reason for this. What James was admiring wasn't a statue, but a real man. This was Prince Frederick, the man Abigail loved. A while back there was an ambush on King Midas' caravan. Frederick leapt in front of Abigail's father to protect him. Unfortunately, King Midas accidentally touched Frederick and turned him into this gold statue. Abigail wanted nothing more than to undo her father's curse.

"Have you tried true loves kiss?" James suggested.

"Till my lips bled," Abigail responded disheartened.

"The gold got in the way," he surmised.

There was, however, a solution. The magical waters from Lake Nostos could undo the spell. James was confused, if the water could undo the curse why hadn't she used it.

The lake was defended by a terrible creature. The creature drowned every person who tried to secure the water from the lake. James wanted to help and asked to be taken this lake. Abigail could not ask him to risk his life. Prince James had his own reasons. Snow White had come to his castle and declared that she no longer loved him. If James succeeded then Abigail would have the man she loved and her misery would end. If James died he would be put out of his own misery.

~ O ~

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

The newspaper blared the news. Mr. Gold was in jail and headed for court. Everyone knew the pawn broker was a swindler who belonged behind bars, but his arrest was still something of a surprise to everyone in Storybrooke. He was far too meticulous to ever get caught.

The charges, though, were for kidnapping and assault. Mr. Gold never lost control. He always manipulated every situation so that he was in the superior position. Everyone else in town just danced to his tune. Somehow someone managed to get him to resort to violence.

"Well it's about time," Claire said, reading the headlines and story with a bit of satisfaction. Part of her hoped he would get a long sentence. If he couldn't run his pawn shop and it closed down it could mean Claire might be able to get out from under the crushing debt she owed him. Of course, it was always possible that the loans would be sold to another party, but that would take time. For once, Claire felt a bit of relief.

"Okay, girls, let's go." Claire rinsed the breakfast dishes in the sink. She, Tina and Valerie piled into the work truck. Claire noticed right away that Tina didn't look quite right. "Honey, are you okay?" Claire asked Tina.

"I'm fine," she replied. "Y'know, school and all."

Tina was lying. She was feeling sick again. Right after being dropped off at Storybrooke High School she ran into the closest girl's bathroom and threw up. She was getting very worried. Her symptoms were getting worse, not better and new indications were emerging. "What's wrong with me," she asked herself quietly.

She rinsed herself off at the sink. Tina did not notice that someone else was in the bathroom, as well. Another girl who overheard her being sick and her comment afterwards. "I can tell you what's wrong," the girl said. "But you aren't going to like it."

~ O ~

THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE (The late eighteenth century)

"I found it!" a sparrow man yelled. In his hands was a blue glowing moonstone.

The fairies of Pixie Hollow had been in an all-out panic. Their one and only moonstone had been shattered in an accident two years earlier. The Autumn Revelry was scheduled for later this season. Without a moonstone no blue pixie dust would be created and the Pixie Dust Tree couldn't be refreshed. It would eventually wither and die, leaving the fairies of Pixie Hollow without their much needed dust. Without pixie dust no one would be able to fly and no one would be able to perform their unique talents to deliver the seasons to the mainland.

Worst of all, without Pixie Dust the entire fairy race would eventually die out. Whenever a baby's first laugh arrived it was doused in yellow dust which caused it to turn into a fairy. If no dust could be produced those laughs couldn't be turned into fairies. Through a matter of time and attrition fairies would die with no new ones to replace them until they were all gone.

Now that a replacement stone had been found, that bleak and horrible future had been averted. When word made its way back to the Pixie Dust Tree that a new moonstone had been found Fairy Mary nearly fainted with joy. The sparrow man who found it was hailed as a hero, but he was nowhere to be found. With the euphoria of finding the all-important stone no one bothered to find out who it was.

The sparrow man wasn't from Pixie Hollow. He had disappeared into the tall grass. Once he was far enough away the sparrow man waved his hand. He was briefly engulfed in a pillar of purple smoke and emerged in his true form: Rumpelstiltskin.

He joined his traveling companion, a tall man named Jefferson who wore a long coat and over sized top hat. Jefferson was a realm jumper. His hat could absorb the ambient magic of any world and open portals. These portals not only opened to other realms, but any point in time in that other realm.

"Is it done?" Jefferson asked.

"Yes," Rumpelstiltskin replied. "We can go now."

"Fine, I'm eager to get back home."

"Oh, we're not going home," The Dark One informed him. "At least not yet."

"Well where are we going?"

"Not where. When."

Jefferson looked confused at first. "You mean, we aren't leaving this place?"

"Oh no," Rumpelstiltskin answered with a wicked smile. "I want you to take me into the future. Just a few decades will do. There is a house where I need to be. A house with a baby. Now then, off we go."

Sorry about the confusion with the restart of this story. It occurred to me that I needed to put this story about Tinker Bell here or it wouldn't fit in later. Don't worry, I'll get to Fawn's backstory when Ruby gets her day in the limelight.