Thank you for the follows and likes. My health ain't what it used to be, so I was only able to get this shortie out. Hopefully, we can wrap this up soon.

ABC owns OUAT. If I had it, Regina and Swan Queen would be together, Ruby would be on the show full time, and there would be a Storybrooke.


Part Two

Ruby Lucas, a werewolf, and a good friend of many in the sleepy town of Storybrooke, ME, had gone into hiding, being accused of maiming a well-like citizen while in wolftime. Red's friends (Snow, Emma, Regina, and others had found Ruby)

Before that, though, and angry mob had formed looking for Ruby. A mob that had t o be dealt with...


Lynch mobs feed on two things: unsubstantiated anger and ignorance. Both were in great supply as the latest members of Storybrooke's pitchforks-and torches club marched down the street looking for the local werewolf-deputy. They were already in that lean-and-hungry mood Gene Kelly described in "Inherit the Wind."

As most of the residents of the created-by-magic town knew their sheriff took no shit, and her boss and wife took no prisoners. Neither Emma nor Regina knew where Ruby Lucas was. They knew instinctively that Ruby was able to control her instincts in "wolftime."

The two women stood at the door of City Hall, defiant. Everyone knew about Regina's powers, and now that she had the go-ahead from her son to use them for good, she had no hesitation to use them.

And sure enough, as the crowd moved closer up the steps of the Hall, a fireball was evident in the mayor's hand. There was also fire in the voice of the Sheriff.

"Ruby Lucas did not attack Midas! We have evidence that ANOTHER wolf attacked him! Plus we have sworn statements from Mr. Midas himself!"

Immediately one man shouted out of other crimes and atrocities that Ruby supposedly had done. Another called Ruby the town slut. The mob grew extremely restless...a restlessness answer by a warning shot via a mayoral fireball.

"You people are incredible!" Regina Mills was livid. "I would think after everything this town...this KINGDOM has gone through, that you would remember that we are not the stereotype we have been portrayed. The best way is to quote King David when he, himself told you "We are both!" We are not only who we were in the Enchanted Forest, but who we are here. That includes Miss Lucas! Now I suggest you go home or go back to work, or else I will broil anyone that Sheriff Swan does not arrest. UNDERSTAND?"

There is a certain amount of terror...errrrr...power that the former Queen of the Winterlands still posses. It was as if a drop of a certain dishwashing liquid was dropped in to a sink of greasy water: almost everyone in the crowd seem to disperse and run...errrr...power walk briskly back to where they came.

And as they watched the crowd dissolve, the two women knew they had to find their friend first before the crowd reconfigures and finds her first. At Regina's insistence, they took the Benz.

As Regina put the key in the ignition she noticed her sheriff/true love looking at her with a mixture of adoration and admiration.

"What, Miss Swan?"

"You referenced dad," Emma said with a huge smile. "That was cool."

"Thank you, dear," the Regina added with her trademark smirk. "Even an idiot can be right once in awhile."

Emma squeezed the hand of Regina as the car started. "Now, Emma, let's find our wolf." The Benz and its occupants sped on in search of their friend...


TBC: Next: back to the cave...