Quality Time
Chapter 2
See chapter 1. Only thing I own is a lot of Lilo and Stitch and OUAT goodies so please don't sue. If I owned Once, Rumbelle would be Happy and Bae would be alive. I'm writing for fun.
In this chapter, the "Magical Disney Movie Club" has decided to let Emma in on their fun. They watch my favorite Disney movie, "Lilo and Stitch." How Emma reacts to the movie, and why, is purely my head cannon. I like a few people think Emma would feel a connection to the two kindred souls and their "Broken family," as Lilo put it, that was mended at the end. Only warning is a high fluff content, and some angst, plus slight spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen it. I wasn't sure if I'd add to this chapter, but I just had to! I might get to Lion King II or 1 1/2 if I get to see it again; I know this one pretty much by heart; as I said it's my favorite. Sorry it took so long, I wanted to do it justice. I'm experimenting with different povs. Sorry if it doesn't work.
Rumple's POV
"Ok, what'd I tell you about walking on the ceiling Lad!" Belle said. "If you leave foot prints you're cleaning it up! That goes for you and me!"
My Grandson has progressed so much in his magic in such a short time. He only started showing clear signs of having magic on his birthday on the last day of May and it's now early July. He gets down from the ceiling as he is told, but grinning broadly. He can afford to smile. He somehow managed to not leave any footprints.
"What can I say; I have fun with my magic," He says.
"You certainly do," I say, trying not to laugh. Besides being one of the most talented students I've ever taught; he, of course, is the first person I've taught only light magic to and with no dark agenda on my part. That's the reason I can have fun with him. I'd never teach him dark magic. I never want to corrupt his heart of gold by teaching him to crush others' hearts. The sweet scent of his light magic fills the shop. I've started noticing the scent of my magic has changed too. I think love is changing me and I'm finally letting go of the darkness.
"What's that sweet smell?" Henry asks. "It's smells like baby powder with a hint of lemon and cinnamon."
"Why, that's the scent of your light magic. Every practitioner of light magic's energy smells that way when they're using their magic; at least the baby powder and citrus, but everyone has a scent that marks it as theirs. Yours and Miss Swan's is cinnamon. I think Elsa's is vanilla. Only those with magic can smell it. I'm glad you never smelled the odor of dark magic. It's sulfur and, I'd say, burning tires."
"I only smell the light magic," Henry remarks with a smile. Yours smells the same way, but a country breeze after a rain mixed in. That fits because you were a spinner before in a country village."
"That's because my heart is changing," I say with a bit of pride. "Yes, I was looking back. Those were the happiest days of my long life, with your poppa," I tell him.
"Now let's check the potion you made to increase the protein content of your vegetarian diet and make it taste better," I tell him, taking out a small soy turkey cutlet out of the microwave. "Take a bite before you spray the potion on it."
"It's ok like it usually is, but not as good as the real thing," he says. Then he pours some on the rest. "Wow, it tastes like the roast turkey Grandma made last thanksgiving,"
I taste and agree. We decide to share some with a drooling Goldspinner. He certainly seems to agree with us. I'd say this a success.
"You've done well Henry. Would you like to have an another meeting of the 'Magical Disney movie club,' as you call it?" I ask.
"Yes," He says enthusiastically, "What movie?"
"Well I've looked on-line and I created a short list. I also asked your mother Emma what her favorite was. she said the movie she wanted to see most next was "Lillo and Stitch."
"Wow, That's one of my favorites, too," Henry says.
"I guess 'like mother, Like Son'," I say. "Would you like to invite her to watch? I think I know what the answer will be."
He just grins and gets out his cell phone. "Hey, mom I'm still at Grandpa's. We're going to watch a movie. Would you like to come?" he asks.
"Of course kid. I'd spend time with you, anywhere, anytime," she says. "What's the movie?"
"Oh that's a surprise," he says.
Henry's POV
A few minutes later, my mom's bright yellow beetle drives up to the pawn shop. She walks in with a bag with the Disney store NYC online. I go to say Hi to My mom.
"Hi kid!" she says, hugging me. "I have gifts in honor the movie we're watching. Oh yea, I knew what movie we talked about after last lesson," she says, looking at Grandpa Gold.
"You don't have to keep yours, Gold, but please just wear it for the 85 minutes the movie lasts; after you can give them back to me or make it poof away or whatever; just be a sport," she pleads.
She pulls out three sets of fluffy stitch hats and gloves like you get in parks or online. I put mine on. I watch and Emma does and I'm surprised Grandpa Gold does.
"Most becoming, Miss Swan." Grandpa says with a smile. Not sure if He really means it then He starts laughing not his dark one laugh though thankfully.
Emma's POV
I wonder how long Mr. GQ will wear a fuzzy blue hat with long ears and mittens. He actually seems happy in them. "We can wear these when we watch the Disney Christmas Parade this year," I say to Henry.
"Yes we can," he agrees.
Suddenly a bowl of sugar glazed popcorn and Coco just the way we like it appears in front of us. Gold, Uh, Rumple has a mug in front of him with just whipped cream on.
"You drink Coco in July?" I ask
"I like chocolate any time of year but rarely drink Coco outside of winter."
"I pictured you a tea drinker," I say.
"I do drink tea, but I still can't resist chocolate It's so plentiful here and can be affordable. In the world we come from, it was mostly for the upper-classes. It was a rare treat for a spinner, I did everything possible to afford it for Bae's birthday. I would also make an effort to make sure my wife had it on her birthday and our anniversary until she made it clear around Bae's fourth Summer she wanted nothing from me, I mean nothing," he says almost blushing. "Our marriage was over by fall of Bae's 5th year." Nothing says your marriage is over like your wife hoping on a pirate's ship with Captain Hook, and letting you presume she's died." I never knew Henry's book was that detailed till recently.
"I didn't know Neal was that young when his mother abandoned you two. He didn't like to talk much about her but he said He'd get more affection being nursed by a rattle snake."
' I didn't know Bae remembered that much about his womb donor
"Yes that's what he mostly referred to her as." I tell him.
He chuckles at this nickname for his ex. Not sure I want to know what happened if they met again after he became the Dark One.
"I just hope Henry never thought if me that way." I see Henry listing intently to this bit of his family history.
"Why didn't you tell that part before?" He asks.
"Even though you're so mature I wondered if you were too young for the unvarnished truth about your maternal grandmother.
"No, I never thought of you that way; besides, I didn't know I was adopted until I was ten."
"So When did you first see 'Lilo and stitch'?" He asks me.
"It was right after I got out of Jail, so 18 or 19." I don't feel like telling him I went
to it trying to get my mind off the fact I'd just given away the most beautiful baby boy I'd ever seen. Well, a quick glimpse as I was asking the nurse how the antibiotics were working on his Pneumonia before I was escorted back my room,
Gold quickly starts the movie knowing they are both on the verge of getting emotional.
Emma and Rumple's POV
We laugh at Jumba's attempt to defend himself in court but just managing to dig himself a deeper hole.
"He could've probably used me as a lawyer," Gold says. I just smile.
"I thought you said Stitch was one of the heroes," I say watching the little thing
being led away. Then he bites the huge Shark/whale like alien. And steals a red space ship, "Red one" as they refer to it. He makes his escape.
You'll see, He's a flawed hero. I know most Disney heroes are supposedly perfect, But Stitch Lilo and Aladdin from another movie are more like the heroes I've met here, flawed but with good hearts and will do the right thing even with flaws in the end. He seems to like this explanation.
"Good luck sending those two after 626, An idiot Scientist and a so called Earth expert who seems to have gotten his information from a kid's toy," He says I just smile in agreement.
The scene changes to Hawaii and we get our first look at Lilo. Gold seems enchanted by the underwater scenes of Lilo swimming with the colorful fish. He giggles at the little girl feeding Pudge a sandwich.
"She's feeding a fish a Sandwich. So cute. She loves animals," He says. "Does this version of Hawaii have magic? A fish that controls the weather or is just her child belief system? How does she know the word abomination? she's only five or six. She's using it in the right context. I Don't like the girl Myrtle already she's a bully." We all agree she's a red menace.
"Poor Lilo," He says, watching her mope in her room to Elvis. "Is that man a social worker or in the mob?" he wonders. "Oh I recognize his voice from another movie I saw." She nods. "Clever, Disney."
We all laugh at the woman, Nani - who I just figured out is her sister - chasing each other around their house Nani being her sister explains a lot. She's very young, inexperienced; I only know sibling behavior from observing other people's children. I never had brothers or sister who lived; neither did Bae, that I know of; who knows with her and that pirate?
"Aw, now things seem better pizza and bed time stories, Lilo style," Rumple thinks.
"Lilo has it bad. At least she has her sister and not a foster home where they don't care," Emma says.
"Gravity is increasing on me," Rumple and I say together This makes us all laugh! We all three start humming "When You Wish Upon a Star."
"I bet Stitch is the answer to her wish/Prayer," Rumple says. "Oh that's what happened to you, little mad blue Kola."
"You'll find out," Emma says. "BTW, I like your nick for Stitch." He smiles.
"She wished on crashing Space ship," Rumple says.
"Grown men think he's a dead dog? They need their eyes checked. If they think he's dead, why are they putting him a cage?"
Emma shrugs.
The others are hiding from him and on the ceiling of the kennel?" He's already an alpha.
"Why does that lady have to spoil it for stitch, saying dogs don't talk?" He says.
"It's not a real name in Iceland. Love how encourages Lilo's quirks," Emma says.
"She's so cute, the way she talks," he says. I think Stitch just made himself the alpha dog.
"I was an odd kid and turned out alright," Henry says.
"You certainly did," they both say.
"This town must be smaller than Storybrooke for Nani to let Lilo roam so freely around the town." Rumple says.
"That would be great place to grow up," Emma agrees.
Rumple's POV
I enjoy watching Stitch learning about Earth and trying to avoid those two idiots who are, by the way, growing on me. We both laugh at Stitch messing up the tiny house. I think that's what you get for giving a creature like Stitch Sugar and caffeine in such a short time.
The three of us say "I think he's a koala, an evil koala." He does resemble the Australian creature somewhat, but I've never seen a blue one. I've come to the conclusion if Stitch and company exists, it's in one of the many realms I've never explored. I might ask Jefferson someday. Does that child have animal magic like Henry, or just a big heart? She got the blue hurricane to calm down with just some flowers.
"If you ask me what a record is I'm, uh, going to feel so old, kid," Emma says when we're watching Stitch use his claws as the needle on a record player.
"I know what a record is. I've seen enough old movies; besides they're making a comeback," Henry says.
"Cobra Bubbles comes into the house unannounced. I know he's just doing his job, but I'm really starting to dislike this man. Can't he see she's trying? I'm almost glad we didn't have child protective services in the Enchanted Forest. We had nosy neighbors. Then again we could have used an official system like that, I can see that this scene is giving miss Swan flashbacks to her time in the foster system, I start feel guilty for my part in how she had to grow up. Nani's just given three days to get a new job and prove she's a fit guardian. Lilo's Elvis/model citizen lessons are a great tension breaker; I usually hate montages but the ones in this movie are very entertaining OH… Stitch is having a rock star like break down. Stitch's antics aren't helping Nani's job search.
Ahh… Her almost boyfriend. OHH… this has to be my favorite part. David and the little family, or ohana as Hawaiians' put it, going surfing! Watch out Stitch, they're trying drag you under! Save her David!
"Why's Cobra have to make it worse? Tell me this has a happy ending, Emma"
She tries to grab my hand but settles for nodding yes. I have a feeling it's going to get worse before it gets better.
When Nani puts Lilo in their hammock and starts to sing an old Hawaiian song the unmanly tears start; luckily I have my sunglasses and tissues close by. I know she's trying tell her little sister "goodbye".
We've all just recovered from that part when Stitch seems to decide he's causing his new family too much trouble and leaves and starts to follow a family of ducks like the book he's carrying. "Lost" More un manly tears. are shed by me under sunglasses. Did Bae feel that way when he first came to this land?
I have a knack for finding the saddest Disney movies. Well, Henry suggested the Lion King.
I've started to hate that 4-eyed idiot scientist again when he starts beating Stitch even though he's nearly indestructible
"'Good. My dog found a chainsaw!' Is that ever a good thing?" I ask myself. We all have a good laugh over Jumba and him fighting over the bomb. Ouch! That's not going to look good to social services with the house on fire.
"I think the child will fall apart without Nani; Run Lilo Run!"
"Whale butt's found Stitch and Lilo, and he's captured both of them!"
"A little Snack, as if! He doesn't know Stitch! He's no monster!"
Stitch's escaped! now find Nani! Good boy!"
"Mother lion Nani! Who does she remind me of?"
You wanted him to talk, then you hit him with a tree branch when he does. Make up your mind, Miss Swan, I mean Nani"'
Emma and Henry laugh. Did I just say that out loud? Apparently!
"You have to admit you're both mother lions Miss Swan," I say Mother and child nod and grin.
The two aliens are finally going to be useful in helping the little family!
Oh no, LIlo's falling from the ship but it's Stitch to the rescue like some knight or superhero! Oh there's his frog friend again, cute! With the help of an oil tanker he launches himself into the sky and saves her like Superman and is rewarded with a kiss.
I though He looked like a Man in black, Former CIA huh? He's the one that made Pleakley think these bloodsuckers were in endangered. Good plan worked with them. They've reached an agreement to let Lilo and Stitch stay together. That speech Stitch gave would convince anyone. I like the Grand council woman tough but flexible, unlike a certain fairy! I guess those two have earned a place in the family.
They're Rebuilding the house together. Love this montage of the new family bonding including Cobra. It's Laundry hero! I hope he can bake!
"I hope there is a sequel! I say at the end.
"There are. Three and a TV Series," Henry replies.
"Great. We have to have a marathon someday! I need to find the sound track too. OH! I'll keep the cap and mittens," I say. They both smile again.
"Why are you crying Mom? Henry asks.
"It's just I can relate to the movie and," she hesitates, but then says "I watched it
in the theater right after I got out of jail and feeling rootless and missing Neil and you of course.
"I though the time matched. Mom, you'll never have to miss me again; we're ohana."
They hug and he kisses his mom on the check. "I hope you can see me as family soon, the both of you."
Notes: I'm not bashing the vegetarian diet. I just figure some of the imitation meat isn't as good as real meat. The walking on the ceiling idea came from a fan art piece of Rumple walking on the ceiling and Belle saying she wasn't cleaning up after him. Most of Rumple's thoughts on the movie and characters were mine or things I've read or heard people say about it. The brief mention of Hook or the one handed wonder what I like to call him is probably the only mention he'll get in this Swanfire friendly verse unless I do Peter pan for the club but it's been done a lot by others. And sorry about the Milah bashing, not!
