Thank you for the reviews last chapter. This chapter has more fairytale flashbacks. Enjoy!
P.S. Italics are dreams.
Disclaimer: I do not own Once Upon a Time or the characters.
Longer AN at the end :)
Chapter 3 - Snow Falls
Fairytale Land
Smoke started to make its way into what appeared to be a cabin on a ship, as the smoke dispersed, three people were left standing in the room. "What just happened?" Rosalina questioned with furrowed brows as she studied her new surroundings.
"Magic, dear." Cora replied simply.
"Who are you people? What do you want from me?" Rosalina started backing away, glancing between Hook and Cora. Her parents had always told her not to trust anyone with magic.
"I thought we already established that I'm your Grandmother." Cora sighed irritably.
"No, you're not." Rosalina straightened up trying to hide how afraid she was. There was no telling what someone with magic could do.
"Are you sure? You do know that your parents aren't your real parents."
"What? No you're lying." Rosalina said shaking her head. "They would have told me." She whispered looking down.
"Why would I lie? I'm the one who gave you to them." Cora slowly approached Rosalina.
"Prove it." Stated Rosalina crossing her arms.
"Your necklace." Cora looked at the locket that Rosalina always wore, for some reason she could never take it off. "It was given to you by your Mother, on the back is an ingraving that says 'I will always love you.' It was given to your Mother by your Father."
"No. It can't be true." Whispered Rosalina playing with the necklace.
"The truth hurts. Doesn't it?" Cora placed a hand on Rosalina's shoulder and when she didn't pull away, she slowly pulled her into a hug letting Rosalina cry into her shoulder.
"Why? They could've told me, instead of making me live a lie." Sniffled Rosalina.
"I know. But you're with the family you should've been with all along." Cora rubbed Rosalina's back before gently pulling away and wiping the stray tears on her face away.
"Um...Ladies. Sorry to interrupt but we've still got a curse to deal with." Hook spoke up for the first time. Best not to interrupt Cora's plans, Hook learned that the hard way.
"Curse? What curse?" Rosalina hadn't heard anything about a curse.
"A curse that is going to rip this world apart. But don't worry, I've got a way around it." Cora added after seeing the frightened look on the young girl's face. "We need to get going."
All three were once again consumed in the purple smoke, before it cleared to show a beach and through the forest, you could see dark purple smoke speeding towards them. " That must be the curse." Thought Rosalina. Turning around she saw that Cora and Hook were distracted looking up at the sky as a dome started falling around them. Taking off in a sprint Rose ran for the forest. No way was she staying with her supposed real family. " Rose!" She heard from behind, but it was too late she had just managed to slip under the protection dome before it hit the ground.
Not stopping, she ran straight into the smoke not getting very far as she collapsed from a wave of dizziness that came over her before everything went black.
Our World
"Rose!" Jumping, Rose sat up and looked at the clock 8:20. "Great now I'm going to be late for school. "
"Rose. Henry has a field trip today." Regina stated as she opened Rose's bedroom door, taking in the site of her dishevelled daughter.
"Uh huh... And you want me to drop him off." Rose said distracted as she tried getting dress and doing her hair at the same time.
"If it wouldn't be too much trouble?" Regina questioned innocently.
"Not at all." Rose rolled her eyes.
"Thank you. I'll see you tonight okay?"
"Ok. Bye Mum, love you." Rose looked at her Mother through the mirror, while fixing her hair.
"Bye, sweetheart." Regina turned and walked down the stair before leaving.
"I look dead." Stated Rose as she looked at the dark circles forming under her eyes and the way her face drooped. Looking at the clock again Rose quickly grabbed her bag before racing down the stairs. "Come on Henry! Time to go!" Yelled Rose as she heard Henry race down the stairs.
"Whoa." Henry stopped when he caught sight of Rose.
"I know. I look dead." Rose stated dryly. "Now come on, you're going to be late." They both run out of the house and towards the school.
After Rose dropped Henry off at school she managed to arrive just after 9 o'clock. The hallways were deserted as she made her way to her locker. Sighing she opened her locker and got her books out for the first two classes. Not bothering to rush to class as she already knew that she was going to get detention. It had to be the one day she sleeps in that she that teacher that if you arrive one minute after the bell, you get detention.
Stopping outside of the class room door, she quietly opened the door to see that everyone who had been writing stopped to watch her enter.
"Sorry." Rose whispered as the teacher got up and made his way over to her.
"Miss Mills. You know I do not tolerate students coming late to my class."
"I know." Sighed Rose as she took the detention slip and made her way to a spare desk next to Robert.
"Still getting the nightmares?" Robert leaned over to whisper to Rose.
"Yeah and they're only getting worse. I got like no sleep last night." Rose replied as she leaned on her arm. "What are we doing?"
"We're working on our essays."
"Fun." Rose rolled her eyes before getting out her book and looking at the clock. "Only twenty more minutes."
Rose had just finished writing a paragraph when the bell rang. "Finally." Rose sighed grabbing her books and leaving the classroom.
"What do you have now?" Robert asked as they made their way down the hall.
"Art. You?"
"Music."
"Cool. Well, I've got to go this way. So, see ya." Rose and Robert parted heading in the direction of their class.
It turns out that this art lesson they were going to watch a movie which just made Rose groan last thing she wanted to do was sit in a dark room. No matter how much Rose tried to avoid going to sleep, she eventually gave up and collapse into darkness.
Rosalina was running through the forest with her best friend Robert chasing her. Occasionally she would look back and giggle at seeing Robert look for her when she hid behind a tree.
Not looking where she was going, Rosalina tripped on a tree root and fell over. She knew that she had scraped her knees from the pain and when she rolled over and looked she saw that her dress was ripped and her knees were red and bleeding.
"Hey. You okay?" Panted Robert concerned as he caught up to her.
"Yeah, I just tripped." Rosalina stated with a sigh looking up at him.
"I'll take that as a no them." Robert replied with a grin. Rosalina was about to reply when the sound of hoofbeats filled the air. "Come on. Quick." Robert grabbed her hand and pulled them behind a bush. They both held their breath as the carriage continued past them.
"Who was that?" Rose stared at the trees that it had gone through.
"Someone you don't ever want to meet. Let's head back." Robert and Rosalina both stood up and started for the path home.
"Rose! Wake up!" Snapped the teacher causing Rose to jump and almost fall out of her chair.
"Wha...S-sorry." All the class started laughing, but Rose didn't notice as she yawned and continued to stare blankly at the teacher. It had to be during school time that she doesn't have a nightmare.
"Rose, can I speak to you for a minute?" The teacher questioned walking outside expecting her to follow which she did.
"Yes?" Rose closed the door behind her.
"Are you okay? It's not like you to fall asleep during class."
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just tired." Rose shrugged trying to hide a yawn, it was then that she felt a headache coming.
"Well how about you grab your books and got to the office. Get some rest, the class is almost over anyway." The teacher handed Rose a note.
"Thanks." Rose slipped back into the classroom and grabbed her books before leaving and walking down the hall to the office.
Rose gave the note to the woman at the counter who read it and then directing Rose to a room that had a couple of beds in it. She laid down in the one next to the window and before she knew it, she was asleep again.
The office lady exited the room and went back to the desk to call Rose's mum and tell her what happened.
Rose slowly came to only to scrunch her face up in confusion when she felt something being pressed against her forehead.
"Mum?" Rose groaned as she opened up her eyes only to shut them against the light.
"Shhhh, just rest." Regina continued to place the cloth on Rose's head.
"What happened?" Rose opened her eyes again, looking around she noticed that she was in her room. She eventually had to close her eyes again due to headache.
"You know that you get migraines when you don't get enough sleep." Regina reminded Rose.
"I know. But it's not like it's my fault that the stupid dreams won't go away." Rose mumbled to herself not thinking that Regina was listening.
Regina stopped when she heard what Rose said. "What dreams?"
"Oh. Nothing. Don't worry about it." Rose stuttered turning her head away.
"If it is causing you to lose sleep, then I will worry about it." Regina gently turned Rose's face so that they we looking eye to eye.
Rose sighed. "I didn't want to worry you. You've already got all the stuff with Henry and I just didn't want to be a burden."
"Rose." Regina sighed. "You should have told me. How long has this been going on for?"
"I don't know. A week or two maybe." Rose shrugged.
"I'm making an appointment with Dr Hopper and no buts." Regina added when she saw that Rose was going to go against it.
"Fine." Rose grumbled crossing her arms, wincing slightly as a sharp pain shot through her head.
"Here, this should help a little." Regina handed her some medicine and a glass of water.
"Thanks." Rose took the medicine and layed down again.
"I've got to go out. But I should be back in an hour." Regina said getting up to close the curtains before walking out of the room.
"Okay." Rose mumbled sleepily before darkness once agin consumed her.
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