That night the only sound was Apple White's crying when she entered the dorm room, Raven pretended she was sleeping but who could sleep when Apple was crying so loudly? Raven stayed away all night thinking of her mother and her mother's obsession with being the fairest of them all. Snow White was her step-daughter, they were family once and when Snow White was younger the Queen had been nicer to her, but when as she grew older her beauty grew and the Queen was jealous, beauty was all she had, and now Snow White had taken that from her. Raven knew being the most beautiful, or most beloved wasn't her biggest concern, she wanted to live according to her wishes, not what someone else had predetermined for her. The first step would be to apologize to Apple, convincing her of she meant no harm.

Early in the morning Apple began singing, every morning, every day. It was slightly irritating but Raven held her tongue and started to get ready. Although, they didn't speak to each other, Apple seemed to be in higher spirits.

"Morning Raven" Dexter who was sitting reading a book said to her when she was walking to Wonderland's Haberdashery & Tea Shoppe.

"Hey Dexter.." Raven looked down at the ground, he probably heard the news about last night, she was nervous to what he would say about it.

"Are you feeling alright?"

"Well, you've probably heard, I'm public enemy number one now" she smiled, but not in a happy way, it was a sad, gut wrenching smile.

Dexter got up from where he was sitting and gripped her hand elegantly. Staring deep into her eyes; as reflex she recoiled back, unsure of how to act.

"I know, and you know that Apple's just jealous you were more beautiful than she was at her own party" he said it so clearly yet she wondered if she was hearing things. Something actually thought she was more beautiful than the renowned Apple White?

"Dexter," Raven quickly glanced around to see anyone approaching, not wanting anyone to hear her words "Saying things like that, especially about Apple could get you into trouble"

It was true, Apple was the talk of the town, the favourite of her teachers, idol of her peers, if anyone said anything ill of her they could be in danger from her countless fans that adored her, and the hatred would be ten times worse if a royal like Dexter Charming was realizing Raven more than Apple. They would accuse her of dark magic like bewitching him.

"Out of all people I would expect you to be the one not to care about Apple" he said to her.

"Why?" Raven clenched her fists interpreting what he said in her own misconstrued way "Because I'm her enemy, because it's my job to poison her and her status means nothing to me because I'm supposed to attempt to kill her?"

"No, I don't mean that" Dexter tried to phrase what he said in a different way but Raven shook her hand from his and dashed off.

He called after her but she didn't turn around, the tears gathered in her eyes. No matter where she went she would always be known as the next Evil Queen.

"Good morning Raven" Maddie leapt from the her window to the front doors of the tea shoppe. Instantly Maddie knew something wasn't right, that was the bond best friends had, they always knew when the other was upset.

"Want to tell me about it?" Maddie opened the doors.

Raven nodded "Over a cup of my favourite tea please"

Maddie slid a cup of Blueberry Surprise over to Raven, the surprise was, it wasn't blueberry. Raven cradled the cup with both hands and took a little sip, it was still too hot.

"Now, tell me all about it"

"I can't continue like this Maddie, I'm constantly worrying about Legacy Day, I think everyone is against me and I even snapped at Dexter" Raven swirled around the tea that went from a light purple color to red; Wonderland tea was could never decided what it wanted to be.

"Just apologize to him" Maddie gave the obvious simple solution.

It was easier said than done, she accused him of labelling her evil, even though that was the complete opposite of what he thought. A normally apology wasn't enough.

After ranting and raving to Maddie about what everyone supposedly thought of her, they entered the school and a deafening silence swept over the noisy halls. Everyone silent glared at Raven Queen as she shuffled through the halls. If looks could kill..., she thought. And as if things couldn't be more awkward; enter Apple White. This was her chance, she had to reason with Apple, if she could do that then maybe the paralyzing stares would stop.

"Apple, I need to talk to you" Raven approached Apple who answered by blatantly ignoring her "Please, let me explain what happened"

"I have nothing to say to someone like you" Apple raised her head high and continued to walk.

This had to be resolved now, Raven hated feeling so awful like she did on the inside.

"Will you please listen?" Raven walked along side the fleeing Apple White.

"Apple!" she was desperately trying to get even a second to explain "Listen to me!"

The same purple light emanated from Raven and surrounded Apple in a cloud of violet mist, controlled by an unknown force, Apple was spun around unable to move away from Raven. Whispers started again, this was bad, very bad, now everyone would accuse Raven of casting evil magic on Apple to make her obedient.

"She's a witch!" someone started yelling "Run, or Raven Queen will use her evil magic on you!"

"Stop!" Raven stomped her foot and as she commanded everyone stopped, frozen in place. She couldn't control her magic, it was directly linked to her emotions and those were all over the place, she felt like a bear that's broken out of it's cage and can't control it's rage. Tears rolled down her face, the more she tried to be different from her mother, the more she became like her mother.

"Raven, you need to calm down!" she felt the touch of someone, it was Dexter, he seemed to not have been effected by the magic she cast on everyone.

"Leave me alone, I'm a monster!" she tried to run but he pulled her back.

"You are not a monster" he took a step closer.

"Stay back!" she tried to warn him "I'm a monster!"

"You are not a monster!" he reached for her.

"I said, leave me alone!" a wave of magic struck him, taking the full brunt of dark magic like that was enough to serious injure someone or worse.

Dexter kept walking as if nothing had happened, her magic didn't effect him.

"Raven calm down" he spoke carefully, but she was too riled up, her magic was wild and too uncontrollable.

"All I do is hurt people, someone like me shouldn't even exist!" the ground started to shake, untamed dark magic could do anything, it was the most powerful magic in the world, it could crumble mountains.

Raven could feel herself slipping, she was subconsciously drifting into the destruction that was dark magic. If she gave into the chaos, there would be no stopping it, unless she was slain.

Then, Dexter firmly grabbed both her wrists and placed his lips on top of hers. She stopped. Her magic stopped and everyone effected was released from it's control. All the emotions that were boiling up inside of her stopped too, she only felt shock.

When he released her, everything went black. The amount of magic she used caused her to faint.

No one said anything as Dexter Charming carried her out of school in his arms. He brought her to her dorm room and placed her own her bed. She looked so peaceful now. But tomorrow the scorn of everyone would be much worse. They would think of her more vile than they did before, they would accuse her of trying to kill Apple White and of course the head master would be involved. Dexter knew her fate was unkind to her, she was only a scared girl trying to be herself.

"Someone like you is too good for this world" Dexter whispered.