Adam awoke and looked at the clock. It was four am, still dark outside. He looked back at his sleeping guest. 'She will need to get ready soon,' he thought to himself. Adam carefully got up and wrapped her in the blanket. After struggling between carrying her and opening the door, he headed towards the castle.
No one was even up yet, the only light was that left by the streetlights that would be gone in a couple hours. Empty food holders and abandoned items hadn't been disposed of by the cleaning crew yet. B-List characters lay in drunken piles at Gaston's tavern. Just barely skimming, it was no one Adam really knew and on his way back he'd give them a strict talk on their behavior after working affecting their jobs. At the moment however, he was holding one of the princesses in his arms. It had been a long time since he had even thought about holding someone like this. He looked down and she still hadn't stirred except to grab onto his shirt.
He continued onward and managed to carry her up the stairs without any amount of difficulty. The hallway was longer in the dark than what he had remembered. Adam could barely read the numbers on the door, but he managed to find it. The door to room 203 remained unlocked and he shimmied it open. Adam pulled back the canopy curtain and the covers before he carefully set Snow White on her bed. He pulled the covers back over her and stopped for a moment to watch her before he turned to leave. She grabbed his arm. "Please don't leave," she was able to groan.
Adam smiled and kneeled aside the bed. "Ms. White, you need to wake up here so you can get ready for work in a while," he whispered
Snow tugged on his arm. "Stop calling me Ms. White... Please?"
Adam leaned against the edge of the bed. "If that's what you want."
"Don't go… please," she groaned.
Adam was so tempted to crawl in and lay next to her, but he knew better and managed to get his arm free. "I'll see you later, Snow." She curled up and was back to sleep before he left the room. As he walked out the room, someone waited for him in the shadows.
"Follow me," the high-pitched voice commanded. "We need to talk."
Adam was escorted down the hall and up a set of stairs to an office room. Disney closed the door behind them before sitting in his desk. Many knew Disney better as Mickey Mouse, but the characters knew better than to call him that. He gestured to the seat in front of him with his gloved hand. "Sit," Disney commanded. Adam did so. "To make an old friend of mine happy, I finally let her start work at one of my parks. You don't know how much I was against this life for her. Nevertheless, I did so and I did not spare any expense getting her place ready for her."
"Sir, she said she was afraid of being in such a big place alone."
"I'm not done," Disney glared as he slammed his fists down on the desk. "Well, I finished my work and thought I would see my old friend. When I get there, who do you think I found?"
"No one, sir?"
He slammed his fists down on the desk again. "Look who I find bringing her home at 4 AM!"
"Sir, nothing happened. She just feel asleep over at my house."
"YOU'RE DAMN RIGHT NOTHING HAPPENED… and nothing will happen. I need you to remember the policies I set up here." Disney sat back in his chair, the darkness making a silhouette of his infamous ears.
"Sir, pardon me for saying so, but I think these policies are outrageous. Who are you to say who someone can love?"
"I'm the one who made you into existence. Who is Belle going to be with?" Disney got up from his chair and walked over to the window.
"I don't-" Adam turned to follow him.
"So she deserves to be alone?" Disney turned around and looked him dead in the eyes.
"No, she doesn't. That's not what I'm saying." Adam was still exhausted and knew this was a battle he could not win.
"Can you look me straight in the eye and say you'd marry Snow White, even if it was tomorrow?"
Everything seemed to stop. A sharp pain ran through his heart and he looked at the ground. Adam sighed, "No, sir."
"That's what I thought. If I find out that you even look at Ms. White in the wrong way, I might have to take more drastic action." Disney crossed his arms as he walked over to the door and opened it. "Now get out and get ready for work."
Adam walked out the door and headed home. As he entered his home he realized, the big boss saw him in pajamas. How humiliating.
