Once Upon a Time and General Hospital

Chapter 10: Star-Crossed

Since having Britney fifteen years ago, Emma and Killian expanded their family three more times. Being the only girl, Britney was often torn between her more feminine and masculine characteristics. With a total of five brothers, she was quite a tomboy at times. Even Killian and Emma were not sure how to treat her, she was their first born and they were very cautious with her. Maybe a little overprotective of little princess. But Britney was a lot like her mother and grandmother and was very strong, smart, creative, and athletic. She was great at almost every sport. She would play basketball, baseball, football, tennis, soccer, and even golf with her brothers Henry, Liam, David and James. Naturally they of course tried to play everything they could think of in or on the water. Activities included volleyball, swimming diving, sailing, parasailing, water skiing, scuba diving, snorkeling and any game they came up with.

Considering that their family lived on or near water most of the time, this really wasn't too surprising. Much to Emma and Killian's surprise though, Henry, Britney, Liam and David all did really well in school even though they did not consistently attend any in the traditional sense. It was not that Emma didn't want them to have a normal childhood and attend school every day but she found that they sometimes had trouble explaining their family to the normal world. Then there was Britney's ability to basically teleport herself and those she was in contact with to another place or time at random. As Britney got older, she got a little better at controlling where, and when they went along with when they teleported instead of teleporting for no apparent reason.

Everyone seemed to get better at controlling themselves. By twelve years old, Liam was able to fly in appropriate settlings. He couldn't fly for an extended period of time or travel great distances. If the weather was really bad he could not fly at all. At seven years old, David seemed able to talk to some animals and nature. But he always ended up confused or not completely understanding because he would mix things up. Killian was good with nature but didn't really communicate with animals. Emma was more capable of controlling her own magical abilities most of the time, but three year old James was having trouble controlling much of anything. He was still so little that his abilities were still just surfacing. But age was not really an indication for them. Emma was an adult before she really developed her powers. She expressed them sometimes as a teen but never realized they were special until she was exposed to magic. And Britney was something else. There were times when she was in perfect and total control of her powers but then there were times when she would just disappear so Emma and Killian had to learn how to track her down when she didn't return within an appropriate time.

What her family didn't realize was that she was actually still in control of her teleportation abilities. It was not that she meant to just leave her family in the dark it was just that she was different. Unlike anyone in her family she was also artistic. She loved playing music, singing and dancing, movies, drawing, painting, photography… you name it. During one of her training exercises in teleportation four years ago, she teleported to Orlando, Florida and met children like her. Well the artistic part of her. Embracing them as friends she found that she teleported back frequently for over two years, until her friends all left Florida. Confused Britney stayed until her family came to get her.

After figuring out how to hone in on a person, Britney was able to teleport herself to wherever her friends were. Most of them were still in the United States but back at home with their friends and family Britney felt like a bit of an outsider. With tension growing between herself and her friends, Britney eventually lost touch with them completely. Well all but Justin. Whom she thought about a lot. He was the most like her she thought. He loved sports, and all kinds of art. He was teaching her how to play the guitar. And she was teaching him the piano or at least improving his abilities. His family traveled to different places and he spoke multiple languages like her. Some they had in common, while there were some that she knew and he didn't and vice versa. But it was fun trying to teach each other some foreign language basics. Usually this was easy but sometimes it was more complex. Like Greek and Russian. Britney had never been to either of them and never had to learn anything about them. But Justin was Russian on his father's side and lived in Greece most of his life. His family had a private island off the coast of Greece. When Britney got to visit and see his family in their natural setting, she took to the language immediately.

The more time she spent in with his family the more she blended in, playing with his brothers and sister, sailing with his parents & learning about his family. Although it was not the easiest subject, Britney learned about Port Charles, Anthony Zacchara, his business & family, Helena Cassadine& her hierarchy. While his extended family caused her some tension, it reminded her that he was more like her. Her extended family was complex and not always perfect and good. No family was really but she loved her immediate family and was growing to love his. The children seemed to love her too most of the time. Laura loved having a "big sister" type and the boys thought of her as one of their own. Except for the times they caught Britney and Justin kissing, because they thought it was gross. So Justin tried to talk to them and Britney would tease them by holding onto them tickling them and kissing their heads and cheeks. Sometimes their hands.

It was different now with Justin versus teasing his little brothers or before. The first time was not long after they met and their friends dared him to kiss her because it was obvious to everyone that they liked each other. They would walk around holding hands, laughing and were always next to each other when she was visiting. While they still did all of that now, they kissed a lot more at least when they were alone. They were trying to be discreet about it but it was not working very well because his brothers and parents noticed their increasing feelings. Britney was finding it increasingly difficult to stop kissing him when they weren't interrupted. At this point, with how heated they were getting, it was more like they were making out and she didn't even care when his hands started to roam over her body. But she couldn't control her wondering mind.