AN : So I'm going to leave once again. But first...a chapter :)
Also! Please read my new story,"Petulant Queens and Coffee"
Please and thank you all!
DISCLAIMER : see chapter one
Dear Henry,
Newton had calculated and related stars to people and gravity. How all humans have gravitational pulls. Each person has their own, and the closer we are the forceful it will be. The further away, the less forceful, causing them to pull away. Is that the instance with long distance relationships? The longer they are apart the more distance they become?
I hope that is not the case. I hope we are not just stars and our behavior cannot be calculated by a single person.
-love mom
"Regina!" Lily ran through the one bedroom apartment.
Regina groaned and turned on the couch as she mumbled,"what Lily?"
"Oh. Good," Lily leaned against the back of the couch,"I was afraid you left."
Regina pulled the covers over her head,"with that insensitive shouting, I just might."
"Oh common, you wouldn't."
Regina threw her covers up and sat up at an inhuman speed,"try me."
"No, because then I'd have to chase after you saying,'DONT FORGET ME.'"
Regina scoffed and stretched her arms and back. Couches were not made for sleeping.
"Why did I agree to stay here again?" She leaned against the back of the couch and Lily looked at her from atop.
Regina craned her neck up to meet dark brown eyes,"because you need to learn how to save your money. Now common, we have stuff to sell remember?" Lily walked around and held her hand out to her friend.
Regina grumbled and took it.
She lead her to the kitchen, where they both proceeded to make pancakes. Each working in amble silence.
"So is there a buyer for the apartment?" Regina flipped the pancake with the silver spatula.
"Not really. The only people who want one roomed apartments is if they have no family or are fairly alone or porn makers."
"Did you mention it has free wifi?" Regina licked her spoon of whip cream.
She knew it was unlike her. But Lily didn't know that, she in fact, liked being different. Pretending she isn't, Regina Evil Queen turned Mayor turned Traveler with no son. She likes just being...Regina.
"That's quite a lot of calories my blue journal." Lily smirked besides her.
"Purple. And calories be damned," she flung some at Lily.
Lily closed her eyes and whipped her nose free of the cream with her hand. Which she then used that same hand to pat Regina's cheek; revenge, as they say, is a dish best served cold.
She was surprised to say the least.
The war of breakfast condiments began as Regina dipped her finger into the pancake mix and poked Lily's forehead.
Let a new war begin.
Dear Henry,
No, I didn't get to have breakfast as Lily started a war.
Not a bloody war.
But there was blood involved. She slipped and I caught her. But then I slipped. We both slipped and her shoulder hit the edge of the table. My bruised waist from the other nights adventure down the stairs was also hurt, once again, by Lily's knee.
I'm not sure if she's the right choice for a companion.
-love mom
Past
"Where did they go!?" Mary Margaret was on the verge of a panic attack at losing her only child.
Again.
David looked exactly like his wife, and like all parents who lose their children, they look to someone to blame,"where is she?"
His voice boomed as he stalked towards Killian.
"Whoa there mate," the pirate held his hook and hand up in defense.
"You said you know this island as well as Peter, so where is she?" Charming stalked closer as his wife joined him.
Together they made a starking couple. Eyes ablaze, face scrunched in sorrow and anger. One held a sword and the other a bow with an arrow pointing straight for Killians' head, the pirate at the end of their tense demeanor. If not for the circumstances, one would consider their align movements comical.
"I did not say,'as well,' I said,'almost as well,' this must be a new trap." His back hit the leaves, he looked to Tinkerbell,"why don't you ask her. She's been here when I wasn't."
The couple of a forbidding turned their prowess upon the green fairy who took a step back, hands held in front of her.
"Where is she?" It was Mary Margaret this time.
"They went to the mermaids," Tink found honestly was best portrayed in this moment.
"How do we get to them?" David spoke, sword still held high.
"I-I don't know. I avoid these traps."
"Then why didn't you say something if you knew it was there!" Mary Margaret's voice cracked, destroying the ominous stance she held.
"Because this ones new. He must've put it in when you came." Tink still held her hands high, unlike the pirate, she stood in one spot.
The couple was now in front of her, weapons so close she could practically feel the blades of both arrow and sword. They stood like that, fairy with her hands up, head held high, and the couples determined looks mixed with their arrow and sword. Mary Margaret broke it, as she lowered her bow and loosened the arrow sitting on the latex string. Then David followed, without those necessities of force, they just looked like heartbroken parents pining after their daughter.
"How do you get to the mermaids?" Mary Margaret asked.
"As anyone else gets to them, through the traps, but I can't guarantee you a way out." Tinks hands now clutched her bag swung over her shoulder.
"We don't care, we have to get to Emma," David spoke.
Tink weighed her options, they could be dead by now. Emma and Regina. Then her hand rested on the side of the bag. To any onlooker it would seem she's just fidgeting from the Charmings intensive glare. But to Tink, she was feeling. Then she felt it.
Lub-dub.
Lub-dub.
Lub-dub.
Regina was alive, they were alive.
"I can't show you to another trap, because he's probably moved them by now. But I can show you where the dark underground streams lead."
The couple exchanged a look, speaking with their eyes, a nod from one, then another, "okay."
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Emma wasn't kissed by a mermaid. In fact, seaweed was wrapped around her mouth, forming a bubble of air. She breathed fistfuls of air and struggled against the arms clutching her midriff.
"REGINA!" She shouted but the water muffled her shouts.
Then she felt something around her eyes, like a pair of goggles.
"Open," a female voice beside her ear voiced sweetly and darkly.
She opened her eyes, it's dark. Then slowly, as if sparking a fire. The water turned an oneiric blue. Her eyes focused to a trenchant state. She saw human figures with agate tails, shimmering in the blue light, displaying different juxtaposed colors. When her vision was returned her mind grew fuzzy as she saw these creatures, beautiful and innocuous.
The arms tightened around her waist waking her up from her reverie. Never mind the innocuous. They were deadly she reasoned.
Or not?
She's breathing and seeing, so they must not be that bad.
Then she saw her. Brunette hair, blue blazer held tight by two arms, bounding her down. And...a second mermaid. With hair like red auburn fall leaves, contrasting while flowing in the blue light. Her scales displayed a puzzle of different colors like a rainbow fish. Her eyes were closed as was Regina's.
And...
Her mouth was pressed to Regina's lips.
Mermaids are deadly, Emma reasoned.
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Regina's lungs took it's fill and she risked opening her eyes. Even if she did she knew all she would see is swirling dark abyss. She did anyway. And what she saw was something else entirely.
She breathed a lungful of water trying to gasp and choked, then seaweed was placed around her mouth by unseen hands and she breathed, still coughing to clear her airways.
She was breathless (for obvious reasons), this auburn haired mermaid. With eyes marching sunset blue waters. Cheek bones high and full, her skin was pale and light, almost dream like for a mermaid. Her lips, pink and plump.
Lips that was pressed against hers.
Regina didn't notice the pair of arms disentangle themselves from her torso. She started sinking like a rock, still, she stared into blue eyes that's captured her own caramel brown. Then the unnamed mermaids hand grabbed Regina's wrist, pulling her back up. Her touch was featherlight and soft. Her skin slimy and cold. But that didn't deter her from her eyes.
It was her eyes, there was fire dancing on water, a sunset upon the ocean.
Regina always had a proclivity for fire blazing across the irises of the eyes.
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Tinker Bell quicken her steps, she needed a moment. Just one moment.
"So how do you know where the entrance is?"
Tink bit her lower lip, "Peter changes the traps every time a newcomers arrives."
Killian smirked, "I went to see the fabled fairy."
Tink answered again, "Hook and I had an untimely, and unwanted adventure."
Mary Margaret's eyes narrowed, "how did you get out?"
"Yeah, Tink, how did you get out?" Killian matched his stride alongside the fairy.
"What happened?" David spoke up.
The fairy sighed, "she likes brunettes."
"What?" The couple spoke at the same time.
True love seems to know no bounds. Especially in talking sequence.
"Ariel's sister..."
Mary Margaret slowed her pace as she took that in, "Ariel?"
"Daughter of king Trident."
"Yeah I know, but what about Ariel?"
"Nothing," Tink said, slightly annoyed, "this is about Ariel's sister, her oldest sister, Attina."
"What about her?"
"She likes brunettes," Killian answered, "she," he pointed his hook in Tinks direction, "offered me to them and they let her go. They don't have a fondness in their cold hearts for blondes."
"So all Emma has to do is offer Regina?" David spoke.
Mary Margaret's face contorted into sorrow, "she wouldn't."
David nodded in agreement.
"Wait, if she offered you, then... how did you get away?" Mary Margaret turned to the pirate.
He shrugged,"beats me. I was just being myself."
"That's why," David said, "I wouldn't even let you near my daughter."
"And yet, she kissed me," Killian walked beside charming, smirk twisting David's insides to nausea.
"She wouldn't do it again...pirate," David spoke, spitting emphasis on pirate.
"Not if she has a say in it. I think next time a kiss wouldn't be able to suffice against my devilish good looks. She barely contained herself the last-"
And David's fist met Killians chiseled jaw.
Present
"Henry!" Emma bounded past the gates and there stood David, Mary Margaret, Kathryn, and Henry.
Emma's eyes drifted to his arm in a sling.
"Hey Emma," he half grinned and waved, looking anywhere but her concerned expression.
"I told you to wait in the car!" Emma walked and knelt down besides him.
"I was trying to help," he continued looking at the ground.
Emma sighed and her fingers laced through his hand that lay limp in the sling,"does it hurt?"
Henry looked to Kathryn, "no. She fixed it."
Kathryn shook her head, "I just popped it back into place. He's probably going to need to stop by the hospital when it's up and running again."
Emma's eyes shifted between Henry and the other blonde.
"As charming as this reunion is," Rumple began.
He never finished.
"Oh you're all together now!" Everyone looked up at Pan sitting mid air.
Henry leaned into Emma as they both stood up quickly, Emma held her sword, Kathryn stood, Rumple gripped his cane, Mary Margaret's arrow lifted, and Charming unsheathed his own sword.
A snap of his fingers and they froze.
He drifted down, smiling all the while,"hello."
Their eyes drifted down, their bodies frozen with their heads held up.
"Did you like them?"
Another snap, Rumple cracked his neck,"always hated that spell. Leaves you stiff. Now..."
His arm sprung out and out flew an air of red magic twisting and roping then...it stopped. Right in front of Peter. Peters smile widened even further.
"Rumple. Rumple. Rumple. Don't you know anything my boy!?" He stood in the air as he hovered above them.
Rumples gaze turned sour as the corner of his eyes crinkled and his teeth clanked together, "what did you do?"
"True love! True love is the greatest magic of all, so what happens when you use it...as a shield? An invisible shield." He held up a necklace containing intertwined hairs glowing a faint purple in a vial.
"Emma; is it?"
"Don't," Rumple spoke through clenched teeth.
Peter waved his hand and froze Rumple, "I don't know why I thought you'd be useful unfrozen."
He leaned back and folded his hands behind his head, laying in the air.
"True love," he kept one hand behind his blonde hair and held the vial, "you want to know how to stop my spiders from attacking again?"
He looked at the frozen figures, "what a lively response. I'll tell you," he flew closer to Emma.
"Emma, Emma, Emma, the savior," he sneered, "so you broke one curse, pfftt. I knew people whom broke dozen of curses, except mine, of course. They were never looked at as a 'hero,'" he rolled his eyes.
"But as fate would have it...you're royalty. Hence...your automatically a HERO!" He laughed and then turned vertically, his face inches from Emma's.
"And as fate would have it. Your DNA is apart of my spiders," he smiled,"and in order to create life from nothing, you need...a... Well a special connection. One that can transcends realms and make new life."
He spun the vial in his hands, "and in order to destroy my spiders... You need to have the other half of the DNA it took to create the wondorous creation." His face was now nose to nose with Emma, "you need Regina's magic mixed with yours to destroy my spiders. So let's play a game."
He snapped his fingers, developing in green smoke, and everyone unfroze.
Emma dropped her sword and turned to Rumple, "gold...what did he mean...what does..."
"It means! Miss swan!" Peter stood on the roof mimicking Rumples voice, "that we begin the game of hide and seek! We seek...REGINA! May the best one win!"
Mary Margaret's arrow whizzed past Emma's ear, to the roof. It caught only Peters green teleportation smoke.