Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 14, Chapter 6

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Leroy and Mary Margaret Blanchard returned to the convent and school utterly defeated. Not one person was willing to buy candles from them today. Even the two Valerie Kensington sold were returned as soon as the buyer realized the girl was selling on their behalf. And now Leroy was going to have to renege on his promise to Astrid.

"Sister Astrid," he said looking terribly uncomfortable. "I've got bad news." Leroy tried to tell her what happened, but one look into those poor, trusting eyes and he blurted out something completely different. "The bad news is… is that the nuns are going to have make a whole lot of candles because Mary Margaret and I just sold them all."

Astrid was stunned by this news. So was Ms. Blanchard, but for totally different reasons. How could he tell her such a thing? They had no money, no prospects and no hope. As she berated Leroy and heard his response something became crystal clear to her. "Oh my God you're in love with her. Leroy, she's a nun. Could you pick someone more unavailable?"

"Says the woman who went after a married guy," he rebuked. If Leroy couldn't sell candles then he was going to raise the money another way. He simply couldn't break poor Astrid's heart. To that end, he picked up a phone and dialed for the pawn shop. "Mr. Gold? I have something I want to sell. Could you meet me at the docks this afternoon?"

~O~

Outside at the Miner's Day Festival Vidia found herself walking the square wearing a sandwich board sign. She carried it on her shoulders while handing out flyers. It was degrading, but if Claire was going to avoid another near disaster like this morning she was going to have to put aside her pride and do what was necessary to keep the only home she had in Storybrooke safely in their possession.

~O~

THE WINTER WOODS, NEVER LAND (The Early Edwardian Era)

BFFF!

"AAAAIIIEEEEE! Look what you did to my hair!" Rosetta screeched.

Tinker Bell and Periwinkle doubled over with laugher from behind a snow bank they used as a defensive position. After nearly drowning Vidia with water balloons, the sisters came here and eventually decided to continue their reign of mischief by pelting passersby with snowballs.

The two girls had positioned themselves across from what had become dubbed "Lover's Lane," a normally quiet path that overlooked the Winter Woods with a gorgeous panorama of snowcapped mountains, lush forests and a perfect view of the sunset every evening. With the Winter Woods now opened up more and more fairies and sparrow men began pairing off.

Rosetta was dating Sled exclusively, Bobble and Gliss were often seen together, Buck was trying to get Fawn to take an interest in him, while Iridessa had become friends with Stump with an eye towards maybe something more. Most days couples would make use of this pathway to take a romantic stroll or just sit and watch the sun go down. Today it was target practice for the terror twins.

The red headed garden fairy had been pelted in the back of her head by one of Periwinkle's accurate throws. As soon as she started screaming in their direction Tinker Bell nailed her in the face with another. Rosetta became so outraged that leapt into the air to strangle them. Sled had to take her bodily and hold her back while the hot headed garden fairy flailed her arms and legs threateningly at her two assailants.

"Come on, Ro," Sled pleaded with her. "Don't let them spoil our time together."

"Okay, fine. But the next time I see either of you miscreants I'm going to make you pay for this!" she screamed at Tink and Peri.

Oh what fun this was for the twin girls. Tinker Bell and Periwinkle sat and waited for their next victim. They knew that it could take a while, but they were surprised when only a few minutes later they could hear voices approaching. With wicked smiles on their faces they readied more snowballs. The voices were familiar, but they all were. However, Tink and Peri were having so much fun that they failed to notice just who those voices belonged to. Once their targets were in the "kill zone" the two reared up and let loose a pair of snowballs.

BFFF!

BFFF!

They ducked behind their protective snowbank giggling like little kids when they heard those familiar voices calling to them.

"Girls!"

"Periwinkle."

"Show yourselves!"

They gasped. "Is that who I think it is?" Tink croaked.

Periwinkle peered over the top of the snow bank. When she identified them she ducked down with a look of stark horror. "It is! Queen Clarion and Lord Milori."

"Girls! Now!" the queen summoned.

"Eep!"

"You can say that again!" Peri whispered to an equally frightened Tinker Bell.

The two sisters, realizing they couldn't avoid this any longer slowly stood up to face the music.

"Come here," Milori ordered.

Slowly the two glided to the presence of their respective regents. The queen shook her head in disapproval. Lord Milori looked most cross with them. His shirt was covered with the snowball one of them tossed.

"We're sorry!" Peri began.

"We didn't mean to hit you with snowballs," Tink added.

"Yeah, we thought you were someone else."

Tinker Bell glared at Periwinkle for saying that last line.

The queen raised her hand and silenced the girls.

"I hear you have been antagonizing your fellow fairies with water balloons and snowballs among other things," the queen admonished. "At first I assumed it was a simple prank, but I can see you two are determined to make as much mischief as possible for as long as it entertains you."

"This is not why we opened the borders," Milori continued. "We rejoined Pixie Hollow so that fairies of all seasons could once again come together in the spirit of friendship and fraternity, not to harass one another with mean spirited childishness."

Both Tinker Bell and Periwinkle lowered their heads in shame.

"What you two have done is most unbecoming," the queen began again. "Crossing the border is as much a privilege as it is a right. We must all act with restraint and decorum with an eye towards the greater community."

"Queen Clarion and I had hoped you two would have known better," Milori finished.

"We're sorry, Your Highnesses," Tinker Bell whimpered.

"Yeah, we've learned our lessons," Periwinkle said, barely able to get the words out. "We'll never do this again."

"That's good to hear," Milori replied.

Queen Clarion then handed down their punishment. They were to visit each person they harassed and apologize to them. Tinker Bell and Periwinkle agreed.

"Now then, go attend to your duty," the queen told them gently.

Tink and Peri bowed to their rulers and then walked away feeling great relief that the consequences of their actions weren't any more severe. They were certain they would end up separated for a time or forced to do hard labor. "We got off lucky," Tink whispered.

BFFF! BFFF!

BFFF! BFFF! BFFF!

BFFF!

BFFF! BFFF!

The two girls were riddled with a hail of snowballs from behind. They turned to each other, stunned that Queen Clarion and Lord Milori would do such a thing. When they looked back at the two regents neither gave any indication that either had thrown a single snowball.

"Get going," the queen told them with a straight face. "Don't you have something to do?"

Tinker Bell and Periwinkle grinned from ear to ear believing that perhaps the two regents weren't so above it all. As it turned out Spike, one of their victims, had caught them unawares and took a bit of well-earned revenge upon them. Clarion and Milori said or did nothing to Spike as the two wanted Tink and Peri to learn what if felt like to be assaulted in such a way. Once they learned the truth, neither was happy with what Spike did to them.

"I guess we learned our lesson after all," Peri sighed to Tinker Bell.

"Yeah, now I really do feel bad for what we did to everyone."

"Let's go," Periwinkle said, "we have a lot of apologizing to do."

~O~

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Most of her handouts were gone and Vidia decided to make her way back to Claire's booth at the Festival so she could take off this sandwich board which was now hurting her shoulders. Diligently she kept handing out the trifold pamphlets and explaining all the work that her mother's company did. More than a few people wrote their names on a signup sheet that was clipped to the sandwich board she carried.

Vidia was a bit surprised that nearly half the sheet was full of names, though at least one or two persons wrote in joke names like Seymour Butts and Mickey Mouse. The others, however, were all legitimate prospects. Hopefully this will keep the house out of Mr. Gold's hands for another month. She couldn't see Mr. Winter paying for another month no matter how much he was in love with Claire.

Moments later she saw a booth that seemed comically out of place. The booth was for the local ice cream shop Any Given Sundae. Here it was late February, the weather outside was cold, there was snow on the ground and someone was trying to sell ice cream. What was most surprising was that people were actually buying.

Vidia was about to walk passed without another thought when she heard a familiar voice, one that made her stop and take a second look. It can't be.

"What am I saying, after everything I've seen so far anyone from back home could be here," she told herself. Vidia carefully nudged her way closer to the booth and managed to get a good look at the two girls who were manning the booth. It was Spike and Gliss. She couldn't believe it. They were here, too.

Gliss was as perky and energetic as ever. Her boundless energy, goofy smile and twenty something good looks attracted more than her share of male admirers. Vidia just rolled her eyes. "Boys. They're all the same no matter where they live."

Spike was just as she remembered: snarky, a bit lazy and often vexed by everything that Gliss did. Part of Vidia wanted to feel victorious for finding more of her kind here in Storybrooke. But if they were here then they had forgotten who they used to be and were living lives that were not their own. Not a particularly good reason to feel like celebrating.

Vidia returned to Claire's booth as soon as all of her flyers were gone. "Can I take this thing off now? My shoulders hurt."

"Yes, of course, dear," Claire told her. "Just leave it right out in front of the booth."

Vidia noticed that Hartley Winter had joined Claire at the booth, having offered to assist her. He handed the girl some money and told her to go out and enjoy herself a bit. "You've earned it," he said.

She got the feeling they wanted her out of the way so they could be alone for a while longer. That suited her just fine. If they were going to act like they did early this morning, Vidia had no desire to sit and watch.

~O~

THE ENCHANTED FOREST

"I thought you weren't going to make it," Nova the fairy said as Dreamy bounded up the hill.

"I wouldn't miss it." Dreamy and Nova stood atop Firefly Hill. From here they saw the town below. This was a seaside community where boats docked with wares from other lands and fishermen brought in their catch. The sun had just gone down and the crimson colors of the horizon were fading away to a starry filled night.

Dreamy saw all the lights below. "Are those the fireflies?" he asked her.

Nova laughed. "No, those are the lights from the town."

He was impressed. He had never seen anything like this. Suddenly Dreamy got the idea that they should run away together. Dreamy talked about taking a boat and sailing around the world visiting the different kingdoms and countries. Both would be able to do what they had spoken about earlier. Nova only saw the world from high above while Dreamy spent nearly his entire life in the mines surrounded by other dwarfs. The pair had wanted to see and do more than their respective jobs allowed.

They each stared into each other's eyes realizing just how much they shared in common and confessed their love for each other. Seconds later the fireflies came out and lit up the night sky. Both were taken aback by the awe inspiring beauty of the fireflies. The two decided to come back here tomorrow night and begin their new lives together. To begin a journey filled with joyous wonder and discovery.

~O~

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Sydney Glass returned from his "contact at the phone company" with some disturbing news. "David lied," he told Emma flatly. The phone records indicated that he had indeed phoned Kathryn yesterday afternoon just hours before she vanished. It was some very damning evidence, but Emma refused to accept it. Swan put very little faith in anything except her so called superpower. Her ability to tell when someone was lying. She got no sense from David that he was. During her most recent interview of him she determined that people who were trying to cover up something usually had better answers than he had given her. This was why she rejected the report and considered other possibilities.

Sydney, however, thought that Emma was too close to the situation to be objective. An opinion he kept to himself, but was nonetheless rather sure of. Emma was roommates with Mary Margaret Blanchard, the same woman who was in love with David Nolan. Perhaps Sheriff Swan was blind to the evidence before her because of her connections to the very people involved. Until Sheriff Swan could be held accountable, he believed, this investigation was going nowhere. Later that day he confided as much in the person who provided his evidence: Mayor Regina Mills.

I hope everyone is enjoying the story so far. Thanks for reading.