I apoliogize...this chapter is not the best.
Also, there was some confusion about M&M's secret. It WAS there in the last chapter, and it will be elaborated on in future stanzas...trust me.
This was written April 2012
It has now become crystal clear that this story will, from here on be almost exclusively AU. I keep hoping that the producers and the network will see things in the way some of us think LOGICALLY they should go. Maybe they're afraid of backlash, I don't know. I'm just hoping that, being the mad scientists that gave us LOST, maybe they can prove us wrong. Gods, I hope so.
I have added two original characters. Those one is based on someone I know, the characters are mine. Everything else is owned by Disney/ABC.
I'm going to TRY to get our heroes to Boston. There shall be dragon slaying, also some fluff, but as you read, there's more stuff ahead. The true villains have much bigger fish to fry. (did I just spoil something).
And there will be a few spoilers from the show, but if you haven't seen the series by now...sorry, can't help you.
And...I REALLY need your comments...on this site! I need to know how I am doing...really. Is the story going in the right direction? Am I staying true to the characters on the show (probably not)? Ideas? Please follow and comment. At least I won't feel alone here.
Enjoy.
Oh...one last thing. UNOS is a real organization. It is the United Network of Organ Sharing, a private, non-profit organization that manages the nation's organ transplant system under contract with the federal government. Google UNOS for more info.
Day 8 6:25am/Room 1012 Copley Plaza, Boston MA.
The sun was barely up peeking through the window of the kitchen in the hotel suite. Holly Bailey was attempting to wake up with not much luck. She was praying the pot of hotel-provided coffee would aid in that effort. But it's not easy keeping your energy up when only a quarter of your heart is working.
A childhood defect had slowly eaten away at heart tissue, and now she is in Boston waiting for a new heart. The cardiologist at Mass General had gotten her up to the top of the list for donors at UNOS. Her business and good investments made sure that it was all financially taken care of...the surgery AND the stay at the Copley. And she had company: her 12 year old niece Madison, who she sometimes calls Madison or "the little human," though at about 5'2" "little" would not be accurate. Maddie's hair is as dark as Holly's is gold, and almost as long and curly. And, at just about 7am and exiting sleep, almost as surly.
"So when's breakfast?" Maddie was expert at getting to the point.
"The buffet isn't open until 7. Let me get some coffee in me and we'll go downstairs. Besides this day's going to be busy," remarked Holly. This was a morning for shopping and an afternoon to see the doctor at Mass General. The radio was in the background when the buzzer sounded that the coffee was ready. Holly poured a cup of joe and she was pouring in the complimentary CoffeeMate that was counter when the next story came up and somehow got her attention...
"WBZ NewsRadio 1080 Time now 6:52. Outward Bound authorities are still puzzled by what some have reported to be strange screeching sound emanating from the south part of Thompson Island of the Boston Coast. Hikers first noticed the sounds a few days ago, but officials say they have found nothing that could cause the sounds. Some student on shore at UMass have also noticed the sounds, but, so far nothing concrete to to report. WBZ NewsRadio 1080 Time now 6:53...traffic..."
The morning news is starting to sound like Coast to Coast AM, Holly thought. She was full of imagination, and she had the online fiction to prove it, so it would not have been surprising for her to start seeing images of monsters or dragons parading down the streets. But that emptied that thought from her head. All she wanted to do was get the day done, come home with Maddie for dinner, the watch season 4 of Spin City on the local classic movie subchannel. It wasn't the show she was interested in...it stopped being good when Michael J Fox left and was replaced Charlie Sheen. The the girl who played the receptionist, Angie...ahhh, she could turn a straight girl gay (and since Holly was bi, anyway, it would not take that much turning).
Anyway, a date with a disembodied TV character was probably the most Holly could hope for. After all nothing exciting ever happened in her life...save for that day in New York...
90 minutes earlier. Regina and Emma's bedroom.
Actually Regina still was having trouble saying "bedroom" for "bedchamber."
Yeah, we danced on tabletops
And we took too many shots
Think we kissed but I forgot
Last Friday night
Yeah, we maxed our credit cards
And got kicked out of the bar
So we hit the boule...
Katy Perry as a ringtone served served two purposes for Emma Swan: She loved Katy's music, and at appropriate times it served to drive Regina up the wall. Thankfully, Regina was still snoozing next to Emma when the phone went off. At almost half past five. And still dark.
That particular tone was set when she connected her phone number to the local alarm system that alerted the Sheriff if there was a break in. With all the things on her plate, she needs someone breaking in a house for a big screen.
She picks the phone up and hears the robotic message...
"POSSIBLE...BREAK..IN...AT...GOLD...PAWN...SHOP...EVENT...IN...PROGRESS"
Emma hits the red button and immediately dials Ruby to disturb her sleep for back up. Then she flies out of the Mills bed and hurriedly throws clothes on. Regina is awakened.
"Hey Princess, what's up...as in (yawwwwwwwn) why the hell are you up?"
"Something's up at Gold's shop. It's probably nothing, but Rube's backing me up."
"Hey..." Regina's worry was evident in her face. Even when she wanted Emma gone, she never wanted any true harm to come to her. And now that they're thisclose to being married, she worries every time Emma goes out. "Come back...ok?"
Throwing on just a holster, jeans, tee and her trusty red leather jacket, Emma comes over to the bed and kisses her Evil Queen. "For you and Henry, I'll always come back."
10 minutes later, outside of Gold's Pawn Shop
Emma's VW was parked outside of the shop. Ruby almost shocked Emma when the tall redhead almost ran into her. The Sheriff knew that Ruby had been working on controlling her lycanthropic tendencies, so she could turn wolf almost at will, though she still needed a silver dart to slow her enough for someone to get that red shawl over her so she could turn back. But Emma also knew that Ruby's heightened senses and enhanced tracking skills were essentials.
However, no enhanced skills were needed to hear the noises coming from the store. It sounded like two or three people rummaging through the shop. And Rumplestiltskin or not, Mr. Gold was still a member of the town and even he did not deserve to be robbed.
With a sharp "stand back" command to Ruby, the Sheriff kicked the door, and sure enough, two hulking black-clad figures were seemingly in the middle of molesting a young blond woman. What the woman was doing in Gold's shop would be dealt with later..,now Emma had to protect her.
Both men were hooded, black-clad, both about 6 foot-something, Emma grabbed one man, Ruby the other, and with skills acquired from many heated discussions on world events in many of the seedier dives in the country and nocturnals romps through the outskirts of Storybrooke respectively, the women proceed to lay le smackdown on the unwitting thugs. Except,..when fists tried to connect to jaws, the jaws...and the bodies they were attached to...vaporized into thin air.
In a town where almost anything can happen, vaporizing thugs still had one scratching one's heads. Still there was the butchering young blonde woman cowered in a corner with boxes surrounding her to attend to.
The woman's eyes were filled with fear. When Emma looked closely, she saw something else...
"She's blind, Rubes.. ."
30 minutes later, Office of the Sheriff
Mayor Mills was not a happy camper. Getting an urgent phone call from her sheriff at Insane'O'Clock in the morning, having to leave breakfast instructions to Henry before bolting out the door, into the Benz and driving the few block to City Hall, and storming into the office in true Evil Queen style.
It made the Sheriff almost nostalgic.
"Sheriff SWAN...there had better be a real good explanation for getting me up at this God-awful in the morning, or so help me..."
Emma stood in front of the windowed office, and behind her was a good shot of the two women inside. Both women Regina recognized. One was Ruby. The other...the blonde wrapped in a heavy blanket...almost made the mayor blanch white. Regina took Emma aside.
"The woman..." Regina was asking.
"The name she gave us was Ginger. No last name. She was in Gold's store this morning...she probably was a caretaker...two men were trying to attack her. We grabbed them and they...poofed.."
"Poofed...?"
"Yeah...like you poofed other day when were..rehearsing for Boston. Dad threw a brick at you and you went...poof."
Regina chuckled slightly and said something about Charming never really being able to hit a barn at close range...then she got serious when Emma said, "I think she's the broadcaster."
"The one who's been putting the dreams and messages in our heads?" Emma nodded.
Regina paused, then.. "Remember Nicholas and Ava...those two kids you tried to find a parent for?" Emma said yes, and Regina continued. "In the realm...their names were Hansel and Gretel."
By now, Emma was used to almost everyone in Storybrooke having a Fairytale alter ego, so she was not surprised, only replying with a matter-of-fact "So?"
Regina: "One question..." Nodding to the seated Ginger. "is that woman...blind."
Emma: "Pretty much. I don't think she's faking it."
Another heavy sigh. "Why I tried to get them out of Storybrooke was not because of our ongoing civil war. I knew who they were because someone stole my...err..special apple recipe.
Emma...almost sarcastically: "you mean THAT apple.."
Regina nodded and continued: "make a long story short, she's that woman."
"So that would make her..." Emma stopped . Shivers ran up and down her body as she realized who the woman sipping hot chocolate in her office was.
"The blind witch." Emma remembered the picture in Henry's story book. The fireplace with a plethora of bones in front. Children's bones.
"And this is the person who is showing us how to save Boston?"
"Never a dull moment, Swan..."
TO BE CONTINUED