Storybrooke: years later...Gran's B B Inn
"Ohhhh, Lacey please...more!" said the woman in the shadows which she heard suddenly a disappointed groin from under the sheets.
"It's Kathryn not "Lacey"!?, boy Ruby you sure as hell know how to ruin a moment here" answered a young woman's voice.
As Ruby turn on the nearby lights, to see the sudden look of embarrassment on the face of the short blonde haired woman, who was as naked as she was. As she spoke up it seemed it would be the same conversion again.
"Your still not over Ruby, this "Lacey" and it seemed the trauma of Australia never generally left you did it?" she asked kindly to Ruby's smirk..
"Listen Kat, i told before, we're not married or anything like that. But yes you're right Australia and basically her never left my mind...
You wouldn't there when i had this coma and no one was helping me with who i was but her.
Then i guess things become crap as it always for me from then on..." Ruby said without offending Kathryn as she walked seductively toward her, still quite understanding what the tall waitress had been through in alot of ways. As she smiled warmly...
"You're the one who wanted to go into this relationship with no "strings attached" and that includes not just the awesome sex.
But the fact that have this emotional invisible weight you seemed to think you need to carry. Ruby am not sure there's anyone in this town that could match your ideals including this "Lacey". How the hell do know she wouldn't just shot you down as so many girls to have with you?"
Ruby closed her eyes toward her as she answered "I get Kat, you should do the smart thing and run far away from me unless you want your heart break in two !"
Kathryn just give her a laugh as she nodded her head "..No Ruby, am not like those other girls who somehow frighten away because this noble baggage you 's not as if you're a beast in your previous life or something. Am here for you as just a...friend and nothing more"
Ruby hugged Kathryn tightly as she wandered one more thing
"You going to the big party that being held tonight?"
Kathryn just warmly smiled at her "Of course...i was thinking of going as Peter Pan by the way, any idea what type of fairy tale character you're dress as?"
Ruby already had the perfect character in mind as she smiled as well
"Am going to go tonight as Little Red Riding Hood"
"Welcome to the Red Castle Diner,
My name is Mandy and i'll be your server today" said the bald head African American teenage girl to the waiting customer as Ruby entered her usual work.
With a thick Aussie accent, the woman begin her order "Umm i was hoping to try the Grey Stuff.."
The locals were all a buzz with excitement when come to how the few big events were happening within the resort town
The best news being that a major motion picture would soon filming within Storybrooke, it had a rather interesting title to it as well being the first lesbian based Beauty and the Beast film for Hollywood...
"Her Handsome Hero by the sisters Paige and Susan French...
Oh my god i love the novel and now that it's a movie, like how totally awesome is the whole town being the set for the fictional town of the story, Cocteau!. Can you imagine me Blu getting the part of the fairy that curses the Queen of the Red Forest into being the Big Bad Wolf?" asked a wild haired blonde biker chic to her friend also decked out in a leather jackets and sunglasses.
"Liv, you're not the only one in this town getting a role for the film..maybe, personally i see myself playing the wicked wolf lady Fox!..."
Ruby giggled as she heard the two talked about the film "I was hoping get the part of that Queen of the Red Forest!, so dark and brooding"
Blu and Liv laughed together at Ruby abit but she know they meant no harm with it "AHAHAHAHA am sorry Ruby but you're no Prince Charming really. Plus from i heard you're dreadfully afraid of everything the film wants like..."
"Fencing, i remember the cuts..."
"Or that awful little accident that you had when tried riding Mary's white horse!..."
"And the way you freaked out at the Werewolf themed Haunted House last Halloween in Boston!..."
Ruby couldn't agree more with the bikers,"I was just there for Mary Margret's sake plus...Doctor Whale ..once"
Liv buried her head now "I forget Whale dumped you cold!, yeah that wasn't nice of him but i thought you over that guy?"
She nodded her head "no" toward the both of them, "You know Blu that now means i get to take back the Dead Rising game you borrow from me" she smiled.
Blu was seemed quite sad by that statement "Just when i finished repairing my XBOX 360 too"
Just then through the door come out several girls in red blue cheerleading outfits
"GO STORYBROOKE WARRIORS!" they shouted to the clapping crowd and Ruby know them already..
"Hey there Ashley...
...Merida
...Ayce
...Judy
...um where's Rose and Ming?" she questioned as the team cheerleaders laughed at Ruby with Judy finally answering
"Remember "wolfie" you're hired them both this morning for there first job in like years it seems!..." as the sounds of braking plates rung through out the kitchen.
"What the hell was that?" Ayce asked to Ruby "Trick question actually...seeing that's Ming braking her 98th..."
Another sound of a plate was heard "...make that the 99th plate within my restaurant, just think that girl is actually is our fearless leader!"
"MING, WHAT THE HELL?" rung out a rather angrily female voice from within the kitchen area as Ruby buried her head in her hands" And that's Rose of course being her usual hot head self. Man, these two i thought them working together would solve there issues.."
Ashley laughed at that "Um Ruby, it's not your fault they can't along plus i don't know why they even date..."
Ruby smiled at her friend "Some days i feel like cutting off my own hand it seems!..."
Meanwhile Mandy had finished writing down the woman's order "Wow, i haven't heard of ordering deer meat with the grey stuff but okay.."
In the next booth though were two lay back men were talking quite intensely
"Yeah last night during the full moon, you know Leroy the foreman said he saw it again...
A big green furred "thing", maybe the same thing that supposedly scared the wits out of old lady Mel"
"I don't know Johnson, maybe it was a bear or something you know Mel is melodramatic anyways!" answered the other guy
"Yeah "whose afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" indeed, believe me Atencio there are no monsters running around Storybrooke!..."
Johnson had an odd look on his face "Well young lady, i was hoping with your help then we can capture this real Big Bad Wolf"
"In your dreams guys, see you at the party though..."
As the door rung to revel a tall bald headed woman in a modest business suit "The usual for the Madame Mayor herself"
"Sure thing Dodie, so i guess being my part time business partner for both the inn and the diner are..."
"Bloody terrible, Ruby aside from the great help Kat has been with the money, yet Regina doesn't see the point you're making here!"
Ruby groin at the very mention of Regina "She has try to shut me down, Dodie somehow you and Roger are the ones that keeping her from throwing me out of town!"
Dodie smiled at her friend "Just because am British doesn't mean am your sister or something really stupid like that. But yes Regina feels that this diner doesn't quite realize your dream or that of Gran, who ever that the hell that is..."
She responded quite honestly to her "I don't know who "Gran" is ether Dodie, but she wanted me to have both this diner and the inn but i feel like i known her all my life or at worse she just some rich old bat who just give a woman like me a second chance after coming out of a coma.."
Blu waved at another biker coming into the restaurant, a young beautiful red haired girl with a medical eye patch. As she sit at the booth Blu said calmly to her "Hey G, how's that pink eye infusion going?.."
Liv groin in annoyance "Nice way to hurt her feelings there Blu..."
Ruby from all the ever growing crowd of people within the diner, rested in a back booth, closing her eyes from all the chaos.
Ever since Australia she been a changed woman from before, she really don't know how or why she ended up in that coma. She wanted to know more about her life within the town of Storybrooke, Mane and even then it was proving more questions then answers.
She know she was a nudist and that she was also the sexy tall cheerleader of the Storybrooke Warriors of the local high school. The waitress/manger of the diner whose funds were at risk no thinks to Regina.
She had various friends from all over the town including a teen opera singer named Thomson and a grumpy clock maker named Worth. She don't seemed to know how long she had known those people but they were warming to her in a way that calm her inner "beast" what that was from being unleashed.
Ruby just felt something was...off about this but she don't dare think as to what or how
The town was always home and she realized she comfortable alone. Except for the mysterious "Gran" and the way this woman somehow know to give her the money needed to keep her dream alive but to Ruby she never know what that dream was.
Her friends were something else though
They were the most awesome people around and yet they do seemed stuck like her. They don't voice any reason for it but yet they made too mistakes in there own lives.
She couldn't just wish these problems with her own set on top of them. Being the most beautiful in the squid also meant she had the most problems as well.
Being at first bisexual, no man or woman for that matter could ever stand the sight of her.
Her biggest mistake for each date was the fact that she told them the most horrible thing of all...
She told them the truth about themselves and get a slap in the face for it!, she felt that maybe it was a side effect of the coma.
Yet maybe it was the same reason she told Kat about having "no strings attached" when they first met. She was the girl who for the first time in forever wasn't slapping her in the face or calling her a "jerk". Somehow maybe it was also the law school studies as well that helped.
But she know Kat wasn't a serious "girlfriend" just a friend with alot of amazing sex.
She felt like she was always a strange and funny girl within this town.
Ruby Lucas did wish would be grand to make someone understand that maybe more then they get planned...
"Deep in thought there i see..." a voice said toward her within the booth.
Looking up she saw a tattooed leather jacketed short woman smiling back at her. She had a spiky yellow Mohawk and a nose rung and pierced ears.
Suddenly she realized who it was...
"Lacey...um wow you changed alot since i last saw you in Melbourne all those years ago!"
Lacey just smiled at her widely as she put down her book "Hello again..."David Nolan"...
Ruby's cheerleader friends plus Mandy were all dumbfounded and they do suddenly know who it was as Ashley spoke
"Is that the same Aussie girl who Ruby never shuts up about?"
Mandy just simply answered "Yes, she is and she's also the girl who broke her heart!..."
"She is hot"
"ASHLEY, i thought you were still dating that Thomas guy?" Mandy said annoyed
"Don't care she is still hot and i even feel like dating her"
Meanwhile
Ruby caught of what Lacey was reading
BEAUTY:RETELLING OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Robin McKinley
"So still the bookworm?" she asked toward her as Lacey looked down
"Well am still trying to figure out your life since we..."
"It was a mistake on both our parts that we had to broke up. I was in a very hard place at the time and you had you're nursing career..."
Lacey don't offended by what Ruby was saying "Am actually go start to intern with Doctor Elsa Arendelle at Storybrooke Medical Center. I am moved away from nursing into being a skilled surgeon..."
"WOW am sure your family is happy for you then?"
"Yeah Ruby in case you haven't heard, my two sisters just finishing doing a best selling novel together that will be a movie soon. Which by the way all of us are co-producing
Of course am amazingly happy for them and my mother feels like i need to follow in there footsteps in being the next awesome writer!"
Ruby get the impression that Lacey had no idea how to do that "Your awesome to me even if the scars haven't quite healed. Me as you tell am major screw up even if i can't quite get what i get wrong"
She sounded bitter about it and the girl across from the table wasn't judging her. Lacey held out her hand to hold Ruby's, and it felt warm and comfortable.
"Listen am basically in between jobs as well since the internship isn't till July,
i heard that the head libertarian dead recently and i was hoping to actually get a job there. But if nothing comes from that then..."
Ruby's face lid up as what her former girlfriend was saying "Oh my god, YES, ummm i can start you up on the more easier hours and oh god i have the rest of the guys!"
Leaving the table quickly Ruby run toward the cheerleaders who were all pretty happy as Merida was the first to speak..
"Well aren't you the little hell fire there, missie. So how did go?"
"Oh my god, i felt this goooooood since Tate wanted to ask me out but so much better then that!"
Mandy was the only one not looking happy which surprised Ruby "What?"
"Sorry to burst your bubble boss but she is gone!..."
Looking quickly back to the booth, Mandy was right
Running out to the busy main street of Storybrooke
Ruby looked around for Lacey but that was pretty hard to do given the amount of tourists and locals walking it.
Stepping back disappointed she nearly step on something that caught her eye...
It was man made it seemed and yet beautiful in design, a solid glass shape object in the form of a rose. Having picked it up she begin to smile.
Maybe this a gift from Lacey to her.
On top of a nearby rooftop, a man with long black flowing hair and a green winter coat watched her. Just smiling widely
Things will soon go to plan
FAIRY TALE PARK, STORYBROOKE...the night of the fairy tale costume ball...6:00 pm
Everyone who was anyone of the town had invited the ultimate bash of color, music and...magic
The brand new theme park, first one within the state of Maine would be open to the general public the very next day. Till then the locals would be the ones to see and feel it as dressed up in mail ordered costumes given by an anonymous source.
Ruby had been the only one who still dressed in her red leather jacket and bonnet hat.
She arrived at the entrance to the park just in time to see a huge number of fire works greet her.
It was amazing this was what Mayor Regina had been planning for weeks it seemed. Some times she did come across as a "hero" to the local business such as turning the long abandoned pawn shop into a high profile restaurant. Ruby couldn't deny the mayor's handy work when it come to some things but she was not the one throwing the party here..
"YOU FINALLY COME!" out of the crowd dressed as Disney's Snow White was Mary Margret.
The town's former 6th grade school teacher turned number one pop star in America. She had still been shorter then Ruby though but they felt like they know each other since childhood. She was also one of the hand full of people who visited her in Australia after waking up. Ruby felt like she could tell Mary anything at any time when texting her during her gigs including tours. She don't feel with Mary the same angrily feelings she get when ever Regina was around.
"And you're not dressed as a fairy tale character!?" Mary rather surprised at Ruby
"Well somehow through sheer stupidity, my Red Riding Hood outfit get lost and so i come here as myself!"
Mary nodded her head wildly "Well then i have just the perfect replacement for that..."
Hours later in the backstage women's locker room area
"I WILL LOOK TERRIBLE!" Ruby shouted at Mary from within the room as she just laughed "Listen i can't find anything in women's in your size Rubs. Besides you always said you wanted to be Prince Charming!.."
Uncovering the curtain, Ruby stepped out in a blue men's uniform and her long hair tied into a bow. "Well?.."
Mary's jaw dropped, she was this good as she spoke up happily again "Oh i forget..you have to wear these!"
She pulled out from a old shoe box a pair of beautiful plastic see through dance shoes "I thought it would complete the outfit"
Ms Blanchard your on in five minutes
"THANK YOU CLAUDE...um wish me luck and please Ruby believe me when i say you look beautiful!.."
Ruby had waved her friend goodbye and as she turned around...
To see Lacey in the most stunning yellow ball gown dress ever, it matched the yellow Mohawk on her head. She had taken to wearing these elegant white gloves
"You...look beautiful, Lacey"
Smiling she reply "And you look handsome Ruby...you know i think it wasn't going to go this party at first but then i saw what was left at my doorstep.
And i thought "why the hell not" and here am with you..."
The two women grabbed a hold of each other's arms as they want toward the center staging area of the massive park
"HELLO STORYBROOKE...
I am of course Mary Margret Blanchard, and i welcome you all to my ultimate fairy tale party within the newest most advance theme park in the world.
This is all to soon welcome another major star who will soon coming to our town...
the one, the only Emma Swan!"
Over the stage was a projection of a long haired blonde woman smiling in her red leather jacket, Ruby had all of her movies and yet she was tearing up for some reason. Lacey looked a bit confused by this as she talked "Do you know this woman?"
"...No i never seen her before in my entire life"
As Mary continued "She is playing the part of the Queen of the Red Forest whose to become a fearsome werewolf until the love another woman can break the spell.
The beauty who the Queen loves is a local favorite Lilly Audley. Am sure people will be excited to know she is really into this "monster hunter" role from the novel. And i am going to cameo in it but due to my contract i couldn't you what my part is sadly..."
"Oh we love Mary!" shouted a random towns person in costume
"Well thank you for that but now before we really get this party started, let my co host do the honors of telling you the rest of tonight's fun...
I am proud to welcome the handsome...the awesome...the guyliner...Rock Star Killan Jones!"
The spot light shined on a tall handsome man dressed in the red pirate outfit of Disney's Captain Hook as he swing on to the stage.
"Thank you Mary, and i hope people are ready for a series of duets between us set to Disney songs...Now what sing will be first?"
Jones suddenly saw Mary's face brought up "I have the perfect song...ARCHIE, the projection please..."
As clips of DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST played as Jones and Mary begin there duet...
Tale as old as time
True as it could be
Barely even friends
Then somebody bends
Unexpectedly
Small to say the least
Both a little scared
"Dance with me" Lacey said happily to Ruby as they take center of the outer area as the dancers around moved
Neither one prepared
Beauty and the Beast
"Let's stop this" Ruby looking into Lacey's eyes said as she twirled around Lacey as Lacey smiled "..Yes let's"
Ever just the same
Ever a surprise
Ever as Before
Ever just as sure
As the sun will rise
An Asian teenage girl dressed up in an green army outfit seemed left out of the dance until meeting another teenage girl, this one dress in a purple dress and golden crown. "I know you.." she said simply to the smiling teenager as she questioned "How?". "...Once upon a dream"
Tale as old as time
Tune as old as song
Bittersweet and strange
Finding you can change
Learning you were wrong
Certain as the sun
Rising in the east
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast
Ruby and Lacey were looking at each other as all the dancers stopped
Tale as old as time
Song as old as rhyme
Beauty and the Beast
There lips were closed to each other as Ruby gasped suddenly "I can't!..."
Running from the center area of the park and away from Lacey, she accidentally knock her one plastic shoe off
Mary witness this sadly as she can't just ignore but with everyone around her, she had too. "Well then how about the next number to Wish Upon A Star.."
Ruby run to the top a small dirt hill in the middle of the park, crying endlessly. She had majorly ruin her chance to reconnect with Lacey on any level. She still saw herself as a major screw up, the kind who make a fool in front of people. The kind who wouldn't make for a "happy ending"...
"Umm excuse me miss, am trying to found who this shoe belongs to!" Lacey shouted happily
It still don't stop Ruby from crying more as she grimly answered "Why did you come back Lacey?"
"I come back to for a career but that's never been a enough for you, hasn't it Ruby?.
You can't just walk out of my life just when we were feeling something here...
Something i would LOVE to have again, you left Melbourne because both of us were really feeling it!..."
"IT WASN'T JUST ABOUT YOU LACEY...IT WAS ME!. Every time i been with a woman it ends up as SHIT!"
Lacey don't believe that "I was different though for you Ruby. When you had gotten out of that coma you thought this town and everyone in it forget you..
Turns out the whole entire town was waiting for you to get better including Mary.
You couldn't just think i was some unsympathetic bitch because what happened, it had NOTHING to do with your coma.
I don't know why or when you thought to become this way...again"
Lacey's speech had made Ruby turned toward her "You know afterwards, i felt like locking my heart against people like you.
Because each and every time i found someone to share it, they ending up leaving me or they have no time for what the hell they do to me..."
Lacey closed her eyes "...And they make you feel like you want to rip out your heart and then crush it into little pieces that way you wouldn't get hurt."
Ruby had a surprised look through all the tears "How did you know that?" as Lacey come up close to her
"Because you said something like that to me in Melbourne, when we were dating. I try my hardest not to think of what this relationship is with you.
You can't make the reason being that...
We're poison together, that everything GOOD or NOBLE about you is a lie because that means i build myself up for nothing. Your like this dark and brooding animal underneath the pretty face but no one wants to see that because it would make people scared of you.."
There faces met closer again as she went on as Ruby give a curious look "Aren't afraid...of what i maybe underneath?"
Lacey smirked " Am not afraid of nothing, you want me to walk out of this relationship.
Then fine, i'll leave and i promise to never return to break that locked heart of yours ever again...just say the word"
She begin to walk away from Ruby as she wiped her tears, she was as red as her namesake. "Lacey...wait"
Lacey turned to see Ruby with a big stupid grin on her face "What"
Ruby giggled now as she answered "You know your really rather cute when you rant"
As she take the short woman into her arms and kissed passionately on the lips, they were working things quite well.
A short mile away overlooking the entire town, a single glass rose was growing brightly as the full moon shined romantic over the famous resort town
Just then the neon sign that said
WELCOME TO STORYBROOKE
blow a fuse in the R and E as it now read
WELCOME TO STORYBOOK
THE END
ONCE:DRAGON SLEEP