Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head and a
Trouble that can't be named
A tiger's waiting to be tamed
.oOo.
"I'm leaving." I say flatly my gaze leaving Bren as I walk out of the room and back upstairs. Hearing someone behind me, I close and lock my door once I get inside my room and set to work grabbing a duffle bag and putting a change of clothes in there before exiting through the window not in the mood to talk to anybody. I'm one of those people that will run from a problem if necessary. Right now, it's necessary considering the longer I'm in a room with my almost husband the colder it will get. I close the window behind me and walk onto the roof. I make my way to the side of the house and freeze myself a steep ramp that I slid down and melt once my feet are on the ground. I walk out of our yard and am about to step onto the sidewalk when I notice a figure hiding in the bushes. I reach and grab their shoulder pulling them out raising my eyebrows when I see the little girl from Henry's school.
"Honey, stalking is a bad habit to have, especially when you're stalking the sheriff's son." I say crossing my eyes and looking over the ten year old carefully. No idea who she is.
"I'm not stalking," she sputters.
"Then what do you call watching the boy you have a crush on as much as possible even when he doesn't know you are camped outside his house? I myself call it stalking. What are you doing out this late anyways isn't your bed time like seven o'clock?" I ask crossing my arms and leaning against one of those caged trees.
"I'm not three." She says putting her hands on her hips.
"Really?" I am way too amused by this conversation. "Well come on I'll walk you home. Where do you live?"
"James street."
"Then let's get going before your parents figure out you're missing."
"My Dad is dead and my mother works all the time. No one is home to know I'm gone."
"Siblings?" I ask curious.
"My brother Kai went missing when I was three. I barely remember him."
"What happened?"
"I don't know, no one does. One day he was just, gone."
"What do you think happened?" Who are you Dana Snow?
"I think he got lost and is trying to find his way home." She says softly. "You ask a lot of questions."
"Yeah I've been told." We walk the rest of the way in silence. She's an odd kid. I mean Henry is odd too, but he is this weird kind of odd like there is something special he's hiding. Dana is more like an open book. One that forces you to read all of its secrets which turn out to be inconsequential to what's going on but important nonetheless. Let's just say I was right when I labeled her as a goody two shoes. She was definitely training to be a perfectionist and that annoys me more than it should.
"This is it." She says stopping in front of a generous house. "Thanks for walking me home."
"You can thank me by not stalking Henry from outside his window," I say.
"I wasn't stalking," she says blushing.
"The red on your face says otherwise." She sighs shaking her head and walks inside. I turn and start walking to my studio. She's a strange kid.
I sip my hot chocolate and avoid looking at Mary Margaret as she tries to round up volunteers for some fundraiser. It's not like I'd do any work if I did volunteer. I am lazy and nonsocial to most people because people annoy me..
Later in the day I walk towards my mother's office but pause when I see Grumpy smiling. Being the annoying person I am I had to go and call him on it.
"Hey Leroy." I say in a cheerful and foreign voice. Well, foreign to me that is. "Does someone have a crush on a nun?" I say sweetly.
"Oh shut up," he says pushing my shoulder playfully.
"Be careful Leroy, I see a smile. I might start getting used to it," I tease. "See you later." I get along with Grumpy for one solid reason. We both find people to be idiots almost always.
I walk into the office and see Regina printing something out. I shrug not caring enough to take an interest in it and sat down on the couch and waited for her to get off the phone.
"Who was that?" I ask once she gets off the phone.
"Sydney."
"He annoys me." I say because I'm such a happy person.
"Are you going to tell me why you left last night?" She asks in mother mode.
"Do you know who Grey was?" I ask.
"I guessed someone from your past when I saw how attached he was when you were in the hospital. I don't know who he is though, no."
"He's from my past. I was supposed to marry him. I left the clan after I caught him cheating on me. He underestimated me and thought the marriage would never happen so he screwed around. He's been looking for me ever since. I'm guessing he got into our realm a day or two before your curse hit."
"Oh, I thought he and you might've had...happier...memories from the way he looks at you."
"What spoiled it? My face whenever I saw him or, the sudden decrease in temperature whenever we are in the same room?" I ask sarcastically.
"For one who's been around for such a long time you know absolutely nothing about love, and you certainly can't recognize it. Officer Grey loves you, or at least cares for you."
"No he thinks he does, and I'm sorry Regina but that's not your curse, that's my crappy history with my first adopted family. Now I don't know why I came here but I'm leaving now." I say doing just that.
"Wait! Scarlet, listen to me for a moment please." She says grabbing my arm and pulling me back into her office. She let go of me immediately as I sent a wave of ice at her hand where she touched me turning it blue. "Kali please?"
"Don't call me that," I say a threat read easily in between the lines of my statement.
"Scarlet..." She begins but seems at a lost for words.
"If you've got something to say then say it," I fire my words like arrows released from my bow, every one hits their intended target.
"You're my daughter." I blink caught off guard by her words and I notice the cold in her hand disappear, it returning to normal. "I don't want anything to happen to you, and I will make sure Officer Grey stays away from you as much as possible. I don't care who you were in the Enchanted Forest, but here you're my daughter."
"I need to go," I say trying to make an exit. This was awkward. But I'm ice girl and exits are easy for me. Just put a well placed wall of ice somewhere and leave while people try to break through or melt it, neither of which are possible. Well breaking maybe, but melting? Nope. It's my ice and I'm the only one that can make it form and melt.
"Scarlet! Does your mother know you're up here?" I turn and see Leroy, a dwarf coming out of a door leading to the roof I was currently situated on to watch the festival. I'd been here all day avoiding many different people mainly those whose name starts with R or B.
"What do you think?" I ask him with a raised brow.
"I take that as a no."
"What are you doing up here?" I ask but am interrupted by Mary Margaret.
"Leroy! Please don't do it!" She cries coming out of the trap door Leroy had just come out of.
"Do what?" I ask and Mary Margaret looks at me in surprise. Come on! I was in a gray lace top with a highlighter yellow cami and shoes to match the cami. I wasn't exactly inconspicuous. I mean Grumpy noticed me, and out of all the dwarves he was most likely the least observant.
"I'm not going to jump," Leroy says and I look at Mary Margaret like she's crazy.
"You're not?" She asks, the relief in her voice evident.
"No are you crazy?" I ask her. "If he wanted to commit suicide I'd move to a higher building, or at least an unpopulated area. He might survive this jump, and if he does there are people below to rescue him. So move to the other side of the building at least if you change your mind."
"Yeah and I could hit someone. You know how much damage I could do? I'm solidly built." Leroy says patting his belly.
"And there's that," I say standing up.
"Then what are you doing up here?" She asks.
"I'm going to get my moment," he says with determination wielding a pick ax.
"Woah woah! What?"
"You might want to duck," he says raising the ax. I hit the deck and end up pulling Mary Margaret down with me when she didn't move. I stand up after the flash of sparks and see every light in the patch of land in front of town hall out.
"May I inquire as to what that was all about?" I ask.
"I'm selling candles sister." The two of them share a smile and I look at the rest of town seeing many unlit lights.
"I guess you'll need help," I say with a sigh following them downstairs and to the candle booth
"Scarlet can you grab that other box of candles?" Mary Margaret asks over the roar of the crowd.
"Got it," I yell back walking towards the pile of boxes and finding every single one empty. "Never mind, there's none left in storage."
"Then I guess we're sold out," she says a bit too happily. She and Leroy hug and Mary Margaret says something to him about having his moment before yelling at me and telling me to go enjoy the festival. I shrug and merge into the crowd holding on to my candle tightly. I find a bench near the road and pull a sketch book out of my drawstring bag as well as a charcoal pencil. Then I sketch the picture in front of me in black and white. The people holding their candles, their own sources of light. I move to the road and see Emma holding the door of her sheriff's car open for David. I pull out my phone and take a picture of him looking guilty and confused in the back of a police car, more confused than guilty but it doesn't matter to me.
The picture joins the folder including the picture of him in the hospital gown. I label the folder "Use Against Charming" before tucking my phone back in my pocket and leaving the rest of the drawing unfinished, choosing to walk home.
Sorry really short chapter but there isn't many places to add Scarlet in during this episode. Anyways I hope you like it even though it is short and sorry I haven't updated too recently this chapter was an annoying one to write. I can't wait until I reach season three those will be easier but until then c'est la vie.
Special thanks to...
Lily, again I can't promise a big part but Dana Snow is certainly around and crushing on Henry. Thanks for your support :)
The Lady Geek, if we met in real life I think we would get along quite well, as always thank you for being awesome :)
MikaelsonChicka, Thank you very much and I hope you enjoyed the chapter and keep reviewing. Your review brightened my day :)