Hello everyone! I hope you all like this chapter/ storyline as much as I do! The timeline will be changed a bit; Elsa will just spend a bit more time in the urn and Kristof and Anna will be in the trunk longer as well. This is a very long chapter, my longest so far!
Guest: I'm so happy you like this story! I try hard to fit these characters in the already made story!
grapejuice101: im soooooo happy I updated as well! :) Hope you like the chapter!
fangirl22: There's definitely more Deter in this chapter, and we get to see them in a "honeymoon phase". Also, we get to see Dorothy struggling to control her magic after she initially taps into it, which I'm excited to write!
maddQueen: WE FINALLY GET A MOMENT! haha I've been trying to write more of those scenes in a way that isn't forced. I don't want to push them together for the sake of them being together. Instead, now we're going to see Pan being there for her and supporting her as a friend rather than a love interest. It was totally cheesy, but it was definitely needed to tide you all over ;)
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Neverland, a long time ago
Dorothy stood in the middle of the clearing, trying to focus on her power. With Peter's encouragement, she tried to tap into whatever happened when she kissed Peter. The pair had decided they wanted to keep what happened between them a secret-for now. It was only a matter of time before the Lost Boys found out.
So, here she was-alone- and failing to do anything at all. The girl suddenly knew everything and nothing when it came to the worlds of magic, it was about what you feel. However, she had no grasp on any one emotion she was feeling. Dorothy was nervous, excited, scared, happy, sad, etc. There were so many emotions running rampant in her mind that she didn't see Peter pop up behind her and lounge against a tree.
"Having trouble?" He questioned the girl, who jumped up. Because Peter frightened her, a beam of white light shot out of her hands and exploded the tree next to Pan. Dorothy winced at that and stared at her clenched fists, surprised at the power emerging from them. The magical boy took a step closer to her, concern etching his features, prompting the sorceress to take a step back.
"Don't come closer; I don't want to hurt you. I'm trying really hard not to which is making this thing come out of my hands which sounds really convoluted now when I think about it but I'm starting to ramble so I'm just gonna take a break now." The girl ranted, pacing the forest floor. Peter heeded her warning and chose to keep his distance, but he wouldn't leave her alone to jump to conclusions.
Dorothy needed a distraction from all of this, she needed to find her purpose. With that thought, Peter spoke, "How would you like to go on a little vacation?" Dorothy quirked an eyebrow and started to laugh a bit, but then she realized the green boy was actually serious. "A vacation to where exactly?" Pan hesitated for a moment before back tracking, "Well, vacation seems kind of like an exaggeration...how about a job that requires you to not be here."
Storybrooke
Elsa, Emma, and Dorothy went through the city records in order to look for anything related to either Anna or the Snow Queen. "While we're reading files, my sister is out there somewhere. We have to confront this Snow Queen." Elsa spoke, and Dorothy muttered, "We gotta find her first."
"And also, Elsa, we have to be careful that woman is tricky and she seems to know everything about the three of us somehow, and none of us know her. Something tells me that is not an accident. I'm good with names and faces, it's my job. She took my memories, alright." Emma told the girls, and Dorothy couldn't help but wonder why.
Hook then popped in with some paper work while looking lovingly at Emma. The man smiled at his daughter who refused to look at him, their last encounter still at the forefront of both their minds. Dorothy felt alone now more than ever, and that was saying something. And Killian...well, he just wanted to finally get his happy ending with his daughter AND Emma.
"Oi! Where's me dinner?" The Knave yelled, and Dorothy dropped the box she was holding and charged up to the cell. The prisoner saw the look in her eyes and backed away from the bars, which was good judgement on his part. The teenager yelled back at him, "Oi! Shut up!" Hook and Emma quirked smiles at that while the blonde handed the criminal water and a bitten pop tart.
Hook then excused himself to go take Henry sailing, and Dorothy mumbled to herself, not knowing Elsa could hear her, "He got a new kid fast." Elsa knew that Dorothy never felt worthy enough to get a happy ending. She never had a chance to, always fighting the next villain or saving the town. She deserved a break.
Arendelle
The shadow dropped Dorothy off in the land of Arendelle, just like Peter said. However, the boy failed to mention the fact that it was freezing cold and the forest was covered in snow. So, shaking from the bitter cold, Dorothy looked around to see smoke wafting through the air in the distance. That meant heat and warmth and not freezing her butt off. The girl secured the satchel with the urn in it around herself and began the trek. She needed to find a safe cave in the North Mountain.
After traveling down a snowy hill and over a large icy river, Dorothy finally reached a log cabin. The sign read 'Wandering Oaken's Trading Post and Sauna'. The girl internally oohed and awed at the sauna part, she really was frozen solid. Dorothy hurried up the steps and opened the wooden door, and she immediately greeted by a cheerful man, "Yoohoo, big summer blowout! Half off clogs, swimming suits, and a sun balm of my own invention. Ya?"
Dorothy was awestruck for a moment, this guy was trying to make her buy summer apparel? She shook herself from this thought and politely declined, "No thank you, but I would like to know where I could find the winter clothing...because there's snow...on the ground...everywhere, actually." The man pointed to his "winter department" which was in the back of the store. All he had was rope, 2 pairs of boots, 2 dresses and cloaks, and an axe.
As the brunette went to collect her purchases, another young woman waddled through the door. She too was not dressed for the extreme weather, wearing a beautiful summer dress. The girl, who looked to be the same age as Dorothy, also wondered where the winter stock was after being surprised by Oaken at the register. She picked up the remaining clothes and walked to where Dorothy stood.
"Have you two seen a young woman, the Queen perhaps, passing through here?" The auburn head "casually" asked the two, but she was shot down by Oaken.
"The only people crazy enough to be running around in this storm are you two girls, dear." Oaken responded as the girl put her purchases up next to Dorothy's. In that moment, the bell chimed, signalling that another person was entering the Trading Post.
A burly blonde man stomped in, covered in snow. Oaken then performed his traditional greeting as the man stood in front of the auburn haired girl. She stood next to Dorothy awkwardly as she tried a bit too hard to act casual as the man rudely made his way about the shop.
Oaken tried to make conversation, like any businessman would, and he asked where the man was coming from. "The North Mountain." He simply stated in response, making both of the girls' interests peak. They needed to get to the North Mountain, and this man seemed to be the key.
Dorothy zoned out of the blonde and Oaken's conversation until the girl interjected, "Just tell me one thing about the North Mountain. Did it seem...magical?" The man snapped at Anna, causing Dorothy to come to her aid, "Back off, Blondie. She was just asking a question!"
The girl smiled at Dorothy's defense, and Blondie drifted his gaze to the brunette, "Well, she's getting in my way while I deal with this crook, here."
While Blondie was getting thrown out of the store, the auburn haired girl turned to Dorothy. She stuck her hand out to introduce herself, "Thanks for that. I'm Anna, by the way, and you are?" The girl spoke, and Dorothy shook her hand and replied, "Dorothy, Dorothy Gale."
Oaken strolled happily back into his shop while the girls shook hands and asked if the clothes were all for Anna, and she hummed before replying, "No, I would like to buy Dorothy's purchases, the rope, the axe, and the carrots."
The brunette spluttered how Anna didn't have to do that, but the girl wouldn't have it. "My way of thanking you." After changing into warmed clothes, the girls joined back up. "So, where are you headed off to?" Dorothy questioned the girl, and Anna quickly exclaimed, "The North Mountain. I'm looking for my sister, but I have no idea where to go. What about you?"
"I'm also headed up to the North Mountain, and I have an idea of what to do. I mean, if you want to go together and-" Dorothy was cut off by Anna excitedly yelling, "Of course! I mean, yes if that's what you want." The brunette smiled at the girl's tone and set off to find Blondie.
Storybrooke
Elsa sat in Emma's yellow Bug, waiting for the blonde to return from Regina's vault. Dorothy couldn't take the field trip out to the cemetery with them, for she had a lesson with Rumpelstiltskin. Not one person agreed with that particular pairing, except for Belle. Regina had tried to persuade Dorothy to let the Evil Queen teach her magic if she needed to control it, but the teenager refused.
Apparently, she actually liked Rumple. Dorothy told Elsa that when Mr. Gold was with her, she felt wanted-coveted, even. He was like the father she always wanted.
Arendelle
Elsa was pulled from her thoughts as she heard a voice call out her name from the fog. Anna. "Elsa, Elsa help me! Elsa!" The blonde got out of the car and listened to the voice; it was definitely Anna. And she was going to get her sister back no matter what it took, just like Anna did for her.
Blondie played on his guitar, and when he stopped, Anna and Dorothy entered the barn. Anna commented in how it was a nice duet, and the man and his reindeer both shot up from their positions and relaxed. Blondie asked what the two of them wanted, and Anna meekly told him she wanted him to take them up the North Mountain.
"I don't take people places." Blondie tried to lay back on the hay and attempt to fall asleep, but his comment lit a fire in Dorothy. She had dealt with lazy and inconsiderate males before, she was the only girl with the Lost Boys, and she refused to let this man-child push she and Anna around.
"Let me rephrase that." The brunette threw the purchases onto Blondie's lap, earning a surprised look and an exasperated one from the two people in the room. Dorothy continued and demanded, "Take us up the North Mountain." Anna added a please to the statement as the man took out the awe and the rope from the sack.
Anna tried to knock some sense into him, "Look, I know how to stop this winter." The man sighed and seemed to give in until he negotiated, "We leave at dawn, and you forgot the carrots for Sven."
At that comment, Anna and Dorothy glimpsed at each other, and Anna nodded at the girl. This time, Dorothy threw the carrots at Blondie's face. Anna was about to utter an apology, but with a look from the brunette girl, Anna changed her course, "We leave now, right now."
Dorothy smiled at Anna's posture, the auburn head trying to copy the brunette. As Dorothy sauntered out of the barn, Anna followed her and let out a breath she didn't know she held.
Storybrooke
Emma and Regina trekked through the forest to capture the Snow Queen, and Emma kept asking questions about magic. "Sorry I'm not Dorothy. I don't have a bunch of talented sorcerers at my disposal to choose from. I'm learning as I go." Regina turned to looked at Emma for a moment, angry at what she said about Dorothy. Emma urged the woman to say what she needed to, she could see the murderous look on her face.
"You just seem to think you know everything about Dorothy's life. The only reason she has both Rumple and I willing to teach her is because she genuinely cares about her craft. She's dedicated and smart and everything that Rumple and I are not. She took the Wicked Witch's heart from her chest and didn't crush it. She has looked into darkness and chose the path of good. You and your Charmings seem to think she's some monster even though she's the exact opposite." Regina ranted, earning newfound respect from Emma.
The truth was that Emma pushed Killian to talk to his daughter. Emma knew that being an orphan and feeling alone was something you can't just come back from. It took a village to fix that part of yourself. The savior knew the feeling all too well, and she didn't want that for the girl she called her daughter. In her eyes, Dorothy was her daughter now, and she wanted to get back into her good graces. No matter what.
"I think it's admirable the way you took Dorothy in like that. You understand her and defend her like she's your own kid." Emma complimented the queen, which also enraged her. At Regina's attitude, Emma spoke, "Why are you doing that? I'm just trying to give you credit; I'm just trying to be nice."
"So, what now? Gonna compliment my outfits? Braid my hair? Call Robin Hood and hang up? You're trying to win me over so I can assuage your guilt for what you did, but I won't. Intentionally or not, you brought Marian back, you ruined my life. You suck up all of Hook's time and take him away from his DAUGHTER who he hasn't been with for a whole year! And there is no coming back from that because I know you think you didn't mean to, but you hurt someone. Do what I do...learn to live with it."
Arendelle
Anna put her feet up on the sled, attempting to act cool. However, Kristoff-Dorothy finally learned his name- pushed her boots off and polished the lacquer...with his spit. "Seriously, were you raised in a barn?" The burly man interrogated.
The auburn head told the trio she was raised in a castle, and the two people on both sides of her turned to Dorothy for her answer, "I was raised in a foster home, then an orphange, then another foster home, then another orphanage, and then...it's complicated."
Kristoff shrugged, brushing off her answer as Anna stared sympathetically at Dorothy. The two shared common ground, apparently. They both felt alone during their childhood. Pretty morbid stuff.
Blondie then changed the subject toward Anna, asking her about her sister. As Anna tried to explain her story, Kristoff and Dorothy were shocked by a tiny little detail. "You got engaged to someone you met that day?" The man pointed out, and Anna kept going.
Dorothy, however, would not let her get off that easily, "Hang on, you mean to tell me you got engaged to someone you just met that day? What are you? 16? 17?" Anna nodded and started to get aggravated, "Yes, pay attention."
"Didn't your parents ever warn you about strangers?" Kristoff added to the conversation, and Dorothy pointed at him in agreement. Anna pushed herself away from the two of them when she told them her parents did, indeed, teach her that. She then tried to defend Hans, her fiance.
Kristoff started asking questions about him to which Anna was giving ridiculous answers to. The blond questioned the Prince's last name, favorite food, best friend, and foot size. The pair then fought over if he picks his nose and eats it, to which Dorothy commented, "This is the worst rapid fire question ever."
Anna then argued that she and Hans had a connection bound by "True Love", and Dorothy spoke, "Doesn't sound like true love to me." The princess challenged the two, calling them "True Love experts", unknowing that Dorothy, in fact, was. Kristoff apparently befriended some experts.
The girl ranted on and on about the "love experts" as Kristoff scoured the woods for something. Dorothy stayed quiet, trusting that Blondie knew what he was doing, but Anna had to be silenced by Kristoff.
Blondie took the lantern to light his line of sight and noticed pairs of glowing eyes in the distance-wolves. Sven took off, pulling the sleigh faster and faster. Anna wanted to help and kept arguing with Kristoff as he fought the wolves.
Dorothy held onto the torch as Anna picked up the guitar and swing, hitting a wolf. It all seemed okay for a moment until Kristoff was pulled back by a wolf. Dorothy called out, "Blondie!" The man held onto the rope that got untangled as he got pulled along, and he yelled back, "It's Kristoff!"
Anna then turned to Dorothy and started to freak out, "What do we do?" The magical girl looked around the sleigh for a moment before spotting a sleeping bag. She told Anna, "Start to pull him up! Grab the rope!"
The auburn head did as instructed, and Dorothy yelled "duck" before torching the sleeping bag and throwing it at the wolves approaching Kristoff. The man complained about how she almost set him on fire, and Anna defended her new friend, "But she didn't!"
The trio gasped as they turned their heads forward and saw an upcoming cliff. Anna told Sven to get ready and jump, causing Kristoff to snap at her and throw Anna onto the reindeer. "Hey! Don't talk to her like that!" Dorothy yelled at the man, and the two held onto the sleigh as Kristoff cut the rope and the reindeer jumped.
The sleigh seemed to float into air, and the second it started to drop in the slightest, Dorothy took Kristoff's hand, clutched onto her bag with the urn, and leaped onto the snowy mountain. The pair sighed in relief for a moment until they started to slip. Thankfully, Anna thought on her feet and threw the axe, attached to the rope, at them to grab onto.
Safe and pulled to safety, the trio and the reindeer continued on their journey to the North Mountain. Walking into a meadow that had become winterized due to Elsa's powers, Anna couldn't help but notice how beautiful winter could be. Suddenly, fast mumbling could be heard, confusing the group. No one had been talking. Nothing had seemed out of place, except for the snowman currently in between them. But it hadn't been there before.
"Am I right?" The snowman started talking, and Anna instinctively kicked the head off the thing. Dorothy screamed "Holy mother of god!" while Kristoff and Anna threw the head back and forth to each other, neither wanting to hold it.
Anna tossed the head at the body, everything becoming a bit jumbled until she fixed it. The snowman was almost perfect, it just needed a nose. Anna smashed the carrot into the head of the snowman twice in order to get the nose quite right but she got it eventually.
The white ball of snow introduced himself as Olaf, and Anna immediately recognized him. She and Elsa built him as kids. Anna then spoke, "I'm Anna and this is Dorothy." The funky looking donkey was Sven and the reindeer- also Sven.
Anna asked if Elsa built him, and Dorothy added, "Do you know where she is? Do you think you could show us the way?" Kristoff explained that they needed her to bring back summer, and Olaf naively wished for summer as well.
Kristoff and Dorothy stared at each other with knowing looks, neither wanting to explain what happened to snow in the summer time. The blonde muttered his thought, and Anna warned, "Don't you dare." The man turned to Dorothy once Anna, Olaf, and Sven trotted away, "Someone's gotta tell him."
As the group made their way up the mountain, Kristoff wondered how Anna was going to get her sister to thaw the ice encompassing Arendelle. To Dorothy's dismay, Anna had no other plan but to have a chat with her sister.
Olaf babbled about how Elsa was probably a nice, gentle, warm person, and Dorothy felt a need to defend the young woman she knew seemingly nothing about. But, from what she heard about Elsa, she could already relate to her.
"Maybe you shouldn't be the one to go in, Anna. I know you love her and that's your sister, but she doesn't want to hurt you. You said she was scared, and her powers are probably tied to her emotions. What if she hurts you because she's trying so hard not to?" Dorothy tried to appeal to Anna.
Anna simply stated, "I'm not scared of her, Dorothy. I'll be fine." Kristoff, however, commented, "That makes no sense."
Dorothy seemed to underestimate Anna's determination to see her sister. The girl traveled all this way, jumped off cliffs, and attempted to climb a mountain just to talk with her. The girl watched as the princess climbed onto the icy mountain side.
Kristoff interjected his thoughts throughout the experience, "You're gonna kill yourself. I wouldn't put my foot there. Or there. Does Elsa even want to see you?" Dorothy pointed out then, "You know, most people who disappear into the mountains just want to be alone."
"Nobody wants to be alone, except maybe the two of you. I mean, Kristoff, you run an ice business by yourself, and, Dorothy, you traveled to the North Mountain to...what are you doing here again?" Anna started to pant and Dorothy ignored her question.
Olaf then called out for Dorothy and informed them there was a staircase to exactly where they needed to go. Perfect. The staircase was like nothing they ever saw; it was made of flawless ice.
Anna stared at the doors for a moment before knocking, the doors opening automatically. Dorothy volunteered to stay outside to give the sisters some space while the boys complained about not going in. They counted to 60 seconds before Olaf rushed in.
After a few more minutes, Dorothy and Kristoff walked into the ice palace to look for Anna. As they marveled at the amazing creation, a flurry started in the palace. Taking this as a bad sign, Dorothy ran up the large staircase and rushed toward the room she envisioned in her mind. Strangely enough, she knew where everything was located in the ice palace.
Dorothy ran into the room but she was too late. Anna was struck by Elsa's powers.
Storybrooke
Sidney kept trying to get the Snow Queen to enslave him, which Pan actually thought was hilarious. Peter had yet to be needed by the Snow Queen, but he knew that finishing his deal with her was going to be deadly. "It wasn't you that I wanted, Sidney. It was the mirror itself. You more than anyone should understand a mirror's importance. Mirrors reflect our mood, our desire, our essence. They are a receptacle for some tiny fraction of our soul."
"What I am planning is to get what has been denied to me for too long." Once Sidney awkwardly rushed out of the Queen's hideout, Peter walked out of the shadows to join her. He watched as she broke the glass and fixed the last piece to her mirror. "Soon you will have what you want." Pan spoke, and the Queen muttered to herself a dream of family.
Arendelle
After running from a giant snow monster, the group found themselves buried in snow with no plan of how to bring summer back. "What am I gonna do? She threw me out! I can't go back to Arendelle with the weather like this, you haven't done what you needed, and your ice business-"
"Don't worry about us, okay? Worry about your hair!" Dorothy told, stopping Anna from having a mental breakdown. Anna asked Kristoff if it looked bad, and he hesitated. "I didn't hesitate!" Blondie tried to defend himself, but Dorothy challenged him, "You totally did."
The man gave her a short lived glare before leading the pack to the "love experts".
Apparently, they lived in a cave. While Anna and Kristoff were talking, Dorothy looked around to see if this cave was safe enough to hide the urn in, but she decided that if Kristoff's friends lived here then she wouldn't want to involve them with Peter's drama.
Kristoff was telling Anna about his friends, well his family, and Dorothy could see the admiration in Anna's eyes. It was the same look Kristoff gave Anna. The blonde man then started to introduce the girls and Olaf to his family.
They were rocks, literally. Dorothy came up to Anna and gave her a freaked out look. The magical girl quipped, "This is why we shouldn't talk to strangers." Anna stood, dumbfounded, as Olaf and Dorothy tried to coax her into running away from the strange man.
Anna tried to excuse she and Dorothy when the rocks started to tumble towards Kristoff. Miraculously enough, they turned into trolls. Anna shared this thought aloud, and the trolls all turned to look at the two girls standing before them.
Almost immediately, they pounced. "He's brought girls!" The trolls passed the girls to Kristoff in the center of the horde and one of them checked Anna's face. When she turned to Dorothy to attempt to review her, she put up a hand and stated, "I'll pass on the check up, thanks."
The trolls thought Anna was here as Kristoff's girlfriend, which made Dorothy chuckle. Thank god no one thought she was with Blondie. No way in hell.
While the trolls were having some fun with Anna and Kristoff, Dorothy sat idly by, amused with the fact that no one was listening to the pair's protests. Anna was engaged to Hans.
Suddenly, Anna fainted for a brief moment, causing Dorothy to perk up. The eldest troll, Grandpapi she assumed, rolled up to the hole in the middle where the group was and told Anna she had ice in her heart.
Dorothy grew somber at the news. If Anna didn't have an act of true love, she would freeze to death. "We've got to get back to Hans." Dorothy told the pair, and they all got onto Sven and rode off to the palace to drop Anna off.
When they got to the palace, Anna kept worrying about her two new friends. Kristoff assured her they would be fine as the doors to the palace opened. Palace workers rushed to Anna, and Dorothy ordered, "Get her warm, and find Prince Hans. Keep her safe!"
Storybrooke
"So why did you just let Regina walk away? You shouldn't give up on her so soon." Elsa told the other blonde, who repeated her montra of screwing someone over. Elsa countered her statement, "I don't believe that. There's one thing my sister taught me with the help of Dorothy. You don't give up on people; if someone's important to you, don't give up on them. Even if they say hurtful things or even if they send a giant snow monster to chase you away."
Kristoff, Sven, and Dorothy climbed back, not knowing where to go. Dorothy's mission was one of the last things on her mind right now, and she didn't care. If Peter wanted to punish her for being gone for days on end, he could but she wasn't going to put up with it. She cared for her new friends and no one could punish her for that.
Sven walked next to Dorothy with Kristoff in front of them. The girl kept looking back to the kingdom of Arendelle, watching out just in case. She had an unsettled feeling in her bones, she couldn't shake it.
The brunette somehow communicated with the reindeer with one look, and Sven raced in front of his friend and wrestled him backwards. Kristoff fought, "No, Sven, we are not going back. She's with her true love."
Dorothy pitched in, "If you really meant that, would you feel like this?" He seemed to consider what she said for a second before a large breeze blew and snow pelted it's way toward them. Kristoff and Dorothy glimpsed the horizon to see a storm cloud surrounding the kingdom before saying simultaneously, "Anna."
The two then jumped into action, Dorothy jumping on Sven's back and pulling Kristoff on with her. They were going to save Anna. The pair rode across the fjords across broken ice and snow to save the princess with the auburn hair.
Suddenly, the storm stopped and the flurry cleared. This left a clear view of the frozen lake. Anna, Kristoff, and Dorothy stared before making their way towards each other. However, Anna rushed the other way to Elsa.
Although Kristoff stopped running when he saw this, Dorothy kept going. When she made it to the sisters, Anna was frozen solid with Elsa draped over her, crying. The Lost Girl carefully put her hand on Elsa's shoulder, and the queen looked at her with tears streaming down her face.
"Elsa, I'm Dorothy. I promise you that Anna's gonna be fine. Just look at her, okay? Look at her face and imagine a time that she was happy. Imagine the best moment you two shared. The undying love you have for your sister." Elsa listened to every word that came from Dorothy's mouth.
Dorothy continued, "Now, imagine her the way she was before this happened, warm and determined, courageous. Her amazing and true heart." Elsa held onto Dorothy's hand as she stared at her sister's face. And right as Dorothy spoke the word 'heart', Anna started to thaw. An act of true love.
Storybrooke
Emma made her way into Regina's vault once again to get something off her chect. "Living in Storybrooke, I've got my son and my parents, and I love them. But they can't always understand me. They don't know what it feels like to be rejected and misunderstood-not the way I do. Not the way you do or Dorothy does. And somehow that makes the three of us, I don't know, unique. Or maybe even special. I wasn't looking for you to assuage my guilt; I was looking for you to be my friend. I'm not gonna stop trying with you and Dorothy. Even if you want to kill me or if Dorothy still ignores me."
Regina called Emma's name and stated, "I don't want to kill you." The savior smiled in return, that was a start. Now, all she had to do was start with Dorothy.
Arendelle
"I was sent here to Arendelle to hide an artifact. I need to find a safe cave to put this in." Dorothy showed Kristoff the urn briefly before putting it back in her bag. She needed to tell someone what was going on with her, and she chose Kristoff.
The blonde nodded and went to grab the rope he brought with him, but Dorothy held out her hand to stop him. He gave her a confused look and sarcastically asked, "What are you gonna do? Build a bridge for us? You're not Elsa, you don't have magic."
Dorothy smiled and reiterated, "No, I'm not Elsa." Then she muttered to herself softly so Kristoff couldn't hear, "But, she controls her power through love. So, if I just think about love then..." The girl closed her eyes and thought about what she had back at home. In Neverland.
She thought of the welcome backs she would receive from the boys. Felix would throw her a party, and Blinky would hug her tight. And the island would hum with the soft sounds of the night.
Though, she didn't know how Peter would welcome her. The unpredictable wildcard. Would he simply smile at her with the grin that made her stomach erupt? She could feel power flowing through her but she could only focus on the image of Peter's smiling face in her mind.
"Oh my god! You have powers!?" Kristoff reacted. making Dorothy open her eyes. It worked, she created the bridge with rocks and rubble from the bottom of the cliff. The girl smiled a bit and responded, "I'm not Elsa and Elsa's not me. We're all different, with different powers and strengths. No two people are alike."
Finally, the two found the perfect cave to place the urn in. On the outside of the cave, Kristoff asked Dorothy, "So, why did you tell me? Why not Anna or even Elsa? I'm sure the queen would like to know there's others like her out there."
The girl shrugged before replying, "Because Elsa didn't need me. She has Anna now. And the reason I told you is because underneath all the rugged...Blondiness...you're just a lost boy." Dorothy stepped forward, leaving Kristoff smiling off to the side as she continued, "We'll meet again, Kristoff. I know we will. But, for now tell Anna and Elsa thank you for me. They showed what it was like to have a real family."
Kristoff was about to reply, but Dorothy shouted, "I believe!" The blonde ice master could only watch as a shadow took her hand and whisked her off into the sky.
Storybrooke
Dorothy sat in Regina's living room with a box in front of her. She stared at it for a while, not wanting to open it just yet. There was a lot of memories in that box, good and bad. After all that time of suppressing and running from her emotions, she was finally ready to tackle her childhood. Not that she had a particularly good one.
The ring of the doorbell pulled the girl away from her thoughts and Dorothy got up to answer the door. It was surprising to say the least when she saw her father on the other side. "What happened to staying out of each other's way?" Dorothy asked, tiredly. Hook smiled and shrugged, "It got boring." The man then asked to come inside, and much to Dorothy's own dismay, she let him inside.
The father sauntered into the living room and sat down on the couch, Dorothy sitting beside him. Killian sighed before pointing out, "You look vexed, lass. Long day?" Dorothy nodded and told him about her day with Rumple. She knew he didn't approve whatsoever, but she didn't care. "He's been going relatively easy on me. Belle's been sitting with us during the lessons, so there's that. I know how to grow flowers, which is kind of boring but it's progress. I just- it's better to be learning about creating life than destroying it."
Hook nodded, soaking up every last word. The only thing he'd been wanting these last few days was to hear her voice. Her genuine, warm, inviting voice. The way she talked about learning magic, her passion- she sounded just like her mother. After she finished talking, the pirate pointed to the box on the table and asked, "What's in that?"
The teenager hesitated before answering, "What's left of my childhood. Some of the stuff I kept with me through everything, others I went back for, the rest I found recently when I didn't have my memories."
"May I?" Hook gestured to the box with a weary expression. Part of him wanted to know how his daughter grew up, but the other part yearned for the life they could have had as a family. Dorothy uncapped the box and pulled out a jewelry box from the 1930s, a teddy bear, some seashells from Neverland, and a photo album. Killian stared at the teddy bear for a moment before asking softly, "Where did you get that?"
The product of true love honestly had no idea, and she replied, "I don't know, they told me that someone dropped me off on the orphanage steps with that. Why?" The thought of his daughter being dropped off on someone's steps enraged him, and a burning hatred for the Dark One grew even brighter inside Killian. But, the sight of that familiar toy brought immense joy to him.
"Because it was mine when I was a baby and I passed it on to you. I thought I lost it, but it seems the Dark One stole it." Killian wondered why as he stared at the teddy bear before looking over at his daughter. Dorothy had tears in her eyes that had yet to fall as she looked through a photo album. The man looked over the girl's shoulder to get a look at the pictures. Black and white photos were preserved with a spell, courtesy of Peter Pan.
It was then that Killian remembered why he was there. "I have something you can add to that." He spoke and pulled out a drawing of Milah. Dorothy's hands shook as she reached out to take it, and she delicately ran her fingers over the image of her mother's face. The tears finally fell down Dorothy's cheeks as she stared at her mother's image on the parchment, Hook watching her.
"I wish I could have met her, just once, you know?" She shakily told her father, who nodded in understanding before embracing his daughter. The two still had a ways to go, but it was a start.