Sorry for the HORRIBLY MISTAKEN, TRULY SORRY, STUPID author's (me) absents. I have no excuse this time except for I forgot! SORRY! Grrr- I bet you all hate me now, so here's my apology!

Mirror looked stunned at first, he couldn't believe that the pig headed, moral, and loyal Sabrina Grimm had agreed to turning against her own family. He couldn't believe that everything was finally going according to plan for once. The Grimms weren't getting in the way this time, they were finally going to become his puppets instead of him being theirs. I got all of this from the emotions that suddenly ran over his face- they changed from disbelief, to confusion, to pure joy, and finally, to triumph.

"Starfish, I'm so proud of you." He laid a hand on my shoulder and spikes of ice prickled under his pudgy hand. I grabbed his wrist and flung it off my shoulder without thinking.

"Just because I've agreed to join you doesn't mean I suddenly forgive you and want to be best friends again. It doesn't mean I can't back down either." I sneered. The triumphant smile remained plastered to his face I used to look at as a safe haven. He used to be the one and only person I could trust, but now I only see the triumphant smile, the betrayal he's committed, and all the ways he's affected our lives. "I can still decide to leave, go back, and I will find a way to stop you. And when I do, you're going to regret ever messing with the Grimms." I sounded like Daphne in that last bit. I can't believe I'm leaving her like this. I'm doing this for them. I'm going to protect them while I can, and when Mirror uses me against them, I'll obey as long as I don't die from the guilt and disgust- hopefully he'll just ask for coffee. I thought to myself. Then, another roll of pain hit me like a truck. Puck was getting too far away. Not only was he never going to hear my thoughts again (and vice versa) , I was never going have that security anymore. Nobody's ever going to hear this, but yes, he does save my life every so often even if I don't need it. I can depend on his annoying, pink, pixie wing to come flapping when I fall too far. Now, I'm going to have to be responsible for helping shoot him down.

"Now, Starfish, I don't think you completely understand. You're a valuable element of the Scarlet Hand now. They have no chance now that we have you, but we can't take any risks. As you said, you could turn away and betray us at any time. We can't have that now can we?" His smile turned sly. "Maleficent?" The door creaked open slowly. Maleficent, I know that name. I've read it in one of the journals, I told myself that that name was horrible. That it was a name that would hurt somebody who… couldn't be hurt any more…

A woman in her late thirties stepped into the room, chin held high, royal purple skirt suit ironed and pressed, and her tight ringlets of black hair tinged with dull fading greys. The woman's eyes were sunken in, cold, black holes that seemed never to end (just like how I ended up here). Her eyebrows were long thin lines among pale porcelain, and her lips were thin, blood red, slices. She would have been beautiful, but her face was stiff and emotionless. She was Maleficent, Briar Rose's evil step mother.

"Hello, Grimm." Her lips barely moved as she spat "Grimm" into my face. It was almost as if she were attempting to kill me right there and then by merely speaking our family name.

"This is Maleficent. You may remember her from Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty." Mirror gestured to the woman with a sweeping hand. "Maleficent, you know what to do." I watched him smile, turn, and walk away.

"I believe I do." She walked towards me with twisted grin. "You Grimms have stripped me of my royalty, and you've stripped me of my freedom, as well. That foolish Charming finds it romantic to join your side for his true love. He was weak and stupid. The rest of us will destroy you. We will have our kingdom's back, and we will no longer have to be afraid of those petty humans. They will soon fear us." She was inches away from me now.

"Y- you'll never stand a ch-chance." My words shook from fear, and my palms were sweating as she gave off a shrill laugh.

"Oh no, I don't believe you quite understand. You are us now, no matter how repulsive that is. The family you've left to die won't have a hope in the world when they see you leading our army. Let me guess, the master told you that by joining us, he'd stop all the pain and suffer? See, this is why he is our master. He'll stop it all, but you're going to make it all better… for us that is." My mouth opened to retort, or just to ask "What the heck are you talking about?" Maleficent chuckled suddenly. "No wonder Briar died. She was always much too stupid for her own good. After all, the girl was gullible enough to touch the spindle." My hands balled into fists.

"What do you want?" I growled through gritted teeth.

"Oh, simple really." She placed a hand on my shoulder that I was about to violently shake off. As soon as her hands lay on my shoulder, everything changed.

So- It's kinda short, sorry! I really am sorry, I hope you guys for give me!