We are almost at the end... It has been wonderful to share this story with you, and I hope you liked the journey as much as I did. Don't worry, there is still an epilogue left after this part.
Heroes and villains
Anna whistled when she saw the gigantic wall in front of them. "That's a lot of Ice..." She looked to her sister, who walked confidently forward; At least, so she appeared to be for Anna. Emma reasoned a few minutes back that if Elsa inherited Gerda's magic, she could surely thaw it now, since it was made by Hans' former mother.
"Well, It's time for it to come down" said Elsa as she raised her glowing hands. It seemed Emma was indeed right with her theory, as her magic had no effort now to bring the ice wall down. Slowly, Elsa bended her arms down, as she commanded the ice to dissappear all together.
"You were amazing...as always" smiled Hans in her ear. Elsa blushed by his compliment and took hold of his hand.
Anna meanwhile, was happily jumping to the townline. "Great, now can we go back ho-"
"STOP!" cried Emma. Anna obliged, with her feet still in the air. "That's the townline..."
"Right..." said Anna confused. "But, I want to leave the town..."
"The wall may be down, but the Mirror's magic still remains..." Emma slowly stretched her hand, and when she touched the barrier, it began to glow a dark-blue. She pressed a few times, but the barrier didn't bulge. "Yeah... leaving this town has never been simple. That Duke didn't change things. He wanted to keep you all here, making this a prison for us all..."
"So how do we get back home?" asked Anna concerned.
"Walking wouldn't get us anywhere... we are in a different realm." mumbled Elsa out loud.
"We need to find a portal...or a magic bean, something like that." said Emma to the group.
Suddenly Kristoff's head snapped up at the mention of the bean. "Did you say bean?"
"Uh...yeah?"
Kristoff ran to the savior and spun her arround. "Emma you're a genius! I could kiss you!" Kristoff felt his fiancé's eyes pierced on him and quickly put the woman down. "I mean... not that I really would do that.." Kristoff chuckled nervously. "I'm afraid I wouldn't live if I did."
"So?" asked Hans with his eyebrows raised. "What caused you to nearly make out with Emma?"
"Hans!" scolded Anna as she punched the man's ribs with her elbow. It was meant to be playful though. She still needed to get accustomed at the fact that Hans was now in a relationship with Elsa. Not that she would ever dissapprove of it: the prince had proven himself to be a redeemed man. But just to think that he was her fiancé two years ago... She chuckled softly. How strange events went... She glanced back to Elsa, seeing her smile at Hans' remark. She was happy with him... And that was all that mattered to Anna. She refocused back on Kristoff's explaination.
"Remember how we got each two beans from Lappekonen?" said Kristoff to his cousin. "I used one to get to Arendelle...I believe Gerda stole the other one, since it isn't in my pocket anymore... But you stilll should have them, right?"
Hans' eyes widened at the mention of the beans and slammed his hand against his face. "Those beans were in my grey coat...I gave them away with Snow, after the cave-in!" Their ticket to freedom had been in his hands the whole time! The prince groaned. Both he and Elsa had retrieved their lost memories after Emma had found those troll rocks in Gerda's cave. Why didn't he think of them sooner!
"Hans, don't bother yourself with it! You didn't know at the time. We simply need to search for those things again!" said Anna urgently. "We need to hurry."
"We don't need to rush, we need to be careful." said Elsa to her worried sibling. "Arendelle will still be there while we figure this out."
"Might not." said the princess depressed. She gasped and turned her attention towards Kristoff. "Did we forget to tell her?"
"A lot of stuff was going on." answered Kristoff to his fiancé.
"Tell me what?" asked Elsa worried by her siblings worried tone. Thanks to her imprisonment in the urn, the young queen didn't know what had happened to her Kingdom!
"Arendelle has been conquered." spoke Anna. "By the Southern Isles." Both Hans and Elsa paled by the news. How many days had already passed for Arendelle? Without a ruler, Arendelle would be falling apart, not only by invaders, but by the High lords as well! They had heard enough stories how Anarchy led to civil wars and chaos for the people...
"Emma...we need to find a way back...NOW" asked a nervous Elsa.
Emma swallowed heavily. "We'l do our best."
Hook, who stood unnoticed a few feet further, slowly slipped away from the group...
The pirate groaned when Rumple put more pressure on his heart. "They...uhhhggg...didn't leave. The Snow Queen locked up the border." Hook gasped again. "Once you...you cross over, there is no coming back!" Hook sighed relieved when Rumple's pressure on his vital organ dissappeared.
"If only the Snow Queen had succeeded...and hadn't taken my grandson away..." mumbled Rumple out loud. "Everything would be so much simpler if I didn't had to intervene..."
"Yes... your perfect cover for your exit is blown...You didn't get the chance to put Hans in that hat either..." Hook grinned. "SO inconvenient..."
"What about our friends from Arendelle?" asked Gold, who didn't want to hear the pirate speak about his failures.
"They are still searching for a portal back...They had magic beans at one point, but they got lost..."
"Well, that is a problem..." said Gold while he thought on how to dispose of them quickly. "Can't have that Anna running arround town..."
"She knows, doesn't she?" realized Hook. When he saw the dark one avoid his eyes, he grinned even wider. "She knows what you have been planning, that you want to cleave yourself from your dagger... I heard Belle confess last night, that she knew Anna personally..."
"Still...quite the supposition." brushed Gold the pirate's realization away. Yet, inside he was fearful. Anna had seen him once, when he and Belle came by to pay their respects...Since their was a huge difference in appearances from then and now, He calculated that Anna would recognize him immediately. Still, he shouldn't test how far his luck would go. That girl was clever, and would soon put all the pieces together...
"Why else would you care?" spoke Hook. "Anna is a danger to you. you can't have you blissfully ignorant wife-"
"Watch Anna. Make sure she doesn't come near anywhere this shop." cut Rumple the man's sentence off. He didn't want to let the pirate speak about Belle either. It just only added more guilt for the lies he told her.
"If I had the choice..."
"You don't. Your usefullness was unexpectantly extended." spoke Rumple. "But tonight, when the stars in the sky align with the stars in the sorcerer's hat... I can finally do what I should have done so many years ago... I will crush your heart."
"And what are you going to do afterwards?" growled Hook powerless.
"I'm going to wake my wife..." Rumple nodded to the sleeping Belle. "...and prepare her for my greatest gift. She is going to have the life she always wanted."
Regina slowly took out Marion's heart that she had carefully preserved all this time, and thrusted it back into the woman's chest. Marion gasped awake when her heart was back into place and she looked arround to see Robin stand close to her. As she embraced him, Robin glanced to Regina, who didn't meet his eyes...
When she was drinking in the tavern, the bell rang. Regina saw from the corners of her eye that it was Marion, and she sighed. What was she doing here? she should be with Robin and Roland! "Please...I want to be left alone."
"We should talk." spoke Marion loud and clear, causing Regina to practically jump up. Did she really just...talk to me? "I want to thank you...for saving my life, twice actually.."
Regina swallowed and looked back to Robin's wife. "Forget about it."
"I can't... because Robin can't." Marion paused to look her into the eye. "I have seen the way you two look at each other...and I understand. For me, it has only been a short time. But for him, years have passed. His heart has moved on. He's in love with you, Regina. And I think you're in love with him."
"That doesn't really matter. He's a man of honour, he made a vow to you and he's going to keep it."
"I don't want him to be with me out of obligation. I want to be chosen. If his heart leads him to me...fine. But if it does what I suspect and leads to you... then I will step out of the way." With that said, Marion left the tavern. For the first time in days, Regina began to smile again.
"you may have gotten the best of me, Dark one, but I promise you in the next life it won't be so pleasant for you" grumbled Hook to his nemesis.
Rumple simply chuckled. "well then, given my immortality, You'll have quite the wait amongst the fire and brimstone." said Rumple as the door flew open at his command. THe two stept into the house.
"If I'm going to die, at least give me all the information" spoke Hook as he looked arround the empty hall way. "Who's house is this?"
"A powerful sorcerer...He commanded his apprentice to lead the Snow Queen here... If he can foresee and foretell everything, from across realms...It means there has to be a portal somewhere..." The broomstick waved his sticky arms and a portal door appeared, full with green crocuses on a purple background.
Belle meanwhile was packing her things, unaware of what Rumple was doing right now. The young girl grunted as she tried to close the over full suit case, pressing her body on it. She gasped relieved when she succeeded.
"Granma?" called Henry suprised as he saw her busy with the suit case. "You are going on a trip?"
"Uh...Yeah, Rumple wants to take me to New York for our honeymoon" explained Belle as she put the suit case down.
Henry frowned. "But...The Snow Queen..I mean, that Mirror...it left a spell arround the border. Anyone who passes, can't return. Didn't you hear?"
Belle knitted her eyebrows. "No, I didn't." She was quiet for a moment, before answering the boy. "But, I'm sure he knows a way on how to remove it." spoke Belle confidently about her husband. She stopped smiling when she saw Henry's serious face. "Hey what is wrong?"
Henry took out the Storybook and put it on the table. "This book, it got all your stories in it. It started all this... " The kid waved his hands arround the shop, to indicate the amount of curses they had to face. "A lot of bad things happen in it to my mom..."
"Oh, Henry... I wouldn't worry... She's on a much better path right now.." assured Belle.
Henry smiled, feeling a bit more relieved. "Thanks granma..."
"Yeah..." Belle felt uncomfortable when Henry calls her that way. It made her feel so...old. "Belle is good enough for me." Both chuckled, before Belle turned her attention back to her previous task. "So, I need some extra suit cases. I'm afraid I can't otherwise take everything with me. Can you help me look?"
Henry quickly put his bag down and began to walk arround the store, searching on one of the higher planks. Bingo! There was one... The kid climbed up a nearby ladder, while he talked to Belle. "You know, you should really go and see the public library. No offense, but it blows the one we have here, away!" Belle giggled with excitement as she took some extra clothes in her arms. "It has this great view and-" Crash! Belle squealed when Henry lost grip on the heavy bunch of material he was holding.
"Are you okay?" asked Belle as she run to the kid.
"Sorry...let me get those..." smiled Henry as he jumped down the ladder and began to tidy everything up. "He really keeps some strange things here..."
Belle chuckled, but stopped when she saw a familiar sight on the ground. The gauntlet...
Henry saw her worried face and looked worried to his granma. "What's wrong? I'll clean it back up!"
"What? oh, no no, everything is alright..." smiled Belle before taking the gauntlet in her hands. "I got it." the young woman sighed when her mind recalled what Rumple had said long ago. It could point someone to their greatest weakness...
"What is it?" asked Anna curiously as she looked to the small piece of food.
"It is their version of the cake" commented Elsa. "It is strange. It can spend years inside a box and time never touches it."
"Its a magic cake!" exclaimed the red-haired princess.
Kristoff sniffled at it carefully, causing Hans to glare incredulously to his cousin. "Seriously? That cake is not going to kill you." said the prince while he snorted at their caution. "Go on, take a bite."
Kristoff slowly took the little treat inside his mouth, while Anna looked expectantly to her fiancé's reaction. After a short silence, the Ice harvester nodded. "Uhm... not bad." The man put the half-eaten cake back on the plate. "But, as much as I love eating 'boxed' cake, I prefer to return to Arendelle, putting those brothers in a box." Kristoff glanced to the auburn-haired prince. "No offense."
The man shrugged. "None taken."
They looked up when they saw Emma enter Granny's and their conversation stopped. "I have some bad news. I just spoke to Anton and apparently Storybrooke is not an ideal place for growing vegetables. So...no magic beans untill spring."
"Spring?" asked Elsa again, to be certain that they all heard it right. "We don't have untill spring! By that time, my people could be dead!" Anna put her hands on that of her concerned sibling, to calm her down.
"We are trying...portals are hard to come by." spoke Emma exhausted from looking for answers.
The bell rang again and this time, it was Hook who entered. "Swan! come celebrate. For I may not be the savior, but I just saved the day." Hook went to the bar and poured two cups of rum.
"Don't get your hopes up" spoke Emma to the depressed group before walked to Hook. "Okay... what exactly are we celebrating?" asked Emma as she accepted the cup Hook gave her.
"The portal to Arendelle. I found it." Emma's eyes flew wide, and she glanced to Ardellians, before turning her gaze back to Hook. "So...buttoms up!" Hook clicked his cup against hers, and swallowed the drink.
Emma put her cup down as well, although she hadn't drunk from it. She was still fazed by this unexpected revelation. This was indeed good news... "You...found a portal?" asked Emma again. Surely she wasn't dreaming?
"Well, I found Gold, and he told me where to locate one. The door in the ball room of that lake-side mansion." Emma blinked as she recalled the house. It was the same house where Hans almost stripped his magic away... wait, what? Gold? Gold helping Hook?
Hook saw Emma's baffled face. "Yes. It appears our Rumplestiltskin has turned another leaf."
"Apparently dozens of leaves." answered Emma astonished. "are you sure we can trust him?"
"Positive." Emma was oblivious to Gold, who was speaking in Hook's stead, by holding his heart. "He gave me a long explaination about the portal...about how, the Snow Queen came here to this land..." Hook paused. "Which I... don't recall." Emma glanced up to Hook. Didn't recall? Surely you must remember such important news for Hans? Over time, Hans and Hook had become close friends and bonded over their love for sailing. "But, the important thing is... it works." babbled Hook on. "All they have to do, is walk through it."
"Then we should go." spoke Emma as she began to walk to the group to tell them the good news.
"Fine, you go do that." answered Hook, causing Emma to stop in her tracks. "I alas, bruised myself during the fight. I really need to get it seen to."
Right. Now she knew something was wrong with him. Killian would never care for a bruise or two! "Hey, are you okay?" Emma caressed the man's cheek, trying to look him into the eyes.
"Sure." smiled Hook. "Everything is alright...love." When he passed by to walk out of the tavern, the man desperately took hold of Emma's arm, gripping it tightly. Come on, Emma! You know there is something wrong! Hook felt the pressure on his body multiply and he unwillingly let go, dissappearing out of the tavern.
"It means so much for Roland to have her back." smiled Robin as he and Regina looked Roland throw bread into the lake for the swans.
"I understand." said Regina cool. "By the end of the day, marriage comes first." Robin turned his attention to the Evil Queen.
"Regina..."
"She is his mother" spoke Regina, not wanting to hear him say it.
"I chose you." said Robin determinded.
Regina smiled to the thief, but her smile dissappeared when she saw complete seriousness in his eyes. The woman looked back and forth between Robin and Marion. "But...Roland..." whispered Regina. "What will this look like to him?"
Robin looked to his son, who was playing with his mother. "It will complicate things, that's for sure. But if I went back with my life with Marion, I would live a lie. The best example I can set to my son is to live truthfully... with you." Robin took out the photo he had found in the library a few nights ago and Regina laughed softly when she saw it.
"Papa! Papa, help!" Little Roland's cries made both Regina and Robin ran over the unconcious woman. Robin gasped when he saw Marion freeze over once again.
"I thought she was cured?"
"There still has to be some left of the curse inside her body...even without her heart..."
"So there is no hope?" asked Robin as he looked to Regina.
The woman sighed. "There may be another way to save her. Now that the ice wall is down, she can cross into the land without magic. As she passes, al traces of magic inside her will be gone."
"So, lets get her to the townline!" Robin stopped when he felt Regina's arm arround his.
"Its a one-way trip." spoke Regina clearly. "Once you leave...that's it."
"What are you saying?" asked Robin after he had taken everything in.
"I'm saying we can't just send Marion into an unknown world." spoke Regina. "You have to go with her." The woman swallowed heavily. Just when she tought that everything was going smoothly for once in her life... Fate seems to make her a joke...
"When the stars align...we shall begin." smiled Rumple as he stood with Hook in the tower.
"You mean, I shall end. Let's not start mincing our words now" growled Hook as his eyes shook daggers to his rival.
"How brave..." commented Rumple. "I half expected you to crumble at your demise..."
"Well, I'm not the one who is a coward!" retorted Hook.
"Then you'll enjoy watching this coward crushing your heart." answered Rumple. The man waved his hands, and the ceiling of the tower moved open to reveal the sky...
"This place is amazing..." spoke Henry as he looked to the beautiful architecture. The kid saw something strange from the corners of his eyes and he walked through the next door. "Mom, I'm right back!"
"Hey, kid, wait!" Emma pushed the door open to get a better view, and Anna gasped when she saw the portal door.
"Crocuses! Arendelle Crocuses!" laughed the princess. "Elsa we're almost home!"
The young girl sprinted to the door to open it, when Emma stopped her. "Perhaps I should open it. Magic can be unpredictable."
Elsa took hold of Emma's hand. "So...this is it then."
"It appears so." smiled Emma sadly. She wished they could have stayed longer, to get to know each other better...But she didn't want to keep them here against their will.
"Thank you for taking such good care of my sister" thanked Anna.
"Its kinda what we do" smiled Emma back. "It was our pleasure."
"Now...you all have a kingdom to go save?" commented Snow as she tought of the good wild times she experienced as well.
"We sure do. I hope Those brothers aren't to comfortable on that throne, because I'm going to knock them off the minute we get back." mused the spunky princess.
"And the second minute we get back, maybe we could get married?" added Kristoff. Anna smiled to her fiancé's comment. "Just a thought." shrugged Kristoff.
"Emma...Thank you for everything..." Elsa clasped her cold hands arround the savior. "You have done...so much. I can never repay you." Anna ran to David to give him one last hug, while Hans embraced Snow.
"Take good care of yourself, will you?" whispered Snow to the young prince.
"Always. Please thank Hook as well." spoke Hans. "i still regret not being able to say goodbye to him."
"And mister Gold as well" added Elsa quickly.
"We will." smiled Snow motherly to the young couple.
Elsa swallowed heavily while she and Emma parted from their hug. "Its time..." As Emma opened the door, the Ardellians smiled. They were almost home... Elsa went first, followed by Hans, who had his hands interwinded with her's.
"Good luck" wished Emma to the princess and the Ice harvester. Kristoff and Anna stepped to the portal, also with locked hands. Yet at the last moment, Anna took her hand out of Kristoff's, pondering about one last thing.
"I wish I had met this mister Gold" said the babbeling princess. "Who was he? I mean, who was he in the other world?" When Emma wanted to retort, Anna guessed for herself. "Wait, wait, let me guess!" laughed the girl. "He was a fairy godfather wasn't he?"
"Well, not exactly. He was an evil sorcerer you're lucky you've never met." answered her old friend David. "Rumplestiltskin."
Anna blinked as she heard the familiar name. "Wait what?"
"You knew him?" asked Emma as she saw the princess pale at the name. "He explicitly said he didn't know anything about you." Her stomach began to twist at the news.
"Well, thats a lie. Not that it really suprises me...all he does is lie." said the girl sweetly before hugging Emma one last time. "Be careful for him, will you?" With that said, the bubbly princess jumped through the portal, leaving the group baffled.
Gold looked up to the sky, before waving his dagger arround the sorcerer's hat, that began to glow purple-blue. The Dagger he put somewhat further away, as he also had to keep Hooks heart in his other hand. As he commanded the sorcerer's hat to fly up in to the sky, it expanded with a huge flash all arround the tower. Hook had to close his eyes slightly by the sudden brightness of the room.
"Its time..."whispered the Dark one. Light began to descend upon the man, just as Snow and Emma arrived by the lift.
"Gold! stop!" Emma's cry made the dark one lose concentration for a moment, and the light dissappeared.
"I'm sorry. I can't" spoke Rumple. "I waited too long for this... and I'm too close." Rumple waved his hand and both Emma and Snow froze into real life statues, unable to move a muscle. "Maybe not everything has gone to plan..." went Rumple on as he refocused his attention to Hook. "But the next part, I'm really going to enjoy..." Hook screamed when Rumple began to crush his heart, and he fell down on the floor. Rumple's satisfied face dissappeared when he couldn't go on. "i don't understand...why can't I?" his hand reopened, stopped Hook's pain completely.
"Because I commanded you not to!" spoke a fuming Belle from behind him. Rumple turned arround to face his wife. "Drop the heart." Rumple had no choice but to obey, and Hook quickly catched his vital organ. "Now, release everyone." Again Rumple obliged at his wife's command, and Emma and Snow gasped as they could move. The sorcerer's hat went back to his normal form, and Rumple swallowed. His one chance...
"You are going to take us now to the townline. Because we need to be alone for what comes next." commanded Belle with a cracked voice.
"Belle..." swallowed Rumple as they appeared outside Storybrooke. "What are you doing?" Thanks to the dagger, Rumple had to walk backwards, closer and closer to the townline.
"Finally I see you for what you really are."
"Belle..please, let me explain. Put the dagger down." tried Rumple to shush her down.
"No! Its my turn to talk..I found that gauntlet you took from Camelot so many years ago... And all the signs I have been seeing, are correct. You never gave up power for me. You never have...you never will" cried Belle.
"You don't understand-" Rumple stumbled backwards when Belle pointed the dagger back up.
"I used that gauntlet, to lead me to the thing that you loved most." went Belle on. "You know where that led me Rumple? To the real dagger. Your true love is the power."
"I like the power yes... But there is nothing wrong with it. Not when I- We" corrected Rumple. "...can have it all!"
"I tried to be everything for you Rumple! But I wasn't. And I lost my way, trying to help you find yourself. Not anymore..."
"Please Belle..I have changed once before, you...you know that!" cried the Dark one desperately.
"You have never changed."
"Please..."
"NO!" yelled Belle as she walked forwards with the dagger. "It is too late. Once I saw the man behind the beast...Now there is only the beast." Belle took a deep breath, before pointing the dagger back to Rumple. "Rumplestilstkin...I command you to leave Storybrooke!"
"No, Belle, please...I won't...I won't be able to come back!" pleaded Rumple as he was forced to walk closer to the town line. "Belle...please...I'm afraid..." Rumple stumbled on the ground on the Land without Magic, as his magical abilities dissappeared completely. "BELLE!"
Arendelle, 2 years later...
Anna fundled nervously with her gloves as she and Elsa stood before the entrance of the church. "This was a bad idea..." mumbled the nervous princess. "I should have chosen the braids!" The gown of the princess was quite simple, without any expensive materials. Since the war between the Southern Isles had only ended a few weeks, Arendelle still was busy to rebuild their homes and farmer grounds. At first, Anna wanted to wait, but Elsa commented that the people needed a happy occasion to ease their minds from their losses.It would do them all good... "It suprises me I'm still able to fit in this dress" commented Anna as she felt her little, pregnant belly. It wasn't that noticable yet, but you saw the first signs already. "Although, it doesn't make me show myself at my best..."
Elsa chuckled as she saw her sister jump from one feet to another. "Anna, you look amazing. I think so, so surely will Kristoff!"
"I don't know...what if I fall?" trembled the woman. "What if i don't remember the vows? What if-"
Elsa took hold of both her hands to calm the nervous girl down. "Don't worry about that too much." The young queen frowned and Anna looked worried to her sudden serious face. "Anna..why did you do this? Why did you pospone your whole wedding, just to find out the truth?"
"Elsa..." chuckled Anna softly. "You're my sister. I couldn't walk down this aisle if you weren't as happy as I was."
"Anna...I'm very happy..." The two sisters hugged each other, and Anna began to cry on Elsa's purple cape. "Now, now..." chuckled Elsa as she wiped her sister's tears away. "It is not the time to cry..."
"Its no wedding without tears... " answered Anna as she swallowed the lump in her throat away.
Elsa wanted to retort, when they heard the choir sing. "You're ready?"
Anna nodded with gleaming eyes and flushed cheeks, as was common with every soon-to-be wife. "Ready." The doors opened and everyone stood up, besides the groom and his first man of course. Which was to Elsa's relief not Sven, but Hans.
"Wow." Kristoff swallowed as he saw Anna enter.
"Wow indeed." commented Hans as his eyes were solidly on the queen. After Elsa gave Anna to Kristoff, she stood next to the soon-to-be husband and wife. Their vows were short and simple and they don't need to be repeated here on paper, as everyone knows the words by heart. When they went out to greet the people, Elsa had to blink a few tears away. Her sister had grown up...
The festivities were held on the courtyard and Hans and Elsa looked to the newlyweds, who shared their first dance together. Hans sniggered when he saw Kristoff place his feet on that of Anna's. He had lost count how many lessons he had to give the guy... But, he did it very well. After the opening dance, Elsa danced with Kristoff, while Hans took the younger sister. Normally it would have been the parents, but since they were the only family members left...
"Remember that coronation ball a few years ago?" smirked the bride to the young admiral.
"How could I not?" smiled Hans as he swirled her arround.
"So.. are you going to propose like last time?" The blunt question made Hans nearly lose his next step, but he quickly regained balance.
"You and I both know how well that worked out" spoke Hans softly to the princess as they danced across the courtyard. "Don't want another Winter in the middle of august. And besides, we are already married before Gran Pabbie..."
Anna gniffled but looked back seriously to the young man. "No, I meant, before the church, like we did. When?" The green eyes of the man suddenly stood fearful and Anna blinked suprised at the sudden change. It was just for a second, but then the green eyes changed back to his normal cheerful mood. "Well?" pressed Anna on. Hans opened his mouth, when she felt a finger tick on her shoulder.
"Mind if I cut in?" asked Elsa. Her sister obliged and went back to dance with Kristoff, abeit with reluctance. "Seems I interrupted something important..." frowned the young queen as Hans led her arround.
"Nothing at all.." smiled Hans. "Your sister just wanted to know something... typical her couldn't stop asking on."
Elsa chuckled and leaned in the man's strong embrace. They all danced on, as the hours passed into days, and the days passed into weeks and years...
Emma looked nervously to Hook as she held his heart in front of her.
"Just be gen-UGGGGh!" Hook gasped when Emma thrusted his heart in him as hard as possible.
"Sorry...I just thought that if I did it quickly it would be like ripping of a-" Emma couldn't speak further as Hook began to kiss her and push her gently against the wall.
"I told you Swan...I'm a survivor." smiled Hook when they were out of breath. Both Emma and Hook went back to the bar, where Regina sat depressed with a bottle of wine before her nose.
"I'm not in the mood for a hope speech, Emma..."
"You mistake me for my mother." spoke Emma. "Besides you don't need a speech, you need a drinking buddy. Shots?" Regina looked slowly up to the Savior.
"Sure, why not?" answered Regina decisive as Emma ordered two. It was silent for a few seconds when Emma spoke again.
"You know you did the right thing today." Regina put her hand on the table in disbelief.
"There it is! A hope speech! I thought we were drinking."
"Its not a speech, it is a compliment." defended Emma herself.
"Well, I know I don't need your validation, I know i did the right thing. I know because I'm miserable. Again."
"Well...if it makes you feel better...so does Gold." tried Emma to cheer her up.
"It does." commented Regina as they clinked their shots together. Just when they took a sip, Henry burst into the tavern.
"Woah, kid slow down." said the Savior worried as she took hold of the kid.
"Mom! I found something big! you need to see this!" spoke Henry enthousiastic. When they arrived at the mansion again, both women followed the young kid inside. "After you guys left, I stayed to look arround for a while, and I found something." The boy went to a wall, and pressed a lantern down, causing a wall to open up.
"A library..." gasped Regina as she saw the huge amount of books in the racks.
"Not any library..." spoke Henry as he walked further on. "Look..." he took a randomly chosen book out and showed it to the two women.
"That...looks just like your book." realized Emma.
"Only its blank" explained Henry. "They all are." He looked to Regina. "And if this place is full of potential storybooks..."
"Then this is maybe the Author's house" finished Regina's her son's train of thought. "Henry, you did it!" Regina embraced her son proudly.
"Did what?" asked Emma confused.
"Oh..well, we were looking for the Author. " explained Regina to Emma. "I...was hoping he could write me a happier story."
"We called it operation mongoose." Emma clasped the kid's shoulder.
"I like it. It's got style. I'm in." smiled Emma to them both.
"You are?" asked Regina suprised.
"I made you a promise I intend to keep. Everyone deserves their happy ending." smiled Emma to Regina. One story ends, a new one begins...
I was devastated they didn't show Kristoff's and Anna's wedding in OUAT, so I wrote it myself. As for a Hans and Elsa, there will be an epilogue arround those two, so their story is not yet over. The war between the Southern Isles and Arendelle lasted for more then a year, before Arendelle managed to win. Hence why Kristoff's and Anna's wedding was so late.
They did marry before Gran Pabbie during the war, as did Hans and Elsa...But since marriage is only legal before the church, they have to "re-do" it to make it truly official.
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Love,
TeamArendelle.
