*AN: I had to completely rewrite this chapter.... So it may not be as good as it was the FIRST time I wrote it... It really was good before!
"Did you ever have children of your own Papa?" Snow asked while she sat on the stole touching her chin length black hair. Mary had cut it short to sell it.
Snow had met Mary, Spring and Jason and had heard of their stories. She came to love them. She had a problem with Mary, though. Mary would sell her body to men to bring the small family money, Snow's heart broke when she heard this story. Mary's love for her family was so great that she would do such a horrible thing to herself. Anther thing Snow couldn't understand was what kind of man would buy and use the body of a 13 year old child!? Snow had cut her hair short to sell it and when the money ran out from that she would think of something else, she promised Mary that the girl would never again have to sell herself.
"Papa?" Snow asked looking at the man, Papa's breathes came harshly and he held his heart as if he was in pain. "Papa are you alright!?"
"I had a child, though I do not know if it was a girl or a boy. My love had made a wish..." he shook his old head, pushing Snow back into her seat. "I am just old, my child... What do you look like Snow White? Forgive me for not being able to see you."
"There is nothing to forgive, Papa." Snow sighed, "I have hair as black as a raven's wing and skin as white as snow."
"With hair as black as a raven's wing,
And skin as white as Snow,
Your child will be the son of a King,
But you will love and know."
"Papa?" Snow asked, tears streaming down her pale cheeks.
"My love had made a wish..." he murmured again. His hand still clutching his old heart.
"Did she wish that a child be born in such a way?" Snow asked, falling to her knees and looking at her Papa, her true Papa.
"I never knew if that wish came true... but I'd give anything to know."
"It came true, Papa!" Snow cried throwing her arms around her papa. "It came true, Papa, and Mama loved you till the end!"
Snoedan grabbed Snow and held her close into a tight hug. He touched her face with his hands to feel how she looked, he ran his fingers through her black hair to feel the softness. Tears fell down his cheeks as well.
***
"Snow."
Charming was in the woods in search of Snow White. It was night, a starry night with a full moon.
"Charming!" Snow whispered as Charming held firmly to her wrist and pulled her through the moonlit garden. They had to sneak around guards and night men. "Do you know what people will do if they found us here? What they would think?"
"Heavens forbid they think of us in love." Charming said with a sly wink. He pulled her beyond the normal garden and back into their place. "I want to show you something."
"What?" Snow asked finally able to sit on the dried fountain and catch her breath. Never before had she done something as terrible as sneak out of her room.
"We aren't there yet silly." Charming said taking her hand again and leading her to the woods."
"Charming your insane! Please Charming, I do not wish to enter!"
Charming laughed at this and pulled her along anyways.
"Charming please!" Snow cried, tears fell from her eyes.
Charming was surprised by that reaction and quickly stopped and let go of his betrothed's wrist. She fell to her knees and cried silently in fear. Charming knelt beside her.
"Princess," he whispered moving soft strands of bed messed hair from her face. She had never worn her hair completely down before... It wasnt how a lady was supposed to wear it. But when Charming saw her this night; dressed in her white, innocent nightgown, a sheer robe covering her and slippers on her feet, her hair was down and slightly messed from sleeping but her beauty was even more incredible to him. How was that possible?
Snow looked up at him.
"I'm scared of the woods Charming, I never wish to enter them."
"Not even with me at your side? I will never let harm come to you..."
Charming snorted at the memory... Never let harm come to you, my ass! It was his fault that she was not in the safety of her home; he should have been able to protect her!
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"Not even with me at your side? I will never let harm come to you..."
Snow looked up at him. His green eyes melting into her, making her entire body grow weak. If he had asked her to fall upon a blade or take a rope around her neck at that moment she would have. She would do anything to please him, to please the man she loved.
"Okay," she whispered and stood. She took his hand in hers and wiped her tears from her cheeks and eyes.
Charming smiled and took her into the woods. There was a small clearing just a short distance inside. They stopped there.
"See," Charming whispered. "It's not so bad."
Snow looked up at him as if she didn't understand. Why did he bring her into her.
Charming looked up at the moonlit sky.
"I noticed how perfect this place was, this beautiful place... It would be even more perfect if you were here with me." Charming looked back down at Snow, something was in his eyes that Snow didn't quite understand. "And now you are here... and everything is perfect."
Charming pulled Snow close once again and began to dance with her as they did in the water. He leaned closer and Snow could nearly feel his lips.
"I Love you, Charming." Snow whispered, closed her eyes and waited for his lips to meet hers.
But they never did... Tears fell from Snow's eyes. He hadn't loved her, Snow realized as she sat on top of the roof and watching the moon. He had known all along who she was and couldn't have possibly loved her...
Earlier that day the children found out who Snow was... She had been the princess, and was, and had always been the true child of Snoedan. The children were not jealuse... they were infact pleased and hugged her and said that they loved her more because of it. Because before Snoedan died of old age he had looked (even if he didn't see) upon the face of his child. And he died with a smile on his still beautiful face.
Tears fell from Snow's eyes. She lost her true father, her adoptive father, her love, and her life. And worse she only had this night to morn for all those losses, for in the next day they were to bury Papa. Snow would have to be strong and take charge over the children... it was a horrible fate, but it was her own.
***
Close to a week later a woman knocked on the door of Snow's small house. The children were all gone at the moment and Snow slowly and cautiously opened the door.
"Please child, give me a bit of water."
Snow nodded and gave the woman some water and sat her down to rest. The woman only stayed for a short moment but looked at Snow's beauty.
"For your kindness, child, I will give you this comb," the woman pulled forth a lovely comb and laid it in Snow's white hand. "It is all I have to offer you."
"Dear woman," Snow said smiling and shaking her head. "This comb is probably worth a pretty penny... I only gave you a small amount of water."
"To me that water was worth all the combs and money in all the world... it saved my life."
Snow smiled and tried once more to give back the comb.... but th woman refused once more to take it back and left the place.
***
Isabelle laughed and laughed all the way back to the palace... Snow would soon be dead. She looked into her mirror and saw Snow still alive and the comb laid on the table not to far away. The witch gasped and growled... Why did Snow not wear the comb? She then cursed herself for her stupidity when she saw that Snow's hair was now too short to wear a comb properly.
She would have to think up something quite different...
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