Chapter 19

The Life of a Fairy

Standing in front of hundreds of fans and friends, Jiminy, Blue's agent and Pinocchio's best friend is about to give her eulogy and is in complete shock. He looks out at the faces of those who loved Blue, but never really knew her. He knows the truth and knows that Blue would want everyone else to hear it told.

Jiminy knows that what he is about to do will kill the company Gepeto created and maybe even Blue's career, but he believes it is actually the right thing to do. "I came here today to say good-bye. But before I can do that, everyone else must say hello to the person Blue actually was. She was a mystery that no one could unravel.

"Blue was born Margaret Susan Meadows. Her father was a hardworking and honest man who provided for his family as a miner deep in the mountains surrounding Fairy City. Her mother was a house wife who died while giving birth to Margaret. Her father did not know nor cared to raise a child on his own so the child was abandoned and left to survive on her own. This was in the winter of 1965."

A stunned hush fell over the gathered mourners. A cold wind began blowing and Jiminy wondered if that was the cause of the chills running through his body. He quickly composed himself and continued.

"Two days after she was abandoned, the infant was found by an elderly woman living near the river she was placed. This woman took the infant in and raised her as her own, even naming her Margaret, after herself. She taught Margaret the ways of the times, of how to be a woman. The woman slept with men while the child slept. Before her first year a man came searching for this woman. This man wanted something that only the elderly woman could provide. The love of a child. For twelve years, Margaret was given to this man for his own pleasure. His name was Gepeto.

At the age of thirteen, young Margaret tried to escape her horrifying prison. She made her way deep into the forest, only to be found by a miner that brutally beat and raped her for close to a week. Never realizing that this was the home of her birth, Margaret just wanted to escape, and before the end of the second week she did. As her father made his way to the basement he kept her in one night, Margaret took him by surprise and stabbed him in the throat and watched him die.

She was finally free and took the little money her father had and made her way into the city. She got a job as a waitress and by the age of fifteen resorted to sleeping with men again to provide herself with a place to sleep. In the same year, Margaret became pregnant. Knowing that she could barely care for herself, she decided to abort her child.

At the age of eighteen, Margaret took a job as a housemaid and was soon hired to work for Gepeto. She was afraid for her life everyday she worked there, never knowing if Gepeto knew what he had done to her. If he had, he never let on that he did. Margaret's time working for Gepeto began the start of her new life. After meeting Gepeto's son, Pinocchio, the two quickly fell in love. Margaret began calling herself Blue Fairy, a nickname that Pinocchio used to call her. Pinocchio pushed Blue to start singing and her career shortly took off. A few years later, Gepeto passed away in a accidental sexual incident, he was smothered by a rather obese prostitute who had been sitting on his face.

Gepeto left his entire fortune to his only son, who continued to run the company his father started. I had met the two the year previously and came on as their advisor, trying my best to keep the family's dark secrets out of the public eye. Pinocchio's various sexual depravities are well known, but the reason for his dysfunction is not. Gepeto used his son like he used many other children. He molested and raped Pinocchio since he was a child and when Pinocchio was 10, Gepeto forced him to participate in his sexual depravity.

Gepeto is not the man you all know. His entire life has been a well crafted lie. Countless families have been touched by his darkness and Blue and Pinocchio are just two that you know of. Beneath the house that Gepeto built are the bodies of several children who did not survive their night with that monster. Do not let his horrible actions taint the memory of such a beautiful person that has touched all our lives in one way or another."

The crowd of mourners are in tears. None can believe what they have been told, and none want to believe it. From behind Jiminy, a cloaked figure grabs his arm as he is turning to leave the podium.

The figure looks Jiminy in the face and says, "No one is going to remember what you've said. There are those that need the memory of Gepeto to live on awhile longer."

The cloaked figure then raises his arms a large cloud of sprinkle envelops the crowd and they all quickly look dazed, their eyes staring into nothing, bodies frozen awaiting for instructions.

The figure says to the crowd, "Blue was great, we all miss her. Now go home."

The crowd begins to slowly disperse, muttering how much they miss Blue in the process.

Jiminy turns towards the figure and questions, "Who are you?"

The figure removes the hood from it's head and reveals itself. Standing in front of Jiminy was a beautifully angelic red haired woman. Her piercing green eyes looked Jiminy in the face and said, "My name is Belle, and I'm the beast that you should be worrying about. Not the memory of a dead toy maker."

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Within the private office of the Red Queen, sit's the cold hearted mistress of crime working on the empire she has spent a life time building. Her phone suddenly begins ringing. She answers and the only thing she hears before the line goes dead is this-

"The time is coming. Your time is almost over. A new evil shall control this city, and you have no hopes of stopping me. Enjoy the rest of your life, it ends shortly."

To be continued.

Author's Notes-

Hey peoples. Haven't been doing this a lot lately, but me and my girlfriend just had our baby. It's a beautiful healthy baby boy named Damian Robert. I'm sure you'll understand. There should be some more chapters coming within the next couple of weeks. I'm going to try and get at least two done a week for the next couple of weeks, I just got to find the time to write them up. Start reviewing all over again. Thanks in advance.