Cursed once more
Jade Star asked for a oneshot of *season 6 spoilers!* Snow is woken from the sleeping curse, but at a price. Everyone has reverted to their cursed selves. Snow sits at Granny's at 7:15am with baby Neal, observing her family. Charming is once again the weak willed David Nolan. Emma has her walls back up. Henry is jaded and without his powers as the Author.
When Snow had made the deal with the Evil Queen to end this curse she had been at her lowest point. She missed her husband. Missed seeing her children and grandson during the day. She had to end this in whatever way possible. So she went to the Evil Queen and told her that she would do whatever she wanted, but to just make this suffering stop. The Evil Queen had told her not nearly enough suffering had happened. That this sleeping curse had only been a distraction to stop Charming and Snow knowing what was really going on. That the Evil Queen had gathered the ingredients together that would allow her to make a second dark curse. That Snow was just in time to see it happening…and there was nothing Snow could do to stop it.
As Snow was so close to the Evil Queen when the new curse struck, she was still re-cursed, but with all her memories intact. Everyone else in her family was not so lucky. Snow had quickly found Neal after the curse was cast and was keeping him close with her. Who knew what the Evil Queen might try and do to him. Or the rest of her family, but there was only so much Snow could do to keep them safe. So every morning, Snow would sit with Neal at Granny's at quarter past seven in the morning and take some tea. There she would watch as, inevitably, each member of her family would come in at some point.
First would be her Charming. It took all Snow's willpower not to go over to him and kiss him. But it would do no good if she did. They were both cursed, after all. True love's kiss doesn't work when both people are cursed. Snow's heart broke at seeing her amazing husband reverted back into the weak David the curse had brought out. It just wasn't him at all. The only good thing being at least this time he wasn't with Abigail whilst cursed. Snow didn't think she could stomach that.
Then Emma could come in. Snow just wanted to shake her. All the work she, Charming and Henry had put into bringing down her walls brick by brick gone to nothing. She was back to her closed off self, and it truly pained Snow to see her like that. She hated seeing Emma without love in her life. She didn't even seem to realise that Henry was her son, and he wasn't doing so well either.
He'd normally come in about half eight before school to grab some breakfast. He'd normally rant to Red or Granny about having another fight with his mom and how much he hated her. How he was bored of school and wished he could just leave Storybrooke and never come back. He didn't care where he went or what he did, he just wanted to leave. Snow knew that wasn't the real Henry talking. The Henry Snow knew would never say he hated his mom, or that he wanted out of Storybrooke. Henry loved Storybrooke.
When he left, cramming a nutrigrain bar down his throat as he made his way quickly to get his bus, Snow sighed sadly to herself.
"Don't worry, little man." She whispered to her infant son. "We'll find a way to break this curse, won't we? Then we'll have our family back." Neal crooned in response. Snow took that as his way of saying he agreed.
