How the Queen Stole Christmas

by Snapegirlkmf

A holiday wedding for Archie and Lilly enables Regina to be a flower girl, but the Christmas spirit is not in everyone's heart in Storybrooke when Cora the Queen of Hearts stealthily invades and sets out to spoil the holiday by kidnapping Regina and her small rival Meredith. Will the Queen succeed in stealing Christmas? A Baby Regal/Gold fic! Gold Standard AU!

15. An Ozian Christmas Wedding

I found a dream that I could speak to

A dream that I can call my own

I found a thrill to press my cheek to

A thrill I've never known, oh yeah

You smiled, you smiled oh and then the spell was cast

And here we are in Heaven

For you are mine at last

Etta James – At Last

(Archie Strogoff Hopper and Lilliana Strogoff Hopper's love theme)

Avonlea

Estate of Rumplestiltskin Strogoff-Gold

Juno Beach, Florida

Christmas Eve, 2018

"This must be one of those moments when you're grateful you have a rather large estate, dearie!" Rumple joked to Strogoff as they stood in Avonlea's grand ballroom in front of the fifteen-foot high Christmas tree it had taken their wives and Belle Weaver almost an entire day to decorate. "You've got everyone from six realms staying here over the holidays and we would be bumping into each other otherwise!"

"Indeed, I am dearie," Strogoff said with a smile. "But I do love the large extended family I have even if ye drive me crazy at times. Speaking of family, we need to get that brother of yours settled down. Been on his own too long and knowing our wives, they've probably got a few lasses lined up."

"I have a daughter who's single," Weaver reminded them when he joined them.

"Um no offense Rob but she looks like the witch he roasted!" laughed Loki.

"My Kelly's nothing like that wench I'm proud to say. She and my Roni take after me more than their mum."

"Thank the gods for that!" Rumple muttered. "I still can't believe YOU had children to her! At least Rum and I had enough common sense to get out while the getting was good!"

Weaver smirked. "Well she may have ripped out her heart, but she was still pregnant when we changed the contract. Loopholes dearies, and I got two wonderful daughters out of the deal. It took Roni a little time to straighten herself out, but Kelly's always been a good girl which is why she was named Glinda's successor as Good Witch of the North in our world. Same with my Bae. His mother was a bitch, but he's always been a good lad and Gideon is like my Belle in every way."

They heard a throat being cleared in the doorway and Bobby stood there in full dress uniform. His brother and his counterparts burst into laughter.

"You wanna tell me what's so funny dearies?" he demanded.

"Let me guess, wearing your uniform was Belle's idea?"

"Yes, but I dinna ken why. This is a wedding, not a military ball! I never cared for those things anyway."

"Oh, just humor her please," Rumple pleaded while winking at Weaver, Strogoff and Loki.

"You know, the way Belle plots and schemes, I'd start to think she's related to you, Loki!"

"Well she is through marriage!" Loki chuckled. "And I must say she does me proud!"

Bobby rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Alright. Fine. I'll wear this thing if it makes her happy but if she's planning on matching me with one of the ladies here, she's wasting her time! What are you guys wearing?"

"I've been ordered to wear my leathers by my wife and your brother's but in different colors," spoke up Weaver. "Been in jeans and t-shirts so long that I doubt I'll fit into the damn things anymore. I'm surprised they didn't ask me to wear MY uniform."

"I'm wearing my grey dragonscale leathers. I got married in them," replied Strogoff.

"I'm under orders to wear mine too," chuckled Loki. "I suppose we should get ready before Lilly starts getting impatient. Her mum was a powder keg when she had to wait for anything." He smiled wistfully. "Oh, I wish Glinda had lived to see this day. Her daughters' happiness was the only thing she ever wanted and that damned bitch Zorinda robbed her of the right to see the beautiful family Lilly's created."

"You brought our mum back for a while. Maybe your wedding gift to her can be to bring hers so she can," Bobby suggested.

"HEYYYY YOU GUYYYYS!" Regina shrilled from the ballroom doorway, tapping her little foot impatiently. "Auntie Belle says you need to stop flappin your gums and get dressed!"

Loki groaned. "The Queen has spoken. We need to dress to impress."

"Ye could wear a bedsheet and look like a knockout," Bobby snorted.

"He will be . . . later," said a voice that sounded like bells chiming.

Loki looked up and beheld his wife. "Hello, darling. Did you finally get Miss I Do What I Want to sleep?"

"She gets that from you," the goddess laughed. "And yes." Sigyn was a curly hair strawberry blond with eyes the color of violets, petite and curvy, wearing a meadow green gown with pink embroidered flowers that looked stunning upon her.

"Oooh you're really pretty and you sound like an angel!" Regina cried.

Sigyn laughed. "Why thank you, sweetheart! You give the loveliest compliments." She beamed at the child.

"I try," she said modestly. "Mommy always tells me you gotta be nice to people even if they're mean an nasty to you but yous not mean and nasty. You gonna beat off all the girls that stare at Loki like he's steak with a stick?"

"Oh honey, they better keep their distance." Sigyn chuckled. "Because I have an ugly stick right here begging to be used." She pulled out a gnarled twig and showed Regina. "Don't touch it, dear."

"It got volts in it that can zap me?"

"No but it will make you look hideous for a day," Sigyn explained.

"She used it on Fandral once. I thought he was going to drop dead right there!" Loki giggled.

"Served him right! He put his hands where no one but you are allowed to touch!" Sigyn sniffed.

"On your butt or boobs?" Regina wanted to know.

Strogoff threw back his head and laughed hysterically. "That reminds me of something Hope asked me once! That oldest daughter of mine is too curious for her own good."

"It's Fandral. honey. So yes." Sigyn sighed. "But he won't be making that mistake again."

"He better not. Or else he'll be missing his hands," Loki growled.

Weaver smirked. "Oh, try explaining to a five-year-old Gideon what Mama and Papa were doing when he walked in on them one night after a nightmare."

"Umm what were ya doin Mister Weaver?"

"Did you tell him you were jumping on the bed to scare the demons away?" Sigyn laughed. "That's what Loki told Miri when she came in crying that Modi broke her doll."

"Umm...well...I said I was lookin for prowlers."

"Oh, I get it. You was doin the dirty deed!" Regina exclaimed.

Rumple faced palmed himself. "I swear, my hair is going to be white before she ever gets outta preschool!"

"Haven't heard it called that in a while," Strogoff giggled. "Where'd you hear that, dearie?"

"Meredith calls it that."

"Remind me to have a little chat with my niece," Strogoff muttered.

"Rumplestiltskin Strogoff Gold, why aren't you dressed yet!"

"Oh, I've had that talk before," Loki commiserated. "Especially after the dinner with my parents and my brothers when Miri went and told them in the middle of our soup course than when she got big she wanted-"

"-roses on her panties like Mommy," Sigyn finished, laughing. "I wanted to crawl in a hole!"

Belle Strogoff walked into the ballroom and crossed her arms over her breasts, glaring at her husband.

"I'm waiting Rumfather!"

"Alright Belle Corleone, keep your knickers on! I'm working on it!"

"I got roses on my panties! See!" Regina lifted her skirt.

Bobby chuckled behind his hand.

"Norns help me!" Loki giggled. "Sigyn, maybe you'd better talk to her."

Rumple felt like he needed a drink...a truckload of them along with a silo of aspirin.

Sigyn knelt, her movements as graceful as an aspen swaying in a breeze, and she whispered something in Regina's ear.

"Okay I'll 'member next time!"

While they were talking, Strogoff gestured and changed into his grey leather dragonscale suit and his wife changed into her gold gown.

Loki ran a hand down himself and he was wearing his black leathers and his green and black matching coat with the gold embossments and his green tunic.

"Oh, and gentleman my mother-in-law would like to know if you each have a special song. She wants all the couples to be able to share a dance to their songs," Belle said.

Well that leaves me out, Bobby thought.

He wasn't planning on doing much dancing anyway.

Since Weaver no longer had his magic, Strogoff changed his outfit for him.

Rumple swapped his Armani for his dragonscale leathers and his red shirt with the gold embroidered vest.

"We're easy, dearie" Rumple replied. "Tale As Old As Time."

"What a group of handsome men," Belle Weaver murmured.

She smiled at her husband's outfit, a brown leather overcoat with a matching vest with a cream-colored shirt and grey breeches. It was the same outfit the wore on their wedding day while she wore her yellow gown that he'd restored so lovingly with the weaving skills he didn't need magic to keep.

"How can ya tell which guy's yours? They all look alike cept for Mister Weaver 'cause he's got short hair."

Loki looked at Sigyn. "It wasn't written when we got married but we've always liked to dance to "Almost Paradise". Right, hon?"

"Oh! That's Archie Two and Tracey's song too!" Belle Strogoff said with a smile. "And our hearts always know the ones we love," she replied to Regina.

Rum smiled. "Belle and I nearly drove ourselves crazy trying to find a song that fit us other than Beauty and the Beast and we finally decided on 'After All' by Cher and Peter Cetera."

He snickered. "But Jiminy and his brother have Michael Bolton songs for theirs. It drives everyone at the Grille insane when they sing anything by him."

Weaver groaned. "You mean they actually SING Bolton? Ummm...no. My Belle's and my song is I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner."

"I like that one too." Loki remarked.

"I really like that song off the Robin Hood movie. Maybe Robin'll dance with me to it," Regina mused.

"Which one dearie? There's been so many!" Bobby laughed.

"Ummm the one where the guy doesn't use the right accent and Unca Rumple complains 'bout it."

"Buuutttt Alan Rickman was HOT in it!" Belle Weaver exclaimed.

"Oh yes," Belle Strogoff murmured. Their husbands rolled their eyes.

"And here we go...pick your tongues off the floor dearies," Weaver grouched.

"Well they're right. He was jus' don't tell Robin I said so or he's gonna get jealous. Didn't think that Robin Hood was cute at all."

"The real one was no Errol Flynn," Loki told them.

"Don't tell Gina that or she'll try to roast a god!" Rum giggled.

"Yeah, her Robin's really cute an if that's what MY Robin's gonna look like when I get big, I'm gonna marry him and have lotsa babies!"

"I'm talking about the one that was born here in England," Loki clarified.

"Oh yeah him...nah wasn't he mean too?"

"I don't think so," Belle Weaver replied.

Rum glanced up at the clock on the wall, realizing how much time had passed and feared his mother would be ready to bring the wrath of an Ozian demigoddess down on them if they were all late to her wedding.

"No, but he looked nothing like the other versions of him."

"Well dearies, I'd love to chat more, but Mama is probably getting ready to send a twister through my lawn if we're late. Rumple, would you mind coming with me. There's something we need to discuss."

Strogoff gestured and he and Rumple were teleported outside.

"What I wish to discuss is your Christmas gift, dearie."

"My gift? But I don't need anything."

"Oh, but you do dearie. You may share a bond with Belle, but you will still outlive her because you are a mage and she is not. I have a simple solution to your problem but with all magic there is a price to be paid."

"Of course, there is. If it involves dark magic, I'd rather forget it."

"It doesn't. Allow me to show you." Rum reached into his chest and pulled out his heart. He waved his hand over the glowing red organ and to Rumple's shock it divided into pieces. There were so many that the sorcerer lost count of them. There was one small piece in his hand while the others hovered above it.

"How...how did you do that?" Rumple exclaimed.

"There are actually many uses for a heart, most of them that use dark magic but this...this is the strongest form of light magic that only the Ozian Guardians knew how to do."

"But what is it?"

"The piece I hold in my hand is mine, but the others belong to those I've bound myself to. If you take out their hearts and divide them, they will look like this too, maybe not with as many pieces."

"You've done a magical form of a heart transplant?"

Strogoff laughed at the quip.

"More than that dearie. More than that. Take the piece I hold in my hand and try to access its memories."

"How?" He felt like a novice mage again.

"Will it. Make it show you Neverland, eight years ago and you must cast the image onto something with a reflection."

Rumple glanced over at the fountain.

"That'll do," Rum encouraged. "Now concentrate."

Ephesis

The Ozian Hell Realm

The Realm of the Forgotten

Eight years earlier

He was in complete darkness. He buried his face in his hands and began to cry as he imagined what horrible fate awaited Bae and Henry. "I've failed you...again!"

"There is still a chance you can save them," he heard a voice say in the distance. "If you are willing to do what it requires."

"Who's there?" he asked, looking around and seeing no one. "Show yourself!"

He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see a young woman with white blond hair, blue eyes and wearing a silver gown sitting beside him.

"Who are you?"

"I am many things to you. I am Hope," she answered softly as she reached up and brushed a tear from his cheek. "You've kept this box all these centuries, surely you know its legends."

"Right now it does contain one of the world's darkest evils...me," he said sadly. "And now the other...my own damned father...is going to kill my son...and my grandson...and it's all my fault! He'll keep me trapped in here just long enough to succeed...and then he may release me just so I can watch him enjoy his victory."

"You have a way to escape, you just have to believe it is possible."

"I don't know what to believe anymore."

"You don't want to!" Hope said angrily as she hauled him to his feet, shook him and slapped his cheek. "Overcome your fear, Rumplestiltskin! Be the man I know you are! The man Belle loves, the father Baelfire remembers! Or do you truly wish to follow in your father's footsteps now and live for no one but yourself?" she went on shoving him away from her, her hands on her hips and giving him a glare that was as terrifying as his own when he was in one of his rages.

"No!" he cried. "I'm not like that anymore. I've changed."

"Then prove it," she hissed. "Remove your heart!"

Rumple scoffed. "And how is that supposed to help me, dearie? I have removed my heart...many times and it is as dark as my soul from this cursed power I traded my son for as my father was quick to remind me of. Nothing can remove this darkness from me except my death and being locked in here is a fate far worse than my death."

"Yet did you not say in your message to Belle that you could defeat Pan and live?" Hope inquired softly.

"Only if she brought me this box from my shop. And my father switched this one with a fake. He was always good at that...trickery. Follow The Lady," Rumple added bitterly. "And like everyone else I fell for the ruse. He will take my grandson's heart and will kill him, my Bae and everyone else along with them to retain the youth he traded me for. I've failed Bae again and you need not be here to remind me of it! Go!"

"Do you not believe that your son still has faith in you?"

"Why should he? He knows now of the prophecy."

"He gave you this box when you asked him to trust you enough to give it back. By admitting you removed your shadow in preparation to enter the barrier Pan placed around Skull Rock your son could have faith that you came to Neverland to save Henry, not kill him. If that is not faith, Rumplestiltskin, what do you assume it to be?"

"Desperation."

"And what of your grandson? He does not fear you now even when you were cruel to him. Do you doubt he believes you can save him?"

"He doubts all of us because his life has been built around our lies! And that, dearie, works to Pan's advantage. He will use that to make Henry believe he is his only true friend. He toys with words, a skill I learned to use as well."

"And Belle?"

"What about her?"

"Do you doubt her love for you is as strong as yours is for her even after she has sent you proof of it?"

"Proof I'm now trapped in! She'll forget me eventually. It's for the best."

"Is it?"

"I'm done talking. Leave!" he snarled.

"Remove your heart," she ordered again, more firmly.

"If I do it, will you leave then?"

"Perhaps."

Rumple plunged his hand into his chest and grasped the organ, roughly pulling it out. He gazed down at it, frowning. "I don't understand...this…this is not how it looked before."

"When was the last time you removed it?"

"After I...after I threw Belle out of my castle and was told of her death," he confessed sadly. "It was almost completely dark then, with only a small portion still red."

"Yet now, twenty-eight years later, there is only a small dark portion here." Hope indicated a small black spot.

"How is that possible? Once a heart turns dark, the darkness grows inside it until it consumes it."

"It can...unless there is still something or someone that can bring light into its darkness and give it the strength to fight against it and banish the worst of it and in turn strengthen the will of its host. Now, divide its essence."

"Divide its essence?"

"You've tried it before, did you not?"

"Twice. The first time after I let Bae go and after I lost Belle the first time to try to see if she was alive. And nothing happened. Just as nothing will happen now. You cannot divide the essence of a heart plagued by darkness."

"We'll see. Divide it," she encouraged.

"Your name should be Persistence, not Hope," he grumbled.

"Divide it," she insisted.

Rumple closed his eyes, concentrated and waved his free hand over his beating heart, bracing himself for yet another failure.

"Open your eyes."

He opened his eyes slowly, gasping in shock. The dark portion of his heart still lay in his palm while there were three larger pieces hovering in the air, all of them glowing with a bright white light.

"I don't understand...how...?"

"You have three sources of light in your darkness, Rumplestiltskin. Summon them to you now. Make their strength your own and your strength theirs. A bond in love and blood is strong enough to cross time and space to defeat the darkest of evils."

He reached out and took the first glowing piece in his free hand. "Baelfire," he murmured as he opened his palm and released it. It vanished. He then reached for the second piece, raising it to his lips. "Belle," he whispered and kissed it before he released it. He gazed at the third piece, unsure if he should keep it with him or take the risk that it would return to him if he sent it to his chosen recipient. Taking a deep breath, he reached for it and cupped it in his palm tenderly. "Henry," he said softly then slowly opened his palm to allow it to escape.

"...I was in Hell," Strogoff was saying. "There were only three days left before Nonestica was destined to be destroyed and I was still under the curse of the Dark One. To free myself I had to agree to surrender part of my heart to three of the people I loved most."

"Then what happened?"

"I tied Belle's lifeforce to mine. She already had magic but now she has my lifespan and when it's time for me to return to Paradise, I will not be making my journey alone. My Belle will be with me...in this life and the next."

"You mean…?"

"Yes, dearie. A love powerful enough that it lasts beyond death."

"And the price?"

Strogoff giggled. "I do hope your Belle isn't bothered by magic because it's possible she may inherit some of yours."

"She's not bothered by my magic."

"If you agree we'll be having a second heart division ceremony after my parents wedding."

"Oh, and uhhh did you tell him all the perks?" Storybrooke Two's Archie walked into the ballroom with the Book of the Ancients tucked under his arm.

"I may have left a few out."

"Namely the one where sharing a heart adds more fireworks in a marriage?"

Rumple's eyes go wide. "Seriously? Not that we don't already have that but . . ."

"Oh, but there will be more," Strogoff promised. "You learned that yourself on your wedding night, didn't you, dearie?"

Archie Two nodded. "It was a learning experience for Tracey and me. She spent so many centuries alone and so did I but that night…" He smiled at the memory. "And when we're not too exhausted from our wedding planning and crafting businesses and my practice."

"TMI, Archie. TMI!" Strogoff laughed. "You've been hanging around Jiminy and David too long."

"Well they did 'adopt' me."

Gold chuckled when he walked into the room in his own leathers. "And me. I did teach him a few things."

"Dressing for a certain shapeshifting fae, dearie?" Rumple Six teased as he joined them with Rumple Four at his side.

"We've only gone on two dates!" he protested.

"Melanie seems quite taken with you."

"Sapphira is not."

"There's a shock," Rumple Four muttered.

"Nevertheless, even if Melanie and I don't work out I will help her in any way I can to make certain Sapphira does not become the next Dark One."

Good luck with that," Rumple said. "That reminds me…there's something you all need to know. When Loki and Puck visited the Blue Fairy, they discovered something about Storybrooke Two's Zelena."

"That she's Persephone Diosa," Strogoff finished. "When Archie Two was the Dark One, he merged his soul with Jiminy's, giving them both access to Alemedia's memories. They suspected it, but they couldn't prove it. And now that we know, there's only one thing that can be done."

"What's that?" Gold wanted to know.

"Restore her memories. Persephone is the best chance we have of keeping Hades and Alemedia in check. It may also be the only way we have of preventing Sapphira from becoming her vessel."

"Are you certain that's a good idea? That witch would rather see me dead." Gold protested.

"Once we restore Persephone's memories, she'll revert back to the way she was before Alemedia had her murdered. But if you don't believe me, ask her daughter."

"Robin cannae speak yet."

"I'm not talking about Robin. I'm talking about Ozmalita Diosa. The Keeper of Souls.

The Guardian of the West Gate summons thee

Ozmalita Diosa, appear now before me!" Strogoff chanted.

A puff of silver smoke appeared in the room and a tall, ginger haired woman in her early thirties stepped out. She wore a white lab coat over her red silk shirt and black slacks. A National Institutes of Heath identification tag was clipped to the pocket of her coat with the name Dr. Natalie Durant written on it.

Strogoff frowned at the young woman. "You're not dressed for Mama's wedding yet, dearie!" he scolded.

"I just got back from investigating an e-coli outbreak in Texas," she explained. "But not to worry. I'll be ready on time. Oh, and I'm bringing a guest."

"Does this guest bear a striking resemblance to your ex-husband?" he queried. Adora grinned.

"He does and Weaver, I believe your daughter Kelly knows who he is since they served together." She handed him a photograph.

"Stephen Connor. He was a medic in the Army. Is he from our world?"

She shook her head. "No but he knows about it. It was little hard to take in at first, but he's accepted it. Now why have you summoned me?"

"Your mother."

Adora stiffened. "Alemedia had her killed by an Ephesian wraith centuries ago before I became the Keeper of Souls."

"Your mother's alive Adora," Archie Two spoke up. "She was reborn like you were…only now she's my Storybrooke's Zelena."

"Oh, I was afraid of that!" Adora moaned. "That's how Papa got his powers back. She restored them so that he could use Uncle Zeus's lightning staff, but she turned it on him instead and put him right back where he belongs."

"We have to reawaken her. Persephone can keep Hades and Alemedia contained. The only way to reawaken her is to give her the nectar of the gods." Adora sighed. "But it only existed in our world."

Strogoff grinned. "Not anymore. Some of it was smuggled out and being grown in a shop right here in Juno."

"By whom?"

"Who named their daughter after it, dearie?"

"Jiminy! Put the ambrosia in something she will eat or drink. It won't harm her, just awaken her. Oh, I hope it works. I want my mother back. I'll get the ambrosia from Jiminy and give it to her myself but before I do that, I need to get ready or Lilly will go Bridezilla on me." Adora laughed as she vanished.

An hour later everyone gathered in the ballroom as the ceremony began, Lilly's beloved granddaughter taking her rightful place at Regina's side, the girls laying a path of red and white roses for the former Ozian princess to walk on.

Moments later the bride entered the ballroom on her son's arm, both in tears. The groom was holding back his own, knowing the centuries of pain his demigoddess bride endured being parted from her only child, the child she'd given her life to protect.

Archie Two walked up to the podium and opened the Book of the Ancients, the language of a land lost years ago translating to English for those who didn't understand it. Nearly all of the women and some of the men were crying, so deeply moved by the ceremony and thinking back to their own weddings.

"Who gives this woman to this man?" Archie Two asked. Strogoff stepped forward.

"I, Rumplestiltskin, of the House of Strogoff, do give my mother Lilliana to this man in matrimony."

"And who gives this man to this woman?"

"I, Geppetto, representative of the House of Hopper do give my friend Archibald to this woman in matrimony."

"Mommy, I thought only the bride gets given away," Regina whispered.

"Not in an Ozian wedding ceremony," Az whispered back. "In our ceremonies both the bride and groom are given away."

"I think I like that."

"Archie, Lilliana, you may now speak your vows," Archie Two instructed when they faced each other with their hands joined.

"You came back to this world to be reunited with the son you gave your life for; a sacrifice I know you would make again willingly but you were also sent back to find the missing piece of your heart," Archie said softly. "You could've chosen any man in all the realms, but you chose me, a former thief and cricket. I feel like I'm the luckiest man in the realms. I didn't know you were a goddess when I met you and I didn't need to know you were to love you." He reached out and caressed her cheek. "I love you in this life Lilliana Strogoff Hopper, my goddess of light and every life beyond. I would say so much more but I would prefer to say it when we're alone."

"I was born a goddess and I died a goddess, but I was reborn a mortal woman and as a mortal woman I fell in love with a mortal man. I didn't care that he was former thief or a cricket. They were just little bricks on the road to you becoming the man you were meant to be, the man who held the missing piece of my heart without my knowing it. But when the day comes that I must return to Paradise again, my heart is filled with joy that I will not be making that journey alone and no matter how many more times I'm reborn, I know you'll be there waiting for me. I love you forever Archie Strogoff Hopper."

"Archibald Hopper, is it your intention to bind yourself heart body and soul to your bride?"

"It is my intention."

"Lilliana, is it your intention to bind yourself heart, body and soul to your groom."

"It is my intention."

"Ah, I am sorry we are late," spoke a familiar voice from the doorway. All eyes turned to see a man with jet black hair and long black robes standing there with a young woman on his arm. The Ozians, including the bride clenched their hands into fists, pressed them against their shoulders and knelt.

"Whoa! Alina are my eyes playing tricks on me or did someone invite Severus Snape to the party?" Henry asked.

"Holy Merlin! It IS him!" gasped Alina.

"Is HE a god too?" her nephew muttered.

"He's the Ozian god Aramon," explained Ambrosia Ozopov.

"But in his native land of Russia his name was Ivan Strogoff," added Zelena.

"Ah, Loki...how long has it been comrade?"

Aramon's cane tapped a rhythm on the tiled marble floor as he approached the Norse god that had been his closest friend in the days when he could walk the mortal realm freely.

"Too long by half, friend Aramon," the Norse god replied, flashing his famous smile, and speaking in flawless Russian. The Norse pantheon had developed spells that allowed them to comprehend and speak any language in the known universes.

"You can blame the witch I called my wife's sister for that. She stripped me of my powers and exiled me in Ephesis until my descendants freed me. I warned Lurline and Alemedia I would be the last one standing and I am."

"I am glad you are," Loki replied, switching to English and embracing his fellow deity. "You and I, we don't quietly into that good night."

"No, we do not but tell me...why are some of these ladies staring at me? Do I have a stain on my robes?"

Killian Gold nudged his grandfather. "He really does look like Sev Grampa!"

"He can take any form he wants to, but he's always looked like Alan Rickman to us," said Belle Strogoff.

"I admired the man's work greatly," said Aramon.

Loki chuckled. "As did I. Let me introduce you to my daughter, Miri Laufeyson, and my nephew, Modi Thorsson. They were born while you were in Ephesis."

"Ah! Hello," Aramon held out his hand to the youths. "You may call me Aramon or Ivan."

They shook them eagerly.

"And now, if you will allow me, I would like to complete the final ritual of the ceremony. Child, release your glamour spell."

The young woman that accompanied him waved her hand down her face. Lilly, Loki, DG, Wyatt, Ambrose and Raw gasped in shock.

"Mama!" Lilly sobbed.

"Glinda!" the others exclaimed for it was Glinda The Good herself.

Aramon tapped his cane three times and a puff of smoke appeared in the room revealing a man wearing a top hat and a long cloak.

"I am the Great and Terrible…"

"…Wizard of Oz…" Loki chuckled. "In your dreams maybe, Alexander or are you going by the Mystic Man now?"

"I'll use the name I was given in my first life. I am the father of the bride after all."

"Papa," Lilly sobbed and threw her arms around them.

"Lilliana…our light," Glinda whispered.

"I've missed you both so much!"

"As we've missed you, darling girl," said Alexander.

DG placed her hand on her husband's arm, tears streaming down his cheeks. The last time he'd seen his old mentor the Mystic Man he'd been detoxing from drugs and urging him to protect the young girl placed in his charge at all costs. The Mystic Man had died protecting a Guardian in his second life as he did in his first.

Archie Two stepped back and allowed the god to approach the kneeling couple. Aramon placed his hand on Lilly's head.

"Your journey to find your heart has been a long and painful one my dear but now we must make that bond complete. Rise, my children. Glinda and Alexander, you may begin."

Glinda reached into her daughter's chest and removed her heart, placing it in Lilly's palm as Alexander removed Archie's. They waved their hands over the glowing organs and the guests unfamiliar with the spell watched with awe as they split into two pieces, one glowing red in the couples' palms' the other hovering above them glowing white.

"That's not how it's done!" exclaimed Regina Two earning a kick to her foot by her Storybrooke One counterpart.

"Oh yes it is!" Gina retorted. "Watch and learn!"

"Lilliana, take the unclaimed piece of your heart in your hand and speak the name of the person it belongs to," her mother instructed. "But first you must recite the incantation if you remember it."

"See as I see

Feel as I feel

Let our two hearts become one

Not even in death shall this bond be undone!" she recited passionately. "Archie Strogoff Hopper!" she exclaimed and released it. It floated over to where the groom stood.

"Archie, if you wish to claim this heart, take it in your hand and hold it to your chest until it disappears. You will feel a bit of pain at first," Alexander informed his son-in-law. The groom did so without the slightest hesitation, the piece vanishing once he pressed it against his chest.

"Now I understand….you replace a part of your heart with part of theirs," Regina Two whispered. "My Snow…she crushed Charming's heart to cast a Dark Curse and gave him half of hers, but they are still missing the other half."

"Which you must use this ceremony to replace," Gina informed her. Regina Two nodded.

"Archie take the unclaimed piece of your heart in your hand and speak the name of the one it belongs to. You must recite the same incantation. Do you remember it?"

"See as I see

Feel as I feel

Let our two hearts become one

Not even in death shall this bond be undone!" he repeated. "Lilliana Strogoff Hopper," he murmured before he released his heart piece. She held it against her chest until it vanished, and Glinda and Alexander returned the other pieces to their bodies. They then stepped back.

"I am now yours, heart body and soul Archie Hopper and I will love you in this life and the next," Lilly said through her tears, her hand on his chest as his was on hers, covering their joined hearts.

"I am now yours heart, body and soul Lilliana Strogoff Hopper and I will love you in this life and the next."

Belle sniffled and dabbed at her eyes. "Oh, this is so beautiful…"

Rumple smiled. Soon it will be our turn, sweetheart, he thought for at that moment he made his decision. He would gladly share a heart with the woman he loved most in the world and there were many other couples in the room who felt the same while others were smiling, recalling their own ceremonies.

"And by the will of the gods and the state of Florida, I now pronounce you husband and wife. Archie, you may…HEY! I didn't get to that part yet!" Archie Two protested when the groom swept his wife into his arms for a kiss.

"Do the short, short version!" Archie commanded as he briefly broke their kiss.

"Good. You're married. Kiss her! There! That satisfy you!"

"Oh my God! Awesome! They did Spaceballs!" Henry crowed.

"Finally!" Archie exclaimed and kissed his wife again.

"Oh, come on! You didn't have to wait that long!" Archie Tow grouched. "Now do us a favor and save the rest of it for later!"

"Come on Meri!" Regina and Meredith jumped out of their seats and began throwing rose petals on the couple. Archie scooped up his granddaughter and hugged her.

"You did a fabulous job, Meri!" He kissed her cheek. "Your gramma and I are so proud of you."

"I want a ceremony like that when I get married Grampa."

"Hopefully NOT until you're in your Fifties!"

"Like you?" she countered with a smirk.

"It may be later," he teased and set her back on her feet, a lump rising in his throat when Lilly's parents were waiting for him at the doorway. "You…your Highnesses…"

"You can relax Archie. We know you will be a good husband to our daughter. Our grandson will see to that," Glinda chuckled.

"My stepson," Archie laughed. "And he's older than me!"

Lilly hugged her parents again, not wanting to let them go but she knew their time in the mortal realm was limited and she knew they would want to talk to their old friend Loki. Everyone was asked to wait outside while the ballroom was being reset for the reception. Most of the food had been prepared by the staff at The Spinning Wheel Bar and Grille and the Golden Cricket Country Club with desserts prepared by Avonlea's kitchen staff. The wedding party was served at their table while everyone else would pick and choose what they wanted to eat from the buffet. The Storybrooke Six crew was eager to introduce one of their very special traditions into the reception, but they would have to wait and see if it was welcome.

The toast had been made and everyone was eating when they heard a strange noise in the corner of the room.

"…Om nom nom nom!"

"Killy, Killy, lookie, COOKIE!" Aria Gold yelled, banging her spoon to get her brother's attention.

"Holy crap! It's a Cookie Monster!" he gasped.

"Cookie! Neal, Cookie," Pearl Nolan from Storybrooke Four nudged her brother.

"A Baby Cookie," he murmured.

"Cool! Who invited Cookie Monster?" Jasper Molk Two asked. His fellow Nevengers shrugged.

"You animate a Cookie Monster, Rumplette?" Young Bae asked his sister.

"Huh-uh. He's real one."

"Miss Beth! DJ's eatin all the cookies!" Regina yelled, pointing to the dessert table. Little DJ Molk sat on the table in his monster form shoving chocolate chip cookies into his mouth, having chewed his way through the straps of his chair.

"DJ! DJ! No, bad baby!" Beth scolded and tried to pick him up, but he started crawling across the table away from her, still shoving every cookie he could lay his hands on in his mouth.

David ran to the other side of the table and stood there with his hands on his hips giving his son a Disappointed Look. "David Andrew Molk Jr. you put that cookie down right now," he said firmly. The baby dropped the cookie he was holding. "Looks like someone needs a nap." He picked the baby up and he laid his head on his father's shoulder, purring like a cat.

Bae rubbed is eyes. "Em, is it me or am I seeing a baby Cookie Monster?"

"Ummm…you are Bae."

"Where the heck did it come from?"

"Oh, did we forget to tell you about that?" Bae Strogoff laughed. "David's youngest is a real live Cookie Monster. Not sure why but he is."

"Any of them turn into Elmo?" Jimmy joked. "Whoa sheesh if looks could kill!" he said, ducking from the glares of all the occupants of the table.

"Do yourself a favor handsome, quit now because I really don't wanna see you in pieces," Miri advised.

Rumple waved his hand and all the cookies at the table were replaced with fresh ones. He then conjured a tin and handed it to David. "Give these to the lad. It should keep him occupied."

"What are they?"

"My own special cookie recipe that won't have him bouncing off the walls and they're healthy too."

"Thank you Rumple. David and I have been trying to keep his cookie cravings under control and Rum's been helping us keep his shifting under control, but I think he's got a career on Sesame Street if he wants it because no one would be able to tell whether he's wearing a costume or not."

Beth Molk Two paused before she bit into the cookie she was holding and held her swollen belly. She'd become a cookie addict in her fifth pregnancy and no one was able to explain it.

"If their baby is like that, it means ours…."

"…Is gonna be a Cookie Monster too. Oh boy!" her husband shook his head.

"Great. Another abomination," Sapphira muttered.

"Awww shut it Butthole!" Killian Gold snapped. The other Nevengers glared at her.

"Sapphira you will apologize. Now." Melanie said firmly.

"She sounds like I did. A real brat," Meredith murmured.

"Yeah but you got straight," Regina reminded her.

"You call my baby an abomination one more time Sapphira and I'll spank the daylights out of you myself!" threatened David Molk Two.

"And you can put in a few swats for me," threw in his angry wife.

"This reminds me of home. Never a dull moment," Loki chuckled.

Suddenly Alina rushed over to them. "Uh, Grandpa Loki, we sort of have a situation here."

"What's the problem, darling? Your magic go a little haywire?" the god asked.

"Um no . . . you better come and see this!" She dragged him to the window. "Look at all the cats!"

Henry dropped his fork. "Holy Hitchcock! Where'd the cats come from?" They were perched on all the windows, looking in and meowing sadly.

The dogs ran over to the windows and started barking.

"Pongo, Perdy!" all the Archie counterparts called out. "Sit!"

Major Gold, Storybrooke Four's resident watchdog simply sat back and enjoyed the show.

Loki looked down to see Astra standing beside him waving at the cats. "Papa, lookit! They came!"

"Astra Frigga Laufeyson WHAT have you done?!"

"I'm the tat goddess so they come!" she giggled.

They heard laughter at the table where the former Scorpions were sitting.

"Oh my God, it's Pet Rescue Americana all over again, isn't it, Bae?" his girlfriend Andi asked him. His little sister was beaming from her own seat.

"Wipe that smirk off your face Rumplette." Young Bae advised his sister.

"Nope. Cause I woulda done it to," Adriana declared proudly. "Me and Jonny."

"Yup." Jonny Hopper agreed.

"So could I if I could call animals," spoke up Ellie Hood.

"Remember all the animals at our wedding?" Selene Hopper asked her husband. He spit out the wine he'd just taken a sip of.

"Sorry," he said sheepishly. Their son was giggling and clapping his hands in approval.

Loki face palmed himself. "Oh, sweet Valhalla on a ski sled! Astra, what did I tell you about Calling animals?"

"But I LIKE kitties!"

"Yes, I KNOW that . . .but now the kitties are sad because they miss their families."

"They don't gots any," the little tot informed him.

"How do you know that?"

"They said!"

"Uh-huh," Johnny Hopper confirmed. "She's right. They don't have homes."

"John Wayne Hopper don't even think about it! We have a whole family of cats, dogs, crickets and snakes at home," Marie Hopper warned her son. "And if you even think about trying to talk me into it, Archibald Hopper you have…"

"…a date with the couch. Yes, I know but you've never made me sleep on it alone in the eight years we've been married, now have you my goddess?" her husband taunted.

"Well there's a first time for everything."

"Bring it on darling, bring it on," he challenged.

Their eldest daughter Gisella was laughing so hard she nearly fell off her chair. Her twin siblings AJ and Maureen simply smiled.

"Oh no!" Loki groaned. "Now what?" He thought quickly. You can't just send stray cats back on the street, Laufeyson. Think!

"I want a kitty Gramma," Meredith pleaded.

"But...honey...with Pongo..."

"Pongo likes cats. He told me so."

"We gotta get a mate for Dak!" Cami Molk said to her parents.

"Want kitty!" screamed Aurora Molk.

"We haven't even decided on a dog yet!" their father protested.

"CAT!" yelled Elsa Molk. Her mother and grandmother covered their ears.

"Daddy, we have room for cats," Ambrosia Ozopov Hopper reminded her father. "And Mommy can sculpt them like those French girls."

Jiminy's eyes nearly bulged out of their sockets while Az laughed behind her hand. "Ambrosia Azkadellia Ozopov Hopper, you watch that mouth or I'll be washing it out with soap! Where did you hear that?"

"You say it to Mommy all the time and then you go in her studio and don't come out for a while."

Henry Strogoff Mills doubled over laughing. "Yeah and I know what it means too!"

"You just sit there and keep your trap shut young man!" Jiminy scolded.

"Mom, Daddy, we want one too," said Adora and Wyatt Cain Jr.

"No," their father said firmly.

"Aww have a heart Tin Man," protested Ambrose.

"Why don't YOU adopt one, Zipperhead?"

"I am as a matter of fact," he retorted.

"Papa, I wanna black kitty there!" Astra pointed to the emerald eyed black kitten under a bush.

"Oh no! We already have three, young lady! We don't need another," Loki said firmly.

"Yes we do! Pl-e-e-a-se!" Astra begged, giving him puppydog eyes.

"Astra Laufeyson I am NOT falling for that." Loki muttered, looking away.

"But Papa! He's cold n hungry an his name is Loki!" Astra sniffled.

"What? He told you that's his name?" the God of Mischief asked, glancing down at his daughter who wore a pitiful expression on her little face.

"Uh huh! He needs us!"

"Oh, for the love of-okay! But he's it!" Loki groaned.

"They get you every time," Gina chuckled.

"Tell me about it," Kelly Weaver groaned. "Every bloody time Robin wanted something she'd cast those eyes at me and I was a goner."

She glanced over to where Bobby sat alone. "Oh, I would ask him to dance but I don't want him to start imagining roasting ME on a spit!"

"Oh, just go for it Kel!" Roni encouraged. "You're not that Zelena and if he doesn't dance with you, he's crazy."

"That Zelena was a putana!" Zelena Sabitini hissed.

"I would go for it, dear," Sigyn encouraged. "He's a Laufeyson and they're shy at first. Not that you would think that but . . .they are. I had to chase Loki across the Nine before he noticed me. He had two bad marriages so . . . But I finally showed him that I loved HIM and the rest, as they say, is history." She gestured at her daughter.

"She is her daddy's little girl," Sigyn remarked. "And she knows how to get what she wants. Loki might be a big bad god of magic but when it comes to his daughters he's a marshmallow. And Astra knows he loves cats." The goddess shrugged. "I do too, and we have so much room in our house what's one more?"

Kelly took a deep breath. "Oh, all right. Wish me luck."

She walked over to Bobby's table and stood there, waiting for him to look up from the napkin he seemed to be studying.

"Anything interesting?" she asked. "I'm not her, you know. I look like her, I talk like her but I'm just a hippie pedaling instructor from Seattle and the former Good Witch of the North."

She laid her hand on his shoulder. "And I can feel your pain...the eighteen years of loneliness and despair." There was a faint green glow beneath her palm. "I can't change it, but I can make it hurt less..."

"What are you doing?" he whispered.

"Taking your pain," she murmured. He felt a sense of peace wash over him and gazed up at her.

"Why?"

"I've waited years to get the chance to talk to you." She held out her hand. "Captain Kelly Weaver, US Army, or I was until my discharge."

"Your honorable discharge, dearie." He reminded her.

"You…you've heard of me?"

"Feb 25, 1991. You were there when the Scud missile hit the barracks."

She nodded, tears in her blue eyes. "I was eating dinner with some of the men that had just been brought over. Twenty-eight good people lost their lives that day. Twenty-eight! And so many injured."

"You were one of them dearie, but you were still trying to help with the rescue efforts even when you were ordered not to."

"It was one of the times when I wanted my magic back. I could've blasted that goddam Scud missile to pieces before it hit and I could've saved them….I could've saved all of them…"

He reached across the table and took her hand in his. "You did what you could dearie and that was all that mattered. You were there for your brothers and sisters when they needed you. Like a good soldier."

"I got drunk and celebrated the night Saddam was captured and we all knew you had a hand in it. My CO used to say 'Bagheera's got our backs.'"

"I didn't that day," he confessed sadly. "I was still tracking Saddam and we got word of the missile strike too late to intercept. You took my pain, but you still have your own to deal with."

"I had a husband and two-year-old daughter when I went overseas but when I came back my husband was sleeping with my sister and my daughter didn't know me."

Bobby glanced over to the table where Roni was sitting with their Robin Hood. "She took your husband and you're not angry over it?"

"I was for awhile but losing Robin was nothing compared to losing some of my Army family. We're friends and business partners and that suits me fine."

"The military life is rough on the family," Bobby said. "That's why I never married. We fight our battles overseas but still have to keep fighting more at home." Their eyes met across the table. "I think maybe that's why some of us marry each other."

"I'd like to see you again, once this is all over, if you don't mind."

"I'd like that," Kelly murmured, relief washing over her. There was hope for them after all.

Her brothers' hands went to their sides.

"Stop it!" their mother warned.

"But Mum…" Gideon Weaver protested.

"Kelly's a grown woman and can take care of herself! Now shove off!"

"Yes Mum." He spotted one of the Rubys and decided to ask her to dance while keeping a watchful eye on his elder sister yet Kelly seemed to be doing well.

"You dunno how glad I am to get a Regina back on the team," Killian Gold confessed to her when he approached her table to discuss her becoming a Nevenger.

"Yeah but m'not your Regina, ya know," she said recalling her father reading the part in his story where the Regina from his realm had gone under a deaging spell unaware that she was under one herself.

"Oh yeah you are. Listen ummm….I'm gonna need somebody to lead the Nevengers in all the ports so how 'bout I make you captain of the Storybrooke Five Nevengers and Merri, you can be her first mate?"

"Can I?" Regina asked hopefully.

"If you want it," Killian said with a smile.

"I do. I really do."

"Okay then. Regina Nolan, I appoint you captain of the Storybrooke Five Nevenger fleet! Welcome aboard, mates!" He hugged her and Meredith and gave them pecks on the cheek.

"Hey, no kissin my girl!" Little Robin protested.

"Aww relax it was just a peck. Not like I was gonna slip her the tongue!"

"Killian!" his mother cried.

"What's that?" Regina wanted to know.

"It's where a guy puts his tongue in…"

"Meredith Strogoff Whale do NOT say one more word or I'll be collecting your books and locking them in my closet," her father warned.

"It's where a guy puts…"

"Killian Gold! Do you want to taste Ivory?"

"Yuck! No, Mom."

"Eww….Unca Rumple says that too. I don't wanna taste soap. It sucks," Regina whined.

Killian smirked. "We made that dick Pan and his boys eat poo!"

Meredith groaned. "Ohhh that's really gross."

"I peed all over a wicked witch," Regina declared proudly.

"I committed grand theft broom and made her crash into a tree," Meredith boasted.

"Nice!" Killian hi-fived them. "C'mon. I gotta appoint the other captains."

Regina and Meredith followed him over to where the children from Nonestica were sitting. "Hey Hope…c'mere!" Killian ordered. She hopped off her chair.

"What?"

"I'm naming the captains of every Nevenger port. Hope Strogoff, I appoint you Captain of the Storybrooke One Nevenger fleet. Nate, you can be first mate," Killian informed her brother.

"Cool! Thanks!"

"Come on. Got other captains to appoint." They approached the children of Storybrooke Four next. Adriana was appointed Captain of the Storybrooke Four Nevenger fleet with Ellie Hood as her first mate. Storybrooke Three's captain and first mate were Henry Weaver and his sister Maribelle, named after Emma's mother and Bae's stepmother. Finally, he came to the group from Storybrooke Two.

"Lucy Mills, I appoint you Captain of the Storybrooke Two Nevenger fleet with Neal Nolan as your first mate," he declared. The others hugged and congratulated her before they all claimed one of the tables for their own. The adults started laughing.

"Hey, are we gonna make the Happy Bears and Minions honorary members?" Maggie Hatter asked.

"Yeah."

"Hey, Inch be a member too!" the Elsa Molks exclaimed.

"Okay, okay, calm down Elsas. Yeah the Grinches can be members." They smiled.

"How 'bout DJ?"

"Oh he's in."

"I think we're gonna have a Cookie Monster too 'cause Mommy eats cookies all the time now," said Devon Molk Two. "Daddy can't buy 'em fast enough."

"That'd be so cool."

"So, what do we do as Nevengers," Lucy asked.

"You read the books?"

"Yes."

"Well now you know, dearie!" Adriana giggled. "And we're also the True Love Mafia so we gotta help your grampa find his true love."

"I think he's gonna find it with Melanie."

"Yeah but you better watch out for the Butthole," Bobby Carlyle warned. "She'll try an bust 'em up."

Lucy smirked. "She'll have to get up wayyy early to outsmart me!" She was going to see her grandfather happy whether Little Miss Magestrix liked it or not.

"And we're gonna help you!" the others declared.

While everyone else was preoccupied with their discussions Adora seized the opportunity and laced Storybrooke Two Zelena's drink with the ambrosia she'd gotten from Jiminy prior to the reception. Zelena had just take a sip from her glass when she gasped in shock and dropped it on the floor.

"Zelena! Zelena, what is it?" Regina Two cried.

"I am Persephone Diosa, Queen of the Underworld," she said and rose from her chair.

"M…Mama?" Adora gasped.

"Oh….Ozmalita….my light," Persephone whispered as she walked over to the table where Adora was sitting with her fiancé.

"What the hell is going on? What did you people do to my sister?" Regina Two demanded.

"They've restored my memories Regina," Persephone soothed. "Lilliana, Dorothia, Adora and Wyatt are not the only ones who have died and been reborn. So was I and in my first life I was Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld. Didn't you find it odd that I restored Hades' power with True Love's Kiss? It was no kiss, dear. It was a spell my daughter cast to trick me into giving him his powers back so that I would use my father's lightning staff to kill him and send him right back where he belonged." She smiled wryly. "My mother's curse...that we would turn on each other until our bloodline died out. However now, the joke is on her."

"How so?" Strogofff demanded.

"The stronger the love of our family becomes, the weaker it makes her. All magic comes with a price as we all know and that is her price to pay."

She glanced over at the table where Gold was sitting, him still trying to process what he was seeing and hearing. One of his nemesis a cursed goddess? It was insane, yet he'd always known she possessed powers beyond those of a normal mage.

"How did you find out that's who she was?" Regina Two asked.

"I had my suspicions when I was the Dark One," Archie Two said. "But Loki learned the truth from Titania. Alemedia was bragging to her about it."

"And everything you've done..." Gold went on.

"I have to live with that. It's the price I pay in this life. I cannot undo any of it. Time travel is forbidden for a reason and I never should've attempted it as Zelena. But I can make certain no one EVER attempts it again."

She searched with her Sight and located all the spellbooks mentioning time travel and destroyed them.

She approached Loki. "You have been a loyal ally to my descendants and I would like for you to continue to do so in my absence."

"Absence? Where are you going, Zelena?"

"The Underworld," spoke up Alina. "It's true isn't it? You have to spend six months there and six months with your mother."

"The part about my mother no longer applies but yes, I am bound to spend six months in Ephesis. The other six months I can be here with my daughters...Ozmalita and Robin."

"Not really what I would call a happy ending Sis," Regina Two mumbled.

"Sometimes that's the price you pay for happiness," Loki interjected.

"Tell Odin you have my permission to act as a legate in my family's affairs," Persephone said to him. "And if he has a problem with it, tell him to take it up with me."

"I will tell him," Loki replied, his eyes dancing. "He shouldn't mind too much. Will you need to inform your father? I am unclear about protocol where the Olympians are concerned."

Persephone made a face. " I no longer exist as far as he's concerned. I have been banished from the Olympian pantheon but not the Ozian Pantheon since it was my creation and only my husband can oppose me...but if he wants me back, he'll have to play ball."

"Zelena, you don't have to go back to him. You don't love him," Regina said to her sister.

"But I do," Persephone confessed. "He wasn't always like this, Regina. He could've taken my father's place at the head of our pantheon, but he didn't. The Hades I fell in love with always shied away from Olympian politics as did I."

"You thought you could change him before and look what happened! He tried to kill Robin. He stole Bae's soul and made it look like you killed him. Let him rot in the Underworld."

"No. It has to be this way. This is my penance for the wrongs I've done in this second life. No one gets a free pass Regina no matter how many good deeds they do."

She opened her mouth to protest but Persephone raised her hand for silence. "We're no heroes Regina. Deep down there's still a bit of the darkness inside us but our task now is to keep it contained. And I am doing so by going to the place my darkness was born."

"What about Robin?"

"I am trusting you and her father to take care of her in my absence."

She crooked her finger at Loki.

"Do you have something on your mind Seph?"

It had been centuries since anyone had used her old nickname, but she knew he would remember it even if they hadn't interacted much during their lives. "Tell Sig to keep her ugly stick close. She might need it."

She summoned a pomegranate and a knife and as she cut into the piece of fruit six seeds fell into her palm. The moment she ate the first one she vanished in a puff of smoke.

Emma Two helped a stunned Regina back to their table. Seconds later a mirror appeared on it and her sister waved to her from the other side.

"So Zelena's gone?" she asked Jiminy.

"No, but she has two sets of memories...her first life and her second," said Adora. "And they can be painful. I've been reborn three times and each time is harder than the last. But...it just so happens I still have access to Ephesis and I can take you to see my mother anytime you want without worrying about my father and sister bothering you."

"Now get up off your bloody arse and enjoy the party!" Persephone yelled from the mirror.

She had no doubt the God of Mischief would have some tricks up his sleeve throughout the evening.

At the Storybrooke Six table all appeared to be normal until a wad of potatoes went flying. Rumple Six ducked the missile but Rumple hadn't.

Splat.

"Oh my God!" Bae burst out laughing.

Rumple picked up his napkin and wiped them off. "Okay, who threw that!"

Bae Six stood up grinning from ear to ear. "I did. You wanna make something of it?"

"Really dearie? Well let's see how you like this!" Rumple picked up a wad of potatoes and threw time back, missing Rumple Six's son and hitting his own instead.

"YAY! The fight's ON!" Killian Gold yelled.

"What on earth...?" Lilly whispered.

"Tradition!" Emma Six announced. "You heard Killian. Get it rolling!"

"Oh no...no more food fights in my house...Belle!"

Strogoff was now covered in gravy.

His wife was laughing from her chair.

"FOOD FIGHT!" Henry Strogoff bellowed and pelted anyone within range with peas and corn.

"Now THIS is what I call mischief!" Loki exclaimed.

"I'm ready!" Regina shrilled and stood up holding apples in her hand.

"Oh, but you need these too dear," Regina Six said and handed the little girl a basket. "My secret weapon. Apple bombs. I use rotten ones on my enemies. Fire at will, little queen and do me proud."

"Better duck 'cause here I coooomeeee!" Regina sang and started pitching apples. One of them hit Rumple in the backside. "Ha ha Unca Rumple I got you. Yer outttt!"

"Not just yet dearie! Ha! Strawberry shortcake surprise!"

Belle Four and her sister Marie were using their brooms as bats, batting cupcakes at their husbands.

"Next thing you know we'll be fighting in the mud!" Archie Four joked. "What the..."

"Careful what you wish for Cricket. You just met get it!" Jiminy laughed.

"Oh yeah?" Archie Four tackled his counterpart into the mud puddle. Soon the other Archies joined in while their wives continued the food fight against each other.

"David, get your butt in there and help your brother. Pretend you're playing for the Crybabies!" Beth ordered her husband.

"'Least I'm not playing for the Squealers," he countered and pulled her into the mud with him.

"I know you I walked with you once upon a dream..." Beth Two sang as she danced around her husband before she mashed a chocolate pie his face.

"Better keep the cleaners on speed dial Sleeping Beauty cause that dress is gonna be more colors than pink and blue before I'm done with you!" he taunted and shook a bottle of soda before he squirted it at her.

"Unca Rumple, c'mere! Need help!" Regina called out from her position on the table.

"With what dearie?"

"This!" she cried and threw an apple that smacked him in the groin. "Uh oh..."

"You...you...hit me in the...with an APPLE!" he gasped.

"I wasn't tryin to aim THERE!"

"Next...time...watch...where you aim. Belle, quit that laughing!"

Alina and Henry were clutching their bellies laughing hysterically while they tried to dodge another food assault from Henry Six and Killian. Killian picked up a whole potato and juggled it in his hands as he searched the crowd for his target.

He spotted Hook lurking near the door, trying to get outside. He whipped the potato around the corner and heard a shout followed by Hook falling on the floor, moaning in pain, covering his groin with his hands. "Whoa!"

"Holy crap what a shot!" Henry praised.

"Killian, are you okay?" Emma Two asked worriedly.

"Damn that kid's good!" he panted.

"I wasn't tryin to him there," Killian mumbled.

"Good shot mate," Hook said as he stood up.

Killian crawled over to where the other Nevengers had turned over one of the small tables to make a fort. "How's it goin mates?"

"Happy Army! Attack!" Adriana bellowed.

"Minions! Attack!" yelled Neal Nolan.

Two divisions of happy Army Bears and Minions marched into the dining room, their arms full of fruit that they chucked at anyone within firing rang. Both Cami and Elsa Molks summoned Snowgies that threw ice cream and frozen yogurt and their Grinches threw pudding.

Loki ducked a flying banana and then summoned several types of food, tomatoes, kiwis, snow cone balls, and mini cream pies. Grinning, he lobbed a tomato in Modi face. "Think fast, nephew!"

Little DJ Molk was crawling on the floor trying to pick up fallen cookies until his mother snatched him up. "Oh no you don't! Yuck!"

"Oookies!" he wailed.

"Here, little imp! Here's some sugar free chocolate chip ones." Loki said and conjured a whole plate and sent it over to him.

"Om nom nom nom!" he cried happily and dove right in.

"Papa!" Miri called and when Loki looked over at her, threw a plate of spaghetti and meatballs right in his face. "Surprise!"

Loki wiped spaghetti from his eyes. "Oooh, are you gonna get it!" He sent a barrage of cream pies at her. "Pie in your eye, Miri!"

His daughter was covered in mini cream pies. She licked cream filling off her finger. "Mmm! Banana and chocolate cream!" Then she threw a mashed potato spoonful at her cousin.

Regina crept up behind Loki and mashed a chocolate pie on his backside. "You pooped yourself, you pooped yourself!" she taunted.

Meredith hi-fived her while she was throwing brownies at her grandparents.

Loki turned around. "Hey! I thought you were on my team!" he giggled and threw spaghetti on her head. "Uh oh! Spaghettios!"

Hook jumped on one of the tables while holding a bowl of fruit punch and chased his wife while singing.

"Revenge, revenge revenge is gonna be my...owwww!"

He slipped on a banana peel and landed hard on the table.

Loki ran by and threw a bowl of mashed up strawberries and kiwis on top of Hook. "It's a drive by fruiting!"

"You okay, Killian?"

"Yeah I got a potato in my balls and almost had the daylights knocked outta me, but I'll live Em."

She shook her head. "Maybe you should sit this out."

"Yeah, if you can't take the heat stay outta the kitchen!" Rumple giggled as he loaded up a plastic gun with tomatoes and started shooting. "Run! It's the Term-mato-inator!"

Persephone reappeared in the dining room. "Did everyone forget I am the goddess of vegetation?" She summoned her broom and began batting pomegranates at her sister and Robin.

"Clever, grandson!" Loki said and conjured another one, this one filled with snowcones. "Have yourself a Frost Giant Seph!" He shot snowcone balls at her.

"When the moon hits your eye lika big pizza pie, that's amore!" Zelena Sabintini's husband sang and threw pizza at his wife.

He was promptly spattered by tomatoes from Rumple and Daria. "You got tomato-innated!" they whooped.

"Rum shower!" Rhea hovered over her husband, dousing him with rum.

"Hey, quit wasting all the rum!"

Persephone gestured and a cloud began following Loki, pelting him with Snickers bars.

Grinning, he snatched one and ate it. "Don't waste good candy, darling!"

Kelly had tackled Bobby to the floor and was rolling him in cold marinara sauce. "Marinated Bagheera!"

Roger and Weaver challenged their fellow former police officers to a pea shootout.

"Any minute now Grampa's gonna want us all to get disinfected," Killian muttered.

Modi dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on Loki's head. "It's Mr. Potato Head!"

"Bloody hell! This is a worse mess than after Bae's wedding!" Fiona exclaimed.

Yet she loved every minute of it. She, her daughter Catriona and granddaughter Channon began creeping up behind all the adult men and smacked their backsides.

"Everybody run! The Backside Bandits are coming!" Ambrose yelled and laughed.

"I heard they judge us by that!" Loki giggled.

"Yeah when we tell you to watch your ass, we mean watch your ass," Emma Strogoff joked.

"They better watch theirs too," the God of Mischief snickered. "I pinch!"

"Bring it on lad!" Fiona challenged.

Loki teleported behind her and pinched her on the backside. "You have a delectable derriere, darling!"

"Ye're lucky my husband isna haunting us today lad or he'd be trying to toss you in a frozen lake," Fiona giggled.

"The cold never bothered me anyway!" Loki hooted. Then he jumped slightly as Cattie smacked his backside.

"My, you were right, Mama!"

"He's a god lass, what did ye expect?"

"Awww man here comes the Disinfectant Army!" Killian groaned pointing to the thousands of wipes floating around the room cleaning up the guests and the ballroom.

"What in Yggdrasil is that?" Loki frowned.

"That's my grampa for ya."

"Get off me, get off you gits!" Hook protested, swatting at the attacking wipes.

"It's attack of the Clone Wipes!" Loki laughed.

"I can't send them away either!" Emma Two protested.

Rumple Six crossed his arms over his chest and giggled wickedly. "None of you can, dearies."

Once everything and everyone were clean to his satisfaction, the wipes vanished.

"Now that's a spell I need to try...only I'm going to do it with my broom!" Belle Strogoff laughed.

"Sigyn would love that one!" Loki smirked. "But it would drive my father insane."

"I say use it darling," Sigyn advised.

"I'll tell him it was YOUR idea!" he laughed, then he kissed her.

The Avonlea staff began pushing the tables against the walls to make room for a dance floor and a small stage where many of the guests would be singing. The Storybrooke Four group was excited for their Regina to take the stage for a number she sang years ago during the holidays.

"We're going to have a little dancing first, dearies, and then some of our guests will take to the stage and sing," Strogoff announced. "Would the bride and groom come out on the dance floor please."

Lilly kicked off her heels. "That's our cue darling!"

Archie held out his hand for his bride and escorted her into the center of the ballroom as Granny Lucas began to sing "At Last."

Rumple walked over to where Strogoff was standing and handed him his handkerchief.

"I figured you'd need this dearie."

"I never thought I'd see this day...see her here..."

He fought back tears as he watched his mother close her eyes and lay her head on Archie's chest.

Suddenly rose petals began to rain down on the couple from the ceiling.

Adriana Gold and Hope Strogoff stood back and admired their handiwork.

"Your gramma looks really pretty out there," Adriana said to Hope.

"I hope I find somebody like Archie," Hope murmured. "You got a boyfriend?"

"Uh huh. I'm marrying Neal when I get big."

"And now the bride and groom would like to invite all the lovers out there for this next song," the DJ announced.

"...You know our love was meant to be..."

"Our song!" Marie Hopper cried, nearly dragging her Archie onto the dance floor.

Soon all the couples joined the newlyweds on the floor for Chicago's 'You're The Inspiration."

"That's our mom and dad's song," Gisella Hopper informed the other children.

Johnny held up his Ipod touch and began to record his parents dancing "And we send a video of them dancing to it to the band every year," he added.

"Wonder what they're gonna play next?"

"Daddy is gonna have them play every couple's song," Hope replied.

"What one do your mom and dad like?" Alina asked her.

"After All. It's an old one that Cher and Peter Cetera sing."

Strogoff handed the handkerchief back to Rumple once "After All' began to play.

"Would you like to dance Bobby?" Kelly asked him.

"Not yet," he said with a smile. He was planning to surprise her with the song he'd asked the DJ to play when they danced.

His sister-in-law winked at him and gave him a thumbs up.

Kelly went back to her table, frowning. "He probably thinks I'm gonna step on his toes or something!"

Roni picked up her wine glass and held it in front of her face to conceal her smirk.

As she watched her counterpart dance with her Rumple, Belle thought back to her wedding. It was simple ceremony at the courthouse while the curse was still active and there were a few times when they discussed doing it all over again but never got around to it.

"Thinking about our wedding, dearie?" Rumple asked her.

"The happiest day of my life," she murmured.

"We didn't have a ceremony like this though."

"We didn't need to."

"But one of these days we will...to renew our vows."

"On our tenth," she said with a smile.

"It's a deal, sweetheart!" And they sealed it with a kiss just as "In Her Eyes began to play. "May I have this dance, Mrs. Gold?" he asked her softly and held out his hand. She smiled and clasped it in her smaller one.

"You may, Mr. Gold."

To their surprise Belle and Rumple Four joined them on the floor. "Ah so this is your song too, dearies?"

"It is," Rumple Four murmured, his arm around his wife.

The two Baelfires, one older, one younger stood off to the side recording their parents dancing.

"Has Belle been more of a mom to you like she has to me?" Young Bae asked the elder.

"Without a doubt. And they bring out the best in our papas, don't they?"

Young Bae nodded.

Loki and Sigyn were joined by Archie Two and Tracey Hopper on the dance floor while Ann Reno and Mike Wilson sang "Almost Paradise" from the Footloose soundtrack.

Jimmy put his arm around Miri while she and Modi were watching them. "We have to think of a song to dance to gorgeous," he crooned in her ear.

"How about "Beat It!" Modi teased.

"You wanna get beat with the ugly stick?" Miri countered.

Modi excused himself and went over to the DJ, a former Scorpion and whispered in his ear.

"Are you kiddin man? This is a wedding! You really want me to play Beat It?"

"Yeah."

"You lookin to get beat, or get me beat?"

"Just do it!"

"Look buddy, I almost got killed in a warehouse shootout, my brother DID get killed in one and I'm not taking any chances or I'm gonna play The Asshole song and dedicate it to you!"

"What's that song like?"

"You, so git!"

"Com e on...Mikey is it? I wanna have a little fun!"

"Yeah and I don't wanna get my ass beat by Mister Gold's Cane of Doom. Not that he'd do it just make my ass scrub every inch of his house and probably taste Ivory."

Modi made a face. "Okay, fine."

Emma Two got up to use the restroom and Hook was left looking around at the couples dancing. He noticed that a pretty hot number was standing next to what could have been himself at seventeen or eighteen.

Huh! he thought. He has good taste in lasses! Not surprising though. But I think she needs an older man.

He rose to his feet and walked over to them.

Jimmy looked up and saw Hook coming and stiffened, recognizing the look in the other's eye. "Oh hell no!" he growled, his eyes flashing.

"Hello, lad," Hook greeted. "Introduce me to the sweet looking lass, won't you?"

"Oh, holy Jesus," Beth Molk whispered. "That is a short hop to an early grave!"

"Sorry, mate. She's with me," Jimmy began.

"Not anymore," Hook drawled. "Hello, luv. Name's Jones. How would you like to dance?"

Miri shook her head. "No thanks. You're old enough to be my father."

"Now don't be that way, luv," Hook crooned. "I'm sure I can show you a better time than this wet behind the ears little scuppernong here."

"Henry, go get your mother. Now!" Jacinda snarled to her husband.

"Back off, Grandpa!" Jimmy snarled. His hand went for the knife in his boot.

Strogoff gestured and the knife appeared in his hand. There would be no bloodshed at his mother's wedding. He was about to cast a spell when he was hit with an immobilization spell.

"Mum!" he hissed.

"It's going to be taken care of," Lilly assured him.

"Well it better be soon before Jimmy wipes the floor with him," Rogers muttered.

"That miserable niding!" Loki spat, starting to get up.

Sigyn laid a hand on his arm. "Easy, alskling. We don't want a funeral. I'll handle this." She summoned what looked like a small white stick to her hand.

Astra clapped her hands. "Mama mad!"

"Let's watch the show, imp!" her father said, tweaking her nose.

Sigyn rose gracefully to her feet and glided over to the three. "'Scuse me, darling!" she drawled, her voice sweet as honey. "But I believe you need someone a little more . . . experienced . . ."

Hook turned around and his jaw dropped. "Well now! H-e-e-llo, luv!"

"Oh, I'm not your love, honey!" Sigyn whispered. "I'm her MOTHER!" In a flash she brought up the stick and slammed him in the face with it.

It glowed and suddenly his handsome face became wrinkled and ugly.

Hook clapped a hand to his cheek. "What-what was that for?"

"Get him, Mama!" Miri cheered.

Jimmy burst out laughing. "Jesus H. Christ! You should see your face!"

"My face?" Hook stammered.

"You could give a warthog beauty lessons!" Sigyn growled. "Stay away from my daughter, you cretin!" She whacked him again and a tail sprouted from his backside.

"Emma! Help!" he yelped and bolted, but Sigyn was after him like a shot.

"What the hell is going on here?' she demanded when she came out of the bathroom with her son at her side.

"Your husband made a pass at my fifteen-year-old daughter!" Sigyn growled. She brought the stick down again. "Take that! And that! And that!"

Hook suddenly grew crooked legs and a hunchback and his hair was suddenly white as snow.

"Oh man! He's been . . . uglified!" Jimmy whooped and doubled over laughing.

"Yeah you don't mess with Aunt Sigyn!" Modi laughed.

"You idiot!" Emma yelled at her husband. "What, were you drunk?"

"I...I..."

"Never mind!"

Modi and Mikey grinned at each other.

Mikey pressed a button to play the next song.

"They told him don't you ever come around here

Don't want to see your face, you better disappear

The fire's in their eyes and their words are really clear

So beat it, just beat it..." Michael Jackson sang.

"Oh my God, they didn't..." Miri giggled. Mikey and Modi were laughing over at the DJ table.

Loki nearly fell out of his chair laughing.

Young Bae and his friends Ewan and Bobby came out onto the middle of the floor and started doing the Moonwalk.

"Cool!" Regina cried. "They're walkin like Michael Jackson Mommy!"

"And they're good too," Charming praised.

Adriana Gold waved her hand and the boys were now wearing leather jackets with their logo on the back.

"Thanks, Rumplette!"

She saluted her brother.

"What does that stand for?" Modi asked Mikey.

"We were a gang back in our Storybrooke," he explained. "Bae, Andi, Kat, Becky and I are Scorpions and Bobby was a Purple Knight but we took him into our gang when his got taken out by the Black Dogs. Bae's nickname is Fire, Andi's is Wraith, Kat is Shadow and Becky is Fury."

Modi nodded. "And you?"

"Music Man," he said with a smile.

"Makes sense. It reminds me of the warrior societies we have back home."

Mike rolled up his sleeve to reveal his tattoo with the name "Dickie" written under it along with two dates.

"For your brother?" Modi asked quietly.

"Yeah."

Mikey went on to tell him about the gang's escapades during the holidays including the great 'Mall Robbery' as they called it.

"We do that too." Modi pushed up his left sleeve to show a tattoo of a snarling wildcat and underneath it the runes for Narvi. "That's for my cousin. Daria's father."

"Fury and Ewan hijacked the music system and had it play all funny Christmas shit, Bae and Bobby were takin rides in the shopping carts...oh yeah those were fun times. My brother used to get so pissed at 'em for screwin off but they always got a good haul."

"You know, you'd make a good Scorpion. We don't steal stuff anymore but we love playing pranks. Lemme tell ya what we did to the Blue Fairy in our Storybrooke..."

Mikey was trying hard not to laugh as he talked about stealing the exotic dancer and teacher's undergarments and hanging them from the trees at the school over Halloween and making her toilet explode with a cherry bomb.

Modi was giggling. "Oh but that sounds like something we would have done-my cousins and me. My brother Magni is such a stiff, but Miri, me, Vali, Fen, and Jorgy would have been pranking her right and left!"

"I'm gonna propose for you for membership but you gotta pull a prank first to make your bones. Do me proud."

"I will, little skald!" Modi grinned.

Mikey stood up and walked over to Young Bae, Ewan and Bobby. "I nominate Modi for membership," he announced.

"You know he's gotta pull a prank, right?"

"Yep."

Modi looked through Mikey's playlists until he found one labeled "Prank Songs'. he scanned through the titles until he found the one he wanted and sat back to enjoy the show.

"Well I was drivin' down I-95 the other night,

somebody nearly cut me right off the road.

I decided it wasn't gonna do any good to get mad,

So I wrote a song about 'em instead. It goes like this.

Were you born an asshole?

Or did you work at it your whole life?

Either way it worked out fine

'Cause you're an asshole tonight..."

"Mikey!" Rumple Four yelled.

"Mommy, they're singing bad words!" Regina shrilled.

"I didn't do it," Mikey protested.

"Oh really, dearie? Damn kids!"

The Scorpions were laughing.

"Asshole!" parroted DJ Molk.

David slapped his forehead. "Great! Just great! My kid's learning how to talk and he already learned his first curse word!"

"So, does he get in, Fire?" Mikey demanded.

"Oh yeah, he's in!"

Mikey gave Modi the thumbs up.

Modi grinned and made the A-OK sign back.

Jimmy was laughing and so was Miri. "Your cousin's got moxie, gorgeous!"

"Yeah, he's got that all right," Miri chuckled.

"Your cousin just made his bones and he's now an honorary Scorpion," Andi explained.

Adriana Gold hopped onto the bench beside Modi and placed her hand on his arm. "Bae says I gotta give ya the tattoo like they have."

"Go ahead, Rumplette," Modi said. "Do I get a nickname too?"

"Hmmm...I dunno what we can call you. They have to decide that, but I can also give you this. A stuffed bear dressed in Army clothes appeared on the table. "This is Major Modi. All my friends and family have Happy Bears."

"Mommy, lookit!" Regina pointed to her feet. "Somebody gave me a bear!"

Charming picked it up. "Hmm...Major Regal," he read on the Bear's Army outfit.

"Hi Regina!" it greeted.

"An enchanted bear for me?" Modi looked surprised. "What does he do?"

"He can be your friend when you're lonely and he can kick butt when you need him to."

She laughed. "Just don't let him go to bars, okay. I had to court martial my bears the last time Bae was supposed to watch 'em and they all got drunk at the Rabbit Hole."

"Thank you, Adriana." He chuckled. "I will make sure my bear stays away from the mead hall. Or my uncle will court martial ME!"

Meredith and Regina were enjoying hearing their bears talk. Meredith's was named Major Victor after her father and it sounded like him too. Major Regal had Regina's adult voice.

Killian Gold was in for a shock when a group of bears marched over to him and saluted. "The Major Nevengers reporting for duty, sir!"

"At ease mates," he said with a smile.

"Papa! See bear!" Astra Laufeyson pointed at them.

Hope Strogoff, feeling a bit mischievous, waved her hand and an unusual stuffed creature appeared on the table where her father was sitting.

"Daddy, say hi to Major DUST BUNNY!" she giggled.

"How did I ken ye were gonna do that?" he groaned.

"Cause I'm a chip off the old block."

"That you are."

"Papa, want bear!" Astra wailed.

A white plush bear appeared at her feet. It was wearing a helmet like her father's and a cape. "Major Loki reporting for duty, ma'am!" it announced in her father's voice.

"That is adorable!" Sigyn crooned.

Astra picked up her bear and hugged it. "Papa, like you!" she crowed.

"By the Nine! Wait till your grandparents see that!" Loki smiled.

"Now it's your turn to make your bones," Andi informed Jimmy and Miri. "Do us proud."

"So handsome, what shall we do?" Miri asked with a wicked grin.

"You're the Trickster's daughter," Jimmy said. "You can probably outprank me."

The Scorpions waited patiently for their new recruits to make their move.

Miri put her chin in her hand and thought. Then she whispered something in Jimmy's ear. He nodded.

Miri made a discreet gesture over the bridal party's champagne glasses. They sparkled with magic and then it faded until the champagne looked normal.

Lilly and Archie had decided to take a break from dancing and returned to their table along with Strogoff and his wife. They picked up their glasses and took a sip of champagne.

Suddenly bubbles exploded from their mouths.

"What...what the..." Archie gasped.

Lilly burst into laughter. "Oh, this is the trick Loki played on my parents at their wedding!"

A large bubble encircled Archie's head.

Sigyn nudged her husband. "The Bubble Prank again, beloved?"

"I didn't do it this time!" Loki defended. Then he started giggling.

"What's in there?"

"No, Archie don't pop it!" Lilly giggled.

Too late.

Splash! The bubble was filled with champagne and it drenched him.

Jimmy and Miri high-fived each other and then doubled over laughing.

"You're in!" Andi exclaimed.

"Where did you learn that?" Bobby asked.

"From the best prankster in the Nine-my papa," Miri chuckled.

Lilly waved her hand over Archie's suit and dried it.

"Now you have to get this," Modi rolled up his sleeve to show his cousin his tattoo.

"Yggdrasil's Roots!" Miri exclaimed. "Mama's going to have kittens!" But her blue eyes were dancing with the thrill of the forbidden.

"Ask Bae's sister to give you one or you can do with your own magic."

Miri smirked. "Can we put it anywhere?"

"Yeah."

She pulled up her dress and pressed her hand to her calf. In a moment a scorpion done in blue ink appeared on her. "There! How does it look?"

"Looks fine, goddess," Jimmy crooned.

"Now your turn handsome!"

"Watch she doesn't tattoo your ass!" Modi laughed.

"When we get back to Asgard, I'm going to tell Solveig to tattoo Property of Solveig on yours!" Miri returned spiritedly.

"Hmmm...I like that idea," Jimmy grinned.

"You'd want me to tattoo Property of Miri on yours?" she teased.

"Or just your name will do."

"I'll do it when I wear your ring on my finger," she laughed. "But for now . . . where would you like the scorpion?"

"Umm...on my arm."

She rolled up his sleeve and saw a skull and crossbones. "What's this?"

"Hook had that done. I want it gone!"

"Relax, handsome. I can remove it." She covered it with her hand and concentrated. He felt a warmth and then it was gone. "Done! Now let's put the scorpion in its place." He felt a brief tingling and the black scorpion appeared on his bicep.

The music started playing again and now Miri was ready for a dance.

"Come on, handsome! Let's show these old folks how to boogie!"

"But this is disco!"

"So? You know how to dance, right?"

"Not to this stuff!"

"Go Molky!"

Beth and David Molk were already out on the floor dancing to the Bee Gees Night Fever.

Their Storybooke Six counterparts joined them.

"Whoa! They're really good!" Alina praised.

"Come on, Jimmy! If they can do it, so can you!" Miri's foot was tapping to the music.

"Ah okay! C'mon gorgeous!"

Regina pulled Little Robin out with her and Meredith was dancing with Killian Gold.

Jimmy followed Miri's lead, and soon he found he was having the time of his life.

Robert got up and walked over to the DJ table. "Can you play this next?"

Mikey looked at the name of the song he'd written down. "Sure, sir!"

Kelly was beginning to feel she and Robert would never dance together until he approached the table, his hand held out to her. "May I have this dance, Captain Weaver?" he asked her. She looked up at him and smiled.

"You may Colonel MacNamara."

After her divorce Kelly had been unable to help entertaining fantasies that she and the legendary Colonel MacNamara would eventually meet and he would be the officer and gentleman she had been searching for all her life. Many nights she dreamed he would come to her and sweep her off her feet as Richard Gere swept Debra Winger off hers in the final scene of An Officer and a Gentleman.

"How did you know I love this song?" she asked him once 'Up Where We Belong' began.

"I may or may not have asked around. It's classified."

"Oh. I see."

Roni, she thought.

"All we have is here and now

All our lives, out there to find..." Jennifer Warnes sang.

Strogoff placed his hand on Rumple's shoulder. "You've united the realms in more ways than one, dearie," he said softly.

He watched his brother and Kelly dancing, having eyes only for each other. "They seem like a good match."

Strogoff smiled, a vision appearing before his eyes of another dance sometime in the near future with Kelly in a gown of hunter green, Robert in full dress uniform. The song remained the same, but their roles would change for on that day Kelly Weaver would become Mrs. Robert MacNamara.

"Way to go Kell! Way to goi!" Roni cheered through her tears.

Robert chuckled. "I haven't carried you out of the factory!"

"It doesn't matter," Kelly murmured. "Let her have her moment."

Loki and Sigyn watched the couple dancing, and Loki murmured, "There's one you don't have to matchmake for, Sig."

"No, you old romantic," she chuckled. "But what about our granddaughter?"

"That can wait awhile," the god said. "Let her get used to being with her family first."

"Oh my. would you look at that!" Sigyn exclaimed and pointed.

A very nervous Killian Rogers was standing in front of the table where Daria was sitting with her grandchildren.

"Is there something I can help you with Mister Rogers?" Daria asked softly.

"Well...ahh...I was wondering if you...ahhh...would like to dance."

Will and Jess stared at him with their mouths agape. Rogers had to be at least a century or two younger than their grandmother but he still looked like a man in his late thirties due to the curse and magic from Weaver before he lost his.

Rhea and Jack also couldn't believe their eyes.

"Should we tell him to shove off love?" Jack asked her.

"No. He's not our enemy, however, we will watch him closely."

Daria smiled and held out her hand. Rogers took it in his and led her out onto the dance floor.

"We have a lot in common," Rogers said to her. "Two single parents with adult children."

He glanced over to where Alice was sitting with her wife. "Her mum was a bit like your Malcolm."

"I know."

He flinched. "How do you know?"

"I spent centuries in the afterlife and picked up quite a bit of gossip. You ran away from your father when you were sixteen because you didn't want to be like him. You spent three years on the run until you heard a cry for help coming from a tower. You climbed the rope made of human hair and went inside thinking you were rescuing Rapnuzel but she escaped years earlier and trapped Mother Gothel in the tower with her own spell. All Gothel needed to escape was a child of her own bloodline. She...she raped you...bore your child and escaped. You stayed to raise your daughter and Weaver and his daughters rescued you."

"Weaver was like a second father to me and I thought he would adopt me, but he had a vision that Alice and Robin would wed one day and that was why he didn't."

While Rogers and Daria danced, Jimmy held out his hand for Miri and led her out onto the dance floor to Christina Perri's A Thousand Years.

"The day we met,

Frozen I held my breath

Right from the start

I knew that I'd found a home for my heart

Beats fast

Colors and promises

How to be brave?

How can I love when I'm afraid to fall

But watching you stand alone?

All of my doubt suddenly goes away somehow

One step closer

I have died everyday waiting for you

Darling don't be afraid I have loved you

For a thousand years…"

Jiminy reached up and caressed her cheek. "Feel like I've waited a thousand years for you, gorgeous."

"And I feel like I've waited that long for you handsome." She laid her head on his chest and closed her eyes. He held her closer, thinking this was as close to Heaven as he could possibly get and there was no other place Miri wanted to be at that moment than in his arms.

"Give me your stick!" Loki demanded of his wife while he watched them dance, being far too familiar with each other for his liking.

Sigyn shook her head. "Loki, you are not beating that nice boy with my ugly stick."

"NICE boy?! Sigyn, he's dating my baby!"

"Astra's your baby now, Laufeyson. So calm down!"

"If he puts ONE finger out of line-just ONE-!"

Sigyn kissed him so he doesn't see Jimmy take Miri's arm and lead her to her seat once the song was over.

"What was that for?" Loki sputtered when he could talk again.

"Do I need a reason to kiss my husband senseless?" the goddess asked with a sweet smile.

"No, but . . . right NOW?" He frowned. "Sig, what are you up to?"

"I'll never tell, darling!" she giggled.

He rolled his eyes. "I know you are up to something, darling. Come on, let's sit down before we cause a scandal."

"Wouldn't be the first time, Mischief Maker!" she said sassily and pinched him on the butt.

"Sigyn!"

Laughing, the goddess drew him over to the table with his relatives.

Jimmy could feel the god's eyes on him and held up his hands. "Sir, I swear I won't put my hands where they're not wanted."

"Remember that boy or you'll be looking like that pirate over there, only worse!"

A distraught Emma Two was trying everything she could to reverse Sigyn's spell to no avail. "Please, change him back!" she pleaded.

Beth, Beth Two and Marie glared at her. "Are you serious, you bitch?" Marie demanded angrily. "He sexually harassed a teenager. He deserved what he got and worse!"

"He didn't mean to..."

"They never mean to," Beth said through gritted teeth and stood up. "That's what they always say and then they do it again...and again. I spent the worst years of my life with a man who abused me in every way possible, even with magic."

"So did I," Beth Two added. "And I regret every year of it. So do yourself a favor honey. Leave him."

"He's my true..."

"True love. Don't make me laugh. It's all an illusion. He shows you the side of him he wants you to see while he's still the same to everyone else," Marie added angrily. "But if that's what you want, fine."

"Well that's not what we want!" Five furious Emmas approached the table. Emma Strogoff hauled her counterpart to her feet. "Come on Swan. We're taking a walk!"

They dragged the protesting 'Savior' outside.

"What's goin on over there?" Little Robin asked Regina. She shrugged her shoulders. "I dunno. Adult stuff. Hey, what's that?"

He pressed a red feather into her hand. "It's from one of my arrows. Daddy says boyfriends an girlfriends give each other stuff all the time an since you're kinda my girlfriend I wanna give you this."

"But I don't have anything to give ya. Wait I know!" She cupped his face in her hands and kissed him. They heard a crash at a nearby table and saw her father on the floor, Snow fanning him with her hand.

"Come on Nolan, wake up!" She threw a glass of water in his face.

"She's too young for that! I warned you Snow. I warned you!" he cried.

"Oh, stop it!"

Mikey turned off the stereo after the last song and all the guests returned to the chairs while the bride and groom went over to the dessert table to cut the cake. Elvira from Storybrooke Four had created a beautiful replica of the Finaqua palace, lake and labyrinth, the former home of the Strogoff family until the Ozopov claimed it for their summer palace. Hands entwined, they picked up the ceremonial knife and cut two slices. They linked arms and fed each other pieces of cake, smearing icing on each other's noses.

"And now it's time for the bouquet and garter toss!" Mikey announced.

The single women from the six realms got in position behind the bride, Kelly moving to the front of the crowd as quickly as she could. Lilly tossed the bouquet over her shoulder and the women began to scramble to catch it in the air while Kelly dived to the ground and snatched it up. She stood up, smoothed out the wrinkles in her dress uniform and held it up, beaming with pride.

Robert couldn't help grinning. "Well done, dearie," he praised.

Bae Strogoff brought out a chair for his grandmother to sit in while her husband retrieved the garter beneath her skirts.

"Okay Archie, go for it!" Mikey yelled over the microphone and turned on ZZ Top's Legs.

"No doin the nasty yet! You gotta wait til tonight!" Killian Gold hooted while his parents looked like they wanted to crawl in a hole.

"They do the dirty deed every night," Meredith muttered.

"Meredith!" Archie cried.

"Well you do!"

"We do not now cut it out!" Lilly scolded.

Her grandfather shook his head and stood up with a scrap of blue lace in his hand.

The single men fell into line behind the groom, Robert determined to make Operation Catch The Garter a success. If he could help catch Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Ladin, he could catch a scrap of blue lace.

Archie tossed the garter over his shoulder and the men were tackling each other like players on a football field to catch it while Robert dived over them and caught it in his hand.

"Hah! Not bad for an old man, eh dearies?" he taunted while his siblings burst into laughter.

Kelly sat down with the garter around her knee and waited patiently for Robert to come to her. He knelt by her side, grinning.

"Go on then Colonel," she challenged. He lifted her leg and pulled the garter down slowly, his eyes never leaving hers. Her father watched them closely, his hand reaching for the gun that was usually attached to a holster on his hip only to find that it had been left upstairs in the dresser.

"No shooting your future son in law," his wife scolded.

"He's not my son in law yet! And he won't be unless he proves to me he'll be a good husband for her!"

Rogers was laughing from where he stood with Daria.

"And you shut up too rookie or you'll be getting shot if you mess with Rumple's mum!"

Rogers could feel her childrens' eyes following him all over the room.

"He does one thing out of line he walks the plank," Rhea whispered to Jack. He smiled evilly.

"The new one we built needs christening."

"We're just friends," Daria insisted. "Well, becoming friends." She smiled at Rogers. "I'd love to visit this place you call Hyperion Heights."

"There's not much going on. I didn't really get out much, but I'd love to show you around."

"I need to spend time with my children first. You understand, don't you?"

"Aye. Spend as much time as you need." He took out his phone and handed it to her. "But this little box lets us talk to each other no matter how far apart we are. Once your family teaches you how to use one, I'll give you my number and you can call me anytime, except when I'm working."

"I'd love to learn," she said with a smile.

He took her hand and led her back to her table with her children.

"And now, for the last event of the evening, our bride and groom would like to invite everyone to dance with them for a small fee that they will be donating to the Storybrooke Orphanage!" Mikey announced.

Rumple and Belle Strogoff stood off to the side holding velvet sacks in their hands while men, woman and children began to form two lines, men and boys in Rumple's line to dance with Lilly, women and girls on the other to dance with Archie.

"Your husband's not going to beat me with your ugly stick for this, is he?" Archie asked Sigyn when it was her turn to dance. She giggled and pointed to where her husband was dancing with the bride. "Only if you don't beat him for dancing with your wife."

"He's allowed. They're old friends."

"My turn!" Regina cried and tugged on Archie's jacket.

He picked her up and started dancing with her, the little queen laughing and smiling. "See I told ya the queen wasn't gonna steal Christmas and this is the best Christmas ever!"

"Did you tell Santa what you wanted?"

"I already gots it. New friends an lots of new family. Oh and I'm a Nevenger now!"

Once their dance was over, he set her on her feet. Suddenly he felt another tug on his jacket and saw little Astra waiting patiently for her own dance.

"You don't havta pick me up. I can fly. See!"

She floated off the floor and hovered above him.

"Well ahh...okay!" he chuckled and took her hands in his. "Did Papa teach you that?"

"I watch him fly lots."

Several Lokitties flew around them.

She pointed to the leather jacket she was wearing. "Killy says I'm a "Venger now so I gotta kick butts, take names and make sure nobody's got frownies. That's what 'Driana says."

"I'm sure you'll do a good job." He stepped back to allow her to float back down to the floor and Lokitties looked up at him with pleading eyes.

"You want to dance?" he asked, wondering how that would even be possible.

"I'll dance with ya!" Regina said to them.

One of the male kittens stood up on its hindpaws and held out its front paws to her.

The females brushed up against Archie's legs, meowing.

"Lilly honey, a little help here please?" he pleaded.

She waved her hand and shrunk him down to their size.

"All right ladies," he said with a smile.

"MEEEOOOWWWW!"

Modi spit out his soda laughing. "Hey Uncle Loki, I think the Lokitties are in love!"

"By the Nine!" Loki groaned.

"I think it's cute," Miri murmured and started laughing while the groom was trying to teach his feline companions how to jitterbug.

"That's it Astarte! You've got it!" he praised.

Jonny and Gisella Hoopper ran up to the DJ table and started talking to Mikey.

"Everybody wants to be a cat

Because a cat's the only cat who knows where it's at

Tell me, everybody's pickin' up on that feline beat

'Cause everything else is obsolete

A square with a horn

Makes you wish you weren't born

Every time he plays

But with a square in the act

You can set music back

To the caveman days..."

"Oooh our song!" Astarte cried. "Come on everybody! BE A CAT!"

"I wanna be a cat!" Regina cried.

Loki chuckled. "Well if you insist..."

He waved his hand and all the humans in the ballroom were transformed into cats except for the Navarro family that could already change into housecats.

"Everybody, everybody

Everybody wants to be a cat

Hallelujah

Everybody, everybody

Everybody wants to be a cat..." Regina and Meredith sang, shuffling across the floor on their hindpaws.

"Come on everybody sing!"

Lilly and Archie jumped onto the bridal table and wrapped their tails around each other.

Major Gold huffed and pranced over to the DJ's table. He jumped up and pressed a button on the laptop with his paw.

"I'll be doggone if love ain't a man's best friend, oh baby

And I'll be doggone if you ain't the loving end

Though I know you make me feel like nobody could

If I ever found out that you're no good

Then I wouldn't be doggone

I'd be long gone."

Major wagged his tail in time with the music and barked.

"Good one Maj!" Young Bae laughed.

Now who taught you that Major?" Rumple Four demanded.

I plead the fifth, he sent.

"Damn kids." Rumple Four muttered, knowing exactly who it was. His smart assed son.

Major tapped a few more keys and the song changed again.

"If you didn't want it you shoulda let me know

But since you didn't want it, then girl you got to go.

Don't think that you can play me, and jerk me all around.

You used to be ma baby, now your ass is in the pound.

Dawg, dirty dawg, dawg, dirty dawg,

Oohh, you're a drty, dirty,

Dawg, dirty dawg, dawg, dirty dawg

Oh, you're so damn dirty..." the New Kids on the Block sang

"Ummm did Major get dumped or something?"

Young Bae frowned. "Yep. By the poodle bitch down the street."

She dumped me for a freakin Rottie! A Rottie! Major complained.

Archie and Lily now back in human form with everyone else couldn't help laughing.

It was getting late and the newlyweds were looking forward to enjoying some time alone before Christmas morning. They bid their goodbyes to their guests and retreated to the privacy of their little cottage on the grounds.

"All right, Santa's coming tonight so it's getting close to bedtime, dearies," Rumple reminded the younger children. They ran out of the room so fast it made their parents heads

Strogoff whistled and they skidded to a halt in the hallway.

Their parents were waiting for them giving them all Looks.

"Baths first."

"AWWWW!"

"You want Santa comin in your rooms when you stink like Sock Boogies?" David Molk asked his kids.

"Nooo!" his sons exclaimed.

"All right boys, follow me," David Two said to his sons while the girls went with their mother.

"Mommy I wanna sleep with Meredith tonight," Regina informed Snow. "If she wants to."

Meredith smiled. "Cool. Can't go to Gramma and Grampa's tonight cause their doin the dirty deed."

"Ummm...Meri, they can't be doin that when Santa comes."

"I dunno if they'll quit for that or not."

"They better or he'll give 'em a lump of coal or reindeer poop."

"All right you two, it's time for baths and bed," Charming informed them, barely able to keep a straight face.

Rumple remained in the ballroom helping Strogoff and his staff clean up.

"It was a lovely wedding dearie."

"Have you given any thought to my Christmas gift?"

"Yes...Belle and I have agreed. We want to do this."

He smiled. "Meet me back here at midnight...oh…second thought you might wanna come a little early. There's gonna be a line."

"What?!"

"Almost every Storybrooke couple wants the heart spell done on them."

One of the couples who would not be participating in the ceremony were Hook and Emma Two, barely speaking to each other after the incident with Miri. Hook had been in for another shock when his wife shot down his dreams of being a father when she told him she'd taken the same infertility potion Regina did the day of Robin's funeral, deciding that she didn't want a baby with anyone but Hook and in the months following his resurrection and their wedding she'd been searching for a way to reverse it.

"Now I'm GLAD I took it!" she snarled when they were alone in their suite. All actions had a price this was theirs to pay, hers for refusing to see behind the mask and his for being unable to resist temptations.

It took the staff two hours to clean the ballroom and by that time all the children were in their pajamas, ready for bed and their bedtime stories. Strogoff was shocked when he went to the second floor and found the Scorpions old and new sleeping on mattresses on the floor. "Ummm dearies, there's no need to go to the mattresses tonight. We're not having a war."

"It's how we spent Christmas Eve at our warehouse hangout," Kat explained.

"Relax Grampa," his grandson reassured him.

"Oh, and how did you get made, dearie?"

Henry waved his hand under his blanket and a bucket tipped over on the ceiling dousing his grandfather with Frank's Red Hot.

"Nice one!" Jimmy hi-fived him.

"Oooh you know I hate this crap!" Strogoff muttered and cleaned himself with spell.

"Looked good on ya Grampa."

"Ha ha. Funny lad. Payback's a bitch, ya know. Never know when it's coming."

He left the room giggling wickedly.

"Aaaah holy crap!" Henry jumped off his mattress trying to pick a wedgie out of his pajama pants.

"Remind me to do that one when we got home," Modi whispered to Miri.

"On Magni? Or one of your other brothers?" she giggled.

"Magni!"

Miri rolled on the mattress. "Oh Norns! He would just die! You know Old Stone Face!"

That was what they called Modi's elder brother because he was so serious. He hardly ever smiled and was usually threatening to beat sense into Modi.

"Yeah it'd really mess that face up!"

Kat turned on one of the televisions and flipped to a channel showing a Christmas Eve mass while the others watched Christmas comedies on the other.

In a bedroom at the end of the hall the old and new Nevengers were being entertained by the David Molks and the Grinch himself taking turns reading 'How The Grinch Stole Christmas."

"Tell how you saved Mommy and Daddy from freezing in your cave, Inch!" Storybrooke Six's Elsa Molk pleaded.

"He did?" Regina asked.

"Uh-huh. Mommy ran 'way from home 'cause she didn't wanna get cursed so Daddy chased her and found her freezing in Inch's cave. He found 'em an took 'em back to Whoville to get warm."

"I was getting to that Elsa."

"Yeah so shuddup and let him tell the story Iceface!" Sapphira snapped.

"You better shuddup or you're gonna have a butt face, Butthole!" Regina retorted.

"Ahem! Do we want coal and reindeer poop in our stockings, dearies?" Rumple said when he came into the room to say goodnight to his younger children.

"No," they chorused.

"Then be nice."

Saphhira flipped over on her mattress and glared at the wall.

Once the children were asleep the adults made their way downstairs. As Strogoff warned there was already a long line at the entrance to the ballroom. At five minutes till one AM on Christmas morning it was Rumple and Belle's turn to go into the ballroom.

They stood face to face in the center of the room with Rumple and Belle Strogoff at their sides. Belle Strogoff reached into Belle's chest and pulled out her heart slowly while Rumple removed his own.

"We'll start with you, dearie." Strogoff waved his hand over Rumple's heart and it divided into two pieces, one in his palm glowing red, the other hovering above him glowing white.

He reached for the white piece and cupped it in his hand. "Belle," he whispered and released it. It floated over to her and she caught it in her free hand, holding it against her chest until it vanished.

"Are you ready?" Belle Strogoff asked her.

"Yes."

Belle Strogoff waved her hand over Belle's heart and it too split into two pieces. She caught the white one in her hand and held it.

"Rumple," she said softly and released it. He caught it in his hand and pressed it against his chest until it vanished.

"Now this ceremony is a little different than the one you saw with my parents at their wedding," Strogoff explained. "But it works the same. Keep holding the other half of your hearts and repeat after me.

See as I see

Feel as I feel

Let our two hearts become one

Not even in death shall this bond be undone."

"See as I see

Feel as I feel

Let our two hearts become one

Not even in death shall this bond be undone," they recited.

"Now put your hearts back in."

The moment they did so they could feel their hearts beating together in their chests.

"Merry Christmas Belle," Rumple murmured and took her into his arms for a kiss.

"Merry Christmas Rumple."

"We'll leave you two alone," Belle Strogoff whispered and escorted her husband out of the ballroom.

Rumple waved his hand and snow began to fall from the ceiling and Belle's nightgown transformed into her animated counterpart's gold dress while his blue silk pajamas transformed into the Beast's outfit.

"Regina was right. This is the best Christmas ever," he said as he led her into a waltz to Beauty and The Beast. "Forgive me if I imagine Cora throwing a tantrum in hell."

"Rumple, may I ask you something?"

"Anything sweetheart."

"Will you teach me magic?"

He paused.

"You...you want to learn magic? Why?"

She smiled. "Let's just saying seeing another version of me doing it inspired me. I want to be as good a wife to you as she is."

"You already are and you dinna need to learn magic to do so but I'll teach you if you want."

She placed her hand over his chest, feeling her own heart beating with his. "Don't go easy on me."

He grinned. "I don't intend to."

He picked her up and spun her into a graceful dip before he kissed her again. As they kissed they heard someone clearing their throat and looked up to see Regina in the doorway tapping her foot. "You better not do the dirty deed in here or I'm telling Mister Strogoff AND Santa!"

"And why aren't you in bed Miss Big Mouth Bossypants?" Rumple demanded.

"Cause I was thirsty."

He conjured a glass of water and handed it to her. "Now go back to bed."

"Okay...HEYYY MISTER STROGOFF UNCA RUMPLE'S DOIN THE DIRTY DEED IN YOUR BALLROOM!" she shouted.

"Why you little..." Rumple cried and hurried after her leaving Belle in the ballroom giggling.

"I was not now get back here!"

Regina blew a raspberry and grabbed a broom out of the kitchen. "Fly you!" she commanded

"Two can play at this game dearie!" He summoned a mop and hopped on it, speeding after her.

"Can't catch me!" she taunted.

"Oh yes I can...I...stop mop!" he cried as it came to a screeching halt in the pool room and dumped him in the indoor swimming pool.

"You told it to stop," Regina reminded him when he surfaced and swam over to the edge.

"So I did. Now get back to bed, dearie."

"Fore I do can you do me a favor?"

"If I can."

"Can you tell that mean lady to stay in heck where she belongs."

He smiled. "I think I can manage that with a little help." He kissed her cheek. "Good night dearie and Merry Christmas."

"Merry Christmas Unca Rumple."

Once she was gone a portal opened in the floor.

He stepped through to find Persephone waiting on the other side. "Cora is in the Realm of Retribution, our worst prison," she explained. "I'll be happy to help you give her Regina's regards."

A long line of people waited outside a door leading to the room where Cora Miller, the woman originally born Zorinda Strogoff resided, all of them people she'd killed in both her lives.

They moved aside to allow him and the Queen of the Underworld to pass. Cora was chained to a wall while a young woman stood beside her, a heart in her hand. "I was only a child when you killed me and all I wanted to be was a friend to your daughter!"

"Hello Cora," Rumple greeted coldly. "Enjoying the accommodations? I've heard they're quite...painful!"

"What do you want?"

"To tell you that you've lost, dearie. You came here to steal our Christmas but instead this is the best Christmas we've ever had."

"You haven't won yet," she sneered. "A Dark One will rise again and she will destroy you."

"Oh but she can't because we've brought back the one person that can keep her contained."

"No!" she gasped.

"Yes," Persephone taunted. "Sapphira Magestrix is not getting that dagger and you can put all your dreams of getting it into Regina's hands aside because your daughter has been reborn into the light. Yes, she will remember her first life when she is older but she will use it as a lesson not to go back into the darkness."

"You've lost," Rumple growled. "Accept it."

"I will never accept it!" she snarled.

"You will in time," Persephone said firmly. "Come. Christmas morning will soon be here, and we'll all be having some very impatient children wanting their gifts."

The adults were gathered in the largest living room when they returned, exhausted from wrapping the gifts they didn't have time to wrap when they were busy fighting a war or preparing for a journey to meet their other selves.

Snow finished her glass of wine and stood up. "Now that we're all here, I have an announcement to make. Now that the realms have been united, we've decided that we should have a ruling council like we've had back in our old world. My fellow Snows and I have taken a vote and we have elected a council of six, one representative from each realm."

The Rumples looked at each other in confusion. They hadn't been included in such a discussion.

Regina Two stood up. "The vote was unanimous. We feel that only the oldest and wisest should lead us and there is no one who fits that description more than Rumplestiltskin. Stand up dearies!"

"Yes, we mean all of you!" Snow added.

The six Rumplestiltskins stood up, still reeling from the shock of it all.

"We would crown you, but you'd probably incinerate them!" Regina Two joked.

"We also suggest that you elect members of your own realms to serve on your personal councils."

"I thank you all for this honor and I would like to appoint my mother Daria, my siblings Rhea and Bobby and my daughter-in-law Emma to my council along with my wife Belle," Rumple spoke up.

Now it was Strogoff's turn. "I appoint my mother Lilliana, my cousins Azkadellia and Dorothia, my daughter Regina, my daughter-in-law Emma and my cousins in law Jiminy and Wyatt to my counsel along with my wife and eldest son Bae."

Rumple Four smiled at his friends and family. "I appoint Regina, Emma and my dear friend Angelo to my council. I also elect my brother in law Archie, Bae and Belle. You may not have magic dearies, but I rely on your advice."

Weaver smiled. "Since we're the council that has no magic, I will be electing the people I trust with my life to serve on my council. They are my wife Belle, my sons Bae and Gideon and my daughters Kelly and Roni. Oh and you too Rogers."

"Thanks!" Roger laughed.

"Alice, you are the only mage left from realm. I haven't forgotten that dearie so you and Robin will be on the council as well."

Storybrooke Six's Rumple didn't have to ponder for long on who would be on his council. "I choose my wife Belle, my daughter-in-law Emma, my son Bae, Regina, Archie and Melanie."

Rumple Two was nervous when it was his turn to name his council. The people he trusted in his Storybrooke were few. "I name Bae, Regina, Persephone, Archie and Tracey to my council."

"Well now that we've got that settled, it's time for Hallmark!" Snow laughed. Male groans were heard all over the room.

"Oh, shut up and deal with it!"

"They ALL have the same damn plot!" Charming protested. "I'd rather watch paint dry!"

"You'll watch Hallmark and like it...unless you want to sleep on the floor!"

"Let's take a vote. Hallmark Christmas movies or something else."

The men soon realized they were outnumbered.

And the women would be happy to make it up to them later.

Avonlea Estate

Christmas Morning

"WAKEY WAKEY DEARIES!" Strogoff's voice boomed across intercoms all over the house at 6AM waking all his guests out of a deep sleep. The children jumped out of their beds and started running for the stairs, their small feet sounding like a calvary of horses racing across the hardwood floors.

The adults and teenagers staggered out of their own beds, many of them desperate for a coffee boost before the madness began. Everyone would gather in the ballroom to open their gifts and to watch their favorite Christmas shows before dinner. Rumple Four was excited for them to meet some of his dearest friends, Suzy Snowflake, Jack Frost and Hardrock, Coco and Joe. It was difficult not to ruin the surprise when Beth Molk mentioned seeing them in old commercials her adoptive mother liked to watch. The Grinch from Storybrooke Six was also bringing a special friend...fourteen of them in fact. They were all the same person that many would recognize.

As if on cue a grinding noise could be heard outside and a blue police box appeared on the lawn, thirteen men and a woman emerging.

They saw a green furred paw give a thumbs up from the ballroom window.

"Right. Come on then!" The Thirteenth Doctor urged her past selves.

Suddenly a sleigh came flying toward them and crashed beside the police box.

"You did it again! I'm telling Santa," the elf named Coco shook his finger at his brother Hardrock.

"Aww come on! I didn't have that much eggnog."

"Ah let's go. We don't wanna be late."

The last guests, Suzy and Jack floated in on a large ice shaped snowflake. Jack got off first and held out his hand to his pregnant wife. They were excited to be seeing their old friends for Storybrooke Four and meeting some new ones.

"We have some new guests arriving, so we'll wait...dearies, did you really think you could slip them past me?" Strogoff giggled. "I have the Sight, remember?"

"Oooh who are they, who are they?" Regina asked excitedly.

"It's the Doctor!" Killian Gold exclaimed, pointing to one of the men in the group.

"Oh my God...it's ALL of them!" Jeff Hatter from Storybrooke Four cried.

"The Fifth Doctor. My first crush as my cursed self," Belle Four said dreamily.

Belle blinked her eyes. "Rumple...is it me or am I seeing Suzy Snowflake?"

"A very pregnant Suzy Snowflake but yes, dearie, you are." Belle Strogoff conjured an easy chair for her to sit in.

"All right, kids...present time."

"Get ready to duck," Rumple laughed.

The children didn't waste a second, wrapping paper flying everywhere as they tore it off eager to see what was inside.

"Any minute now Miss I Do What I Want is gonna start throwing," Loki warned his wife.

She nodded. Astra enjoyed unwrapping toys, but clothes were another matter. They usually got thrown.

"Clothes!" Regina whined, throwing hers on a pile with Meredith's.

Astra pushed a large wrapped box over to where Loki and Sigyn were sitting. "Papa, help!" she cried.

"You have to take the paper off, darling!" he chuckled, and helped her rip it off. "What in Yggdrasil is this?"

Once the paper was off, he saw a Barbie Dream House-complete with Viking Barbie. "Wow! Astra, it's a doll house."

"That's lovely!" Sigyn said. "And look at the Valkyrie Barbie!" She went to open the Barbie.

"Mine!" Astra cried.

"Yes, I know. Let me open her for you." Sigyn opened the box and slid the Barbie out. "What in Hel?" she muttered, trying to take the Barbie out of the package. "Loki, give me your dagger."

"My dagger? What for?"

"This doll is stuck, and I need it to cut these things on it's legs!"

"Mama, want Valkyrie!" she wailed.

"Yes, as soon as I can get her out!" Sigyn cried, sawing at the plastic tie with Loki's dagger.

He opened the Dream House and stared in dismay at all the pieces. 'It's says "some assembly required! It's in pieces! What do i have to do build it?"

Bae Six burst out laughing. "Yes you do and if you make your wife do it expect a nasty message on a chalkboard!"

He knew his time to get one for Aria was coming.

"They say some assembly required but they're complicated as hell," spoke up Archie Four.

"Aww, Nine Hells!" Loki groaned.

"Try putting a baby crib together without magic," groaned Persephone.

"Finally!" Sigyn cried as she freed the Barbie. "Here, little scamp, go play with her."

"I think you took the edge off my dagger, hon." Loki grumbled.

"Our sonics won't even work on those things," The Eleventh Doctor lamented.

"They're scientific instruments, not toys!" snapped the War Doctor. The Tenth Doctor rolled his eyes. The Seventh Doctor was entertaining some of the other children with sleight of hand tricks. The Thirteenth Doctor and Grace Hatter from Storybrooke Four were discussing how to make a sonic screwdriver out of discarded silverware. Killian Gold and some of the other Nevengers were enjoying listening to the Twelfth Doctor playing his electric guitar. Ambrose was being taught Venusian Akido by the Third Doctor.

Regina handed Astra another package. "I had to ask your papa what to get you. Hope you like it."

"Papa, build house!" Astra said, clutching the Barbie.

"What do I look like, Bob the Builder?" Loki sighed. He began reading the directions and frowning.

The children wanted to give each other gifts and had spoken to the mages from their realms to make their wishes come true before Christmas morning.

Regina wanted nervously for the toddler to open her gift.

"Thank you!" Astra said and then tore the gift open. "Aww! Kitties!" she screamed, hugging them.

"How adorable!" Sigyn cried. "I guess we're going to have cats all over the place."

"Like we already do?" Loki laughed. The small black kitten Loki pounced on all the wrapping paper. Then he tried to jump in the Dream House box.

The Molks; cat Dak beat him to it.

"Never leave an empty box laying around or Dak'll get in it," David warned.

Loki looked up. "Norns! I wish the cats could put together this house! Anybody got a screwdriver?"

Fourteen doctors held theirs up.

"Not those ones!" Rumple laughed.

"Why not?" the Sixth Doctor huffed. "Anything'll do in a pinch. Oh! You've gotten me a new coat!" He held up a blue overcoat that was more fashionable than the 'explosion in a rainbow factory' he called his customary one.

Rumple conjured a toolbox and handed it to Loki.

"Umm honey...you put the door on the wrong side," Sigyn said.

Loki muttered something in Old Norse.

"Oooh you swore! Somebody get the Ivory!" Ellie Hood shrilled.

"How'd you know he swore?" Modi asked.

"Cause Maggie told me!"

Maggie Hatter smirked. "I'm clairvoyant...that's how."

"Need a little help. I'm good at inventing so this should be a breeze," Ambrose offered.

"Zipperhead you couldn't even put Junior's Lincoln log house together," Wyatt retorted.

Ambrose held up his hand. "Read between the lines Tin Man."

"I'm telling you, whoever wrote these directions was on drugs!" Loki replied.

"Nope he didn't. Mommy had to do it," spoke up Wyatt Cain Junior. "Mommy, I wanna be a dragon!"

"Not yet!"

"Pleeeese."

"No. You know you're not to be in dragon form in the house."

The dream house frame collapsed.

Charming was having his own battle with a Playmobil Magic Castle.

"Are you done yet?" Regina demanded.

"No!"

"When you gonna be done?"

"When I get done! God...Loki, trade me. You build this and I'll build the Dream House!"

"Why why why did I buy this?" Robin Four moaned while he was trying to assemble a Thomas The Tank engine for his little Rum. Rum and Ilyssa were nearly driving their parents insane by taking little flights at will.

"Okay, we'll switch," the God of Mischief said.

"Try to figure out the codes on this damn thing while you're at it!" Maurice from Storybrooke Four tossed a universal remote at them.

Emma Six conjured a blackboard and wrote: How Many Men Does it take to put Christmas Toys together? One to assemble and the rest to try to read the directions!

The women sat back and enjoyed the show.

An hour later the younger children were asleep on the padded ballroom floor, piles of torn wrapping paper all around them.

"They act like they worked hard!" Charming huffed, making little progress on his toy project.

"Somebody cheat and use magic already!"

Loki snapped his fingers and the Playmobile Magic Castle was finished.

"Yeah now you can cheat with ours too!" Charming grouched.

"It's not cheating. I'm God of Magic. It's how I do things," Loki replied and waved a hand. The rest of the Dream House was built and so was everything else.

The men breathed a collective sigh of relief.

"I should have done that an hour ago," Loki sighed. "But I wanted to experience this holiday like a mortal. But from now on anything that requires assembly gets done with magic."

"Amen brother!"

"Cowards," Emma Six snorted.

Loki laughed. "I'm not. I'm a magician. And I do what I want."

"Now you know where Astra gets it," Sigyn told the women.

The women started cleaning everything up and putting the gifts in magic bags DG made based on the magic bags Lilly's father used to make as the Wizard of Oz.

The Rumples retreated to the kitchen to check on dinner. Archie Four joined them, wanting to make his famous cake rolls for dessert.

The Storybrooke Six residents decided to postpone their annual Christmas Day food fight since they'd already started one at Archie and Lilly's wedding reception.

During dinner Regina dropped her fork and ran over to the window, pulling back the drapes. "Lookit! SNOW!"

It was indeed snowing.

"Snow? In Florida?"

"You can't have Christmas without snow," Loki spoke up.

"Yay! Snowball fights!"

The Scorpions looked at each other and smirked, eager to relive one of their fondest Christmas memories.

After dinner everyone went outside and started getting into teams for the ultimate snow war except for the Scorpions.

"What are you guys doing?" Miri asked Young Bae and Ewan.

"Watch."

Kat and Becky stuck large buttons on the head for the eyes and mouth and a carrot for the nose then Bae stuck a thimble on the bottom. Modi threw back his head and howled with laughter.

Then he put a familiar looking helmet on it.

"Who put the dick on the snowman

And embarrassed the family

Could have used a ball bat

Cucumber or zucchini

but instead you used a thimble

Somethin you can barely see

Who put the dick on the snowman

And made him look like me..." he sang.

"So, who does it look like?" Young Bae asked him.

Miri grinned. "Oh, I know!"

"Hey wha'cha...ummm...hey that looks like Unca Thor!" Astra said when she came looking for them with Regina and Meredith in tow.

"Umm...no it doesn't!" Modi said quickly.

"Uh-huh it gots his helmet, cape an hammer. but what's that there?" she pointed to the thimble.

Regina and Maredith's eyes widened.

"Umm...Astra, forget it. Let's go back..."

"Is that a pee pee? It's where the pee pee is."

"Oh My God we are so dead," Ewan groaned.

"Heyy Unca Thor come an see..."

"No, no, no, no..." Modi moaned.

"Papa, come see! Modi made a snow Thor!"

"Astra, shuddup!"

"Papa, come lookit! Snow Thor!"

"We gotta get rid of it!"

"Astra what's all the..." Loki took one look at the snowman and howled with laughter.

"It's got a pee pee, Papa. Lookit!" Astra pointed to the thimble.

A rather small one too, the god thought.

He waved his hand over the snowman. "Oh Thor! Wanna check this out?"

"I'm dead. I'm dead!" Modi moaned.

But Loki, clever god that he was, decided that he would take the credit for this insult.

Thor would expect it anyway.

"What the Hel is so pressing that..it's a snow man. Big deal." Thor said nonchalantly when he appeared.

"Wif a small pee pee Unca Thor," Astra pointed.

The god looked closer. "Oh really!?" He glared at his son. "Modi, did you do this?"

"I did. You wanna make something of it," Loki challenged.

"Oh yeah. I'm gonna beat your sorry ass!"

"Well meet me in the yard brother because I challenge you to a snow war."

"You're on, dick!"

Modi breathed a sigh of relief. "Now this I gotta see!"

The snow wars were already in full swing when they ventured onto the south lawn and everyone was participating including the animated stuffed animals. Thor decided to animate his frozen namesake to join in unaware that the Storybrooke Four residents already had an encounter with dirty snowmen years before.

"What is THAT doing here!" Rumple exclaimed, pointing to it.

"Thor take the damn ballbat off!" yelled Loki.

"Unless you really want to have a thimble for a manhood!' threatened Sigyn, holding up the ugly stick.

"Sorry kids," Thor said sheepishly and magicked the bat away.

"Damn kids," Rumple Four muttered, knowing exactly who was responsible for the frozen menace's existence and it certainly wasn't Loki.

"Mama, have mercy!" Rumple, Robert and Rhea pleaded with their mother.

"Oh no no no...you'd better pray for mercy from the Gold Fairy," she giggled and dropped a pile of snow on them.

The Nevengers and the Scorpions decided to have a battle of their own, but the teenagers were severely outnumbered by their younger counterparts.

"Hah hah sayonara LOSERS!" Regina stood up on their fort and blew a raspberry.

"We need more recruits!" Young Bae sighed.

"You gotta wait a while for that mates!" Killian Gold taunted.

Miri waved a hand and an army of snow minons appeared.

"Camis, Elsas...bring on the Snowgies!"

"Okay...Driana, can you make em supersized?"

"Comin right up!"

The Happy Army bears and Minions soon joined the fight on opposing sides.

"Hey!' Adriana protested.

"We're the Rebel Bears!" Major Bae hi-fived his human counterpart.

Little DJ Molk was content to sit and eat snow in his monster form.

The Gold's white and gold collie, Freya, was loving the snow, running around in it and then she got the brilliant idea to try and herd people.

Thor felt something nip his ankle. "What in Hel?"

Freya barked at him and nipped his other ankle, pushing him towards the house.

Loki cracked up. "I think she thinks you're a lost sheep!"

"Aww Freya!" Alina groaned. "She does that a lot."

The Strogoffs cat Lucky jumped on her back.

You. Dog. Take me back to the house.

Bossy fleabag!

I do not have fleas.

Could've fooled me.

You've got style cat, Nala praised.

Thanks.

They heard angry barking from the front steps Regina looked up to see a chocolate brown chihuahua beagle mix standing up on its hindpaws.

"Snoopy!" the Molks exclaimed.

"Who's that?"

"Grammie Mattie's dog," Jasper Molk explained. "See how his front feet are curled out. That's 'cause he's missing bones there but he gets around really good."

"Yeah but its hard for him to get 'round in the snow," Elsa added.

Loki the kitten arched his back and spit from the porch swing. Go away, dog!

Hey I just wanna play, Snoopy whined.

Snoopy's cool, Dak sent. Cats are his buddies but big dogs scare him,

They make fun of me 'cause of my front feet, said Snoopy.

The black kitten's fur relaxed. If you promise not try and bite me I will play with you.

I can't play in the snow. Snoopy jumped up on the swing beside him.

Astra conjured a ball. "Here Loki!"

"Ahhh ankle biters!" Ambrose whined when Freya nipped at his heels.

"Aww quit cryin Zipperhead. Not like he's a Papay runner." Wyatt chuckled in his mini dragon form.

The kitten ran after the ball and brought it to Snoopy. Look, a ball.

Snoopy picked it up with his teeth and tossed it back for Loki.

The cat caught it with his paws and batted it over to the dog again.

Hope you come back next year. I like this!

I will ask my little companion if we can. Loki meowed.

Little did they know the Council of the United Realms was already making plans to do just that.

"I propose we get together for Christmas every year," said Strogoff.

"Why don't we cast another curse, bring all the realms of story here?" Regina Two asked.

"You mean all the Enchanted Forests, Wonderlands, ect...?"

"And Storybrookes," she added.

"Why does it have to be a curse?" Jiminy asked.

"That's what it would take."

"We're not crushing any hearts dearie so get that thought out of your mind," her mentor said angrily.

"You don't need a curse," said Persephone. "All you need is the power of the Guardians combined. "That's what could've saved Nonestica."

"All the Storybrookes combined as one...all the realms of story tucked away in a little corner in Maine," Regina Two went on.

"We should put it to the others first before we make our decision," Rumple proposed. "But not all of us live in Storybrooke now. Some live here, one of the Molk families lives in Pennsylvania."

"If everyone agrees we'll cast the spell and bring the realms here...to merge with Storybrooke One," Strogoff said.

"Yes because Storybrooke One was created with the same magic Hades and I used to create Nonestica and your worlds sprung from that source magic," said Persephone.

They all agreed that it would be discussed later before the children were sent to bed for the night.

Once darkness fell, they called the snow wars to a halt and everyone returned to the house to change clothes and settle in front of the fireplace with warm drinks and snacks.

"This afternoon the members of the council had a discussion on a matter that concerns all of us," Rumple announced. "A suggestion has been made that we cast a spell bringing all the realms together to merge with the first Storybrooke. That includes the Forests and other realms that still exist as well as the our Storybrookes. We would like everyone's opinion on whether we do this or just arrange to meet up throughout the year."

"Wow..." Emma whistled. "That's a pretty tall order Rumple."

"I say do it!" Adriana Gold exclaimed. "That way everybody can live together and be happy!"

The children were all in agreement.

"Grandfather, what do you think?" Daria asked Loki.

"It would take a lot of magic but I think it would work."

"I would give anything to have Nonestica back, but we can't," Lilly said sadly.

"We still face a threat from the Home Office and would have a better chance of protecting ourselves under one barrier," spoke up Isaac Wallace.

"But we like living in Pennsylvania and I know the rest of you like living in Juno," David Molk argued.

"Except during hurricane season," Emma Strogoff muttered.

"And that's getting worse every year."

"You can stay in Pennsylvania dearie, we're not asking you to move. However, we will be strengthening the wards around your home."

The Nevengers and Scorpions already knew how they would vote.

"We'll give everyone until midnight to decide," Rumple announced.

While they waited for everyone to make their decision, the members of the council gathered in Strogoff's study to look through the Book of the Ancients for a spell to use.

At eleven PM there was a knock on the door.

"We're ready to vote," Charming announced.

Bae stepped forward, being asked to speak for the adults. Young Bae would be representing the teenagers and Henry represented the children.

"Bae, is the vote by the adults unanimous?" his father asked him.

"It is, and we vote yes."

"Bae, what does your group vote?" Rumple Four asked his son.

"We vote yes."

"Henry, what do the children vote."

"We vote yes, Grampa."

"Is this spell gonna drain you?" Alina asked her father.

"Normally it would but we have enough gods and demigods to help that it will just make us want to sleep for a few hours. That's why we're casting it now before Christmas is over."

They formed a large circle in the center of the room and began to chant in Ozian.

"We call upon all of the powers of the light...let our worlds here and beyond at last unite!" they chanted.

"Holy crow! Alina, look in the mirror!" Henry gasped, pointing at the wall length mirror in the ballroom.

They could see an image of their street, or what looked like it only now there were six salmon pink Victorians on the street instead of one and on the mailboxes were the names Gold Two, Weaver, Gold Four, Gold Five and Strogoff.

On another street there were now six pawnshops...six offices for Dr. Hopper, a new shop called Mystic Creations, the craft and flower shop Jiminy and Az owned and operated.

The lake had been expanded to add more cabins for each family. DG, Az, Jiminy and Lilly fought back tears when a version of the Finaqua Palace appeared there.

High up in the mountains another castle sprung up.

"The Northern Island," Az whispered.

Soon more castles appeared around it including all the Dark Castles, the palaces of the Snow Whites, Auroras and Reginas.

"Belle Reve!" Belle Four cried.

"That's the Dark Castle," Belle said.

"We renamed ours."

"Good idea," she murmured, already thinking of a few.

"Hey, it's the Lost Boys and Gabriel!" Killian Gold waved to the group in the mirror as their version of Neverland appeared in the sea.

"The Heights! Yes!" Robin Weaver-Rogers exclaimed and embraced her wife.

Six yellow Bugs were now parked at the expanded Storybrooke police station with license plates reading Swan 1-6.

Lilly sobbed in her husband's arms when the Emerald Palace and Central City appeared. "Oh, they've done it...they've found a way to bring it back to me!"

"To all of us," DG murmured.

"We couldn't bring back the people we lost but we could bring back the places they loved in their honor," Loki spoke up.

"Oh, this is so cool! There's so many new places to see an we don't havta go through portals!" Regina clapped her hands.

"ommy, Daddy, lookit! There's Gampie's house, Grammie Mattie's house, our houses and Daddy's office!" Cami Molk exclaimed.

David and Beth were astounded to see that their daughter was correct. The farm owned by Beth's adoptive father had been transported to the new Storybrooke along with their homes in Florida and David's PI office, Movarro Investigations.

"Oh dear! I didn't think it would do that!" Gina exclaimed. "It even moved us!"

"All of Seaview?" Bae Strogoff asked.

Strogoff waved his hand over the mirror. Everything had been relocated though their climates remained the same.

"It's like...it's like we have our own little world in the world!" Will and his sister Jess were excited to see their homes both on land and sea appear.

"But one where we're all together...and safe." Rumple murmured.

"Whoa...that is some powerful magic!" Robert whistled.

"I think it responded to the hopes and dreams of everyone here," Rhea spoke up.

Christmas Day was coming to an end but there was still much celebrating to be done with old friends and new in the wonderful new world they'd created with the most powerful magic of all, love.

Authors Notes: Another installment of the Gold Standard has come to an end and we'd like to thank everyone for your patience with us as we worked to finish this for you for Christmas and if you want to look back on Christmases and stories past, links to the Gold Standard, Unexpected Series and Mishap series are on Kat's profile here and AO3 and links to my Gold Chronicles series are on AO3. Happy reading and may your holidays be filled with joy, laughter and most of all…love

Snapegirlkmf and CJ Moliere