When Clarion awoke the next morning she dressed and made her way into Tinker Bell's room. Tink was fast asleep, her hair was still up from the party the night before. Clarion, being the loving mother she was, tucked Tink under the covers. As she moved the covers over her daughter a piece of leaf fell off her bed and onto the floor. Clarion picked up the leaf and left the room. She closed the door quietly behind her then investigated the leaf. It read 'It works', Clarion was not sure what the note meant but she was going to find out sooner than later. Clarion went on with her daily duties, those words kept repeating in her mind...'it works'... what could it mean...
Those words haunted her every thought for months as she struggled to figure out what her daughter was doing. Tinker Bell's coronation was vastly approaching and Clarion was so worried about her daughter's safety she wanted to postpone the coronation till she could figure out what she was up to. She decided to take a chance and ask Tinker Bell to tell her the truth...Maybe this time Tink would tell her what was going on. Clarion feared that cold feeling of being lied to time and time again.
"Honey?" Clarion called to her daughter from her study. Tink was in her room making a surprise formal wear for her father to wear to the ball. Tinker Bell quickly called back to her mother, "One second!" as she quietly hid her work. Tink flew out to her mother, it was so hard to lie to her but in Tink's mind, it was the right thing to do so her mother could have her happily ever after.
"Yes, mother?"
"Tinker Bell..." Clarion sighed, "I need to ask you something..."
"Yes...?" Tink gulped, 'does she know?'. Tinker Bell felt her worry rise.
"I have been worried sick since I found this in your room." Clarion showed her daughter the note she had found in Tink's room.
"Why were you in my room?!" Tink's eyes widened and her emotions went ramped! She didn't mean to be so cruel but it just came out!
"Tinker Bell! I am the Queen I may go where I wish. Secondly, don't use that tone with me!"
"I can use whatever tone I want with you!"
"Tinker Bell! What is the matter with you?! I am worried sick about you. First, I find winter clothes in your room and now this? I want to know the truth and I want to know it now!" This threw Tink over the edge, she not only invaded her privacy once but twice! Now Tink was red in the face, she was about to crack.
"I will not tell you anything! It's for your own good!" Tinker Bell was now yelling at the top of her lungs.
"TINKER BELL! As long as you're my daughter and you live under my roof you will do as I say! I don't want to lose you!"
"Well, maybe I don't want to be your daughter!" Tink left the room with a flick of her powerful wings. Then... She was gone, leaving her poor mother to cry her eyes out on the floor.
It was the day of the coronation and Queen Clarion had not seen her daughter since that horrible day in the Pixie Dust Tree.
"Clarion..." Fairy Mary placed a loving hand on her friend's shoulder.
"I... I can't find her anywhere Mary..."
"Don't you worry Ree, she'll turn up at the coronation tonight."
"Mary, I hope your right..." Mary looked down in sorrow as a knock was heard. Clarion wiped her eyes and called for them to enter her study. Viola came fluttering in with a box in her hands.
"This is for you Queen Clarion." Clarion thanked her and Viola flew out the door. Clarion opened the box to reveal a letter. She set down the box and opened the letter.
"Who is it from?" Clarion gasped and turned toward Fairy Mary.
"Mary it's from Tinker Bell!"
"Well read what it says!"
"Dear, Mom
I am so sorry about the way I acted that night. I didn't mean any of it. I have made this dress for you to wear tonight because I know you have nothing to wear that is fancy-"
"She has a point ya know!"
"Mary! Let me finish."
"Okay okay."
"I hope you will love it Zarina and I worked really hard on it. I will be at the party tonight and I am bringing a friend or two. I promise I will explain everything tonight at the ball. I love you."
"I told you she was alright Ree."
"I am so relieved she is but what's this about bringing friends?"
"I have no idea... But I am sure it will be fine."
"I hope your right, Mary."
"Hey, I'm always right!"
It was an hour before the ball would begin. Tinker Bell and Periwinkle were about to knock on the Lord of Winter's castle door. The tailor made ice blue suit in hand, Peri knocked on the grand ice door. Debra, the beautiful Winter Cooking talent fairy, opened the doors.
"Yes?" Debra said with her thick Australian accent that she picked up from her many trips to the Mainland.
"We are here to see the Lord of Winter," Peri said to her, while Tinker Bell was hiding the fact she was a Warm talent fairy.
"Right this way, dear." Debra smiled her blue eyes sparkling in the reflection of the Ice Palace walls. She leads Tink and Peri up to the Lord of Winter's room. "Here we are. Make sure to knock." Debra smiled one last time before flying away in her lovely pink petal dress and white apron. Peri knocked on the sold ice door, to any warm fairy the place would be freezing but to her, it was the perfect temperature.
"Enter." Lord Milori's handsome voice rang out. Both Tink and Peri took a deep breath and entered the study. Lord Milori looked up to see his daughter but did not notice Tinker Bell at the time.
"Ah, Periwinkle! What a pleasure, what brings you to the Ice Palace?"
"Lord Milori... This maybe a bit strange to hear but..."
"Yes...?"
"We know."
"We? I am sorry I don't know what-" Before Milori could finish Tinker Bell stepped out of the shadows. Milori's heart stopped. "Get her out of here before her wings break!" Milori jumped out of his seat and ran toward Tinker Bell.
"No! It's alright! I figured out a way to cross the border safely!" Milori froze, if this were true he could be with the woman he loved and with his two daughters that were before him.
"Wha- How?" Milori stuttered, but Tinker Bell and Periwinkle explained their entire plan to him. We'll all but one part... "Amazing, so... what's next?"
"Well, my coronation ball is tonight... it's a masked ball and I want you to come." Tinker Bell motioned for Peri to give him the suit, mask, and Ice Blue Pixie Dust. "Please... I just want my mom to be happy. She still loves you and it kills her to be away from you."
"I want to be with her more than anything in Neverland… Are you sure this is going to work?" Milori's mind thought of everything that could go wrong all at once. He dearly wanted to be with the woman he loved but what about the concusses? Tinker Bell looked at him with a kind smile, the same smile her mother use to give him.
"I know everything will work…Please…Dad?" Hearing his daughter call him 'dad' for the first time threw him into a daze of happiness.
"Yes." He said.
"Yes…?"
"Let's get ready, I want to have my family and the one I love. I thought for decades that I would never see Clarion again. Now, that it's possible again, I am never letting her go. I want to be your Father thank you my caring young fairies. I will never lose my happiness as long as I have you two." Tinker Bell and Periwinkle raced up to their Father and embraced him tightly. Their family was almost whole… All that remained was for Clarion and Milori to fall back in love with each other. Which in their cases would be like falling asleep, blissful.