7:15 AM AU - Things go a bit differently in the cabin during 7:15 AM. With memories returned, how will this change things?
Face Claim for Narcissa: Eileen Davidson
Face Claims for the three good fairies:
Flora: Maggie Smith
Fauna: Linsey Godfrey
Merryweather: Jackee Harry
New Face Claims:
Lucian Blackwater: Graham Greene
Malachi Wolfe: Tyler Christopher
Thanks for the amazing response to this story. It's a lot of fun. I'm glad everyone is enjoying the twists and turns. Season 1 can be very fun to play with. Enjoy this latest and keep reviewing! Here are individual responses to reviews:
Ghostwriter: Yep, Narcissa tracked Emma her whole life. Pretty creepy. No, she is not a well women. Glad you're enjoying!
Jennifer Baratta: Yeah, they may not want to know the answer to that. Glad you're enjoying!
Number Ten: Yes, very dark that she killed Ingrid, but that's what we're dealing with here. Someone so much worse than any Once villain. A true Evil Queen so to speak. It would have been very bad if she had gotten Emma. I think Emma will realize as much as her childhood sucked that she dodged a bullet here and it may just bring her closer to her parents. Yeah, Narcissa is beyond disturbed and she's about to kick it up a notch. Glad you're enjoying!
Grace5231973: Yep, her arrogance made her sloppy. I know, it is majorly disturbing that she killed Ingrid, but that's what we're dealing with. Someone so much worse than any other Once villain. I think maybe even Cora, which is really bad. Glad you're enjoying it though! :)
Sexystarwarslover: Yep, part 2 will be even more stunning I think. I know, it sounds good. It's funny you mentioned Greg. Yep, Neal isn't that upset with Tamara breaking up with him, because we all know he still loves Emma. Yep, Merryweather was supposed to be her Godmother and Snow can feel that she's a good person. Yep, Narcissa kept track of Emma and thankfully didn't adopt her. Narcissa is pure evil. Glad you're enjoying!
AnonSnowing: I know, it's sad that Snow never got to know Merryweather. Yeah, Narcissa adopting Emma would have been horrible. It is creepy that she basically stalked her all her life. Yep, even the names sound evil. I know, Snow and David seeing pictures of Emma is heartbreaking, because they were denied that. You're welcome! Glad you're enjoying!
Clarity
Chapter 36: Stunning Revelations, Pt 2
Narcissa applied some lipstick carefully, as she looked in her large vanity mirror. She had a satisfactory look on her face. Her plans were moving along quite nicely. While Regina's plan hinged on the curse not breaking by seeing that Emma was convicted, Narcissa's had never aligned with the Queen's.
The scope of her plan had always been much larger and conceived during her days in the captivity of the mirror. While she had been cut off from the Enchanted Forest, the mirror realm had been accessible to those in another realm and she had made some allies that were banished like her. And for the last twenty-eight years, they had been making their own way in the Land Without Magic, waiting for the curse to break so they could all get their revenge.
Flashback
"You don't talk much, do you Mirror? Is that even your name?" Narcissa asked, as she tried to keep busy and from going crazy in this desolate wasteland.
"I am the mirror entity…I only speak when someone speaks to me through the mirror," he answered.
"So you speak to no one? Because I was the only one talking to you all these years," she said haughtily. There was a rare break in the entity's usual expressionless face, as he smiled slightly.
"Oh no, Queen Narcissa…I speak to many who know how to find me," he said, as he gestured to the wasteland, just beyond them.
"What…what is all that? It's usually too cloudy to see this far," she said curiously.
"We are in the mirror realm, which is just part of a much larger nether realm," he explained.
"That fiery place over there…what is that?" she asked.
"Your niece is suffering side effects of the sleeping curse…she visits a fiery nether realm in her sleep," he replied. Narcissa smirked.
"That's delightful…how I would love to trap her there for eternity," she said.
"She will awake in the arms of her beloved soon and he will chase the horrors away for her," the entity said, making the vain Queen frown again.
"What is that place over there?" she snapped, demanding to know of the desolate desert-type nether realm.
"Ah…that is a place of banishment where the Chief of the Piccaninny Tribe of Neverland can banish those with evil in their spirit and unredeemable souls. I speak frequently to one that is banished," he said.
"Who is he?" she asked, as a man appeared and she jumped slightly.
"Who are you?" she asked. He smirked.
"Who are you?" he asked in return.
"I am Queen Narcissa…" she answered.
"I am Chief Blackwater…Lucian Blackwater," he said.
"Chief? You were banished from your own tribe?" she asked. He smirked.
"My little brother, the brave and mighty Mathias Firebird, led a coup and ousted me from my tribe. He banished me here to wander in shame for eternity. But I dream of returning someday to make him pay," he replied. She smirked.
"I dream the same…I have a niece I'd like to see bleed," she mused, as another man appeared. He was very tall and well built.
"I have made friends here. This is Running Wolf, as I like to call him," Blackwater said. The man glared at them both.
"I may be wolf, but my name is Malachi…I've told you this," he said.
"And who banished you, Mr. Malachi?" she asked.
"Three fairies…I guess they didn't like me terrorizing the humans and feasting on them. It made them look bad," he replied. She smirked.
"I could have used someone like you when I was Queen," she mused.
"Soon…I will be getting my revenge too. Another Queen is casting a dark curse and my niece will be cursed. I only wish I could participate in her misery," she added.
"A dark curse, you say?" Blackwater asked with intrigue.
"Yes…what do you know about the Dark Curse?" she asked.
"Quite a lot…many legends about a dark curse are told among my people. Will this Dark Curse be cast over Neverland?" he asked.
"I'm afraid not…just Misthaven, as far as I know," she replied.
"Pity…but perhaps all is not lost. A curse will weaken the nether realm and there may still be a way for me to make my tribe pay," he said. She smirked.
"Do tell," she replied.
She smirked at the memory. Chief Blackwater had found a way to enact his own revenge and he could only realize that revenge if the curse was broken.
She finished her lipstick and smirked deviously, before leaving her house and getting into her Mercedes. She drove toward the town line and her phone rang, as she drove. She was expecting it to be Lucian, but it wasn't.
"What do you want?" she answered.
"I haven't been able to get a hold of Tamara…have you seen her?" the man asked. She smirked.
"I'm sorry to tell you this, Mr. Mendell, but Tamara is dead," she said bluntly.
"Dead!?" he shrieked.
"Yes…I'm afraid so. She was murdered here," she said.
"By whom? Who killed her? It was her, wasn't it? It was the Queen!" he shouted.
"It's tragic, I know…" she said, not actually answering his question, but if he wanted to think Regina killed her then that would work fine with her.
"I need to come there," he said.
"You should…it's time you got your revenge, just as I am about to get mine," she replied, as she hung up the phone.
"And if I'm lucky, I won't have to lift a finger to get Regina out of the way," she said, as she slowed once she reached the town line. She parked and got out, as her heels tapped the pavement and two men got out of the car at the town line.
"Long time, no see…Your Majesty," the elder of the two men said, as he gently bowed to her and kissed her hand. She always enjoyed attention like that and practically soaked it up.
"Likewise, Lucian…the Casino business must be very lucrative," she mentioned, noticing the expensive sports car he was driving.
"The Casino does okay…it's everything else that makes me a fortune," he said, as the other man stood with his arms crossed, clearly brooding.
"Oh…such a sour face, Malachi…" she teased.
"I was happy with my bar in Portland…tell me why I agreed to sell it?" he grumbled.
"Revenge, of course, dear and there's a bar here. Just buy the owner out and you both can set up shop there," she replied.
"The curse…is it close to breaking?" Lucian asked.
"The Savior believes…what is needed beyond that, I'm not sure. But I'm sure it will come in time," she replied.
"Then lead the way," Lucian said, as they got back into their cars and drove into town.
"Man…this woman is a trip. Your grandparents named her well," Emma said.
"Find anything?" David asked, as he looked up from his part.
"I'm not sure…but I think I know what all the mirrors are about," Emma said, as she flipped back a few pages.
"I have finally escaped the mirror realm, thanks to the Evil Queen's curse. It is done and my niece has lost everything, but I cannot yet enjoy any of it. I was unprepared for this new world. Things are very different, but at least they still have mirrors. I have no home and but the clothes on my back. A man approached me and he wore a badge, like a lawman. He brought me to this place he called a shelter where people with no homes sleep. It's horrible, but better than the street and I have a bed and a mirror," Emma said.
"The mirror again…" David said.
"There is no longer an entity in the mirror telling me that I am the fairest in the land…but then there hasn't been for a long time. Those days ended the moment my niece existed and changed everything. The moment the mirror said that Snow White would be the fairest, my hell began," she said, before looking up.
"That…that can't be it," Snow said, as she stood up and started to pace.
"That's why she hates me!?" she exclaimed, as David got up and put his arms around her.
"It would seem that her vanity is a very serious character flaw," he said. She sighed.
"It still doesn't explain how or why she was erased from history," she replied.
"I guess we need to keep reading. Maybe she'll reveal how she even got in the mirror," Emma said, as David's eyes widened.
"That's where I know him from!" he exclaimed.
"Know who?" Snow asked, as he looked at her.
"Remember when we thought Sidney looked familiar, but we couldn't place who he was back in our land?" he asked.
"Yes…" Snow replied, as her eyes widened.
"Oh my God…he was the entity in Regina's mirror," Snow said.
"Wait…so he was the one telling Regina that she wasn't the fairest of them all or some crap like that?" Emma asked.
"Except that Regina didn't use her mirrors for vanity. She used them to spy," Snow replied.
"Yeah…that's creepy. So Sidney is the mirror entity that she's talking about?" Emma wondered.
"He can't be…because before Regina banished him to the mirror realm, he was a Genie. A Genie that my father freed," Snow said.
"Whoa wait…Genie, like rub the lamp Genie?" Emma asked. She nodded.
"He found the lamp washed up on the shores of our Kingdom and he met the Genie inside, but he said he had everything he needed or wanted," she said, recalling that memory fondly and then frowned.
"Or so he thought…so he wished the Genie free and welcomed him into our Kingdom," she said.
"That's noble," Emma said.
"It was…and usually that's all I saw when it came to my father. A good and noble King. But he had his faults and he should have never married Regina. He thought I needed a mother, but he never truly loved her and she was very young and basically forced to marry him," Snow explained, as she got up.
"I don't like to think about it…but I know if he had lived that he would have expected the same from me. He would have arranged a marriage for me to a Prince…it was business before love. That's the way it was," she said, as she turned and then smiled at her husband.
"Until us…" she said fondly and David shared her smile.
"We married for love…it wasn't common among royals and it was not popular among the older generation," she said.
"Huh…I guess I never thought about it like that," Emma replied. David smirked.
"What…you didn't think your parents were rebels?" he asked slyly, getting a smile out of her.
"Guess not…but you were. I mean, you were a bandit and you walked out on an arranged marriage too," Emma said. They nodded.
"You guys had it…way harder than I thought. I didn't see it at first," she said.
"I'm sorry…" she apologized.
"Emma…you have nothing to be sorry for," David replied.
"He's right…we hoped that you wouldn't go through any hardships either. But it happened anyway," Snow replied.
"Because of Regina…I know that now," Emma clarified.
"Which is why I can't figure this blonde bitch out," she added, as she stood up.
"I get that Regina was made the way she was…but there's nothing in here that suggests hardship for this woman," Emma said.
"She's right," David replied.
"But we still don't know about her life before the curse," Snow said.
"I can tell you about that…" a voice said from the doorway. They had been so absorbed in conversation that they hadn't heard it open.
"I'm sorry…it was open," Solana apologized.
"It's okay…come in," Snow said.
"How do you know about Narcissa Blake?" David asked curiously.
"Because I'm awake too…I have been since the night before we met in the hospital," she said, looking at Snow.
"You're awake?" Emma asked. She nodded.
"Who were you back in our land?" Snow asked curiously.
"I'm Merryweather…I was a fairy and I was supposed to be your fairy Godmother, but that honor was stolen from me," she replied. Snow's eyes widened.
"You were?" she asked in shock. Merryweather smiled.
"I was…before Blue ordered me away," Snow said.
"You said you knew Narcissa?" Emma asked.
"Oh yes…I know everything about that evil woman and I'll tell you everything, so we can fight her together, because as dangerous as Regina is, this woman is worse. Regina was once good…but Narcissa has always been what she is now," Merryweather replied.
"Hang on…I'm going to have Neal and Gold come too. They need to hear this," Emma said, as she made the call. Snow turned her head back to Merryweather and the woman hugged her gently.
"Don't you worry…I've gone up against this evil woman before. I protected you from her once and I'll do it again," she assured her, stunning Snow further.
"I'll make the cocoa…sounds like we'll need it," David said.
"Mmhmm…you have no idea, honey and you might want to spike it while you're at it," Merryweather said, as Emma returned.
"They're on the way," she said. They would wait and then Merryweather would tell them everything…