The Closet Stories

Shot 6

Disclaimers::: I do not own OUAT or it's characters, just my colorful imagination. Now Maleficent has been reunited with her daughters. What is going to happen with the Charmings? What does Ruby have to say to them? Let's find out.

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The moment they moved into the Diner, Ruby stepped forward and made sure their table was ready. She wanted to serve the reunited family first. She couldn't help but be very happy for Emma and her family. Actually, she was beyond thrilled for them. She took their orders, and checked Lily out before she introduced herself to Emma's sister. She then went to give Granny the orders.

Lily smiled as she was introduced to some people. She had a feeling she was going to enjoy being in Storybrooke. She turned to look at her Nephew when Henry introduced himself to her. She was in the process of getting to know her nephew, hearing Emma's stories, and learning more about what happened from Maleficent. And then in turn, Emma and Lily began sharing stories of how they met.

Maleficent didn't care that her girls had gotten in trouble countless times. They were dragons and bound to get into trouble a lot. Even in the land of no magic. Their being magical beings made no difference. If they had grown up together and never have been separated, their magic would have been extremely powerful together abd would have drawn even more attention to themselves. She was just happy her daughters had managed to cross paths and connect with one another.

Emma felt extremely protective of Lily, of their mother, their son, of the babies growing inside her, and extremely protective of her Queen. She also felt the same way about Granny and Ruby too. She would destroy anyone who tried to get in the way of that and she knew they would feel the exact same way about her. She was so happy to have her family there. After what they've been through, she wasn't about to let anyone else interfere. And then of course. some people decided to do just that.

Lily was about to ask their mother who their other parent was, when the Charmings stepped into their space, stopping at their table with some of the Dwarves tagging along too. Her eyes glowed as she bristled visibilly.

The dwarves stood protectively by their beloved Snow White and Prince Charming as they got their attention. "Emma, I know you don't want to hear us out, but we need to talk." Mary Margaret started, dismissing Maleficent and Lily as well as Regina. "They're not your family. We are! I don't care what you think you have with the Evil Queen! That's going to stop right now. You can't be with her! You cannot be around those Villains. They're monsters! This behavior coming from you is unacceptable!"

Ruby had enough. So did Granny as they came from behind the counter and moved to stand by Emma and her family. If anyone understood the way mates work, they did. And Ruby was furious with what she was hearing coming from Snow White's mouth. "You have no idea what the hell you're talking about Snow! Emma and Regina are MATED! They're married! Emma is pregnant! They're True. loves! Are you saying you want her to raise those babies alone?!" Ruby scoffed. "Monsters really?" Ruby's eyes began glowing. "Like me? You're such a hypocrite!" She growled. "Emma doesn't smell anything like either one of you! She's Maleficent's daughter and Lily's sister. She's all dragon." She then realized what Snow was getting at. "That's why you're calling them monsters? You do realize that's what you're also calling Emma. What about Henry?" Ruby scoffed.

Ruby had left Mary Margaret speechless for once in her life. Until Snow started registering everything her best friend said to her. "I...I no that's different! He's a boy! Emma's… She's no! I cannot! The Evil Queen...the Dragon...they're villains! Monsters…"

Ruby shook her head, not happy that she couldn't make Snow see the errors of her ways. "Do you remember what you said about my wolf when she was out terrorizing the village? What you called me? Because I haven't forgotten. I thought you'd changed. I guess I was wrong. Because you still see us as Monsters. Well then… In that case, you can forget about being friends with someone like me."

"No Ruby! You're not…" Snow stuttered.

"Sorry." Ruby shook her head. "I don't do well with hypocrites." She looked over at Henry. "Come on, my shift is over. Let's go get ice cream if it's okay with your parents. I could use the company." She smiled.

Henry looked at his parents and when they nodded and hugged and kissed their son, Henry joined Ruby and they left the Diner together.

Emma was so glad Ruby left with Henry because there was so much she wanted to say to Snow freaking White! It was going to make it so much easier for her to get her say after what the petite woman just spewed at them. She saw how nervous David was getting as he looked from Snow back to the dragons and then back to Snow. "My behavior unacceptable?! What about what YOU two did to Maleficent and my sister and I? If you ask me… It was YOUR behavior that was UNACCEPTABLE! You stupid bitch! Stealing us from our mother and then because you hated the idea your daughter had the potential for darkness… You used dark magic to out HER darkness inside US! All. Because. You. Wanted. Her. Pure!" Emma sneered. You didn't want her tainted with darkness. What the hell kind of mother are you, that you would do something like that?! Maleficent begged you mother to mother not to do what YOU DID!" Emma scoffed. "Who's the monster here?" Emma was just getting started. "Ever since the curse broke, you've been attacking my wife and I for being True Loves, for being together. Yet in the 28 years you were all here together, she never physically harmed anyone of you! She was a mother too! She adopted MY son! Took him in and LOVED him! We broke the damned curse and hooked up. Yes I am pregnant with the Evil Queen's babies. But it was you who pushed her to be evil. You who put that name to her title of Queen. She may not have been a saint back then, but I don't care! I love her! I love my mother, my sister. I love MY family which is more than I can say for you. YOU didn't love your daughter enough to trust that she would make the right choice, to be whomever she wanted to be. You took that choice away from her! I'm a dragon. A mother, a wife. I love my children and would accept them as who they want to be. Because I gave birth to them, gave them life! I would support them and love them no matter what. That's what a mother does. Love our children unconditionally. You think I should let what you put us through slide? We haven't forgotten your crimes against our family. You want us to be the monsters you say we are?" Emma's eyes began glowing as her dragon began coming out. "Maybe that's what we should do. We let you walk all over us long enough. Not anymore!" She growled.

Lily had a truly wicked smile on her face. She was so proud of Emma and what she said to them. Her eyes glowed as she and Emma stood up and began circling the Charmings.

Maleficent laughed, proud of her daughters. She could see Emma was good with words, she was good at getting her point across. She shared a look with Regina and could see the way her friend was smiling with pride and taking pleasure in the fear that showed up on the Charmings' faces.

The dwarves tried to defend the Charmings, only to find themselves flung to the walls and held there by vines, curtsy of Maleficent and Regina.

Not wanting to add damage to Granny's Diner, Emma and Lily dragged the Charmings outside before they changed into dragons. Some of the folks exclaimed in dismay at what they were doing. The sisters were taking such pleasure at how frightened those people were. The scent of fear spurred them on. They began beating the Charmings up, just to pay them back for what they'd gone through.

Lily wanted to hurt them bad, to make sure they understood how she was feeling. As she beat them and marked them, she screamed and roared at them. She wanted to get everything off her chest and out into the open. She blamed them for the lives she and Emma had led, for cursing them to a life away from their mother, to life in the land of no magic. She wanted so badly to rip them apart, to devour them. But she didn't want them to have the mercy of death. No, she wanted everyone to see those Charmings for who they really were. She wanted them to know what it felt like to be separated from their loved ones. To be isolated. To grow up the way she and her sister had.

Emma felt her sister's pain and heard her desires. She moved and held her sister in her arms, nodding at her. She knew what to do next. It was time those Charmings saw firsthand what it was like for them growing up without their mother. To see the consequences of their actions against them. With a wave of her hand, there was a screen for everyone to see. Using her dreamcatcher, she projected their entire life on there for everyone to witness. They saw what happened when Maleficent gave birth to them, how Snow and David came in and snatched them from their mother, how Maleficent begged them not to do what they were going to do. They saw what happened when they put their baby's darkness inside the girls and how they were sent through a portal, separated from their mother, how Mal missed out on them growing up. But now, on the screen, Maleficent was finally getting to see what it was like for Lily being adopted, what life was like for Lily and her father how he was controlling and never let her truly live her life how she accidently killed her mother. What life was like for Lily until she ran away from home and met Emma. How they connected right away. Then it changed and they watched Emma grow up, being moved from foster home to foster home, never finding stability, how her powers were out of control, how she burned down homes sometimes, how she caused things to happen. Bad things kept happening to her. No one wanted her, no one could handle her. Lily had the same problem with her adoptive father. He was afraid of his daughter and wanted to keep her under lock and key. They saw how Emma finally met someone who wanted her, who accepted her, but because of the life she led, the trust she lost, she'd run away and that was how Lily's and Emma's paths crossed. They'd witnessed how some of the foster families treated Emma badly, the abuse she'd faced and survived. Every single thing that happened all because of the bad decision the Charmings made. How that decision affected their lives.

Emma felt Regina move and wrap her arms around her. She could feel her tears soaking through her top as they watched what happened. Emma wasn't done. She still had one more thing to show them. "This is what would have happened had you not let your fear of your daughter's darkness cloud your judgement."

They saw the Charmings' daughter being born, how she made decisions on her own. She'd experimented with being dark, with being light, how she decided to balance herself. She was brought up to do the right thing. She had a good head on her shoulders, proving to be more her father's daughter. How Emma and Lily would have grown up with their mother, how much better their lives would have been. She still gave birth to Henry, but it was Henry who met Regina and was taking horse riding lessons from her. How Emma and Regina met despite what happened between the kingdoms of the Charmings and the Dark Kingdom. How Maleficent and Regina found a way to set aside their differences. Maleficent had her own true Love, and they'd blessed the union between Emma and Regina. How they had lots of children together. How the daughter of Snow White met and fell in love with Lily. How Snow was shunned by her own daughter but that Charming had accepted that his daughter was with Lily. They'd gone on to have their own family.

When they were done showing the possible lives that could have happened had Snow White and Charming not interfered, everyone was now seeing Snow White through different eyes. They realized Snow White would never have changed. But there was hope for David.

David looked completely ashamed of his own actions. He had remorse on his face as he looked at the dragons. "I'm so sorry! I wish we could change what happened…"

Mary Margaret gasped. "David!"

He turned to look at his wife. "Our daughter would have been perfect in my eyes. But you… We did not do right by her. I want her back. I need to have her in my life."

"But… You would want her to be with a dragon?!" She exclaimed. Mary Margaret very clearly hated the idea of their daughter possibility ending up with Lily.

David shrugged. "As long as she was happy. That's all that matters to me. They didn't do anything wrong. We did. I was wrong to let you keep up with what you did. We attacked them unprovoked. We stole their lives and in the process, lost our happy ending. We stole our daughter's happy ending too." He then looked at Emma and Lily. "I'm sorry." He looked at Maleficent. "Truly and deeply sorry for being an idiot." He nodded at Regina, remembering all the times she called him an idiot. He then did something that surprised everyone there. He got down on his knees before Regina. "You were always the rightful Queen. I was never meant for Royalty. Please forgive me."

Regina had not expected for David to do that. She was taken by surprise at the turn of events. It took courage on David's part to do something like this in front of everyone there. She smiled when she saw how Snow White was behaving like a child. She looked back at David, touched by what he said. "Forgiveness granted." She nodded at David.

Emma smiled and reached out to David. "Sorry for kicking your ass." She smirked as she healed him.

Lily finally smiled. "Yeah sorry man." She then glared at Snow White.

David chuckled as he shuffled from foot to foot. "I deserved it. I was a fool. I only wish…" He then looked at Maleficent, wishing he had not done to her what he did. He wished he could be with his daughter more than anything and realized that was what the older dragon felt all these years.

Maleficent simply nodded at David and offered him a small smile. They would no longer be at ends with each other. But it would take some time.

Emma shared a look with her wife and smiled knowingly at her. It was time for another road trip. Maybe they would be able to find David's daughter and bring her home.

Lily smiled at her sister, taking a hold of her hand, knowing what she was already planning to do. "I love you sis."

Emma chuckled softly. "I love you too." She murmured, feeling her wife put her head on her other shoulder.

To be continued...