A/N: I am very sorry I haven't posted in so long, but to make it up, here is the longest chapter in this story yet.
"Who are you?", I asked.
"I am the black fairy!", she answered.
"The... what?"
"You don't know about her?", asked Bae.
"No...", I answered.
"Oh, that's right, you weren't there... I'll fill you in later."
"Ok..."
"Enough chit-chat!", she screamed. "Give me back my wand or I'll kill all of you!"
"Why is your pendant purple if you're the black fairy?", asked Charlotte. I shot her a warning look.
"I stole it... just... never mind!"
"Ok!", Charlotte said defensively.
"Give it back!"
"Um, no..."
"You have one day", she said. "Give it to me by then, or I will kill you." She disappeared.
...
"Well, we're obviously not giving it to her, right?", I said.
"Duh", said Regina
"She'll kill us...", Charlotte said.
"We won't let her", said Prince Charming.
"Just... let's think about it?", Charlotte asked.
"Fine. But first, in the two weeks before we met up, what happened here?"
Bae started to fill me in. Apparently, they'd decided to go to Regina's castle, before which my Papa had left the group. Robin Hood had saved Regina and Snow from a monster, and after they discovered that the castle had a protection spell on it, they'd joined Robin Hood and his Merry Men. After a couple of days followed, they had decided to split away to go and journey to Snow and Charming's kingdom to find a magical item to help them fight, during which they found my Papa. They then realized that it would be useless, because everything was destroyed, but didn't know where Robin Hood was. It was only when I came that I was able to track him, but because I went talk to him alone, they didn't get the chance to ask to rejoin his camp.
"Well, if you'd told me..."
"There were more important things to think about."
"Ok, so... ask him if you can rejoin now."
"Alright..."
I called three horses, two of which were taken by Prince Charming and Baelfire. I took the third and tracked Robin Hood with my magic, then rode back to the camp and let them work it out. They came back three hours later, saying that everyone was allowed to rejoin. But then my Papa made a startling announcement.
"I'm not coming."
"What?", I asked.
"The fact remains that I do not belong here, there is nothing here for me but you, Elizabeth. Will you come with me?"
"What about Charlotte?"
"She can come too."
So now I had to choose. Go with my Papa, who I had been looking for for centuries, or stay with my brother and my new family.
"Charlotte, what do you want?"
"Where you go, I go."
I then remembered I had something to do in the Enchanted Forest.
"I - I need to stay", I said. "I have a job to do here. But Papa, I promise I'll come and find you. Within a year."
"Elizabeth -"
"Papa, please. Stay or go, but I have to do something here."
"What?"
"Papa... I can't tell you until I've finished. But I'll find you within a year. I swear on my life. Wherever you are, I'll find you."
"Goodbye, Elizabeth", he said, and rode off on a horse.
...
The rest of us packed up and rode to Robin Hood's camp, where we met to discuss the issue of the black fairy - our new villainess.
Bae told me about her, and I realized hers was the wand they had received in Storybrooke.
"We can't give it to her", I said again.
"Elizabeth, we can't fight her", said Charlotte.
"Without a wand, she's weak", I said.
"Just so long as you don't need Rolland again", said Robin Hood.
"No. Light and dark magic work differently. And when you combine them... it can be very destructive. But if destructive is what you want, then..."
"It's perfect", finished Regina. And so we had a plan. We had 16 hours left until the black fairy came, so we decided to rest until then. We ate, and slept, and... it was probably the most fun I'd had in a long time. But my Papa wasn't there. And I missed him. At one point, I was sitting alone by the fire when Belle came over to me.
"Elizabeth?"
"Yes?"
"Why didn't you go with him?"
"I have a job to do here."
"What is it?"
"I can't tell anyone."
"Oh."
"Belle... why don't you hate me?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I assume you hate my mother, because she was married to someone you love and left him, and I'm almost certain you hate my father."
"Well, he did shoot me in the back and cause me to lose my memory, but... I'm not one to hold a grudge."
"He did WHAT?!"
"Yeah... he wanted to get revenge on Rumple. But no matter what he did, I don't judge people on the actions of their parents."
"Do you really think he's dead?"
"Who?"
"Rumpelstiltskin?"
"Well... I did have a theory that we could find his knife."
"His knife?"
"Yeah. And... maybe he's not. If there's one thing I've learned in my life it's never to give up hope. Well, that and that you can't judge people until you get to know them."
"Which is why you don't judge me based on my papa."
"Right. That and the fact that if I thought people were like their fathers, I'd hate myself."
"Why?"
"My father put me in a mine cart and tried to send me under the town line so I'd lose my memory. Just so that I wouldn't be with Rumple anymore."
"That's awful."
"It is. He thought he could control me, but nobody decides my fate but me."
"That's something I've always thought too. Belle... you like to read books, right?"
"Love them."
"Have you heard of the book of Analain?"
"I have, but... it's just legend."
"No, Belle, it's very, very real."
"What?"
Just then, Bae came over. "Why aren't you guys having fun with everybody else?"
"Oh, we were just... talking", I said, shooting Belle a very clear This is just between us look. She nodded. We went back to having fun with everybody, and about 3 hours later, it was time. The black fairy came back.
...
"Do you have my wand?", she asked.
"No. We didn't go and get it, because we're not giving it to you."
"Then I'll kill you", she said."
"No you won't", said Regina. She looked at me, and together we both said the same unconsciousness spell. Killing a fairy was bad luck, but our combined powers would keep her out for a year, and send her back to wherever she was banished to. She started to raise her hand to kill us, but was caught off guard by the wave of light and dark magic coming toward her. She fell back, and then we had won.
...
We celebrated for two days, more fun, but we all had the sense it would be short lived. Once Snow woke up, there was a plan to go back to Regina's castle and face whatever was there. And then, she did wake up. Less than an hour later, however, a monster descended upon us.
"That's the same monster - or at least type of monster - that attacked me and Regina", said Snow. I studied it more closely.
"It's a flying monkey", I said.
Suddenly, it swooped down and grabbed Charlotte, taking her up into the air.
"Charlotte!", I screamed. I jumped up and grabbed her legs, but instead of me pulling her down, we both got lifted up through the air.
After a while, we arrived at Regina's castle. We were dropped inside, and in front of us was a woman with red hair and... green skin. Yes, green. She smiled at us and said, "Hello, children."
A/N: So, I hope everybody enjoyed that chapter, or at least part of it. I hope people liked that conversation with Belle, because Belle is my favorite character on the show and I thought it would be cool for Elizabeth and Belle to have a conversation. And it set up a mystery. So, I hope everyone enjoyed. Please review!