It had been hectic morning on setting up the photo shoot and those endless coffee runs had to be done for the fashion queen. Andy really felt her legs yell at her when she did the tenth run of the day. Luckily she had magic to keep Miranda's coffee hot because the run was quite along.
"This is the tenth time you get coffee. Are you some kind of a errant girl?" The old lady asked her.
"Yeah, Miranda's second assistant who does every run every where when needed." She gave the lady her sweet smile.
"Sweet like you shouldn't be working for her." The older woman was called Granny.
"Thank you, Granny. But I wouldn't have it any other way." She was about to leave when she almost bumped in to this blonde woman. "Oh, sorry."
"No need. My fault." The blonde smiled at her and took few of the cups to her hand.
"I'm Andy." She introduced herself.
"Emma."
"Well, Emma. Have you lived here your whole life?"
"No, moved in a year ago."
"Were you pulled by the fairy tales?" Andy smiled to the woman.
"Something like that."
"You know, you aren't telling me everything. Like nothing," Andy laughed. She had felt that the other woman was magical too, but different. These stories which she had read before she had fallen asleep on her bed was so familiar to her and she couldn't help than just feel the pull in her heart. She knew these people, somehow.
"Really?" Emma smiled.
"Yeah, really." They walked slowly to the location which Miranda absolutely wanted to use today. "So, what is your role in here?"
"Ah, my role. Well, I am the White Knight."
"Really?" Andy's eyes got large. "So you are the sheriff then."
"Yep, that would be me."
When they arrived to their destination there was a argument going on.
"If you really think you can just waltz in here and take orders to your own hand you are badly mistaking on that part! I am the mayor of this town and I am the one who says what you can do and can't do! You will not move those headstones an inch! Do you hear me?" In front of them Andy could see a brown haired woman talking angrily to Miranda. Miranda's eyes were full of venom and she was about to give her own mind. Andy knew that brunettes voice, she had heard it so many times.
"Andrea! There you are!" Miranda said. "You need to explane to this ignorant little woman.." The brunette turned around. It was like the time had stopped for them.
"Lady, you listen to me!" Emma had started to fend their mayor. Andy dropped the coffees and whispered. "Gia.."
"Rea.."
There wasn't even a wind to blow. The whole set stood still and watched them. Mayor walked to Andy and touched her face. "Darling, is it really you?"
"Oh, Gia! I missed you so much!" Andy hugged the other woman. She had found her sister. They had found each other again and she cried. They both did. The whole set had frozen when they broke apart and they left the scene with out a second glance.
"What the hell was that?" Emma asked.
"I would really like to know that myself," the white haired woman looked at her head to toe. "Sheriff."
"Look, lady. I don't know who you are, but you really don't have any reason's to talk to our mayor like that. Things here are the way they are and that's it. You will not move a thing here or I will haul your ass to jail."
Miranda had to smirk. This blonde had spunk, she had to give that to her. "Very well, sheriff." Miranda was about to turn around. "Oh, sheriff. Where's my coffee?"
"Listen," Emma finally turned to look at the older woman and those blue eyes cut her temper in half. "Here." She gave the woman a cup.
"That's all." The woman sipped her coffee which was still hot after all this waiting. Andrea knew how to keep her coffee hot. How did she do that?
Miranda had her heart in her stomach. Andrea had left with the Mayor hadn't returned to her all day. She had called her but it went to a voicemail. "Emily, get Andrea here." But the red head didn't find her any better than she did. "Well, get the sheriff!" Miranda snapped. Fifteen minutes later the Sheriff came to see the fashion queen.
"You rang?"
"I need you to find my second assistant."
"Yeah, is it my fault that you can't keep track on your people?"
"You are the law enforcement here! Do you job."
"Well, she has to be missing over 24 hours before I can start looking for her." The sheriff set her hands on her hips.
"I don't care. I need her here to do her job and your dear Mayor kidnapped her from me. Go get her!" Miranda was getting frustrated at the woman.
"Well, my dear mayor can pretty much do what she likes around here and I didn't see her kidnapping Andy. She went willingly."
"I don't care, I need her." Miranda stood up and there was this familiar fire in her eyes which Emma had seen so many times. She smirked. "You need her?" She whispered when she noticed the older woman was face to face with her. The older woman's mask fell for a second with a surprised look. Everybody around them were doing their jobs but every one of them were listening. Miranda knew this about her employees. They were the worst gossipers in this world. "Come on, I'll buy you a cup of coffee." The sheriff told her and she noticed she was lead to the diner. She heard Nigel tell the others to keep working. Thank God someone was there to keep things going while she would be having a chat with the sheriff.
"This is your home?" Andy asked her sister.
"Yes, it is."
"Wow." Andy sat down on the white sofa.
"Want some apple cider?"
"Yeah, that would be great." Gia left her for a second and that time Andy noticed some photos on the counter. She took a photo in her hands. It was a smiling boy with her sister.
"That's my son." Gia said with a smile and offered her glass.
"You have son, wow! With Daniel?" She saw her sisters eyes darken. "Or not." She sipped her cider. "This is good!" They both sat down again. "So, tell me what happened after I...transported here?"
"I.. I can't.." Gia felt her words fell too short.
"I'll start?" Gia looked relieved.
"Okay, I ended up in London and I was put to foster family for a while. They really weren't nice but then I was offered to study in a magical school." This got a strange look from her sister. "Yeah, you thought here wasn't any magic?"
"Yes, I can't feel it."
"You do, it's just different here. When you are in chanted forest. You can feel, taste and touch it. It's all around there but here. The magic is inside you. Our blood is magic and our heart is our strength." Rea smiled to her wondering sister. "Didn't you feel that soft tingle in your heart when you got here?"
"No, well yes, but I only thought it was something else. Like feeling of victory? I don't know."
"Okay, well, I studied. Graduated and went to be Aurory, it's like a hunter of evil magic users." Her sister tensed. Like..like me? Rea thought.
"Then I left to New York and went study there. First law but oh god! It was boring! So I changed my major to journalism and that is how I ended up working for Runway." For Miranda. She added in her mind with a smile.
"Rea, I.. I don't know where to start." Gia took her sisters hands in hers.
"Okay, when you opened the portal and we did agree on going together. Obviously you stayed behind. Start there."
"Did you blame me?" Gia asked carefully.
"I did for a while but then I forgave you and I really didn't know what had happened."
Gia took a moment to think how to start: "I was coming after you, but mother came and hauled me back and locked me up until the king came to see you. She told him that I was the one who saved his child and after that the hell broke free." She felt her eyes misting. "She killed Daniel, Rea. She ripped his heart out and crushed it!" She sobbed on her sister's shoulder. "Only because that Snow Fucking White couldn't keep her mouth shut!"
"Oh, I am so sorry Gia! I'm so sorry!" Rea took Gia in her arms and cried with her. She had liked Daniel. Sweet and tender man which her sister needed.
"Then, I started to study magic and Rea, I came to be very very very evil person, but Snow gave me the name. Evil Queen and she was right on that and still is.. I can give you Henry's book. It will tell you everything what you need to know and make your judgment paste on it. It is all true. Those fairy tales in this world. Is really true. Well, mostly. Some minor details are different."
"Gia, I wont judge you. Mom is evil bitch with crazy mind. She drow you to be the evil queen, but to me you will always be my sister." Gia cried her heart out on Rea's shirt. They both did.
"I should have stayed." They had talked hours of their lifes. Rea understood that her sister had no choice on this curse and partly she was happy that her sister had done it, because without it. She might have never found her sister again.
"Rea, I am just so happy to see you again." Gia hugged her again. "I will not let you go again! Never ever again!"
"Me either." Andy gave her sister a sweet smile.
They both went to the kitchen and started to make dinner for them when Regina's phone rang.
"Ms. Swan. What can I do for you?" She smiled. "Yes, she is here.. Oh does she. Well, you can tell that devil's shit that she is needed here...I don't care how you tell her just tell her what ever you need to tell her. Goodbye, Ms. Swan."
"So, Ms. Swan?" Rea asked with a smirk.
"What?"
"You like her." It wasn't a question.
"No, I don't."
"Oh, you so do like her!" Rea laughed out loud.
"No I don't! What makes you think I do?" Gia felt her cheeks flushing.
"You treat her like you did treat Daniel and you you are so blushing!" Rea squealed when she was hit by a water bomb which her sister had magicked. "Oh, I am so going to get you for that!" Rea said and made her own bombs.
When they were drying off of their wet clothes Rea remembered Gia's phone call.
"So, what did Ms. Swan wanted?"
"Oh, That boss of yours needed you." Rea went white.
"Oh shit! I totally forgot that I am here on work! She is soooo going to kill me!"'
"Don't tell me you are scared of that old bat?" Gia laughed.
"Don't call her that!" Gia's little sister was getting angry.
"Oh, my God. Oh, my, god! You have hots for her!" Gia laughed at her sister, but when her sister fell on her chair with sorrow in her eyes she stopped. "Oh, I'm sorry, dear. You really like her, don't you?"
"Yeah," Rea breathed. "I do like her. Allot."
"Then why haven't you done something about it?"
"Hello, dear sister of mine! She's not gay, she has children and yeah, married twice! Not to mention, I am just her second assistant. The fat smart girl." Rea had tears forming in her eyes.
"You're not fat."
"Oh, I am. She told me so and Runway standards. I am. Four is six and Nigel keeps calling me that. Six. 'Six, get me that, six, go do that'. Six, Six, Six." Gia took her sister in her arms and hugged her.
"She could love you, you know. You are a witch after all."
"Gia, I am. But if I would make her drink some potion. It wouldn't be real and I desperately want it to be real." Gia whipped her sister's tears away. "I want her to love me for me. Blaine old me."
"I understand love. I do." Gia kissed Rea's forehead. "Anyways. It's almost midnight and I wont let you get to the inn by yourself so you are staying here."
Rea nodded. "Yeah, you're right." Andy knew she could just poof herself back to the inn, but she really wasn't ready to leave Gia. Not yet.
