Chapter 7
Disclaimer: I only own my OC, Alexandra Nell. And Sami only owns her OC, Charlotte Nell.
Thanks to my awesome PT and co-writer, kurounue13!
Morning soon came and Jake began to wake. Alex was still cuddled up at his side, her head on his chest. He smiled smugly to himself. He then realized that Charlotte and Will must be out of their minds with worry. Alex then wrapped her arms around him a little more as she snuggled her head against his chest. Who cares right now?, he thought as he settled back into the bed.
Alex sighed softly as she started to wake up and smiled up at Jake sleepily. "Good morning, Jake." she said softly as she kissed his cheek. "Good morning, Alex." he said. "How are you feeling, darling? About everything?" she asked as she sat up in bed and sat next to him as she held his hand. "Wonderful." he said. "Even about leaving your brother?" she asked curiously as she played with his fingers. "Uh...not really." he said. "Oh, speaking of your brother, I think I should teach you how to defend yourself before we go back into the forest." she said as she kissed his cheek.
"Sweetheart, I know how to defend myself I just don't implament it." he said. "Well, against your brother, I think you should. He abuses you, and I think you really need to start defending yourself so he knows you're serious." she said softly before she kissed his lips softly. "I'll go make us some breakfast before we go-" she started. "I think we should go now. I really want to try and get up in that tower." he said. She smiled. "Alright. Let's get dressed and go then. Oh, do you think I should take my stories?" she asked. "Sure." he said. "It'll give you something to do while I work."
"Jacob, I want to help you." she said, with an adorable childish pout on her face. "I want you to, but I don't want you getting hurt." he said as he thought. I really don't want her getting hurt. It would kill me if she did.
"Jake, I'll be fine. I won't go in the tower with you if you don't want me to, but I'd like to help with the catapult." she said. "Alright." he said. She smiled and kissed his lips. "Good. Now come on, let's get going." she said softly as she and Jake both got out of bed and soon they were off on Jake's horse riding towards the forest.
Will and Charlotte rode into the forest at top speed. They wanted to get Alex and Jake as soon as possible. "Watch, darling, you'll see they're going to be right there in the forest just like I said." Will said. They arrived at the tower after running through the forest. "3..2..1, Take Off!" they heard Jake yell and saw the catapult, with Jake in it, shoot off. "WOOHOO!" Jake yelled happily.
"NO!" Will yelled as he saw his brother being shot off into the air as he ran into the middle of the forest where Jake, once again, crashed and burned as he fell to the ground and Will quickly rushed over to his brother.
"I think it was the height problem again, darling." Charlotte heard her sister's voice. "Oh God, Will I think I'm going to have a heart attack from that." Charlotte said as she held her hand to her chest as she tried to steady the beat.
Will turned his brother over and saw a wooden head with a stuffed body before both Charlotte and Will both turned their attention over to the trees near the catapult as Jake and Alex walked out from the trees. "Damnit, we need more height." Jake said as he and Alex started examining the catapult before Alex looked over towards Charlotte and smiled. "Oh, hi Charlotte. I told you I'd come back." she said with that child-like innocent smile.
Charlotte crossed her arms and gave her sister 'You are in deep shit' look. "Jake was just trying to prove his point." she said. Charlotte crossed her arms and gave her sister 'You are in deep shit' look.
"Jake was just trying to prove his point." she said, but the stare didn't waver.
"Ok so back to the catapult.." she said as she turned around just in time to see Will grabbing Jake's ear again before Jake growled and punched Will straight in the face as he yelled at his brother about the story and about everything being real, including the forest as Alex smiled at Jake. She was so proud of him that he was finally standing up to his brother.
"Alright everyone just stop!" Charlotte yelled.
Alex and Jake both simultaneously looked over at Charlotte. "Both of you BIG trouble! Will, you chill out!" she said. All three were silent as Alex walked near Jake as she held on to his arm. Charlotte sighed heavily as she held her chest. "I need to sit down."
"Are you alright?" Alex asked as she quickly went over to her sister and helped her sit down on a nearby rock. "I'm fine." she said. "Are you sure? Do you need some water? I brought plenty from our home this morning." she said. Charlotte finally growled. "Alex, do you ever think before just running off on the back of a horse?! I swear I get a heart attack each time. I don't sleep because I worry over you! GAH!" Charlotte walked off, muttering to herself before pacing back and forth.
She looked over at Jake, and he could see the small tears in her eyes. "She didn't mean it, Alex, she's just upset." he held her as they watched Charlotte pace back and forth on the border of the the clearing and the forest. She's just like Will. So protective., he thought.
Alex sighed softly as she rested her head on Jake's shoulder and held him tightly. "Alright, Jake let's, let's try and get you up there." Will said. "Will, can't you see Alex is upset?" Jake whispered. "You're the one who wanted to get into the bloody tower in the first place." Will grumbled. "Fine." Jake said before he looked down at Alex and she smiled softly up at him. "Go ahead, Jake, you want to go and you need to go." she said as she kissed his lips, which shocked Will. "Woah, wait! When did that start?!" Will freaked out.
"None of your business." Jake said with a smug smile. Alex smiled as she giggled. "Jacob Grimm, you've been getting very smug since we started doing that." she giggled. Jake kissed her before walking over to the catapult and Will.
Alex smiled as she watched Jake and Will both talk before she helped Will to get Jake the harness around him before Will started cranking the device that would be carrying the rope he was using before Will just gave up and Alex looked at him while Jake yelled, since he was halway up the castle. "Come on, Will, put some muscle into it!" he yelled before Alex pushed Will out of the way as she started cranking the device for Jake.
Both her and Will were soon cranking it till they eventually had enough tork.
And Jake was almost to the top when the rope got to the end and snapped, Jake quickly falling before he was able to stop himself and he was still close to the top of the castle where he stopped as he started climbing.
"Jake, darling, are you alright?" Alex called. "I'm good, I'm good." She then saw Jake go around the top of the tower and looked to be counting. "Will, Will there seem to be 12 Crypts in a circle."
"What do you think they mean, darling?" Alex called up to Jake. "I don't know!" He called out before trying to get into the tower. "I'm going in!" Jake called out to the two of them. "GOOD LUCK, DARLING!" Alex yelled happily.
Will mumbled something and sat down on one of the stone crypts. "What?" she asked as she looked over at him. "Oh nothing." He said softly before mumbling again. She sighed as she sat on one of the other crypts as she looked up at the tower, hoping Jake was alright.
"Don't worry he'll be just fine. He's far tougher than he looks." Will said. "I know. I believe in him." she said. "I know you do." he said. "And I don't know why you don't." she said. "It's not that I don't believe in him, I just want him to face reality is all." Will said. "This is reality. This is all magic in here, Will. I think you're the one that needs to face this reality." she said. "Things like this, like magic and wonder, they do exist." she said. "Alex, I can't believe in it. I haven't believed in it since Jake and I lost our sister and were orphaned. Someone had to take care of us and that was me. I had to grow up." he said. "Will, you really need to believe in what Jake believes in. Maybe when you see one of these things in front of your face, not analyzing what it may be to you in your stuffy, boring, reality world. Then maybe you will finally be able to see what your brother and I believe in. And maybe you could be a better brother to him." she said as she walked off to venture around the castle, looking at all the other crypts.
Meanwhile, Jake was inside the tower as he was looking through all of the antique objects from the Queen's crown, an ancient book, and finally a magnificent old throne as he danced around the room, wishing that he could've brought Alex up here to show her before he bumped into something cold as he turned and saw a huge mirror standing before him.
He looked at the different repletions in the mirror and grew confused. He looked back and forth between his reality and the mirror's reality before he looked back once more at the mirror and backed up a little as he looked between the ancient queen in his reality and the young queen in the mirror's reality as he looked between them both, still a bit confused as he was starting to piece everything together.
He jerked and moved as he felt someone touching him and then saw a pair of hands coming around his middle. Soon he saw, in the mirror, the young queen coming up behind him as she was whispering for him to look at her. "Look at me, Jacob." She said to him as she leaned her lips to the side of his face.
Jacob couldn't say anything as he tried to look down at his shoes. He had to get away and quickly. He had to get back to Alex. "Look at me, Jacob." She said again as she started kissing his skin. "No, no I can't." he managed to stutter out. "Don't you want me, Jacob? What is it you love the most?" she asked. "Oh, you have another?" she asked softly as she turned her back to him before she turned back around and Jake was astonished to see Alex standing right behind him now as her arms wrapped around him. "Would you prefer me then, Jacob?" the transformed Queen asked Jacob as she started kissing on his ear.
"A-Alex?" He said as his eyes rolled back. "Mhm." she moaned into his ear. "Come to bed with me, Jacob." she said seductively into his ear as Jacob was falling in deeply now. Suddenly a rock came flying into the mirror, causing the Queen to turn back into herself. Jake jumped away from her and gasped. "JACOB GRIMM, YOU BED WETTING PISS BUCKET!" Will screamed from down below. "HEY!" Jake heard Alex's yell. "HE SAID THAT WAS ONE TIME ONLY SO DON'T MAKE FUN OF HIM!" she screamed at Will.
"JACOB GRIMM, HURRY UP!" Will yelled. "LOOK AT ME, JACOB!" The Queen wailed as she sobbed while Jake crawled away. "Don't look at her, don't look!" He said to himself as he gathered up some of the long hair.
Soon, Will and Alex both saw Jake jumping out of the tower as he held on to the mile long hair before he landed on the ground, the hair all over him now.
"Oh, Jake, are you alright?" she asked as she rushed over to Jake to help him get the hair away from him. "What happened up there?" she asked. "SHE"S ALIVE!" He yelled underneath the tangled mess of white hair. "She's still there, Will!"
"For five hundred years?" Will asked as Jake and Alex stood up as she got the rest of the hair off of Jake. "Yeah and they haven't been kind I can tell you that much." Jake said and Alex tried to hold back a laugh, but she let a small bit of it out. "She's been waiting, waiting for someone to rescue her and collecting the girls to steal their youth." he said. "Why can't she just accept that she's dead?" Alex asked as she looked at Jake, that adorable child-like look on her face. Jake looked at her. "Oh, Alex, My sweet adorable lovable pure, Alex." He said, kissing her face. She smiled as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed his face as well. "Don't change, Alex, don't change!" he said. Alex giggled softly. "Ok, I promise, but I really don't have any other clothes to change into and I probably wouldn't if I did." she said with a smile. "No, no, that's not it. Oh God, I love you." He held her close. That was crazy when the Queen changed. I don't ever want anyone but My Alex., he thought.
She smiled as she held Jake. "Oh, Jake, I love you too. So much." she said happily as she kissed his cheek. "You'll definitely have to tell me what happened later." she said as she held his face in her hands and smiled at him.
"Charlotte?" Will called out as he looked around the forest. "CHARLOTTE!?" he yelled. Suddenly they saw a bloodied Charlotte running towards the forest. "WILL!" She screamed before she was yanked backwards back into the forest. "WILL HELP ME!"
"CHARLOTTE!" Will screamed as he ran after her and Alex and Jake both looked over. "Charlotte!" Alex yelled before she took Jake's hand as the two ran off after Will to try and get to Charlotte. She screamed as she was dragged off through the forest. Her hands becoming cut up as she tried to grab onto anything to try and stop herself. "WILHELM!" Suddenly the fur clad person picked her up over his shoulder and began to run.
"YOU BASTARD YOU LET HER GO!" Will yelled as he tried to run faster. "WILL PLEASE!" Suddenly the ground began to move ahead of them. The man jumped down into the whirlpool that had opened up. "WILL!" Her scream echoed as she was pulled down along with him.
Will jumped as far as he could to try and reach Charlotte, but an unseen force pushed him back to land at the feet of Jake and Alex as they both helped him up. "CHARLOTTE!" He yelled as he ran back to the spot where she disappeared and started digging. He kept screaming her name over and over as he tried to dig.
"He took her, Will. You can't dig-" Alex started. "CHARLOTTE!" He kept screaming as his digging slowed. "Char-Cha-" He broke down and pressed his forehead against the dirt and broke down. Alex sighed as she reached over and held Jake's hand. He pulled her close to him as they watched Will cry his heart out to the ground. "I'll find you." They could hear him mutter over and over.
Alex buried her face into Jake's chest as she tried to hold back from crying.
She had just watched her sister being dragged off by a vicious wolf, but she had to try and stay as strong as she could. She was now, until they found Charlotte, the lone Nell sister...and that thought alone horrified her.
I'm not ready to be the only one., she thought fearfully.
"Don't worry we will find your sister." Jake whispered as he looked at Will. The elder Grimm now stood and walked off. "We have to get to the village and warn everyone." Will said.
Alex looked up at Jake as she kissed his cheek and held his hand tightly as the two walked off after Will. I hope we find her. I don't want Alex sad anymore. It's tearing me apart to see her so sad., he thought. "I thought you didn't believe Will?" he asked his older brother. "Not now, Jake." he said quickly and Jake could tell his brother was holding back his own tears.
Soon, the three rode off towards the village, not saying a word.
Once they reached Marbaden they immediately began to try and tell the people about the forest, but in the midst of their tirade the French came and invaded the village.
Alex held on to Jake's hand as everyone's attention was on the the French who were riding into the village. "Jake, what's happening?" she asked quietly.
"People of Marbaden we have come to free you from the lies and deceit of the Grams brothers." The General declared.
Jake, Alex, and Will immediately started to speak up, trying to tell the people of the village that they were innocent.
"These two men do not lie, Delatombe." Alex spoke up bravely to the General.
"Arrest zem." said the General as the guards started to drag off Jake and Will. In the midst of the madness Angelika snuck into the crowd and dragged Alex off.
"What are you doing?" she asked as she tried to yell for Jake. "Saving you so we can save them now shut up or you'll be no good to him." Angelika said as she pushed her into her house and the shut the door.
Alex was so stunned by everything that had just happened in a matter of seconds that she had to take a deep breath to try and understand it all.
"When we get the opportunity, we will save him and Will." Angelika said. "What will happen to them?" she asked as she looked down at her bag. "I don't know. We'll have to wait and see." Angelika said. "Is there somewhere I can keep this safe? I need for no one to touch it, there's something very important to me inside." Alex said as she rested her bag on her legs.
Angelika picked it up and then hid it under the floor boards under her bed. "Thank you." Alex said softly as she sat down and sighed as she closed her eyes. "Don't worry, we're going to save them." Angelika said and Alex could only nod.
That Night...
Soldiers were lined up near the start of the forest, each had a lit torch in their hands as Jake and Will were then carried over to a tree, not far from the forest, on what looked to be two ladders put together that they were both bound to as the General spoke to them. "Farewell, Grams, you and your tales will not be remembered." he said before throwing Jake's book down into a pile of ash.
"SO this is how it ends?" Will said. "Will, don't worry. We'll find a way out of this." Jake tried to calm his older brother down. Will sighed heavily. "This is the end." he said as he looked at the raging fire before them. Then he looked at the sky. "My beautiful love, I shall be with you again soon."
Jake couldn't help but roll his eyes at his brother's overdramatizing. "Good God, Will, SNAP OUT OF IT!" he yelled at his brother. "We are going to get out of this and I swear to God if my legs were free I would be kicking some sense into you right this second!" Jake yelled again.
"Jake just face the reality for once." Will said. "We're on two of these...things. They're lighting up the forest and us, what do you think could possibly be happening? Oh, I just remembered. Poor Alex, she'll have to go on without you. If only she were here for us to say our last words to...well you could, anyway." Will said.
"Will, what are you saying?" Jake said, he couldn't believe his brother, the rational older brother, was giving up. "I'm saying the truth, Jake! We're not making it out of this alive, look around!" Will yelled. "Charlotte is gone! If at best you have something to fight for, to live for." Tears were falling down Will's face. "What do I have left? My love is gone."
"Will...I'll get us out of this, all hope can not be lost-" he started, but he wasn't convincing himself very much anymore. "Jake...just accept it." Will said. Jake kept sputtering, trying to think of something before he looked over at his book that was now in flames and sighed. "Say your last words, brother." Jake said, defeated.
"I love you, my brother." Will said. "I love you too, brother. And where ever you are, Alexandra Casandra Nell-" Jake started before he heard her voice from behind him. "Don't you dare even think about giving up, Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm." she said as she and Angelika freed them from their binds.
"Angelika?" Jake said. "Ah, were free!" Jake said happily.
"OH THE FEET THE FEET!" they yelled as they fell.
"Oh, Jake." Jake heard Alex say adorably as the two women unbound their feet as Alex crawled over to Jake while Angelika went to Will. "Jake, darling, are you alright?" she asked as she gently cupped his face in her hands.
"Oh Alex!" he said happily as he held her. "I thought I was never going to see you again."
Alex smiled as she held him. "Don't ever think that, Jake, you're not getting rid of me that easily. I won't let you." she giggled before she looked over at the book that was burning and she sighed softly. "Let's go." Angelika said quickly as they ran off into the forest.
As they ran into the forest, Alex, Jake, and Will were about to catch up with Angelika, who had a bit of a head start into the forest until a burning tree fell in their way, blocking their chance to get over to the other side.
Suddenly a hideous howling came echoing as a large wolf jumped in front of them.
The wolf growled at the three before turning his attention to Angelika as he neared her and with every step he took he started to transform from a wolf to a large man as the three looked on, not sure of what was happening or what was going to happen.
"It's him! The one who took Charlotte!" Will declared as he picked up a large branch. "Stop, Will! You'll only get killed that way!" Alex said as she tried to get him to put the branch down as the man neared Angelika.
"Jake!" Alex started. "Just stay here, Alex!" He said as he tried to push her out of harms way, but the ground gave out beneath her, causing Alex to fall into a small pond of water.
"JAKE!" Alex screamed as the small pond of water turned into a huge pool of water that she was quickly trying not to sink in. "JAKE, HELP!" she screamed as there was an unknown force grabbing on to her leg as she gripped at a branch stuck in the ground to keep her head above the water.
As Jake jumped after her, the man in furs threw something into the water, causing it to ice over. Alex screamed for him with her mouth closed as she tried to grip the ice that had surrounded the top of the water as she opened her eyes while under the water to look at Jake. "No, no!" he kept trying to break the ice as Alex began to sink. "Alex, NO!" he yelled. Alex looked Jake in the eyes as they practically spoke to him. 'I love you.' before she was dragged into the dark depths of her watery grave.
Jake hit the ice one last time and it shattered. As he tried digging at the bottom, a thought suddenly hit him. "WILL, ALEX IS THE TWELFTH!" he yelled and suddenly after Jake had said that there was a huge wind that had come over the forest as Jake and Will both had to hold on to something so as not to get blown away with the wind.
"We have to get to the tower!" Jake yelled before he and Will both ran through the forest as quickly as they could before they stumbled upon the man in furs, who had Alex in his arms as he was walking towards one of the crypts.
"You bastard, you let her go!" Jake yelled just as the stone crypt slid closed. "Jake!" Will yelled as the man disappeared into the tower, with a flock of birds carrying him up to the window. "What is wrong with you? Calm down! We'll get Alex out of there, come on!" he said as he ran out of the brush and towards the crypt where Alex was just laid in.
Jake used all his might to try and push open the crypt. Will was right next to his brother pushing as well as they were able to open it to a small extent to where Jake could see Alex's sleeping face. "Alex, I'll get you back! I promise!" then the crypt slammed shut again when Will used the axe to try and open it.
"I held the axe the same way you did!" Will said as he put the axe down. "Will, not now, can we please concentrate on getting up in the tower!?" Jake yelled before the two ran back to where Jake's box of supplies was as he got out the rope, but soon there was a gun shot in the air and the two looked over to see Delatombe, his servant, and Cavaldi coming near them.
"There's twelve crypts, and there are one girl in each crypt you see-" Jake started to explain. "Silence!" Delatombe shouted. "Story time is over, Grams." he said before looking over at Cavaldi. "Execute them."
"No, wait! That's who you want! Up there in the tower!" Will said, as he pointed to the man in furs watching them from the tower window before he escaped their view and Delatombe instructed Cavaldi again. "Execute them!"
Cavaldi stepped up to Jake and Will as he contemplated on what to do before he turned back to Delatombe. "General, I-" Cavaldi started before he was silenced as Delatombe then shot Cavaldi straight in the chest as he went down with a thud.
Will and Jake exchanged looks and then quickly ran. Delatombe was after Will and his servant was after Jake as they both ran in opposite directions. Jake hid as the servant stalked him.
But once the servant found him, he stopped and Jake looked at him oddly before he fell down on the ground next to him and Jake found that Will had thrown the axe into his back as he got up and ran back to where the catapult was, thinking Will was following him when Will was being stalked by Delatombe still as Jake was putting the catapult together.
"Will, hurry up!" Jake yelled. "A little busy, Jake!" he said before Delatombe had Will trapped. "Well move it, Will!" Jake yelled.
Will was able to light the burning cross in Delatombe's face before he stuck the General's flag in his chest, killing him and pushing him off of the cliff and on to Jake's catapult as Jake was finally able to catapult himself inside the tower.
Will latched onto the long white hair and started to climb as quickly as possible. Jake yelped in pain. "Will, hurry!"
As soon as Will grabs the sword he goes flying into the air, about to stab Jake in the chest before Jake blocks Will's sword. "She's controlling them Will. What do we do?" Jake asked. "I can't, Will." he said and Will nodded. "Yes you can, Jake. It's your story, it's your world. You can do this." Will said. "I can't do this alone, Will. I need someone. I need you. I need Alex." he said desperately. "Yes you can, Jake. You know the stories. You can finish this, Jake." He said as he let go of Jake's hand, letting the sword go through his chest.
"Will!" Jake yelled as both he and Will fell to the ground and Jake tried to shield his brother's eyes from the mirror queen. "He's dying, Jacob." said the Queen.
"Will, don't look at her." Jacob said desperately. "What are you going to do to help him, Jacob?" the queen asked as her looks started transforming into Charlotte's. "LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Jacob yelled at the Queen.
"He needs someone, Will. He needs...Me." She said as she changed into Charlotte in the mirror right before Will's eyes. "Come to me, Will. Let me hold you, my love."
"No, Will, it's a trick. Don't go!" Jake said. "Charlotte." Will said as he held his hand to the mirror. "Charlotte."
"Come to me, Will." the Queen said.
"No, it's not Charlotte, Will! Don't go!" Jake yelled.
Jake looked into the mirror for a brief moment and saw Will stand up and walk with the fake Charlotte. "Will..." he said helplessly. He heard the evil queen laugh and clap. "What a beautiful beautiful bed time story this will be!"
Jake choked back a sob as he hid behind the wall.
Will crawled to the queen still under the spell of the queen, still believing her to be Charlotte.
When he was in the circle where the Queen's throne sat, her looks transformed back into her own when Will was completely under her spell as she pulled the pin out of the man in furs chest and put it into Will's.
"Now Will complete the spell, my love." She said to him, still in Charlotte's voice. "Mirror mirror...on the wall. Who's fairest?" she asked softly. "You are the fairest of them all." Will said as their faces drew closer. "NO! DON'T KISS HER!" Jake screamed before he smashed the mirror with his axe. The wicked queen screamed as her body began to shatter. "LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE DONE!"
Will, who was still under the Queen's spell, picked up the shards of glass looking for her guidance as she screamed at him to stop the man in furs that was running out of the window with the mirror in his hands as Will ran after him and the two were out of the window and plummeting to the ground.
"WILL!" Jake yelled. The two fell and hit the ground, shattering the mirror, causing the queen to explode. Then the tower began to shake and rumble as it fell apart.
Jake held on to whatever he could as the tower rumbled and fell as he was trapped under the Queen's mattresses. The tower crumbled completely. Jake quickly got out of the mattresses and was found by Cavaldi.
"Jacob, it is I, Cavaldi." he said as he tried to wake Jake up and once Jake had opened his eyes to see Cavaldi his first question spilled out of his mouth. "Where's Will?" he asked as Cavaldi helped him up and led him through the rubble of the fallen tower then through the forest where Jake rushed over to Will's lifeless body.
"Will, wake up!" Jake called out as he tried to awaken Will. "No, we must break the curse first!" Cavaldi said as he dragged him over to one of the crypts. "Which crypt is your Alexandra in, Jacob?" Cavaldi asked as they stood in front of some of the crypts.
"This one!" The two pushed open the crypt to reveal Alex still in a deep slumber.
"The spell can be broken with a kiss. A kiss of true love." Cavaldi explained. Jake looked at Cavaldi before back at Alex. Gently he lifted her up and held her in his arms. Slowly he leaned in and their lips met in a kiss of true love.
Once Jake had pulled away from her and laid her back down he watched her in curiosity, hoping she would wake. Come on, love., he thought before he kissed her again. "Come on, Alex, come back to me."
Alex took a gasp of air as her eyes opened and she looked straight into Jake's eyes as a smile instantly formed on her face. "Jake..." she said softly as she sat up and kissed his lips. "Thank you for saving me." she said with a bright smile as she wrapped her arms around his neck.
Soon all of the other girls were waking up.
Cavaldi left the two to their privacy as Jake helped Alex out of the crypt. "I guess you saved me from sleep with a kiss this time." she said with a smile at their inside joke and Jake nodded.
"Misses Charlotte! Looka, Alexandra, your sister!" Cavaldi said happily as he hugged the woman.
Alex looked at Jake before she kissed his cheek and ran to her sister. "Charlotte! You're ok!" she said as she hugged her sister. They hugged as everyone danced about happily. "Come on, Will, time to go." Jake said to his still unmoving brother. "Will, the spell's broken!" Jake said louder. "Will?" he asked as he tapped his brother's face. "Come on, Will." he said.
He knelt down and was about to kiss. Will to try and awaken him when, "Not...you." Will muttered. "Why don't you give it a try, Charlotte? Might work better." he said as he sat down on a rock and Alex smiled as she sat next to Jake on the ground as she held his hand.
Charlotte knelt down and kissed Will. She gasped as Will then flipped them over, pressing his lips firmly against hers. "Had to know what that was like before the story ended." Will said charmingly before he kissed Charlotte again.
Alex smiled as she shook her head before she rested her head on Jake's leg. "Alright everyone, let's get you all home!" Jake said happily as they all joined hands with the children and happily skipped along. Even Cavaldi.
Everyone ran happily into the light of the village as the little girls all ran to their families while Jake, Alex, Charlotte, Will, and Cavaldi were all walking into the light of the village as well as Cavaldi pushed through Jake and Will to gloat.
"Jake, thank you for stopping to see me all of those months ago." Alex said as she wrapped her arms around Jake's neck again. "Oh, by the way, you need to keep a hold of this." Cavaldi said as he handed Jake his book. "I liked it. It wasa a very good read." he said.
"You found it!" Jake said happily as he opened the book, but found that it wasn't his stories that were inside as he looked over at Alex as she smiled at him and Angelika danced over with her sisters as she handed Alex her bag before dancing away with her sisters happily as Alex looked back at Jake. "When they were about to take you away, I thought they would try and do something to your stories." she said with a smile as she took Jake's book out of her bag and handed it to him.
"Alex." he said, stunned. She smiled. "I had to keep your stories safe, darling. I couldn't let them burn into nothing. I felt like it was my duty to keep them safe." she said as she walked over to Jake. "Thank you." he held her close to him and kissed the top of her head. Alex smiled up at him. "You're very welcome, sweetheart." she said as she held him.
"I love you, Alex." he sighed happily. I love you so much., he continued on in his thought.
Alex looked up at him. "I love you too, Jake. So much." she said as she kissed his shoulder. Jake leaned down and kissed her lovingly. Alex smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him back just as lovingly.
"I thought I lost you, Charlotte. Truly, I never thought I'd see you again, you have no idea how upset I was." Will said as he held Charlotte's hand. "You'd never lose me, Will." she said as she laid her head on his shoulder.
He wrapped his arms around her as they walked around the music-filled village. "And I want to make sure I never will have to worry again." he said as he stopped her and looked her straight in the eyes. "I've been known for a while as a bit of a lady's man...going from one woman to the next...I'm ready to stop and settle down though. With the one lady that means everything to me. You." he said as he knelt down on one knee and Charlotte heard her sister gasp softly from not too far away from her.
"Charlotte Evangelina Nell, will you do me the honor of becoming my wife?" he asked as he held her hand in his and looked up at her with love in his own eyes as he looked into hers.
Charlotte smiled happily. "I thought you'd never ask."
"Well, your sister and my brother will be happy to know that I've finally believed-" he started before he heard Jake and Alex cheering. "He Believes!" he heard Jake yell happily. "I knew he would believe eventually!" Alex cheered. "OH MY GOD HELL HAS FROZEN OVER WILHEM CARL GRIMM BELIEVES IN THE FAIRY RELM! HE BELIEVES IN THE MYTHICAL! GOD SAVE THE QUEEN HE BEEEEELLLIIIIEEEEEVVVVEEESSS S!" Jake yelled in joy.
Jake swooped Alex up in his arms as they celebrated and danced to the music. "Oh and Congratulations Charlotte and Will!" Alex yelled happily. "Is he always like that?" Charlotte asked Will. "Is she always like that?" Will asked Charlotte simultaneously.
The two exchanged looks and then followed Jake and Alex into the dancing crowd of people.