Magic Words

Mention: I might change the name of the story as I am not all that happy about Magic Words - if you have any ideas for what I should change it to it is appreciated. Thank you.

Disclaimer: I simply do not own, well except my three original characters who are both major and minor character throughout the series; Samantha Spencer, Alyssa Blanchard, and Cierra Herman.

Storybrooke, Maine ~

Samantha

Fairy tales were only stories, not like Henry said about how they were really, and for some reason they always no matter how much the protagonist went through - made real life look like utter hell. That was the one that that Samantha Phillipa Spencer had felt for as long as she could remember. Her father was a harsh and unloving district attorney who would go to any lengths to suit his needs, and easily became one of the strict and hard-entering members of the most hated people in Storybrooke. Albert Spencer, her father had the ability to make a gang member cry in mercy just by looking at him. And as long as she could remember that was all she was recognized as, no matter what she did she would always be Albert Spencer's girl, not even her father gave her much mind.

For a long time, Sheriff Graham was apart of the long list of people that gave her no mind, and besides the polite small talk he had never looked twice at her. But, throughout the years, Samantha couldn't help but feel for him, she didn't love him per say but she really didn't know what love was - all she knew was that when she was around him her stomach filled with butterflies, she giggled at anything remotely humorous he said, and she tended to make a utter fool of herself.

"So, Samantha?" Her dark brown eyes and dark blonde hair snapped her attention towards the man walking besides her, who had been speaking only about how he caught Leroy drunk again, last night, as he walked her to her job as a nurse at the hospital under Dr. Whale.

Not being able to stop her heart from fluttering, she answered, shyly, "Uh, yes?"

"How has work been going?"

Feeling let down, she sighed. "Great, Dr. Whale, Nurse Jackie and I - we are going to get a bit busier now that the six month checks ups are really starting to come and also with your drunkies -" she hit her arm gently against his side teasingly.

Graham chuckled.

The sound of his chuckle brought butterflies into her stomach on an overdrive. As she resisted the urge to blush, mentally scolding herself for getting so girly, as she smiled up at him. Changing the subject, Graham spoke, intertwining their hands. "You heard about the new girl?"

Nodding her head, Samantha raised an eyebrow, "The women who was with H.M."

"H.M?"

Samantha awkwardly said, "Yeah, Henry Mills or Hermione Malfoy," but was greeted by silence as she pulled a Harry Potter reference, she sighed, pulling her hair back behind her ear. Shaking her head, she continued, "-their just stupid nicknames, me and Henry came up together with."

She doesn't hear Graham's response as she looks up from where they are walking seeing a man dressed in all black watching them from a distance. "- Oh. So I was thinking maybe we could try to go -" Graham begun but noticed what my eyes had caught sight of, the man turned his head from us, but you could tell that he was still knowing of our every move as the man in all black began to move away.

"Sorry," Samantha shook her head, "I was just wondering where I have seen him before - he looked familiar to me, but he mightn't just been a look alike." Though she did not take her eyes away from his grey ones, looking straight towards the man dressed in all black, albeit the fanciness scale of his clothes were through the roof, making him probably have come from the richer side of Storybrooke.

The boy she spent her time chasing after, nodded his head, "Well, apparently he knows you."

Swiftly turning her head towards the man, as he grabbed his belt pulling his pants higher up, "Sorry?" She said in a manner stating for him to continue, as she thought back to how he was looking at them with grey eyes.

"He was looking right at you."

Shifting her stance as they continued walking, Samantha blushed outwardly, "That's awkward." She took her eyes back to the man to the side of her, as she watched him walk through her brown eyes, before he slapped his hands together.

"Aside from the look alike man, I was wondering if you'd like to make up for last nights date." The Sheriff said.

"And have us end up spending the entire night at Regina's? I love Regina, she's a good friend of mine - but... I don't want to have my date at her lovely house," said Samantha, turning him down for the first time.

"That was just last night!" He replied.

She pushed her head from side to side thinking of all the failed dates, "Yes, but it's been last night, the Friday before that, and the Saturday before that -"

"I get it," he cut across, "I know I'm really into my job."

"Or into your employer?" She whispered.

Graham raised in eyebrow before leaning towards her, "What was that?"

"Nothing!" She said rather loudly, "Nothing," she continued, "I'm sorry, Graham. I like you, but I don't want to spend another night getting ready just to spend it waiting around as you work. I'll see you around, Graham." She brushed her hand on his shoulder before walking ahead towards the hospital, not looking back but if she did she would see Graham watching after her sadly.

Putting his hands on the sides of his legs, he watched after her, "Alright. Bye, Samantha."

Curiosity getting the better of her, Samantha turned her head to see the man wearing all black still watching her intently. Being closer to him now, she heard him say, only coming to her as a mere whisper, "Caia."

Enchanted Forest ~

A young girl with dark blonde hair and brown eyes ran with her hands interlinked with a girl looking similar to her but with lighter skin, and was obviously her mother. They ran through the woods with a trench coat close in sight. The man was obviously a fast runner but the girls had no trouble keeping up. He dashed behind a tree as both girls smiled, the little girl running ahead, "Papa! I found you!" She called.

The women had slowed down to a walk, smiling widely slightly out of breath at the girl, as the man came out behind a tree with the biggest smile you could possibly imagine. "You certainly did." He looked over at me and smiled as the little girl took his hand. "You must be part bloodhound my dear Grace."

"It must be from your side of the family." The mother said, accusingly. "Now, onto more important matters," she moved closer to them holding a finger up to her chin she said, "What is this the girl's have five points?" She looked down at Grace and they both smiled as big as they could. Then looked up at the man. "And the lone boy has zero."

"It's an unfair advantage." He said looking at me seriously. She gave him a smile and he winked at her. "It won't be a unfair advantage if I take out one of your players, mushroom." She tilted her head to the side and before the mother could do anything he had picked her up and threw her over her shoulder.

"Jefferson!" She was squealing with laughter and so was Grace. "Grace, sweetie. Help me!" She said reaching out for Grace's hands as Jefferson began to walk away.

"I'll save you, Mama!" She called reaching out for her hands.

About half way to the cottage he set her down and the mother and father walked with their daughter in between them. Waiting for them at the cottage was a black carriage with black horses. One's that she had grown to know so well. "Wait," Jefferson said as he stopped walking.

"Whose carriage is that?" Grace asked curiously.

Jefferson looked over to his wife and they shared a worried look. "The Queen's." Jefferson finally said.

"In our house?!" Grace exclaimed. She turned to them sharply, noticing their worried looks. "You know her?"

Jefferson turned to her with a smile, taking away the look of worry from her eyesight. "Of course not. Now, listen carefully your going to stay with mama here in the woods, and your going to run like in our game to where we were before. Okay?"

"Yes, papa." Grace said grabbing her mother's hands. He turned away but his wife grabbed his arm.

"Jefferson?" He saw her worried look and leaned in to kiss her sweetly. When he pulled away his wife smiled and gave his arm a loving squeeze. "I'll be fine, Caia." He walked away and turned back to them with a smile a little bit further down the path.

"Come on, Grace." Caia pulled her daughter away from the cottage in the direction they had come from and away from the Queen and the Mad Hatter who were speaking in negotiating.

Storybrooke, Maine ~

"Samantha are you alright?" Samantha turned as she looked away from the man in all black to Dr. Whale who was looking at her slightly worriedly. "Oh. It's nothing, I just - I just am a bit tired maybe after some coffee from the lounge, I'll wake up." She smiled, walking away from the Doctor as he watched her, suspiciously.

Storybrooke, Maine ~

Alyssa

Yawning Alyssa made her way into the living room, still dressed in her pajamas. "Did you see the clock start moving, last night?"

Mary Margaret's head was practically out the window. "Yeah, I saw it last night after my date with Whale." That was kind of his town nickname - which wasn't exactly a nickname that anyone would dream of having - but it was still his nickname even if he wasn't exactly whale sized and it was his name. "I'm going to be running a bit late for work today - so can you walk yourself today, Lisa?"

"Yeah, I'll meet up with Henry." Alyssa smiled at her.

"I'm telling you though." Mary said as Alyssa Blanchard pulled out a water bottle from the fridge. "Something is different about today, and it's not just the clock," Alyssa nodded in agreement to her. "I can feel it." They both said the sentence together at the same time before smiling at each other.

"I have to get going if I'm going to walk and meet up with Hen -" Alyssa said grabbing her backpack as she headed towards the door, walking sideways as she did trying to make sure the open water bottle didn't spill everywhere.

"Have fun." Mary-Margaret said with a smile as Alyssa picked up her cell phone.

"Will do, love you." The younger girl said as she unlocked the door.

"Love you, too."

Alyssa walked down the street, pulling her pink coat in closer to her as she saw in the corner of her eye Cierra Herman steal a coffee from Sidney Glass watching as he yelled after her as she ran down the street laughing like a lunatic. Sidney Glass was the head of the newspaper in town and was a pretty fantastic writer if only he could stand up for himself.

"Hello, Alyssa."

"Hi Sidney." Lisa said with a warm smile.

"How are you this fine morning?"

"I should ask you the same thing. You seem incredibly cheery for just having your newspaper and coffee stolen from you." said Alyssa gesturing towards where Cierra Herman had run off to seeing in the distance Cierra sipping on Sidney's coffee with her brother, Sean laughing besides her.

"It's a good day." He pointed up. "The clock is moving, the sun is shining -"

"What's that?" Lisa asked gesturing to the paper in his hands.

"Nothing." The teenage girl took it from him. "No! I wish Cierra stole the paper instead of my coffee!"

Looking as she saw Henry's mother's face plastered all over it. It talked about her ridiculous arrest (which one of her best friend's, who she was about to go see, adoptive mother's made happen) and everything about her past. "Sidney!" Lisa looked at him shocked. "Why would you do this?" He stood there not saying anything, but looking down ashamed. "Regina?"

He nodded shyly and Lisa let out a growl. "Alyssa, you know that if I don't do what she says then I'm fired. I had to Lisa." Lisa sighed. Regina Mills had gone out of control with this whole Emma-thing. That's why Alyssa was sure Emma was going to stay as long as possible. Alyssa pushed the paper into his chest and walked off. This whole Emma thing was strange. No one ever came into Storybrooke and all of a sudden Henry's biological mother shows up and then the clock begins moving. Lisa looked up again. That clock hadn't moved for as long as she could remember.

Shaking her head, Alyssa walked into Granny's Diner and went towards Henry. "Hey Ger-Lisa." He said with a smile. Henry had gotten into the whole addiction of calling her by her fairy tale name that Henry decided was hers, Princess Gerda or as Henry says "at one point when Gerda was running from her mother the Evil Queen she changed her name so that they wouldn't catch her going by the name; Louisa of which Prince Charming made up," because of the book her mother said.

"Hey." Lisa sat down in the booth. "So, why exactly did you email me last night to meet you here?"

"We're going to get Emma to stay, Lisa."

"And how do you know she's going to be here?"

"She's staying at Granny's and she needs to eat." Lisa shrugged at Henry's words; it made perfect sense. And as she thought about the brilliance of Henry, Emma walked in and sat down at the bar.

"What do we do now?" Lisa asked the younger boy.

"You got your wallet right?"

Lisa gave her friend a confused look. "Yes, should I be worried."

"Not at all, your just going to paying for Emma's hot chocolate I just ordered."

"Henry." Lisa said in an annoyed tone. He looked a little guilty so Alyssa softened up. "You have to stop doing that," Lisa said calmly. Looking up to see Ruby having just given Emma her hot chocolate. Emma had gotten up and went over to Sheriff Graham thinking that he was the one who sent over the hot chocolate - as Alyssa noticed that Sheriff Graham looked down immediately noticing that Samantha Spencer who was always with him, wasn't. Coming to the conclusion that Samantha was finally getting over her stupid obsession.

"Thank you, but no thank you."

"I didn't send it."

"I did." Henry said turning around to look at her. Emma looked at Alyssa as he got up and Alyssa Blanchard gave the older women a shrug in reply to the luck. "I like cinnamon too."

"Don't you both need to get to school?"

"Duh, I'm ten - she's fourteen. Walk us." He looked over to Alyssa. "Come on Ger-Alyssa."

The three of them walked out of the diner with Henry in the middle of the two girls, "So what's the deal with you two and Regina?"

"It's not about her," Henry began as though he had this whole thing. "It's about the curse." Alyssa didn't honestly understand how he came to that conclusion after her mother gave her book on fairy tale characters. The idea was so far fetched. "We have to break it and luckily I have a plan. Step one, identification, I call it Operation Cobra."

Alyssa smiled at her friend. "Cobra?" Emma asked. "That has nothing to do with fairy tales."

"Exactly, it's a code name to throw the queen off the trail."

"So everyone here is a fairy tale character, they just don't know it?"

"That's the curse; time has been frozen until you got here." Henry did have a point with the clock, a very small point. That could have just been a coincidence. "Hey!" Henry called. "Where did you get that?"

She looked at the apple that she had just put to her lips confused and then back at Henry. "Your mom."

"Don't eat that!" He grabbed the apple from her and threw it over his head. Emma gave Alyssa a look and she shook her head. As though she did not understand what had happened to Henry to make him so insane. And if she did, she would have told her.

"Okay." She said cautiously. "Then what about their pasts?"

"They don't know." Alyssa rolled her eyes at the younger boys words. "Ask Rose anything and you'll see."

Alyssa hit her friend on the arm lightly. "So for decades people have been walking around in a haze, not aging, messed up memories in a town that keeps them oblivious?"

"I knew you'd get it." Henry said cheerfully. Emma gave Alyssa a small smile and Alyssa shook her head at Henry with a wide smile. "Which is why we need you. You're the only one who can break the curse."

"Because I'm the daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming?"

He gave Emma the last pages of the book about Snow White and Prince Charming's daughter and strangely her name was Emma. We got to the school and Henry began to walk off. "I have to go, but I'll find you later and we can get started." He turned around to look at them. "I knew you would believe me."

"I never said I did."

"Then why else would you have stayed?" Henry was beaming and even though all of this was insane, it was nice to see him smiling again, Alyssa thought. As her mother began walking towards them.

Mary Margret walked up to them. "It's good to see his smile back."

"I didn't do anything." Emma said humbly.

"You stayed." Her mother told her.

"I got to get to class, but I'll see your around Emma. Mom." Walking around the grass she went to her classroom - touching the door as she walked into the class Alyssa didn't notice how the spot where her hand touched on the door was now frozen solid - taking a seat at her desk. The teacher Mr. Harolds walked into the classroom calling out,

"Okay class, today were going to start out with a review..."