A/N: Hello there keepers! It's been really long since we last saw each other. I know it's been almost a month and I am SO SORRY! I've been really busy and lazy and I've been trying to wrote 2 fanfictions, manage three instagram accounts( theatregirl98 kingdomkeepers365 and princessbelle_of_france), record a KK2 audio book, watch a very potter musical and also just do other things like watching TV. Anyway, just enjoy the next chapter. Tee hee.

Willa walked over to Finn and shook him awake; or rather tried to.

"Finn!" she whispered loudly. He didn't budge. She shook him again. "Finn! Finn wake up!" Still, nothing. Boys she thought. She walked on her knees over to Amanda and shook her awake.

"Amanda." she said. Amanda's eyes slowly opened. She sat up on her elbow.

"What is it?" she whispered.

"I just got crossed over when I fell asleep. Charlene isn't dead. But she will be if we don't hurry. You have to help me wake the others up." Amanda sprung up, her eyes wide.

"Are you serious?" she said.

"Dead serious." Amanda turned next to her, where Jess was sleeping and shook her awake. Willa turned on the lights while Amanda continued to shake everyone awake. A minute or so later, everyone was sitting up and rubbing sleep out of their eyes, confused looks on their faces.

"What the heck is going on?" said Maybeck.

"Charlene isn't dead" Willa said. Maybeck fell back into his pillow and Finn shook his head.

"Is this some kind of sick joke?" Jess asked. Philby stood up and took Willa's arm gently.

"Look Willa." he said. "I know this is hard and you want to believe that, but Charlene is gone. It's over." He expected Willa to start crying, but instead, her expression remained serious, her eyes wide open, her mouth locked in a straight line.

"Listen." she said. "I know it sounds odd, but I swear it's true. We can save her but we only have until midnight."

"How exactly did you come to this conclusion?" Jess said.

"I don't have much time to explain. Merida, the new princess, she crossed me over. Charlene bit a poison apple. If someone who loves her that she loves back kisses her by midnight, she'll be okay." All eyes were on Maybeck.

"What?" he said.

Just then, the doorbell rang. Amanda walked over and opened the door. Instantly, her face grew cold and angry. She tried to slam the door, but the girl caught it before it could close.

"Go away Olivia" Amanda said through clenched teeth. Olivia leaned her head into the room and spoke loudly, so everyone could hear her.

"Listen, I know you all probably hate my guts right now, but just, hear me out."

"We don't have time to hear you out." Willa said. "We're trying to do something and we only have until midnight. Right now, its eleven fifty five, so if you would kindly leave, we would appreciate it."

"You know that Charlene isn't dead?"

"Wait." said Amanda. "You know that? And you told us? Why would the Overtakers let us know? Oh let me guess. It's gonna be that whole 'curse reversed' thing again."

While Amanda was talking, Olivia had walked into the room and was now standing next to Charlene. Amanda turned around, still having her doubts, but then she saw that Olivia's eyes were wet, her cheeks soaked with tears. Amanda walked up to her and looked into her eyes. They weren't green, or ghostly, or possessed. Olivia's eyes were the purest shade of blue.

"The spell must have broken on her too." said Willa from behind.

"I don't know what got into me." Olivia said through tears. "I can barely remember anything about joining them. I thought I was doing the right thing. Nothing seemed wrong about it. And then, they said that Charlene was going to…die and it all came back to me. Charlene, my best friend, dead, and I would have been the reason for it, and…oh god Charlie I'm so sorry." Olivia fell to her knees. She buried her face in Charlene's hand and began to sob. Jess looked at the clock.

"Uh guys." she said. The clock read 11:59.

"It's too late" Willa choked out.

She began to cry. Philby walked over and hugged her. Amanda and Jess were leaning on each other's shoulders, crying. Maybeck and Philby stood with their heads down. Olivia began to sob harder.

"Charlie I'm so sorry. What have I done? What have I done?" Everyone watched the scene with blurry eyes. Olivia kissed Charlene's hand, and the clock read midnight.

Olivia released Charlene's hand. She fell to the ground and sobbed. There wasn't a dry eye in the room. Everyone, even Finn and Maybeck, had their arms around each other. Willa reached out a hand to Olivia. Olivia looked up at her, confused.

"How could you accept me after the horrible thing I did?"

"It wasn't your fault. You were under a spell. Everyone deserves comfort from others when they need it." Olivia smiled, took Willa's hand and joined the huddle of girls hugging each other. After a few minutes, Philby stood up. Everyone looked at him quizzically.

"Guys." he said. "I think we should stop fighting the OTs."

"What?" Jess said. "You can't be serious."

"I am serious. Listen. More than Disney or its state of order, the most important things are our lives and our friendship. We've already seen that our friendship can be put in serious jeopardy by this whole battle and I don't think I need to explain the other part." Jess was getting angry. She stood up and her voice increased in volume as she walked closer to Philby.

"You do realize that if it weren't for 'this whole battle' we wouldn't even have a friendship?"

"Well I'm just saying…"

"What you're saying is that you want to give up on Disney and the world and let the Overtakers control it."

"They can find other kids."

"STOP IT!" Amanda screamed from behind. She was still crying. "Stop fighting. Fighting is what got Charlene dead. Look, Philby I see where you're coming from, but Jess is right. We can't just give up."

"Give up? Why would we do that?" someone said. Amanda turned around not able to believe her ears.

Charlene was slowly getting up off of the couch. Willa ran up to her and in a matter of seconds she had her arms wrapped around Charlene tightly. She was laughing and crying tears of joy at the same time.

"Charlie you're not dead" she said. Willa wiped tears from her eyes.

"Dead? Why would I be dead?" Charlene said. "Can someone explain this to me please?"

All of the keepers had huge smiles on their faces. Maybeck ran up to Charlene and hugged her. Then, Amanda joined in. Willa put her arms around Charlene again and Finn, Philby and Jess joined in too. Soon all of the keepers were locked in a tight group hug. Willa spotted Olivia out of the corner of her eye, standing a few feet away, her head tilted down. Willa motioned for her and reached out her hand. Olivia shook her head.

"She wouldn't understand. She hates me now." Charlene's head turned directly towards the voice. Her face tightened, her smile turned into a snarl.

"Get out!" she said. She walked forcefully toward Olivia. "Get out! Get out!" Willa and Jess rushed to hold her back.

"Charlie" Willa said. "Listen. Olivia's different now. It was a spell. You have to know that." Charlene tried to push against them.

"Charlene." Jess said. "Please. Listen. There are a lot of things you don't know right now. Just let us explain."

"Not until she gets out."

"Charlene" Amanda said. "She really has changed. We saw her just a few minutes ago, crying while you were lying on the couch."

"Crying? Okay I am so confused could someone please explain to me what happened."

"Okay." said Willa. "Just sit down. It's gonna be kind of shocking."

"I….. DIED?!" Charlene screamed.

"I told you she wouldn't take it well" said Amanda.

"Listen" Willa said as she continued to explain. "Technically, no you didn't die. I don't even know what to call it. I guess you could call it a coma of some sorts? Apparently you bit a poison apple and seemed to die, but didn't. Like Snow White."

"I've got a headache." Charlene said, clutching her head. "So what happened that freed me?"

"We're not exactly sure." said Willa. "I got crossed over and Merida said that someone who loved you that you loved back had to kiss you before midnight. The strange thing is, no one kissed you in time, and you didn't wake up until like, twenty minutes after twelve, so I don't know what to say about that."

"Okay" said Jess. "Maybe we can figure more of this out if Charlene explained to us what happened under water before." She turned to Charlene. "Charlie, what do you remember?"

"Well, I was being held under water by some plants…" at this, she glared at Olivia coldly. "…and I was sure I was going to drown. But then, this beautiful woman appeared and offered me an apple. She said that it had magical powers and if I took just one bite of it, everything would be okay. I don't know what I was thinking, but I was desperate. I didn't even think about the obvious suspicion. Anyway, I bit the apple, and then, the plants broke and I shot up out of the water. Then, Maybeck was by the edge of the pool. We went and found you guys and then we walked back to Wanda's apartment. We went to sleep and then the next thing I knew I was waking up to you guys talking about surrendering."

"I think there's only one thing to do." said Philby. "We need to cross over again and we all need to see Merida. She could probably explain what happened. We could also ask Olivia." All eyes turned to Olivia.

"Tell me again why she's here." said Charlene.

"She's not an OTK anymore" Jess said. "If you don't believe us look at her eyes. They're blue, not green."

"Listen." said Olivia. "I'll tell you what I know, but at this point, what I know is the obvious. The Overtakers had me secure Charlene under water with plants."

"Ya" said Willa, interrupting. "How did you do that?"

"When the Overtakers put the spell on me it came with powers. Honestly Charlene I don't even know what I was thinking. When they want to put a green eye spell on you, they lure you in with promises and hypnotism so that you can't say no. And even if you have doubts, it's too late. They snap their fingers and it's like you belong to them. You think everything you're doing is for the greater good. You don't even realize the severity of everything you're doing. In theory, you could kill your own family and not even realize what they meant to you, what you were doing.

"It's scary. Jess could tell you. When you get out of the spell, you realize all this stuff and it hurts you. It makes you feel evil and wrong. I can't believe that I was a part of your near death Charlene. I can't forgive myself. I'm lucky that love was able to break the spell for me. Maybe it's just who I am, I don't know.

"When the Overtakers had talked about death before, it had never upset me. Then, when Charlene was struggling under the water, I had been laughing along with them. But after a while of hearing her muffled screams, seeing her thrash, I guess the real me broke through. Suddenly, I realized what I was doing and it hit me in the heart like a ton of bricks. All of a sudden, I remembered all the things I didn't when I was under the spell. That Charlene was my best friend and a bunch of memories of us flashed through me.

"I tried to get under water to help her, but when I got there it was too late. She had already bitten the apple. Terry had already carried her out of the pool. It was like all the air had drained from my lungs. I ran; I ran as fast as my feet could take me, all the way home.

"It took me a while, a few boxes of tissues and a few episodes of my favorite show, Once Upon a Time, to realize the truth. Love is the most powerful magic. True Love's Kiss could break any spell. So I ran as fast as I could to Charlene's house, but she wasn't there. Her mom told me to come here and now, here I am. That's my story. Charlie I understand that you're mad at me. You should be. I would even understand if you hated me. But all I'm asking is for you to hear me, and know that I feel terrible."

Olivia got up and walked out of the apartment. Charlene didn't move a muscle. She just sat there with her arms crossed. Willa gave her a look as to say,

You can't seriously not be going after her. The door closed. After a minute or so, there was guilt visible on Charlene's face. She had to shake it off though.

"Let's go see Merida." she said.

A/N: Hope you enjoyed! I know it ended in a cliffhanger(again!), but, I'll do my best to write chapter 28 ASAP. Tomorrow/Monday at midnight I'll be leaving for my Universal/Disney vacation. With the 20 hour drive each way, it's about a 2 week trip. I'll have my laptop with me and wifi in the hotel room so I'll try to write and post the next chapter, but I don't know how busy I'll be so I can't make any promises. I'll also keep my eye out for any suspicious activity in Disney and tell you guys if I see anything. Also, I would love it if you guys who have instagram would follow my fan page kingdomkeepers365. We're going to start a role play soon! And check out my videos on youtube at theatregirl1018. One of my videos is a KK trailer/dream cast. If you have youtube be sure to like and comment and if you like my videos subscribe! Please? Anyway, who's ready for sneak peek trivia. I'm going to give you some lyrics from one of my new favorite songs. If you can tell me the song and artist you'll get a sneak peek.

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