Title: Happy Ending
Rating: T for language, might be bumped later for language and/or sexiness
Disclaimer: I have no rights to any persons real or imagined, no television shows, no books, basically nothing. You want to sue me the best thing I have is a bed, but try to take that and I'll cut a bitch, it's super comfy.
Summary: AU Remma, Regina/Emma, Swan Queen, whatever you want to call it. The Evil Queen will have her happy ending. And she will have her revenge.
Word Count: This chapter: 378; Total: 3900
Notes: I can't get the idea of Remma out of my head; you will all be subjected to more of it. And frequently.
Entering the nursery, James found it unoccupied. But he had the feeling Emma would return soon. Whatever desperately important distraction she'd found had caused her to leave her mirror and open storybook in the middle of the floor.
The storybook had been an obsession but an acceptable one. The mirror, which no one remembered giving to the princess, was a bit more concerning. It had become common to hear Emma talking but find no one around.
Stepping closer to look at the book found James shaking his head. Another story about the Queen. And her meddlesome mirror. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? James wasn't sure he approved of these stories and the mirror, but they kept Emma entertained.
In a fit of inspiration, he asked, "Mirror, mirror round and small, what keeps my princess in your thrall?" No answer came forth, but James hadn't really expected one. Leaving book and mirror, the prince left the nursery in search of his eldest daughter and whatever trouble she'd encountered.
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"Your Majesty," the mirror began, loathe to interrupt her present occupation but equally reticent to be accused of secrecy. "The uh….young princess' father tried to access your mirror."
Regina turned to the nearest mirror with a scowl, magic still crackling around her fingertips. The guardsman, who had been dancing to avoid arcs of lightning sizzling his feet, took this opportunity to make himself scarce. "Now look, you made me lose my game," pouted the sorceress before shooting a final bolt out the door after the man.
"You'll lose more than that if James and Snow find out where the mirror came from." This interruption came not from the bobbing head in the mirror, but from behind the Queen.
"Oooh, I quiver with fear. Let them come; Snow with her fairies and dwarves," scoffed Regina. "Daddy, they won't find out."
The older man looked discouraged, but soldiered on. "Why can't you move past this?" he pressed, echoing a conversation of nearly a decade ago.
"Snow's happiness is a slap in the face. I will punish her, and with something worse than what she took from me." Even more than twenty years later, the pain still seared in her heart. "I cannot be happy until Snow isn't."
Author's Note-1: I was thinking of doing a little time warp and fastforwarding until Emma is like 16-ish. What do you guys think?
Author's Note-2: There's a reference to a previous episode of OUAT and a reference to a Disney movie. Shout out to anyone who tells me episode/movie/both in a message or comment.
Author's Note-3: It was mentioned that I wrote about Emma finding Pinocchio in the wardrobe before it came up in the show, I was not expecting that.