Song: "Once Upon a Dream" (I Danced With You Once Upon a Dream? I've seen it written both ways, so I'm not terribly sure)

Original Movie: Sleeping Beauty

Evangeline/Ray

She had been born such a long time ago, and yet no one had ever given a name. The only ones who ever talked to her where the beings on Earth who would look up and make wishes on her. Some called her the "Evening Star", but that didn't feel like a name to her, either.

Still, she'd done her best to make sure the good people and animals who wished on her got what they deserved. She'd shine brighter for some of them, trying to encourage them. She had a little bit of magic, to use as she wished, and she used it on those pure hearted souls who desperately needed her help. It didn't occur to her to make a wish for herself during those first centuries.

One day, out of the blue, a little firefly began to talk to her. She listened to him as he spoke to her of how beautiful she was. She waited patiently for him to make his wish, but he never asked anything of her. It puzzled her. He talked to her every night, but even after weeks of this, he still hadn't made any wishes.

"Well, about time I introduced myself proper. I'm Raymond, you call me Ray. So, what your name? I been talkin' to you for days now and I still don't know it," the little firebug said to her as he gazed at her, perched on a lily. He waited for her to give an answer, but she really didn't know how to respond. "Well, shoot, missy, don't you have a name? All right, then. I gonna call you 'Evangeline'. That all right with you, cher?" All the star, Evangeline, could do was to shine a bit brighter to show her approval. Ray noticed. "Yeah. Evangeline. That a good name for a firefly as pretty as you."

She watched over him, and listened to him talk to her, wishing desperately she could say something back to him. Evangeline thought for sure that Ray would give up after a time, bothered that she never spoke to him. But every night, he talked to her for hours on end. He seemed to think she was just shy.

She had taken to looking at other stars when Ray wasn't around and wishing on them, even though she knew it would not make a difference. Very few stars are born with magic, and they were not put there to grant other stars' wishes. But she longed to be with Ray. She was even starting to understand what the lovers down on Earth were talking about when they made wishes on her.

She was watching when it happened, of course. Ray had asked her to help him with Tiana and Naveen, and she had helped Ray's light to grow bright enough to destroy the shadows. She'd wanted to scream to Ray to watch out for Dr. Facilier, to get him to realize that he needed to turn around, but there was no way to do it. She couldn't even look away as the evil voodoo man stepped on her beloved.

She was watching the funeral not long after, nearly driving herself mad with questions. Could she have done something to save him? Could her magic of helped him in anyway? Was it really true that he was gone?

That was when something strange and wonderful occurred. Ray's body was enveloped by light, and it started racing through the sky, in Evangeline's direction.

"Evangeline?" She'd never heard a voice so close to her before, and she was so happy that it was Ray's. "Is that you, cherie?"

"Yes. Yes, it is!" She replied. "Is that you Ray?"

The new star chuckled in delight. "Well of course. You didn't think even death would stop ole Ray from bein' with his Evangeline, now did you?" A part of Ray, a light beam of his own star, extended towards her. She reached out her own ray of light towards him, effectively holding hands. "We can be together now. Forever, if you want."

"Yes," Evangeline said, happier than she could have ever imagined herself to be. "I do want that."