A/N: Thanks for all the support the past few days, everyone! I really appreciate it and it makes me want to keep writing. Any suggestions you all might have feel free to toss my way! As always, I do not own the OUAT characters.
Vicky's daughters, Katie and Lauren, were angels who giggled quietly at Snow's technological incompetence as they showed her how to work everything from the microwave to the TV. Her small exclamations of surprise and delight only made them giggle all the more, and they watched her with the same fascination that she had as she watched TV.
Snow's eyes were wide and fixed on the large, square screen. She jumped back, startled, as a loud noise emanated from it and then glanced at the girls. "Did you see that?" She exclaimed excitedly. "How does it work? And you can watch anything?"
"Yes." Lauren giggled.
"Is it real people? I mean, are they really doing these things?"
"Sometimes." Katie spoke up. "It depends on what you're watching. But not this show. They're just acting."
Snow nodded, happy to understand at least one thing about this strangely wonderful magic. "Like a play," She determined, and both girls nodded.
The girls flipped through the channels to show her a few more shows, skipping past an animated movie. "Wait, wait, go back, please." Snow urged.
Lauren did as she was asked and rolled her eyes. "Oh, that's just Snow White. It's a really old Disney movie. Pretty boring, too." Snow, whose head had swiveled toward the young girl at the sound of her real name, turned back to look at the screen. The young woman wasn't real—"It's a cartoon, Mary Margaret"—and she resembled Snow only a little bit. The dress she wore was one that she'd never seen and the songs, well. Snow didn't sing, especially not when she cleaned. She did giggle the slightest bit at the woman who was supposedly Regina. She didn't think Regina would take too kindly to her movie portrayal, though their scowls were nearly identical.
"How…" She began, confused. "How did they make this movie? How did they know everything?"
"Oh, that's easy. It's a fairy tale. You know, a story for little kids."
Snow nodded slowly, taking in this information. Her life was a story and a movie for children, and not a very accurate one. "Are there other stories?" She asked.
Katie nodded and ran up the stairs easily, the little girls here could wear whatever they like and she wasn't hindered by a dress, returning a minute later with a large, leather-bound book in her hand. The words Once Upon A Time were spelled out in ornate gold lettering. Snow flipped through the pages, looking through all of them. Most were inaccurate, based on the lives of her friends and others that she knew, but they all ended with a happy ending. She found her eyes tearing up when she got to her own story with Charming. Though the facts were wrong, the love remained, and the longing that she felt for him that she had been able to push back due to her shock of this new world quickly came flooding back.
She quickly shut the book and handed it to the young girl. "Thank you."
"You know," Katie piped up. "You kinda look like her."
Snow flushed nervously, a hand going to her stomach as it often did during when she was nervous. "Who?" She asked, though she knew who Katie meant.
"Snow White. Your hair is a little longer, but my mom says you came from the woods." She giggled, looking at Snow's dirt stained nightgown that she had yet to change out of. "Is an Evil Queen after your heart, too?"
She almost said "not anymore". Instead, she forced herself to give a little laugh. "No," She assured Katie. "She isn't." Just after my daughter and my entire kingdom.