Chapter 3: Sister´s Reunion
Riley turned her gaze, Jennifer was there, she didn´t know if being excited by the fact of having one of her favorite actresses in front of her or run panic because she may have heard all she said. Riley got frozen, Jen would think that she is crazy and who knows, maybe she would call security or do something worse, she already had too many problems to think about, like the simple fact that she had escaped their parents, to worry about this, so she just took a deep breath and said, "Please do not call security".
Jennifer thought for a few seconds, clearly she didn´t know what to answer, she stopped to analyze Riley in detail, dubiously first, but then it was a more familiar look that turn into a smile, and she answered "I won´t call security, don´t worry, but with a small condition...
"Sure!" Interrupting Riley said, partly to gain time, because of the tiny fear she had of hearing what Jen would say next. Jennifer Morrison invited her to take a hot cocoa while she asked her some questions, Riley knew it was wrong to drink or eat things given by strangers and even worse answer them questions but she had some confidence in her, and technically she wasn´t a stranger, she was her sister. They sat and drank a delicious hot chocolate with cinnamon, this was optional but both love it.
Jen didn´t know how to do this, usually she was who refused to believe while others lectured her with the hope, "and if it´s not her, what if this is just my imagination?" she asked herself, so instead of doing this by her way, she did it by Riley´s, and she just said, "Ok, there´s some information hard to understand that I must tell you, do you want the short version or the long one?" Riley obviously preferred the long one, because that one let her understand more and she would end without any doubt, but this had already been sufficiently uncomfortable and honestly this was scary for her, she had never strayed so far from her family and it was getting dark, so hesitantly she said "the short version", Jennifer prepared and started ...
"I imagine you're a oncer, well… everything shown in the program is real, a spell occurred, and all of us were transported here, everyone lost their memories, except me, I know it sounds crazy but you were saying something similar, and I think you also believe, but how?"
(New York 2002)
It was a very shining morning from the window of her apartment in Manhattan. Jennifer opened her eyes and looked all around, she didn´t know what had happened, it was a place so different but so familiar too. The last thing she remembered was that smoke covering the entire city, and she was now in a department! "perhaps it had all been a dream" she thought, however, she went to the principal room and saw a letter, her curiosity won and she opened the envelope. The letter had about 2 paragraphs of information, but something else caught her attention before reading, there was a section that said "Cast" where the faces of all her family were, "Is this a joke?" she wondered, "maybe at the end the spell didn´t took our memories, and we were all worried about anything", she thought, and was going to read the letter when the bell rang.
They were Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, and before Jen even consider open up, they entered.
-Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz: Good day, we are here cause you may be confused, we didn´t decide to keep your memories, this is part of your punishment here, no one remembers what happened yesterday, much less who you are, we ask you to please don´t go around trying to save the world, because here you are not a savior and this curse will never be broken, so we invite you, like the others, to play yourself in our successful new program called OUAT and pretend not to remember, now you are just a famous actress living in this luxurious building in the heart of New York, and if you don´t like the idea you´ll have the worst live, so you decide
-Jennifer Morrison: And if I don´t want to? I won´t lose hope!
-Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz: Then you leave us no choice, you'll be locked in a filthy dungeon where you will never see the light of day, so as we already said, your choice dear, by hook or by crook. You used to live in this world, so you know how it is, on your computer is your new email where we will send you all the information you should know about your false identity, if you want to make the smart decision, confirm us this afternoon or we´ll take it as a yes, goodbye Miss Morrison.
Both responded arrogantly and closed the door.
-Riley: It's hard to explain but it's all true and I´m your sister.
-Jennifer: So it's true, you were that person that my parents mentioned.
-Riley: What person, what are you talking about?
-Jennifer: Seconds before the spell happen, I apologize to them for not being able to save them but they told me "don´t worry there´s someone else who will" and all these years I have been asking myself what does that meant, but a sister?! How´s that possible, if mom was never pregnant?
-Riley: Well, I really can´t answer that question but it's true, I don´t know how but I'm your sister.
-Jennifer: The superpower!
-Riley: What are you talking about?
-Jennifer: That super power that makes you know when someone lies and when something is true, you also have it, don´t you?
-Riley: Yeah! I do! it's like a premonition.
-Jennifer: Exactly!
Suddenly there was a silence, but of those that are worthwhile; both smiled, they used to feel quite incomplete and didn´t know why, but now it was pretty clear. This was the best sister's reunion, now they knew they had a sister in which trust, after talking a while and catch up, both decided to do something to break the curse. This was a new beginning, the beginning of a new operation, " Operation Peacock ".
Jennifer didn´t know what to do, she checked her mail and began to read a couple of pages, her life seemed to be nice but boring in comparison of the great adventures she had in Storybrooke and other worlds, also she missed her family with all her soul, just the fact of being so close to them but couldn´t tell the truth was all torture.
The doorbell rang again, "who could be?" she asked herself annoyingly, after that visit of Ed and Adam she didn´t want to see more people, but courteously she replied:
-Jennifer: Who it is?
-Julia: It's me, Julia, open the door, I forget the keys.
-Jennifer: Sorry, I don´t know any Julia, who are you?
-Julia: Enough! is not fun, I have hurry.
Jennifer checked her mail, surely this was another silly Ed and Adam idea. The paper said it was her sister, now not only she had to read that thing, she needed to memorize it in seconds to not scare Julia that had such a memory of being her sister for more than 30 years.
-Julia: Are you okay? Why don´t you want to open?
-Jennifer: Yeah, I´m fine, I'm going.
-Julia: Oh, you're busy, sorry for interrupting you two, I´m going for a walk. Jennifer, HALF AN HOUR.
Jennifer confused and simultaneously repulsed by the misunderstanding replied:
-Jennifer: No, no, it's not that, is that ...
Jennifer opens the door and Julia enters in a hurry, goes to the computer and throws her sack to the floor.
-Julia: What´s this? Now are you writing your biography?
-Jennifer: No, it is ... It is my resume! Yes, my resume! for the new program.
Julia looks up the name in the computer and turns dubiously, when she sees a letter in the coffee table.
-Julia: Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz? So that´s why you have been so strange since I arrived. Did they offer you a role? Congratulations! They are very good writers; I´m sure that this will take your career to a new level.
-Jennifer: Exactly! So I couldn´t opened because I was reading this.
-Julia: Don´t worry, this is worth it, let me read the letter.
Julia takes the letter and carefully begins to read, Jennifer is relieved that everything went well, she barely knew Julia but seemed to be a nice person and however she would have to live with her so she decided to give her a chance, never before she had laid a sister, this was interesting for her.
-Riley: So Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis are the villains?
-Jennifer: Yes, they are the ones who casted this curse.
-Riley: Always doubt them.
Jennifer smiled, apparently having a smaller sister was nice, it was like when Henry and she used to talk about the operation cobra, except that this time they could discuss things of girls.
-Riley: I have an idea!
-Jennifer: What, what idea?
-Riley: Remember when in the program Once Upon a Time Rumpelstilstkin heard the name of Emma and his memory came back?
-Jennifer: Yeah, right. It's my story.
-Riley: Well, why don´t we go with Robert Carlyle and say him my name, so he may remember and help us, of course if it´s necessary, we don´t know if in the end remains a villain.
-Jennifer: Don´t worry, for now we can rely on.
-Riley: Okay, so what do you think?
-Jennifer: It's an excellent idea, the more people east of us, better.
-Riley: Well, tomorrow morning. First day of Operation Peacock.