Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon a Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 5, Chapter 3

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Once Clarence pulled down the tent and secured it, he and Tina drove back to the playground. There they sat in the backseat doing actual studying. Her upcoming test had, in fact, already passed. Her grade was an "A" as usual. But she knew to keep her grades that high she couldn't stop doing what got her that "A". Her attraction to Clarence, however, was so strong she couldn't deny herself any longer. That was why they had been making out.

"Tina," he asked her. "I'm not changing my mind, but why are you doing this? Why do you want to have sex so soon?"

"I told you, I want to live my life sooner than later," she replied.

"I think there is something else going on in your life," he said. "You can trust me."

Tina sighed. "I hate living with my sister," she said. "After Dad died she started changing, acting more and more nuts. My mother latched on to me to be her anchor. To keep her stable when everything else around her was falling down."

"Well that's a good thing. She depends on you. I don't understand why…?"

"My mother doesn't want to let me grow up," she finally admitted. "In her eyes I'll always be that sweet little girl who used to say 'I wuv you mummy.' I've been forced into being her perfect little angel every time she gets stressed so she can feel stronger. But I'm not eight years old anymore. I'm sixteen going on seventeen. She is making me feel stressed."

"It sounds like your problem is more with your mother than your sister."

Tina didn't want to admit it, but Clarence was right. It was less difficult to blame her sister than her mother. Her mother had always been good and kind to her, just overprotective and overbearing. "I want to grow up now."

"Why have sex to grow up?" he asked her. "Why not talk to your mother?"

"Because she won't listen to me. I tell her I'm growing up, and she says 'of course you are,' but Mom doesn't change. Did you know she's still reading bed time stories to me? Last week Mom figured out how to use the parental controls for our cable TV service. Instead of Dexter, I get Dora the Explorer. That show is for babies. I was hoping Mom would help me grow up, guide me and offer advice. Now I have to do it all on my own."

Clarence took her hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "I won't let you down. I'll give you the best first time a girl ever had."

She smiled. "Thanks, Clarence."

He just couldn't turn away a damsel in distress. Especially one as nice as Tina.

~O~

At the mine Emma was soon joined by Graham, Regina and the town's emergency services and engineers. Workmen had begun to remove debris to gain access to the mine, but by removing the support more of the ceiling collapsed.

This gave cause to both Emma and Regina to start arguing again. Ms. Swan accused Regina of forcing Henry to prove himself. Regina blamed Emma for encouraging him to believe in fairy tales. Soon both ladies realized that bickering was doing them no good. It was wasting valuable time that Henry did not have.

They started discussing ways to remove the debris quickly.

Marco suggested explosives.

~O~

Down in the tunnels, Henry shined his light down a shaft and reported that he saw something reflecting in the light. Archie, however, begged Henry to stop.

"Why? Because you think I'm crazy?" Henry replied.

"No, because I'm afraid for you, Henry. Were stuck inside a mineshaft with a collapsed tunnel and now we have no way out," Archie answered firmly.

Henry had shown almost no fear in going inside the abandoned mine. For the first time he felt afraid for his life and for Archie's. The boy had put himself and his friend in mortal danger. The two starting looking for another exit. They followed the sound of Pongo's barking and found an old mine shaft elevator. With no electricity to power it, they turned a large wheel to operate it manually.

Outside the mine city engineers surveyed the collapsed tunnel and found the best place to set their explosives. When everyone was clear of danger the dynamite was set off. The explosion raised a huge cloud of smoke and dust.

The shockwave from the explosion left the elevator car stuck in the mine shaft. Archie and the boy were no trapped in that rickety elevator.

When the smoke cleared around the mine entrance the engineers discovered that the tunnel had only collapsed further. Suddenly they were without options.

PIXIE HOLLOW, NEVER LAND (The Late Victorian era on the Mainland)

With the Pixie Dust Tree threatened, the fairies of Pixie Hollow raced to protect their special tree with blankets. But the tiny covers made from leaves were too small and easily blown away by the strong chill wind. It seemed hopeless.

The secret, it turned out, was frost. Tinker Bell figured this out when a flower Periwinkle had frosted didn't wilt under the extreme cold that was racing in. Flying into the Winter Woods, Tink found her sister who shared the secrets of the frost. Soon every frost talent fairy was on the warm side and putting down a protective layer on every plant and tree in the warm seasons.

After the freeze passed by and the seasons began to reassert themselves back into balance, Clarion and Milori revoked the border law. Since frosting the trees and plants saved them from the cold, it was theorized that frost could offer protecting to the wings of warm fairies who wanted to venture into the Winter Woods. It proved to be a correct hypothesis and soon warm fairies were visiting their friends and guild mates on the cold side of Pixie Hollow.

Rescinding the old law also allowed Queen Clarion and Lord Milori to rekindle their old love affair. One that had been interrupted centuries earlier. "Oh if we only knew," she told him. "How many years we have wasted away from each other."

"Don't focus on what we've lost, my dear," he told her. "Think about what we have gained."

Indeed, Tinker Bell's foolhardiness had ushered in a new era for Pixie Hollow. No one had to be afraid of losing a wing anymore. New friendships and romances were formed and the sisterly bond between Tink and Peri only deepened.

Rosetta, the garden fairy was admiring herself in the reflection of the ice when a handsome winter sparrow man introduced himself. "Hi, my name is Sled," he told her.

"Ohmygoshthatsperfect," she blurted out before catching herself. "Ooh, my name's Rosetta."

Vidia and Spike, one of the frost fairies who shared a similar cynical attitude, became good friends.

Bobble, a scrawny, redheaded tinker sparrow man brought a huge acorn to the hyperactive frost fairy Gliss, beginning a friendship that would morph into a romantic relationship.

Clarion and Milori smiled. "Yes, you are right, my love," she told him. "We have gained so much today."

While the other fairies and sparrow men played in the snow, Milori pulled Clarion aside. The two monarchs disappeared into the forest. They arrived at a frozen pond some distance away from the festivities. There on a rock next to the iced over pond was a picnic basket and a bottle of fairy wine.

"Oh, Milori, you shouldn't have," she breathed in anticipation. The Lord of Winter sat Clarion in his lap where he favored here with fruits and pastries made by the baking guild. After a lovely repast, they remained in each other's embrace, looking up at the sky. They watched clouds float lazily by.

"That looks like a mouse," she said pointing to one cloud.

A moment later he replied with, "That one looks like a snowy owl."

Clarion pointed to another cloud and said, "That one over there looks like a dragonfly."

"And that one," Milori instantly replied, "looks like two lovers ice skating."

"Where?"

Milori smiled playfully at her.

"…oh. I would love to." Helping the queen don a pair of ice skates (paper clips tied to her fairy shoes), Milori started to teach Clarion how to skate.

"It's not that unlike water skating," Milori said. "But you don't have use your wings."

"Well, I can't… keep… my balance," she told him.

"Then hold on to me, my love." Milori put one arm around her waist and took her hand in his free hand. She put her free arm around his strong body. Together they skated slowly across the isolated pond. She laid her head against his chest. Soon they were embracing each other. For the first time in a millennia they could once gain feel their hearts beat as one.

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Claire drove to the playground, but couldn't find her daughter at the picnic tables. She exited her truck and started looking around desperately.

"Mom!" Tina called. "Mom, over here!"

Claire found her baby girl sitting in the back seat of some horrible looking vehicle that reminded Claire of an old AMC Gremlin. "What are you doing?" she asked.

"It's cold out there," Tina answered. "Don't worry, we've been studying."

THOOOM! Another shockwave rocked the town, this one wasn't anywhere near as strong as the first, but it caught everyone's attention just the same.

"What was that?" Tina asked.

"It came from that old mine shaft," Claire answered. "I'm going to take a look, they might need some help. Clarence, take her home."

Claire jumped back into her truck and drove out towards the collapsed mine. Clarence did as instructed and took Tina home. First they stopped at Granny's for a lite dinner.

~O~

At the hospital Mary Margaret was helping David Nolan with his physical therapy, keeping him company while he walked across the hospital grounds. Normally, someone from the hospital staff would accompany him, but the incident at the mine kept people busy. Mary Margaret, who volunteered regularly at the hospital, was willing to help.

"I feel like I woke up in a strange land," he told her as they strolled through the pastoral hospital grounds. He said that nothing felt very real except what he felt for Mary Margaret. Kathryn Nolan was trying to help him remember his former life, but none of it was coming back. Of course, he didn't tell Kathryn that. He acted like he remembered their old dog, Ajax. "Who names a dog Ajax?" he said.

That was when Mrs. Nolan showed up with cranberry muffins that she had baked for him. She was so loving to David that he couldn't disappoint her. Mary Margaret knew when to take her leave and walked away so Kathryn and David could be together

"See you tomorrow?" David asked her. She smiled back, but didn't give an answer.

~O~

Pongo, Archie's dog kept barking. Regina, Graham and the town's engineers couldn't find another way into the collapsed mine. But Emma had a sneaking suspicion and let Pongo out of the fire truck. He instantly ran to a spot of bare ground and started barking and pawing at it. Town workers cleared some of the dirt away and found a large metal sheet covering a rusty grate. It was an old mineshaft for an elevator.

With more onlookers arriving every minute, attracted by the explosion, they watched as Billy, Ruby and Marco used the two truck to remove the heavy grate. It was decided that someone had to go down there and look for Henry and Archie. It was the only way in or out. Regina wanted to go, but Emma got the nod. Regina had been driving a desk for ten years while Emma was more physically fit for the task.

"Bring my son back to me," Regina pleaded.

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