Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, between episodes 7 and 8

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Claire and Deputy Emma Swan talked a little more as Mrs. Kensington tried to explain the situation. Emma listened intently as she was told that Valerie thought she was a fairy, her mother was Queen Clarion and Tina was Tinker Bell.

"Tinker Bell?" Emma asked incredulously? "As in Peter Pan and Captain Hook?"

"Yeah," Claire answered. "If it wasn't happening to me I would think it would be silly." Claire then vented her worries that she was going to lose her daughter forever to this head trauma. "I can't live like this. She's my baby, my girl. She doesn't even remember who I am. Or herself."

"Yeah, lot of that going on around here," Emma said under her breath.

Ms. Swan thought about David Nolan and his lost memories. He got them back, but for a few days it was like he was whole different person. This, though, was more extreme. David only lost his memories, he was like a blank slate. Valerie Kensington thought she was someone completely different. A different person, a different species and from a different time. AND she seemed to believe that her mother and sister were different people, too.

"Dr. Whale wants to consult with Dr. Hopper to find out what's happened," Claire told her. "I hope they can fix this. I want my Valerie back."

Emma could sympathize. "I'm sure he'll do everything he can," Emma said, trying to offer any type of comfort to the distressed widow and mother of two. The deputy then had to depart. She had a routine to perform today, which included patrols and the usual daily paperwork.

~O~

Answers were not readily forthcoming for Vidia. She continually asked about the current time period and many of the answers she was given had no meaning to her. During a conversation with the queen, she heard a ringing sound. Clarion took a small, black box from her shirt pocket, flipped it open and started to talk to it. It was like she was having a conversation with the slim box.

When she asked what the queen was doing, Tinker Bell said, "Mom, is talking on the phone with someone."

"Somebody lives in that tiny box?" Vidia asked her in return. Tinker Bell assured her that no one lived in the box. Another person had a phone and was talking into it. "Mom" as Tinker Bell kept referring to the queen, was simply holding a conversation with that other person who was somewhere else in Storybrooke.

This made absolutely no sense to Vidia whatsoever. "Why do you keep calling her 'Mom?' She's not our mother. That's Queen Clarion, ruler of the never fairies."

"Aw, c'mon, Val, don't be that way. She's our mother, yours and mine," Tinker Bell replied.

"Both of us?" Vidia knew that Queen Clarion typically acted motherly to all of the fairies of Pixie Hollow. But no one would dare call her Mom or mother or any such variation of the word.

"Yeah, both of us. Why do you think I keep calling you 'sis,' Val? You're my big sister." These were the same answers she had been getting. Never once a variation. Somehow, someone as controlling Tinker Bell and Queen Clarion. Making them believe they were someone else. And acting like someone else. At least, that was how it seemed to Vidia.

Vidia then began to probe her "history" as Valerie. First, if she had a "mother" then did she have a "father," as well?

"Yeah, Charles Valentine Kensington," Tink answered. "You were named for him."

"Okay, so where is he? Why isn't he here with us?" Vidia thought she had Tinker Bell cornered. A way to finally get through to her.

"He died eight years ago of a heart attack," Tink replied.

Well, now that was awfully convenient, Vidia thought. "So what is Queen Clarion's name?"

"You mean Mom? Claire Angelica Davis Kensington."

"And you?"

"Christina Margaret Whitman Kensington. And you are Valerie Segall Kensington."

"Segall?"

"Yeah, that was grandma's maiden name?"

"We have a grandmother?"

"We did. All of our grandparents are dead now. They were very old."

"Did they live here?"

"No they lived in…, they lived in… I have no idea where they used to live. Maybe Mom does."

When Clarion stopped talking to her little box, she flipped it closed and put it back into her shirt pocket.
"Hey, Mom," Tinker Bell called out to her. "Where did your mother and father live? Valerie wants to know."

The queen was about to respond when she got a strange look on her face. "I don't remember," she said. "I must be getting old."

Vidia found this to be quite strange. They should have remembered, but didn't. Neither of them did. The fast flyer turned human then asked other questions about her new home. Mostly the answers given to her were of the kind that assumed she knew what Tink and the queen were talking about. That was going to be a major problem. They were assuming she was from this time frame and that she could understand their strange language. She didn't.

~O~

The fast flyer finally had to stop their conversing when she had a need. "Where is the outhouse?" she asked.

"Uh…, you mean the bathroom? I'll show you," Tink said. Clarion flagged down someone who removed the funny vines from her chest. The tube that dripped water into her arm, however, remained.

"What about this?"

"Oh, just take it with you. Remember not to let it sag too much," were all the instructions she received.

Tink helped her out of the bed and led her down the hall. Her bare feet could still feel the cold from the floor. She was taking to a door. "There you go," Tink said to her.

Vidia peered inside and she saw the toilet within this tiny room that was inside the hospital. "It's this supposed to be outside?" she asked. In Pixie Hollow, outhouses were always outdoors. The terrible stench was always overpowering, so they were kept far from any gathering places, work areas and living communities. The latrine was typically a large hole dug into the ground with a small house built atop it for privacy. This one, however, was inside the building.

When Vidia stepped inside, she saw a bowl with water standing from the floor. She understood the basic mechanics of the flip down seat, but why the water or a bowl? On the other side was a basin, but there was no water in it. If anything in this room should have held the water it was the basin, not this strange floor mounted bowl.

"Uh…, how do I use this?"

Tinker Bell's facial expression said you've got to be kidding? "Please tell me you know how to use a toilet, because I'm not going to demonstrate that."

"Why is there water in this thing?" Vidia asked. "The water should be in the basin for washing hands, not here in this…, whatever that is."

"Here, you use it like this." Tinker Bell walked into the small room, stepped up to the bowl and pushed down a lever that was just above it. When she did, a powerful whooshing sound filled the space. Water jetted out from under the edges of the bowl and it began to fill.

"It's coming up!" Vidia yelped. "It'll be all over the floor, do something!"

Tinker Bell just face palmed.

Vidia looked on in amazement as the water suddenly began to drop and after a couple of gurgles it disappeared into the bottom before filling to mid-level again. "Where did it go?"

"Down the drain," Tink answered.

"Drain? Where does that go?"

"To the sewer," Tink said sounding exasperated, "you should know this." She then turned to the wash basin and turned one of the handles. Water came from the spigot. No priming or pumping was needed. It just came pouring out. "Right is cold water, left is hot."

"Hot? How does it get hot?"

Tinker Bell just rolled her eyes. "And there is the hand dryer on the wall. Put your hands under it when you're done washing and it will dry your hands for you."

Vidia stared at the funny, white box that hung from the wall. "How does it do that?"

"You'll find out," Tink said, sounding irritated. She then demonstrated a small button on the doorknob. "This locks the door. Turn the lever and it will unlock it. Anything else?" she asked, frustration badly hidden in her vocal tones.

"Yeah, what is that sound from the ceiling? It sounds like-." Tinker Bell just rolled her eyes, exited the room and closed the door behind her.

"Don't forget to lock the door," Tink yelled.

Okay, push the little button on the lever, Vidia reminded herself. After a couple of failed attempts, the small button clicked and locked the door. The fast flyer turned human just eyed the strange water filled bowl. She sighed and went about her business. A roll of paper hung from the wall to her left. Large, silver metal bars were mounted on the wall to either side of her. What are these for? she asked herself. They certainly seemed sturdy when she took hold of them.

Vidia had barely been awake for a few scant hours and already she had had a full day. A nerve wracking, fear filled and thoroughly unpleasant day.

It suddenly got worse. A glint of light caught her eye and she looked down to investigate. There was a shiny, metal something stuck to her stomach. Vidia thought it might have been another one of those funny vines the nurse said monitored her heart. She tried to pull it off, but the pain was searing. Almost as if it were stuck into her. She took a closer look. It was stuck into her. It was clasped to her…, to her…, something on her stomach.

When she looked up, she saw her own reflection in the mirrored glass on the wall across from her. She could see something that wasn't right. She put her hands to face and found what it was.

~O~

Tina waited just the other side of the door. She was exasperated. Her own sister didn't even know how to use a bathroom. "How weird is that?" she grumbled.

Moments later she heard Valerie through the door. She was screaming at the top of her lungs. Tina grabbed the door handle, but it was locked. "Unlock the door," she yelled. She pounded on the wall and yelled again. "Unlock the door, Valerie. Let me in."

The door clicked open, Tina ran inside. "What's wrong, what happened?"

"Why are there holes in my face?" Valerie yelled, on the verge of tears. "There are holes all over my face. And one in my tongue and there are these things in my bosom and my stomach and down by the naughty place."

"Naughty place?"

"Down there!" Valerie loudly whispered, pointing down to where her legs joined to her trunk.

Tink looked over the places Valerie told her. Her older sister had piercings in her nipples, a belly button ring and one near her crotch.

"How did all this metal get on me?" Valerie asked, sounding frightened.

"Uh, you put it there," Tina answered. "At a tattoo parlor, most likely."

"I did no such thing, now get it off of me!"

"Okay, okay, let me call someone to help."

"Tink, why can't you do it? I don't want some human touching me in these places."

"Okay, okay. I'll call Mom."

"That's even worse." On top of her fear of what this Valerie had done to her person, now she was to be humiliated before her very own queen. Could her day get any worse?

~O~

Emma was patrolling the town when her mind stuck on something. She went back a few weeks to when she was investigating Ashley's break-in at Mr. Gold's pawn shop. Henry had told her that Tina Kensington looked like Tinker Bell to him. Now here was Valerie Kensington, the older sibling, claiming that Tina was indeed Tinker Bell. The one introduced in the novels of J. M. Barrie and made famous in the popular Walt Disney animated film of the 1950's. It was an unbelievable coincidence.

Tina was hardly the sassy, vindictive type that Emma remembered from the film. That Tink tried to trick the Lost Boys into killing Wendy Darling. Tina Kensington was the epitome of sugar and spice and everything nice. She was sweet, innocent and loved her family whole heartedly. Valerie, on the other hand, hated her mother and seemed to want to hurt poor Claire at every chance she got. Emma was left wondering whether this was just another attempt at breaking her mother's heart. A well thought out plan of revenge for feeling slighted.

It then occurred to Emma that if she brought this information to Henry's attention it would only reinforce his absurd belief in the curse. The one his adopted mother, the mayor of Storybrooke, supposedly cast in another realm bringing all the fairy tale characters to Maine and robbing them of their memories.

"Why Maine, anyway?" she muttered. "Why not Wyoming or London or Outer Mongolia for that matter?"

It was Emma's hope to eventually convince Henry that his curse theory was just his imagination at work. Or at the very least that he would eventually grow out of this phase and abandon his theory. Ms. Swan thus decided it was best not to tell Henry about Valerie Kensington. Without realizing, she had denied Vidia the one thing she needed more than anything else right now. An ally.

This is the fiftieth chapter in this story. A milestone of sorts. Thank you to everyone who has been a loyal reader thus far. Your devotion is much appreciated.

Okay, so where did I get those middle names?

For Claire / Queen Clarion: Angelica for Angelica Huston, the actress who voices Queen Clarion. Davis for Marc Davis (1913 - 2000), the lead animator for Tinker Bell in Walt Disney's animated classic film and one of Walt's "Nine Old Men."

For Tina / Tinker Bell: Margaret for Margaret Kerry, the actress / model used by animators for Tinker Bell in the film Peter Pan. Whitman for Mae Whitman, the actress who voices Tinker Bell in the CGI films.

For Valerie / Vidia: Segall for Pamela Fionna Segall Adlon. Segall is the maiden name for Pamela Adlon who voices Vidia in the current films.