Disney's Tinker Bell in Storybrooke
A Disney Fairies / Once Upon A Time Crossover
Season 1, Episode 12, Chapter 3

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

"Well, what do you think?" Penny asked.

Tina was absolutely astonished. "Whoa! They're awesome. Where did you get the idea for these?"

"From your sister," Penny answered. "She kept going on about how you were supposed to be Tinker Bell and I was supposed to be your sister Periwinkle so I searched the internet, grabbed some images from those CGI movies and took them to a friend who designed them."

"Wait, you mean there really is a Periwinkle?"

"Yeah, in the next movie," Penny told her. "There is already tons of promotional material on the Disney website." Penny showed her friend an image she had printed. The Periwinkle character was slender with white hair and wore blue colored clothing. "She is supposed to be a frost fairy from the Winter Woods and wants to see butterflies. In the story Tinker Bell is mysteriously drawn to the Winter Woods where she discovers she has a sister named Periwinkle."

Tina was struck by that. "Isn't that what Valerie has been saying all along?"

"Uh huh. Funny how she knew, isn't it?"

Tina looked back towards the room where Valerie was busy playing the racing game. "Downright scary."

Penny handed the green dress to her friend. "Here, check this out."

Tina took her green Tinker Bell costume and looked it over. Penny pointed out the level of detail that had been added to the costume. "See? In the movie the animators put in all these little veins from the leaf Tink used to make her dress. So the seamstress I talked to did the same thing. This thread that runs through the material is just a few shades lighter and replicates the effect almost perfectly. Isn't that awesome?"

"Oh, wow. Now that is attention to detail," Tina replied, completely amazed. Penny then presented the blue dress and leggings for the Periwinkle character.

"And look, just like yours you can see the veins in the blue leaves in this costume, too." Then Penny brought out two sets of fairy wings. Most fairy wings made for costuming are small and tend to be made of a light fabric. The wings which accompanied these costumes were of the correct proportions and were constructed with a nearly invisible material that was strung on a wire frame and then ornately decorated with the same pattern. Penny explained that being sisters both Tinker Bell and Periwinkle shared the same wing pattern.

She then showed off the harnesses for both which were made from clear plastic mesh so the colors underneath could show through and not destroy the overall effect. This was especially true of the Tinker Bell costume which was designed exactly as it was in the movies. Spirit gum was necessary to keep the front falling down.

When Tina saw the completed costumes, her jaw just dropped.

"This is just too much. Even the wings look spectacular," Tina gasped. "Oh how I wish we could have gone to that convention. These would have been the hit of the show."

"Yeah. Though I heard from a friend there was another Tinker Bell in attendance. Her costume wasn't as good as this, though," Penny informed her friend. "Oh, and she was really fat, too."

The two girls stared at each other as they both contemplated a fat Tinker Bell in a tiny green dress.

"Eww!" they said together.

Tina was admiring these incredible reproduction outfits when she had an idea. "Hey, want to put these on and prank my sister?"

Penny beamed with delight. "Absolutely!"

~O~

"Hey, guys, the novice level is getting pretty easy," Vidia mentioned while a game was in progress. "How do I change the difficulty?"

Silence. Unbeknownst to her, both Penny and Tina in their respective costumes took their positions right behind the sofa where Valerie was sitting.

"Guys?"

"Right behind you, sis," Tina finally answered. "We've got something to show you. Turn around."

"DYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Startled, Vidia leapt from the couch nearly flipping the steering wheel over. Standing in the room were Tina and Penny dressed as Tinker Bell and Periwinkle, respectively.

"It's you. Both of you. How? Did you get your memories back? Do you finally remember who you are? Wait. How did you get your fairy clothes? …wait a minute."

The two young girls tried to remain composed, but both quickly crumbled into fits of giggles. They apologized for surprising Valerie with the costumes. "No, this what we were going to wear to that video game convention," Penny explained.

"Well? What do you think?" Tina asked.

"Wh-What do I think? I think you two look like yourselves. And it's about time."

"Oh hey, why don't we stand back to back," Tina suggested, giving Penny a knowing wink.

"YES! Yes you should," Vidia answered eagerly. "It will prove what I've been saying all along."

Tina and Penny had worked out their little prank. They were going to stand back to back and pretend they had felt something. Then slowly they were going to turn the entire thing into a farce. But when the two girls actually stood back to back and touched they actually did feel something. A jolt that surprised them and which made them jump from the unexpected sensation.

"Jeepers!" they cried simultaneously. Tina and Penny stared at each other in complete disbelief.

"Did you feel that?" Tina asked the other.

"Yeah, did you?" Penny replied.

"What was that?" Tina asked.

"That's because you're sisters," Vidia tried to explain for the umpteenth time. "You were born from the same laugh."

"No, I think it was just static electricity," Penny deduced, casually throwing out a reasonable explanation like one of the agents from The X-Files.

Tina looked relieved. "Yeah, that's all that it was. Static electricity. But still. It was the two of us, and it happened just like Valerie said."

"And while wearing the costumes," Penny added with a touch of disquiet to her voice.

"And you don't have any carpeting," Tina observed.

"Yeah, to prevent static electri-. Uh oh!"

The two girls once again stared at the other, both sharing the same thought. "Oh this is getting spooky!" Penny said.

"It was just a coincidence," Tina remarked. "It has to be."

"Yeah, the costumes don't have anything to do with it," Penny concluded.

"It could have been anything."

"Exactly, there has to be a reasonable, scientific explanation for this event."

"Funny thing, when I felt that spark I could have sworn I saw snow," Tina replied.

"What?! I could have sworn I saw butterflies!" Penny nervously told her.

"Of course you did," Vidia told the girls. "Tink, you were drawn to the Winter Woods to find Periwinkle. Peri, you were desperate to go into the warm seasons to see butterflies."

They paused and looked at each other, shock and anxiety overtaking them.

"I'm getting out this costume," Tina blurted, making a mad dash for the other room.

"I'm right behind you," Penny said, following closely.

"It's not the clothing," Vidia yelled. "You two are sisters. Hey, what about the driving game?"

~O~

THE ENCHANTED FOREST

Belle was walking through the forest along the roadside when the queen's carriage approached. Everything about it was black: the carriage, the horses even the knights who protected it were all dressed in black armor. The entire entourage was meant to frighten and intimidate. Regina had even taken to wearing nothing but the darkest ebony colored dresses. Most who lived here saw it as a reflection of the queen's dark and evil heart. She said or did nothing to dispel that notion.

Belle stood aside to the let the caravan pass her by. She wanted nothing to do with the queen. However, Regina's carriage stopped. "I'm sorry, did I splash you?" Regina asked?

The day had been rainy and puddles were found all along the road.

"No," Belle answered. Regina decided to accompany the young woman on foot. The carriage and escorts followed closely behind. As they walked Regina could see in Belle's face that she had a problem.

"Master or lover?"

Belle said nothing, but the look on her face said it all.

"Oh…, master and lover."

It was complicated, the girl explained. She was actually running away. Belle had fallen in love with her captor, but she could not stay with him. A terrible evil had taken root within the man, it had changed him.

Regina identified it as a curse. She explained that true love's kiss can break even the strongest curse. But only if he loved her back. Belle thought he did. It was the evil within him that was preventing it from showing through.

Now she was conflicted. Belle wanted to go home, but she was also given the path to helping Rumpelstiltskin redeem himself. Of course, if the kiss did not work she could be trapped there forever.

What a terrible decision she had to make.

~O~

STORYBROOKE, MAINE

Penny and Vidia were now playing the racing game together. The difficulty level had been raised to intermediate at Valerie's request. Tina watched from the recliner. She kept tugging at her brassiere.

"That's the last time I put Spirit Gum on my boobs," she muttered.

Vidia just gave her quizzical look.

"Well how else was I supposed to keep that Tinker Bell dress from falling down," Tina answered. "It's not like it had a strap or anything."

"It always stayed up in Pixie Hollow," Valerie told her.

"How?"

"Force of will?" Penny joked.

"And why do you insist on telling me that I'm Tinker Bell," Tina barked at Valerie.

"Because you are," Vidia stated. "You are Tinker Bell and she is Periwinkle, your sister."

"And what does that make us!?" Tina shouted. "What, you don't want to be my sister anymore? Is that it?"

"No, I-."

"Hey, c'mon guys," Penny said trying to intervene. "We're playing a game, remember?"

Tina wasn't listening. Now she stood and with a twisted scowl on her face began screaming at Vidia. "You never wanted me around! When Mom brought me home you told her to take me back and get a pony. When she didn't you put a sign on the front lawn to sell me off."

"You did that?" Penny asked Valerie.

"That wasn't me," Vidia said in her defense.

"How could you not remember? You hated having me as a sister!" Tina said, screaming even louder. "When I was five you told me a big, ugly monster lived under my bed and that he was going to bite off my toes if I stepped on floor. It took Mom hours to convince me you were lying." Tears began to stream down Tina's cheeks. Her eyes puffed up and her face turned deeper and deeper shades of red.

Vidia and Penny stared in disbelief. Tina had been argumentative before, but this was different. Her tone revealed she was agitated by something neither could understand. Besides, Tina was well aware of Valerie's mental trauma. Something wasn't right, but neither knew what it might be.

"You put gum in my hair when I was six," Tina said, continuing her tear filled verbal assault against Valerie. "You cut it out and left me with big chunks missing. Then you told Mom that I did it. She wouldn't let me near a pair of scissors for a whole year! You put Jell-O in my shoes, short sheeted my bed and you ripped all the heads off of my dolls."

"Tina, are you okay. Is anything wrong?" Penny asked her friend with growing concern.

"She's is what is wrong," Tina said accusingly, pointing at Valerie. "When Dad died I was only eight years old. I couldn't understand why he wasn't coming home. I was too young to fully comprehend the concept of death and I kept asking you and Mom to explain why Dad wasn't there anymore. Do you know what you told me, Valerie? DO YOU? You said I was an annoying little monster who pestered everyone and Dad couldn't put up with anymore, so he left because he didn't want to be around me anymore."

"Whoa! You said that?" Penny asked, turning Valerie.

"What? Tink, what are you talking about?"

"You made me believe my Dad didn't love me anymore," Tina shrieked. "When Mom told me you lied I hated you for it. I hated you because you were so mean. You were mean because you never wanted a little sister then and you don't want a little sister now."

"Tina, I don't think that's what she meant," Penny said trying to calm down the young blonde.

"I! HATE! YOU!" Tina shouted to Valerie, stomping her foot on the ground for emphasis. "You should have run away when you had the chance," Tina said, referencing all the times Valerie had threatened to leave the family and strike out on her own. She then spun around on her heels and ran into the bedroom, crying.

"What was that all about?" Vidia asked. She wasn't expecting an answer. Penny was as much in the dark as she was. Instead, she gave voice to the confusion both were experiencing at that moment. Tina had always been a little sensitive whenever Valerie had mentioned that she and Penny were supposed to be sisters, but this outburst was beyond anything Vidia or Penny had ever expected.

"You stay here and keep practicing," Penny instructed Valerie. "I'm going to go talk to her."

"Yeah, you do that."

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