Lilith Page's Family of Desire and How she Got It

Magical Marital Contract and Foolishness

Lilith Page's Family of Desire and How she Got It.

By James Carmody.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of the copyrights I am using stories to manufacture this tale with, and I forego forever any financial claim to this piece of literary fiction. These works are, simply put, Once Upon A Time and Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series. I also do not own Milton's works. Same with "Battlestar Galactica" at that.

Rating: Approximately akin to the level of severity of an adult fairy-tale, this is rated *officially* "R" due to the evil relationship, but is far closer to "PG-13" due to the felony being not-so-overt in the level of evil as far as graphic depiction. I do, however, strongly insist on parental guidance to the minor readers. I do not want to commit scandal by the perverted nature of the relationship.

Summary: Set in Fiona's curse time, Lily has gotten wind of what Fiona's plans are, and, in a very misbegotten effort to contain the damage the Black Fairy plans, she makes a deal she never ever should make- for you are never to do wrong that right may come of it.

Moral: "You are never to do wrong that right may come of it, for if ever you do, though good you may well intend, through you evil will take hold and twist the material badly." Lily should've remembered that lesson more strongly as she fingered her wedding ring on her left ring finger and recalled the curse that had gotten her that ring... (That's in fact a far better and more suspenceful summary than my initial one.)

Pairings & Characters: The First Evil, Fiona, Lily Page, Emma Swan, and Henry Mills; pairing Emma/Lily.

Author's Story Notes: Deals with the current events and moral breakdowns and the messed up stuff therein- but is intended to overtly and covertly contradict these breakdowns by showing what they really lead to.

As this kind of serious material seems to be running rampant, it seemed good sense for me to write a cautionary tale or fairytale of why one really *should* follow traditional moral law.

Warnings: Basically: magical rape- rape by love-spell (fairy-tale darkness- fairytales really are dark when you think it through.). It won't be graphic, but it *is* there, however hidden behind closed doors.

Chapter #1.): "Magical Marital Contract and Foolishness."

Lily really should've known better; in fact, she did. So why, why in the world had she basically used *magic*, a *spell* of all things, to manipulate her childhood crush, Emma Swan, into accepting Lily herself as her wife of all things, Lily thought and rethought this question as she sat at the dining room table of their home she shared with Emma and their now-grown-son, Henry Mills... wondering all the while why she had chosen to do *this*; and, as she sat there she fingered her wedding ring, the ring that mystically bound her and Emma Swan together.

Some two months beforehand, as Early Fall was hitting Storybrooke Maine, she had found out what Fiona had planned, and had arranged a meeting between the two. The gist of Lily's message is that she would keep silent, even work with Fiona in her venture, so long as she herself winds up with Emma's hand in matrimony and Henry is protected therefore. Rethinking through the encounter that refused to rest in her head, Lily realized that off to the side, semi-there and semi-not there, was a being, not a man, but a being that *appeared* to be a man... regarding the meeting they'd had in a darkened alleyway in the dead of night. Lily had taken a liking to the tales made by a certain "Joss Whedon", particularly the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel the Series" stories, as well as the classic "Battlestar Galactica" from the late 1970s and early 1980s; and while Lily was not sure, she suspected that this mysterious stranger in town looked not unlike "Count Iblis". "I wonder if it could be him." Lily wondered to herself inside her head, then shaking her head so fast and hard that her straight black hair stood out on end like the rim of a flying saucer she muttered "No, that's silly."; it was especially silly because she knew who, and more importantly, what "Count Iblis" was supposed to be. And as that monster is a nonphysical being, that analogy falls completely apart. "Plus I am not even sure he even exists." She thought to herself. It was, after all, easier to push out the idea that spells contacted something there than to be mindful of the threat she'd placed herself in by enlisting a witch to get herself the heart of the woman she desired to make a family with! Her conscience, meanwhile, was screaming at her that something was deeply wrong with this situation. Her conscience, meanwhile, was screaming at her to stop; and to get out of this fake family and delusion, this "Hell" that she'd constructed for herself and for this family she'd been trying to build, and was drawing heavily on the lessons that the Sorcerer's Apprentice had given her in her time as *his* "apprentice"; it was basically yelling at her that no way at all, ever, could two women "marry" each-other, that no matter what the state or the courts may say, there is no such thing as a "same-sex marriage", and that she *certainly* shouldn't have basically sold her soul to protect *anybody*, as now it claimed that she herself was a significant threat to the "family" she had sought to produce!