Cursed Life, New Chance

The Thing You Love Most

Storybrooke

Later that night I was sitting at my window sill reading when the clock started going off. I smiled at it, thinking of what was to come. People would remember. Her curse would break

The next day I woke up and looked out my window again to see the clock had definitely moved again. I got my clothes out for the day and quickly changed before doing my hair and light makeup.

"Where are you going?" I looked in my mirror to see my aunt giving me a look while holding an old book.

"Out. What's that?" I asked her nodding to the book.

"Henry's book. Did you know about this?" she asked me.

"Know about what?" I asked her and she shook her head.

"Nothing." she answered.

"What harm can some fairy tails do?" I asked her before walking out of my room with her behind me. While she went to Henry's room to talk to him I walked outside the house as the clock chimed. It was the beginning of a new day.

I was walking around, looking at everything with a new eye it seemed, when I accidentally bumped into someone.

"Oh my... I am so sorry." the woman told me repeatedly. "I should have been paying more attention to where I was going. I almost laughed at the poor woman.

"I'm alright." I told her with a smile.

"Are you sure?" she asked me.

"Yes, I'm sure." I told her. "We were never really introduced. I'm Clarissa." I held out my hand to her.

"Mary Margret." she said taking my hand.

"I didn't know Regina had any other family before yesterday." she told me.

"It's just her, Henry, and me. My father was never in my life and my mother died long ago." I told her.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bring up that memory." he said to me.

"I don't remember her, so no memories." I told her.

"Well, I should go. I have to get to class." she told me and I waved her off.

Fairy Tale Land - Past

"I shall destroy your happiness, if it's the last thing I do." She turned and headed to the doors, signaling to me to leave as well.

"Hey!" the Queen turned to them and the Prince throw his sword at her, but it dissipates before it hit her and her smoke came to me and made me disappear as well. We appeared back at her castle and the prince's sword stuck into a wall.

"Would you like something to drink?" Grandfather asked us offering my aunt a glass of wine.

"Do I look like I need a drink?" she asked him.

"I was only trying to help." he told her, offering the glass once more. She took the offered glass and then he offered one to me and I took it.

"Thank you." I said, smiling at him as the mirror on the wall behind us spoke.

"Now, that was an awfully big threat. Destroy everyone's happiness? How do you plan on accomplishing that?" the man in the mirror asked her.

"The dark curse." she told him, smirking.

"Are you sure, Your Majesty?" Grandfather asked her.

"But you said you'd never use it." the mirror said.