Cursed Life, New Chance

Snow Falls

Fairy Tale Land - Past

I stared outside of the window of the castle, pausing in my cleaning momentarily. I'd had to move the curtains just so I could see since they closed all the time.

"Clarissa." I turned to see him staring at me. This was still early in the deal we'd made. Me for her. It still seemed worth it. "What are you doing?" he asked me.

"Looking outside." I told him simply.

"Why are you doing that when their's work to be done?" he asked me, motioning to the castle around us.

"I took a brief pause, that's all." I told him moving from the window. I closed the curtain and moved back to my cleaning.

"Clarissa." I turned back to him.

"Yes?" I asked him.

"Why did you come here?" he asked.

"Because it was part of the deal." I said, surly he knew this.

"That's not what I'm asking you, dearie." he told me.

"Then what are you asking?" I asked him.

"Why did you come here?" he asked me, a little angrier for not getting his answer.

Storybrooke

I was sitting at the dinner table with Henry and Aunt Regina eating a nice dinner in silence.

"Henry, how was school today?" she asked him.

"Good." he told her simply. More silence.

"Just good?" she asked him.

"Yeah." he told her nodding. "Why?"

"I'm not allowed to ask?" she asked him.

"He didn't say that Aunt Regina." I told her.

"I know that, Clarissa." she snapped at me. "Henry?"

"I asked cause you've never asked me that before." he told her.

"I'm sure I have." he told her.

"No, you haven't." I told her. "You only started asking when Emma showed up." I told her.

"Clarissa." she said, warning me slightly.

"What? It's true." I told her.

"Well, she should be leaving soon. She has no where to stay in town." she told me.

"She's not staying at Granny's?" I asked her.

"She's a felon. It's not allowed." she told me with a smirk on her face.

"She's not a felon." Henry said, jumping on what she said.

"She broke into Archie's office and stole from him. She was arrested and was let go. That makes her a felon." Aunt Regina told him.

"She was also cleared of all charges. That changes her felon status." I said.

"And how do you know that?"she asked me.

"Graham told me." I told her.

"Graham needs to learn to shut her mouth." Aunt Regina said quietly.

"Why? Is he going against your grand plan?" I asked her sarcastically.

"Why would you ask that?" she asked me.

"I was joking." I told her, giving her a strange look. "Calm down." Suddenly it was hard to breath and a burning pain erupted in my chest. "Aunt Regina..." It was so hard to breath. Then my world went dark.