All the stories don't always have a happy ending.

Drabble 7 : I could love her.

Centred on the encounter Snow/Lilith. Snow's point of view.

Pairing : Snow White/Lilith (Evil Queen)

Spoiler : Poison

Snow White is seventeen years old when she meets for the first time the one who will become her step-mother; and when she sees her, she is subjugated. Before Lilith comes in the kingdom, Snow doesn't want a new mother, because she already had one before but this one died when she was thirteen years old at a time when people still called her Eleanor. Even before Lilith's arrival, Snow already hates her even if she never saw her, and despite the attempts of her father to show her her portrait.

Eleanor loves her father, she says nothing wrong about his future wife, but in secret she grinds her teeth; the servants fix nothing, because since queen Christelle's death, this one is celebrated by everyone, and obviously the future queen doesn't measure up, even though she didn't arrive yet.

Eleanor doesn't want another mother, but she doesn't talk, and in secret she imagines what the other, as she nicknames her, may look like. She has to be beautiful, that's a thing the princess thinks is true, because in her naivety, she is persuaded that her father will marry her because he loves her (that's also why she doesn't blame him for his choice).

But even before she knows her, Eleanor persuades herself that she has to be sharp, and churlish and also older than her (the same age as her father, according to her) and even before she is here, she hates her. She doesn't know that from now until some years, their roles will be reversed, completely (because now, Lilith on her side has no particular hatred against the princess, but indifference.)

Then, one day, Lilith comes, and Eleanor's heart begins to beat wildly and she doesn't understand why (no one really explained her what love is; when they did, they evoked the one that can exist between a man and a woman). She doesn't realize completely what she is feeling; but unconsciously a part of her already knows it.

Lilith is beautiful, Lilith is young, and moreover, she is splendid and kind and damn, how Eleanor did think one moment that something would be wrong between them ? She instantly falls under her charm and realizes that the one who claim that she is a beauty had been wrong; they never met Lilith and don't know what the true beauty is.

She falls in love with her, and it's so easy (in fact, this is not love, not yet, but it will soon become it; then, with the years, she will have to bury this feeling deep inside herself). Then, Lilith smiles to her, and the heart of the one who will soon be called Snow White explodes. Yes, she told to herself, I could love her.