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

OS 2 : I just wanted to be pretty !

Centred on the servant who tested the poisoned comb offered to Snow White.

Pairing : Tillie/OC

Spoiler : Poison

Tillie is fourteen years old when she is appointed to the castle as a servant, and she can't stop herself from feeling proud of herself. It's the first time her family looks at her with an approving look. The young girl hadn't many things for her; she wasn't really pretty, nor really smart, but she was pretty good in what she did.

To go to the castle had been a magnificent experience, as the place was beautiful and the princess was so kind, and sweet and pretty. For a time, she wants to hate her to possess all these qualities whereas she had almost none of them; but the princess is too friendly to be hated. The princess is just eighteen, and some day when she sees Tillie crying, she holds her in her arms, and this is maybe at that moment that the servant understands why the princess is so appreciated.

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Tillie is fifteen when she falls in love for the first time; his name is Jack, he is seventeen years old, and he is profoundly beautiful. She knows that there will be nothing between them, she doesn't love herself enough to believe in it, and no one, except her parents and the princess, encouraged her. So she perfectly knows that she deludes herself when she hopes for a time that he will love her some day. She doesn't know that she is wrong.

He surpasses this, he falls in love with her, truly, and when he tells her that, she can't believe in it because she thinks it's impossible. But he proves it to her, and finally she believes in it. And she starts to hope that she will be happy. She is, for a time.

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Tillie is sixteen and fear grows slowly in her, all the servants talk about what is happening, and all are afraid of the queen, and of her powers, and with the king not being here, it's even worse. But Tillie has faith despite everything and she hopes everything will be fine. The terror the queen inspires to everyone doesn't concern her, as she doesn't try to hurt the princess, and it still works. For a very little time, but despite that, she still hopes.

One day, the queen offers to Snow White a comb; the princess is not here, so it's Tillie who receives it, and the temptation to use it on her burns her. I want to be pretty, she whispers to herself, for Jack. Yes, that was probably what she could have told to herself, after she put this on her, I just wanted to be pretty. And when she finally does it, she has no idea of what terrible error she just made...

At the beginning, everything is fine, and she feels herself like being a princess, and someone pretty; but just after, things go wrong. Because what the queen said is false, and that the comb is a mortal accessory, and then she screams and the pain is terrible. By chance for her, it doesn't last a long time, and she dies.

The princess is the one who finds her, and in the end she is the only one who understands why she did it, that she just wanted to be pretty... For Jack, his heart breaks into pieces and he knows that he won't be able to put the pieces back together, because it was her, his true love and that she is not here any more for him.

He curses himself until the end of his life for not having stopped her to do it.

And this is how ended the life of the one who just wanted to be pretty...