The Other Sister

Mother?!

"Gma?" Iris opens the door, the toddler waddles towards her mother.

Drizzela scooped her daughter up to her arms and frowned, "What are you doing here?!"

"I can prove my innocence." Rapunzel urge. "Please Drizzela!"

Drizzela walks towards the bedroom and places Iris in her crib closing the door behind her as she walks out to the living room. "I don't wanna hear it. I'm done with your excuses … just go."

Rapunzel wasn't giving up that easily, "Its fine if you don't believe me right now. I just need you and your sisters to come to the house at sundown. Please Drizzela, come!" With that Rapunzel left.

Drizzela checked on her sleeping daughter, she watched Iris's eyes flutter in her sleep. She felt a surge of guilt, back in the Enchanted Forrest she gave birth to a baby a princess— Gregor's daughter— but because of her envy she killed Gregor and hid her daughter in the woods nobody knew about her pregnancy and the birth.

"Drizzy?" Anastasia calls.

Drizzela wiped the tears from her cheeks before saying, "In here!"

"Hey, what's wrong?" Anastasia asks.

"Uh… mother came by…" Drizzela admits. "she wants us to come to the house at sundown."

"Ok…" Anastasia sighs. "So are we going?"

"I don't know…" Drizzela admits. "I mean I don't want Sera to find out, but then again I need to give mother her chance to explain what happened from her point of view… I don't know what to do, Ana. Tell me what to do?"

"It's up to you, Drizzy."

"Fine, what time is Sera coming?"

"She's already here." Seraphina announces, as she walks in the apartment.

"We are going to mother's." Drizzela announces, as she picks up her daughter from her crib and carries her out of the apartment. Drizzela kissed the top of Iris's head.

It was a five minute drive towards Henry and Ela's two bed and two bath apartment. Lucy was doing her homework at the kitchen table, when Ela walked out of the room. "Lucy, I'm meeting your grandmother." Ela opened the door and saw Drizzela with Iris in her arms. "Luc?"

"Yeah mom?" Lucy gets up and sees her aunt and her cousin at the door. "I'll babysit, sure."

"Thank you, Luc." Drizzela hands Iris to Lucy.

Ela grabbed the diaper bag from her stepsister's shoulder and dropped it on the sofa, "Ok let's go."

Iris waved at her mother, as Drizzela and Ela walked away.

At the Belfrey household, Seraphina screamed in shock, "Cora?!"