Everything fell, but we are still here (And we are suffering.)

Alexandra always was a happy princess.

Raised up by two wonderful parents, who loved each other and loved her too, raising her as a princess, but without confining into her princess' role, just as Snow and David were doing this with Emma.

She was four years old when she met princess Emma, who was just a little younger than her, along with Pinocchio, who was twelve years old.

They immediately became friends.

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Emma is seventeen years old, they are at a ball, her and Alexandra are dancing together, just as their respective mothers did once, and the princess is looking at a man of their age named Neal.

And then, Alexandra smiles at her, almost laughing.

"You love him, she affirms, with a so great smile on her lips that it almost hurts her."

Emma, blushing, denies immediately this, even if it is true, and Alexandra then bursts into laughter.

(Later, far later, she will regret this time of innocence, where she still thought that they were the kind of people who could get a happy ending, or just a happy life.

How naive she was.)

There will be a wedding, she bets with Pinocchio, and I will be the maid of honor.

He chuckles, and tells her that they will see.

(She is right.)

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Alexandra is twenty-two years old and her heart is almost going to explode with happiness.

Emma had screamed with pain for hours, and now, her face is radiant with joy, and she holds her son in her arms.

She is a mother, and Alexandra realizes that she never was so happy for her before this moment.

But this, it's until Emma puts the little child, Henry, in her arms, and Alexandra looks at him, and she smiles at him.

She will always protect this child, she swears to herself.

(She fails, miserably.

After the disaster, after Emma's disappearance, in her mind, she asks Emma to forgive her.

She was not strong enough to stop her son from falling.

She failed him, she failed her, she failed all of them.

It's her fault.)

And then, Emma asks her : do you want to be his god-mother ?

Alexandra cries with joy, and of course, as Pinocchio, she answers yes.

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Alexandra is thirty-two years old and she tries with difficulty to hide her tears.

Today, Neal Cassidy is dead during the war against the ogres, which came back for a little time.

But it was enough for him to find death.

She sees Emma and Henry, comforted by Snow and David, who try to hide their sadness too.

Alexandra looks at Pinocchio, who is not in a better state than she is, and anger takes her, anger against the injustice which hits them on this terrible day.

She thinks nothing worst can happen to them.

(She is wrong, this time.)

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