After Henry (Once Upon a Time)

Chapter Thirty-One: Made of Glass

Hyperion Heights, Seattle, one hour before dinner at Lake House...

Henry: "Lucy, you need to get dressed, baby, or we're gonna be late." Jacinda explained to her daughter, entering the small bedroom. 

"I know, I'll get dressed in no time." Lucy promised, not showing the usual loathing to dinner with me and Ivy, yet she kept the sadden face to her mother, making sure she wouldn't notice what she had in mind for that dinner. If the ten-year-old told Jacinda that she planned to reunite her fairytale parents, her mother would try to reason with her that fairytales aren't real.

"That's my girl, you'll see, it'll be great, I promise."

Jacinda left the room and went to prepare herself for the dinner, while in her own room, Lucy grabbed the magical fairytale book Victoria gave her.

The girl sighed deeply and scanned those pages all over again with a smile. Her plan was to pretend that she was still sad about going to Lake House, after a few moments there, she'd secretly try to make her parents fall in love all over again.

Lucy was so excited! It wasn't easy, for a ten-year-old, to hide so much enthusiasm, but for the plan to work wonderfully, she needed to be strong and hide her emotions, at least for a while.

There was still time to read the original Once Upon a Time version two, the story of everyone in the New Enchanted Forest. 

Of all the tales the book held, there was one which picked Lucy's interest the most, one she'd want to know by heart if she wanted to bring her parents together and make them fall in love again. It was the story of how they met in the first place and how their love bloomed.

New Enchanted Forest, six years before the dark curse...

The motorcycle was running out of gas, but that didn't stop me from traveling at the speed of sound, cutting through the forest's thick atmosphere, the fog drowning the earthy path, trees drowned in dark green brought a sense of freedom that not only inspired birds to fly, but welcomed my adventurous smirk, as I kept squeezing for gas, running with no destination.

It was as if Fate wanted me to run wild and free, something was waiting for me at the end of the road, I could feel it, so I kept running and running without thinking too much. In my heart, there was just this feeling that something would meet my gaze at the end of that trill. In my head, it was most certainly a way home, back to Storybrooke. After all, I'd been here for five years and it was time to go back and be with my family, who I missed so much. Or maybe, at the end of that road was the beginning of a new one, a story waiting to be uncovered.

Hearing me thinking out loud, Fate did it's trick and clashed my motorcycle to a speeding carriage driven by a beautiful lady in an outstanding blue dress.

I turned away as fast as I could, but the white horses screamed in fear and confusion, the carriage crashed against a tree and the girl riding it flew through the air, cutting it in a thousand majestic pieces of thin air.

I left the motorcycle and ran as fast as I could towards the girl who just fell because of me. My eyes stared endlessly at the beautiful figure, brown hair with golden highlights, perfect lips covered in red lipstick, beautiful olive-toned skin and an outstanding blue dress that caught anyone's attention, yet not as much as the memorable detail covering her feet in glass. Yes, glass slippers she was wearing.

"Cinderella?!" My jaw hit the floor, heart raced like a bull. I can't believe I just possibly killed the girl in a blue dress and glass slippers!

"Are you okay?" My concern was the first thing to show and lead me to the girl's numb body, as I picked her from the floor.

"I think so, the hyacinths broke my fall." The golden-haired woman explained, taking the grass out of her blue dress as she lifted from the ground.