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Storybrooke: Chapter 1 The Curse
Day 1 Character Summary

Robert Leland

Robert, the town Sheriff, had a pretty typical day aside from the small reports of a new guy in town. He sent Regina a detailed report of the day and offered to follow the newcomer around to find out a bit of more information. While he waited, he went to Granny's to get himself a drink and something to munch on.

He soon got an urgent phonecall from Regina, telling him to meet her at her office as soon as he possibly could. When he arrived, he found Regina's usually neat and tidy office to be a complete mess, and Regina told Robert that someone had broken into her office and stole an envelope holding ten-thousand dollars of the Storybrooke's tax money. Without giving any reason as to how or why, she accused Henry Carlyle and made Robert go check Henry's car where she was sure that the envelope of money would be, even being specific enough to say the backseat passenger side.

Robert didn't ask why Regina knew this, however, and went on his way to find Henry and the stolen envelope of money. He found Henry's car parked outside of Granny's and took a quick peek inside. Just as Regina said, the envelope was there. Robert then went into Granny's Bed and Breakfast to approach Henry (who he didn't realize wasn't there) so that Henry would open up the car for him, just to be sure it was the ten-thousand dollars Regina had claimed was stolen.

There was no answer at Henry's door though, he was not there. And by the time that Robert went back out onto the streets, the envelope in Henry's car was gone. He spotted a woman walking away from the area, and persued her. He caught up to her quickly and began to ask questions, mostly about her involvement with Henry since Regina was so sure he had something to do with it.

The mysterious woman wasn't letting up on any information, and Robert had to go by what evidence he had and was forced to arrest her and took her to the holding cells at his office where she would stay the night until Regina knew what to do with her.

He hurried over to Regina's to inform her of what had happened, and Regina looked less than pleased. Robert then took it upon himself to offer that he check out Henry some more, possibly tail his car or search his room for anything suspicious and Regina agreed. She told Robert that he would be free to search Henry's room when Henry came over for dinner, leaving his room empty. Robert was then told that whatever it took to find information about Henry needed to be done, and also to look out for a snowglobe that had gone missing from her office. The two said goodnight, and Robert was on his way.

Knox Kowalski

Knox found himself at Granny's Diner first thing in the morning, ordering his usual cheesy fries and dark coffee. Ruby, of course was his waitress and although she didn't work the morning shift all too often, he still knew who she was. He was slightly taken aback, however, when Ruby opted to stay and talk with him. He explained that today was his day off, which somehow turned into a conversation of meeting Ruby later at a bar for a couple of drinks.

There was a change in the wind, however, when a stranger entered Granny's Diner, and he watched as Ruby went to go and help him. He remained completely silent as he watched Ruby start to (probably without her even noticing) flirt with the stranger, and then invite him to The Rabbit Hole later with her and Knox.

He made it to The Rabbit Hole later that night, noticing Ruby over flirting with Henry but he was distracted almost immediately when the strange woman that no one seemed to know anything about her approached him and asked to join him. He declined of course, but the woman joined him anyway and threw taunts at him, all of which Knox couldn't have cared any less about.

It was then that Ruby seemed to notice that he was there as she stormed up to the table angrily, and attempted to get the woman to leave. She did, but only to move on to flirt with Henry, the new town stranger. Knox, clearly irritated pulled out a twenty and slipped it into the mysterious woman's clevage and left without a word.

He almost instantly heard Ruby calling out for him behind him, and eased to a stop. She flew into a mouthful of apologies, but Knox wasn't interested, and attempted to have her return to the bar so that she might finish flirting with Henry. Ruby refused, and threatened that she wasn't about to leave him until she learned at least five things about him and saw him smile. He finally agreed, and the two headed to Granny's to carry on their night.

They were nearly there before Ruby stopped and asked him if he could hear something. Of course he didn't hear anything unusual, and suggested that it might be raccoons. But Ruby was stubborn, and she seemed to be lost in her own little world as she tried to listen to the quiet sounds of the night until she suddenly exclaimed that Mr. Gold was in trouble and hurried off in the opposite direction of Granny's. With a sigh and so very sure that Ruby had been drinking too much, he followed quietly until he suddenly saw Mr. Gold leaning heavily against the wall and hurried over to help the older man.

He helped the older man up (despite Mr. Gold's threats, wanting to do things on his own) and it was quickly decided that they would take Mr. Gold to the hospital, as whatever it was that ailed Mr. Gold at that moment didn't seem to be getting any better.

They arrived at the hospital shortly after and once Dr. Stevenson took over, he and Ruby were excused. Really just wanting the obscurity of the night to end, Knox mentioned staying at the hospital to put in a few extra hours, but offered to walk Ruby out at least.

Dr. Faye Stevenson

Faye woke up in an enclosed room in her home, trapping her other self from escaping and causing trouble in Storybrooke. She quickly got ready and went to work. She was the head doctor in Storybrooke Hospital, and so everyone went to her upon her arrival to make sure that they were doing their job correctly. It wasn't a surprise either that Regina showed up at exactly 4:00 pm to check on one of her patients, a Jane Doe who had been in a coma for as long as she could remember. Regina, being her emergency contact, of course asked for any signs of improvement, if anyone had yet to claim her but nothing had changed since the last time Regina had come to visit exactly a week ago.

Busy at the hospital, Faye eventually got a page from the receptionist downstairs and she hurried to find out what the important message was. She found a man she had never seen around town before wanting to speak with her. It came about that his name was Henry and he wanted to help volunteer at the hospital, starting by reading to the coma patient known only as Jane Doe.

When they arrived in the hospital room holding the coma patient, Faye noticed the drop in Henry's face almost immediately when he looked at Jane Doe, and had to ask if he knew her. Henry was slow with his reply but assured her that she did not know. Faye decided to stick around and watch then as Henry sat down next to the patient and read from the story book that he had brought, slightly amused to hear the story of Alice in Wonderland.

Faye soon found herself as her counterpart once again, the mysterious woman looking for a drink and found herself in The Rabbit Hole where she kept to herself, ignoring the looks and whispers she got and ordered a drink. She made eye contact with Henry, but Ruby seemed to be trying to keep him away from her. So the mysterious woman approached Knox and asked to join him.

He declined, of course, but the woman took the opportunity to toy with him a bit, calling out his attractiveness in a threatening tone as if something bad might happen to him. Ruby then made her way over to the table and coldly asked for her to leave, claiming that both Henry and Knox were with her tonight.

Remaining civil, the woman left Knox without whispering a bitter comment to Ruby about being jealous and then approached Henry, though Knox was quick to follow her and put a twenty-dollar bill between her breasts and walked out of the bar without a word. Clearly offended, the woman removed the money and gave it to Ruby, indicating that it was really meant for her. Ruby snatched the money from her and then ran to follow Knox.

Now alone with Henry, the woman had a chance to talk to him, get to know a little about him. However before their conversation got too far, pains in her chest and a impeding headache took over and she politely excused herself. She made it as far as the park before realizing that Henry had been following her, and though not annoyed with him, promised to see him around sometime soon. She then returned home and let her other part come back through, Dr. Faye Stevenson.

A short while later, Faye got an urgent phone call from Dr. Whale, requesting her help at the hospital again. Once things seemed to die down, Ruby and Knox walked into the hospital, assisting Mr. Gold who seemed to be needing some sort of care. Knox tried telling her it was a panic attack, but Faye knew there had to be something more to it.

After a small bit of arguing, Faye got Mr. Gold to agree to allowing a few tests to be done, and when the results came back, Faye was in disbelief. Lung cancer. Mr. Gold had lung cancer! She gently broke the news to him, but her jaw dropped when he calmly told her that he already knew. A fight ensued, Faye urging Mr. Gold to let her treat him before things got worse, but Mr. Gold stubbornly declined.

Faye blatently called him a coward, and at the drop of a pin Mr. Gold was on her, swinging his cane down on her face so hard that there was no way it wouldn't leave any bruising after the bleeding had stopped. He made a quick threat, for her to keep silent and to not bother him with it again, and then left the hospital on his own accord.

God she needed a drink.

Later that night, the mysterious woman made her way around town once more, spotting a rather strange envelope in Henry's car. When Henry showed up to retire for the night, the woman told Henry that he had been set up, and showed him the envelope of money. The woman already knew who would have done this to Henry, the only woman in Storybrooke that felt threatened by anything 'new.' Regina.

The mysterious woman offered to take the heat for the envelope, and when Henry asked why she simply reponded 'why not?' and then went on to explain that it would be fun to see the shock on the Mayor's face when there was someone else in jail. Henry promised that he would help her get out of jail and thanked her for her kindness before they departed ways for the night.

As she figured, the Sheriff quickly caught up with her and he began to drill her with questions, wanting to know of her relation to Henry but the woman wasn't saying much, only that she stole the ten-thousand dollars. The Sheriff had no choice but to arrest her and put her in the holding cells at the office where she spent the night.

Mr. Gold

A flashback is revealed in Mr. Gold's dream (however it is a memory). It tells us what happened between Rumpelstiltskin and Belle, why Rumpelstiltskin had cast her away from being his caretaker. It happened a few weeks before Regina cast the curse, it was a time where Rumpelstiltskin and Belle had time to just talk, having already grown familiar with one another from Belle being there for quite some time.

Rumpelstiltskin told Belle of his daughter, Baelfire, and how he had lost her. By gaining Belle's trust, Rumpelstiltskin allowed Belle to go into town on her own...a test to see if she would come back. She did. When he asked her why, Belle leaned in and kissed him, having been told that True Loves Kiss can break any curse, and indeed the curse of The Dark One began to melt away.

Terrified of losing his power, Rumpelstiltskin pushed Belle away, and cast her from The Dark Castle where he was left alone to cry out in his anger for his own cowardice. But it was better this way, Belle just got in the way from his true intentions anyway.

When Mr. Gold woke from the dream, he couldn't remember what he had dreampt about, only knowing that it was hightly upsetting, and he was drawn to drinking in the early hours of the morning. Finally satesfied with a dull buzz in his brain, he went to work early to open up his shop.

He was just about to open shop when a car caught his attention, and a stranger stepped out of it, asking if he was in Storybrooke. Mr. Gold was not at all unfamilair with the idea that no one ever visited Storybrooke, however he seemed unsurprised and walked with the man who he learned was named Henry to Granny's Bed and Breakfast where Henry could stay in during his stay in Storybrooke.

As Henry got his room, Mr. Gold took the rent money from Granny, and bid them farewell. Once he stepped outside, the minute hand on the seemingly forever broken clock-tower moved. Changes were coming to Storybrooke, and Mr. Gold smiled.

A short while later, Mr. Gold found Henry popping into his shop as he busied himself by dusting the books that had been stacked on the counter. Making quick conversation with Henry, Gold then noticed the key around Henry's neck. Witha knowing smirk, Gold asked for Henry to hand it over and, as luck would have it, Mr. Gold had the very book that the key belonged to.

He immediately caught the desperation in Henry's face, and offered to give him the book if he helped him out with a small problem he was having, asking for Henry to fill in for the subsitute teacher at the elementary school and Henry jumped at the opportunity. Mr. Gold then noticed that something else caught Henry's eye, an old story book on fairytales. Henry asked to take a look at it, and Mr. Gold agreed if he promised to use the book to read to a coma patient, since the hospital had been running low on voulenteers. Again, Henry agreed.

Yet another visitor rang the little bell in his shop, this time Mayor Mills entered and she approached Mr. Gold with purpose, demanding to know what he knew about Herny Carlyle. Mr. Gold told her the truth, of course, telling Regina his involvement with helping steer him to Granny's which, expectantly, pissed Regina off and left.

Mr. Gold closed up shop earlier that day than normal, not quite feeling well. His leg was giving him more trouble than it normally did, and he kept getting shooting pains in his back and chest. When he arrived home, he began to drink again and puffed quietly on an expensive brand of cigarettes. His attention was brought to a chipped teacup that had been on display in the center of the living room, and in his anger broke the glass he had been drinking from with his hand.

Annoyed, he realized that he shouldn't have come home so early and left his home once more to get in a walk so that he could quiet his mind and gather his thoughts as to why he was really there in Storybrooke, and what needed to still be done.

It was then revealed in a flashback that Milah, his wife, was not a happily married woman. She always seemed to be gone from the home while Rumpelstiltskin was at work, spinning for the market and oftentimes leaving four-year-old Baelfire at home to fend for herself. One day, upon discovering that Milah had left Baelfire home alone again, he went out to look for her, and found her drinking in a pub with a group of pirates.

Both Milah and the pirates jabbed jokes at Rumpelstiltskin, but all he tried to do was to get her to come home. It wasn't until Baelfire followed her papa into the bar and called out for her mother that Milah finally seemed to get a good head on her shoulders and the three of them returned home together.

With Baelfire asleep, Milah and Rumpelstiltskin begin to talk about their marriage, Milah explicitely stating that she is no longer happy and she wished that Rumpelstiltskin had died in the Ogre's War rather than come home branded as a coward. Rumpelstiltskin pleaded for Milah to try to make things work between them, for Baelfire, and Milah begrudgingly agreed. Baelfire had gotten up during the night and asked for Rumpelstiltskin to sing her to sleep, and we hear quite a lovely tune that Rumpelstiltskin had made up specifically for his Baelfire and sung her to sleep.

Not a week later, Rumpelstiltskin got an urgent knock on his door. A neighborly woman had spotted MIlah and Baelfire getting aboard a pirate ship at the docks and she urged Rumpelstiltskin to go and get them back. Thinking that the pirates had taken his wife and child, Rumpelstiltskin hurried to the docks to reclaim his family. When he got there, however, the pirate captain was less than charitable and proposed that they duel for the woman and child.

Rumpelstiltskin knew at once that he would lose, and more than that, lose his life if he tried to duel the pirate, so he begged and pleaded instead. The pirate just sneered and ignored Rumpelstiltskin, calling him a coward in his wake and Rumpelstiltskin was left feeling completely useless, unable to get his wife and child back from the band.

As he pondered this during his walk, an incredible amount of pain shot through Mr. Gold, making parts of his body grow numb and the other parts shutting down on him. The cane was dropped and he was left grasping at the walls to keep him upright, but the pain eventually brought him down. He knew what this was, a price to be paid for the curse that he had inflicted upon himself of becoming The Dark One. In the Enchanted Forest, the curse was physical, altering his appearance; here, it attacked him from the inside.

Things were looking very grim for Mr. Gold, and he cried out into the night apologizing to Baelfire, over and over until he lost his voice to his sobs. He was quickly aided by Knox and Ruby, who he knew were trying to help but the pride in him forced him to push them away, although neither of them were going anywhere. He tried his best to regain his composure, but the coughing fits only seemed to be getting worse and worse and so he eventually agreed to let them walk him to the hospital, although he knew that it would do him no good there.

Once there, he quickly dismissed Ruby and Knox, leaving him alone with Dr. Stevenson whom he had no intention of letting her check him out to ensure his health was okay. She was persistant though, and got him to take a few tests. When the results came back, Dr. Stevenson told her that he had lung cancer. He knew this of course, not lung cancer specifically but something that was killing him slowly from the inside. This is the first time we think that Mr. Gold might not have been affected by the curse.

He told her that he knew, and refused treatment. Dr. Stevens pleaded with him to get help, eventually calling him a coward for refusing treatment. At the word coward, Mr. Gold lost his temper and swung his cane around on Dr. Stevenson, cutting her forehead and leaving quite the nasty mark. He threatened Dr. Stevenson then, stating that if she ever bothered him with this again, things would not be pretty. And with that, he left the hospital on his own accord and began his walk home, checking his shop on the way as he got an alert on his phone that the security alarm had been triggered.

Sure enough, someone had broken into Mr. Gold's shop, but the thief was long gone and his shop was so extensive that he was going to have a bit of trouble finding what was taken. Despite it being the middle of the night, there was a knock on the shop's locked front door, and Mr. Gold went to let Regina in. She explained to Mr. Gold that she knew what had been taken and who had taken it, since she had a specific reporter who just happned to be walking by and managed to take a picture. She made a deal with Gold, offering to exchange the information if he answered one of her questions, and Mr. Gold agreed.

Regina asked Gold what his name was, and Mr. Gold played dumb, not knowing what she was talking about until she drove her point, bringing it out of him that he knew exactly who he was, and that his memories were all clear and still there and that he, was still Rumpelstiltskin.

Reading the look of terror on her face, Mr. Gold assured Regina that he wouldn't be killing her for what she did to Belle, not yet anyway and Regina showed Mr. Gold the pictures of Henry leaving his shop with a snowglobe. It was Gold's turn to feel panic as he realized the object that had been stolen. Regina asked what it was (obviously it had to have been more than a snowglobe) but all Gold let out was that Storybrooke was in trouble.

Mayor Regina Mills

Regina woke up in a new land, a strange land with no magic in a strange room that she had never been in before, however the effect of the curse made the room...familiar. She had done it, she had inflicted the curse that would imprison everyone from The Enchanted Forest, and she would finally have her Happily Ever After. And so it began, until five years later things started to change.

Five years had passed, and as she usually did, Regina went to Storyrbooke Hospital to check up on Snow White, who was known only as Jane Doe here since the sleeping curse from The Enchanted Forest transferred over to Storybrooke, putting Snow in a coma that Regina was sure she would never wake from. She only came to check in on Snow because the paranoia got the best of her, and she had to ensure that no one had tried to claim her, recognize her, or visit her. Dr. Stevenson cleansed these worries every week, and today was no different. Satesfied, Regina left the hospital to go on about with her day.

She went to Mr. Gold's shop almost immediately, demanding answers as to his involvement of the arrival of Henry Carlyle. He, of course, gave little-to-no information, only telling Regina that he showed Henry where he could stay at Granny's. Irritated, Regina left.

She showed up later, finally finding Henry as he came back from The Rabbit Hole and heading into Granny's Bed and Breakfast. He didn't seem to see her, and so she spoke up, catching his attention.

She casually introduced herself, and then began to drill Henry with questions, determind to find out who he was, where he came from and why he was here. He was a newcomer, and that meant bad business for the curse. The curse was supposed to keep everyone away, unable to enter or leave Storybrooke, and yet here he was.

Henry answered her questions simply, annoying Regina even more but she changed her motive and instead offered him to come over to her house for dinner the following day, to give him a proper welcome to Storybrooke. Henry eagerly accepted and Regina went to leave, realizing suddenly that the clock tower had begun working again. Terror replaced her anger, and she left in a hurry.

She tried the remainder of the day tracking down Mr. Gold, of course now having questions beyond belief about the nature of the curse. If anyone could help her, he could, but she had to know something first. She stationed her reporter, Sidney Glass, otuside of Gold's shop and to have him alert her when he returned. She just didn't expect it to be during the dead of night. Sidney also had photos of a break-in from Mr. Gold's shop, which was the reason that he came back during the night. Regina used this against Mr. Gold (since he didn't know who broke in or what was stolen) and got it out of Mr. Gold that he knew his true name, and that the curse had not affected him.

Terror ripped through Regina, remembering their last encounter in The Enchanted Forest when she had ripped Belle's heart out in front of him and crushed it. He assured her that he wouldn't kill her, not until after the curse was broken, and then Regina showed Gold the pictures of Henry stealing a snowglobe from his shop. Regina didn't understand the significance of the snowglobe and had to ask why it was so important, however all Mr. Gold told her was that Storybrooke was in danger.

Regina, outraged (but more paranoid than anything) that Henry was starting to change things, she put her initial plan into motion and called Robert, telling him to meet her at her office. Regina then took it upon herself to make her office look as if someone had broken in, and by the time Robert arrived it looked like a big mess. Regina then told Robert that someone broke into her office and stole an envelope that held ten-thousand dollars of Storybrooke's tax money, and told Robert to go and find the envelope in the backseat of Henry's car.

Regina knew that it would be there, because she had planted the envelope there herself when she and Henry had been talking, the very reason why she didn't shake his hand at first. Robert left, and Regina returned home awaiting to hear the wonderful knews that Henry Carlyle had been arrested. However, it wasn't the case.

When Robert came to Regina's house, he had informed Regina that he had found someone else with the envelope of money. A strange woman with no ID, name, or anything relating to being in the system. Of course Regina knew who he was talking about, she had seen this mysterious around town before, but she had to wonder if someway, somehow she was working with Henry.

She asked Robert to search Henry's room at Granny's the next day when Henry came over to her place for dinner, leaving his room completely unprotected if he were truly hiding something. Also, thinking of what Mr. Gold said about the snowglobe, she instructed Robert to keep an eye out for that as well. She did not welcome Robert into her home for the night like she had initially thought she would have, too irritated now to welcome his company, and so the two said goodnight.

Henry Carlyle

Henry arrived in Storybrooke in the very early hours of the morning, stopping first in front of Mr. Gold's Pawn Shop since he saw the man himself opening the door off of the street. He recognized Mr. Gold to be Rumpelstiltskin immediately, but due to the curse, Henry was unable to tell if Mr. Gold knew who he was, and so he went on business as normal. Mr. Gold then walked with him to Granny's Bed and Breakfast upon learning that Henry was a visitor, and needed a place to stay.

Henry was greeted by hearing an argument coming down the stairs, seeing a woman scantily dressed being followed by an older woman dressed in...well, old people clothing. Once the scantily clad woman left, Henry got the older woman's attention by ringing the bell, and politely asked for a room. Surprised, the scantily clad woman came back and helped Henry to find his room, but not before Mr. Gold took money from the older woman, collecting the rent. It was then that he learned the names of these people, Ruby and Granny, and between them he also learned that not only did Mr. Gold own Granny's Bed and Breakfast, but the entire town as well.

Henry, in the privacy of his new room, pulled out the map that Rumpelstiltskin had given him in The Enchanted Forest before the curse hit and read over the careful instructions left to him by the imp that would finalize the deal they had made. The instructions were simple. Find Rumpelstiltskin, restore the memores and break the curse. Well he had found Rumpelstiltskin, rather 'Mr. Gold' here, and now Henry had the complication on whether or not to try to break this curse. It seemed that each time he tried to avoid wanting to fulfill his end of the deal, something bad happened, pushing Henry to fulfill it anyway.

It is then revealed that Henry had been sent to Wonderland when Rumpelstiltskin sent him away from Regina's dungeon. He was immediately captured by The Queen of Hearts, but for some unknown reason, she showed Henry mercy, relaying some unknown, important information to Henry, and allowed him to escape so that he could go to Storybrooke.

Clouded with thoughts of his past, Henry decided it was time to get out of his bedroom and familarize himself with the strange, cursed town. He first found himself at Granny's Diner finding himself hungry, and to his surprise he found Ruby working as a waitress. She got him his order of eggs and a coke. To further his surprise, Ruby then invited him to go out with herself and Knox to The Rabbit Hole for a few drinks, and he found himself accepting.

Later, Henry made his way to Mr. Gold's Pawnshop to 'look around a bit' finding Mr. Gold dusting of a number of books. The two made light conversation until Mr. Gold noticed the key around Henry's neck and asked to take a look at it. Hesitating, Henry handed the key over and was utterly surprised to find Mr. Gold handling his little sister's diary, the very book that the key belonged to. Feeling his heart hammering in his chest, he knew he had to have that diary, and was only too willing to take up Mr. Gold's deal of helping out at the elementary school as a subsitute teacher for the book.

Something else then caught Henry's eye, a story book full of fairytales. Thumbing through it, Henry realized that it wasn't JUST a book, but history of the events that had happened back in The Enchanted Forest. Agreeing to volunteer at the hospital, Henry was then given the book and before he could give up anything that actually mattered to Henry, he left Gold's shop to continue his exploration.

He headed immediatly to the hospital where he was told by Mr. Gold to seek out Dr. Faye Stevenson. To his utter shock, the doctor turned out to be Heather Jekyll from The Enchanted Forest, but here, unknowning of her own history with him, she looked right through him as anyone would look through a person they had never met before.

The two made light conversation, Henry offered to volunteer at the hospital, now with a new motive to stay close to Faye and he was then taken to the coma patient Mr. Gold had told her about. As if the surprises would ever stop. It wasn't Jane Doe in the bed, but Snow White, caught in the sleeping curse that now translated as some sort of coma.

His cover was almost blown when Faye seemed to see the slight indication of recognition in his face, but Henry played it off saying that he had never seen her before. He pushed past his feelings through, and began to read 'Alice in Wonderland' to her, hoping that someway, somehow it would bring Snow back to him.

Henry later returned to his home to open up the story book that turned out to be history for everyone's past lives. He spent most of the rest of the day reading up on it, making connections to the characters he knew from the book to the people here in Storybrooke. Once he realized the time, Henry put reading his sister's diary to the side and went out to the Rabbit Hole to meet up with Red...uh...Ruby.

He found her already there, hussling a couple of guys while playing pool. After collecting her winnings, he went to her to make himself known. And thats when a strange, strange woman walked into the bar, a woman that seemed to catch everyone's attention, and not in a good way. Ruby gave Henry a quiet warning about the woman, about how no one knew her, about how weird it was.

Ruby then seemed to follow the woman's movements as she made her way over to a table with a man sitting at it, and Ruby's eyes seemed to ignite. She stormed to the table and coldly asked for the woman to leave who had been making a point to flirt with the man at the table. The woman left the table and in a turn of events went to him to make an introduction, though she gave no name.

Before he had time to answer though, Knox got up from the table and slipped a twenty-dollar bill into the woman's clevage and without a word walked out. He then watched as the woman gave the money instead to Ruby, who took it and ran out of the building to find Knox.

Henry suddenly found himself alone with the very woman Ruby had warned him about, but she seemed nice enough, just a little rough around the edges. The two made very light conversation before Henry noticed that the woman seemed to become fidgety. As if to confirm his question, she called it a night and hurridly left. Curious, Henry couldn't help but to follow. The woman caught on straight-away and offered to meet up with him at a later time.

He returned to Granny's Bed and Breakfast to turn into the night, however he was intercepted by Regina, the Mayor of the city and she was less than welcoming. She drilled him with questions, aiming to find his intention here in Storybrooke, but Henry played it cool and came up with a reasonable enough lie that Regina couldn't find any holes in. Suddenly dropping the implication that she wanted him gone, Regina asked for Henry to come by her place for dinner the next day, to give him a proper welcome to Storybrooke, and Henry accepted.

Regina then left with a huff as she suddenly realized that the clock tower had begun to work again, but Henry made no comment and went back to his bedroom for the night. He had a diary to read that belonged to his dear departed sister that he had recently found courtesy of Mr. Gold.

When he opened it, however, the book was empty. No doubt because the book was written it with some sort of magic ink, and magic didn't cross over easily to this world. Overcome with rage towards Mr. Gold (he just knew it was his fault somehow) Henry left the room in a hurry to get back at the Pawnbroker, knowing about a particular snowglobe that could cause the man quite a bit of trouble.

Henry reached Mr. Gold's Pawnshop, relieved to see it closed and that the man was nowhere in sight. WIthout thinking too much about it, he broke into the backdoor and rummaged through the shop until he found the snowglobe he was looking for. He took the snowglobe and ran, as fast and as far as his legs would carry him, deep into the forest until he couldn't breathe. In his blind anger, she shattered the snowglobe on the ground, awaiting for the Ice Queen to reveal herself and offer to help him, but as Henry stood there a good ten minutes, staring at the shards of glass, nothing happened. With a dejected sigh, Henry had no other choice now than to return home.

When he got back to Granny's Bed and Breakfast, he noticed the mysterious woman poking around looking at his car. The woman then told Henry that he was being framed, and pointed out the envelope of money in his car. The woman removed the envelope, and they found the money inside. There was only one woman in Storybrooke that would have any want to frame him to get him out of here; Regina, The Evil Queen.

Henry was surprised when the mysterious woman offered to take the heat for the planted money, sheerly just to piss Regina off when she realized that her plan to frame Henry didn't work. Henry expressed his gratitude, and promised to help the woman out of jail the next day. The two quickly parted ways and Henry was finally able to rest for the night.

Ruby

Ruby and Granny were having a fight. Despite the early hours of the morning, Ruby walked down the stairs into the Bed and Breakfast room with Granny hot on her heels. Ruby expressed her wishes of wanting to move to Boston, and Granny bullshittingly apologized for her heart attack ruining her plans. Neither of them were aware of the stranger at the desk until the stranger rang the bell and asked for a room.

Surprise overcame Ruby, causing her to calm down, and Granny and Ruby helped Henry to one of their best rooms in the Bed and Breakfast. As Granny made handed over the rent money to Mr. Gold, Ruby and Granny quickly explained to Henry who Mr. Gold was, and that he owned not only the building, but the entire town.

Ruby ended up working the morning shift at Granny's Diner that day, and found Knox; a regular. She knew exactly what he wanted, and got him his cheesy fries and dark coffee. Taking a stab at something she was never brave to do before, she asked Knox out for a couple drinks at The Rabbit Hole with her later that night. He seemed hesitant at first, but the shy ones always here, but he eventually agreed.

Henry entered the Diner right then, and Ruby hurried off to help him. She got him his order of eggs and coke and made light conversation, asking how he liked the town so far and so on. An idea then hit her and before she even knew what she was saying, she invited Henry to come with her and Knox to the Rabbit Hole for some drinks, and Henry graciously accepted.

She was at The Rabbit Hole a short time later, killing time by playing pool and hussling a few guys that were too distracted looking at her than playing the game to their full potential. After she won, she was approached by Henry, and the two shared a very flirty conversation. And that's when Ruby frowned. The woman that no one seemed to know anything about from Storybrooke entered the bar, and Ruby felt inclined to warn Henry about her.
The mysterious woman made a point to cross the floor and introduce herself to Knox, which Ruby had just realized was there at the bar as well. Angry, Ruby approached the woman and coldly asked her to leave after seeing her flirt with Knox.

The mysterious woman remained polite and pushed past Henry to introduce herself. Knox got up from the table, looking rather annoyed and put a rolled up twenty-dollar bill in the woman's clevage, silently calling her a hooker and then moved to leave the bar. The woman took the money and handed it to Ruby, silently indicating that it was intended for her instead. Ruby could do little else right then than to take the money belonging to Knox and follow him out. She couldn't let the evening with him end like this, she would feel guilty about it forever.

She eventually caught up to him and flew into apologies of everything that had happened at the bar, but Knox didn't seem interested, and attempted to point her back in the direction of Henry. Ruby was determined though, she still didn't feel right about it and refused to leave his side, threatening that she would never leave until she learned five interesting things about him and saw a genuine smile on his lips. He eventually agreed, and Ruby walked with him to go back to Granny's where they could spend the rest of their evening together in a quieter scene.

They were nearly to Granny's when Ruby stopped suddenly, hearing a noise that she had never quite heard before. She stopped to listen, realizing quickly that Knox could not hear what she was hearing but she listened on, then coming to the horrible realization that someone was in trouble; Mr. Gold.

Pushing her hatred for the man aside, Ruby hurried down the complex route until she found Mr. Gold in an alley, seeming to just be holding onto life by a thread. She called over to Knox and Knox helped Mr. Gold to his feet. The older man seemed dazed and confused and Ruby had the intuition to call Robert Leland, the town sheriff but Mr. Gold startled Ruby by snatching his cane away from her, causing her to drop her phone in surprise.

Their options were quickly discussed and it was decided (more between her and Knox than Mr. Gold) that they would walk him to the hospital. They reached it rather quickly, and as soon as Dr. Stevenson was alerted to the situation, she came down to take things from there. No longer needing to stay, Knox walked Ruby out of the hospital, offering to stay and put in a few extra hours of work since he was already there.

Tired, but not wanting her night to end just like that, Ruby headed back to The Rabbit Hole in hopes for one last effort of having a good night. The bartender there, Jake Frostburn who she only really knew the name of, could sense that Ruby was having a bit of a rough night and offered his charming personality to help cheer her up. It worked, and so did his charm because not minutes after that, Ruby had Jake in the storage room closet where she would end her night on a much, much happier note.

[Major Ursa]

Name: Shohreh “Sherry” (or Shirley) Attar

Appearance:
Stands at five foot five inches with a curvy build.


Age: 21

Status and Job: Journalist, volunteers to read to children at the library (on her rare days off)

Skills:
-Information Gathering
-Self-defence skill
-Sneaky sneaks
-Photography
-Speech craft
-Lock picking
-Multilingual
-Networking
-Blackmail

Talents:
-Storytelling

Strengths:
Loves a Good Story - Can be ruthless, in the pursuit of truth and knowledge…and very, very tricky, spinning the yarn of falsehood around the necks of the gullible. She loves learning the tale, and making it better, or at least what Regina’s equivalent of better is (case by case basis).
“Look, it’s not good story telling to just go and turn a beast into a man. Good story telling is like…romanticizing the world’s most hated character! Or, the most forgettable one! When you can do that, well, you know you have them (the readers) eating out of the palms of your hand...just beware; lead too far and too long, and it’s inevitable that you’ll be far past run out of bullshit to feed the masses.”

Weaknesses:
Loves a Good Story – if you catch her ear, convince her that you’d got just the thing she wants to hear…she will be willing to trade information, and lets her guard down, leaving herself open to tricks, traps, or outright lies.

Relationships:
Regina Mills – “A wicked, bossy, rather cunty woman…and yet, somehow, I wouldn’t have it any other way. Far past just obeying authority, the woman has my eyes and ears, and I’m more than compelled to follow her. I’d like to think that the compulsion stems from that ‘old soul’ feeling people have mentioned here or there, the woman has more stories to tell than just the lead up to her role as mayor. But…as far as I can see, she is a strong woman who cares for the whole of the town, even above the individual citizen. I think I wouldn’t mind babysitting her way-way-distant future children…if Regina was a little less cunty.”
Jane Doe – “I don’t know where the mayor picked her up, but no one has come forward to this day with any idea of who she may have been, prior to her amnesia…besides that Carlyle fellow.”
Mr Gold – “A man with a hand in every business, not unlike my nose stuck in places where it doesn’t belong…he pedals what people want, what people didn’t know they wanted, and what he can make them want. Need…nobody needs something from a man who asks too much in return. I...don’t recall his first name; I may need to consult with my sources.”
Robert Leland – “The mayor has his ear, and he dances on the strings she pulls…a string looped several times around her little finger, and finally continues down the front of her shirt. Loyal to her, blindly, even…it’s not love, as far as my understanding goes, but he seems to want to play knight to her as best he can.”
Henry Carlyle – “The newcomer in town, a stranger to all. As far as anyone can tell, he seems friendly enough…maybe too friendly. He’s mentioned that a lot of towns people remind him of people he has known in the past, and quite possibly might know that Jane Doe…but nothing is certain.”
Ruby – “The town crotch, always ready for a go. Choice of apparel is questionable, but handy for attracting her interests. A list cannot even be compiled of the men she hasn’t slept with, too few. It isn’t a secret that she’s doesn’t have the most secure relationship with her grandmother.”
Granny – “The old woman runs the town’s only inn. She doesn’t impose on her granddaughter’s many affairs, and for that, I wonder if there is a measure of respect for privacy or just general lack of caring between them?”
Mystery Woman – “Not much can be said about a mystery, except that she’s waiting to be solved…well, she has been in town for a while. There have been mentions, rumours here out there of the woman being spotted around town, and a few acts of violence here or there were soon to follow.”

Brief Bio:
As a journalist, it’s her job to gather information and discover the truth, then write up and report on what is allowed (or not) to be disclosed to the public…as well, she work to gather and present information to Regina, where applicable. Kind of like an investigator, except the cunty woman isn’t paying her for her (extra) time used. C’est la vie, what you gonna do? Regina is mayor. In her spare time, she likes to drink tea and reread (___) for the nth time, go shopping for new perfumes. Above history, she loves poetry and interesting quotes, and telling others long stories she’s heard or read, time and time again…

[Silver Carrot]

Did I quit this? I can't even remember anymore.

I just remembered I hadn't posted here on a while.

[Lord Wyron]

Uhm - Silver, I think you were cut due to inactivity...

[Silver Carrot]

That makes sense. That's good. I don't know what the hell Goldilocks would even be doing by now.

[Lord Wyron]

Story's definitely picked up a bit :P Thanks for your previous service, mate!

[Silver Carrot]

Your...welcome (?)

I still have a rotten feeling for some reason, like I'm supposed to pick up where I left off.

[YoshiSkittlez]

Yeah Silver, you were cut. Sorry mate.

[YoshiSkittlez]

Storybrooke: Chapter 1 The Curse
Day 2 Character Summary

Mr. Gold

We get another flashback of The Enchanted Forest. It had been some time since Milah and Baelfire had been taken by the pirates, and on a cold winter night a beggar asked to come inside and get something to eat. Rumpelstiltskin let him in, and the beggar began a tale of The Dark One, putting the idea into his head that if Rumpelstiltskin stole the dagger from The Duke, then he could control The Dark One to get his family back. Even more than that, if he stabbed The Dark One with the dagger, then he could have the powers all to himself. He did of course, wanting the power for himself rather than wanting a slave, and so he became The Dark One.

When Mr. Gold came out of his memory, he was holding that very dagger in his hands. Changes were coming to Storybrooke, and he needed to protect it lest Regina get her hands on it and try and control him. He took the dagger out into the middle of the forest, a place he was sure no one would ever go, and buried the dagger using a shovel. He heard a dog growl, and knew right away that Mark Dufresne had to be around somewhere. He quickly finished burying the dagger and then made himself known to Mark with a polite greeting, the excuse that he was just doing a bit of gardening and then a warning that Mark should enjoy the quiet in Storybrooke while he still could and then took his leave.

He opened up his shop for the morning, and was unsurprised to find Regina storming in like she owned the place. He noticed some bruising starting to show up on her neck and made a quick jab at it, causing Regina to lift one of his scarfs to wrap around her neck to hide it. She then began demanding answers from him. What he knew of Dr. Faye Stevenson for one, and Mr. Gold told her about her visits with Dr. Hopper, and in the process informed Regina (however subtly) that Henry was going to stick around because he knew Dr. Stevenson. Regina caught on straight away, however, realizing that Henry had his memories, which meant that he was from their world and was there to break the curse. Infuriated, Regina left but not without Mr. Gold telling her that Henry was now the new substitute teacher at the school.

Henry Carlyle

Henry, to Mr. Gold's suggestion, took up the substitute teaching position and taught the English class for the elementary school. He got to learn the kids pretty quickly and eased into the profession as if he had done it his entire life.

He was surprised slightly when, after the bell had rang to let the kids go home, Regina came into the classroom. She looked a bit annoyed, and his suspicion was confirmed when she informed him that he had taken the position without consulting her. He apologized, but tried to reassure Regina that he was the best pick for the job, but Regina was unconvinced and asked about his teaching background. He explained that he had done some college time and taken a college level of English, but that wasn't enough for Regina. She seemed to do a quick 180 though as Regina confessed that she took a liking to Henry, and asked that he stay in Storybrooke for a bit longer, and Henry agreed.

Suddenly, Henry found himself kissing Regina like he had never kissed any woman before. He knew that this was most likely a trap, but his male instincts had him keep going. He did, however, manage to swipe the key Regina had in her jacket pocket that would ultimately free the mysterious woman who had helped him last night, and then he realized that they were in a children's classroom. He parted their heated kiss and said they should continue this later, and Regina reminded him about that dinner appointment she had set up with him the night before, and Henry assured her that he would be there.

He walked to the Sheriff's office where he found the mysterious woman alone and still locked tightly in her cell. He didn't even have a chance to approach her when she blatantly observed that he had made out with Regina. He admitted to it, though stating plainly that it was the only way to get the key from her to set the woman free. He let the woman out of her cell and the two parted ways, Henry's debt now repaid for her taking the heat of the ten-thousand dollars.

He went to read to Snow again, reading the story of Snow White in hopes that would get through to her somehow. Once he finished reading he began to just talk to her like they had back in The Enchanted Forest, however Dr. Stevenson made herself known and went to check the Jane Doe over on her condition.

It was then that Henry noticed a nasty cut and bruise forming on Faye's forehead, an injury he knew wasn't there the day before. He asked her about it, worried, but Faye just brushed it off as an uncooperative patient. Henry then mentioned meeting Dr. Stevenson's 'roomate' and Faye noticeably became comfortable. They made small talk about the mysterious woman, but Faye wasn't giving up much information. Having to move on with her day, Dr. Stevenson took her leave and promised to speak with him again sometime soon.

He went back to Granny's for a quick shower and a shave, now starting to feel excited for the dinner date over at Regina's. He knew she was bad news, but he couldn't just bring himself to not go. Dinner proved to be pleasant enough, and they continued their light conversations in the living room with a bottle of wine while Regina had an apple pie baking in the oven. One thing led to another, and Henry and Regina were at it again, picking up where they left off at the school. Henry did not go back to Granny's that night, finding Regina's bed to be much more...comfortable.

Dr. Faye Stevenson

The mysterious woman was still locked up in jail, and just as the clock struck 8:00 am Regina made her way inside to interrogate her. Regina asked how she came by the ten-thousand dollars, who she was, and why she protected Henry, but the woman just danced circles around the questions, not at all giving a straight answer to any of them and pushing Regina into becoming very angry.

Regina then offered the woman a deal, her immunity for the right information and the woman took her up on the offer, this time answering the questions with a bit more truth in them, but they weren't the answers that Regina wanted except maybe a brief mention the woman gave on Dr. Faye Stevenson. Regina was fed up and wanted to leave, but the mysterious woman made a point that she wasn't to be trifled with either and her hand shot out between the bars and enclosed around Regina's throat, threatening to crush her windpipe. She very well could have too, but she let Regina go with a warning, that she would come after Regina when she least expected it and taunted Regina until she was out of the building.

Henry came in a while later, smelling of desperation, desire, and Regina. It didn't take her too long to gather that Henry had spent some time with the Mayor, and called Henry out on it, giving him a warning to not get too close to the Mayor. Henry assured her that it was just to get the key to break her out of the cell, but the woman wasn't buying into it. Henry released her, his debt now paid for taking the fall for the 'stolen' money and the mysterious woman returned home where she allowed Dr. Faye Stevenson then to come though. Without a single memory as to what had happened the last half-day, Faye hurriedly went to the hospital to begin working once more.

She went to go check in on the Jane Doe and noticed that Henry was already reading to her. She remained quiet, and just watched, feeling somewhat happy that Henry was doing what he was doing. When Henry stopped reading, he began talking to the patient, as if he knew her and Faye made herself known. She checked Jane Doe over, seeing that there was no improvement or decline in her condition. Henry, as he watched, noticed the nasty cut and bruise on her forehead and asked about it. Not wanting to put any sort of target on herself by calling Mr. Gold out, she kept the details vague as 'an uncooperative patient.'

They continued to make small talk, and Henry mentioned meeting her 'roomate' and Faye knew right away that he was talking about her other self, the person she became that she had no memory of. Things got a bit awkward after that, and she was saved by a pager needing her in another patient room. She quietly excused herself with a promise to Henry that they could meet up sometime later.

Mayor Regina Mills

Regina made it a point to go and see the prisoner that Robert had arrested last night, recognizing the woman almost immediately as the woman that no one really knew in Storybrooke, yet had been here the entire duration of the curse, so she couldn't have been working with Henry. Regina tried asking the woman some questions, but the woman danced around the answers in a way that made Regina feel like she was talking to a female Rumpelstiltskin. This of course caused her to be angry, but she finally gave in and made a deal with the woman; her immunity for the correct information.

This got the woman to be a bit more cooperative, but Regina still wasn't getting the answers she wanted and threatened to leave, however before she could the woman's hand was suddenly around Regina's throat, choking the life out of her with her own threat of what she was capable of before letting Regina go. The only relevant piece of information that Regina learned that morning was that this insane woman had some sort of tie to Dr. Faye Stevenson, and she was going to find out what.

She went to see Mr. Gold, making a point to lift one of the scarves in his shop to hide the nasty bruise that was already starting to form on her neck. She then asked Mr. Gold what he knew about Faye Stevenon and learned that she had been seeing Dr. Hopper about something. She then learned that Henry was from their world, and came to Storybrooke, unaffected by the curse which led Regina to believe that Mr. Gold brought Henry here to break the curse. She was confused, outraged, they had been working together from the start to create this and suddenly Mr. Gold was trying to break this curse.

Paranoia got the best of Regina and asked where Henry was, and Mr. Gold informed her of the teaching position he handed to Henry. As if Regina could get any more angry. She left Mr. Gold's shop right away, making a point to stop by Dr. Hoppers office and demand Dr. Stevenson's file, she had to let off a little steam before approaching Henry anyway.

She arrived at the school shortly after, and with one solid plan in her mind. She had to frame Henry, and she knew exactly how she was going to do it. She called Henry out once the bell for the end of the day rang, and they were alone in the classroom. She scolded him for not asking her about the teaching position before taking it upon himself, and Henry apologized, though reassured Regina that he was fully capable of the job. Regina then changed methods, confessing that she rather liked Henry and that he should stay around Storybrooke for a while longer. She also made a point to mention the woman in the cells and the key that would set her free that was in her pocket. With that new information swimming in his head, he now only had to take the bait and Regina went in, kissing him hot and hard and gave him the perfect chance to put his hands on her hand swipe the key.

When Henry eventually pulled away fromt he kiss and promised to continue later when he came for dinner, Regina felt her pocket on her way out and noticed the key was missing. Only too easy. Now she just had to frame him for breaking the woman out of jail. But she would have to wait for the perfect time. For now, she had dinner to start preparing.

Henry arrived at 6:30 pm on the dot, and Regina allowed her into her home. The dinner went over smoothly enough, making light conversation. Regina knew that Henry wasn't really who he said he was, but figured she'd ask him questions about his life in 'New York' anyway, learning he had no family, friends, not even a lover. She had also sent Robert a quick text, giving him the green light to search Henry's room while he was out.

Diner soon turned into a warm conversation in the living room with a bottle of wine, and Regina felt herself opening up to him, sharing stories of when she was younger and having a good laugh. It had been quite some time since she had an actual conversation like this, like with a friend, and Regina couldn't help herself but to throw herself back at Henry, partly because Robert might still need time while he went through Henry's room, and partly because she just needed his intimacy right then. Henry ended up staying the night in her room.

Mark Dufresne

Mark was out in the forest packing up from his camping trip when his dog, Grip suddenly became very weary and started growing at some noises behind a bush. Feeling somewhat threatened, Mark was not at all prepared when it was Mr. Gold who came out of the bushes, but eventually he and Grip both relaxed, although Mark probably would have gotten along better if he had been a wolf. Turns out, Mr. Gold was doing a bit of gardening. That struck Mark as very, very odd. Who gardened in the middle of the forest? Mr. Gold said his goodbyes and gave Mark a slight amount of advice to enjoy the quiet while he still could.

Robert Leland

Robert recieved Regina's message, giving him the green light to go and search Henry's room. He wasn't quite sure what he was looking for, but being a sheriff he knew he would know when he saw it; plus he had to keep an eye out for Regina's snowglobe. He issued the warrant and knocked on Henry's door when he arrived, even though he knew he wouldn't be there. Couldn't be too careful though, people might be watching.

He entered Henry's room and began looking around, but found nothing that would deem suspicious. He did, however, find a big storybook called 'Once Upon a Time' that was turned to the story of Alice in Wonderland. He also found some of the pages dog-eared to a particular story about Rumpelstiltskin. Robert, while reading about the man couldn't help but to make a connection between Rumpelstiltskin and the town pawnbroker, both being greedy bastards and all.

Robert then got an urgent call from his deputy, Graham. The mysterious woman had escaped, and left no trail as to whether it was an assisted job or just a break-out. Robert had no choice but to leave Henry's room and go assist his deputy.

Knox Kowalski

For some reason unknown to even him, Knox stayed later at the diner that morning, finding himself, just a bit worried about Ruby. She wasn't at the diner and he knew she was supposed to be the way Granny kept cursing her granddaughter under her breath. Finally, he spotted Ruby getting out of Jake's car and alerted the on-duty waitress to get him a to-go box.

Ruby came straight to him and offered to fill his coffee, but Knox imediately declined and with a heavy heart told Ruby how it was; he would be a friend, a friend that would meet her at the diner every morning for his cheesy fries and coffee, but nothing more. Ruby tried talking back, but Granny kept calling to Ruby and eventually Ruby had no choice but to see what the old woman wanted.

He didn't mean to listen, but they weren't exactly being quiet about it either. Granny wanted Ruby to start working Saturday nights, and Ruby took offense to that, caring more about her nightlife than working an extra night. The argument became heated, and suddenly Ruby stormed out of the Diner shouting her resignation. Knox quickly followed after her.

He felt the need to show Ruby something, she wasn't respecting her Grandmother, nor stopping to appreciate the relationship that they could have, and so he asked Ruby to come with him to the hospital, to meet his father. Knox's father was sleeping when they arrived, but Knox went into a pretty personal story about the relationship he had with his father, and how it wasn't so good as of now, that he had taken what they had for granted. Ruby seemed to get the message, but still wasn't ready to face Granny, and so Knox offered for her to stay at his place until she figured out what she wanted to do.

Knox took her to his place and then left back for work. When he came back he found Ruby to be showered and in an entirely new outfit that seemed to suit her better...less skin showing. He at first thought she had done something wrong, but she insisted that she hadn't broken any of his rules. He took Ruby to the kitchen and had her help him with cooking up a late dinner with her on the vegitables and him on the steaks.

They made light conversation, until the subject turned back to her wanting to move to boston. Knox offered to help her find a job in the kitchens at the hospital, and then brought her fight with Granny back up. He was unprepared when Ruby started crying, and then she asked that he just drop it, and leave her alone and stop caring about her because he was making it difficult for her. Knox went to hold her, to tell her it was okay and then kissed her once, long and hard before leaving his house to clear his own head. Ruby didn't come back that night.

Ruby

Ruby woke up that morning next to Jake, the bartender from The Rabbit Hole that she had only just properly met the night before. Despite her hangover threatening to make her stay in bed all day, a rushing thought came to her as she realized that she was late and that she might miss Knox. She jumped to get ready, and Jake offered her a ride. Once he dropped her off, Ruby promised to see him again, sealing the promise by handing him her dead cell phone and asked him to charge it and return it back to her after her shift.

She immediately went to Knox and attempted to refill his coffee mug, more than relieved to see him still there but he gave her a firm no and made it clear that he wouldn't be anything more to Ruby than a friend, a friend that only saw her in the mornings for his cheesy fries and coffee. Ruby didn't have time to answer, because Granny kept calling her over, finally calling her a tramp in front of everyone in the diner and humiliating her.

Angry, Ruby went to Granny to see what she wanted, and became even more angry when Granny said she wanted Ruby to start working nights. The fight escelated and Ruby suddenly found herself storming outside the diner, shouting her resignation. She wanted to cry, but Knox had followed her out and asked her to follow him to the hospital. Confused, but trusting, Ruby went and Knox introduced Ruby to his father. He was sleeping, but you could still tell how much Knox cared about his father. He explained to Ruby that their relationship wasn't so great, but it used to be and he regretted taking advantage of it.

Ruby caught on right away at what Knox was doing, and it wasn't helping the guilt in her stomach. Knox must have recognized that Ruby wasn't quite ready to face Granny again beacuse he then offered her a place to stay at his home while she figured things out, and Ruby gratefully accepted.

Ruby did what she could to keep out of trouble at Knox's house. He had gone back to work, leaving her completely alone in the new house. She opted to make the most of her time and walked over to Granny's to get a few of her clothes and showering stuff. When she went to grab her clothes, she briefly remembered something Knox said about the way she dressed, that it made him...what was the word? Uncomfortable? Figuring that she didn't want to upset her generous host in any way, she dug through the back of her closet and found some clothes that would cover her up a bit more. She went back to Knox's and got the shower she so desperately needed, and when she was just getting out Knox returned home.

He started cooking them up something to eat, having Ruby help him with the vegitables while he worked on the steaks. They made light conversation, and Ruby was starting to feel more welcome, more at home as they conversed. Then the topic changed back to her wanting to move to Boston, and Ruby couldn't help but to get defensive about it, especially when Knox told her that she was just running from her feelings and her problems, especially when it came to Granny.

Ruby practically demanded that he stopped talking about it, stopped caring about her because he was making it worse. He gave her a quiet 'fine', kissed her hard, and then left the house entirely. Ruby was absolutely beside herself, what the hell was she supposed to do now? She quickly cleaned up the kitchen and then left Knox's house soon after he did, spending the remainder of the night at the Toll Bridge where she eventually eased to sleep.

[YoshiSkittlez]

Storybrooke: Chapter 1 The Curse
Day 3 Character Summary

Knox Kowalski

With the earth-a-quaken’, Knox feels a compulsion to leave the hospital to investigate the scene of the emergency, and goes along with one of the ambulances. Portions of the town, here or there, were damaged…but the ambulance brings him to the heart of the problem, the mine. Becoming concerned about the new piece of information, there being a young boy in the mine, the security guard brings up time being of the essence.

As luck would have it, an uncooperative Ruby steps in and offers to go in and save the boy, though Knox is strongly against that notion…and instead offers to go inside in her place. Both of them are dismissed, and though he’d have liked to follow, Ruby runs on in when people are distracted. Knox got more upset than he’d like to admit, bitches at the authorities, and rushes on in to follow the waitress.

The cave is cramped with low ceilings. Knox is a tall man. Bad idea. Ruby has little to no problem coordinating herself, Mark has little to no problems finding his way with his flashlight (who had followed after the two of them). Knox bangs his head on a low ceiling, minor bruising and bleeding all ‘round. The blood scares Mason once they found the boy, and Ruby went to the dog that the boy had chased down into the mines in the first place.

Eventually, they get out. At this point, Knox looks like a serial killer who had little problem with his latest victim, but Ruby pays this no mind and directs him to the nearest ambulance for some treatment. Getting his head checked, cleaned, and bandaged…he rests for almost a whole minute, before Ruby jumps at the opportunity to speak to him alone. Well, he’s glad that she’s thinking about him, and is worried for his health…at least.

Knox braces himself for awkwardness, yelling, something bad…? He’s not met with any of that, and is pleasantly surprised that she is apologizing…? It’s a pleasant surprise that she’s admitting that she has some issues of her own, having had time to think and grow. Ruby doesn’t plan on running from her feels anymore…and Knox shares the same sentiment?! (Though, he still has worse issues managing his feels than she does.) Ruby is happy, Knox is ___...and can feel himself grow more impulsive with actions like this. He finds himself kissing her once again, only for it to be reciprocated. He then tells Ruby to head back to the diner, and she understands what she has to do and reluctantly leaves him to go and apologize now to Granny.

After returning home for a quick shower and change of clothing, Knox returned to the hospital just in time for his head to start bleeding. Checking in with Dr Stevenson, a little bit of small talk here, a little bit of awkward ‘I can’t disclose certain information yet’ there…and the doctor noticed his eye squint-strain. After excusing it as side effect of lack of sleep, Knox was good to go back to work.

A few or so hours later, Knox is prolly eating a granola bar and patrolling, when he’s informed via the walkie talkie about some suspicious as hell activity. Going to the surveillance room, the only other person on surveillance duty saw some d!ck making out with the Jane Doe, and a call from the nurse followed. Watching the footage, Knox just can’t seem to figure out what sort of sicko would make out with a helpless patient?!

Looking about the hospital for Dr Faye Stevenson, as she is the head doctor and the one in charge of the Jane Doe, he finds her and brings her along to the hospital room. On their way, Knox asks her what she wants to do about Mr Gold, who she hadn’t so much lodged even the smallest complaint about for the way that he acted, from the other night’s footage. Both come to the conclusion that it’s best to stick to their guns, and file the complete report.

Getting into Jane Doe’s hospital room, Knox shows Dr Stevenson inside, handcuffs Henry, and plays the taped footage. Feeling Henry suspicious as hell, and possibly sick in the mind…he let the doctor make up her mind about this one…still, there is suspicion in his mind, planted when she asked him to leave the hospital room for the apparent mundane ‘you need help’ condescending speech that wasn’t quite right. But, Knox left it in her hands…fuck, prolly a stupid idea in a long, probably going to lose his job.

Dr. Faye Stevenson

Faye was in the hospital when the earthquake hit. As much as she wanted to go and investigate what caused the earthquake, she knew that she would be needed in the hospital, in case anyone got injured. Thankfully, not many people were injured. She heard about what had occurred at the mines through word of mouth. Knox came to her and she tended to his wounds. While she did so, she noticed that he was squinting, but he merely passed it off as nothing too serious.

After she finished tending to Knox's wounds, she ran into Henry who invited her to lunch at Granny's. As soon as she could, she went and met up with Henry. They made small talk with each other, until it Faye felt like she was about to black out again. Thankfully, before she could fully black out, Ruby came and interrupted the both of them. Right after Ruby checked on the both of them, Faye noticed that it was almost time for her appointment with Dr. Hopper. She quickly excused herself from the table, and headed for the psychiatrist's office.

Once she was in Dr. Hopper's office, she immediately noticed that he didn't have her psychological files. She asked him right away, but he lied and said that he misplaced the files. It wasn't until they finished with her session that she pressed Dr. Hopper for the truth. She knew that someone took her files, and she realized from what Dr. Hopper said, that it was Regina who took the files, and that she threatened him for those files. While they were talking, Dr. Hopper realized that the patient who had lung cancer was none other than Mr. Gold.

After the appointment, Dr. Stevenson headed back for the hospital to continue her work, only to learn from Knox that Henry had done something to the coma patient. As he lead her to the coma patient's room, he talked to her about the fact that security caught the moment Mr. Gold hit Dr. Stevenson, and Knox asked her if he could send the report to the sheriff. She allowed him to do so.

When they reached the room, Knox showed Faye the footage of Henry leaning over the coma patient. After Henry and Faye spoke with each other, Sheriff Leland dragged him out of the hospital, and to prison.

Hours later, Dr. Stevenson headed home, and on her way there, she spoke with Regina. She asked Regina why she took the psychological profiles without a warrant, and to return them to Dr. Hopper. However, the mayor denied having the files in the first place. Seeing that there was no point in continuing the discussion, she bid the mayor farewell, with something sinister hidden in her kind smile. After that, she headed home.

Regina

Regina had already been awake for a few hours by the time Henry decided to wake up from her bed. She was finishing up getting ready for the day and informed him she had to leave pretty soon and that he should get some coffee as well as telling Henry where his clothes had ended up from the night before. While Henry then got dressed, she went downstairs to get them both a cup of fresh coffee. When Henry finally joined her downstairs, Regina informed him that he was going to be late. Confused, Henry asked what for and Regina informed him that he got the teaching position at the school, earning a cheeky grin from the visitor.

Suddenly the ground began to shake as an earthquake began, lasting the duration of only ten seconds but it was enough to really throw Regina off-guard. She went to her window to see the rest of Storybrooke going outside to survey the damage (broken power lines, shattered glass, etc) and her paranoia only increased when she heard that the mines had collapsed when she had just managed to calm the crowds down after she had joined them on the streets. Regina could only watch in horror as the group then followed Leroy to the mines to further investigate the earthquake that came out of nowhere. Well, out of nowhere to them. Regina knew exactly where it had come from.

When Regina finally arrived at the mines, she found that Robert had already blocked the area off to keep anyone unauthorized from entering. She quickly approached the sheriff, demanding to know what happened but he, like everyone else deemed it as just being a collapse in the mines causing the earth to quake. Regina didn't like his answer, and went to survey the area herself. She noticed a small, glittering object on the ground and quickly stooped to pick it up, making sure no one was looking. She then informed the gathered crowd that the area was to be cemented off immediately, and that this area had become a high-level danger zone. She was just barking the command to get Robert on cementing the area when suddenly, Mark showed up out of nowhere claiming he saw a child run after a dog into the mines, and hadn't yet come out.

Henry was able to identify the boy as Mason, one of his students after Mark gave a quick description, and thus Regina had no choice but to issue a rescue party to retrieve the boy from the mines. Mark volunteered himself, but then all of a sudden the tramp waitress Ruby was demanding to be allowed to help as well, and then the broody paramedic Knox. Regina shooed Knox and Ruby away and allowed Mark to go in, but just as Regina was sure she had everything under control, the tramp Ruby darted towards the mouth of the cave and headed inside, obviously taking it upon herself to do what she wanted leaving Regina very angry and took it out on Robert, since he wasn't doing his job and could only watch when the broody paramedic followed after the tramp waitress.

It took a few moments, but Mason was finally brought back to the surface as well as the dog and the three who had entered the mines. Regina didn't even bother with 'thank you's' and approached Mason who was getting checked over by the other paramedics. She greeted him politely, and offered to take him out for ice cream. Regina didn't know who his parents were, or why they hadn't come forward yet, and so Regina asked Robert to look into it. Before Robert could even try though, David Nolan came forward and explained to Regina that the boy didn't have any. David had been watching the boy for some time now, giving anonymous donations to the school to ensure that he got something to eat and had clean clothes.

Now that the mines were clear, Regina once again ordered the mines to be paved over and walked away with Mason, pausing for just a split second before a tear in the earth where Regina let go the glittering object she had picked up earlier, now lost into the depths of the mines and made her leave with Mason at her side.

Regina spent the rest of the day with Mason, earning his trust by showering him with gifts. Ice cream, new toys, and now playing at the park. It was here that she informed Robert to meet her, while she waited swinging on the swing set with Mason. She offered Mason that he stay at her place, getting a heightened yes from the boy and a smile from Regina. Robert finally arrived, and Regina let Mason play on his own as they talked.

The order to cement the mines was issued, but Regina was no longer interested in that. She wanted information on Henry Carlyle, but Robert had none to give about his search in Henry's bedroom the night before. He did, however, inform Regina that Henry had been arrested for kissing the comatose Jane Doe. Regina found this amusing, no longer feeling the stress of Henry Carlyle running the streets and ruining everything. It might not have been by her own hand, but she finally had him behind bars. Regina then asked Robert what he knew about the woman without a name that had been in the cells earlier informing Robert that she knew there was some sort of tie between the woman and Dr. Stevenson.

Pleased, Regina patted Robert's chest and informed Mason it was time to leave so they could go home for dinner. Robert then called out to Regina, informing her that he would be stopping by later that evening for...wine...

When Regina returned home with Mason, Dr. Faye Stevenson approached Regina. Knowing that the conversation wouldn't be pleasant, Regina sent Mason inside to go and take a bath. Sure enough, Faye wanted to confront Regina about the stolen psychological files taken from Dr. Hopper's office, but Regina, knowing that she had no proof, lied her way out of it and instilled a few threats of her own to keep Faye away. Regina knew it wouldn't last long, knowing the doctor she would have to read those files tonight and get them back to Dr. Hopper before Faye went to Robert and got a search warrant.

Regina spent the remainder of her evening with Mason, eating pizza and watching a movie together followed by baking cookies. Regina didn't want the night to end, but Mason was overcome by exhaustion and fell asleep on the couch. Regina walked the sleepy boy upstairs into the room she would be giving him and tucked him in with a motherly kiss, and he in turn squoze her hand back before drifting back to sleep. Now that Mason was asleep, she could return downstairs and read over Dr. Faye's files, and put an end to this mystery of the mystery woman.

The files didn't tell her much, between Archie's scribbles and vague reports there wasn't much to go on, but Regina knew one thing was certain. Dr. Stevenson, before she became Dr. Stevenson worked for Rumpelstiltskin, and as fate would have it the man still had his memories. She would make a point to ask him about the doctor later. She took a quick walk to Archie's place and returned the confiscated files before heading to the Sheriff's department to see Henry behind bars herself.

Regina decided that it was time to confront Henry about his real identity, but he wasn't giving out information very willingly. Before Regina had a chance to really dig into him though, Mr. Gold made himself known and informed Regina that he would be taking over Henry Carlyle's case as his attorney. Utterly dumbfounded, Regina had no other choice but to leave, sending a quick text to her chief editor for The Daily Mirror to set up a quick meeting where no one could overhear them or see them together.

Her editor for The Daily Mirror was ecstatic about all the buzz going around town because of Henry, eager to write up a good story but Regina wanted only one thing from her; sabotage. She would ruin Henry Carlyle's reputation no matter what the cost.

Mr. Gold

In another flashback, Rumpelstiltskin confronts the very pirate that took Milah and Baelfire from him. He had only just gotten the powers of The Dark One a short while ago, but he knew enough now to seek his revenge on the pirate. He confronted Killian, letting him and his crew know that he was now The Dark One, and wanted his family back. Killian informed Rumpelstiltskin that both Milah and Baelfire had died at sea, washed away by a storm.

Completely outraged, Rumpelstiltskin challenged Killian to a duel, both knowing that it would be the pirate's last. Rumpelstiltskin then gave him the satisfaction of having the night to himself, for they would not duel until dawn.

Henry came into Mr. Gold's shop, demanding answers. Why had he given him the book, and how did he know all these things? Mr. Gold turned it into a dance of words, not exactly answering Henry but leaving other things open that made Henry grow more and more suspicious, finally causing him to call Rumpelstiltskin out, that Mr. Gold had his memories the entire time.

Mr. Gold then dropped the act, since they both knew now but he kept his words careful as he started to explain things to Henry. Mr. Gold then brought Henry's attention back to Snow, and Henry came to the realization that true loves kiss would awaken her, and so he left on his own agenda, believing that it would be he to wake Snow up from her coma, leaving Mr. Gold to just sigh and shake his head. That boy still had so much to learn, and unfortunately it would have be done the hard way.

News spread quickly of the newcomer that was going around kissing comotose hospital patients. Mr. Gold gathered up what patience he had left for the boy and headed to the Sheriff's department where he knew Regina would be sniffing out Henry immediately. He walked in quietly, overhearing the tail end of Regina's conversation with Henry, finding that Regina too was loosing her patience with the hairless cat and decided to cut in, claiming to be representing Henry Carlyle's case as his attourney, causing Regina's mouth to hang open in shock. He could only smirk at her reaction, they both knew with Mr. Gold serving as Henry's attourney, Regina couldn't touch him, and so she left without another word.

Henry admitted his thanks to Mr. Gold, calling him by his proper name of Rumpelstiltskin or The Dark One. Henry then went on to apologize for getting himself into this mess, he knew what really needed to be done, but he was so overcome by jealousy he had to try. Mr. Gold made it clear that Henry needed to get his head screwed on straight in order for him to be able to break the curse, and Henry agreed to do what Mr. Gold wished so long as it lied in the best interest of everyone else.

As Mr. Gold turned to leave, Henry asked one simple question; why he couldn't remember his name from back in Wonderland. Mr. Gold, of course, knew the answer but didn't think Henry quite ready, and so he answered Henry by saying that he didn't wish to remember, and walked out quietly leaving Henry to think over Mr. Gold's words, only able to hold onto the promise that Mr. Gold would be getting him out of prison in a few days time.

Ruby

Ruby, like everyone else, was immediately alerted about the collapse at the mines and found herself following the crowd to go and investigate. When she got there, Mayor Mills was already speaking with Sheriff Leland, David Nolan, Knox and Mark. They all seemed to be arguing about something, and (beyond reasons known to her) Ruby was able to hear them from behind the caution tape. A boy had been trapped down in the mines, and they were deciding who was to go. Ruby felt her feet moving for her as she pushed past the security tape and approached Mark, who would be the leader of the rescue and informed him that she would be going, ignoring the glaring looks she was getting from Regina for crossing the boundry line.
Knox spoke up first, saying that she would do no such thing and with a little resentment built up in her from the previous night, told Knox to back off.

Regina, however had the final word and dismissed the both of them, but just as soon as Ruby knew neither were looking, she turned and ran into the mines. She knew she could find that boy, she found Mr. Gold when Knox couldn't even hear him, she could definitely do this. Knox ended up chasing after her, and giving her a right scolding once they were in the mines but Ruby kept going, then noticing that Mark had also followed them inside. There was no turning back now, and so Ruby led the two boys in the direction that she could hear Mason. She didn't know how it was possible, since neither Mark nor Knox could hear what she heard, but as they went down tunnel after tunnel, they finally found the boy and Pongo.

Mark went to check on the boy while Ruby checked Pongo over. The walls of the mines began to shake and they were quickly forced back to the mouth of the cave. Mason went first, and then Pongo followed by Ruby and then Mark. Being the last one out, Knox barely made it out of the mines before the entrance closed permanately. He was definitely the one worse for wear, with him being so tall and the mines being so short and narrow he was sporting quite a few injuries. Ruby went over to Knox as he was getting checked out by the paramedics, and apologized for her behavior the night before. She told him that he was right, that she was running from her problems and feelings, and she aimed to fix that.

Knox took it upon himself then to kiss her. Ruby didn't know why, but she wasn't about to ask and let herself kiss him back before he pulled away and urged her to go and make things right with Granny again, and so Ruby headed back to the diner where she would do just that.

At first it was a bit awkward, walking into Granny's after the elaborate scene the two of them had put on for the diner not too long ago, but Ruby swallowed the bitter pill and got it out that she didn't mean to upset Granny, she was just frightened about filling her shoes, and apologized full-heartedly. Granny then told Ruby the only reason she was pushing her so hard is because she wanted to give Ruby the Diner once she retired, earning quite a shocked expression from Ruby. The two made up, and Ruby immediately got to work, having just a bit more work-ethic in the way she did things now.

It wasn't too long after that, that Granny's got extremely busy. What with the earthquake and all, everyone seemed to want to merge to Granny's to talk it over. Ruby was so busy tending to customers, in fact, that she didn't even see Jake walk in, having forgotten about leaving her cell phone with him completely. It wasn't until Jake had Ashley get Ruby's attention that she finally stopped by, finding Jake and Mark having what she would assume a very awkward conversation, being forced to sit together since the place was so packed. She got her cellphone back from Jake and apologized for not being able to stay and chat, and got back to work.

Dr. Stevenson had made it in with Henry, and Ruby tended to them quickly, having to explain that they were practically out of everything. It was good seeing Dr. Stevenson out, she was such an introvert she would have had to do something about that herself if Henry hadn't beaten her to it.

Robert Leland

Robert was one of the first to respond to the earthquake, he maintained order and tried to calm the crowd down. While he was leading Mark to the entrance, he was failed to stop Knox and Ruby from entering the mine. Afterward, Robert met Mason, had a brief conversation with David, Mason's temporary guardian. He was unable to find any records of Mason's parents or legal guardian when he called the school, a fact which troubled him. The hospital called when they saw Henry kiss an unconscious Jane Doe, and Robert ejected him from the building. Later, he met with Regina, telling her what he knew about Mason, Henry, and the mysterious woman. Some of what she said disturbed him, especially the fact that she somehow obtained Dr. Hopper's private records.

Henry Carlyle

Henry woke up the next morning in a strange bed, taking a few moments to reclaim his mental faculties and figure out what had happened the night before. It only took a few moments before he realized that he was naked....in Regina's bed. Overcome by shock and guilt, Henry practically scrambled out of bed and got dressed – accepting a rather nonchalant Regina’s offer for coffee.

Henry made his way downstairs hurriedly, showing a mixture of fear and regret at the events that had just transpired the night before. He had little time to dwell on these thoughts, however, as Regina came down the stairs shortly after him; giving him a mug of coffee.

As Henry waited about the house with his beverage, Regina casually told the newcomer that he’d be late for work that morning. Slightly confused, Henry begged her pardon, causing the mayor to elaborate that he had indeed been given the job of school-teacher. Henry was ecstatic, practically bounding up and down in his excitement (though Regina didn’t return the sentiment).

Henry’s mini-celebration, however, was short-lived as a flash earthquake struck the town, immediately causing the schoolteacher to dive under a table for cover. He slowly climbed out as the shaking stopped, quite dumbfounded at the sudden disaster. Regina was no-sooner out the door without another word, Henry following quickly at the mayor’s heels.

A large crowd of townspeople formed near Regina’s house, all begging answer as to what caused the earthquake to strike the down. Henry remained silent as the town drunk, Leroy theorized that it was a collapse at the town mines that caused the quake: and without a moment’s notice, the crowd swarmed across to the mouth of the mines.

Henry stayed close to Regina at this time, keeping his mouth closed and eyes alert as he observed the goings on at the mines. According to one of the town firemen, Mark Dufresne, there was a young boy trapped down in the mines after having chased Dr. Hopper’s dog Pongo.

At this, Henry piped up: noting that the young boy was no other than his own student, Mason was the one trapped down there. He fell silent again as the crowd began deliberating what would happen, eventually deciding on sending the firefighter down in the mines – alone.

In true Storybrooke fashion, however, plans changed as Ruby and Knox both sprinted past Mark and Sheriff Leland, resulting in three unqualified people in the mines instead of just one.

Henry couldn’t help but think of the audacity of the situation as he awaited the rescuers to return from the mines – promptly leaving as soon as he could, heading back to his room to think – think on events that were unfolding…

It wasn’t until later that day that Henry walked into the hospital again with renewed vigor – sneaking past reception to speak to Dr. Faye Stevenson and invite her to an unofficial lunch “date”.

The good doctor accepted and Henry left just as quickly as he had entered, a flashy grin on his face nearly the entire time.

Less than an hour later, Henry met Dr. Stevenson at Granny’s Diner and engaged in small talk with her while ‘enjoying’ the meager ‘lunch’ that Granny’s provided: being out of most of their food items for some strange reason.

The doctor suffered some sort of ill effect and promptly left the restaurant – giving Henry time for a surprise meeting with Mr. Gold, during which the Newcomer interrogated the Scotsman about his reasoning for giving Henry the storybook in the first place – this confrontation revealing that Mr. Gold, or Rumpelstiltskin, did indeed retain his memories from the Enchanted Forest: promptly reprimanding Henry for tossing out the memory potion in his own wrath.

This led into a slightly heated discussion where it was revealed that Rumpelstiltskin made previous dealings with Henry, or, the Cat’s now-deceased sister Alice – prompting Henry to demand what he gave her and why; but the Imp wouldn’t budge.

Deciding to change the subject, Mr. Gold subtly hinted at the prospect of True Love’s Kiss being able to awaken the comatose Snow White from her sleeping curse, or coma. Henry, in his arrogance, believed that Snow (who had been his best and only true friend in the Enchanted Forest) loved him as well, sending him in a hasty rush to get back to the hospital and awaken her.

Henry entered the hospital for regular volunteering hours with a certain hop to his step, barely able to contain his unseemly excitement as he entered the Jane Doe’s room; ready to be reunited with Snow (or at least Storybrooke’s version of Snow) for the first time in years.

He walked into her room, somewhat nervous over the prospect of kissing the comatose woman who he had lost for all these years. However, with slight one-sided banter, he overcame this nervousness and kissed her sincerely – to no effect.

Confused that Snow did not wake up, he tried once more, again with no effect. Growing desperate and emotionally unstable, Henry tried to kiss Snow one last time…again…nothing. This sent Henry into an emotional wreck; causing him to fall to the ground in tears as he realized that destiny had cursed him – for he would have to make David Nolan, or Prince Charming kiss her to break the Curse.

Henry had little time to compose himself when Knox Kowalski and Dr. Stevenson had him apprehended for “harassing” a coma patient; quickly having him handcuffed and calling Sheriff Leland. Henry remained almost strangely calm/composed during the entire ordeal; drained by the new information that had hit him.

The fates decided to give him a moment’s reprieve, however, as Knox left the room, giving time for Henry to explain himself to her. He rather hurriedly gave his defense, though it ended in more questions for Faye and less answers to her previous questions. However, she trusted him enough to believe that he would get her answers soon; keeping up the front, however, of the stern doctor.

It wasn’t long after that when Sheriff Leland arrived on the premises, escorting Henry out of the hospital and into a holding cell while he sorted out what exactly to do.

Henry stayed in the prison for the night, remaining almost deathly silent until Regina came to visit late in the night to confront him – making a dry remark about their rendezvous the night before.

Henry wasn’t in the mood for her games, however, and decided to instead reveal his position as the Savior to break the Curse.

Regina kept an intimidating stance, attempting to find out his “real” identity when Mr. Gold entered on the scene suddenly, citing himself as Henry’s lawyer in the pressing case against him. Henry did little but grin madly as the two powers of Storybrooke confronted each other; Mr. Gold holding the obvious upper hand in the discussion.

Regina left, barely able to contain her rage as her plans to expel Henry were extinguished once more. This gave Mr. Gold and Henry time to talk, where the jailed cat promptly apologized for the trouble he landed himself in; reassuring Gold that the Curse would be broken by his hand.

As Mr. Gold turned to leave, Henry decided to ask one more question: Why couldn’t he remember his name? His true name? At this the pawnbroker merely told Henry that he didn’t *want* to remember before leaving the sheriff’s office, leaving Henry to think over his answer…

Mark Dufresne

Mark was headed in to work as every other day went when he noticed a young boy chasing Dr. Hopper’s Dalmatian, Pongo through the streets. This did little to disrupt Mark until he saw the two of them run into the structurally unsound mines.

Jumping into action, Mark was just about to go in after the boy and dog when the mines collapsed; causing the entrance to cave in and a minor earthquake damaging a moderate portion of the town. This event caused the rest of Storybrooke to rile up into a small mob, disorderly and confused at the sudden disaster that occurred.

It wasn’t long before Sheriff Leland and Regina got involved, establishing a perimeter around the mines; preparing to seal it up. Before this could happen, however, Mark intervened – letting the town know that there was indeed a young child trapped in the mines.

This seemed to (strangely enough) grab the Mayor’s attention, and Mark personally volunteered to go down into the mines after the boy, who was identified as Mason by the newcomer, Henry Carlyle.

Before Mark could head in, however, both Ruby (the town whore) and Knox (the depressed security guard) demanded they help as well; citing their strange abilities of hearing and vision respectively.

Mark was prepared to accept their help when they both began to argue over Knox trying to guard Ruby who didn’t want it. Mark felt a strange sort of pressing urge to find Mason aside from the fact that he was lost (almost like he knew the boy ) and promptly silenced both Knox and Ruby: telling them he would be going in alone.

Before Sheriff Leland could escort him to a small space as entrance, Ruby took off into the mines herself, followed shortly by Knox. Mark was nothing less than furious, and hurried in after them – now having to watch after three people instead of just one.

As Mark entered the dark mine shaft, he immediately caught Knox and Ruby arguing *again*. No longer able or willing to hide his anger, Mark reprimanded both of them harshly; citing their disobedience and lack of maturity as reasons why the boy was still lost.

Mark seemed to finally drop the issue as he now walked down the dark shaft, flashlight in hand. It was true that both Ruby’s excellent hearing and Knox’s strange night vision came in handy, as they were only in the shafts a few minutes before finding the frightened boy and dog who were fortunately uninjured.

Knox attempted to calm the boy himself, but his bloodied appearance due to a head injury only frightened the boy that much more.

Mark felt a connection that he hadn’t before, and, moving Knox aside; spoke to the boy himself. Mason, too, seemed drawn to Mark and let himself be escorted out – the five of them (including Pongo) leaving the mines just as another collapse was about to start.

Knox and Mason received medical treatment and care, while Mark was given the rest of the day off as award for his good service. He took this time to head to Granny’s for a well-deserved break; deeply uncomfortable with his newfound label as “town hero” – he only wanted to be left alone.

It was at this time that Leroy came and sat down next to Mark, prompting the apathetic fireman to ask the janitor why the town was celebrating over Mark doing his job. Leroy, in a strangely wise fashion, told Mark that he had done what few others would have: volunteering without hesitation to rescue Mason from the mines

Mark rather bitterly acknowledged this, receiving a single warning about the newcomer being Regina’s ‘pet’ before Leroy left him in a somewhat more-confused state than before.

Around lunchtime, Granny’s was especially full, with the diner running out of free seats to take. This caused the local bartender, Jake Frostburn to sit at Mark’s table. The young man sought conversation with the grizzled firefighter, much to Mark’s ire. The conversation was at first awkward and clumsy – with Mark giving either short, blunt answers, or dampening the bright demeanor of Jake.

This eventually led to Mark losing his temper and sharply dismissing the boy: telling him that he didn’t like people at all. Though Mark apologized for his outburst, Jake left anyways, leaving Mark (finally) alone once again. …

[Major Ursa]

Midnight Gigolo: Knox X Everyone

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Mark turned to glare at the security guard, ""What are you doing?" Knox shook his head, and returned the look with a cold one of his own, "I believe you know, why should I have to spend time explain--!" "Uhhmmm...dad, why are you and Mr Kowalski naked...?" "Oh gods, Mason, go back to your room!"

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Knox pushed the shorter man to the wall, glaring him in the eye angrily, "You're disgusting, kissing comatose Jane Doe like that..." The security guard cursed under his breath, while Henry finally interjected, "I was kissing her, but I was thinking of you!" Just as he said that, Ruby walked in with the biggest 'what the actual fuck' expression on her face.

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"My granddaughter isn't in at this time, you know." The older woman had a curious look in her eye, watching the tall security guard drink his glass of cold water at the counter seat before her. Quirking an eyebrow up, Knox got out of his seat and leaned over the surface with a curious look of his own, "Yes, I know." Catching the grandmother's chin in his hand, he pulled forward to plant a gentle kiss onto her lips.

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Mr Gold ran a hand through his hair, before looking over at Knox with a bitter smile, "Heh, and what can I offer to the man who has everything?" The security guard frowned, and shook his head, before stepping up to the man face to face, "I don't have everything, but this will be enough..." Leaning down, the older man had anticipated the action, and their lips met...

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Knox nodded over at Faye, giving her his best smile, "I can really respect you for this decision." He was surprised when his comment was met with a frown from the doctor, "All this talk of respect and understanding...here, there, everywhere!" "...?" Tearfully, doctor Faye Stevenson cried up at him, "Knox! Knox, all I want is your love (and babies)!"

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To be continued...?

[YoshiSkittlez]

Storybrooke: Chapter 1 The Curse
Day 10 Character Summary

Robert Leland

During Miner's Day, Robert provided security, and pondered some of the mysterious events that had happened last week. He encountered Regina hassling Marco for lower prices, and confronted her about her behavior and her refusal to answer his questions. He made it clear that she needs to turn Mason over to the proper authorities, and let her know that he wouldn't tolerate any delays. Tomorrow, Robert plans to pick Mason up from Regina's himself if she refuses to cooperate.

Dr. Faye Stevenson

During the entire week, Faye's alternate persona didn't take over, and because of this Faye became a little more extroverted. She worked not only on the hospital, but also on the hospital's fundraiser for Miners' Day. She had planned to have a dunk tank for their fundraiser, however nobody wanted to volunteer to be the 'victim'.

With a brilliant idea on her part, Faye headed to Granny's to ask Henry. When he comes up to her and talks to her, he asked her for shelter since he had been evicted. She agreed and she asked him to be the guinea pig for her fundraiser in return.

They reach the Town Square at the Hospital's booth, which was next to Granny's. However, nobody was interested in dunking Henry, until Ruby and Regina took part. Thanks to Ruby and Regina, the hospital reached the quota for the funds needed for the fundraiser. After that, Faye volunteered to help the nuns sell candles alongside Henry.

She went to the hospital and met up with Knox, and after speaking with him, he bought all thirty six candles that she carried. She quickly headed back to the nunnery to pick up more candles, but she soon found that Henry mentally broke down after seeing a nun and she went to try and coax him out. She managed to draw him out of the bathroom, only to learn that he wanted to talk to Mr. Gold.

When the both of them left the nunnery, Henry suddenly acted out and broke the circuit breaker and caused a black out. Faye was initially not pleased because if she hadn't had the back up generators set up at the hospital, Henry would've endangered the patients in the hospital. But that anger went away at the sight of the candles being sold and from Henry's kiss.

She went with Henry to Mr. Gold's shop and waited outside for him, before they continued on to talk to Mark. After Henry asked Mark to talk to David, and gave the book to David, Faye led Henry back to her home.

After she tended to Henry's wound, he kissed her again, but Faye quickly left. After some minutes, Henry was lured out to the living room, and the mysterious woman attacked Henry. While they spoke to each other, the woman learned that Henry had his memories and that he knew that she was none other than Hyde.

Henry managed to prevent Hyde from killing him, long enough for the lights and cameras to regain power and come back on. Hyde settled for something else other than murdering someone and gave Henry the satisfaction of 'wanting' him back.

Ruby

Ruby was busy helping Granny pack up the goodies they had spent all week cooking in the kitchen to sell at Miners Day and Ruby took the packaged boxes and drove them in her car to set up a booth. She and Knox hadn't been able to spend much time with one another because of how busy the both of them had been with work, and that their working schedules were complete opposites. As she set up the booth for Granny, Ruby couldn't help but to feel just a bit jealous as she watched the couples of Storybrooke walking around hand-in-hand as they looked over what Miners Day had to offer. Unfortunately, even on today, Knox was working.

As Ruby was setting up the stall, she noticed that she was set up next to Dr. Stevenson's booth for her fundraiser for ALS, and then noticed that Henry had somehow got suckered into volunteering. Ruby wasn't ever one to shun Henry away because of what The Daily Mirror said, if anything it made Ruby like him even more because she knew too what it was like to be the talk of the town.

Faye offered for Ruby to be the first one to dunk Henry, but Ruby knew it would take more than that to get other's in on it for Dr. Stevenson to raise enough money for the charity, and so Ruby grabbed a ball threw it at the target, missing but shouting at Henry loud enough for other's to hear, giving them the idea that by throwing balls and dunking the town creep seemed like a good idea. Ruby was on her third try when the ball slipped from her hand and rolled down the street a ways, stopping under Regina's foot. The entire area went silent as Regina picked it up and considered what to do with it. She was obviously in a foul mood given the expression on her face, but Ruby was surprised when the Mayor threw the ball and knocked Henry down into the tank.

The onlookers immediately rushed to get into line. Not only dunking the town creep was a good idea, but now their own Mayor was in on it. Ruby didn't think that's what Regina had initially intended, but it got the fundraiser going with a bang and Ruby continued to do whatever she could to help manage both her booth and Dr. Stevenson's. Granny arrived shortly after, noticing the act that Ruby had gotten started and complimented her granddaughter, and then getting her own idea and slapping up a sign to get their picture taken with Henry for only five dollars. It seemed a bit outrageous, to Ruby at least, but the jokes Granny put out there about wanting a picture with him herself made Ruby smile, realizing she wasn't the only one that didn't give into the town theme of hating Henry.

Granny had "somehow" gotten the indication that Ruby was missing Knox as the day went on, and out of the goodness of the old woman's heart she sent Ruby off with a basket of goodies to 'give to the poor men at the hospital who had to work all day.' Ruby saw right through that though, it was Granny's way of allowing Ruby to go and see Knox, and she went with eager haste. She found Knox in the security room looking over recorded tapes so Ruby took it upon herself to pause the tapes and make him take a break.

It didn't take too long before Ruby and Knox had taken advantage of the situation that they were both alone and hadn't been alone for almost a week. It wasn't until the power suddenly went out that Knox and Ruby were pulled from one another (literally) and Knox had to do his job and had to go and check on the patients and make sure the backup generators were working, and Ruby volunteered to help, a little dejected that their activity hadn't gone as far as she would have liked, but she understood that there were more pressing matters at hand. She spent the remainder of the night patrolling the upstairs, bored, but knowing that she was doing good by helping at least.

Mr. Gold

In a flashback, the duel between Killian Jones and Rumpelstiltskin commenced at dawn, just as Rumpelstiltskin had said. The fight was very one-sided, as Rumpelstiltskin had his magic to keep the sword from causing any harm and even disappearing when Killian thought he might have tricked The Dark One. Rumpelstiltskin kicked the pirate down to his knees, conveying how it felt to have his family stolen, and to show Killian just how much pain he was in, Rumpelstiltskin reached his hand into the pirate's chest, ready to rip out his heart when he heard a female voice calling out for him to stop. Turning his head, Rumpelstiltskin nearly fell back as he realized it was Milah, dressed appropriately for a pirate life and realized right then and there that Milah and Baelfire had not been kidnapped...Milah had taken Baelfire and left him.

Mr. Gold found himself in front of the church, speaking with Mother Superior about the rent. He informed her that since they were a few minutes late in last months rent, that he was doubling it this month. Both of them knew that the only way the nuns could get that much money to save their church, they would have to sell every single candle at Miners Day, a feat that Mother Superior knew to be impossible, but Mr. Gold knew better. He'd just have to do some work Henry first.

He found Henry talking with Mark Dufresne and David Nolan, also noting that Regina's little boy Mason was in the mix. He caught the tail end of their conversation, hearing that Henry was offering to help sell candles with Mark for the nuns, and Mr. Gold couldn't help but to smile. As David left, Mr. Gold made himself known, commenting on how charming it was that Henry was offering to help out, but he and Henry both knew what he really meant. There was more that Mr. Gold needed to do, however. Even with Henry volunteering to help, not all the candles would be sold, and so Mr. Gold dropped two bits of information to Henry, one being that he needed to return to the nuns and see if he found anyone...familiar...the other being the lights that would come up along the square once the sun went down.

Mr. Gold knew the bit about the lights didn't register too much with Henry, he seemed to know right away what Mr. Gold was speaking of when it came to the nuns bit and became distracted, but Mr. Gold knew that all he needed to do was plant the thought, and the rest would follow as the day progressed. With his 'seeds' planted into Henry's mind, Mr. Gold no longer had business with the group and bid his farewell, walking away leaving Henry confused.

He returned to his shop later that evening, not at all surprised that Regina had finally found him and started making demands that he get the necissary paperwork to make Mason hers legally. He couldn't say no, however, since Regina posessed something he still needed, and they made the trade; a magical item brought over from The Enchanted Forest for Regina's motherhood. That he had expected, what he didn't expect was when Regina flat-out stated that she didn't abandon children, unlike he. That struck a raw nerve in Mr. Gold, so much that Regina left the shop with an amused smirk. He managed to keep his composure until the woman was gone, but once she left he broke down, unable to hold onto what strength he had any longer.

He was about two hours into drinking when Henry finally found his way into Mr. Gold's shop. The power had gone out an hour ago leaving Mr. Gold and Henry to converse by candlelight, the same candles that the nuns had sold but no one would ever recall selling Mr. Gold any. Despite being drunk, however, Mr. Gold managed to keep the conversation when Henry asked him why his sister was here, and Mr. Gold then deflected the answer to what Cora, The Queen of Hearts had told him during his time in Wonderland where he had sent Henry back at Regina's castle.

Mr. Gold tried to continue smoking his cigerette but a coughing fit overtook him, and Henry wasn't able to get much any more out of Mr. Gold after that other than breaking the curse was more important now than ever. He was dying, for one, and for another his sister needed her memories back, a motive that Mr. Gold played against Henry in order for him to break the curse even quicker. Henry also learned that it was all because of Mr. Gold. Henry had sold all the candles, and because he saved the nun's from Mr. Gold's eviction, he was now a 'hero' in Storybrooke, and no longer the creep The Daily Mirror had made him out to be.

Not much more could be said as Mr. Gold was succumbing more and more into his sickness, and Henry was forced to leave him but at least Mr. Gold now had the satisfaction of knowing that only a few steps were needed now before the curse was broken, and then he could go find Baelfire at last.

Knox Kowalski

Due to Miner’s day, Knox is working to cover for the general lack for security. Monitoring the surveillance room, the guy is met with a pleasant surprise in the form of a certain waitress, who has gotten his attentions this week only during their mornings together. Ruby brought treats, and also sticks to him like glue…his first instinct is to reject, being happy then moody about small things she mentions…but some neck massaging softens him up, and Knox is putty in her hands.

Getting dangerously intimate, with food products in between, here and there…a blackout comes in like a wrecking ball, and Knox is back in business mode. Time to do security guard stuffs, since the power is out.

Henry Carlyle

Having become more hole up and quiet due to his brief jail stint and a bawdy, over-exaggerated newspaper article about him, Henry Carlyle was an outcast of Storyrooke. Though the charges against him were quite easily dropped (thanks to the law expertise of Mr. Gold), Regina’s influence on the citizens was enough to make him nothing short of completely shunned. Things went from bad to worse when Regina called to “remind” Granny of a ‘No-felons’ clause in the city ordinance, forcing the old woman to evict Henry from his own residence.

Alone, hated, and homeless – Henry decided he would at least stay at the diner for a bit as a deterrent from the cold weather that Storybrooke was experiencing. The townsfolk weren’t happy to see him, and either whispered venomous things under their breath, or even outright left the diner.

Henry noticed Dr. Faye Stevenson at a booth with a fellow colleague. Though he felt compelled to speak to her, fear of rejection held him back – and he merely watched for a time.

Swallowing his fear for the sake of gambling on Faye’s generosity, Henry approached her, quite simply getting to the point that he needed a place to stay.

As if luck would have it, Faye (being the head doctor) was responsible for a fundraiser the hospital held every year at Miner’s Day that involved a dunk tank; with no volunteers to be the victim.

Faye made him an offer: were he to volunteer at the dunk tank, she would let him stay at her house until he could find a new residence. Henry, with no other option, and no fear of being humiliated more than he already was, accepted.

Henry then proceeded to load his suitcase and spare clothes into the back of his car, dressed now only in a dress shirt and trousers – to Faye’s objection, who felt he should wear more water-friendly clothes. Henry countered with his own personal wish to look well-dressed for the occasion; earning a somewhat amused acceptance from Faye.

The duo entered the town square where the festival was taking place, Henry’s “throne” not far off from the main hubbub of the festival. As they approached, Dr. Whale voiced his objections at Henry’s participation but was promptly silenced by Faye; making Henry quite amused. The newcomer wasted no time stepped into the tank, preparing for the first (of many) punishment dunks he would be issued today.

At first, people too little-to-no interest in the tank, giving Henry mixed feelings of both hopelessness and empathy at Faye’s plight in trying to raise money. However, as if the fates were being kind, Ruby and Granny set up their own stall *right* by the dunk tank.

Ruby took it upon herself to be the first contestant, trying (miserably) to hit the target. Nevertheless, it sparked interest, even causing Mayor Mills to be the first person to dunk Henry into the water! This was enough to cause most of the townsfolk to give it a shot, with Granny helping even more-so by advertising pictures with the (very wet) town creep for five dollars – business boomed.

After some time, Henry was allowed a break to dry off and stay above-water longer than five minutes. Moving behind another stall for a bit of privacy, Henry got to work on his soaking wet clothes that stuck to him like glue.

It was at his time when he was approached by a rather strange woman who offered him a towel. (Unbeknownst to Henry, this was Sherry Attar, the editor of the newspaper that ostracized him)

Henry was initially wary of the strange woman, as since the hospital fiasco, no one in the entire town went out of their way to speak to him. Because of this, he came across as cold and unfriendly to her.

The discomfort only continued as the woman compared his current appearance to a “wet cat”, causing the memory-ridden not-so-newcomer to bristle up and ask what she meant; though she said it was (seemingly) a fun little joke.

The two of them became somewhat more friendly in their interaction until Henry asked for her name, during which the woman called herself “Very, very sorry” before promptly walking off into the town square, leaving a very confused Henry behind.

He returned to the dunk tank moments after his talk with the bookish woman, remaining there for a few more hours until the crowds had died down and he was given leave to dry off and change. The hospital not only reached their quota, but then more-so; making this Miner’s Day, so far, a great success.

Henry, avoiding the rather-obvious flirts from Granny, asked Faye to walk him to his car where he could change back into dryer, more comfortable clothes. The two of them spoke briefly by his car before Henry went into the convenience store to change, emerging and showing off a bit for Faye to examine – the former apparently enjoying his new fashion style.

Without further ado, the two of them went back to the town square, where they bumped into Mark and Mason; who were selling candles for the nuns while trying to find Regina.

Having nothing better to do, Henry and Faye both offered their services to the fireman to help sell candles. Mark, having no luck on his own, begrudgingly accepted the offer. Faye took a box to the hospital while Mark and Henry took a few more (with Mason holding the money box) as they began to go around the town square selling candles. Though they still experienced no luck, Henry’s expertise with people, coupled with Mason’s own boyish cuteness was enough to turn their situation somewhat hopeful.

The three of them ran into David Nolan, one of Mark’s ‘friends’ (‘associates’ to the introverted fireman) and a veterinary assistant who was helping with one of the stalls for Miner’s Day.

Feeling somewhat generous, David purchased three candles himself, much to the pleasure of the Mark and Mason while Henry gave a hollow smile at the man; hating him simply for being who he really was – Prince Charming.

As if the trio weren’t famous enough already, Mr. Gold ‘ran into’ them, making a subtle hint about Charming to simply irritate Henry. Mark, who was already quite angered due to Mr. Gold doubling the nun’s rent, demanded what the pawnbroker wanted; for Mr. Gold approached very few people unless he was collecting rent or turning in a favor.

The pawnbroker laughed off Mark’s words and mockingly feigned ignorance at their financial plight, earning a sharp glare from Mark but no words.

Mr. Gold turned his attention towards Henry now, making another observation about how a nun in Storybrooke looked very similar to him, but passed it off as Henry was still a “newcomer”. This prompted Henry to shed a single tear, for even after all these years, the thought of his sister’s death was fresh and open in his mind.

Mr. Gold then switched subjects, making a very subtle hint about the lights of Miner’s Day before (thankfully) leaving the three of them be to work on business.

Mark then suggested they try going door-to-door with the candles, receiving a somewhat distracted affirmation from Henry before the three of them went off into the neighborhoods.

Before Henry could even finish trying to sell at the first house, Regina stormed over out of nowhere to confront Mark over “taking” Mason.

This erupted into a full-scale, heated argument between the two; with Mark displaying no fear whatsoever towards the mayor and even threatening to send Mason to Sheriff Leland should she leave him alone again. Henry stayed in the background at this time, hoping to *not* get involved.

The argument left with Regina taking Mason promptly back to Town Square and Henry rebuffed sharply as he tried to compliment Mark on a job well-done.

The day was growing late and the duo was finding themselves running out of time. As if on cue, Henry received a text message from Faye saying she had sold all 36 of her candles.

Though quite pleased with her accomplishment, Mark assured Henry that they wouldn’t have enough time and would have to return to the nunnery to confess their failure.

Henry bitterly agreed to this, and the two of them journeyed back; the trip far too short for either of them. They were directed by Sister Astrid to meet up with Sister Charlotte, who was organizing the fundraiser.

It was at this time that it is revealed that Sister Charlotte was none other than Henry’s thought-deceased sister, Alice, still alive and well in Storybrooke – without her memories.

This drove Henry into an emotional and mental breakdown, quickly fleeing to the bathroom to release his anger and anguish out in privacy, injuring his hand in the process. It was severe enough that it required soothing words and persuasion from Faye to draw him back out, during which he made it clear that he would have to speak to Mr. Gold as soon as possible.

As they both headed out of the nunnery, Henry noticed the lights of Miner’s Day lit up very prettily, just as Mr. Gold said. The Scotsman’s words seemed to ring out in Henry’s mind, and, with a sudden idea; left to climb atop one of the nearby buildings that housed a fuse box.

Finding a crowbar on the roof, Henry proceeded to knock the power out across town – forcing everyone to buy a candle from the nunnery, effectively selling them all in one night.

Henry was frantically excited as he clambered down the ladder and over to Faye; giving her a sudden kiss on the lips in his own happiness.

Not letting this sudden victory cloud his judgement, however, Henry knew he still had to speak to Mr. Gold. So both he and Faye left the town square in a slight rush, Henry choosing to enter the seemingly-closed pawnshop alone.

Henry found Mr. Gold in the back, savoring both a glass of alcohol and a cigarette at the same time – quite the unhealthy mix.

Uncaring that the pawnbroker was obviously trying to retain his privacy, Henry began to bombard him with questions about Alice: why she was here and how?

Mr. Gold then revealed that he planned on Henry’s cowardice in running away from Alice’s execution, where Rumpelstiltskin managed to get in and rescue the young girl from Cora’s clutches in the attempts to make Henry feel as though he had lost everything – becoming the savior that the Dark One needed.

Henry was stupefied at the fact his entire life, his struggles were all carefully planned and coordinated by Rumpelstiltskin without his knowing. What else was a falsehood? His friendship with Snow? His life in Wonderland?

It was at this time that Henry once again asked about the quill that Alice made a previous deal with Rumpelstiltskin over, but the old pawnbroker collapsed on the ground, barely conscious before he could give Henry an answer (or insult) in response.

Henry shouted in Mr. Gold’s face, furious in the fact that, even though he was a savior, he found himself receiving less answers and more questions. Regardless, he helped the pawnbroker up to his feet and onto a couch where he could rest. Mr. Gold revealed that he was dying from a disease, the Curse of the Dark One attacking him from the inside instead of affecting him on the outside. Mr. Gold then said that he would only be cured once Henry broke the Curse, a promise that Henry swore to keep – not for Rumpelstiltskin’s sake, but for Alice’s.

Henry then left without another word, leaving the Scotsman to slowly die away.

He made his way back to Faye and took her to the town square once again; arranging for Mark to ask David to read to Snow White in the hospital as a volunteer. Just as Henry was grabbing the storybook from his car to give to David, the veterinary assistant approached the two of them; somewhat doltishly asking questions about what exactly he had to do.

Henry and Faye explained the situation to him and David accepted, taking the storybook and promptly heading to the hospital.

Finally feeling it was time to get his hand fixed and get some rest, Henry let Faye lead him to her rather lovely home, where he was promptly treated for infection before being given a set of strange ground rules from Faye regarding his actions around the house.

Henry was just about to go to bed for the night when he heard music coming from downstairs. Letting his curiosity overtake him (as cat’s normally do), Henry made his way out of the guest bedroom to the living room, where the Mysterious Woman began speaking to him for the first time in over a week.

The conversation soon turned deadly as the Mysterious Woman attacked Henry, sending him to the ground without word or warning. The two began to speak, with the Woman (identified as none other than Evelyn Hyde) and Henry asking questions and evading answers; with Henry being quite enticed by the Woman’s appearance.

He managed to cleverly talk his way out of murder and then proceeded to enjoy the spoils of his victory in the bedroom…

Regina

Regina and Mason had knitted a very close bond with one another, both unsure how they had been able to survive without the comfort and love of the other. Regina thought of him as a son, and he his mother. Regina finished up a quick phone call to Granny's, reminding the old woman that she couldn't house felons, and that included Henry. She then took Mason to Miners Day, a day she would have liked to skip altogether and just have a movie and dinner night with Mason, but Mason was looking forward to all the neat things Miner's Day had to offer, and so they went together.

Mason had found Marco's toy stall and took a particular interest in a glass wire-hair terrier figurine, but Regina wasn't at all happy with the prices and tried talking Marco down. Marco explained that twenty-five percent of the proceedings went to the childrens hospital, but Regina didn't care and made it clear she was setting her own price. As she looked through her purse for some dollar bills, Robert approached them and immediately called Regina out on her interaction with Marco.

As if that weren't enough, Robert then went on to remind Regina that she could no longer legally keep Mason, that he needed to be taken to a foster home in Boston since his parents hadn't claimed him still. Outraged, Regina argued with him after sending Mason home so he wouldn't see her angry. But when threats and bribes wouldn't work on Robert (what the hell had gotten into him lately?) she tried pleading, begging him to allow her to keep her son. Robert didn't budge, however, and informed Regina that he would be picking Mason up in the morning.

Regina couldn't let this stand, and knew that there was only one person in this town that could help her keep Mason. No matter how much she hated going to Mr. Gold for help, she would have to now. She just had to find him first. In her search, Regina walked by what looked like a dunk tank booth and suddenly a ball was rolling towards her. Regina stood on it to keep it from rolling and got her first real look at the booth. Ruby had been the one throwing balls, and then she realized that it was Henry sitting atop the booth, waiting to get dunked.

Anger flared up in Regina, she was sure that by evicting him from Granny's he'd be on his way home by now, and yet here he was. Before she could even think of the consequences, Regina threw the ball and sunk Henry down into the water. She was pleased with herself at first, but then realized how quickly the other patrons of Miners Day wanted to contribute, so Regina hurried along in her attempt to find Mr. Gold.

Instead of finding Mr. Gold, however, she spotted Mason leaving with Mark and Henry. A bit outraged, Regina followed only to hear Mark asking Mason about the mines. She hurried over as quickly as she could and tore Mason from Mark, no longer having her hatred pressed directly at Henry who she ignored as he watched Regina and Mark fighting. Mark didn't stand down, and instead told Regina directly that the boy was lost, and he was just trying to help him find Regina. Regina didn't believe a word of it, and let her emotions get the better of her getting the same reaction from Mark, and threatened to take Mason directly to Robert if it happened again.

Regina would have punched him right then and there if Mason wasn't watching, and so she illicited a threat before leaving once more, this time with Mason bound to her as tight as if he were her shadow. It took practically the rest of the day, but Regina finally spotted Mr. Gold heading back to his shop as the sun was beginning to set. She allowed Mason to go out and play with his friends while she talked with Mr. Gold about something.

She followed Mr. Gold into his shop and got right to the point. She told him that she wanted to keep Mason, and knew that he would be able to help her do it. After some subtly thrown insults, Mr. Gold agreed so long as Regina handed over something he wanted. Regina had no clue what Mr. Gold would want of an enchanted apple, but she wasn't in the position to be bartering with him, she had only one other thing he could possibly want, but needed to save that for another time. And, to add in her own bit of insult as they departed, she reminded Mr. Gold that she didn't abandon children, like he did. With his facial expression giving her all the satisfaction she needed, Regina left his shop with a wide smile on her face. She was going to be able to keep her son after all.

Regina woke up at nearly three-thirty in the morning from her phone going off in an emergecny ringtone. Emergency or not, Regina didn't take too well to being woken up in the middle of the night and answered the phone hostily, realizing that it was Dr. Whale calling her about Jane Doe.

David Nolan had somehow thought it a good idea to come and read to Jane Doe, and while alone David claimed that she had grabbed his hand. Dr. Whale continued to inform her that when he checked Jane Doe out, he lied to David, making him believe that he was just tired and imagining things. Regina was up and ready within hours, heading to the hospital as quickly as she possibly could and when she got to the room Jane Doe was being held in, she was gone, and the bed empty.

Mark Dufresne

Mark was walking his German Shepherd, Grip down the street as he normally did every moment, quite thoughtful at the prospect of all that would be going on: Miner’s Day was today and Mark would no doubt be volunteering at the nunnery as he had done every year for as long as he could remember. He was somewhat of a favorite there and found it was a safe haven for him to show any shred of true emotion.

However things were less-than-optimal as Mr. Gold kept raising rent on the nuns, doing little but adding pressure for them to raise money to pay him. Mark sneered visibly at the thought of a man taking enjoyment in making nuns squirm. But he let these thoughts slide as he headed into Granny’s for his morning coffee, taking note of a rather grim-looking Henry Carlyle leaving the bed & breakfast portion of the building, suitcase in hand.

Mark wondered if the newcomer had found himself evicted, showing a small sense of sympathy before heading in to grab his drink and continue on.

Not too long after, Mark found himself at the nunnery near the town square, passing an almost…cheerful Mr. Gold who was whistling a tune to himself while proudly walking away. Knowing that this assuredly meant something bad had happened, Mark tied Grip’s leash to a lamppost before quickly heading on inside.

He found Mother Superior at the patio, looking quite despaired. Fearing the worst, Mark immediately jumped into action; asking if Mr. Gold had said/done something to hurt her. Mother Superior revealed that Mr. Gold had doubled the rent on them due to being late (by twenty-three minutes) last year. Because of this, the nuns would be forced to sell all one thousand of their candles in order to stay open this year.

Mark readily accepted the challenge (in a rare moment of kindness and good-naturedness) and reassured Mother Superior that he’d keep the nunnery open if he had to buy all the candles himself. He then set out on a mission; assuring himself he would complete it.

However, words are wind compared to action, and people weren’t buying any of the candles from the stand; only reacting in surprise/amusement at the introverted fireman advertising products from a stand.

It was at this time that Mark, fed-up and losing heart, decided to take a walk around the town-square to think up a solution to the candle problem.

During this walk, he ran into Mason who was standing alone and lost near one of the other stands. Overcome with a strange need to check on the boy, Mark knelt down by him and asked if he was lost. The boy confirmed that he was, indeed, looking for his “mother”, Regina. Mark decided that he would help the boy find her and took him by the hand as they began their search.

As they walked about the town square looking for the mayor, Mark accidentally bumped into none other than Henry Carlyle. At first irate and annoyed at the disruption, Mark was ready to get out of this conversation as quickly as possible. But things turned convenient as both Mark AND Dr. Faye Stevenson volunteered to help Mark sell candles for the nuns.

Unable and unwilling to say otherwise, Mark accepted their help, having Faye take a box to the hospital while he followed Henry about; using the newcomer’s charismatic abilities to sell.

Mark, though unwilling to admit, was impressed by Henry’s skill with people and began turning hopeful at their current plight, though not optimistically so.

Even so, they still had no luck at the town square aside from selling three candles to David Nolan, an associate of Mark’s. At this prospect, Mark suggested going door-to-door as a way to sell to the people.

Henry and Mason accepted, and the three of them journeyed off to the neighborhoods. Before they could even sell to the first house, however, Regina confronted Mark about “taking” Mason. Though normally Mark would have been indifferent towards Regina’s hot-headed demeanor; for some reason he felt a parental instinct and began hammering into the mayor, displaying no fear or intimidation at her presence.

The argument became especially heated, with Mark threatening to turn Mason in to Sheriff Leland if he found the boy alone again while Regina threatened to fire Mark; thus leaving him no way to afford the OxyContin he was so addicted to.

The conflict ended shortly with Regina taking Mason away, leaving Mark and Henry alone. Now disheartened and having run out of time, Mark decided that they should go back to the nuns and let them know that they couldn’t sell all the candles: figuring that it’d be easier for them to hear the news from a friend’s face as opposed to the greedy, cruel smile of Mr. Gold.

The two of them made their way back to the nunnery in silence, being directed to speak to Sister Charlotte, the nun organizing the candle fundraiser as they entered.

Upon seeing the young nun, Henry suffered from an emotional/mental breakdown and ran away into the bathrooms, leaving Mark alone to break the news to the young woman and, in a rare sign of emotion, hugged her tightly.

The two of them spoke until Faye entered the nunnery herself, asking to see Henry. This prompted Mark and Sister Charlotte to direct her to the bathroom, where she coaxed the teacher out of his hiding place.

Mark remained out of the way as Faye and Henry spoke, taking Sister Charlotte to the back as the conversation became more private. It was here he remained until there was a sudden power outage throughout town, causing them both to leave in a shock.

Immediately putting together what had happened, Mark couldn’t hide his happiness that the nunnery could stay open, now socializing openly with his friends like Marco, Leroy, and David.

He stayed at the town square for some time afterwards until Henry and Faye approached him once again, where he openly and gratefully thanked them, saying how he owed Henry a favor for his service to the nunnery and to Storybrooke. Henry decided to cash in his favor now for Mark to ask David to read to the comatose Jane Doe patient in the hospital.

Though somewhat skeptical, Mark nonetheless complied, and headed off to notify David of Henry’s request before heading home for a much-needed rest, for it had been a long day….

[Major Ursa]

Name: Lilibeth Kalbfleisch

Nicknames:
Tumblin’ Jill - Earlier career as acrobatic grenadier and dual wielder
Puss in Boots - After stealing the legendary ogre-made Seven League Boots and killing a series of them during the ogre wars

Appearance:
Body is covered in a shocking amount of cut and burn scars, from torture to war efforts…with these scars like the numerous stripes of a cat, and the magical knee high boots she later comes to possess, she gained the nickname of ‘Puss in Boots’. “The worst of the scars are visible when the last of her clothing comes off.” She stands at five foot ten inches high, and her hair has been comfortably short.
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Age: 25

Affiliation: Chaotic Neutral

Magic Capabilities:
Besides putting the Seven League Boots to use, she wears an amulet to ward off unwanted magic-juju…it doesn't actually work (she don't know it), but she feels vaguely safer with it on her person.

Weapons:
(Since losing the index, middle, and ring fingers of one hand in a skirmish, she has become limited as a Grenadier and dual wielder…she currently leans on using the Seven League Boots for most occasions.)

Grenades – carrying several small flasks, they range from explosive liquids to acids, instant freeze to hard to extinguish fire, poison…most are stored especially, and are mixed in the midst of battle in the form of acrobatics and juggling, for special and high effectiveness.

Dual Wield – a variety of blades…or whatever makeshift weapon she can find.

Seven League Boots – ever been kicked by boots that can travel seven leagues in an instant? After gaining then from a slain ogre, she became a near unstoppable force to avoid. The knowledge of usage comes to the wearer magically, and disappears once they remove it. A certain intelligent shapeshifting ogre, ‘Marquis de Carabas’, tricked her into using the boot’s second function just when he was about to be curb stomped…the second function being time and space travel, with thrice clicking of the heels.

Strengths:
-Acrobatics and flexibility
-Speed and dexterity
-Unbelievably lucky, to be surviving up to this point
-Childishly hung up on some dude’s death…? Death wish?

Weaknesses:
After living her childhood as a food-poison tester for nobility, spending much time making her own grenades later on (and having a god awful habit of dibbing and tasting the ingredients to identify the unlabelled substances)…her health isn't great, and though it wasn't evident at the start of all this grenadier business, she has begun to suffer from a number of illnesses. Her ability to speak has been stunted by not only a personal enemy of hers cutting part of her tongue out, but also by being minorly addled by toxins and poisons in her lifetime, causing her to have such speech impediments before the mutilation.

She’s none too smart, after inhaling chemicals and toxins to hell, but she has strong instincts…that also lead her to troubling situations. The thing is, she isn't fearless…far from it. But when she sees something that scares her, she goes against nature and runs straight into the flames. Despite her use to the special boots, she is freaked out by magic of this and that sorts, after a friend turned into a dog after struggling with a lifelong curse.

Relationships:
Jack – a constant friend of hers in her youth, to whom she had the biggest crush on…till his untimely demise, being pushed by a local boy and then hitting his head on a rock. After such a mundane death, she began to obsess about dying gloriously…for him. Over time, she admits she’s very much over the death of her friend…but the idea of dying gloriously, recklessly, it still hasn't left her mind.

Jack Be Nimble – her long time mentor in acrobatics, part of a performing troupe, whom she met after running away from home and her responsibility. They had a bit of a thing going, before he succumbed to a curse…he tried to escape it by revealing his real name (John Nathaniel, not even Jack!), but much too late. In a week, he had turned into a little dog.

Unknown Child – most assumed she straight up murdered it, since it was born quite weak, apparently.

Rumpelstiltskin – from what she remembers, a new recruit just before she…

Brief Bio:
In her early childhood-preteens, as the youngest of twelve daughters, there would be little to nothing left for her. In fact, she was sent to work in a noble's household as a food tester, reacting badly to this and that poisoned foods...learning to trace certain others by taste. It wasn't expected for her to do much else in the future. If her body became to poisonous for effective food testing, for even childbearing, she would be brought to work in a brothel instead. Still, there was shelter, and the food was delicious (despite the poisoning).

It was at this time that she met her childhood sweetheart, a boy named Jack. As a mere servant boy, his job was to fetch food stuffs, and pails of water from the nearest well. They spent much of their early years together, when they had time, just chilling and not worrying about the future...he affectionately called her "Stumblin' Lil", though her clumsiness had more to do with the poisons weakened her body here and there, but she was happy. Of course, happiness doesn't last for the peasants. During a trip to fetch water, Jack bumped into the son of a merchant. After much apologising, and then a bout of pushing, Jack was shoved too hard and died hitting his head on a small rock.

She discovered his death when she entered into the servant's quarter's, seeing the boy's body on the table as the household said their prayers to the boy who had passed. Despite the morbid scene, she couldn't help but noticed the dirty brown paper covering his face, since the servants were too poor to spare good cloth. Lilibeth laughed, laughing even harder when she learned how he died...got her first scars on her back from the whipping she received.

After living her usual way, up to her teens...she catches the glimpse of a performing troupe, and without a word to family and her household, runs away to join them. In their several years of travelling, she learned much about acrobatics, and defending herself with dual blades...had an on and off relationship with the second Jack in her life, Jack Be Nimble, her acrobatics mentor. When she thought she was ready, she left them too in order to work as a mercenary, paying the money out of her pocket to get proper tutelage as a grenadier. Maybe it was being a woman, that spared her many a possible death scenarios.

Though "Tumblin' Jill" wears her scars as badges of honor, most of them were from past failures, time and time again. Burning herself, then burning herself with acids...being caught, strung up, and tortured time and time again by those who were better than her. Still, she never hesitated, never stopped...she got better, learned from mistake, from error, still held her head up high when she met back with her mentor. Her second Jack disappeared before her very eyes, becoming "John Nathaniel", a man cursed...having to tell seven major truths, or else be doomed to turn into a dog. The intentional false name was to be one of his major truths, but after returning from a high pay job, it was quite evident by the little hopping and backflipping dog that it wasn't enough.

It can't be said that Jill was never a mother...but with less than nine months, and a trip to a lake, not many ask about the child that should have been. Few speculate that she miscarried, but she went out and actually said that she drowned the weak child, since her body poisoned it all too much for it to have survived for more than a few days anyhow.

It could be said that for a moment of her life, she was almost on her last legs as "Tumblin' Jill", a barely memorable mercenary. Having been paid to confront a nasty bit of bandits, she was strung up for the nth time...her tongue half cut out, and losing several fingers during her difficult escape. Leaving, and recovering...she stumbled upon quite a dreadful scene. One of the early ogre wars, bloodied battlefield of human corpses and not too many ogre. Trying to take the short way around from all this, she yet again stumbled into something unexpected...a den with a makeshift cave den, along with a sleeping ogre. With full intention to sneak past, Jill felt compelled to enter and least take a look around for the usual loot.

The boots, worn by the sleeping ogre, would be the Seven League Boots...after some difficulty, nabbing them and putting them on, and instantly gaining magical knowledge of their primary function...her career as the ogre slaying Puss in Boots was history. Luck has never been so strong in a person so dumb, but after killing a few ogres, she signed on to fight along with the troops of the ogre wars. Generally becoming a key figure in the few years she fought, for being able to pretty much one-hit the ogres...once she was tricked into using the unknown second function, by a desperate shapeshifting ogre...they pushed their soldier to fight/train perform harder once she disappeared.

Where did she disappear to? Current Enchanted Forest...happy to find that the name of Puss in Boots is famous, but still rather horrified that her actual name never became famous like she'd like. What's worse, it's quite evident that she was previously a big fish in a small pond, unlike now--small fish in a big pond. Where she was previously a hard worker to hone her skills, everyone and their grandmother now knows how to fight...probably a sign of the times? Magic is everywhere among people, and the mention of it is the second word on people's lips.

[HellHoundWoof]

So how might one join this? Without being very well versed in the lore and such.

[HellHoundWoof]

Accidental dubsky.

[Major Ursa]

Submit a CS of a non-claimed/called for character, and hope for the best? The GM and/or Co-GM will give you pointers, reading the IC would help...if you can't bare to read the IC, the Day summaries on the OP would be your best friend.

[HellHoundWoof]

Ignore the tripsky.

[HellHoundWoof]

So I just typed up a huuuuuge app and lost it. This is how people go insane.

[Major Ursa]

It's fine, just get it sorted out and edit it into one of your many posts.
LOL