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Chapter 5: I’ll Place The Sky, Within Your Eyes
“What curse, Henry?” Kat asked, confused. What was this kid talking about? Was it just some game he was playing?
“The curse here, in Storybrooke. The only other person who came into town recently, August, knows about the curse.” Henry stated passionately. Kat nodded along, recalling the name belonging to the only other tenant at the inn. “Everyone here is trapped. Cursed by the Evil Queen, they don’t remember their old lives.”
Kat frowned slightly, though she didn’t think that he was right, the way he spoke made it clear to her that he firmly believed that everyone here was cursed.
“Sorry, Henry, I don’t know squat about curses,” Kat shrugged as she looked around awkwardly, “Besides, why would the ‘Evil Queen’ send people here?”
“Because it’s a land without magic.” At the boy’s comment, Kat’s eyes snapped to his face. He was telling the truth from what she could tell.
“Now why would you think that?” Kat asked, trying not to sound too interested.
“My story book,” Henry said as he rummaged through his bag. Soon enough, he pulled out a fairly large book. It had a brown leather cover and had the words ‘Once Upon A Time’ inscribed on it in gold lettering. “This book has the story of just about everyone in the town. Including Emma.”
“The sheriff?” Kat blinked.
“Yeah, she my mom, well my real mom.” He explained. Kat smiled sympathetically, guessing he was adopted.
“Can I see?” Kat asked, curious about the book. She couldn’t place it, but she got a weird feeling the moment he took out the book.
“Sure!” Henry smiled, happy to see that he might have gotten someone to believe in the curse, if only he could get his mom to.
The moment Kat’s fingertips brushed the leather binding, it felt like electricity shot through her arm as a familiar feeling welled up inside her. This book was defiantly not an ordinary book, it couldn’t be, not when it brought out such a reaction out of her. Kat paled slightly and didn’t even realize that she had dropped the book after holding it for less than a minute.
“Are you okay?” Henry asked, looking at the older woman in worry.
“Umm, I should get going, Henry.” Quickly, though not too quickly as she didn’t want to look suspicious, Kat put away her stuff and headed for the door. Once she got out of eyesight of the house, Kat wrapped her arms around herself and shivered, “A land without magic, huh?”
~~~
The teenager was confused as she reached the top of the stairs. The room before her looked like it was taken straight from a M. C. Escher drawing, with stairs and archways going all over the place.
“What?” She gasped.
“Sissy!” Looking down over the edge of the floor, she saw her brother on a different floor then her.
She was just about to call out her brother’s name when she heard someone talk. Turning around to the sound of the voice, she saw that it was the man who stole her brother from her. She glared at him, ignoring his words.
If not for the time limit, now down to less than an hour, she would have gladly beat the crap out of him, but she had to get her brother first.
Stairwell after stairwell she climbed and descended upon. Running like crazy trying to get to her brother, who seemed to move around himself as she ran, she lost her sense of direction as the stairs went in all sorts of directions.
Finally, she stopped, finding herself to be directly over her brother, the distance much more great than when she started.
“Screw it, I don’t have time for this bullshit!” She muttered, looking at the clock seeing that there was only a few minutes left. She backed up until she hit the wall, took a deep breath before sprinting off the ledge. She jumped down towards where her brother was.
As she fell, much like when she was in the ballroom, the Escher-like room began to crumble before her.
But she didn’t care, she just wanted her brother back.
~~~
“How was teaching?” Kyle asked when his sister entered the room. He was sitting on his bed, surfing the web on his laptop.
“… I think I need to call Uncle Tobi.” Kat said as she shut the door behind her.
“What’s wrong?” Kyle asked, just noticing how pale his big sister was, “Kat?”
“Paige asked me to also teach some other kid, Henry,” Kat started to say.
“What, were the two so bad you got violent with them and you need Uncle Tobi to call up a lawyer?” Kyle joked.
“No,” Kat shook her head, “That kid… he knows about magic.”
“What?” Kyle blinked, shocked, “Are you sure?”
“Yeah, he asked me if I knew about the curse.”
“What curse?”
“Apparently this town is cursed, the people here sent from another world.”
“You sure he wasn’t making it up.”
“At first I thought he was. But then he said that the reason they were sent here, was because this was a land without magic.”
“Are you sure?” Kyle asked, realizing what Kat meant. Most children, if they think there is magic, they wouldn’t think of their world as being one without magic, it’d be more like a Harry Potter world, with magic being hidden from the majority.
“And he showed me this book of his. Kyle, the moment I touched it I could feel the magic laced through it. Its like mom’s book.”
“Shit!” Kyle muttered as he watched his sibling pace a bit, understanding exactly what that meant.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I need to talk to him. I need to find out for certain if there really is a curse here.” Kat sighed as she paused in her pacing. If this town was cursed, that would explain why she couldn’t fix her bike as she was easily susceptible to curses.
“Couldn’t you have called him on your way here?” Kyle asked.
Kat shook her head, “You know how my conversations with him get, I’d cause a scene if I talked to him on the way here. Besides, I think I was too much in shock to do that.” Slowly, she dug into the left pocket of her jeans and pulled out her cell phone. She went through her contacts and found the person she was looking for. With a sigh, she put the phone to her ear and listened as phone tried to make the call. Soon enough, the call was answered and Kat heard a familiar voice. “Hey, Uncle Tobi. … No, no, we’re fine. Listen… I need you to go get Jareth and put him on the phone, I need to talk to him.”
~~~
The teen was now standing on a broken piece of the floor, the only things on it were herself, an archway and the man who had stolen her brother. He had apparently changed his clothes as he now wore all white, with a large white feathered cloak over his outfit.
“Where’s my brother?” She demanded.
“I suggest you watch your tone. I have been generous up until now.” The man stated coldly.
“Generous?” She snapped.
“Yes, generous, everything you have wanted I have done for you, Sarah.” At his finally word the girl finally had it. Throughout all the times she saw him, be it right before she started going through the labyrinth or before he summoned up the Cleaners on her and Hoggle, he had called her that. She was getting sick and tired of it.
“You listen here, you medieval reject. My. Name. Is. NOT. SARAH!!” She glared at the man before taking the rapier that Sir Didymus had given her when they dueled by the bridge and aimed it at the man, “Now give me back my fucking brother. You are not taking him from me, you have no power over me.”
The man’s face welled up in shock before he dropped the crystal ball that was in his hand to the floor, his body changing into an owl as it fell to the floor.
And everything went black for the girl.
DING!! DING!!
“Huh?” The teen looked around, realizing that she was in the hallway in her home. Turning her head, she saw that the grandfather clock was ringing due to the fact that it was midnight.
“Sissy!” Hearing that voice, the teen quickly ran upstairs to where she heard the voice calling her. Opening the door to her brother’s bedroom, she saw the four-year-old sitting on the floor, hugging his teddy bear tightly, “Sissy, I had a bad dream.”
“Kyle!” She cried out before hugging the boy tightly, “You’re alright.”
She then heard the front door open and close downstairs. “Kat! Kyle! I’m home!”
Kat grinned before picking up her brother, “Let’s go see Uncle Tobi, ‘kay?”
“Yay! Uncie Tobi!” Kyle cheered as Kat carried him out of the bedroom, unaware of the snow-white owl outside the window.
~~~
Jefferson stood by a window, looking through a spyglass into the sheriff’s office. He watched as Snow White, or Mary Margaret as she was known in this world, take a key out from under her cot. He watched as she unlocked the cell she was in and leaves the office.
It was clear she was going to run off, more than likely out of Storybrooke.
Now, Jefferson didn’t owe the woman any favors, but he also knew she didn’t do anything wrong, minus get on Regina’s bad side. Knowing what would happen if she managed to leave the town, Jefferson headed out for the woods, where she would most likely try to escape through.
He was going to save Snow White from the danger of leaving the town; it would defiantly give Regina hell.
“What curse, Henry?” Kat asked, confused. What was this kid talking about? Was it just some game he was playing?
“The curse here, in Storybrooke. The only other person who came into town recently, August, knows about the curse.” Henry stated passionately. Kat nodded along, recalling the name belonging to the only other tenant at the inn. “Everyone here is trapped. Cursed by the Evil Queen, they don’t remember their old lives.”
Kat frowned slightly, though she didn’t think that he was right, the way he spoke made it clear to her that he firmly believed that everyone here was cursed.
“Sorry, Henry, I don’t know squat about curses,” Kat shrugged as she looked around awkwardly, “Besides, why would the ‘Evil Queen’ send people here?”
“Because it’s a land without magic.” At the boy’s comment, Kat’s eyes snapped to his face. He was telling the truth from what she could tell.
“Now why would you think that?” Kat asked, trying not to sound too interested.
“My story book,” Henry said as he rummaged through his bag. Soon enough, he pulled out a fairly large book. It had a brown leather cover and had the words ‘Once Upon A Time’ inscribed on it in gold lettering. “This book has the story of just about everyone in the town. Including Emma.”
“The sheriff?” Kat blinked.
“Yeah, she my mom, well my real mom.” He explained. Kat smiled sympathetically, guessing he was adopted.
“Can I see?” Kat asked, curious about the book. She couldn’t place it, but she got a weird feeling the moment he took out the book.
“Sure!” Henry smiled, happy to see that he might have gotten someone to believe in the curse, if only he could get his mom to.
The moment Kat’s fingertips brushed the leather binding, it felt like electricity shot through her arm as a familiar feeling welled up inside her. This book was defiantly not an ordinary book, it couldn’t be, not when it brought out such a reaction out of her. Kat paled slightly and didn’t even realize that she had dropped the book after holding it for less than a minute.
“Are you okay?” Henry asked, looking at the older woman in worry.
“Umm, I should get going, Henry.” Quickly, though not too quickly as she didn’t want to look suspicious, Kat put away her stuff and headed for the door. Once she got out of eyesight of the house, Kat wrapped her arms around herself and shivered, “A land without magic, huh?”
~~~
The teenager was confused as she reached the top of the stairs. The room before her looked like it was taken straight from a M. C. Escher drawing, with stairs and archways going all over the place.
“What?” She gasped.
“Sissy!” Looking down over the edge of the floor, she saw her brother on a different floor then her.
She was just about to call out her brother’s name when she heard someone talk. Turning around to the sound of the voice, she saw that it was the man who stole her brother from her. She glared at him, ignoring his words.
If not for the time limit, now down to less than an hour, she would have gladly beat the crap out of him, but she had to get her brother first.
Stairwell after stairwell she climbed and descended upon. Running like crazy trying to get to her brother, who seemed to move around himself as she ran, she lost her sense of direction as the stairs went in all sorts of directions.
Finally, she stopped, finding herself to be directly over her brother, the distance much more great than when she started.
“Screw it, I don’t have time for this bullshit!” She muttered, looking at the clock seeing that there was only a few minutes left. She backed up until she hit the wall, took a deep breath before sprinting off the ledge. She jumped down towards where her brother was.
As she fell, much like when she was in the ballroom, the Escher-like room began to crumble before her.
But she didn’t care, she just wanted her brother back.
~~~
“How was teaching?” Kyle asked when his sister entered the room. He was sitting on his bed, surfing the web on his laptop.
“… I think I need to call Uncle Tobi.” Kat said as she shut the door behind her.
“What’s wrong?” Kyle asked, just noticing how pale his big sister was, “Kat?”
“Paige asked me to also teach some other kid, Henry,” Kat started to say.
“What, were the two so bad you got violent with them and you need Uncle Tobi to call up a lawyer?” Kyle joked.
“No,” Kat shook her head, “That kid… he knows about magic.”
“What?” Kyle blinked, shocked, “Are you sure?”
“Yeah, he asked me if I knew about the curse.”
“What curse?”
“Apparently this town is cursed, the people here sent from another world.”
“You sure he wasn’t making it up.”
“At first I thought he was. But then he said that the reason they were sent here, was because this was a land without magic.”
“Are you sure?” Kyle asked, realizing what Kat meant. Most children, if they think there is magic, they wouldn’t think of their world as being one without magic, it’d be more like a Harry Potter world, with magic being hidden from the majority.
“And he showed me this book of his. Kyle, the moment I touched it I could feel the magic laced through it. Its like mom’s book.”
“Shit!” Kyle muttered as he watched his sibling pace a bit, understanding exactly what that meant.
“I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I need to talk to him. I need to find out for certain if there really is a curse here.” Kat sighed as she paused in her pacing. If this town was cursed, that would explain why she couldn’t fix her bike as she was easily susceptible to curses.
“Couldn’t you have called him on your way here?” Kyle asked.
Kat shook her head, “You know how my conversations with him get, I’d cause a scene if I talked to him on the way here. Besides, I think I was too much in shock to do that.” Slowly, she dug into the left pocket of her jeans and pulled out her cell phone. She went through her contacts and found the person she was looking for. With a sigh, she put the phone to her ear and listened as phone tried to make the call. Soon enough, the call was answered and Kat heard a familiar voice. “Hey, Uncle Tobi. … No, no, we’re fine. Listen… I need you to go get Jareth and put him on the phone, I need to talk to him.”
~~~
The teen was now standing on a broken piece of the floor, the only things on it were herself, an archway and the man who had stolen her brother. He had apparently changed his clothes as he now wore all white, with a large white feathered cloak over his outfit.
“Where’s my brother?” She demanded.
“I suggest you watch your tone. I have been generous up until now.” The man stated coldly.
“Generous?” She snapped.
“Yes, generous, everything you have wanted I have done for you, Sarah.” At his finally word the girl finally had it. Throughout all the times she saw him, be it right before she started going through the labyrinth or before he summoned up the Cleaners on her and Hoggle, he had called her that. She was getting sick and tired of it.
“You listen here, you medieval reject. My. Name. Is. NOT. SARAH!!” She glared at the man before taking the rapier that Sir Didymus had given her when they dueled by the bridge and aimed it at the man, “Now give me back my fucking brother. You are not taking him from me, you have no power over me.”
The man’s face welled up in shock before he dropped the crystal ball that was in his hand to the floor, his body changing into an owl as it fell to the floor.
And everything went black for the girl.
DING!! DING!!
“Huh?” The teen looked around, realizing that she was in the hallway in her home. Turning her head, she saw that the grandfather clock was ringing due to the fact that it was midnight.
“Sissy!” Hearing that voice, the teen quickly ran upstairs to where she heard the voice calling her. Opening the door to her brother’s bedroom, she saw the four-year-old sitting on the floor, hugging his teddy bear tightly, “Sissy, I had a bad dream.”
“Kyle!” She cried out before hugging the boy tightly, “You’re alright.”
She then heard the front door open and close downstairs. “Kat! Kyle! I’m home!”
Kat grinned before picking up her brother, “Let’s go see Uncle Tobi, ‘kay?”
“Yay! Uncie Tobi!” Kyle cheered as Kat carried him out of the bedroom, unaware of the snow-white owl outside the window.
~~~
Jefferson stood by a window, looking through a spyglass into the sheriff’s office. He watched as Snow White, or Mary Margaret as she was known in this world, take a key out from under her cot. He watched as she unlocked the cell she was in and leaves the office.
It was clear she was going to run off, more than likely out of Storybrooke.
Now, Jefferson didn’t owe the woman any favors, but he also knew she didn’t do anything wrong, minus get on Regina’s bad side. Knowing what would happen if she managed to leave the town, Jefferson headed out for the woods, where she would most likely try to escape through.
He was going to save Snow White from the danger of leaving the town; it would defiantly give Regina hell.
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