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[ Snow hasn't slept since she woke up. For the first time in so long, she's had nightmares about the burning room in the Netherworld, of being trapped in flames the way she was during the sleeping curse. So, she simply isn't going to sleep until she can talk to Regina and see about some kind of potion or magic that can put her under without having to dream of anything at all. Hopefully, something like that exists.

But this means that she's dwelling on what happened. Her death in protecting Emma, the fact that her daughter was indoctrinated anyway. And that leads her to late night texting. ]

For those of you that have family here, how do you deal with the idea that you can't always protect them?

[ It's not a concept that's new to Snow. She held her newborn in her arms for all of thirty seconds before putting her in a wardrobe that took her so far away. Snow has fought magic, ogres and Lost Boys for her daughter but this time she failed. This time, she couldn't keep the worst from happening. ]

I realize it's a broad question. But I'm not sure I've ever thought I couldn't protect my daughter before. Not until the past few days happened. Maybe I just needed to get the words out. It's much easier to type them than to admit them out loud.

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You're hardest on yourself, but it makes sense.

[He knew what that was like. And it hurt all the same too to try and recover or move on from it.]

Have you had a chance to talk to them yet?

Not yet, but I'm sure it won't be long once they read this. I know they need space, too.

When you're all ready, then you're ready.

[He hoped for all the best for her and her family.]

I'm Minato. What's your name, if I can ask?

Snow White. It's nice to meet you, Minato.

[Whoa, like... in the fairy tale? He wasn't sure if it were polite to ask, so he wouldn't, not right now, anyway.]

It's nice to meet you too. You had a kingdom, is that right?

[He decided to ask along those lines instead, hoping though that it didn't bring up any memories about what she had been asking about just now about failing to protect those she cared about.]

[ She appreciates this approach far more, and she's glad for it, honestly. ]

I did. I do, I suppose. I was on my back there after almost three decades when I came here instead.

Three decades is a long time. It had to have been hard on you.

[Everyone had something or other going on in their lives that didn't make it easy. But that was probably just the way it was.]

Edited 2018-05-19 21:44 (UTC)

I spent that time cursed. I was in a place like Wonderland, really. Where time didn’t move, I never aged. But imagine that when you came to Wonderland, everything was replaced with a set of memories suggesting you’d always been here and there was never a time you weren’t. That’s what it was like for me for all that time.

[ She hopes that’s an okay explanation, it’s not easy to do. ]

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[Minato was okay with any explanation. She didn't have to tell him, but she had been kind enough to explain, and Minato was grateful for it.]

How did you remember who you really were?

[He understood the cursed part, but it seemed much easier to be cursed than to break out of it.]

Eventually, good magic broke the curse. My daughter was the key. I had to give her up to keep her safe when she was born, but she found us, twenty-eight years later and broke the curse.

I'm glad she was able to help, even if you had to give her up. How did she know you were her mother if you were separated?

[Someone had to have told her about her relationship to Snow.]

She didn't. It works out that she...had a son. And she gave him up for adoption when she was eighteen. [ So, that was 18 years into the curse. ] My stepmother wanted another chance at being a mother, a good mother, and guess whose baby she just happened to adopt, without even knowing who the birth mother ever was?

[ Thes same woman destined to break the curse. What a fairytale coincidence. ]

When Henry was ten - when Emma was twenty-eight - he ran away from home to find his birth mother and brought my daughter back. We had no idea who we were to each other, but we became friends and she decided to stay. For Henry.

[That really was a coincidence. But a really good one.]

It was meant to be. I'm glad that you have each other to support each other.

[He didn't think it could have gone any other way. And now they had each other, even if things did get hard or seemed impossible to overcome. They already did overcome the impossible before.]

I am, too. Without them, I don't know what I would do, truly.

It sounds like you're really happy. Finally? It was worth the wait, even if you might not have remembered for a long time.

Being together again is absolutely worth everything.

I'm really happy for you too. There are lots of chances to be happy here, even with everything that happens.

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