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Fic: Lion Cub
Title: Lion Cub
Rating: PG-13 for swearing
Pairing: Married!Mad Swan, with Henry and Grace
Summary: In which Grace is bullied, Henry is a hero and Emma and Jefferson spy on their babies from the bushes.
I suppose you could take Skeptics and True Believers as background, but you don’t need to have read it to follow this. Post-curse break, everyone remembers who they were.
Marchie prompted: “Coffee or tea?” and “A cry for help”
Anon prompted: Emma, Jefferson, Henry and Grace have breakfast together
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Emma refuses to drink tea with her husband.
Bad memories, she supposes, not to mention a lifetime addicted to coffee. Henry understands, doesn’t question – although he takes his willingly from his stepfather with milk and two sugars - but Grace frowns everyday when her stepmother turns down the same.
Jefferson just smirks. Of course he understands why, why when they first lived together she tiptoed around the kitchen like everything was poisonous, why she disinfected every coffee mug and teacup he had before she drank from them.
Fic: Necromancy by Degrees
So here it is: the final chapter of my Mad Swan fic, ‘Skeptics and True Believers’.
In which Gold and Emma strike a kind of truce, and Emma and Jefferson learn a few things, and Belle is comatose on a sofa. Follows on from ‘Stone Walls and Top Hats’.
Full chapter listing at my masterlist.
Thank you to everyone who’s been reading this and following along! You guys are amazing and beautiful, and I want to hug every last one of you!
accio-firewhiskey prompted: A Dartboard for Witches
Necromancy by Degrees
Emma gets a 911 call as soon as she gets back to the station.
One of Mr Gold’s neighbours: another domestic disturbance. She’s wanted a word with him since the asylum, but that was hours ago and the man knows how to disappear.
Fic: Stone Walls and Top Hats
A/N: Part of my Mad Swan series ‘Skeptics and True Believers’, follows on from ‘Light In All the Darkness’. The penultimate chapter! In which there is Helle, Rumbelle, Gold talking sense into Emma, and Henry being adorable.
Full chapter listing at my masterlist.
Claireymil prompted: ‘Hope is the thing with feathers’
Stone Walls and Top Hats
Emma drops Paige back at home. She hopes that, one day, she can allow Jefferson to be in the same room with the girl without having to keep them apart. A part of her is starting to think there really is more to this than meets the eye, more strangeness on this Earth than she’d allowed herself to dream.
Henry’s delighted, of course.
Fic: Light In All the Darkness
Part 5 of my Mad Swan fic ‘Skeptics and True Believers’, follows on from ‘A Hand to Hold’ Wherein we have Helle friendship, and Grace/Paige actually gets lines.
(Full chapter listing at my masterlist)
Light In All The Darkness
Regina comes in the middle of the day, when she knows Emma will be at work.
Jefferson is trusted to stay in Granny’s, where Ruby can keep an eye on him. If he leaves, Granny calls the Sheriff and she’s there in a heartbeat.
When the phone rings, and Emma picks it up, she expects to hear that he’s gone outside and disappeared, or that he’s harassed a customer. He gives people the creeps, she knows that, but people have come to accept that he’s her responsibility and that she’ll deal with it.
Fic: A Hand to Hold
Part four of my Mad Swan series ‘Skeptics and True Believers’, featuring Archie Hopper. Follows on from ‘Cages and Keys’.
(full chapter listing at my master list)
Thank you to everyone who is reading this and following along! I love all of you guys.
shadowhostage prompted: Robot Unicorn Attack
schmoo999 prompted: hand stitch crazy quilt
A Hand to Hold
Emma walks Jefferson to his first meeting with Dr Hopper, and even offers to wait outside.
She hopes he won’t do something drastic in the time between her leaving him and them meeting up again. She’s actually reached a point where doesn’t think that he’ll drug her again – but she still doesn’t eat anything she didn’t buy and prepare herself – or that he’s going to break any laws or stab her in the back.
Fic: Cages and Keys
Part 3 of my Mad Swan series ‘Skeptics and True Believers’, featuring Mr Gold and ice cream. Unfortunately not in the same scene, but still. Follows on from ‘Patchwork Sanctuary’
(full chapter listing at my master list)
Cages and Keys
She has to go and pick up Henry.
Regina calls her – that’s the weirdest thing all on its own – and says that Henry’s sick and she can’t collect him, and while it’s killing her to ask this, she needs her help.
As Sheriff, she occasionally has to ferry sick kids home from school: it’s never been her own kid before. The idea of picking him up from school, of having some actual time with him without Regina’s watchful, judgmental eyes, brings a new brightness to her smile, a spring to her step.
Fic: Patchwork Sanctuary
I’ve had to delete and resubmit this three times now because the tags weren’t working. It’s driving me crazy! Anyway, this is part 2 of my Mad Swan series ‘Skeptics and True Believers’, and it follows on from ‘Like Bites of Poisoned Fruit’
(full chapter listing at my master list)
Patchwork Sanctuary
She lets him stay.
It was his smile that did it, when she said he could stay the night so long as he let her handcuff him to Mary Margaret’s bed, so he couldn’t get up and kill her in the middle of the night.
It’s the most stupid, dangerous, pointless thing she’s ever done, but she does it anyway.
Fic: Like Bites of Poisoned Fruit
And here it is, the first part of my Mad Swan series, ‘Skeptics and True Believers’. Enjoy!
(full chapter listing at my master list)
Like Bites of Poisoned Fruit
Emma’s hallucinating.
She has to be. There’s no way she has a top-hatted, grinning madman lounging on her couch. She’s been up for thirty-six hours straight, time spent drugged and unconscious notwithstanding, and her mind is playing tricks on her.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
THATWASSOCOOLANDAWESOME!!!!!!
NEXT EPISODE IS GOING TO EXPOSE EVERYTHING!
That moment. The moment when Lana Parilla is amazing and shows the second when the Evil Queen is born. You can see it slide over her face, and nice!Regina dies and EQ is born.
And Gold is made of win. And totally made a deal with Cora. But we knew this.
I WOULD MARRY THIS SHOW!
I love my Mad Swan fic like it’s my own baby
8,500 words and counting in two days. Longest damn fic I’ve ever written in a weekend, and I’M NOT DONE YET. It’s gonna be called ‘Skeptics and True Believers’. I love it to pieces.
There’s a whole Rumbelle bit to come. Because I love them too much to put Jefferson in the asylum and not rescue Belle as well.
I WILL FINISH THIS TONIGHT GODDAMMIT.
And I hope you’ll all love it as I do.
My priorities are awesome
I have a tonne of college work to do. I have massive final exams to prepare for.
I have 6,500 words of Mad Swan on my hard-drive from this weekend alone. No work has been done.
Mad Swan help?
Does anyone know if Jefferson has any nicknames for Emma? Does he call her by her name in Hat Trick? Or is he like Rumple, and say things like ‘dearie’?
