DISCLAIMER: Not mine. I must have bad karma, cuz these characters are Joss's, not mine... not that he deserves them... he must have cheated me out of them in a past life... oh well, I'll get him in the next one... the plot line is based on Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves"... isn't that cute?
RATING: Somwhere btwn PG and PG-13... its one of my sweet and innocent fics... well, as innocent as I get, anyway.
PAIRING(S): W/A, Diana/Spike
SUMMERY: A new thang on an old story
DISTRUBUTION: Fenris's site, Angel of Mine, Natty if she'll have this, and anywhere else that wants it, you don't even have to ask... just tell me
SPOILERS: OK, this is centuries before BtVS ever happened, so nothing from there applies, except personalities...
DEDICATION: Diana C.. I hope this cheers you up, girlie!
FEEBACK: you know the drill... except this isn't a series, so just send two pieces out of the goodness (or evilness, as the case may be) of your heart...
AUTHORS NOTE:
<> thoughts,
** heard not spoken,
~~ author's comment,
AA (capitalized)
emphasi
sI'm gonna tell
you who everyone is... or supposed to be, or whatever:
Rose Red- Willow
Angelus- Angelus
King Giles- Giles
(duh!)
Queen Jenny- Jenny
(another duh!)
(Evil) Queen Darla-
Darla
(Why Giles would
hook up with Darla is beyond me, too... but thats not the point, cuz this
story doesn't have one;)
There are more charaters
to come (Prince Charming, the dwarves, etc) but thats it for now.
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Once upon a time, there was a benevolent king, and a beautiful queen, (both of whom were very intelligent), and they lived happily in the kingdom of Sunnydale. One snowy winter day ~look, I know this is in California, lets just say they were visiting the mountains or something~ Queen Jenny pricked her finger. Three drops of blood fell on the snow. Queen Jenny, being a gypsy, read the drops and realized she would give birth to a child, hair the color of blood, skin the color of snow. She also knew she would die shortly after the birth. She was right.
A nearby vampire, Darla, smelled the blood that had dripped off Queen Jenny's finger, and instantly knew she wanted it. She also knew that she wanted to be queen. So she bided her time for an opportunity to obtain both.
Nine months later Queen Jenny had a baby girl and named her Rose Red. Darla had gotten an invitation into the palace weeks earlier when she had started work there; she was going to be a nurse for the new baby. When the hulabaloo ~I've always wanted to write that~ died down, Darla had her childe, Angelus, sneak into Queen Jenny's room and drain her. Then she pretended to be the one who stumbled upon her. She yelled for the castle guards and the king. When they arrived, she explained how she had walked in to make sure Queen Jenny was feeling alright and saw how she had been cold and limp. King Giles was inconsolable, as was the rest of Sunnydale. At the funeral the entire kingdom wept for her. Darla comforted Giles, and he married her so his daughter would have a mother and so the kingdom would rejoice again with a beautiful new queen.
Darla was beautiful, but very vain. Since she could not look into a mirror because of her vampire status, she had gotten a magical one. One that would allow her not only to see herself but to see other places as well. It would also answer her questions. Everyday she would ask ~c'mon, say it with me~,"Mirror, mirror, on the wall,whose the fairest of them all?"and everyday it would reply, "You are the fairest of them all." Until that fateful day eighteen years later...
End Prologue
Rose Red awoke at dawn when she heard the cock-a-doodle-do ~also always wanted to write that~, as usual since her father had died a month earlier. The Evil Queen, her step mother, had make her become a scullery maid, much to her own shock. True, the queen had never like her, no matter how much she tried to please her, but she never thought her own step mother would doom her to this fate. She grumbled as she arose. "What did I ever do to deserve this...(grumble grumble)... its not like I've ever done anything mean to her... (grumble grumble)... I mean, sheesh... what a bitch... (grumble grum- gasp) Look what she's made me do! I'm already cussing... actually that felt kinda good... bitchy ho! Slutty piece of... um... can't think of a word... gotta remember to ask Bob for another one... but that was fun... but I better not let anyone hear me... oh like anyone would care anyway... Ooh! I'd better get to work." And with that she got dressed and began to scrub the palace till it shined.
Meanwhile, (Evil) Queen Darla had just gotten back from her nightly hunt. <Better check the mirror to make sure I'm still the most beautiful. And if I'm not, the girl who is will pay! *evil maniacal laugh*> She walked up to the mirror and asked ~you know the words! say it with me!~"Mirror, mirror, on the wallWhose the fairest of them all?" But today the mirror did not have its normal response. Instead it paused for a moment, then replied in a small voice,"By thy vow on all that is treasured by yeDo you promise not to hurt me?" (Evil) Queen Darla blinked for a moment, then narrowed her eyes. "Why are you asking me that? You've never asked me that before." The mirror tried to shrink back from her.
"Vow now, on all that you hold dearAnd my reasons will become clear." (Evil) Queen Darla rolled her eyes. "Right, whatever. Just hurry up and answer so I can get some sleep.""Give me a minute, you Evil Queenmaking couplets is hard, don't be so mean!" (Evil) Queen Darla growled. "You have exactly 5 seconds to answer the question before I break you and find another mirror!" It was an empty threat, but it scared the mirror enough to respond.
"Queen, you are fair, tis trueBut Snow White is fairer than you." (Evil) Queen Darla first gasped, then started thinking. "Who the hell is Snow White?" The mirror turned am embarassed shade of red.
"Sorry, wrong dimension... what rhymes with dimension?You know what, screw the rhyme thing. Rose Red is more of a cutie than you are. Deal with it." (Evil) Queen Darla let out a carnal scream. One of her minions came running into the room. "What is the matter, my queen?" The (Evil) Queen Darla screamed her response and his instrutions to him. "The matter is that little brat, Rose Red. I made her a scullery maid so that she would become ugly when doing the work! BUT SHE DIDN'T! So I want you to take her out to the woods and kill her, then bring me back her heart as a token." The minion bowed down and replied, "Yes, of course your majesty." And with that, he returned to his quarters, waiting for sunset so he could kill Rose Red. ~eep!~
End Part 1
About five minutes after Rose Red had fallen asleep she heard a knock on her door.
"Who is it?" she mumbled in a sleep ridden haze.
When she got no response except more knocking, she yelled louder.
"Who the hell is waking me up at midnight on a friggin' Friday?! Its my day off!" She climbed out of her bed and pulled on a robe. She lit a candle and opened the door.
Standing there was a man dressed in the clothes of the (Evil) Queen's guard. Hoping to get on his good side so he wouldn't do anything to hurt her, she smiled.
"Whats up?"
He didn't smile back. Instead he simply said, "The Queen wishes for you to come with me to the forrest."
She looked at him like her had grown a second head.
"In the middle of the night? Riiight... you know you shouldn't be drinking while your on the job. Why don't you come in and I'll get you a cup of coffee to get you sober-"
With the invitation in, he stopped listening to her, merely banged her on the head and threw her over his shoulder to take to the forrest. <Sheesh.> he thought. <Why can't Queen Darla ever let things be simple. I can't drain her in her house, no, that would be too easy. I have to haul her into the forrest, rip out her heart, and I don't even get to drink from her! She's gorgeous, she would make an awesome vampire, but can I turn her? 'No!' the (Evil) Queen says. Man, I need a new job...>
His thoughts were silenced as her turned to a pile of ashes. A beautiful woman seeming to appear out of nowhere had just rescued Rose Red.
Who was this mysterious woman?
End Part 2
The mysterious woman observed her surroundings.
<How the hell did I end up here? Last thing I remember, I was e-mailing some author who had accepted my challenge. A Willow/Angel fic to help perk me up.>
She looked down at the red-head she had just rescued.
<Must be Willow. Where's Angel? Thats the problem with a story that I didn't write; I don't know whats going to happen. Looks like I'm stuck here until this ends.>
She sighed and shook Rose Red to wake her up. "C'mon, Willow, wake up."
Rose Red slowly opened her eyes. When she observed that her surronding were no longer her room, she jumped up to a standing position.
"Who are you, why are we here, and how did you know my father called me Willow?"The woman shrugged.
"Thats your name, isn't it?"
"Among others."
"What do people call you here?"
"Rose Red."
"I'm Diana. I don't know why you're here, and you wouldn't believe why I'm here. And the Willow thing... <How am I going to explain this to her?> where I come from, theres a girl that looks exactly like you, same voice, same everything, and her name is Willow."
"Another Willow that looks exactly like me? Why do I find that hard to believe?"
"You'll have to ask yourself that question. Anyways, why are you here?"
"One of the palace guards knocked me out and dragged me out here."
"Oh God, are you OK?"
"I'll be fine... where'd he go, anyway?"
<Did she have to ask that question? Well, this is Willow, knowing her she'll probably take this pretty well... I hope.>
"Willow? Do you, ah, believe in vampires?"
Willow gave her a strange look, and was about to say 'of course not' when she heard a voice from behind her.
"You should, pet."
End Part 3
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