Hi! I just left a comment on chapter 2 of Rabbit Heart but i needed to tell you immediately that i'm so incredibly enchanted by baby Padawan Rael!! You write him beautifully. I loved his whole recollection of his seeing Dooku at the temple, meeting him for the first time and then being chosen as Padawan (super interesting to see Dooku through Rael's not that much younger, sort of disillusioned, critical eyes). It basically made me like this: 🥺. Love!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I got your beautiful comment last night when I was hanging out with a girlfriend and had to explain why I was beaming at my phone.
Baby Chaos Padawan Rael and "Take Me Seriously Please I'm 23" Clueless Master Dooku is the thing I didn't realize I needed so much in my life when I set out to write this fic. I haven't written a Master and Padawan story in a couple of fics, and I missed this dynamic: these are my favorite types of Jedi stories to explore. Dooku and Rael are so different from Dooku and Qui-Gon. I like unpacking that. And it's funny, I set out to write this as a take on an old-fashioned trope: the whumpy love story, and it's... really about a lot of different types of love, not just romantic.
You people have all been so incredible about the update. My heart is absolutely full.
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Rabbit Heart - Chapter 13
Interlude I (Oh My Lovely)
“Well,” Arthur started, “no one’s born running.” He showed her how to reload, and then stepped back to let her try again. And again. And again. The bottles swung gaily, unbroken and unbothered while Rebecca continued to miss. At one point, Arthur asked her which one she was aiming for, and when she pointed at one hanging from the highest point of a long, tall branch, he laughed.
“I believe that the safest place to be in a gunfight against you, Mrs. Bentham, would be directly in your eyeline.”
She wished she could have a better temper about it, but her irritation rose with each shot that insisted on flying wide. She gripped the gun tighter. “And I believe if you were a better teacher, Mr. Morgan, my chances might be improved.”
He chuckled. “You may have a point.” He crouched next to her and, after a pause, placed his hands on her shoulders. She was warm in a radiant way, as if she had gathered the noon sun and kept it just under her skin. Her hair tickled the back of his hand. He quietly resisted the urge brush it from her neck, refocusing himself. “Turn your body, like this.”
She shivered and let him move her, trying to keep her mind straight down the barrel.
Read Chapter 13: Interlude I (Oh My Lovely) on AO3
Image Credit: "Cattails" by Johanna Harmon
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New OUAT OCs
this is all @the-witching-ash's fault for encouraging me to make a new oc to ship with Graham and now instead I have 10...
Angel Dearly | Anita Dumas in Long Live: Anita Radcliffe in the Enchanted Forest but has not married Roger so keeps her maiden name, Dumas. In Storybrooke she's a waitress at Granny's Diner who dreams of moving away and becoming a fashion designer. Shipped with @the-witching-ash's Roman Taylor | Roger Radcliffe and is Anastasia Dearly | Adelaide Dumas' granddaughter*
Named Angel for its similarities to Anita; Dearly for Anita's last name in the live action movie, and Dumas for Alexandre Dumas the French author/playwright
*this is specifically in Long Live/the crossover, theoretically she has a solo verse shipped with Graham but I only care about the crossover
Alissa Thorn | Priscilla Page in Dear Reader: Priscilla Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest, in Storybrooke she is the middle child between her sisters, her job is still TBD
Named Alissa as it means Wanderer, and Priscilla's place of power is the open road
Corrina Mills | Persephone in Rite Of Spring: Regina & Zelena's younger half sister, named after her mother Cora. She is Persephone in the Enchanted Forest and in Storybrooke she's Corrina Mills, Regina's younger sister and the only person who can leave Storybrooke without any issue but she either always finds herself returning without meaning to or she forgets about Storybrooke when she's out of the bubble and forgets about the "real world" when she's in Storybrooke. Her father is Rumplestiltskin, and she is most likely going to be shipped with Graham
Named Corrina both for her mother, Cora, and because it's a variation of Kore, which is another name for Persephone
Dove Thorn | Robin Page in Dear Reader: The youngest of the Page/Thorn sisters. In the Enchanted Forest she is Robin Page (from the Fables comics), and in Storybrooke she is Dove Thorn, Alissa & Evelyn's younger sister who works somewhere in the Sheriff's Department.
Named Dove as it is a type of bird, like Robin
Eilwony in Rabbit Heart: Eilwony from the Black Cauldron. She was a captive to Regina in the Enchanted Forest and is still captive through the curse. Because of being in Regina's castle, she was not affected by the curse and has kept all of her memories, but she can't escape or do anything with that knowledge until Henry Mills finds her and helps to rescue her. Daughter of a magic user, but I haven't decided which one yet.
(name does not change as she does not have a Storybrooke version of herself)
Evelyn Thorn | Hillary Page in Dear Reader: The oldest Thorn sister, she's Hillary Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she's Evelyn Thorn, who "recently" took over her mother's job as the elementary school librarian.
Named Evelyn after the most iconic librarian around, Evelyn O'Connell from The Mummy
Mirella Gold | Christine Daae in Once Upon A Song: Christine Daae (Phantom Of The Opera) in the Enchanted Forest, Rumplestiltskin takes on the role of her phantom in many ways. In Storybrooke she is Mirella Gold, who works as a personal assistant (tbd to who) but dreams of becoming a songwriter. She is raised by Mr Gold, but I haven't decided yet if she knows that she's adopted or believes that he's her father. Might be shipped with Graham.
Named Mirella after Mirella Freni, considered one of the best opera singers of all time
(in my heart, @the-witching-ash's Adelaide | Anastasia is her music teacher 🥺 )
Nieva in Eatnamen Vuelie: Nieva is Elsa's daughter, who Elsa does not know exists, and sadly that's all that I know so far!
Named Nieva as it means Snow, her name does not change as she does not have a Storybrooke version of herself
Paige Thorn | Prose Page in Dear Reader: Prose Page (from the Fables comics) in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she is Paige Thorn, English teacher turned school librarian who "recently" quit her job to open her own bookstore, leaving her eldest daughter to become the new librarian.
Named Paige as a pun on Prose Page's last name
Sadie “Sugar” Monroe | Charlotte LaBouff in Sweet Nothing: Charlotte LaBouff in the Enchanted Forest. In Storybrooke she is Sadie Monroe (but everyone calls her Sugar), a pageant princess rich girl with a heart of gold. She is an event planner and organizes plenty of town events and fundraisers, and will be shipped with either Graham or David.
Named Sadie as it is a common Southern girl name and nicknamed Sugar because it is a common nickname in the South (both chosen as a nod to Charlotte LaBouff being a Southern Belle), last name Monroe as Lottie's design was inspired by Marilyn Monroe
(ps thank you @ginevrastilinski-ocs for the help is naming Nieva and Sugar!)
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Rabbit Heart - Chapter 12
A Short Walk in a Pretty Town
Or, James 5:16
Arthur watched as she carried a bucket of water from the lake, her gait unsteady as the water shifted her balance back and forth. She poured the water into the waiting washbin. A pause, and she set the pail down slowly to rest her hands on the basin’s edges. The camp flickered in the morning light, the barest edges of movement in sleeping cots and crumbling embers.
He watched her shoulders bend, curving her slowly over the water. She touched her nose to it with a ripple, and then delicately, deliberately, sank her face below the surface, followed by the rest of her head. Silence, save for the weaving song of the morning birds. Rhiannon shuffled her feet nervously and bumped his shoulder with her nose. An entire minute rolled by.
Arthur nearly called out, acutely aware of how much time had passed, and then she was up again, water dripping from her chin and her hair. She was coiled tense in the shoulders, struggling with something for a moment, then releasing it in the next. She brushed the droplets out of her eyes and disappeared around the wagon to begin brewing coffee.
Read Chapter 12: A Short Walk in a Pretty Town on AO3
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