OUAT/VD: The Truth Is Out There [Part 1]

Set in OUAT S1-5, but Emma isn't the one that comes to town and is the savior. The one that comes to town and is supposed to save everyone and give everyone their happiness back is human Kat from VD. After giving everyone their happiness back, who will she end up with? Will she finally get her own happiness, or is she doomed to live the rest of her human life without happiness?

Introduction

Once upon a time, there was an enchanted forest filled with fairytale characters we all know and grew up with. Or think we know. One day, they found themselves in a place where all their happy endings were stolen. Our world. This is how it happened. This is the story of how their happy endings that were stolen, were brought back through a stranger that came to town. This stranger was from another world, known as Katherine. Once upon a time, she was known to be a manipulative, evil bitch vampire of 500 years. As a human though, she’d changed for the better. She didn’t know of Storybrooke until she’d suddenly appeared in it, but due to the world that she had lived in for 500 plus years, she believed the true believer when he told her everything. And so, this is the story.

Ch.1: Pilot

*Flashback- Snow White and Prince Charming Story\*

It was a beautiful day, as Prince Charming galloped his horse through everything imaginable to get to Snow White, only to see, when he got to the forest where she lived with the dwarfs, her in a makeshift coffin.

“You’re too late,” one of them informed him.

“No. No,” Charming said and looked down at her in the see-through coffin. “Open it.”

“I’m sorry. She’s gone,” another one informed him.

“At least let me say goodbye,” Charming said.

They took the lid of the coffin off and Charming looked at her for a moment, before kissing her.

After kissing her, she awoke.

“You,” she stated. “You found me.”

“Did you doubt I would?” Charming inquired. “You’ll never have to worry. I will always find you.”

“Do you promise?” she asked him.

Later, they got married. After their vows and “I do’s” though, The Evil Queen interrupted by walking in.

“Sorry I’m late,” The Evil Queen said, before walking down the aisle towards where the Charmings stood. When a couple guards ran towards her, she magically threw them aside.

“The Queen. Run,” one of the dwarfs told Snow White and Prince Charming, but Snow White unsheathed Charming’s sword and pointed it towards The Evil Queen.

“She’s not a Queen anymore. She’s nothing more than an evil witch,” Snow White said.

“No, no, no. Don’t stoop to her level. There’s no need to,” Charming told her, taking the sword from her. Then he spoke to The Evil Queen. “You’re wasting your time here. You’ve already lost. I’m not going to let you ruin this wedding.”

“Oh, I haven’t come here to ruin anything,” she informed him. “On the contrary dear, I’ve come to give you a gift.”

“We want nothing from you,” Snow White told her.

“But you shall have it,” The Evil Queen replied. “My gift to you is this happy, happy day. But tomorrow, my real work begins. You’ve made your vows. Now I make mine. Soon, everything you love, everything all of you love, will be taken from you forever. And out of your suffering, will rise my victory. I shall destroy your happiness, if it’s the last thing I do.”

The Evil Queen began to walk away, but stopped and turned around, when Charming said, “Hey!” Then Charming threw his sword towards her, but she disappeared in a cloud of gray mist.

Seven or eight months later, they went to Rumpelstiltskin whom they had imprisoned, and he informed them that everything they all love will be ripped from them and that their prison will be time, but a stranger will come to town and then, “the final battle will begin.”

Afterward, a group of selective people were gathered around the table in the palace, trying to figure out a way to stop it, but soon, they found out that there was no way to stop it, because the Dark curse happened anyway. And so, Storybrooke, Maine was made.

*Present\*

In the present day, for so many years, Snow White was now Mary Margaret and a kindergarten teacher. Prince Charming was now John Doe and in a coma state. Because of everyone except Rumple and The Evil Queen being imprisoned by time, not knowing who they really were, no one except Rumple and The Evil Queen, now known as Regina Mills, knew who he really was. Rumple was now known as Gold and had a Pawn Shop, and Regina was now the Mayor of the town. Mary Margaret always visited John Doe, though.

It was a dismal night, as a human Katherine suddenly appeared in a town she didn’t recognize, in the middle of the road. She still had the ascendant in hand from the 1994 prison world she’d just escaped. She had no idea where she was, but she knew she needed to find out where. That’s when she saw a sign that said Welcome to Storybrooke, on the side of the road. Even though she was injured from her time in the prison world, she began to limp down the road. Her plan was to get herself taken care of at the nearest hospital, and then find out where the hell she exactly was and what kind of town this was. She’d never heard of Storybrooke before in her entire life. That was saying something, considering how old she’d been as a vampire.

After she’d tended to herself at the only hospital she saw was in town, and had found a change of clothes at a clothing store that was obviously closed at this hour, she began walking through town. That’s when she saw that there was a small motel. So, she entered the motel and approached the counter.

“I’d like a room,” she informed the elderly lady, once she and the other girl had stopped their argument.

When Granny asked her what kind of room, she told her that she’d like a square.

“How long will you be staying?” Granny asked her.

“A week,” she said, not really knowing how long she’d be staying here, but a week sounded reasonable enough.

After she questioned her of her name, Granny handed her a key, in which Katherine took.

“Welcome to Storybrooke.”

A guy came up to the counter, obviously having overheard.

“That’s a lovely name,” he commented, before Granny handed him some cash she knew he was there for.

“It’s all here,” Granny assured him.

“I’m sure it is,” he replied. Then he looked at Katherine. “Enjoy your stay, Katherine.”

She watched him leave, before turning to Granny.

“Who was that?”

“Mr. Gold,” Ruby informed her, as she looked out the window.

“He owns this place,” Granny informed her.

“This place?” she inquired, referring to the motel.

“The town,” Granny clarified for her.

Katherine didn’t have anything to say to that.

“Thanks for letting me stay here,” she said, before going up to her room that she’d be staying in.

Once she’d layed down, she fell asleep.

Ch.2: The Thing You Love Most

After she got ready and dressed for the day, she went downstairs and to the diner for something to eat. She went and sat on a bar stool, where she ordered a wine glass of Bourbon and a plate of a couple pancakes. After everything she’d been through, a shot glass of Bourbon wasn’t going to do it. She needed a wine glass, instead. After she’d finished eating, but was still sipping her Bourbon, she got a surprise visit of a boy with a book.

She looked at him, when he sat next to her.

“Hi, I’m Henry,” he introduced himself.

“I’m Katherine. What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be in school or something? What’s up with the book?”

To her, it looked suspicious that a boy would be carrying a book that size around with him.

“It’s not just any book. It’s magical. It has every fairytale in it. Everyone here is under a Dark curse. Now they don’t remember who they are,” he informed her.

“Well, I’m no stranger to magic, so it’s not too far fetched from the world I’m from,” she admitted. She kind of believed him, but at the same time, it was a little hard to believe. She’d never seen a curse before, but she’d heard of people that have been cursed by witches before.

After going through the book with the boy, she completely believed him. Especially, when she saw that now that she was in town, her story was in the book too. That meant everything he believed was true.

She closed the book and he put it back in his backpack.

“It’s nice meeting you, but what is my story doing in your book, though? I’m not a fairytale character,” she asserted.

“You’re supposed to bring back the happy endings. It’s your destiny,” he informed her.

She watched him leave for school, and then she continued drinking her wine glass of Bourbon. Not long afterward, someone resembling a fairytale character she’d just seen in Henry’s book came to sit next to her.

“We haven’t met yet. I’m Regina. I’m the mayor of this town. I make it my business to know who everyone is in this town. So, who are you?”

Katherine wasn’t fazed by her demeanor. She’d dealt with witches in the past and she’d once had a witch as a friend. Besides, she was descended from Travelers. She could take on a witch, evil or not. She drank some more of the Bourbon.

“Katherine Pierce. Before you ask why I’m here, which is what I’d ask if I were you, I don’t know why I’m here exactly. I escaped what’s called a prison world and suddenly found myself in the middle of the road, but if we’re going to coexist in the same town, I suggest not to threaten me. I may be from a different world, but my world isn’t too different from yours. You don’t know what I’ve done in the past or what I’m capable of,” she introduced and warned her, before Regina could say anything else.

“What has my son told you?” she inquired. “I know what he thinks me as.”

“What? A monster? Evil? Believe me, I’ve been in your shoes and it’s not a good feeling when everyone thinks you’re evil or a monster. The only thing that can probably keep people from thinking you’re who they think you are, is by changing into a good person. Doing good things. Sometimes though, that doesn’t work. It didn’t work in my world for some people, but it sort of worked for one person. He wanted to forgive me for what I’d done, but someone can’t forgive you for something overnight. It has to be earned. I learned that from Elijah. Don’t give Henry a reason to think you’re The Evil Queen, and he’ll see you as someone good eventually,” she answered her.

Regina didn’t have anything to say for once, so she just left to do her job as the mayor of the town.

The next day, Henry had her walk him to school.

“So, what’s the deal with you and your mom?” she questioned him.

“It’s not about us. It’s about the curse. We have to break it. Luckily, I have a plan. Step one, identification. I call it Operation Cobra.”

“Cobra? That has nothing to do with fairytales,” she replied.

“Exactly. It’s a code name. Throws the Queen off our trail.”

“So everyone here is a fairytale character. They just don’t know it,” Katherine said.

“That’s the curse. Time’s been frozen. Until you got here.”

“What about their past?” she inquired.

“They don’t know. Ask anyone about anything. You’ll know,” he answered her.

“So for decades people have been walking around not aging, screwed up memories, stuck in a cursed town that kept them oblivious,” she said, getting what he was telling her.

“I knew you’d get it. That’s why we need you. You’re the only one that can stop her curse. Right now, we have the advantage. My mom doesn’t know that. I took out the ending. The parts with you in it. If she finds out who you are, it’ll be bad. I gotta go, but I’ll find you later and we can get started.” After walking a distance away, he yelled out, “I knew you’d believe me!”

Someone Katherine didn’t know, saw and approached her. She assumed when she spoke though, that she was probably his teacher.

“It’s good to see his smile back,” she stated to her.

“I didn’t do anything,” Katherine assured her.

“So, does the mayor know you’re here?” she inquired.

“She knows. What’s her deal? She’s not exactly a people person. How’d she get elected?” Katherine said, needing to know more.

“She’s been here as long as I can remember. No one’s been brave enough to run against her. She inspires quite a lot of, well, fear. Ever since I gave him that book, Henry thinks she’s The Evil Queen,” she answered her.

“Who does he think you are?” she asked her.

“Snow White,” she answered her. “Who does he think you are?”

“Just who I am. Katherine,” she replied. “Who are you?”

“Mary Margaret,” she replied.

“Well, it’s nice to meet you,” Katherine said, and then watched her leave, before walking away herself.

After Regina did something to get Katherine out of having a place to stay at the motel, Katherine still didn’t leave town. She was quite resilient when she wanted or needed to be, so she found out where Mary Margaret was staying whom let her stay with her.

Once inside, she made a mug of hot chocolate for them both and gave Katherine one before sitting down at the table with her. So, together, they had some hot chocolate and a plate of cookies.

“You look like you need to talk,” she told Katherine.

“Well, you seem to trust me even though I’m a stranger. A part of me wants to leave, but another part of me knows that I need to stay. For Henry. I want to make sure he’s okay, even if he’s not my child.”

“I think the reason why you want to leave is the reason why you have to stay. If you leave, who will look out for Henry?” she replied to Katherine.

Later that night, Gold came to see Regina whom was in her yard with her tree of red apples.

“Lovely to see you in such high spirits,” he greeted.

“Well, it’s been a good day. Just rid the town of an unwanted nuisance.”

“Katherine Pierce? Really?”

“Yes. I imagine she’s half way to wherever she came from now,” Regina said.

“Oh, I wouldn’t bet on that,” Rumple said, picking one of her apples off the tree. “I just saw her strolling down main street with your boy. Thick as thieves they looked.”

“What?” she inquired.

“Perhaps, you should’ve come to me. Miss Pierce is a problem you can’t fix. I’m willingly happy to help. For a price, of course,” he offered.

“I’m not in a business of making deals with you anymore,” she reminded him.

“To which deal are you referring to?” he asked her.

“You know what deal.”

“The boy I procured for you. Henry. Did I ever tell you what a lovely name that was? However, did you pick it?” he replied to her.

“Did you want her to come to town?” Regina questioned him. “You wanted all this to happy, didn’t you? You finding Henry wasn’t an accident, was it? Where did you get him?” When he gave her a smile, she asked, “Do you know something?”

“I don’t know what you’re implying,” he replied.

“I think you do,” she said, and he gave her another smile. “Who is this woman? This Katherine Pierce?” she asked him, now trying to get information from him.

“I think you know who she is,” Rumple replied, not giving anything away. “I really must be going.” He turned around to leave, but she stood in his way.

“Tell me what you know about her,” she told him.

“I’m not going to answer you, dearie, so I suggest you excuse me. Please.”

He walked around her and then walked away.

She watched him go.

Ch.3: Snow Falls

After Henry insisted on it, Mary Margaret read the Snow White and Prince Charming story to John Doe and he grabbed her hand. She hadn’t expected something like that. She had expected that nothing would happen, and that Henry would see that fairytales weren’t real. Just fairytales. She told the doctor, but Whale lied to her, saying there was no change. When Mary Margaret left though, he called Regina to inform her that there had definitely been somewhat of a change.

The next day, Mary Margaret entered the diner, where Katherine and Henry were waiting for her. Henry wanted her to report about how it went. Mary Margaret informed them, and Henry said that she had to go back and read to him again, so they went back, only to find out that he was now missing. Regina and the sheriff were there.

“What did you do?” Henry asked his mother.

“You think I had something to do with this?” she inquired of her son.

“Well, it is strange that the mayor would be here,” Katherine interjected.

“I’m here, because I’m his emergency contact,” Regina told her.

“You know him?” Mary Margaret asked her.

“I found him. On the side of the road with no ID. I brought him here.”

“The mayor saved his life,” Whale interjected.

“Then let’s stop talking and get to finding him,” Katherine said, and turned around to leave.

“Is that what we’re doing?” Regina inquired, which made Katherine turn to look at her. “Just stay out of this. And since I clearly can’t keep you away from my son, I’ll have to keep my son away from you.” Regina took Henry’s hand and began to lead him away. She stopped and turned to look at the sheriff. “Sheriff find John Doe. You heard Doctor Whale. Time is precious.” Regina walked off with Henry.

After looking at the tape, they realized that he left on his own four hours ago, so they went in search of him in the woods. When they were still looking for him, Henry showed up to help and told Mary Margaret that he’s looking for her, but he was really meaning that he was looking for Snow White.

A moment later, the sheriff found his wrist band on a bush, and they all saw what he found when he called out to the others that he found something.

A few minutes later, they found him at the river and Mary Margaret saved him, and he woke up, but he didn’t know who he was.

At the hospital, Regina dropped a bombshell that she found out that his name was David Nolan. Then Regina took Henry home, and Mary Margaret and Katherine went home too.

Ch.4: The Price Of Gold

It was a beautiful day, as Katherine and Henry walked through town together.

“Are you sure we can be out in the open?” Henry asked her, knowing how much Regina didn’t like Katherine.

“I’m not sneaking around. Your mom has a problem with me walking you to a school bus? I’ll be more than happy to have that chat.”

“You’re brave,” Henry stated. “You’ll need that for Operation Cobra. Speaking of, have you thought of any code names?”

“Isn’t Cobra our code name?” she questioned him.

“That’s the mission,” he clarified. “I need something to call you.”

“Just call me Katherine,” she replied.

They stopped walking, once they were at the school bus.

“Okay, well, I’ll see you later, Katherine.”

She watched, as he boarded the school bus.

After the bus left, the sheriff came up in his car. He then got out.

“What’s up with the siren?” she asked him.

“Well, it’s so hard to get your attention,” he answered her.

“Well, you’ve got my attention now. What do you want?”

“To thank you for helping to find David.”

“And what do I get for that? Key to the city?” she questioned, half-joking.

“How about a job? I could use a deputy,” he offered her.

“Let me think about it,” she replied.

He gave her his card. “Think about it. Stay a while.”

She watched, as he left.

When she was at the diner and accidentally spilled some hot cocoa on her clothes, and Ruby told her where the laundry room was, she did her laundry there and put on some new clothes that were hanging from the line. Then she got to talking to a girl that was pregnant.

“The doctor said the baby could come any day now. The thing is, when it comes, no one thinks I can do it. No one thinks I can do anything. Maybe they’re right.”

Katherine leaned against the washer.

“Don’t listen to them.”

The girl looked at her.

“What?”

“Don’t listen to whatever they tell you or think you can or can’t do,” Katherine told her. “How old are you?”

“19.”

“I was 17,” she informed her.

“When you had a kid?”

“Yeah. I know what it’s like when everyone likes to tell you what you can and can’t do, but whatever you plan on doing, whether you raise your child or not, the choice is yours. You have to learn to stand up for yourself. Show people what you are capable of if you want to change their minds. You want to change things? You gotta go out there and change them yourself, because in my world, there are no fairy god-mothers. People say what they say to hurt you no matter what. Be strong and show them who you really are, and people will start to see you differently,” she replied, giving her some personal advice that she had to learn on her own.

Later that day, Gold came for a visit. Since Mary Margaret answered the door, he asked her, “Is Miss Pierce here?”

Katherine approached the door.

“Hi, my name is Mr. Gold,” he introduced himself and they shook hands, though she’d seen him before. “We met briefly when you first arrived.”

“I remember.”

“Good. I have a proposition for you, Miss Pierce. I need your help. I’m looking for someone.”

“Really?”

Mary Margaret left the room, saying she was going to go jump in the bath.

Gold handed her pictures, in which Katherine took and looked at.

“Her name is Ashley Boyd. She’s taken something quite valuable of mine.”

Gold walked inside and Katherine closed the door behind him.

“So, why don’t you go to the police?”

“Because she’s a confused young woman. She’s pregnant, alone, and scared. I don’t want to ruin this young girl’s life. I just want my property returned.”

“What is it?” she questioned him.

“Well, one of the advantages of you not being the police is discretion. Let’s just say it’s a precious object,” he replied.

“When did you see her last?”

“Last night. That’s how I got this,” he replied, and showed her a cut he’d received on the side of his head. “She kept rambling on and on about changing her life. I have no idea what got into her. Miss Pierce, please help me find her. My only other choice is the police,” he replied.

“I will help her,” she said, not saying anything about helping him.

After he left, Henry arrived, not heeding Regina’s rules of no TV and staying inside. Instead, when Henry found out that she was going out to go help the maid, he insisted on coming with her, so she had no choice but to let him come with her.

After talking to Ruby about who the maid was, Henry got the notion of who she was when Ruby said that she had two step-sisters and a step-mother.

“Look, I don’t know what you’ve heard, but it’s wrong. Everyone thinks she’s not ready to have this kid, but she’s trying. Taking night classes. Trying to better herself. Trying to get her life together. Can you understand that?” Ruby said.

“More than you know,” Katherine answered.

“Maybe you should stay out of it then. She’s been through enough already,” Ruby suggested.

“I’ve been through it too, Ruby, and I can help her,” Katherine replied.

Ruby told them where Ashley’s ex-boyfriend lived and they headed over there to talk to him.

After having a confrontation with the ex-boyfriend’s father, she found out why Gold exactly wanted it to be her to find the maid. So she could give him the baby that the maid sold to him. Then, after talking to Ruby again, she found out where Ashley was going.

At the town line, Katherine and Henry found her and she told him that the baby was coming. After getting her in the car, she tried to get them to take her to Boston, but she eventually convinced her that she wouldn’t let anything happen to the child, and she gave her a pep talk, saying, “You sure you’re ready?”

“Yes.”

“You sure? Because I wasn’t.”

“You weren’t?”

“No. You have to grow up and you can’t ever leave. Understand?”

“Yes. I want my baby.”

While Ashley was in labor, Henry and Katherine were in the waiting room at the hospital, Katherine pacing around, Henry sitting in one of the chairs.

“You know, you can do it. You’re the only one that can,” he said.

“Break the curse? Yes. You keep telling me that.”

“No. Leave,” he informed her. “Leave Storybrooke. If anyone else tried to leave, bad things would happen.”

“Anyone,” she stated. “Except for me.”

“You’re the Savior. You can do anything you want. You can go.”

They were interrupted, when the nurse came in and told them that she was a “healthy six-pound girl and the mother’s doing fine.”

Suddenly, Rumple appeared in the waiting room.

“What lovely news.”

Katherine looked at him.

“Excellent work, Miss Pierce. Thank you for bringing me my merchandise.”

She approached him after he got a cup of coffee.

“A baby? That’s your merchandise? Why didn’t you tell me?”

“Well, because at the time, you didn’t need to know,” he answered her.

“Really? Or you thought I wouldn’t take the job?” she countered.

“On the contrary, I thought it would be more effective if you found out yourself. After seeing Ashley’s hard life, I thought it would make sense. To you.”

“You’re not getting that kid,” Katherine boldly told him.

“Actually, we had an agreement, and my agreements are always honored. If not, I’m going to have to involve the police, and that baby is going to end up in the system. And that would be a pity.”

“That’s not going to happen,” she replied.

“I like your confidence,” he complimented her. “Charming. But all I have to do is press charges. She did, after all, break into my shop.”

“You know, no one would put a girl in jail for breaking and entering with the only reason of doing so was to keep her child,” she replied. “I’m willing to bet that that contract doesn’t stand up. Not to mention what might come out about you in the process. Somehow, I suspect there’s more to you than a simple pawn broker. You really want to start that fight?”

“I like you, Miss Pierce. You’re not afraid of me, and I’d rather have you on my side.”

“So she can keep the baby,” she said.

“Not just yet,” he answered. “There’s still a matter in mind. Agreement with Miss Boyd.”

“Tear it up,” she suggested.

“That’s not what I do. You see, contracts, deals, they’re all part of civility existence. If you want Ashley to have that baby, are you willing to make a deal with me?”

“What do you want?” she asked him.

“Oh, I don’t know just yet,” he admitted. “You’ll owe me a favor.”

“Deal,” she said, and they shook on it, before she walked away from him.

She and Henry entered the hospital room where Ashley was.

“Hey,” Katherine greeted. “What’s her name?” she questioned, looking down at the baby girl.

“Alexandra,” she answered her.

“That’s pretty.”

“Thank you for getting me here.”

“Mr. Gold is outside. I took care of it. She’s yours,” she informed her.

“She is?” she said with relief. “What did you do?”

“I made a deal with him.”

“Thank you,” she replied.

After dropping Henry off at home, she made up her mind to stay and called Sheriff Graham.

“Hello?” he greeted.

“Graham? It’s Katherine. I was thinking maybe some roots wouldn’t be so bad. That deputy job still open?”

“Absolutely,” he answered her.

“Then I’m in,” she informed him. “Regina gonna be okay with this?”

“I don’t care. It’s my department. Hope to see you Monday morning.”

“See ya,” she answered him. Then she hung up.