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Cassiopeia gave the waiter her order before she leaned back into her chair, draping one arm over the back of the chair. ”Just don’t be disappointed if you find out something you didn’t want to know,” she warned Layla. Cassiopeia had adopted the attitude of their birth parents being dead and good riddance. She didn’t need that, nor want that in her life. She was completely happy with the little life they now had. It had been an upward battle but they had made it through, together. Cassiopeia didn’t need anyone else but her sister at her side.
Cassiopeia rolled her eyes at her sister and shook her head. ”Right cause I need that drama right now. Besides, guys are too intimidated around here when a woman can shoot better than they can. You can’t tell me you’ve had any recent success with that knife throwing of yours and landing a man. Well I mean, I guess you could pin them in place easily,” she teased her sister. As for finding a woman who Cassiopeia was interested in, there were slim pickings.

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Willow’s eyes widened and her mouth opened in shock. ”That’s… what really?” She glanced at the letter one of the girls pulled out again before Willow reached into her bag and pulled out her letter. She scanned over it again before setting her letter on the table. ”This can’t be a coincidence but it can’t be… I’m not adopted.” Willow said firmly. She couldn’t be, that just didn’t make sense but these letters, they were one in the same, other than who they were addressed to.
Willow had to set her coffee cup down as she was now visibly shaking. None of this was making any sense and she couldn’t wrap her head around it. Willow was certain she was about to have a panic attack but she didn’t need that, not on top of an already crap day. She sunk down into a chair and tried to slow her rapid breathing.

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"That's a good idea. I'll let my manager know that if I'm not there something is wrong. As for here, I'm only a bridge shift. I cover the end of Sierra's and the start of the lunch shift." Rose explained. She liked the weird hours and odd jobs. Most of her work was at the park though.

Rose looked around the room to make sure no one else was there except the three of them and Willow. She didn't want to be neglecting her duties, even if she was ready to throw off her apron and go to the park right at that moment. "Want a refill or anything?" She asked as she sent a quick text to her manager letting him know that she had every intention of being at work that evening and if she wasn't she had probably been kidnapped.

Rose's jaw dropped when she saw her letter. It was the same as her own. "Okay this is officially creepy." She sat down at Mab's table trying to grasp the situation. It was insane. How were there four of them with the same letter? This had to be a prank right? "I was found as a little kid wandering the woods. I've always known I was adopted. My adoptive parents have tried to help me find my birth parents even. But this doesn't make sense." She gestured to the letter Willow had put down.

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Colby sat in Tinker's car as she started to drive off. He didn't know where she was going. He had class in a few hours but honestly, he didn't even care about that anymore. If he didn't have to wait three days to go to Arcadia he would be fine with just leaving right that moment. He listened to her answers, and wondered who the others were. Had he met any of them? He could certainly believe some of the people he had met over the years were villains in their own right. He laughed at the list.

"I thought Flynn Rider was a Disney creation. And really Little red Riding hood has a kid? Here?" Even though he laughed about it, he still thought his was the most absurd. He was the son of a cat. And he wasn't even a cat. Would he be able to do Chesire cat things in Arcadia though? Time for his next question. "Will we have powers in Arcadia? We obviously don't here. Otherwise, I would have figured out how to turn invisible ten years ago."

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Wichita Kansas Streets:

Merlin watched as the girl started to panic and then started to bolt away, he didn't want to scare her off any further than he wanted to right now. Nor did he want to get into any kind of trouble with the local police, he looked over at Rosalia who at least seemed to be willing to follow him. He couldn't force Annabelle to follow him sadly, as Merlin walked back over towards his car while looking at the girl. "If you are still interested, feel free to get in." He told her, as Merlin started up his car again.

It took a few rings, but eventually the 911 operator answered Annabelle's call. "This is 911 what is your emergency?" A man's voice of the operator on the other end. It didn't seem that the man wanted to follow Annabelle now which was either a good or bad thing, inside of her house it was pretty quiet for the time being as well.

Wichita Kansas, Orphanage:

"Well it looks like someone is a super fan of Disney or something." Isabella said crossing her arms over her chest as she looked over at Megan as she spoke, requesting a copy of the security feed. "Sure thing." The guard said as he went and started to take an empty tape and started a copy for the trio. Once it was done, he handed it over to Megan seeing as she had been the one to request the copy of it, Gretchen looked at her colleagues and then back to the three of them.

"Nope, never seen her." The security officer says, as he went back to his work. "Thank you for your guys time." Isabella said as she started to turn and leave the room, and waited just outside of the room for the two of them. "Well it's about the weirdest case I've seen I think." She said softly.

Wichita Kansas Tinker's Car:

Tinker Bell continued to drive her car further away from the car, as she looked over at the glove compartment and then opened it up, once they were at another stop light to pull out some of the pictures of the others. It was probably a little creepy, but she was told to keep an eye out on everyone, and handed them over to the two boys. She looked at them through the rearview mirror when Colby asked his question about if any of them did have powers.

"Some do yes, but it's just dormant for the time being now." She answered, as they continued to drive, and started to look around for a place to eat. "Any of you guys hungry?" Tinker asked them, she was pretty hungry now at this point as well and wanted to stop to grab something to eat.

Wichita Kansas, Motel:

The boy looked over his shoulder at Pandora when she gave him the thumbs up and nodded towards her, he thanked the janitor guy as he turned to clean one of the empty rooms, and walked back over towards her. He snagged two bags of doritos from the opened machine and opened one of them, while leaning against the machine rubbing his neck slightly and shrugged slightly.

"My adopted mom is really overprotective over me, got some strange letter a few days ago or something saying something about my real parents or whatever." He said as he took another bite. "Sorry, you probably didn't really want to know about my dumb life." He said, though he really wasn't in the mood to go back to the motel room. "I'm Tristan by the way." He said extending a hand towards Pandora.

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Sierra looked over towards Willow for a moment seeing her new friend pulling out a nearly identical letter that was sent to the four of them which was really interesting. She wasn't sure what the situation was like at the other's places with their adopted families but Sierra was close to her family. Even if they sometimes didn't see eye to eye on things, but she also really did want to know who her real parents were as well.

She reached out a hand and gently held onto Willow's shoulder to try and comfort her seeing her shaking a little with the revelation that just happened. Mab did have a point that they could wait until Rose was done with her shift or they could go out now and find out anything that could be related to their actual family. "I'm fine either way, I don't have any major plans." Sierra said, and then turned towards Willow. "You don't have to look into this if you don't want to." She said towards her.

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Layla gave a slight shrug, she was open to looking into it though she was pretty happy with her boring ordinary life, she always did want to find out who they actually were. "Well I can always sic you on them if they disappoint me then." Layla said with a slight smirk as she started to take another sip from her drink. When the talk of guys came up, she blushed slightly and shook her head slightly, she didn't really fancy anyone right now.

"What makes you think I like guys?" Layla asked jokingly, she hadn't really dated anyone and she did like both guys and girls, but never really talked about it before. And then a few seconds later their waiter came back with their food setting it down on the table smiling at the two girls. "Anything else I can get you two?" He asked, as Layla started to dig into her food and shook her head slightly. "I'm good thank you."

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"Never understood people constantly dressing up like different characters. So someone really needs to learn a thing or two about what most people wander around wearing. I've seen some weird stuff, but that outfit was just a little bit ridiculous in my mind," Jack said as he looked at the screen in front of him. Not to mention the really weird fireball that was apparently a thing. How the hell did that even work? Creating a fireball out of thin air like that? Maybe Megan could come up with a reasonable explanation as to how the guy took an actual fireball to the face.

He waited as the guard gave Megan a copy of the video footage, nodding his head slightly. She technically was their resident geek at the moment, so she probably could find something useful there that they missed. Either that or she could just hand it over to the actual tech nerds that they can have take a look at everything. Though knowing Megan she might more or less try to figure out what was with the fireball. Everything had a rational explanation right? Maybe? He wasn't entirely sure about everything. "This definitely is weird... But it definitely makes things interesting doesn't it?"

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She couldn't really blame Annabelle for racing off and panicking. If Rosalia wasn't someone who sort of lived for danger and getting into trouble, she probably would have taken off as well. Though she was still somewhat curious as to what it was that Merlin was saying, and those memories just sort of lined up with what he said. That is if he didn't just make them up so that she believed him. There always was that possibility. That he was one of the people that he was saying they needed to avoid.

"Oh, I'm still all for going along with you. I don't trust you, don't trust anyone really, but curiosity is a funny thing isn't it? Makes people do things they wouldn't normally do or go along with things they normally wouldn't. Long story short, I'm game," she said with a smirk getting into the passenger's seat of the car, leaning back slightly in the seat. "So, where we going anyway? Also nice car, then again any car to me is nice, but usually because I learn to appreciate the value of a car more then others when I figure people don't appreciate their things properly," she said with a slight smirk.

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Megan took the tape from the security guard, ignoring Isabella's comment about her being obsessed with Disney. It was hard to not have an awareness of the media giant in this day and age. So many things were owned by the Mouse. Of course, her mind was mostly fixated on the woman they had seen on the screen - the prime suspect in the murder of John Doe. She stepped outside of the security room with Jack and Isabella. "I think I am going to go back to the lab, see if I can get an analysis done on the vial and ask the tech guys to look over the tape," she told the pair. She had a lead to follow now and her job didn't require her to stay here to interview all of the children as to what they had seen. "I'll let you know if I find anything," she then added, pointedly looking at her brother and not his partner.

Of course, Megan had no intention of going straight back to the lab - she was going to go at least drive by the meet up point indicated in the letter. Maybe she would find more of the substance Jane Doe had used to create the fireball there - or someone else connected to the murder. She then headed out of the orphanage and got into her car, placing the tape and the evidence she had collected from the vial into her passenger seat. Megan didn't bother asking her brother if he wanted a ride back with her - she figured that odds were, he was going to stick with Isabella - she gagged slightly at the thought. "The game is afoot," she murmured to herself.

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Okay, that was officially creepy. Four people, all in the same general area, getting the exact god damn letter, all telling them to go to the same place. This sounded unreal, and they had no idea what was actually going on. Mab shrugged. "I mean, I was either an orphan, I grew up in a really specific prison." They said sarcastically. All of them were orphans then, which wasn't a surprise, since all the letters were identical. If this was their parents way of telling them that they were a massive slut when they were Mab's age, that would honestly make more sense than most other options.

The news that Rose's shift wouldn't last too much longer though, was an objectively positive one. That was a good compromise, they considered, and it meant that they'd have a little bit of time to plan exactly how they were going to deal with this. That, and they could use a little time between getting up and confronting anything to do with their parents. That was just a lot to deal with this early in the morning, and doing this later in the afternoon would end up making them feel a little better.

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Pandora felt in the boy a kindred spirit. After all, she had been adopted too. She didn't give two licks about her real parents though. After all, they most likely didn't care about her if they left her to be adopted by someone else. Pandora took the kid's hand with a firm shake. "Pandora. Pleasure." With pleasantries out of the way, she enjoyed the remaining bits of her candy bar before she helped herself to a soda can.

"Far be it from me to tell you what to do kid, but I was adopted also. I don't really care to know who my real parents were or are. If they are still alive, they haven't bothered to reach out so screw them. And if they are dead well...what good is it to know that? You have that option and I don't know your adoptive parents, but I know parents screw up. They may just be trying their best. Cut them some slack. Ultimately, the choice is yours."

She sipped her soda, waiting to hear what Tristan thought. She didn't know why she was still there. The kid was kind of growing on her.

Locking the door and peeking through the blinds, Annie tried to calm herself down. "Uh, yes, hi. There's some guy going around trying to get people to come in his car with him." Annie described the location of where she encountered Merlin. Holding her side she began to pace nervously around her quiet house. Doug, calming down after all the excitement, hopped up onto a nearby couch.

Annie began to try and put together a description of the man and his car in her mind. "Please hurry, he was talking to a girl when I, uh, ran away. He tried to get me to come with him, too. I dunno- he's, he's weird." Annie began to wonder about the other strange things that had happened today. The letter. The weird images that popped into her head. Those were- illusions. Fake. Annebelle began to reconstruct her normal reality by rejecting what had just happened. Focusing herself on the material, Annie was trying to stop a possible criminal from capturing people. Then she would go to college and everything would be normal. Everything would be normal!

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Matthew's ears perked up as Colby asked about the potential to have powers. It certainly was an inticing idea. Being trained by the great Wizard Merlin in magic, learning to fight with a sword by Lancelot, taught roguish swashbuckler ways of Flynn Rider, the list went on. Tinker's answer didnt help to stave that imagination either, saying that some had powers lying dormant within themselves; possibly due to the fact that they were in a land with little to know magic. Once they reached a stop light, Maddy leaned back as Tinker reached into the glove box and pulled out some photographs of them and the others growing up. It was a bit Big Brother and a lot creepy, but to an extent it was comforting to see someone had been looking after them all this time. He saw the image of Megan and thought to himself "Found Maleficents daughter" as he shuffled the image to the bottom of the pile.

It was a fun excersise trying to figure out who belong to who based solely on imagery alone. Shifting from image to image, shuffling them back and forth as he started being able to match each photo with their respective lineage. He wasnt fully sure on if he got them all right as the gears in his mind kept on turning. Without looking up at Tinker he was about to say that he was fine when suddenly his stomach began to growl. "I think food sounds amazing right about now, what do you think Colby?" He turned to smile at the boy and then went back to pouring over the images of strangers whose paths theyd sooner cross.

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Cassiopeia rolled her eyes and picked up her water glass, she tipped it towards her sister in a mock salute. ”Oh yes, please do,” she said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. ”I know you like guys because we discuss it all the time, just as we discuss the taste we have in women.” It was incredibly lucky that they were twins and were both bisexual. It made a lot of things easier for them. She shifted when their food was brought over. The waiter asked if they wanted anything else and after Layla said no, Cassiopeia smirked. ”Yes actually, my sister would like your phone number,” she said innocently. Cassiopeia smirked at Layla, mouthing you’re welcome before turning to her food.
Cassiopeia ate her food slowly, thinking on the letter now. At the very least, if they did go they would find out who their parents were, which could be helpful with any future health problems they may have. It could be useful for a lot of things and their last foster parents were always very supportive with letting them know they would help Cassiopeia and her sister find their birth parents if they desired it. ”Alright LaLa, you win, we can go to the park after this and scope the place out.” Cassiopeia held her fork out so they could tap their utensils together in a mock handshake.

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Willow was vaguely aware of a hand coming to rest on her shoulder. It was comforting in a grounding sort of way but it was always too heavy. She shrugged out of it, shifting away and stared at the table. The voices around her blurred until she heard her phone ringing. She grabbed it quickly and saw that it was her mother calling. Willow didn’t really know what to do. Her heart leaped at the idea of hearing her mother’s comforting voice but then she tightened up and feared it. Was she calling to tell Willow that she was adopted? Panicking, Willow hit the decline button on her phone before setting it down on the table. She just declined her mother, she’s never done that before.
Willow groaned and put her head on her arms and rested them on the table. This was turning out to be a wonderfully awful day. Four people, all with the same letter. It couldn’t be a coincidence but Willow was still hoping it was a ruse. She couldn’t handle her whole life falling apart right now, she wasn’t built for that. After a moment her phone started to ring again. ”I need to take this.” Willow moved out of the booth and answered her mother’s phone call.

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Poor Willow. Rose considered what it would be like to have never known you were adopted and how it would feel to learn that from receiving an ominous letter. Her stomach twisted at the notion. The four of them were bound in a way she couldn't understand. She wanted to tear down the walls of mystery surrounding them. She had always wanted to know who her parents were. A fear that had been in the back of her mind since she had been little was that her family had been camping and something bad had happened to her parents leaving her to wander the woods until the Buckners had found her. The possibility that her parents were alive was relieving, but also broke her heart in a different way. Now instead of them being dead lost to the woods they were alive and had ignored her for fifteen years despite all her efforts to find them. What kind of parents did that?

She nodded at Willow, a part of her knowing that the girl didn't see it even. Willow left the table leaving the three of them alone. "Imagine not knowing you're adopted and finding out this way." She said quietly and shook her head. Almost disappointed in parents that weren't hers. "Okay, after my shift we'll go to the park. We'll figure this out together." Rose said with finality. The three of them would go with or without Willow, but the girl deserved to be allowed to go along just as much as any of the rest of them.

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Colby looked over Mathew's shoulder as he looked through the photographs. He saw Pandora. "I know her. She's cool if a bit intense. I wouldn't double-cross her." Pandora and he had a weird relationship. One that went a ways back and was mutually respectful. She was one of them, an other. A child of some fairy tale. Who were her parents? He went through the list mentally and thought a couple of options might fit the con artist.

"Starving" He said when asked if he could eat. He hadn't had breakfast. He had just left as soon as his roommate had woken him up. Then he and Mathew had been out and about since then. He did feel a bit weird about leaving his car at the park, but at least it meant if he didn't return cause he had been murdered in some abandoned warehouse the cops had some sort of lead. His car at the park, maybe a camera catching him in the car with Tink and then he would be gone. Well, maybe a waitress would be a witness if they did get food.

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Wichita Kansas Annabelle's Home:

The 911 operator wrote down some notes. "Any idea where he might have gone, and do you mind staying on the phone?" The operator asked on the other end of the phone. A few seconds later Annabelle would hear a knock on the door, when she looked it was her neighbor from earlier, leaning up against the porch a little bit waiting for her to answer the door. "Also what is your address ma'am?" The man asked over the phone, while they would go through getting an officer on the other end to Annabelle's location.

Wichita Kansas Streets:

Merlin smiled a little bit seeing Rosalia climbing into the passenger seat next to her he started to pull the car away from the curb and started to drive down the road. Roalia would hear a little growling coming from the backseat when she looked over she would be able to see a basset hound puppy there. Merlin looked over at the back seat, he had found the little guy not to long ago in the streets and reached into a bag and pulled out a small handful of treats and gave it to the little guy.

"Thank you, I was going to go and try and convince the others like yourself. And maybe find a shelter for the little guy as well." Merlin said, and smiled a little bit at the compliment of his car and shrugged slightly. "It was a pretty old and cheap car at some used car dealership." Merlin said, and turned to look at Rosalia. "And i'm sure you have a lot of questions, please feel free to ask about your parents or anything for that matter."

Wichita Kansas, Orphanage:

Gretchen looked at Megan and smiled slightly towards her, as she started to walk her out as well towards her car while looking over at her brother for a moment. "Please don't be a stranger at all if you want to come back feel free to do so, and if you have any other questions or anything to help with the investigation please feel free to call." Gretchen said towards Megan before turning and making her way back towards the orphanage again. Isabella watched as Megan started to leave and nodded. "You have my number if you need to reach me then." She called out to her as well.

And turned towards Jack for a moment. "I guess I should drive you back to the station or something then." Isabella said as she turned and started to head back towards her car as well, and then stopped for a moment hearing her radio going off from dispatch. "We have a 207A Kidnapping attempt." The operator from dispatch called out, Isabella looked over towards her partner and shrugged slightly. "This is detective Isabella just give me the location. Want to check it out?" She asked looking over at him as Isabelle climbed into her car as well and started up the engine.

Wichita Kansas Tinker's Car:

"Alright then Chinese sound good?" Tinker said, and she wasn't really going to take a no for an answer either since she was driving and she was really hungry anyway as well. As she drove the car a little bit more until she found a restaurant nearby and then parked her car looking at the two boys. Before climbing out of the car and closed the car door, once they were out she locked it as well and started to walk over towards the restaurant.

"Table for three please." Tinker said looking at the two of them for a moment. "Don't worry i'm paying." She said to them, before being escorted over towards a nearby table and sat down. She looked around before seeing two faces and gestured towards Layla and Cassiopeia as the twin sisters talked to each other.

Wichita Kansas, Motel:

Tristan looked at Pandora and shrugged slightly, his mother had always been really over protective and really annoying as well, constantly moving around the city a little to much. "She's been really overbearing and overprotective, you'd honestly would have wanted to run away a few times." He said as he took a sip from the soda and another chip from the small bag. "I just need to get out of there for a little bit you know?" Tristan said.

"So, what are or were your folks like anyway?" Tristan asked, he looked over at the room seeing the janitor coming out of the unoccupied room and started to go down to the next room to clean, not really noticing the two of them talking. He thought about sneaking up and snatching his wallet or something, just for a little bit of fun.

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Sierra looked at Willow as she watched her getting up and nodded slightly as she watched her go and take the phone call, Sierra turned to both Mab and Rose. "The four of us should go and find out together." She suggested, whether or not Willow wanted to go was up to her really seeing her on her phone she wasn't sure what they were talking about right now. Sierra ran a hand through her hair a little bit and thought about reaching out to her adoptive family but decided against it.

There wasn't really any kind of customers coming in and both Rose' and Sierra's boss came out from the office seeing the three of them talking. "Hey, going to close up shop, if you want to go home early feel free to do so." He told Rose, before going back into the office, and Sierra looked at both Rose and Mab shrugging slightly. "Looks like we have the whole afternoon now or something."

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Layla nearly spat out her drink and looked at her sister giving her a little bit of a glare. "Really O, playing the matchmaker?" Layla said shaking her head slightly and blushed as she just looked away from their waiter, who awkwardly smiled a little bit before walking off to tend to the other customers. She looked back at Cassiopeia and smiled towards her and nodded as she did the same gesture. "Sounds good to me then." She said smiling a little bit as Layla continued to enjoy her lunch.

She turned her head slightly seeing the door opening and three new people came into the restaurant and went to eat at a nearby booth. She didn't think to much of it as Layla went back to eating, and pulled out her phone for a moment. Though Cassiopeia would be able to notice one of them gesturing towards the two of them.

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Megan was ruminating on the evidence as she drove to the designated meet up point in the letter. This had to be the most interesting thing to happen to this sleepy little town and she couldn't help but be slightly excited. Sure, it was incredibly worrisome that some stranger connected to her adoption and that of several others had been murdered by a woman cosplaying a Disney villain with a fireball - but it was thrilling as well. Pulling up across the street from the park, she parked her car and looked out her window, noticing some kid getting into a car. Ordinarily this wouldn't have caught her attention, but some of those who received the letters might have been underage. Was this girl another potential victim? She didn't recognize either of them.

Had her brother been with her, she probably would have known to stay in the car and wait longer - but she didn't want to. She stepped out of the car and locked it, before heading across the street and entering the park itself. These events definitely seemed to be related. It was at least worth looking around to see if she could find the strange substance here as well. But there was nothing here. It was just an ordinary park. She sighed slightly, running a hand through her hair briefly. "Sometimes a coincidence really is just that..." she murmured to herself, crossing her arms. She didn't particularly want to head back to the station at the moment, hoping to avoid Isabella - but the station also meant a chance for her to analyze that vial.

She then glanced over towards the car the girl had gotten into - but it was gone, having already pulled away down the road. "...Alright, universe, I'll take the hint and head back to the lab. Hope you're chuffed."

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Cassiopeia smirked at her sister and continued to eat her food. She looked at the sound of the door opening, bringing in a rush of cold air before the door closed again and warmth settled over her raised skin. Cassiopeia frowned at the woman who waved at them. She didn’t recognize them but they weren’t bad to look at either. ”Do you know who that is?” Cassiopeia asked her sister in hushed tones, nodding to the woman who had gestured towards them.
Cassiopeia ate her food with a bit more haste, wanting to leave to get to the park and still have time to go for a hunt after. Curiosity has always been a bad thing but sometimes a curious nature couldn’t be helped. She looked back over at the trio who had walked in once she finished her food. Cassiopeia didn’t seem to recognize any of them and that was saying something. It wasn’t an overly big town.

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Willow answered her phone, standing several tables away from Rose, Sierra and Sylvia. Her tone wasn’t exactly warm when she said hello to her mother. “Will? What happened to the car? Why did you ignore my first phone call? Are you at the police station?” The bombardment of questions didn’t help Willow and she felt herself turning red. ”Am I adopted?” Well, that just fell out of Willow’s mouth. All the colour drained from the girls face as she just realized what she said to her mother.
“What?” Was the response from her mother on the other line. It was too late to backtrack now.
”Am. I. Adopted?”
“Will… come home. Your father will want to talk with you as well…”
”Answer the question mom… Please.” There was a long silence and static filled the silence, as well as the manager telling everyone they were closing early.
“Willow, my precious rose, your father and I love you very much but…”
”I’m adopted,” Willow filled in for her mother. She started speaking again, trying to tell Willow that they were her parents still, no matter what. Willow didn’t hear much as she hung up the phone and shoved it into her pocket. She turned back around and approached the group. She was staring at the floor, a mix of emotions filling her face and she didn’t exactly want to talk about anything that just happened but she did want to go to the park. ”I’m going to head to the park, if anyone wants to come,” she stated and fished for her keys. She didn’t know the others had already made the decision to go and if they needed, Willow had the room to drive them all over to the park.

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Jack nodded his head slightly at his sister as she had mentioned heading back to the lab and whatnot and see if the tech people could find anything on the tape from the orphanage. "Alright, we'll see you later then Meg," he said with a slight wave towards her as she headed off. It made some sense for her to go off and do that, then again he left all of the science stuff to her, and he tended to do most of the leg work. It was somewhat weird that Meg had decided to go to the orphanage still all things considering, but eh, who really was paying attention.

Hearing Isabella mention heading back to the station, he nodded his head slightly and followed along after her back to the car. The problems that came with deciding to hitch a ride to a place. Then there was the call going out about a kidnapping attempt as he got into the passenger seat. "I'm game to head off there if you are. Let's go see what's going on. This day just keeps getting even more interesting doesn't it? First a murder caused by a Disney villain wannabe and now something else, this'll be fun."

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Rosalia knew that odds were that this was a really bad idea. She just did something insane on a bit of a whim, getting into the car of a complete stranger, despite the fact that for all she knew the guy could be a serial killer or something. It was like everything she usually did and knew just flew out the window. The images she had seen before made her wonder what it was that he had to say. The instant she felt like she was in danger she was more then prepared to open the door of the moving vehicle and jump out. "Can you just tell me about my parents and everything in general?" she asked Merlin.

Then she heard the sound of something in the backseat of the car, and turning back to look she saw a little puppy sitting in the backseat. Rosalia never had really been one to be around animals. She never really had too much of a stable living situation, so she never could have any sort of animal. Not to mention she tended to not be home a lot, however she loved animals all the same, and reached her hand back to see about petting the puppy, but the poor thing growled slightly and backed away. "The little guy seems scared."

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Mab watched on with curiosity as Willow got up to call her mother. That was a hard conversation to have to have with her mom for sure, and something that almost no person would ever need to have. They wondered a bit, how Willow would handle the news, if they'd break from it or not. This would be a rare thing to see, and wildly interesting at that. "If she really was adopted... That would be something." they quietly mused to themselves, as they waited for Willow to return.

Once the Manager had told them that the shop would be closing early, Mab nodded. Things had a way of working out, it seemed, and they were happy that they'd be able to to go to the park sooner rather than later. "Sounds like we should be good to go then. Ready Rose?" they asked, as Willow returned. They nodded after her, not saying anything. They clearly needed time to process this news, and while they'd rather not have a liability with them when going to deal with this situation, but on the other hand, human behavior was always something that interested her, so this was a bit of a treat.

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Pandora looked back as Tristan glanced over her shoulder and saw the janitor leave the room. She knew the smell of a mark when she sniffed it and Tristan looked like he was ready to pounce. "Don't even think about it kid. I guarantee if you try to pull anything, if you aren't caught, you'll get almost nothing. The man works in a motel for crying out loud. I bet even his credit cards are almost maxed out. There will be other marks, trust me."

When Tristan asked about her parents, she had to admit, it had been a while since she thought of them. "Oh, who knows really. Growing up my father was a CEO and my mother was an attorney dealing with divorces. So home life wasn't the best. Kind of why I am like I am, but what can you do? My parents didn't care about me really. They adopted me because I was probably a tax write off or something. They benefitted from it more. Your parents though? Seems like they care somewhat. Mine wouldn't have even tried to lecture me."

"Um," Annie articulated her confusion, nervously pacing back and forth. "Yeah, I can stay on the phone. I- I live on 271 Oakview Lane. I don't-I don't know where he went. It was just a street or two over I was taking my dog for a walk." Annie peeked through the blinds to see her neighbor waiting outside. What were they doing here? What awful timing!

She was going to need to talk to someone about all this. Her parents were- well, they were worry warts that was for sure. Maybe she'd tell them later. Probably text her friends, like Willow? Would she even care about something stupid like this? Annebelle hadn't exactly acted valorously. Well- whatever! Who cared about Annie's- reputation? Mind all jumbled up, Annie tried to keep calm.

"There's my- neighbor? At the door. I'm- I'm sorry. I'm frazzled," She laughed nervously. "That guy really...got inside my head." She finished, voice getting serious as once again the strange visions that felt like memories swarmed in her head. Today was a bad day.

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Wichita Kansas Annabelle's Home:

Isabella looked at Jack and nodded slight and smiled a little bit and laughed. "Yeah the day is pretty interesting, like someone cosplaying as fucking Maleficent is really interesting." Isabella started to drive down the road, as the dispatcher on the other end started to give out the address to the house. She started to put it into the GPS and started to drive down the street and looked over at Jack. "So, about that letter any kind of ideas?" She asked, as they started to drive closer to the location it wasn't to far from where they were right now.

"It's perfectly fine ma'am we have someone on their way." The dispatcher said on the other end, the kid started to get bored again and turned off and started to make his way back towards his house. Annabelle would be able to see a car coming up now at her house, and a detective coming out from the car.

Wichita Kansas Streets:

"Of course." Merlin said taking a moment and looked at the basset hound puppy backing up slightly and looked back at Rosalia. "I remember your parents really well, Rapunzel is a really nice woman and she cares for you deeply, and your father Flynn he is pretty funny though he tends to get himself into trouble or trouble tends to find him as well." Merlin told her, as he continued to drive seeing a black Volkswagen Beetle driving past them and towards the direction of the park.

"Arcadia was a beautiful place before Maleficent and the others took it over, we tried to gather as much of you as we could to bring you here when you were little for your protection. Though she knows where you all are now, and she's currently searching for you all to." Merlin said and looked back at the puppy there. "I found him being harassed by some kids." Merlin said to her.

Wichita Kansas, Motel:

Tristan listened to Pandora for a moment as much as he was tempted to steal from the janitor his mother would have probably find it among his belongings. "Probably right then I guess." Tristan said shrugging slightly as he leaned up against the machine looking up at the ceiling when Pandora asked about his mother, he didn't know anything about his father or anything really. "I don't really have a dad, or adopted dad never met him, just me and my mom." He said.

"But she's really over protective, and it gets really annoying, shes nice though but doesn't give me any room to really breathe though. I sneak out sometimes just to try and get some air from her and stuff. Your life sounds a lot better you could probably get anything you've ever wanted or something." Tristan said to her and smiled slightly.

Wichita Kansas Oak Park:

As Megan started to head back to her car she would see some men walking into the park, they would look like your typical bouncers who hung outside of night clubs usually, one of them had a phone to his ear. "Yeah, she managed to give us the slip, we couldn't find where she went." The guy said, one of the men looked to be a little bit on the dumber side as he found a squirrel and started to run after it and watched it climb up into a tree.

"Yes ma'am, we will start looking for the others.." The one on the phone said, holding it away from his ear like someone was screaming into it on the other end. Then he ordered the other two men around and started to search around the park, one of them was carrying what looked like a messenger's bag of some kind as well.

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Sierra looked Willow for a moment feeling a little bit bad, and the phone call sounded like it was really serious as well she remembered when she was younger her parents had pulled her aside one day after school and told her that she had been adopted. But they didn't know anything about where she came from originally. She looked at Mab as she talked quietly to themself a little bit, but didn't really say anything. She looked at her new friend for a moment saying that she would be going to the park with them and smiled slightly as she stood up.

Sierra gently rested a hand on her shoulder and looked at her. "Hey, if you want to you know talk or anything you can even if we had just met." She said softly and looked towards Rose who was quiet for the moment and gave her a slight nudge. "We can go now since bossman said you can go home early to." Sierra said.

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Layla ate her food some more as she leaned back, she pulled out her phone and started to look at some posts on Facebook while she ate, feeing the cool air when the door opened. Layla turned her head seeing the three people coming in and then over at her twin sister and shook her head slightly. "I work with a lot of people, faces tend to blur a little bit." Layla said thinking little of it at the moment as she continued to enjoy her meal.

Tinker looked at the two boys who were really quiet still and gave the two of them another slight nudge to try and get their attention. "So you two sleeping or something, or oogling each other?" Tinker said jokingly, seeing the Hood twins talking to one another when a waiter came up and asked if they wanted anything to drink. "Just a water please." Tinker said, while still watching the two girls some more.

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"Let me clock out and put away my apron." She was thankful the diner was dead so she could leave early. Rose quickly left the table and switched out her stuff before rejoining the other three. They all looked ready to go as well. Willow seemed particularly upset. She could understand even though she had always known she was adopted she couldn't imagine what the woman was going through. Rose tried to give her a reassuring smile.

"Oh, I've only got my motorcycle, but if we want to all drive there together I can leave it here." A part of Rose wanted to ride her motorcycle there, but she also wanted to use the time in the car to discuss their options. She checked her phone and saw a thumbs up from her manager at the bar. Well, that was covered at least. If she went missing at least someone would know.

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"I was deciding what to eat. I want Broccoli beef and sweet and sour pork. And water too please." Colby said. A little frustration in his voice. It was weird that they had come to this specific restaurant and there were two of the people from the photos sitting there. Tinker had to have known they were here. So, how creepy stalker-y were Tinker and Merlin. How much of his life was documented by these people? Was he falling for some trick that should have been easy to catch?

He tried to look normal. But he felt suddenly like he was on a sting operation or something. Had these girls gotten the same letter already? Were they thinking about who their real parents were. He was tempted to say something. Bring attention to the fact that they too were like him, trapped in a world that was not their own. He let Tinker take lead though. He didn't know what the plans were and maybe if he had a better idea of what she was doing and saying to the others he'd understand the situation better. Also, how do you start a conversation like this 'oh yeah so that letter you got I got one too and this lady here is a fairy and she's gonna take us back to our real parents. My dad is a cat.' Yep sounded looney.