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Matthew could hardly hear anything over the sound of his own sniffling. The sound of his cards being picked up or her walking towards him getting lost in his own mind as he panicked on what to do next. Eyes darting about like a wild animal cornered and looking for escape. He found a metallic box at the same height and began to wonder if he could use it to climb up and over the wall. That thought lasted for about a second as he immediately began to wonder about this metallic box seemingly placed upon the wall. Did girls not flush their toilet paper? Were men not supposed to either? He'd heard about how some things could clog up the pipes and were bad for plumbing, could this be one of them? If not, what other purpose could this possibly serve? His mind began to rattle off ideas as his anxiety lessened and lessened and before he realized it the breathe he had been holding was finally released.

Maddy heard the girl speak, asking what he knew about her parents and reminding him of where he was. "Sadly I dont know much. The woman out there, her name is Tink. She says we're all from some other land where time moves differently and that we are the descendants of fairytale people. My father was...is the Mad Hatter, she's Tinkerbell, and I narrowed your parents down to be either Rapunzel and Flynn Rider, or Robin Hood. It's hard to tell based solely on appearances but I do have a knack for this sort of thing." He stood up and moved towards the stall door, hearing Colby calling from the outside. "Please, could I have my deck back? And if you could avoid stabbing me that'd be great too...I'd like to live out this adventure with someone I like..." his voice was low enough for her to hear but hopefully not Colby. Hearing his voice gave him back some courage he didnt have before, it gave him something to live for.

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"It's nice to meet you Annabelle," Jack said to her with a smile as she let both him and Isabella into the house and over to a couch and chairs. She seemed fairly sweet in his opinion, and hopefully they'd be able to figure out what it was that happened, and he took a seat next to Isabella on the couch. He wrote down a few things from what she described, and was at the ready to write down her descriptions of the man, and the girl who had been with them, when suddenly his phone decided to go off, and he let out a bit of a sigh. "Excuse me for a moment," he said, before he stood up and walked out of the room for the moment.

"This is Gold," he said into the phone, before he listened to what the chief had to say. He put a hand through his hair as he listened to everything, namely the fact that his sister, his sister had called about possible kidnappings and murder? That was definitely concerning. "Alright, I'll see about getting a hold of her and we'll head that way after we're done here, thanks for letting me know," Jack said, before hanging up and walking back over and sitting down next to Isabella again. "Seems like all hell is breaking loose today... Megan called the station talking about more potential kidnappings and murders," he whispered to her so that Annabelle couldn't hear him.

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To say that all hell was breaking loose was an understatement, and the fact that she had no idea who this other person was who attacked the group made her a bit wary. Considering the fact that she had more or less stepped in, even if she technically didn't need to do anything. The person in front of her seemed a bit strange, and now it was almost like she finally felt a little clear headed, as this sort of thing was so weird. She just saw someone get burned to death. How the hell was that normal? What the hell even was with this guy?

"Whoa there hold the damn phone, you just burned a guy to death. I mean sure, they threw a bench at you but you just flat out killed someone as if it was nothing! Maybe that other girl was right, you are a little crazy or whatever. I'm not going anywhere else until you tell me what the hell is going on, who the hell are those guys who seemed to know you and think it was cool to just essentially murder them. So just tell me what's going on, also, who the hell are you?" she said, stepping away slightly, and nodding towards Megan. She noticed the others coming into the park, but she didn't really address them. There were just way too many people here for comfort for her.

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It was at this moment that Pandora questioned her morals. Was she about to take $100 from a woman and her son who clearly didn't have much if they were staying in a motel? On the run from something, it seemed like. She was well-off enough to not really need it, but at the same time wasn't it rude to refuse a generous offer? And it wasn't like she did a whole lot either, she just listened to the kid and brought him back. She decided it wasn't worth it.

But before she could refuse, smoke began to fill the corner and Pandora worried a fire had started until green lights appeared and a woman stepped out. And she addressed her! "Whoa there. Don't know who you are lady but save the Las Vegas act for someone else. I'm not your daughter. Hate to burst your bubble, but you have the wrong girl. Now can you like...poof away and stop scaring these poor people?" Pandora was ready to run or fight if need be. This woman was clearly crazy in some form and she didn't want to find out just how much.

Annie nodded as the woman detective, Ramirez asked what they looked like. "Yes. Um, let's see. The guy was bald. Maybe like, 5'8 or 5'10? Taller than me of for sure. He was white, but tanned. Also strong looking. I think he had a little bit of a beard." She said, scratching her hair.

"The girl was...shorter than me by a couple of inchess. Maybe five feet tall? White, too, with dirty blonde hair that came down to just around her shoulders." She gestured at the area on her own head. "Um...I'm not really sure how to describe their faces. That seems kind of hard, if that's what you want, but I guess I could give it a try?"

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Isabella watched as Jack got up from where he was and left to go into the next room to make a phone call, while her attention turned back to Annabelle who started to give her descriptions of the two people. "No problem kid, sending some officers to the location now to." He said. Isabelle thought that maybe they were a duo or something and preying on people like Annabelle. "Do you happen to know the car that he was driving by any chance or maybe a lisence plate number?" Isabelle asked when Jack came back to the room and sat down next to her and listened to the news that he had given her.

Normally she didn't really care to much for Megan, but was a coworker pretty much and she was Jack's brother as well, turning to look at him. She looked at Annabelle for a moment and then back over towards Jack, they needed to work on this case now, but then again it did sound pretty familiar to what they were working on now. "I could give you my car keys and you can go there yourself. Or I can go with you, or if i'm right maybe this is connected to our case right now and if she can come with us. Though it is your call." She said while looking back at Annabelle. "Sorry, something did come up." She said.

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Maleficent looked at Pandora and smiled towards her for a moment, as Tristan's mother was reaching for the phone only for her to immediately set the phone on fire. The green flames instantly turned the phone into a smoldering black and melted mess on the nightside table. "I believe you should stay out miss." She said coldly, before turning her attention back to Pandora giving her a friendly smile, though she didn't move much further from where she was.

"Tell me Pandora, you were adopted correct and you never knew who your parents actually were right?" Maleficent said as she started to walk over towards her. "I am your mother, but I cannot force you to come with me. You also got a letter a few days ago as well from someone correct?" Maleficent asked while Tristan was slowly sneaking off to the bathroom, giving Pandora a look wondering what she would do next.

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Merlin turned his attention over towards Rosalia who started to demand some more answers, he nodded it was a little to much right now after having killed two people with his magic. "Those people were working for Maleficent, they have been looking for you all the last few days now. That is why I sent out those letters to all of you." Merlin said as Sierra walked up now, and started to get a better view of the carnage as well and backed up slightly. "What the hell is going on here?" Sierra said staring at the two badly burnt bodies, Mab remained by the car to over watch everything from a distance.

"Who the hell are all of you?" Sierra asked looking at the three of them picking up some of the conversation, she wasn't sure if this was all some kind of ruse to get them all to follow him. She didn't trust him right now seeing as he had killed two people, and she wondered how he set the two bodies on fire as well. "My name is Merlin, and I was sent here to watch over all of you." He told her.

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Tinker looked at Colby for a moment as he got up and excused himself from the table, while her attention now turned back over towards Cassiopeia who sat down in front of her and nodded. "I was the one who sent the letters out yes, but I didn't write them." Tinker said while she leaned back a little bit. "I do happen to have information on your parents, but whether you believe me or not is completely up to you though." She said calmly. "You are not from here, but a place called Arcadia, all of those fairytales that you have read over the years are actually real."

Layla listened to Mathew as he started to answer her questions about her parents and where she was from, she was still really skeptical about all of it though. The mentioning of her last name and Robin Hood as well, she always thought it was just a random last name and she didn't really think much of it. "Sorry if I find it really hard to believe you." Layla said as she pushed the deck of cards over though the underside of the stall to Mathew. "I wont stab you." Layla said Mathew would see that she had the fork on the ground as well, then she heard a voice on the other end looking over through the stall, and backed away. "You can go ahead now." Layla said.

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Cassiopeia shifted, blinking at Tink’s response for a moment. ”Come again?” Fairy tales, real? And they came from a land of them? Please, next thing this crazy lady was going to say was she was the daughter of Robin Hood. Cassiopeia had always loved fairy tales growing up. The heroism, the adventure and victories. Those characters didn’t always have the best home life and look how well they had turned out. Robin Hood was always her favourite tale and Maid Marian was a bad-ass.
Cassiopeia shook her head. ”This is a little ridiculous and you’re here now because of what? Captain Hook is on a rampage?” She looked back over towards the bathroom. She was alone now that Colby had gone to check out what the commotion was. Cassiopeia was thinking she should probably go check on her sister, what with now a crazy lady spouting that fairy tales are real in the middle of a Chinese restaurant.

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Willow took a step back when she saw that the bodies were chard. Just what the hell had they walked into. She fumbled with her purse to try and get her phone when she remembered that she had shut it off. Phones always powered off quickly but never turned back on right away. She looked at the people who were standing in the park. One girl, fairly young by the looks of it, was yelling at a man before Sierra spoke up. Wait, did he just say Merlin? Willow looked around at the others to see if they had heard the same thing.
Willow scanned the man, looking him over but he wasn’t showing any of the usual signs of lying nor was he showing any signs of telling the truth. He was a man of mystery and that set Willow on edge. She took another step back, her eyes falling back onto the burnt bodies. They definitely weren’t alive and the mystery man was uncomfortably calm about the whole situation. ”We should go,” Willow stated, hoping Sierra would back away with her. She was the furthest ahead of them all.

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Megan's eyes darted over to the side, as she saw others starting to come in this direction. They didn't look threatening and none of them were cosplaying from the latest Disney movie, so that was something. However, the increase in people made her feel a bit confined, almost claustrophobic - it was like they were stealing the air from the park and making it harder to breathe. She had hated the crowds in the orphanage growing up, preferring the quiet serenity of a morgue. The little girl with curly hair mentioned another girl that had been approached. That was a little odd - the only boy she knew messed up with all of this was her brother. "I'm Dr. Megan Pendragon - Junior Medical Examiner," she introduced herself.

More girls were showing up - her brother would have loved this. They were all in various stages of disbelief with Merlin, and she couldn't blame them for it. However, she wished that they wouldn't have come up to them and instantly started swearing. It made her feel more crowded. But with everyone arriving here at once, she also anticipated her brother would show up shortly with Isabella. There were so many of them that if she hadn't remembered Merlin from her childhood, she likely wouldn't have believed him at all - and instead would have figured this was a sex trafficking group.

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Matthew grabbed his deck from off the floor and slid it pack into his pocket. His hand lingered there for a while before he tapped his finger against the deck and slid his hand out, taking a deep breath before exhaling. The stall door opened slowly as the curly haired boy looked about meekly. It made sense that Colby hadnt walked in, after all Matthew shouldnt even be here. His hand found it's way onto his bicep, rubbing it slightly as he spoke with a shy voice. "Thanks. I know it's hard to believe, trust me I'm not so sure I do myself, but if there's even a chance this could be real...well. I'm gonna take it. I never got adopted out, no one wants the weird kid with anxiety, it's too much work; so, meeting my parents, that's a dream come true." Maddy extended his hand out for Layla to shake "Names Matthew Madigan, friends call me Maddy for short. My friends kinda waiting for me out that door and I'd greatly appreciate it if you didn't mention how I ran..."

Every few moments he had to remind himself to breathe out. Constantly holding in his breath in anticipation that something horrific would occur. When it didn't, he began to slowly make his way towards the bathroom door as he turned to face Layla "I'm going to head out before someone walks in on a boy being here with a lady and a fork. Doesn't look too great, that and I'm kinda starving. Feel free to join us at the table if youd like." As Maddy stepped out of the bathroom he saw Colby standing there and he immediately began to blush. He hoped he hadnt heard any of it as he began to Fiddle with his fingers. "Hey, everything's alright, wanna head back and eat?"

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Rose rubbed her hands together, she was more than a little freaked out. Rose glanced at the corpses, according to the curly-haired girl, and then at the woman who introduced herself as Megan Pendragon. Okay, so there was a guy saying his name was Merlin, and he was a murderer if the curly-haired girl was to be believed, and some woman with the classic Arthur last name. "Wait. Merlin and Pendragon. Sent by who? And you're behind the letters? Does that mean you know my birth parents?" Rose was glad she knew a little close combat, though if this guy could burn people close combat fighting would be very unhelpful. She was not excited about what was going on. "Did you get a letter too?" Rose asked the curly-haired girl.

She glanced over her shoulder at Willow's car. She hoped Mab was okay. They were probably freaked out by how many people were here, and maybe nervous about the sirens. "And did you say Maleficent. That isn't even the same universe as Arthur Pendragon. You're just cobbling a bunch of fairy tales together and trying to convince us it is all okay?"

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Colby waited nervously. He didn't like that he was concerned about Mathew so he leaned against a wall, trying to pretend to be cool. He nodded when Mathew came out. "Good." He stepped away from the bathroom and headed back to the table. There was now going to be five at the table. He figured he'd let the sisters have their own side of the table to themselves.

"Tink scoot over." He said, and waited for her to move so he could sit next to her. "I don't want them to feel trapped if they stick around so they can sit on their own side and leave if they want." He tried to give Cass a reassuring smile but said to her. "I totally understand if you don't want to believe her. Today has been weird. I don't know if this will help though." He pulled out his own letter and laid it on the table. "Mathew here has one too."

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Jack listened to the description that Annabelle had given, and he had no idea who the man was, however, when she described the other girl, something in the back of his mind clicked. That was someone he actually did recognize by that description. "...Okay, that is helpful, but I will say this, based on that description, I already figured out an ID on the girl you saw with him, which is weird since she generally doesn't trust anyone. Her name is Rosalia Rider, 18 years old and she's constantly in and out of the station for theft namely. Essentially has been on her own since she was a kid. So the idea of her trusting someone fairly quickly is more then a bit odd."

He contemplated what Isabella had said about this potentially being connected to their case, and he nodded his head. That would make some sense, it was just too much of a coincidence for this to be entirely random, the fact that there were all these strange things happening all in one day. "...I say this might be connected to our case right now, but who knows? All these weird things are happening all at once, it's a bit weird... Let me try to call Meg first," he responded, before pulling out his phone and trying to call Megan.

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"Who I am is none of your damn concern," she snapped somewhat at Sierra, rolling her eyes slightly at the girl. She had been there first, and was the one asking questions first, so in her mind the nosey girl could shut up and wait her turn! "Also, you are saying that some strange Disney character is after us? Don't you think that's a bit weird? Also why so many people? And not to mention, still trying to wrap my head around the idea of you being from the King Arthur legend, but if I hadn't seen you throw fire today, I would have taken off a while ago."

Then, turning to look at Rose, she rolled her eyes slightly at her as well. "And what's it to you? Why would you care if I got one of those stupid letters? Seriously, you people are a bunch of weirdos. And just because her name is Pendragon doesn't mean a damn thing, she wasn't even here originally like the rest of you, and just randomly showed up so yeah. Learn to use your brains, since those are just stories, remember that. Yeah, I've seen a guy throw fire, but that still doesn't mean anything." Sure, she knew that she had more or less taken a bit of a U-turn when it came to talking to Merlin, however, the larger group that was showing up did not make her feel any better about anything. Since usually whenever she was in more of a group, she always tended to be cast off to the side without a care, so why would she feel better about anything right now?

Annie looked at Detective Ramirez and tried to remember. Did she even think to look at the lisence plate? Not even a little. "Uh...no. No, I don't know the liscence plate. Sorry. It was a nice car, though. Looked fancy. It was...silver, I think." She smooshed her hands against her cheeks in defeat. "Oh, my goodness. I really messed up.

But she perked up when Detective Gold mentioned a name. "That could be her! I guess. I don't mean to judge but she didn't look like she cared about the law that much. Also, she called me sweetie, even though I'm older than her." She said, crossing her arms. "Only by a year, I guess. But still." Annie said reluctantly and a little petulantly. Still, no one deserved to be kidnapped by some weirdo.

Annie was wondering if she should tell the police officers about the weird thing the man did with his hands. Made her see things. Familiar, disturbing things. Would they even believe her? It looked and sounded like magic. Memories from her childhood. And a letter from earlier today.

Gold and Ramirez would be able to see from the family pictures on the wall that Annie lived with two married older women. That meant she must be adopted, too, which is something that seemed to be going around a lot these days.

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Isabella gave Jack a slight nod towards him. "Go ahead and try to see if you can make a call to her then." Isabella said calmly towards her partner, he would be able to get to her. She looked at the pictures in Annabelle's living room for a moment before getting up and made her way over towards one of the sets of pictures seeing that she was adopted as well. Finding it a little bit weird as well since she herself was along with Jack as well.

Isabella picked up the picture to get a closer look at it, before turning to look back at Annabelle. "Were you adopted as well?" Isabella asked her. She did see the girl around as well in the police station pretty often as well now that she thought about it as well, even booked her in a few times as well.

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Sierra was still a little bit more than freaked out about the dead bodies, and she was thinking about the same thing with Willow looking over towards her for a moment. But this was the closest to finding out who her parents actually were still, her attention turned towards the woman who said she was a junior medical examiner. "Sorry that I am freaking out a little because there are two burning bodies right now." Sierra said while turning her attention over towards Rosalia who spoke up as well and glared at her for a moment before Merlin spoke up. "I had to do it, it was either kill them or let them all kidnap you all. And I would do it all over again to make sure that you are all safe." Merlin said.

His eyes turned towards Rose, sighing a little bit. "You all are from a completely different world called Arcadia where every fairytale exists comes from there originally. And you all are the children of them as well." Merlin told them all, while Sierra was more confused than ever now at the information. She was still really on the edge of all of this as well she wanted to believe him, but then again part of her said to not trust him either. Sierra then turned her eyes down the street when she started to see flashing police car lights and then the sirens getting much louder now as well.

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"Don't worry I wont tell anyone that you pissed your pants." Layla said jokingly, as she let Mathew make his way over towards the door while looking at him when he introduced himself. "I'm Layla Hood." She said as she started to walk shortly behind him and smirked a little bit. "Don't worry I wont tell anyone that I tried to fork your ass while in the bathroom either." Layla said sarcastically as she picked it up, and made her way back towards her table. She set the fork down, she had no intention on using the fork now since it was on the nasty mens bathroom floor.

Tinker looked at Colby who told her to move over which she gave him a little bit of a look, like she didn't like being told what to do but did it anyway. Seeing Layla joining them now. Her attention turned back towards Cass when she spoke up and smirked a little bit and shook her head slightly. "Actually Maleficent is the power hungry one and took over." Tinker said as she leaned back when the waiter came over seeing all of them. "Sorry didn't know that you all were a party, I already took the ladies orders, do you all need anything?" The waiter asked. Layla quickly then reached over for the letter that Colby had slipped over and looked at it then handed it over to her sister.

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Quill remembered that stupid letter. She read it three times before she burned it. She had no desire to find her real parents. And this woman was clearly insane but to a dangerous extent. After all, she summoned green fire. She glanced over at Tristan and his mother, actually fearful for their safety. She placed herself in front of them. "It's me you want, right? Let them leave and we can talk about whatever the hell crazy story you think is happening here." Quill motioned for the two of them to leave, hoping this woman would allow them.

Once they were out, she would continue. "Yeah, I got a letter. I didn't think much of it, because why now? Why at this time would I want to know who my real parents are? And if, for some crazy reason, you are, why the hell are you showing up now? And with literal fire? Did you expect me to come with you willingly? You got lots of explaining to do then and I hope you don't have plans."

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Matthew blushed a bright red hearing Laylas words. He immediately looked down as he walked behind Colby, making sure he hadnt actually wet himself in fear and not noticed. All clear. He sat on the outside of the table and listened in to Tinks half of the conversation, it appeared theyd gotten to the fairly tale half of this topic and that either this other girl was way more accepting that she appeared, or she made some snarky remark about who did what. Colby offered up his letter as proof and Matthew rummaged for his to do the same giving his to Cassiopa. He then turned his attention to the waitress who was waiting to place their orders "May I have some sweet and sour chicken, orange chicken, fried rice and xiao long Bao please?" He felt bad having Tinker pay for their meals, but not bad enough not to order a good amount of food.

Matthew wasn't quite sure as to what to say to them now that the waitress was present. It would sound insane to carry this topic in front of her and he sat there attempting to work a way around it, wording it so that theyd understand and others would be left in the dark or at the very least some way to normalize this all. "So about the premise, it appears that Maleficent in her search for power has conquered the realm. There are a handful of descendants who were sent away for protection but it appears now they must rise up to help defend the realm and save those who cast them out. I was thinking that perhaps you two could play the part of Robin Hoods children, sibling badasses who take down foes with wit and arrows combined."

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Cassiopeia shook her head and ran hands through her hair. This was incredibly messed up. She looked over, seeing the boys coming back followed by her sister and she sighed in relief, just at the idea of having an ally with her. ”Oh Maleficent, of course,” Cassiopeia said sarcastically. She took the letters from her sister and looked them both over. They were worded the same other than their names. She dropped the letters and shook her head. This was all a little bizarre for her right now.
The curly headed kid started talking about what was happening in their supposed home and what they were supposed to do. She looked at him and leaned against the table. ”Would you like to know how sharp my wit and bow skills are? Because I certainly wouldn’t mind showing you,” she said aggravated. Clearly Tink, or whoever she was, had time with these two long before they had if the one was so accepting and such an expert in this. ”I want proof,” she finally said. She crossed her arms and leaned back in her chair, looking over the three people on the other side of the table.

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There were a lot of high tensions in the park and a lot of unknowns going on. With someone claiming to be Merlin and telling them all they were part of a fairy-tale, it was making concentrating on anything hard to manage. She looked over at the girl who introduced herself and gave her a little nod. "Willow Jones," she managed to say. She looked back at Merlin and questioned him. ”If this is true, why are you coming to us now? Why are we in danger now, as the letters say.” Willow looked over at Sierra and Rose. She couldn’t help her curiosity but she was still extremely on edge and stood out of the major group of the people, closer to her car.
The sirens started and Willow wiped her head around to see flashing lights and the oncoming approach of police cars. With two burning bodies laying in front of them, this could not be coming at a worse time. The time for running was gone now so what were they going to do. Willow clutched her bag, holding onto it tightly, at a loss for what to do.

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Megan sighed slightly, seeing that the ginger one seemed to think that she was behind all of these letters. She had been bullied a fair bit growing up due to her last name, given that it was a popularized surname for the house of King Arthur. "Pendragon is the surname my birth parents gave me," Megan corrected her. "If you think that's funny, I s'pose you ought to laugh at everyone with the name Potter in the world, too." She at least appreciated that the curly haired girl realized that Megan wasn't behind all of these letters. The sirens in the distance told her that the police were almost here - that was to be expected, since Megan had been the one to call them in the first place.

Her eyes narrowed slightly as Merlin told them all the truth - or at least, his version of it. She wasn't so closed minded as to believe that only this life was real and valid. She had seen Merlin throw a fireball. She remembered him vaguely from her childhood. And yes, her given name was Pendragon, just like in the stories but... She wasn't certain. Yet there wasn't much time for her to be indecisive. Her phone rang and she pulled it out, seeing her brother on the caller ID. "I've got to take this. If you don't want to be questioned as a witness, I'd advise you leave. This is an active crime scene," she told the others. She walked a little ways off, making sure to stand in plain sight where the police would see her. She didn't know what she would tell them yet.

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Rose held her hands up at the Pendragon woman. "No offense meant. I mean my last name is Buckner." She gave a half shrug. If any of them had seen Cabin in the Woods they'd get how annoying her last name could be at times. "I'm just trying to piece this together as much as the rest of you." She turned to Merlin. "She has a point though. We should definitely not be having this conversation next to this." She gestured at the two corpses next to them.

"Willow do you mind driving us all back to the diner. We can talk there. How does that sound?" She asked Merlin and the grumpy girl, who Rose decided she would ignore as much as possible. She would have included Pendragon, but she was on the phone and had walked off. "We'll take separate cars. Unless you're expecting more children of fairy tales to come out of the bushes?" An actual concern Rose thought, great. And where was Mab, they hadn't gotten out of the car as far as Rose could tell? Maybe the crowd and dead bodies were too much, which was completely fair.

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Colby placed his order with the waitress. Half tempted to joke that they had only just made friends when a better idea came to mind as he heard what Mathew was saying. "We are a theater troop. Just working on a play idea. We didn't expect to run into them here." He lied. It wasn't a great lie, but it was better than the waitress thinking they were crazy. And really which was easier to believe?

"Tink who are their real parents? Mine apparently is the Cheshire cat." Colby said half incredulous. Mathew probably had the right idea, Robin Hood seemed likely. Especially since the red-haired girl was threatening Mathew with her bow. "How sharp are bows? Isn't usually the arrow that is sharp? And I agree Tink proof would be good. We've taken a lot of this on good faith so far." And a pretty set of wings she flashed us. He thought, but these girls hadn't seen that yet.

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"Going to be blunt, she never has cared much for the law considering her history, she doesn't trust anyone, and does not surprise me that she'd call you sweetie or something like that. She has a bit of an attitude and doesn't care really about anyone else but herself for the most part. Not that surprising really all things considering," he said to Annabelle as he waited for his sister to (hopefully) pick up the phone. It was a fifty fifty shot for her to answer the phone, and right now he was hoping she'd answer.

He let out a small sigh of relief as he heard Megan's voice on the other end of the line. "Hey there Meg, listen what's going on with you?" he asked her, glancing over towards Isabella slightly as she asked Annabelle if she was adopted. "Heard that you called the police for a kidnapping attempt or a murder something, what's going on mind explaining what's happening on your end to me? Since you have me slightly worried about what's going on."

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She rolled her eyes slightly at everyone else, wondering who they were in ordering her around. Rosalia wasn't one to just follow orders, she did whatever the hell she wanted without anyone else telling her what to do. Everyone around her was making suggestions, well, to her it felt more like orders really. Suggestions usually didn't have fireballs, dead bodies and supposed fairy tales involved in the conversations. This was getting way too weird in her mind, and everyone was just crowding around her.

"Okay look, I ain't hanging around with you all at a freaking diner. For several reasons, one being my chosen profession typically means no going out for food. Like, ever. Secondly, I don't know you people, I followed after him because of my own curiosity, and I got to meet a cute puppy who I would not want to leave in a freaking car in order to go out for food at a diner. You should never leave pets for long periods of time in a car by themselves, that is just flat out stupidity!" she snapped at Rose before she picked the puppy up into her arms and glanced back at Megan. "Considering my criminal record, you do not have to tell me twice about getting the hell out of here," she added, "Come on Lucky, let's go." With those last words, she instantly started heading out of the park.

Annie frowned, scratching the back of her head. She recieved a letter this morning, didn't she? Something about her adopted parents? And now this? Should she even say anything? They'd probably think she was crazy, and Annie didn't want that. Maybe...Annie began to work her jaw, moving it from side to side, a nervous habit.

"Uh, yeah. Those are my parents. The one on the left is Mallory, and the other one's June." She smiled. "They're uh, they're at work right now. I also have to go back to school soon." She looped a finger into her ponytail and began to twirl it idly.

"Um..." Annebelle began to to tell them about the letter, and the strange thing the kidnapper did with his hands. But she trailed off. She probably didn't think what she thought she saw. There was simply no way it happened, a trick of the light, an illusion. The letter was a flukey, scammy coincidence, and nothing more. The police would find the kidnapper and Annie could put all this behind her and go back to school, being a normal kid with great parents.

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Wichita Kansas Annabelle's Home:

Isabella listened to Annabelle as she spoke, and raised an eyebrow when she mentioned the letter that she had also received which was a really weird coincidence as well. She looked over towards Jack for a moment when he went to call Megan on the other end, wondering what was actually up. "Give me a second i'll be right back." Isabella said as she left the house and made her way over towards her car, and opened the door pulling out that same weird letter from earlier, before coming back into the room and handed it over towards Annabelle. "Did the letter look something like this?" She asked her.

She looked towards Jack when he spoke a little bit about Rosalia and smiled a little bit. "She kind of sounds like someone you would like anyway Jack." Isabella said jokingly as she sat down looking at him wondering if they should head off to the scene where Megan was right now. "Maybe we should go over to your sister, and maybe take her with to confirm the guys identity?" Isabella asked him.

Wichita Kansas, Motel:

Maleficent looked towards Tristan and his mother, she didn't have any issues with the two of them and simply waved them off to allow the two of them free. Tristan's mother quickly grabbed onto him and quickly ran out of the room closing the door behind the two of them, Maleficent's attention now fully on Pandora and smiled towards her. "I have no intention on hurting either of them." Maleficent said towards her daughter as she went and sat down on one of the chairs within the motel room before speaking again.

"Where to begin? There is a lot to explain why I am showing up to you right now." Maleficent let out a slight sigh, before waving her hand as she did some magic and images started to play. "You are not originally from this world at all, but from a world that I rule called Arcadia. All of the fairytales that you grew up reading are actually real." Maleficent said, letting that sink in a little bit while looking over at Pandora.

"Many years ago, you were taken from me along with several others by a man named Merlin, he was the one who had sent you the letter. I have been searching for you for a very long time. I can teach you everything that I know, and give you everything that you truly desire. But I wont force you to come back with me, there is always a choice after all."

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Merlin closed his eyes for a moment letting out a slight sigh, he didn't want to get caught by any of the police right now either since he did kill two people. He started to wave his hands around before a card would appear within everyone's hands while looking towards all of them. "Me and my associates will be located here, if any of you all would want to learn more about your family, and if anyone of you want to come back." Merlin said, while Lucky would occasionally look back at Merlin as he started to open up a portal for himself, and Merlin started to step through the portal, the puppy started to warm up to Rosalia now and started to lick at her cheek.

Sierra looked down at the little card with an address, seeing that it was an old warehouse on the other end of town, she quickly stuffed it into her pocket. It only really left her with more questions as she looked at Willow, Rose, and the others who were there, the girl with the Pendragon last name seemed to go and make a phone call to someone. And the girl with the puppy was more or less walking away now as well. "He did give us an address maybe meet him there or something?" Sierra suggested, she didn't really want to deal with the police either right now as well.

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"Well their last name is Hood, so that makes them Robin Hood's kids actually." Tinker answered as she took her order and leaned back a little bit while looking over at Cassiopeia and smiled a little bit. "I like this one." She said as she started to think a little bit, they needed some proof. Layla gave the woman a really weird look as she looked towards her sister, thinking that this was really weird and crazy as well, when one of them mentioned that he was the kid of the Cheshire Cat. She shook her head a little bit at that though since that was just really weird.

"Yeah this is all really weird." Layla said as she rubbed her neck slightly but she wanted to have some kind of proof that what this woman was saying was actually true or not. "Well what kind of proof would you all actually like then?" Tinker asked looking over at the four of them, waiting for an answer since she could try and find something of their parents without to much of an issue really.