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"I'm positive Isabella, it's not that far of a walk, and exercise isn't that bad of a thing now is it? Anyway, I'll see you back at the station in a little while, call me if anything pops up or whatever, okay?" Jack said, giving her a bit of a smile before he walked away from the house and started heading down the street towards the park. He half expected Isabella to follow after him or something to the park, but he really hoped that she wouldn't, especially considering the fact that Megan flat out told him that she didn't want Isabella involved, so he was going to try and keep that promise.

He saw the police around the park as he walked over, and when he entered the area he instantly started looking around for Megan. Figuring she'd be near all the officers who showed up, he walked around, before he eventually saw her. "Megan!" he called out to her, before jogging over to her, ignoring the officers who were more or less still there. "So... Mind telling me what exactly you wanted to talk about... And also the full story as to what exactly happened here? That would be nice too..."

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She just stood there petting the dog in her arms as she watched the officer write down what she said and hand her a card. Seriously what was people giving out business cards or whatever? It was starting to get more then a little annoying. "Will do," she said in response with a bit of a mock salute, before she turned and walked away from them entirely. Rosalia wasn't entirely sure what to really think about what was going on, but she probably was going to completely rip the business card up later and toss it. Maybe toss the card that Merlin gave her too.

Looking over, she saw a familiar figure digging around in the trash, and she saw the girl from earlier. Someone who she found to be perfectly annoying when she saw her before, and didn't really want to interact with her. However there was one thing that she knew from experience, never dig around in the trash ever, especially if you could just steal some money from someone and pay for food that way. If you got caught and thrown in jail, then that still would be better then the trash, since at least the food there was better then garbage. Anything you could get while in a jail cell was better then garbage. "You know the trash isn't the best place to find anything you are looking for," she said simply, walking over somewhat slowly, rolling her eyes at her.

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Rose happily exchanged numbers with Willow and hugged her back tightly. "A group text sounds like a good idea, and good luck with your folks." She said and sent a quick text making the group chat. "If you want I work at a bar we can meet there. I'm on shift tonight so I'll make sure you're taken care of. If you're old enough." She added the address so if Willow did want to she could find it. Once that was done and Willow had driven off Rose turned to Sierra.

"Honestly, I'm not that hungry. I've got a couple of hours to burn still before my shift at the bar. I was thinking of going for a hike. Care to join me?" She asked Sierra. Either response she would be happy with. Rose could do with some alone time, or some time with her friend.

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"Ha, creative, it is like I've never heard that joke before." Colby rolled his eyes at the Colby Jack joke. It really wasn't the first time he had heard the joke. He leaned back a bit in the booth contemplating what Tink had done and said so far. The whole day had been a wild ride there was no denying that. He also couldn't explain the magic she did with slight of hand...since her hand had GONE INTO A PORTAL. There were no tricks here as far as he could tell. Colby was still curious about why he hadn't developed magical powers, and if he would in the future, but that was a question for later. Maybe only when he went to Arcadia would he, and he definitely was going to go. Hell if he could he'd leave right now. Just disappear. That was just fine with him.

"Uh, we aren't a couple." Colby said flatly. Keeping his gaze away from Matthew. The two had just ended up...hanging out because of similar interests. He supposed that made them friends, but Matthew wasn't the best at socializing. It was only because of their common interests that Colby found hanging out with Matthew tolerable. It was also nice he wasn't like the dumb roommates he had. Changing the subject Colby asked Tink "When can we meet Merlin?". His stomach growled and he added, "After lunch though."

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Wichita Kansas Annabelle's Home:

"Well just call if you end up getting in a pickle or something." Isabella said as she looked towards Annabelle one last time and gave the young girl a smile and wave before climbing into her car, and started to drive back off to the police station to work on somethings over there. There were a few people walking and going about their normal day, but no one was really paying attention to what was going on currently. Annabelle was free to do anything really right now as well, whether she wanted to stay home or go to classes which were starting fairly soon as well.

Wichita Kansas, Maleficent's Lair:

Maleficent smiled towards Pandora, as she sat in her chair there was a lot of reasons why she did come here personally, mostly her daughter but she knew that Merlin was still in town around somewhere. "I needed to find you my dear, and I know that Merlin is trying to do the same thing, and I wanted to make sure that you are safe. And I am also trying to find them before he finds all of the others." She said, and when Pandora asked how she was able to find her, her men from earlier weren't that subtle trying to get her here, though she didn't mention it. "No tracking device, since we are related by blood, a simple tracking spell was pretty easy once I came into town." She said as she stood up.

Wichita Kansas, Oak Park:

A couple of seconds later there was a forensics team and they started to inspect the scene itself, one of the techs knelt down and managed to find a cellphone that wasn't badly burnt at all. Then the slipped it into a plastic bag and marked it off for evidence later for the detectives to look into. The officer that was a little close to the bodies gave Megan a slight nod, while going off to see if he could grab any other kind of statements. One of the forsenics techs came over to Megan and looked towards Jack and gave him a slight nod before addressing Megan. "We are just about done here, and tagging everything up now, if you don't mind helping with bagging the bodies?" He informed her, as an ambulance now came onto the scene as well to.

Wichita Kansas, Streets:

The girl stuck her head out from the dumpster and stared at Rosalia for a moment, before remembering her again. "You'd be surprised what people actually throw away though." She said, as she searched around before finding a pretty cheap lawn chair and tossed it onto the ground before climbing out of it. "See? A perfectly good lawn chair, just needs a little cleaning and some ghetto maintenance and it's good as new." She said, and stared at the dog for a moment. "Did you steal someone's puppy or something?" She asked, the pupper was now currently asleep in Rosalia's arms.

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Sierra looked towards Willow for a moment and gave her a hug. "Alright then, you can text me whenever you want its always on me anyway." Sierra said towards Willow and smiled towards her, as she watched Willow getting into her car and started to drive off, her attention turned towards Rose. She didn't have anything else big planned for the rest of the day anyway. "Sure I wouldn't mind going out on a little hike." Sierra said giving her friend a nod. "Are we taking your ride or something?" Sierra asked, wanting to make sure that they did have some kind of transportation there.

Over at Willow's house her adoptive mother was sitting in the kitchen on the phone most likely with someone on the other end of the phone otherwise the house was pretty much normal at the moment. It was probably a good time to start the discussion with her being adopted and all of that as well now at this point.

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Tinker stared at Cassiopeia for a moment before answering. "You were sent here for your safety, but yeah things at home aren't that good right now. And I believe that Maleficent knows that you are all here as well, and Merlin thinks that bringing you all back would turn the tide." Tinker answered, Layla stared at the locket a bit more while still listening to Tinker as she spoke, feeling her sister leaning in and gave her a tight hug as a way to comfort her as well and to show that they were close as well.

Still Layla had a lot of questions of her own as well, but Colby did beat her to it she wanted to know this Merlin guy as well and she wanted to meet him. "Yeah where is he anyway?" Layla finally asked while handing the locket over to her sister, when there was a sound of a phone going off. And Tinker pulling out a phone reading a text, and looked towards the four of them. "Well if you four want to meet Merlin I can take you to him." She offered, as Layla looked towards her sister to see what she wanted to do.

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Cassiopeia smirked at how quickly Colby answered her and how uncomfortable Matthew was looking. ”Ya huh,” she said. She leaned into Layla when her sister hugged her, wrapping an arm over her shoulders and held the locket tightly in her hand. She looked at Layla, wondering what the hell they were going to do. It was crazy what Tink was saying but Cassiopeia wanted to see this for herself, she was hooked on the idea of it now. ”So you want us running back to trouble, after we were sent away in the first place? That sounds like a well thought out plan,” Cassi noted. ”Why can’t our parents fix this problem?”
Tink pulled out her phone and Cassi watched her curiously as her eyes scanned the phone before she offered to take them to Merlin. Who always was apparently real. She was still trying to wrap her head around all of that as well. She looked back at Layla, seeing her sister already looking at her. ”We may as well Lala, what have we got to lose,” she said before telling Tink they would come.

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Willow hung up her jacket and her keys before she slipped off her wet shoes and followed the sound of her mother's voice to the kitchen. Willow's mom was sitting on the phone and her dad was nowhere in sight, which wasn't a surprise. She walked over and turned the kettle on, making eye contact with her mom and waited for her to hang up the phone so they could talk this out. Willow wanted an answer now and she would be more comfortable dealing with one parent at a time.

Willow's mother turned her head slightly seeing her daughter coming into the kitchen. "I'll talk to you later okay hun?" Willow's mother said, before hanging up the phone. "Willow, i'm really sorry we were going to tell you when the time was right.." She said softly as she went over to give her a hug.

Willow shifted, holding her hand out so her mother wouldn't hug her. She didn't need to be coddled or comforted right now, she wanted to understand. "When the time was right? I'm twenty-one mom and besides that, is there every really a "right" time?" The kettle started to boil and Willow pulled out two cups to make tea for herself and her mom.

Willow's mother frowned a little bit, and took a step back letting out a quiet sigh. "You are right your father and I should have told you this a lot sooner, and i'm sorry for not saying any of this sooner to you we both are."

Willow nodded, appreciating the words her mother spoke to her. They had always been close, the three of them, her and her mother more so at this age. It hurt to be lied to, to be this disappointed in a parent who was your everything. Willow made their tea, the same way they took it every time and carried the cups to the table. She sat down, blowing on the hot liquid and took a tentative sip before setting the cup down. "Do you know who my real parents are?" If they didn't, she didn't want her mother throwing her into the loony bin for saying she's a fairy tale princess or whatever she was.

Willow's mother walked over and sat down at the kitchen table while looking over at her daughter seeing the disappointment in her eyes which she could tell before shaking her head slightly. "No, your father and I never knew who your real parents were, we went through the adoption center, which was where we found you."

Willow nodded, she wasn't sure if that was a relief or not. "Mom, if I had the opportunity to get to know my biological parents? What would you say? I'd have to leave school," she added in. Other than the nature of who her parents may be, which Willow still didn't know, she didn't keep much from her mom and it was hard not to remain honest still.

Willow's mother looked at her daughter for a moment and gave her a slight smile, though she didn't like the idea of her daughter dropping out of school, though Willow was old enough now to make her own choices. "I'll help however I can, and you are old enough now to pick whatever you want to do with your future." She said softly.

Willow looked at her mom, feeling her heart hurt from the love and shifted. She got off her chair and promptly sat in her mother's lap and hugged her. "I love you mom," she declared. "Thank you for loving me." They were simple words but they held so much meaning. "I'm going to go call Annabelle," she told her mom.

Willow kissed her mother’s cheek before she got off her lap, grabbed her tea and headed up the stairs. She shut the door to her room and dialed the familiar number of one of her close friends Annabelle. As she waited for her to pick up the phone, Willow lit a rose scented candle and curled up on a chair in her room with her tea.

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The sound of ice clanking against the glass as it rose to the top was all that could be heard before Matthew nearly spat out his drink, bubbles forming in the glass of water moments before the curly haired kid nudged his friend. "Well you dont have to sound so repulsed by it. I think I'd make a fine boyfriend thank you " Matthew teased at Colby as he flashed him a smile. He fidgeted with his straw, pushing away some ice as he thought more about what has been transpiring throughout the day. It was true that he wanted to meet Merlin, but even more so that he wanted his lunch first. He was after all starving, and promised a free lunch.

"Its true we were sent away for our safety, bit we were children back then. Practically defenseless. You two seem more than capable of fending for yourselves, and on top of that I'm more than certain that bringing us back could help turn the tide. Maleficent isnt expecting us, she isnt expecting any skill from us or interference. We're the ace up our parents sleeves and hopefully we can get them out of whatever sticky situation they've gotten themselves into. Preferably with all our heads still on. Who knows, maybe we'll be able to befriend a Jabowocky and ride it into battle."

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"Of course, I'll not spare a single detail - it's a chilling story, a tale to astonish no doubt," Megan mused. She was about to give Jack all of the information, when forensics arrived on the scene and quickly asked for her assistance with the bodies. Torn between her urge to tell Jack what had happened and her stubborn belief that most people were incompetent when it came to bagging corpses, she sighed. Isabella wasn't there, so at the very least there were still small miracles. "I'll be a moment."

She then went to work, snapping a fresh pair of gloves onto her hands as she bagged and tagged all of the corpses. Some of the bodies were more intact than others. She labeled them appropriately, so that way there wouldn't be any question as to what crime scene the stiffs were from. Of course, it wasn't like their sleepy Kansas town had mass murder events orchestrated by wizards occur every day. Finishing her work, she took off her gloves and disposed of them appropriately. "Come on, I'll give you a lift," she told her brother, before leading him over to her car. Once they were both inside, she turned and looked at him seriously.

"I met a wizard," she told him bluntly. "He claimed that we are the children of fairytale characters and that we are in grave danger due to some sinister foe... I imagine the Maleficent cosplayer we saw on the tapes... Though I suppose it may not have bene cosplay after all."

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A tracking spell. Yeah, that just figured. "So were those your men that came to my apartment or Merlin's?" She hazard a guess that it was one of the two. If she was being tracked by both of them through magic, it stood to reason they knew where she lived and had tried to grab her. The question then was: would it have been willingly or through force?

And that was why she didn't fully trust her mother. There were too many unknowns and too many questions that needed to be answered but not asked. This was all becoming a bit too much. So much had happened in a span of less than a day. She never much believed in coincidences and she wasn't about to start either.

"Who are the others? More fairy tale creature's children? Start from the beginning. Where did we come from? Why did they want us to leave? I don't want the black and white version of it, I want your events. Your opinion."

Nothing. Just a normal day for everyone else. Annie moved her eyes from side to side and let the blind go as the two detectives left her home. She was alone, but something wasn't sitting right with her. Frowning she flicked on the TV to let some background noise play, just so she wouldn't feel so alone. It was the news channel and they were talking about...stuff.

"Okay, Doug. I think I am going to stay home after all. I just need a break. Today was too much." She spoke to her dog. It was a habit of hers to talk to her dog when she was alone. Helped her verbalize and collected her thoughts. "I need a snack. Maybe some yogurt, or something."

Opening the fridge she fetched her snack and popped it open, beginning to scoop up the viscious pink food that tasted of fruit with a shiny metal spoon. Sitting on the kitchen table she looked through the window at the backyard. She had to mow it soon, she thought. Annie did chores around the house, of course. It was the least she could do considering her parents were continuing to let her stay at home rent free. She was blessed enough to live with a well off family. Money didn't give one happiness but she would rather be well off and unhappy then poor and unhappy. Like those kids who don't even have a home to feel safe in, or one to return to at all. She still had to call the Child Protective Services for-

Her phone was ringing in her backpocket. Leaning to the side she grabbed her pink-covered phone in her hand. It was Willow! Annie tapped the green answer button with her thumb and held it up to her ear. "Huhllo!" She answered enthusiastically, the yogurt in her mouth muffling her voice somewhat.

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Jack waited patiently for Megan to finish up bagging up the bodies. He nodded his head slightly at the officers, saying nothing to them really as he wasn't too sure what to really say about the whole scene. Everything was beyond weird in his mind, considering the fact that way too many coincidences were happening all at once. His mind went back towards the incident that they had witnessed on the monitors regarding the murder at the orphanage, and then the attempted kidnapping. Everything weird was happening all at once, anything that could go wrong seemed to be going wrong.

Afterwards, he followed along after Megan, rolling his eyes slightly about her giving him a ride, even though he was perfectly capable of walking, but he figured it had something to do with why she wanted to talk to him, and didn't want Isabella with them at all. His eyes grew wide when she told him everything that seemed to have happened, and he wasn't too sure what to think. What she was saying made absolutely no sense... Right? It wasn't exactly possible, fairy tales weren't real. "...Meg, I'm not too sure what to really think about that, it just sounds insane."

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"Trust me, I do know pretty well what people tend to throw away, it ain't pretty for the most part," she said with a shrug towards her, still petting the little puppy in her arms. "Though not sure whether or not a lawn chair would be a good thing to have around out here at this time of year. Lawn chairs are kind of out of season don't ya think?" This kid was a bit weird, but she did have a point, things that got thrown away weren't all that bad for the most part, it's how she furnished most of her apartment since she couldn't really afford to buy any actual furniture or blankets or whatnot.

Hearing her question about the dog caused her to get more then a little bit on the defensive side. Even though in reality, she kind of did steal the puppy from Merlin, but the puppy hadn't seemingly wanted to follow Merlin back to wherever he had come from, so she considered the dog to be her own. "I did not steal someone's dog! The puppy more or less started following me so I picked him up and now he's with me. His name is Lucky and he is mine! And why would it matter if I stole a dog if I had?"

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"I've got a spare helmet." Rose grinned at Sierra. Rose loved the open road. She loved her bike. She loved freedom. Rose hoped that whatever all of this was going to change she still would have freedom. "Unless of course, you wanna drive your own so average CRV?" Rose didn't hate the CRV, it just didn't have the same feel as the bike on the open road did. She'd be willing to ride in the CRV if Sierra insisted, but it meant she'd have to leave when Sierra wanted to. Well, she thought, if she drove her up there she'd have to anyway.

"Or we can meet at the trailhead and you can leave at leisure and I can stay till the wolves remind me I'm human and have to pay for things like gas and food." She shrugged mostly joking. Though, she supposed today put the jokes into a weird perspective. She had just had some guy claiming to be Merlin make a magic portal right in front of her. "Or," She started to give another option. "We say to hell with it and go straight to Mr. Merlin's Camelot in Kansas."

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"I.. I'm not repulsed." Colby stopped there knowing if he went any further he'd just dig himself a hole he did not want to be in. "Yeah I want to meet Merlin." He said to Tink. Hoping that'd change the subject. He could feel his face was hot. Colby was tempted to reach up and touch his cheek to see if it felt as hot to his fingertips as it did in his head.

Matthew's colloquial language didn't help. All Colby could think was how strange he was. Even before they had learned they were actually the children of characters from Wonderland Matthew had been obsessed with the book. Colby blamed the hat that Matthew had had when he was left at the orphanage and then thanked his lucky stars someone had adopted him. He had just been young enough. Moldable enough...well at least in the minds of the Jacksons he was. In reality, Colby Jackson was not the child they had hoped for.

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Wichita Kansas Annabelle's Home:

As Annabelle turned on the TV, the local news station was on and there was a reporter on scene at the local park that wasn't to far from where she was. Which happened to be the same park that Jack and Isabella were talking about while they were interviewing her with her situation with Merlin. "Apparently there was some kind of fight that had gone at Oak Park, leaving three dead with severe burns across their body from what some witnesses have said." The reporter said.

Wichita Kansas Willow's Home:

"I'll see what I can dig up on your adoption papers." Willow's mother said as she gave Willow a hug, as she headed up the stairs to make the phone call. She would be able to also hear what Annabelle was watching on TV, about the report on what happened at Oak Park just moments ago as well.

Wichita Kansas, Maleficent's Lair:

When Pandora asked if she was the one who sent the goons after her earlier in the day and sighed a little bit, she really wished that her men didn't do that aggressively. But she was smarter and didn't want to lie to her daughter either as she stood up from her chair slightly. "I did send them to your place, however I didn't expect them to be violent with how they approached you. I promise you that I will not lie to you, and they were all dealt with harshly, I did not mean any harm to come to you, and for that I truly do apologize." Maleficent told her daughter, as Pandora asked more on where she had came from and why they were taken.

"Yes, the others that I am searching for are from other fairytales as you know them as." Maleficent said as some pictures of the others appeared near Pandora so that she could see, she would recognize Colby's picture there among them. "You and I are from a different world called Arcadia, where all of the fairytales you know today originally come from. I currently rule over it, Merlin and some of the others believe that I should be overthrown, and I was becoming to dangerous. So one day they decided to smuggle as much of their children including you, and brought all of you here." She said softly.

Wichita Kansas, Oak Park:

The forensics team both gave Jack and Meg a friendly nod, as well as the cops as they continued to wrap up the scene all together now, and they were all going away now. The ambulance started to drive off over towards the morgue for Meg and the coroner to handle with all later no doubt. The traffic was starting to get pretty busy now as well, as some police cars were pulling away now as well.

Wichita Kansas, Streets:

"Hey, it's something to actually sit on it's sure as hell better than sitting on the cold as fuck ground." The girl said shrugging slightly, it did smell quiet a bit as well. But a good quick hosing down would pretty much be good as new as well, as she continued to stare at the sleeping puppy and then over at Rosalia giving her a slight shrug. "Hey aint judging, if you stole the dog or not probably some rich old fart who didn't like the little guy or whatever." The girl said as she adjusted the chair a little bit.

"No need to get your panties all up in a bunch about it either, i'm sure you got a nice place for yourself and him to rest or something." She said, as she started to turn down the sidewalk. "Oh, and that chick you were fighting with or earlier, if you were curious some weird guys were stalking her, probably dead or something now to cuz they looked scary looking."

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"Hey the CRV is a nice car, much safer then a bike did you not see the whole pile up scene in the second Final Destination movie?" Sierra said jokingly, though it was the truth you were pretty much dead if you got into a car accident on a bike. She did really like those movies though they were really good to watch as well. But she did trust Rose she was a really good friend after all. "I don't mind taking your bike if you are offering, lead the way." Sierra said giving her a friendly smile and gestured for her to lead the way.

Sierra thought for a moment, whether to just go straight to this Merlin guy or not she did want to get some answers, but then again she also just wanted to have a nice evening to relax and have a nice walk. "Lets cross that bridge when we get to it, sound good? Lets just enjoy a nice long walk." Sierra said giving her a smile.

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A few seconds later their food all had finally arrived as Tinker took her plate and leaned back a little bit and started to eat while looking over at Cassiopeia and gave her a slight nod. "Yep, that is if you actually want to go back. And they cant because they are kind of stretched thin and stuff. I haven't been back in awhile watching all of you, Merlin knows more on the state of things I think, since he goes to and from pretty often." She said as Layla accepted her food and started to eat it rather quickly and looked at her sister, and shrugged slightly.

"Not like we have anything else going on today, we might actually get the answers that we actually want." Layla said as she took a quick sip from her drink. Layla looked between Colby and Mathew for a moment, and couldn't help but smirk a little bit again. "You two would make a really awkward and cute couple. Just saying." Layla said as she took another bite and took another quick look at the locket again.

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Cassiopeia watched everyone else start to eat and nodded. ”Well alright then. I guess we’re on board. We’ll have to call someone to watch the cats Lala,” she pointed out to her sister. Cassiopeia wasn’t entirely sure what she should be feeling at the moment. She was intrigued at the idea of visiting a place she had never seen or heard of and she was fascinated with the idea of Robin Hood being her true father. What version of all the stories she had read would he be like, she wondered.
”Leave the poor boys along Layla, I believe you have picked on them enough today,” she joked. She had to admit though, the two of them were starting to grow on her. Cassiopeia looked back at Tink. ”So you’ve been watching us, all of us? How many of us are there?” Not to mention kind of creepy that she had been keeping an eye on them all this time. How old was she?

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Willow sipped her tea and smiled once her friend answered the phone. ”Hey Annie, have you got a minute? I really need someone to talk to.” She sipped her tea again, listening to the sound of voices on the other line. It sounded like Annie was watching the news and it was only confirmed when they started talking about Oak Park and the dead bodies. Willow shut her eyes and had to set her tea down before she spilt it. ”Annie I was there. I was at Oak Park,” she told her friend.
Of course that wasn’t what Willow wanted to talk about but both things were related, she just wasn’t sure how her friend would take her speaking about the wizard Merlin. Willow still didn’t even understand it but it was hard to ignore the dead bodies and a sudden portal opening up in front of them all at his hands before he disappeared. Willow shut her eyes and breathed in her rose scented candle. The smell always seemed to calm her and occasionally, bring about some lost memories. In this instant, Willow would be able to remember some things of her past again. A woman’s voice, the smell of freshly cut roses, yellow hair the same shade as hers and to male voices. She seemed to recognize one and slowly Merlin came into view. As well as a woman in a beautiful blue dress, standing close with another man. They were speaking of her and sending her away for her safety but they were arguing and didn’t seem happy. Those had to be her parents. Willow strained for a closer look but she was pulled back to reality. Willow blinked several times, momentarily forgetting where she was and that she was on the phone.

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Matthew nudged Colby gently as he saw him struggle to respond. His face changing slightly and making him wonder if he was beginning to blush or if perhaps he was just imagining things. His gaze lingered a bit longer than it should have, a dopey smile creeping it's way onto his face before the waitress came by with some food. The sudden voice snapped him out of his daze and sent him to thank the waitress as the plate was placed before him. Matthew immediately began to dig in, breaking apart his chopsticks and picking up the Orange Chicken to stuff himself. Again the comment of them as a couple came up, and he practically choked on the meat as he attempted to swallow, finally getting it down quickly before taking a sip of his water and sitting back in the chair for a moments respite.

"Sorry, I should really slow down a bit. I forget the food here isnt exactly Panda Express and has real orange peels on it. Honestly I'm a bit excited to meet Merlin as well. I was very excited for a free meal but even more ready to go out and meet a grand wizard of legend. I can only imagine how old he must be, and given the saying, how great his beard might be." He fiddled with his food for a second, rolling a piece of chicken back and forth on his plate as he tried to recall how many children there were all together. Each roll counted one child, one photograph he had seen moments prior, but he decided not to answer as this wasnt his show to run.

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"I know that it does," Megan agreed. "But we need to take this step by step - once we've eliminated what is impossible, then whatever remains must be the truth. I saw what looked like magic with my own eyes. I don't know how to scientifically explain what the wizard did. He didn't just throw fire, he managed to teleport, to vanish into thin air," Megan reasoned. The fire she could have explained away - it was the vanishing act that confounded her. She couldn't think of a way for Merlin to fool their senses like that in the park. How could he have made those cards appear in their hands? Maybe he had been a light projection of some sort, yet he physically interacted with his environment. It didn't make sense.

The address on the card Merlin had given her indicated an old warehouse on the other end of town. With the traffic due to the police cars and whatnot, it would take them a little while to get there. "I think we ought to take a leap of faith - the wizard gave me an address. We can go there and see what we can sort out of this mess." She paused for a moment, before turning her car on and pulling out of the parking spot and into the road. "If you don't want to, I can drop you off at the station - but I need to go and see if this is real... The wizard says he knew our families... Where we came from..."

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Pandora didn't know what her mother meant about "being taken care of" but she imagined the men would not be given a stern talking to. She didn't care what happened to them though. As far as she was concerned they deserved what they got. She took that into account as she glanced at the pictures her mother showed. One of which was Colby, one of few people she gave a damn about. So he was a child of fairy tales too? Pandora hid her realization. If her mother knew she had known one of the other children, she didn't figure she'd take it well.

"Well, why does Merlin think that? Earth history shows tat royalty is usually overthrown because they got too big for their own good. Didn't treat others well. Made their people unhappy. I imagine its much the same in this...Arcadia place. Also, I want to learn magic. Is that possible?" She had been asking herself that since she was told she came from the very queen herself. Surely she had some latent abilities. It would only serve her well to learn what she could.

She didn't know her mother's plan for her, but anything she could add to her arsenal for protection couldn't hurt.

Annie frowned. It sounded like Willow was sad about something when she asked what if she had a minute. "Uh, yeah, of course. What's up?" She asked, concerned. She turned down the news on her TV, not paying too much attention to the news of recent killings, at least not with her friend on the phone. But those two things combined quickly as Willow explained to Annie what was on her mind. Annie looked at Oak Park and the murders and was scared for her friend. This was a horrible day! Hadn't the detectives mentioned the killings absentmindedely while they were here? Did the strange kidnapping man and his strange illusions have anything to do with it? What about the letters?

"Oh, my God! Are you okay, Willow? That's terrible!" Annie exlaimed, standing to her feet and putting a hand to her forehead, pacing around her empty house. Doug looked up at her and then closed his eyes again, laying on the couch. Here she was worried about some weirdo when Willow could have been hurt, or even killed!

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Jack got into the passenger seat of the car and just listened to Megan's words as she spoke fully of what exactly happened at the park. There wasn't much else he could really do at the moment, as he just sat back, thinking about her words. There was a lot that was racing through his head as he tried to think about how to potentially explain what it was that she was describing in a rational way. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to come up with a logical explanation. How do you explain someone teleporting? You can't unless the guy had some device that was super advanced that could do it, but that probably wasn't likely.

"...I guess if there isn't any other explanation it is entirely possible... And the only way we'll find out is by heading there. I'll tag along with you Meg, I'm more then a little bit curious as to what's going on, and what the hell even happened at the park. We'll figure this out one way or the other, and we'll find the truth, okay?" he said to her, giving her a smile before he glanced back out the window. "Wonder what he knows about us..."

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"Eh, the ground isn't that bad you know. It's only bad after it's rained or something like that, then it is really cold and uncomfortable. But I understand the need for a chair," she said with a slight shrug as she leaned up against the dumpster now, petting the small puppy that she was still happily holding in her arms. This girl certainly was a bit weird in her mind. "Eh, I only have a small place, gotta steal stuff to keep myself off the streets you know. It's small but eh, it works and is better then hanging around on the streets all day. Was done with that sort of thing years ago."

Rosalia raised an eyebrow when she heard about that girl who annoyed her to no end from earlier. "Why the hell would I care about what's going on with her? She's a rich prick who if she's dead in my opinion deserved it." The smell from the dumpster was not the best, and the girl there didn't smell the best either, and a thought crossed her mind, and she figured she might as well. The girl was a lot like herself, even though she hated to admit it. "Hey listen, if you have no where to go, you can come to my apartment if you want an actual shower, though you might have to settle for crashing on the floor if you wanted to. Don't have to but you can if you want to."

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"A ride and hike sound nice." Rose led the way to her bike laughing at Sierra's comment about Final Destination. "Hey as long as we don't end up behind a logging truck, or on a roller coaster, or on a plane." She started listing all the core deaths from the films. She was a fan of horror films and had spent a weekend binge-watching all the movies once.

"I'd like to think I'm a better driver. And if you do get a premonition let me know so I can get out of the way of it." She paused at the bike. "Do you think we will have powers based on our fairy tale backgrounds? I don't even know who my parents are. I mean I have a vague image of them in my head but I was about seven years old when the Buckners found me. It might not be what they look like." She sighed and then climbed onto the bike slipping her helmet on and offering the spare from the bike's saddlebags. She placed her backpack in the empty space it made.

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Colby was thankful for the food arriving it was a nice distraction. He loaded up his plate. But there Layla was joking about him and Matthew dating again. He felt his face get hotter and he took a big bite of food to keep himself from saying something he might regret. The girls seemed nice enough but god could they lay off? He nodded at Cass's question. If he didn't have his mouth full of sweet and sour pork he would have said something like 'yeah a bit creepy if you ask me'. By the time he was done chewing he had thought better of that too.

Cass brought up another point, he had a cat to care for. Probably one of his co-workers from the pet store could take him for a few days. But what if he couldn't come back from Arcadia? "About pets. I have a cat too. I have roommates that can probably feed him, or a friend from work that'll take him, but I would like to keep Jack. So uh, if we go to Arcadia can I bring my cat? He's pretty chill." Colby had never had an issue getting cats to understand what he wanted them to do. Sure they could just decide not to, and that had happened a fair amount of times, but if Colby was super serious about Jack needing to hide or something for his safety Colby was certain Jack would obey.

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Wichita Kansas Annabelle's Home:

The news continued to play around for the time being, as the story changed to some sports now, which wasn't really interesting at the moment either. Though Annabelle would be able to hear Willow's mother on the other end coming into her room, and Willow mentioning about the adoption papers but couldn't hear much of the conversation.

Wichita Kansas Willow's Home:

There was a knock on the door as Willow's mother came into the room, seeing her daughter was busy on the phone talking to someone, she didn't really want to disturb her right now. "I managed to look through somethings and found your adoption papers if you were interested in looking at them." Her mother offered, before heading back out of the room, there wasn't much information other then Willow's given name, though there was a simple letter M on the paper that was giving the information to put her in the orphanage in the first place.

Wichita Kansas, Maleficent's Lair:

"Your magic is locked away, though once we are home I will be able to unlock it for you and teach you everything that I know." Maleficent said as Pandora asked her more questions, as to why Merlin did what he did and sighed a little bit. "I had overthrown their rule, to try and make things better for everyone, some were persecuting people who had magical abilities. So they did not like my sudden take over and I was simply fighting back and I am trying to simply keep the peace." Maleficent told her daughter, she may have killed some people or ordered the death of those that didn't agree to her rule, but she thought it was all necessary in the first place as well in her mind she was doing the right thing.

Wichita Kansas, Streets:

The traffic started to lessen up now, and the police were gone from the area now which would make traveling a lot easier now at this point as well. When Jack would feel his phone going off, and if he looked down he would notice that it was Isabella again, and when he picked it up he would be able to hear her on the other end. "Hey, so did some digging and managed to find a traffic cam photo of that weird Maleficent cosplayer chick again, just outside of one of those really fancy apartment buildings on the more rich side of town." Isabella said they weren't to far from the location that was on the card that Merlin had given Megan.

"Shelters aren't that good either, its just way to cramped and stuff." The girl said to Rosalia and gave her a slight shrug at the mentioning of the girl from earlier. "Just thought it would be interesting to you or whatever." She said giving a slight shrug as she continued to follow Rosalia a little bit more, she was actually surprised when she offered her a place to crash for a little bit and looked at her.

"Are you sure?" She asked, she had pretty dirty and worn out clothes now at this point, she did smell pretty bad now at this point as well, and needed to take a shower. "You can have the chair if you'd like." She offered, since she was being nice to her, and it was the only thing she had in worth in her opinion really. "I'm Taylor by the way." She said offering a hand to Rosalia.

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"We should actually have a movie night or something watching those movies." Sierra suggested and gave Rose a slight smile and laughed a little bit and nodded. "I'll be sure to let you know if I get one or not." She said jokingly as she climbed onto the back of Rose' bike putting on the helmet. Sierra thought for a moment, she always did want to know who her real parents were, and she wanted to find out what they actually were like. "I don't know maybe?" Sierra said giving a slight shrug she hadn't really watched a good fairytale movie or read a story in a really long time.

"I know some didn't really have powers, but they were really good at fighting or were smart, something along those lines to." Sierra said, as she let Rose drive off. "I just remember being dropped off at the orphanage and that's about it really." Sierra said giving a slight shrug. "There were a lot of people there to." she said softly seeing them all and wondered why they were all there in the first place to.

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"Fine, fine i'll stop picking on the two lovebirds." Layla said with a slight laugh as she started to eat her food and closed her eyes for a moment as she enjoyed the food that she had gotten for herself. She instantly did sit up though at the mentioning of their pets she really didn't want to leave her cat at all. "Yeah i'd like to bring my cat along to if possible." Layla said, hoping that there was a way to when Tinker answered. "Yeah you can have time to pack and what not, if you do choose to come." Tinker said, and looked over at Cass for a moment at her question.

"Theres about fourteen of you that we managed to rescue and bring here, for a few years now kind of forget the exact number honestly though." Tinker answered Cassiopeia's question, Layla was relieved that she would have some time to pack and bring their cats with them, as she looked towards her sister it felt like they wouldn't really be returning home at all really either.

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Matthew stared at his plate for a while longer, thinking back on Carroll at home. There wasn't exactly anyone he could turn to to take care of his cat. Sure there was his friend but...if he wasnt sure how long he would be gone then perhaps it would become a bother and strain for them to upkeep her. No, he needed to take her with him to Arcadia and hope for the best. Matthew scooped up another bite of chicken and proceeded to eat again while the others conversed. Listening to each concerns and Tinks answers to the whole mess. He was so enraptured in his own mind that he hardly heard Layla's final jab at the pair, absentmindedly staring off into space as he began to wonder about what exactly Arcadia would look like, how its atmosphere may differ from where they are now, as well as if he would be able to obtain some form of power there.

"Sounds like it's all settled then. We'll each bring out cats, take some time to pack up for the trip, and then venture off into the unknown." Matthew gave a smile to the group as he plopped another bite into his mouth, finishing the piece before continuing. "For now why dokt we just enjoy our meals, get to know each other a little better and enjoy the last meal we'll have in Kansas before we're off to see the wizard." Matthew grabbed his chopsticks and snagged a piece of sweet and sour chicken from Colbys plate before eating it and giving him a cheeky smile that said "mine now"