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Maddie's shoulders lowered slightly as the girl had chosen not to believe them. His fingers gripped the edge of the fabric by his side, finding purchase on a leather belt and simply wringing it between his forefinger and thumb, frustration running through him. He watched as Colby began to speak towards the cats, their reactions seeming more like they were following orders than actually wishing to harm them. Thoughts swirled in Maddie's mind and he came to an odd conclusion. What if these are all Colby's siblings and that girl is either his sister or Maddie's

Maddie's hands made their way up towards the brim of his hat, gently grabbing it as he contemplated if he was crazy for doing this. He removed it from atop his head, slowly squatting down and gently moving it towards one of the magical cats. It sniffed the hat, giving pause as it recognized the scent that was sealed into the fibers of the hat, snatching it out of his hands and running towards the stairs. Maddie took half a step forward and the cats leaned towards him, a low growl emanating through the room as the thriving cat disappeared up towards the girl. "Tha-Thats my...hat…"

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"I don't think that is really smart." Tinker said looking towards the boys who were still interacting with the cats, she chuckled slightly as the cat bolted off with Matt's hat and headed up the stairs with it. She thought about making a joke about it using Matt's hat as a litter box, when the door opened and some voices were coming down, and several footsteps to. "Here they are dad." The girl said as three figures came down. One of them was a massive cat, upon seeing the group he instantly changed into a man, the next was another , while holding onto Maddie's and the other was a younger woman.

Tinker quickly stood up seeing them all and smiled. "It's really good to see you all again." She said as Cheshire turned towards the little girl and smiled gently patting her on the head, before snapping his fingers and the army of cats quickly disapeared into the woodwork again. "I'm sorry about that, we are a bit used to intruders coming in here and stealing things." The Mad Hatter said to them all.

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Belle backed up slightly as she tucked a stray strand of hair away from her face and nodded slightly, as she looked over towards the others. "Sorry about that, but I am your mother." She told Jack and the others, while focusing on Jack once more knowing that it may need some clarification. "I was a prisoner of Rumple for years, living in his prison for years and did things i'd rather not talk about eventually you were born." Belle said towards Jack.

Sierra listened and looked at Jack and Belle for a moment, before she heard some yelling she quickly turned to see Hansel coming over towards them. "We really need to get going now, Hook's men spotted me." Hansel said to them as Sierra went over to see that some of the pirates were starting to approach with weapons drawn as well. "Yeah we should get going now." Sierra said as Belle thought for a moment before going over and seeing a boat was tied to the dock and motioned for them to look, it was big enough to fit all of them in it she gestured towards the ladder as well leading down towards it. "We can get down on there." She suggested, as Gretel came over and looked. "Unless you all want to fight our way out of here."

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Layla leaned back slightly as she looked over to see Rapunzel sitting a little bit further away from the rest of the group then the others, before turning her attention towards Rosalia once more. "So, is everything alright?" Layla ended up asking her, she wasnt sure if she was going to talk to her mother or not really as she leaned back slightly taking a bit out of her food. She wasn't really going to try and bother her to try and get to know her mother. [color=cyan["Is there anything you wanna talk about or something?"[/color] She offered.

Red listened to Rose as she started to talk about her life, listening to some of the hard points made her look down a little bit feeling bad that she had ended up abandoning her to the real world. She wanted to be able to help her out if she could as she turned to Rose hearing about her family that took her in and made her smile. "I'm glad that there was a family that was able to find you and take you in and take good care of you." Red said as she gently reached out to hold Rose' hand and smiled she looked to where Merlin was he approached Rapunzel and started to talk to her and nodded. "It was for your protection and everyone else's." Red told her.

Robin turned his attention towards Layla for a moment as she went to talk to Rapunzel's daughter before turning his attention back towards Cassi as she talked about her and Layla's life. He felt bad that he wasn't there for them when they were needed and he could understand that there was some resentment. "Well all that matters is that the two of you are here, and i'm there for the two of you." Robin said towards Cassi as he smiled towards her. "Thats if you want to stay here that is."

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Rose gave her mom a soft smile. She understood, but she hated it. "Is there a way to get them back? I'd like to remember more than a few fragments." It had always driven her nuts that she couldn't remember her mother's face. She had feared, as she got older each year and still hadn't found her parents, that they wouldn't recognize her on the street and since she couldn't remember what they looked like she wouldn't be able to recognize them either.

Sure, now she knew why. But that didn't take away the ache she had to remember her early life. She looked over at Merlin. He was talking with Rapunzel. "Oh, I do have another question." She looked at her mom. "Who is my father?" There were no memories around him. She could only reach for vague ones of her mom, but there was even less for whoever he was.

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"Oh no." Colby said when the cat grabbed Maddy's hat. He was worried, but a part of him hoped the cats would know. Cats were smarter than people gave them credit for.

Colby's jaw dropped. The cat. He knew that cat. "Dad." He said in a slight gasp of surprise. "No we weren't gonna steal anything. We were following one of the cats. I think they knew." Colby was relieved, this went a lot easier than anticipated. Now what? Colby didn't have a clue. Were they going to take down Jafar? Was that something he was capable of doing? Or could he head off back to Kansas where he ignored this? Ignoring the magic in his blood.

"Everyone's back. Merlin got us. We had to rescue Red from jail. And then part of the group went and saved Jack from his dad. While Maddy and I tested our magic. That's how I got her." Colby pointed to the cat on his shoulder. He was rambling a bit. But he felt really awkard.

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”Oh, I don’t think we are going anywhere anytime soon,” Cassiopeia stated. She was looking forward to getting to know her family and where she really came from. Cassiopeia was always drawn to the forests and she wanted to explore all of Nottingham, The Moors and the rest.
She couldn’t directly speak for Layla but so far the twins had been inseparable all their lives. Cassi didn’t think that was going to change overnight. Rose engaged in more conversation with her mother so Cassi did the same with her father.
”So, that song I whistled. Is it something you used to sing to us?” It had been a comfort to Cassiopeia as well as an irritant. She could never place it or figure out if there were lyrics or why it was stuck in her head.

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Willow smiled a little as the cat stole Matthew’s hat, seconds later the door opened again and the girl came back with a cat. Willow watched them curiously and the cat turned into a man. Her eyes widened and she dropped her hands. Magic was a part of this land as breathing was for them all but it was still incredible to see.
Willow shifted on her feet while there was a bit of a family reunion going on. She looked about the room, trying not to stare at the man cat. Willow’s eyes drifted over them before looking at Tinker Bell, wondering what their next move would be. Willow didn’t want to rush this but seeing some of her companions find their parents made her want to find hers all the more.

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Megan had to bite her tongue to keep herself from laughing at the revelation that Jack's mother was Belle, the princess famous for Stockholm Syndrome and bestiality. She knew that she ought to have more sympathy for Belle, hearing what she had gone through, but it was still a little difficult to separate the real person from the animated character. She was thinking about someone singing a song about how dull her hometown was, not an actual person who seemed to be a victim of human trafficking. Megan then turned her head quickly, hearing the same shouting that Sierra did. Hook's men had spotted Hansel - and Megan's opinion of Hansel's capabilities was dropping rapidly.

Fortunately, Jack's mother saw a solution - a boat that they could drop down into to escape. The other option was to fight a bunch of pirates. As epic as that would have been, they were vastly outnumbered and Jack was more liable to hurt himself than anyone else with his sword. "Get down, quickly. I'll hold them off if needed," Megan said, drawing her sword and more or less guarding the escape route for the others. Once everyone else got onto the boat, she'd head down and get on too.

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"What exactly is there to really talk about?" she commented to Layla with a bit of a shrug. "And honestly a bit surprised you aren't jumping at the chance to talk to your dad, after all, sounds like you and your sister are so happy to be here..." she added, and that surprise was genuine. After all, her and Cass seemed to be super thrilled with meeting their father Robin Hood, and Rose obviously had been really happy to meet her own mother Red Riding Hood. Where exactly did that leave her? She wasn't too thrilled to be here currently right?

Well, in her mind it was a bit more complicated than that.

Rosalia had a small part of her that was happy that she had found her mom, and that they were going to go get her dad or whatever, however there was the other part of her that was holding a grudge about it. She had been left by herself, no one around, and people more or less stopped looking for her in general. Right now, she was debating about saying anything about that to Layla, at least to maybe get her to stop asking questions in general about it. "Look, unlike any of you I never had anyone, no one cared what happened to me, I might as well have just not existed because of that, I was just on my own, a kid no one wanted around," she ended up saying with a bit of a shrug, staying relatively quiet when she said it so only really Layla could hear her, "Hence why it got drilled into my brain that you can't rely on anyone else but yourself."

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His mom? Well that was not exactly something he had expected to hear come from her mouth. Though now a few things did make more sense, since he wasn't really anything like his father aside from being able to use magic easily or whatever, so that was something. Of course, the fact that he hadn't known that she existed or that he was related to her in any sort of way said something about how things had gone. Since more or less, he had ended up getting stuck with being raised by his father until he ended up in the real world, or well, more of just not here really. Whose to say which one could actually be labeled as "the real world".

"Okay then..." was all he managed to really say to Belle. Honestly his brain was not sure what else to say to a woman he literally had no memory of telling him that she was his mother. However his attention got drawn away when Hansel came running over to say that Hook's men spotted him. Great, that was not a good thing at all, and also shouldn't Hansel be good at not getting spotted or something like that? Of course, Meg was saying how she'd hold them off if need be, and personally, he wasn't an idiot, and was not okay with Meg holding off a swarm of pirates by herself. "Yeah right Meg, I am not leaving you by yourself, thought you'd have figured that one out by now." Jack said to her with a bit of an eye roll.

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Maddie ignored Tinks warnings about messing with the cats. In part due to the sinking feeling he had from having one of the only two things his father left him taken from him. The second reason was much simpler, he didn't view the cats as a threat like the others did. There was a familiarity to them, something tugging at his heart and mind telling him he was close to home, but he couldn't quite figure out what it was. They weren't the Cheshire, but perhaps his litter as he had thought. All Maddie could do is wait and hope they brought back the hat unharmed.

When the door finally opened he watched as a massive cat turned into a human, followed by another man holding his hat within his hands, and finally a woman. Maddies jaw practically dropped at the display of magic, but also at the thought that perhaps he was finally getting to meet his dad. He'd spent years thinking of what to say to his father, what his first words would be, and now he had the chance to say it. The words he'd practiced on so many others, on every adult who crossed his path as he waited for his father to return. He looked the man in the eyes and spoke. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"

There was a small pause as the man looked at Maddie, his mouth curling into a small smile before answering him. "Because, they can produce few notes, though they are very flat; and it's never put with the wrong end up front." The words rolled off as if the final line was more so a thought said out loud. Maddie's eyes began to swell with tears as he heard the words he'd been waiting for his entire life. No Edgar Allan Poe, no laughing it off as a cute nonsensical question of a child, just a genuine answer to match him. Maddie ran towards the man with the hat, wrapping his hands around his waist and giving him a tight hug as if he might disappear. "D-dad"

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Mad Hatter smiled as Matt went over and hugged him, and he started to return the hug as well to as he looked down at him. "It's good to see you again." Mad Hatter said towards Maddie as he gently ruffled his hair a little bit, Tinker smiled slightly as she waved towards the group. Aurora came over and approached Willow pulling her daughter into a hug as well to, as she looked her up and down seeing the beautiful woman she had become. "I'm glad to see you again." She said towards Willow as Cheshire pointed towards the cat and grinned towards him as he walked over and messed with Colby's hair a little bit. "Looks like you are learning pretty quick then, theres so much more that we can show and teach you all." He offered.

The girl rolled her eyes slightly as she leaned herself up against the nearby wall staring at the three of them, she didn't really like the lot of them to much when Tinker spoke up. "Merlin told us to fetch you and then figure out what to do next, and we could use your help as well." Tinker told them as Cheshire stared at her for a moment and nodded slightly. "We'd like to help but, we need to tie some loose ends here first though." He told them when the girl spoke up. "Dad, Jafar's investigators are gonna be here pretty soon, so might wanna start hiding any magical stuff like now before they come here." She told them.

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Hansel stared at Megan saying that she'd hold them off and shook his head slightly as well towards Jack. "Unless you wanna be imprisoned you should try and get out of here Gretel and I can hold them off." Hansel said as Hook's men quickly approached them, some of them had crossbows and muskets as well they quickly fired off a few shots, an arrow would graze past Megan's face causing a small cut to appear. Jack would get shot with a musket hitting him in the shoulder. Sierra wasn't much of a fighter really as she grabbed the crowbar from earlier when she tried to get the prisoners out and swung it at the closest pirate's head knocking them to the ground.

Belle managed to lower the ladder down to the boat and started to wave some of the non mermaid prisoners down onto the boat itself looking at them. "Hurry up all of you." Belle said as she started to climb down the ladder as well and onto the boat while looking up, Hansel and Gretel took out their weapons and started to fire back at them, taking out three each. Sierra didn't waste to much time either and quickly climbed down the ladder as well with Belle and the others.

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Layla gave a slight shrug as she started to eat some more of her food while listening to Rosalia and took the time to look at her sister and her father as they talked to each other. "Oh I am happy to see him, and figured that there's time to get to know him later maybe talk to him alone later to." Layla said before turning her attention back over towards Rosalia, she could understand holding a grudge against her real parents for abandoning them. Even a part of her was mad as well to and wanted a lot of questions answered as well to, she did understand some of what Rosalia was saying. "Believe it or not I used to get into a lot of trouble when I was younger even getting arrested once maybe a year or two ago for fighting. But I had my sister there for me whenever I did get into some trouble as well, sometimes you do need to have someone watching your back you don't have to be alone all the time." Layla said to Rosalia.

Red turned her attention over towards Rose and frowned slightly when she asked about her father and sighed slightly as she leaned forward, it was a subject that she didn't really want to talk about. "He was the Huntsman, and he was killed by Maleficent's men." She told Rose while looking at her asking about getting her memories back. "You'd have to talk to Merlin about that magic isn't really my forte but i'll help wherever I can." Robin took a bit out of his food as he turned to Cassi as she whistled a song and smiled towards her and nodded towards her. "Actually it was your mom who made that song but we did sing it to you two every night." He told her.

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Rose felt a deep sense of loss. She didn't remember her father, but knowing he was dead hurt. Knowing she'd never get to meet him hurt. "Ah, sorry for bringing it up." She was sorry she had brought up a clearly sore spot for Red, but she was glad she knew now. She wouldn't bring it up again.

"I'll talk with him about it." Rose said. She stood up and walked over to Merlin. "Red tells me that you magically suppressed our memories. Is there a way to bring them back?" She couldn't be the only one wondering. Why she hadn't thought to ask sooner, or even thought of it was sort of funny to her. But now that she thought about it, she wanted to have her memories back. She had seven years with her mom (and maybe some with her dad) that were hers and she wanted them back.

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"We'll help." Colby volunteered quickly. He seemed a little stunned to be in the presence of his father. Even though he had known this moment was coming he hadn't been prepared for it. "Can I do that too? The whole switching between a human and a cat thing? Are all these cats family? What does Jafar want? What is he looking for? Does he know who you guys are? Like what you look like? We can create a diversion or something if you need." Most of what Colby said came out as a word salad. The last part was said with a smirk at the memory of their previous diversion. It had been a success even if it had caused some tension in the group.

"Tink, did we have a time Merlin wanted to meet back at? Or a place?" Colby guessed the place would be the tower, but it was compromised so that might not be a viable place now. "Do you have a way to contact him? Like a cell phone or something, obviously not actually a cell phone since I doubt there are cell towers here." Colby paused as he realized how much he was rambling. "Anyway, yeah we can help." He didn't care that girl didn't seem to care for the group. He only cared that he and Maddie were finally reunited with their fathers.

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Cassiopeia smiled at the image her father created of her and her twin being sung too by parents who at one time, held them and loved them. She looked at her plate of food, pushing the last couple of mouthfuls around on her plate. ”Do… do you think you’d sing it to us again? I mean, once we get her back.” Cassiopeia wasn’t exactly comfortable saying the word mom, at least right now it seemed.
Rose got up then and walked over to Merlin. Cassi watched her go before looking at Red. ”Is she okay?” She switched her focus then to her sister at the other table, wanting to see how that was going.

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There were several emotional reunions going on around Willow but she wasn’t prepared for her own. She didn’t recognize these people from her childhood stories and definitely not the lady who came over and hugged her. Willow was in shock as the woman pulled back to look Willow up and down and smiled like Willow’s adoptive mother did.
”Mom?” Willow looked over Aurora, trying to find similarities but her vision started to blur and she laughed a little as she started to cry. Willow wrapped arms around Aurora again and hugged her fiercely. She didn’t pull away until the girl spoke of Jafar’s advisors coming.
Sniffing, Willow released her biological mother and wiped her eyes. ”Jafar? What’s happened here?” The story she knew was one of Jafar losing. Although, she never did watch the sequel.

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Megan scoffed slightly at her brother's objection to her holding off the pirates. "And who exactly is going to help me then, you?" she asked him, perhaps a bit harshly. He had only just discovered his magic though and she didn't trust him to not stab himself with his own sword. Whereas Megan had been in fencing lessons for almost her entire life - well, most of the life that she remembered, at the very least - and knew how to handle herself in a fight. However, before Jack could make his own biting remark, Hansel indicated that he and Gretel were going to hold off the pirates instead so they could escape with Bell. An arrow narrowly missed her, slicing open a cut on her face.

"...Fine," Megan conceded. Hansel and Gretel were capable people - and those going on the boat would need someone to defend them. Besides, Hansel and Gretel had a better chance of escaping from prison than she did - they knew this land, they had people who could help them out, Megan and Jack and Sierra did not. Megan sheathed her sword and climbed down the ladder warily, hoping that Bell at least knew the way to get to their ultimate destination.

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"Well hooray for you, I personally don't really care. You better be careful though, never know when someone will stab you in the back for whatever reason. Who knows, anything can happen," she responded with a bit of a shrug, still continuing on with trying really hard to ignore the conversations that the others were having. Kind of hard to ignore all of them, and more or less to ignore the group in general. Then again, being with everyone else here was not a lot of fun, she personally just would prefer to run off somewhere else.

Then again, if she ran off here, she likely would end up dead, and sure, she didn't care much for the people she was currently by, but she wasn't an idiot (unlike some people) she knew when it was best to not do something. No matter how much you might want to do it. "Now see you say that, but whenever I trusted someone usually it ended up with me getting a knife in the back, and sometimes that was almost literally and not just figuratively. So sorry for preferring to be by myself when everyone else I've ever almost trusted has more or less betrayed me, abandoned me, or tried kicking me to the curb."

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Jack actually was a little hurt with what Meg was saying with regards to him helping her out. Sure, he knew that he was still a bit new at the whole being an active fighter thing, but he wasn't entirely useless and knew a few things despite what she apparently seemed to think with regards to him. "...You know I'm not useless in a fight right?" he asked her so only really she could hear him, though it would be obvious to her that what she had said had somewhat hurt him. Yeah, they were in a world where magic and all and swords were the best sort of weapons to really have at this point, but he still could be helpful in a fight.

His attention turned to Hansel when he said that he and Gretel would hold off the pirates while the rest of them escaped, he looked at Meg and was somewhat glad when she didn't argue against the point or anything and headed down to the boat. Jack fell silent again as he just followed after her and the others, climbing down to where the boat was that they were supposed to make their escape on. The question now was how good people were with steering a boat or whatever? Since if they didn't really have too many sailors or fishermen or whatever, then this could be a bit of a problem.

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Maddie grinned a dopey grin as tears welled in his eyes. He released his father from the embrace and wiped them away before speaking. "I never gave up hope that I'd find you. As far as I can remember I've been searching for you, waiting for the day you'd return. The day you'd answer the riddle like no one else could." He pulled away slightly in order to fully see his dad again. To take in the sight as if he might lose him again. This time he'd make sure he didn't but even if it happened...he knew who he was and now knew what he looked like and could keep that memory for a lifetime.

Maddie nodded as Colby agreed to help them, he wasn't exactly sure what loose ends needed to be burned or cut, but whatever they were he didn't want to lose his father again. Not this soon. "Sounds like the first task in combating this Jafar guy is hiding any magical weapons and artifacts. Seems simple enough, though maybe after you can quickly clue us in on what's been going on and what loose ends need to be dealt with. After all, we're a family and family helps each other right?" Matt made his way over to Colby, still grinning as he laced his fingers into Colbys hand. "Babe. Take a breath, and end a sentence." He whispered towards him. It was cute seeing him so flustered. As much as he wished to see more, it was a lot of questions to throw at once.

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The girl started to roll her eyes slightly towards Colby. "Word vomit much?" She said teasingly towards Colby as she looked towards her adoptive dad Cheshire for a moment. "I can teach you how to do that someday, and they are just a bunch of familiars that I can summon great as spies, and a great set of eyes in places that are off limits. He knows we are somewhere in the city, but doesn't know our faces, though guards come in from time to time make sure we arent selling any illegal magic items." Cheshire answered Colby's questions as he looked towards Tinker as Colby asked his next question towards her. "We meet back up at the tower, and I can use magic to get in contact with him if needed."

Aurora smiled as Willow hugged her back and gently fixed her daughter's hair while looking over at her. "I am really sorry that I had left you, I won't do that again to you." Aurora told her as she thought for a bit before answering. "Jafar is the one collecting any kind of magical artifact or item, or book that anyone comes across and hoards it for himself, and Jafar made it anyone who he doesn't approve to use magic is illegal and worse sentence is death." Aurora told her daughter when Mad Hatter looked towards Maddie and smiled towards him. "I don't plan on leaving you again like that. But the plan is to get the Genie off of Jafar which is inside of his keep for safekeeping once we have him and the lamp we can leave here as soon as possible." Mad Hatter answered Maddie.

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Belle started to move the boat once everyone was in the boat, and started to go down the shore a few seconds later Hansel and Gretel both jumped into the water itself. The pirates quickly got to the ledge of the dock and were firing off a few more shots at them, most of the shots would end up missing. Sierra however wasn't really lucky as she let out a cry in pain as she was shot in back of her left shoulder, causing her to hunch over, as blood started to cover her shirt.

Hansel and Gretel eventually got onto the boat soaked in water, the escaped prisoners quickly and awkwardly made some room enough for the two siblings to get in. Gretel looked over to see that Sierra had been shot and started to move over towards her to see the wound looked pretty bad as she looked for an exit wound but couldn't see any. "We need to get to shore as soon as possible." Gretel said, as the ticking sound started to come again, and Jack would see Tic Tok the Crocodile approaching the boat looking up at him expectantly for some food.

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Merlin was finishing up his food and looked over at Rose as he started to approach her asking if he could bring back up her memories of her old life here and nodded towards her. "I can do that for you if you'd like though i'll have to gather somethings for the spell as well as a potion I need to brew up to that will restore your memories." Merlin told Rose as he set his plate down onto the ground. It'll take sometime to make though." Merlin said.

Robin smiled and nodded towards Cassi. "Yeah once we save your mom and the others we can do that for you and your sister anytime you two would like it." Robin said as he finished up eating the rest of his food, as Cass went to talk to Red. She turned towards Cass and nodded slightly as she leaned forward taking a sip of her glass of water. "She's okay talking to Merlin about getting some memories back." Red told Cassi as she watched her daughter talking to Merlin about restoring her memories.

Layla started to finish up the rest of her food pushing back her plate of food as she listened to Rosalia feeling bad that she had some bad experiences overall. "Well i'm not a person who would end up stabbing anyone in the back at all, and i'm sorry that you had that happen to those that you'd consider as friends." Layla said as she looked over towards her sister and gave her a slight wave as she looked over towards her.

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Cassiopeia smiled when her father agreed that they would be able to do that for her and her twin. It may have seemed childish or silly and Cassi felt a little embarrassed now that she had asked Robin Hood to sing to her but the song had been a great comfort to Cassiopeia growing up and now she wanted to hear the song sung by the people who raised her for a short time.
”Thanks dad.”
Red answered her question and Cassiopeia watched Rose and Merlin curiously. She had never thought to ask Merlin for her memories back. Cassi sat silent for a moment as she wondered if that was something she would want for herself.
She caught movement in her peripherals and saw Layla waving. Cassi waved and nodded in return before giving a thumbs up with a questioning eyebrow lift, checking in to make sure Layla was alright.
”Are you worried, what bringing her memories back might do?” Cassi asked Red curiously.

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Willow held onto her mom even after they finished hugging. She said that she wouldn’t leave Willow again but she wasn’t so sure. Anything could happen in this land, Willow knew that much so far. Jafar was sending guards after them to monitor the shop so they knew who these people were clearly and someone of Jafar’s capabilities clearly didn’t need a reason to take people.
”So, we have to break into the palace? How are we going to sneak into such a heavily guarded place?” The Genie would be well guarded, Willow was sure of that. She took comfort in holding onto her mother while she listened into the other conversations.

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Jack was Megan's brother - it was part of her job to tease him. Her first instinct, even when seeing that he was feeling wounded from her remarks, was to follow up on them with, "of course, you make a lovely human shield," she said softly. She then rolled her eyes at him. "Yes, I know you are handy in a fight, brother of mine," she then reassured him. She wasn't the most warm or nurturing of people and she wasn't used to Jack needing that sort of validation from her. It was probably just a bunch of emotions from everything going on - emotions that Megan, at least she claimed, did not share. She didn't have any reason to be upset or angry or nervous or even happy about all of this, nope, not a single reason at all.

The pirates were firing at them, Hansel and Gretel diving into the water, and Megan ducked her head down, trying to avoid the bullets flying their way. She felt relieved when none pierced her and their guides, soaking wet, scrambled up into the boat without anyone capsizing. That's when she saw the blood blossoming from Sierra's wound. As a medical examiner, Megan had gone to medical school, completing all of the required units and rotations, including one in emergency surgery. "I'm a doctor, let me help her," Megan said, using her words to more or less shoo everyone else away. She made her way carefully over to Sierra, ripping some strips of cloth off of her own clothing and using them to put pressure on Sierra's wound, stopping the bleeding. She managed to stabilize her. "You'll live, although you'll want to clean the bandages regularly once we have one, infections are a nasty way to die - colorful, but painful."

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Apparently, the process was not an easy one. Rose nodded. "That's fair." She said. She wanted her memories back, but if it would take some time she couldn't blame Merlin for that. Though she wished it was easier. "Thank you." She smiled and went back to where Red and Cassi were sitting.

"No, they are my memories. It isn't like I asked for them to be taken away from me. I understand why he did it, but I want the memories of the childhood that I was meant to have." She answered Cassi's question. Growing up Rose had never expected to learn the truth, not really. And now that she had the truth it was really surreal for her. Both the knowledge and what the truth was. She still wasn't entirely certain she wasn't having a very vivid hallucination or something.

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Colby stuck his tongue out at the girl but gave Maddie his half-grin. "So we are gonna steal a whole bunch of magical items?" He asked a bit excited. He wondered what sort of magical items Jafar had. It probably had some really interesting ones. That was Genie lamp aside. He hoped that the Genie was closer to the Robin Williams version of Genie.

Some of Colby's questions went unasked, which was okay since he had word vomited them, and some of them were answered with the answers of other questions. But the important one had been answered. He could transform into a cat. He was very excited about that. He had always wanted to be a cat, which apparently was for good reason.

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"Yeah, well nothing really matters in this place, at least to me. But still kind of stuck here now because of a split second choice, so now I've just gotta wait and see what all happens then," she responded with a bit of a shrug. Personally, she didn't really care too much what the others really thought about her, she didn't really care much for anything. The conversation at this point was getting a little boring, at least in her opinion. Partially in this world she wouldn't be surprised if an explosion randomly happened, since people could throw fireballs around and all.

She just sort of leaned back a little bit, more or less just listening to what all was going on. Right now, she was more or less hiding the fact that she was at least a little bit interested in the whole them getting any sort of memories back. It was an interesting idea, but she also knew that her memories of this place would be close to non-existent, since she would have been a baby or a very young toddler at the time. So she likely wouldn't have any sort of thing to find in her brain that came back from it or whatever.

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Jack more or less just ended up waving her off at this point, though honestly what she said wasn't exactly reassuring to him, since her first sentence had more or less been pretty blunt and obviously said what probably was going through her mind at the time. Of course, this sort of thing really shouldn't bug him, it was well known that he typically tried talking his way out of any sort of fight or whatever. However he was getting better at it. After all, he had managed to set his own father on fire a while ago, so that was something right?

His attention turned towards Sierra when she got hit by the arrow, "Are you alright?" he instantly asked her as Meg went over to see about putting pressure on the injury and looking it over. Well Meg's skills as a medical examiner actually came in handy, at least in this case it was a living person and all. Jack's attention got pulled away once more, this time by a strange sound, as he saw the damn crocodile showing up. "Well... Maybe we should see about moving a little quicker unless we want to be near that crocodile or whatever and it decides to go after us instead of the pirates, considering the fact that it is heading this way."

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Maddie ruffled from under one of his coat flaps and pulled out the lamp he had found before. "I mean, I found this lamp. I don't know if it's a genie lamp or anything but...maybe you two can figure it out." He held the lamp up, showing it to the Hatter and the Cat so that they could inspect it as needed. Though Maddie was certain there was no magic in that old oil lamp of his. His attention was drawn over towards Willow as she asked how they would sneak into the castle, and Maddie began to think. "What're the chances that the old Wookie Prisoner trick would work?"

Maddie didn't know how heavily guarded the palace was. Or exactly how things were run in this world. But perhaps one of them could pose as a magic user that had been captured and the others as guards who were bringing them in. His biggest concern was, what if Jafar just killed them on sight. When Colby asked if they were stealing magic items, Maddie couldn't help but chuckle and roll his eyes as he gently elbowed him in the side. "You find out you're a cat and suddenly you wanna be a cat burglar? Then again…" Magic items would be nice in the fight against Maleficent.

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The girl looked over at Maddie with a confused look. "What is a Wookie?" She asked a bit confused, when Mad Hatter spoke and smiled a little bit seeing the oil lamp would do perfectly. "Well we happen to have been working on something for awhile now and been getting as much information as possible but, Jafar happens to have a little auction event going on tomorrow evening. some guests are coming there to an auction of rare items, we come in posing as either potential buyers or sellers. While the auction is going on we sneak off, Jafar has a large vault where he keeps everything there we replace that lamp with the genie lamp." Mad Hatter said grinning a little bit.

Aurora shook her head slightly, she wasnt liking the idea of going into the lions den really to get a lamp and leave, as she looked towards Willow and smiled towards her for a moment. "We just need the lamp nothing else really, it'll draw to much attention if we steal more than one thing." Aurora told Colby she was hoping that the plan would work pretty well.

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Sierra groaned slightly as Megan went to tend to the wound, as she looked towards Jack and gave him a slight nod. "First time getting shot at and getting hit actually I think i'll be fine though." Sierra said towards Jack as Belle continued rowing the boat as they were getting closer to shore now, Hook's men were getting smaller now but were doing their best to keep up. "So what now?" Sierra asked looking over at Hansel and Gretel as they looked down to see the crocodile following them, Hansel fired off an arrow at it, which the crocodile quickly went under the water. "We get to shore, find someplace to hunker down for a little bit and then go to where we are meeting those people." Gretel answered Sierra.

Belle got the boat to shore and the other prisoners who were on the boat quickly got off looking towards the group. "Thank you." One of them said before quickly running off into the woods. Belle went over and helped Sierra up and out of the boat while looking around, one thing she knew about Hook's men were that they wouldn't stop hunting them down. "They'll keep looking for us, so we should keep moving." Belle said as she started to make her way towards the tree line.

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"Well what do you look forward to then if you did want to go back then?" Layla asked looking over at Rosalia from what she had gathered she didn't really have much of a home back where they were raised. "I mean if you are here you could get a fresh start or something if you wanted to." Layla told her as she turned towards her sister and nodded giving her a thumbs up, letting her know that she was alright, as Layla leaned back slightly listening to what Merlin was talking to Rose about was. She wasn't sure if she did want to have her memories back or not since she was pretty young back then.

"No problem." Robin said looking at Cassi and smiled towards her, as Red turned her attention towards Cassi asking about getting Rose's memories back as she spoke. "I'm not sure what it would do, but it is Rose' choice if she wanted her memories back or not though." Red said while looking over at her daughter and smiled some towards her. One of Robin Hood's men came over and whispered towards him and turned to look at them all. "I have to go and attend to something i'll be back in a few." Robin said as he got up and started to make his way back over towards the main tent.