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Aurora thought for a moment as she took her seat and looked towards her daughter. "Maybe for the last ten years or so, while I was fleeing I bumped into these two." Aurora said to Willow as she gestured to both the Mad Hatter as well as Cheshire, Hatter turned towards Maddie and gave him a slight frown and looked down for a moment. "Maleficent's forces invaded Wonderland and we had to run for it, she was taking some people against their will for who knows what. So Cheshire and I have been on the run ever since, and eventually met up with Miss Aurora here." He told him.

When a young waiter came over he wasnt much older than any of the three of them and handed them all a menu. "What can I get you all to drink today?" He asked them, as Aurora, Hatter and Cheshire all ordered some water. The waiter then turned to look between Willow, Maddie and Colby as well to see what the three would want to drink. The menu had various kinds of alcohol, and the food all appeared to be middle eastern as well to.

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Arthur looked towards Megan wanting him to explain what Maleficent wanted with all of them, he took a moment and leaned back as the others started to head out of the cabin. "As Merlin had said, he wanted to make sure that all of you were safe, so thats why he sent you all to Earth. He was probably going to wait until you and the others were reunited with us to tell you all this, but what Maleficent really wants to do is expand her empire and have Arcadia merge with Earth as well." Arthur said while looking over towards Megan to gage her reaction.

Sierra leaned herself up against the nearby wall gently rubbing her shoulder and winced as it was still painful to the touch as well to, she turned to look at Jack and gave him a slight wave. Both Hansel and Gretel were going around the permitter of the cabin making sure that none of Hook's men were going to sneak up on them, Belle eventually found a nearby chair to sit on the porch turning to look over towards Jack. "What has your life been like?" Belle ended up asking him, mainly she wanted to get to know what her son was like growing up and how he was treated as a child as well to.

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"I'm going to go and get answers, if any of you want to come with me you are more than welcome to." Robin Hood said to his two daughters, but also offering it to the others if they wanted to come with as well to. Rapunzel was finishing up working on the bandage to Rose' wound and looked over towards her. "You are good to go now, just come here in the morning to get a clean set of bandages." Rapunzel said to Rose as she had gone to tend to the other wounded in the attack. Layla looked towards Rosalia and held her hands up and sighed shaking her head slightly. "Alright, just don't come crying to me if you are feeling worse." Layla said jokingly as she looked towards her father as he left the tent.

"I'm going to go and check things out with dad." Layla said to Cassi, she hoped that her sister would join and help find out who attacked the camp. "How are you feeling?" Red asked turning to look over at Rose, with a bit of a concerned look, though whatever salve that Rapunzel had used for the wound dressing the pain was nearly gone now, it would just feel a little bit sort and stiff.

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Cassiopeia smiled a little at Rose’s reaction to the slave being put on her. It really wasn’t the greatest smelling but the bandages seemed to mask some of that smell once they were in place. Cassiopeia held onto Rose’s hand and gave it a reassuring squeeze, she was going to be just fine and Cassi was grateful for that.
Robin Hood mentioned going to find answers and offered them to come along and Cassi nodded. She looked back at Rose. ”I suggest staying to rest but if you want to come, I can help you.” As she stood, Cassi stole her courage and leaned forward to kiss Rose’s forehead. ’I’m glad you’re okay,” she said and turned to leave with her father and sister.

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Willow sat down next to her mother as she briefly explained how long she had been here. Ten years was a long time and Willow ended up having more questions because of it. A waiter came over, looking around their age and Willow quickly looked over the menu. ”Water as well, please.” Willow wasn’t familiar with middle eastern food so she would have to lean on her mother on what would be a good first dish to try.
”What made you leave in the first place? What about…your husband?” Willow asked, not sure she wanted to say dad yet. She also wanted to know what would make her want to stay in the desert but Willow wasn’t sure that was a fair question. For ten years this had been Aurora’s home. There was a reason for that and the Mad Hatter and Cheshire didn’t seem so bad.

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Everyone else had emptied out from the room, loving her alone with Arthur. Megan wasn't certain whether to interpret her brother's gesture as him being confident in her or him being worried. Her thoughts were so scattered, racing around in her head constantly. She wished she could have had more time to prepare for this - even though deep down, she knew it would still be awkward. She couldn't study for a meeting with her biological father. And she realized that her biological mother would likely be making an appearance soon too. She listened to his explanation, noticing that he outlined what Merlin had wanted - and not what he and Lady Guinevere wanted. She didn't know how to interpret that statement - should she take it in good faith? Or should she assume the worst?

Megan swallowed slightly. She wanted to rush into a safer question - like asking Arthur about his medical history, so that way she would know if there was anything in her family history she needed to be aware of. But she tried to force herself to live in this moment, as uncomfortable as it was. "What did you and Lady Guinevere want?" she asked him, her mouth dry.

"Your mother and I always wanted to keep you safe no matter what, even if it meant that we would have to send you away which is the hardest decision we had made."

He seemed like a good person. Megan was having a hard time accepting that her biological parents were... nice? It would have been easier to process if she had been told that Captain Hook or someone was her biological father, as much as Megan knew that personality traits and skills had nothing to do with genetics. "I... Okay. What do you want to know about me?" Megan asked, feeling uncomfortable and not knowing what to ask or how to proceed.

Arthur started to think for a moment as he looked over at his daughter. "What do you do for fun, and what do you do for a living?" He asked, wanting to actually try and get to know his daughter some more.

"I cut open dead bodies," Megan answered reflexively, before pausing slightly, "... so I can determine their cause of death. That's for work, not fun - I mean, I love my work and I do have fun, I just... get paid to do it... For fun I watch horror movies and fence..." She stared at him, expecting to see a look of horror on his face.

Arthur looked at Megan with a surprised look when she opened up that she cut open dead corpses, but then learning more on the cause of someone's death was a bit interesting. "I'm happy that your work does make you happy." Arthur said, he wasnt sure what a movie was but he knew what fencing was. "What is a horror movie?"

"It's... " Megan paused, about to repeat the word movie before realizing that was probably most of the problem. "They're stories about people going through terrifying situations, like being stalked by a serial killer or possessed by a demon or hunted by witches. They're like plays, except you can watch them whenever you want. Most of the characters in them die horrible bloody deaths."

Arthur wasnt sure what to think if he would actually like watching a horror movie or not, and with the description that his daughter made it was a source of entertainment. Plays were always pretty common and had gone to a few as well in the past, but none of them were really about murders or anything like that. "They sound pretty interesting."

"... You don't think I'm a freak?" Megan asked, surprised.

Arthur smiled and shook his head towards her. "I don't think you are a freak at all, i'll support you no matter what, thats if you want me and your mother around that is."

"... I... I'm not there yet, for a family relationship... I don't know if I ever will be... But... Friends, maybe?" Megan suggested. "Also, I'm gay, if that's going to be an issue."

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Rose felt her face warm under Cassi's kiss. She liked forehead kisses. She cleared her throat and said, "Yeah, I'll come too. I feel a lot better already. I think the shock is wearing off and now it is just sore. Whatever that stinky stuff was does a good job. Thank you, Rapunzel. I will come back for a fresh bandage."

She took Cassi's hand to help her stand back up, and steady herself then she nodded. She felt good enough to walk unassisted. Though she was tempted to lean on Cassi for the enjoyment of it. But decided if she acted like she wasn't doing well then they probably would make her lie back down. She wanted some answers. And she didn't want them to tell her to stay behind the next morning for the ambush. She was determined to go to that, as long as she could draw her bow.

"I'm good." She nodded and smiled reassuringly. Both to her mom and Cassi.

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Colby looked at the menu really quick. He had only had the beer when they first arrived. And he didn't know what could happen here. He didn't feel as safe as he had. And even there they had been attacked by birds. "I'll have water too." Something could be said for splitting the group up though. He didn't feel overwhelmed.

The food though was strange and he didn't know what to order. He figured he'd just order whatever his dad got. He wasn't picky when it came to food, he just didn't know this stuff. There weren't a lot of options like this in Kansas.

Colby waited until everyone finished ordering the drinks and the waiter left before asking. "What all do you do here? I mean, like for fun, is there a bowling alley or anything?"

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Maddie frowned as he thought of the idea that his ancestral land had been invaded and mutilated by Maleficent. Cheshire and his father were both refugees then, on the lam from the latest tirade. He squeezed Colbys hand tightly under the table as he got distracted by the thought. He was about to ask more when a waiter came by and tried asking for their orders. Everyone was quick to order their drinks, leaving Maddie with the anxiety of being the last to speak and essentially holding the waiter there until he made up his mind. Glancing at the menu there weren't many beverage options if you didn't want alcohol, and after the last time he'd had some, Maddie decided he didn't care to drink it again.

"O-oh. Um. I-I'll h-have the w-water too p-please." He wasn't sure what a lot of the dishes were, but luckily he'd have some time to figure that out since all the waiter was doing was getting a drink order to start. Maddie read the menu a few times over, deciding that whatever a Shakshuka was, sounded like it couldn't be all bad. He waited for the waiter to be out of ear shot, holding his breath slightly until he finally let go with a light sigh. He wanted to ask each of them a question, but wasn't sure of how to phrase it. "So...are all the lands connected? O-or...h-how's that w-work?" Maddie squeezed Colbys hand again, this time a bit more gently. Cursing his nerves for getting the better of him as he'd thought his speech impediment had been getting better.

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"Haha, yeah, that will definitely not happen," Rosalia responded with a bit of an eye roll towards Layla. She wasn't going to ever sit there and admit that she's sick or anything like that, no matter how poorly she feeling. There was no way that she'd ever admit how badly she felt. Of course, she currently was pretty sure she mainly had a cold or something like that, so she wasn't dying of sickness or whatever, but that was about it.

Of course, her attention turned back towards Robin Hood, as he offered to allow others to go with him as he interrogated the people who had gotten caught. Yeah, well she wasn't going really anywhere she supposed. Rosalia figured that someone would stop her if she really tried to go anywhere, so she just stayed where she was. Of course, this was a bit boring to her, just sitting around doing nothing at all. Right now, she wasn't entirely sure what to really do.

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He still wasn't a hundred percent certain how good of an idea it was to leave Meg with her father. Part of him wanted to turned back around and go check on her to see how things were going. He knew that he didn't really have anything to worry about, since King Arthur was very different when compared to his own father. So dhe likely was going to be fine with everything, though he supposed he might be more worried about how she'd act towards Arthur, since he knew that she wasn't the best with interacting with people.

Jack was pulled a bit from those thoughts by Belle, as she asked him about his life growing up. He thought for a moment on how best to answer her question. "Well... Spent a little while at the orphanage, before I got adopted by a nice enough family, actually Meg is my sister and all because of the adoption and all. Things were alright growing up, and I ended up being a detective in law enforcement. Meg actually works with me sometimes in helping determine someone's cause of death if anything like that pops up and all. Life has been great overall, nothing too big or strange or anything like that."

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The waiter nodded as he wrote down the number of waters that he'd get. "I'll be back shortly with your drinks then." He said as he started to turn around and headed out to tend to some other guests as well as getting their drinks. Aurora turned towards Willow for a moment giving her a sad smile and looked down. "Your father was killed by Maleficent thats why I ended up fleeing." Aurora said as she started to take a sip of her water and sighed slightly as she leaned back while looking at the others at the table.

Mad Hatter turned to look over at Maddie as he asked about the other places and thought for a moment, he wasnt really good with geography but he knew that some lands were connected while others were across the ocean. "Theres some lands that are connected, while some of the others are seperated by the ocean, like Agraba is on the other side of the world from Camelot." Mad Hatter answered, as Cheshire turned towards Colby he wasnt sure what bowling actually was. "Just some games like cards and some dances every now and then." He answered his son as he took a sip of water.

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Sierra would ocasionally look over towards Jack and Belle as the two of them were talking amongst themselves, and couldnt help but eavesdrop a little bit on their conversation, as she ran a hand through her hair. Belle turned to look over at Jack as he started to tell her a little bit about what his life was like before coming here and smiled towards him she was proud of him. "Do you enjoy your job?" She asked Jack as both Hansel and Gretel were alerted to someone, and went to go and investigate, getting curious Sierra decided to go and investigate as well to.

A woman was coming out of the woods carrying several baskets of food in her arms. She instantly became paranoid and drew out a knife from it's sheath that was hidden around her waste. "Who are you, and why are you here?" The woman asked setting down the food that she had bought onto the ground, Hansel and Gretel were still a bit skeptical.

Arthur looked over towards Megan and nodded slightly, he wasnt going to push the issue to much, he was still going to be there for her no matter what, but would still keep his distance unless Megan called for him. "Of course I totally understand. And it doesnt matter if you are gay or not you are my daughter." Arthur said towards Megan and smiled towards her, when he heard Lady Guinevere's voice and quickly got up and headed outside, seeing both Hansel and Gretel there. "It's alright it's just my wife." He said to the two of them as the both of them calmed down and took a step back.

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"Alright then." Layla said towards Rosalia and decided to go and join her father, Rapunzel was busy tending to one of the injured people, and it looks like she was getting stressed out and seeing her daughter there for a moment. "Could you come and help me for a little bit?" She'd ask her daughter, all of the other medical tent staff seemed to be a little bit overwhelmed at the moment tending to the injured as well to.

Red nodded towards Rose and smiled towards her. "Alright i'll see you later i'll stay here and help out with things here." She said as she went to help out and tend to some of the wounded as well to, Layla had followed Robin Hood and a few of his men towards the tent that the group themselves had been in not to long ago either. There were several men trapped in some of the cages. One of the guards was sitting at the table just as a prisoner was brought out and then was questioned, it seems like they werent talking yet really either. Layla was looking around and staring at a few of the prisoners that were there they seemed to be staring the group down like they new something but they werent saying anything either.

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Megan was a bit surprised to hear that Arthur knew what being gay was - but maybe this society wasn't completely backwards. That or he may have been merely pretending to know. He seemed to really want to do and say all the right things - something that made Megan uncomfortable. He seemed too perfect. She wanted to see his flaws, to see that he was a real person. Her paranoid mind kept wondering if there was something horrible he was hiding behind all of that perfection. But at the same time, most of her paranoia came from the fact that he was a complete stranger for her, someone she had never particularly been dying to meet. Maybe she needed a therapist to talk through all of this with.

Voices then sounded from outside of the cabin and Megan tensed. She didn't un-tense or relax either when Arthur explained that it was his wife - who Megan assumed have to the Lady Guinevere. Megan hesitated as Arthur went outside. Did she want to follow him? Or did she want a few seconds to process everything before meeting her birth mother? Did she want her birth mother to think she looked weak and overwhelmed? If anything, the most appealing option to Megan at the moment would be to run away from all of this, find Merlin, tell him he had made a mistake, and go back to her life in Kansas. Tears threatened to well up in her eyes but Megan blinked them away. She hadn't been ready for this. But she didn't want to look like a coward. She stood up and followed Arthur outside of the cabin to meet her maker.

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Rose claimed she was feeling better and got up to join them. She smiled, trying to reassure both Cassi and Red. Cassiopeia shook her head but smiled that Rose was going to come along anyways to learn what happened. Cassiopeia was glad Rose seemed to be stable enough on her feet. That didn’t stop her from wanting to go after those people and hurt them for hurting Rose.
Cassiopeia turned her focus to her sister and father, walking alongside Layla as Robin Hood led them out of the medical tent. She glanced around the camp, noting the damage that had been done by the raid. As she looked, she stuck her finger in her mouth and turned to give her sister a wet willie, simply because why not.

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Your father was killed. It sounded so strange to Willow to hear those words. She looked away from Aurora and stared at the table, not quite feeling remorse but she did feel a sort of shock. She didn’t know how to feel really, she never knew the man. Her father was back home, sharing a meal with her mother or doing something else before going on another business trip. Willow picked at the table before looking at her mother.
”I’m sorry for your loss,” she told her. It had been ten years ago, Aurora still seemed sad about it which made sense to Willow but her condolences were ten years late. ”What…what do you do now then? Just work in that shop?” Willow shifted in her seat as she asked, trying to move on from a conversation she didn’t know how to feel about.

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Rose smiled at her mom and tapped her cheek with her middle and index fingers extended and then brought it down and as she did she pulled her middle finger in and extended her thumb. It was sign for 'see you later.' She joined Robin Hood and the others where the prisoners were. Stifling a laugh as Cassi went to give her sister a wet willy.

Composing herself she looked at the attackers with a stone face. She had never done an interrogation before. There were of course a ton of ideas in her head about how these things were done since she had seen more TV than she should have. But she knew at the least they should be well-behaved and serious. This was also Robin Hood's show. He was in charge of the interrogation. She watched him, learning.

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Colby squeezed one of Maddie's hands under the table trying to reassure him. These were their parents there wasn't a need to be nervous. Sure Colby wanted to make a good impression. But he also figured if anyone was going to just accept them for who they were it should be their parents if not. Colby was perfectly happy to go back to Kansas after all of this and live the suburban dream. Well not really. He wanted to help make change here first. And was what there had been really been the best?

He winced as Willow's mom told her her dad was dead. Though that made him wonder about his mom, who the heck was she? "What about our mom's? And like is Wonderland okay?" He wondered what kind of state it could be in. Was it okay because it was just too loony for Maleficent? Or was she trying to control it too? And how? Was Alice real? If so was she here, or was she back in the non-magical world of Kansas too? The questions threatened to come out all at once.

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Maddie wasn't sure how to take all of this. In his mind every story was a separate world. Much like how reading individual books brought you to a new land. Merlins portals had certainly made him reinforce that thought, though he supposed in a land devoid of planes and cars portals was the fastest way to travel, especially undetected. But here he was, having lunch with his father, Cheshire, and Aurora, and he was being told that there might be a point in place where four separate stories touched land and that Camelot may have a road that led to Wonderland. His head was spinning with questions, as he was certain the others were too.

Maddies thoughts came to a halt when he heard the news about Willow's father. Though he himself wasn't quite certain what to say. He didn't raise her nor did she have any lasting memories to his knowledge. How was one to feel about a stranger's death whose blood ran through their veins. Maddie decided that now wasn't the time to dwell on such thoughts and pushed towards a new topic. Colby had already begun as well as Willow, but what would kids be if not a never-ending wealth of questions to bombard their parents with. "What was it like before all this?...I'd like to hear what we have to look forward to. Friends, family, what sort of games they play in Wonderland. How you spent your Sunday mornings, your favorite breakfast food, what the sun looks like over the whimsy of the world…" He didn't dare look up from the table as he asked his questions, holding Colbys hand strong.

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Rosalia just waved slightly as Layla left the area to go after everyone else. Personally she did want to know what was going on, and who all had attacked them, but that wasn't something she was going to do right now. She likely was going to hear about it and all later with regards to what was going on. That was something she figured she'd hear about later, right now she was perfectly fine sticking around where she was, besides, crowding the interrogation sounded like a bad idea to her. The less people the better in her mind, so she was happy to stay behind.

Her attention turned towards Rapunzel. She still didn't think of Rapunzel as her mother, she was just a stranger to her, and that likely was all that she'd ever be to her. Of course, Rosalia wasn't too thrilled with the idea of helping out her supposed mother in anything, but she also didn't like the fact that there were a lot of people injured that needed help. She let out a sigh, before she moved over towards her, crossing her arms a bit. "Alright, what exactly do you want me to do?" she asked her, since she wasn't too sure how useful she'd be in this situation.

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Jack just sort of shrugged a bit, "Over all yeah I do. Sure sometimes it can get a bit frustrating, but honestly most things in life are like that, so that's not saying much," he said with a bit of a laugh in response to Belle's question. It was a job, and if he did say so, it was something he was fairly good at. Sure, he didn't exactly do things super conventionally, as Meg pointed out to him more then once, he didn't typically carry a gun around, but that was partially because he preferred to try and talk down a situation and avoid escalating in any sort of way. That typically was a better solution to him then anything.

His attention turned towards where another woman was seemingly appearing from the woods, heading towards the cabin that they were all by. It didn't surprise him that everyone instantly got on the offensive, preparing to attack or something if needed, but thankfully Arthur walked out and reassured them that it was just Guinevere. Well that was definitely going to result in an interesting thing. He wondered how Meg's reaction would be to her mother, considering the reaction she had to meeting her father. Jack wondered what was going through Meg's head, and he was going to see about talking to her as soon as they might be able to away from everyone else.

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Cheshire and Mad Hatter looked at one another for a moment as Colby asked them about their mom's truly they werent really sure where they were currently or what they had been up to. "We havent seen or heard from them before Maleficent took over." Cheshire answered Colby's question as Mad Hatter answered the second part to Colby's question. "The Queen of Hearts was given control over everything there after Maleficent took control and rules with an iron fist as well to. As for what we did all the time before everything happened we partied all the time and had fancy tea parties to." Hatter told them and smiled somewhat.

Aurora looked over towards a waiter for a moment as she waved them over. "Could I get a bottle of wine or something?" She asked as the waiter nodded and headed off to get one, as she turned towards her daughter. "We usually help with the resistance here and the like really." Aurora answered her daughter's question.

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Sierra looked over towards Megan as she emerged from the cabin shortly after Arthur left the cabin, she stared between Guinevere and Megan for a moment. She wasnt really sure what to say or do but she decided to remain pretty quiet and watch and observe how Megan would interact with her parents now who were all there with them now. Guinevere turned her attention over towards Megan as she came out of their cabin, and King Arthur spoke up. "Merlin managed to bring everyone back, and our daughter is here." Arthur said, as Guinevere started to smile she was happy to see her daughter again.

Guinevere approached Megan and pulled her into a hug and smiled towards her as she took a step back from her getting a better look at her. "Look how big you've gotten." Guinevere said towards her, as Belle listened to the family reunion going on as she leaned in and spoke to Jack. "What do you plan on doing after all of this?" She decided to ask him, she wanted to know if Jack wanted to stay here or go back to his normal life.

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Rapunzel was grateful that Rosalia decided to come over and help her out as she looked over towards her and gestured towards a pan of water. "Wash your hands first." She said as she then moved over towards a nearby patient who had a nasty looking gash in his side that was bleeding pretty badly. Luckily the patient was unconscious at the moment as she motioned towards some bandages, as she looked at Rosalia. "I want you to apply pressure on the wound to slow the bleeding while I stitch him up." She asked her daughter hoping that she'd be willing to do that.

Layla's eyes wondered over catching her sister in the corner of her eye as she reached out and quickly grabbed her sister's hand and bent her pointer finger a bit hard, though not hard enough to cause damage or anything just to make things uncomfortable for her. "Really, what are you three now or something?" Layla said teasingly before letting go while Cass was distracted one of the prisoners in the cell nearby instantly grabbed her by the shirt, and pulled her against the cell wall a hand around Cass's neck as he firmly held her still. Robin Hood's eyes instantly went wide as he reached for a nearby knife as the prisoner held Cass' neck pretty firmly. "Don't or her neck breaks." He said as Layla reached subtly towards one of her throwing knives.

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"Hurt her and you'll regret it." Rose snarled. Her heart felt like it was constricting in her chest, maybe moving up into her throat itself. She didn't want to grab a weapon. Worried the motion would cause the man to hurt Cass. She was not okay with the prospect of Cassi being hurt.

What would Robin do? Would he let this prisoner go if it meant protecting Cassi? If that happened what would Rose do? She knew what she would do if he killed Cassi. She'd kill him. "You can't kill her. You'll lose your bargaining chip." She said, her voice a bit calmer now. "What do you want?" She wasn't promising anything. This man and his compatriots had attacked them.

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Oh. Colby wasn't certain how to take that. Did that mean his mom just wasn't in the picture? Or was she someone his dad was close to? He had a lot of very personal questions but decided to keep a lid on them for now. Considering his luck with drinking he decided he wouldn't partake at this time.

He looked down at the table thinking. His look matched Maddie's without realizing it. Then he looked back up smiling. "I hope to attend a tea party soon." Could they stop Maleficent and bring back a time of plenty? He wanted to. He wanted to help the people here that were clearly in dispare. He wanted magic back in the world in the hands of the people. He couldn't believe that even mundane card tricks had been forbidden and that was just tyranny. You couldn't stop fun like that.

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"I tea party sounds nice." The words felt forced as they left his mouth. As if the weight of each syllable was more than the last. It was a hard thing to consider. Saving multiple realms, stopping dark fae, avoiding beheadings, the wrath of a Genie, and who knows what else. The more Maddie learned about this world and its villains the more he began to wonder if Merlin was enough. He'd expected evil like Lady Tremaine, or Clayton, not magic beyond belief, dragons, and beings whose only limit to power was the number three. But he wanted to be hopeful, he had to be. Maddie wasn't sure how to continue forwards, until a thought crossed his mind.

If all those against them had such powers, well certainly their heroes had to have something to match. Sure everyone roots for the underdog, but they couldn't all be underdogs. "Hatter. Dad. Erm. So Cheshire can, do that thing…" Maddie said as he made a gesture that looked like smoke. "Others have the M word" He whispered, still afraid someone may turn them in "Do you have something? Special hats? The ability to avoid being beheaded? Something?"

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”Owe!” Cassiopeia said when her sister applied pressure to her finger like a ninja and then Cassi laughed about it. It was what siblings did. They constantly riled each other up, argued about nothing in particular and spent an unbelievable amount of time with the other. They were the dynamic duo and Layla was Cassi’s best friend.
Something grabbed onto Cassi though and before she could really react, bars were pressing into her back and hands were gripping tightly around her neck. Cassi gasped, clawing at the man’s hands while her breathing got shallow and her eyes felt like they were popping out of her head. She looked between her father, sister and Rose, all of whom looked rather angry but none of them moved to help her. She vaguely heard the words of the man behind her telling them not to move or she would be dead but shock was preventing her from hearing anything else.
Still, Cassi had a pocket knife on her and she wasn’t about to go down without a fight. She slipped it out of her pocket and flipped it open, raising it to slash at the man’s arm but his grip didn’t even budge. Cassi started to panic and flipped her knife around and brought it down to try and get at the man’s side between the bars.
She connected, feeling her knife slide into flesh and she yanked it out and stumbled forward once the man released her. Cassi stumbled into Rose, clinging to her as she took in deep lungful's of air. She turned her head to look at the man who had grabbed her and glared before she spat on the ground.
”Bastard,” she cursed.

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Willow listened into what the others were saying to their respective parents. Colby asked about their mothers and Matthew had a wealth of questions that he wanted answers to. It amused her slightly, hearing Matthew ask about so many different questions. It was bittersweet to hear about things that used to be.
Willow looked at her mother when she explained that she really helped with the resistance. So the shop was likely a front for that cause. It was a wonder they hadn’t been caught yet. Willow smiled, trying to put on a brave face. ”Well, I look forward to helping and learning more about where I came from.”

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She still wasn't entirely sure about how all of this was going to go. Personally, this was a bit weird, and she wasn't entirely thrilled to be left by herself in the room with her mother (though she likely was never going to actively call her that) while literally everyone else decided to go to an interrogation. Right now, she was just staying relatively quiet, and just sort of shrugged her shoulders when Rapunzel gave her instructions on what she should do in order to help with this current situation. At least it gave her something to do right? Even if it wasn't the best of situations in her mind.

"Whatever," she did eventually say, before she went and washed her hands real quick in order to be able to help. Of course, she didn't really have any sort of idea on what she was really doing, so she just listened to Rapunzel's instructions on what to do. Reaching over, Rosalia grabbed the bandages and applied it to the injury on the person, applying pressure to it. She was staying quiet once again, not even sure what sort of conversation she'd even think of having with Rapunzel in general.

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And there was the question that honestly Jack hadn't even really thought of for himself yet. What was he going to do after everything? He personally didn't know, and he partially wanted to ask Meg what she was thinking that she might want to do after all of this insanity was dealt with. This world was foreign to him in general, and he didn't know if he wanted to learn more about this place. Or if he wanted to really stay here. Going back to what he thought of as "the real world" still, was that really much of an option upon knowing everything about what was going on now?

"...I'll be honest, I don't really know... I mean... There is the option I guess of potentially going back to the world we all got sent to in the first place... Staying in this world is also clearly an option... I just... I don't really know what to do after everything..." he admitted to Belle, before turning his attention towards what was going on with Guinevere and Meg, and he winced slightly. "...They really shouldn't touch her suddenly like that... Meg doesn't really like hugs..." Jack whispered more quietly to Belle, as he was now fully paying attention to what was going on with his sister, since he knew all about her not liking hugs.

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Megan did not like hugs. On the list of things she loved were skulls and spiders and arsenic and coffee and scream queens. At the top of things she disliked? Hugs and ordinary non-creepy children. Hugs felt like someone was trying to smoother her in a blanket made out of rainbows, sunshine, and sugar. She would have appreciated the attempted murder in any other context, but here? It made Megan tense up, her entire body screaming against this violation of her nature. She was dark and mysterious and creepy and odd and funny - she wasn't touchy-feely by any means. By the time Guinevere stepped away and made a comment about how big Megan had gotten, Megan felt like she had just survived a near death experience. Two unsolicited hugs from strangers in one day.

"I... Yes. The alternative would be being dead," Megan replied to Guinevere. "Child burial options can be strange. During my residency, I heard about a family who bought a custom Spongebob urn for their child. It was horrific. Imagine spending your afterlife with that... that thing." Megan didn't know why she was saying this. All she knew was that she couldn't stand the silence and she didn't know what to say to Guinevere, so speaking about burial urns for children was apparently what her mind had settled on. Her eyes darted around the scenery, as if daring another biological relative of hers to appear and hug her.

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Agraba:

Mad Hatter turned to look over at his son for a moment and gave him a slight smile, he couldnt really show them any kind of magic in front of all of these people that wouldnt be really to smart for him. "I have a few special hats laying around somewhere that have been pretty useful for certain things. And we'll definitely have a lot of parties once this is all said and done." Mad Hatter answered Mathew. Aurora turned to look at Willow and gave her a slight smile towards her daughter.

"There will defintely be a lot of time to tell you everything and hopefully I can show you your home as well to. Their waiter came back looking over at the group. "Are you all ready to make your orders?" Their waiter asked getting ready to write down everyone's orders, a lot of the food items seemed to be middle eastern on the menus.

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"Well this is certainly pretty interesting." Sierra said as she stared at Megan and her little family reunion, she did feel a little bit jealous that everyone in their group so far she was wondering if everyone else in their little groups had found their parents yet or not. Guinevere looked at Megan for a moment, Megan did sound like she had a really weird and dark sense of humor, she didnt even know what a SpongeBob was either she was a little bit speechless before someone coughed and got everyone else's attention. Sierra turned her head to look over at Hansel.

"Sooo we are trying to meet with the mermaids under the sea, and we kind of pissed off Hook's men earlier today. So we are looking for a place to lay low for awhile. We did meet with some people who said that they'd take us down there tonight." Hansel said deciding to change the subject. "You all are welcome to stay here for the time being if you'd like." Arthur told the group, Guinevere nodding as well to, Belle turned towards Jack, and nodded slightly she could understand the world was completely different from the one that they had grown up in. "I'll support whichever you choose to do." Belle said towards him giving him a slight smile.

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Rapunzel looked towards Rosalia as she started to help out, she was actually surprised that she agreed to help her out instead of just heading out with the others. "Thank you." Rapunzel said towards Rosalia as she went over towards a nearby cabinet and pulled out a suture kit and then made her way over towards Rosalia. "Alright you can remove your hands now." Rapunzel said as she gestured towards a nearby bottle of alcohol. "I need you to pour that onto the wound to clean it for me while I get this ready." Rapunzel told her as she started to get a needle ready to thread for the wound.

Once an opening came up Robin Hood drew out his bow and arrow and shot an arrow directly at the man's shoulder, causing him to cry out in pain as he fell to the ground. Layla was relieved to see her sister was alright and quickly approached her looking at Cassi with a concerned look. "Are you alright Cassi?" She asked her sister looking her up and down for any wounds, she was glad that there werent any as she went to hug her.

Robin drew another arrow and approached the cage, and aimed it at the man who had attacked his daughter. "Why did you attack us and my daughter?" Robin demanded as the prisoner glared, and then Robin fired off another shot at the man's leg causing him to cry out in pain again. "Maleficent ordered us to attack the camp, and bring the lot of you alive." He said gesturing towards the girls there.

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Cassiopeia turned to face her sister and hugged Layla tightly. ”I’m okay Lala,” Cassi mumbled into her sister’s shoulder. She held on for a little longer before pulling back and focused on her father as he fired another arrow into the man’s leg. Cassiopeia didn’t even feel bad for the torture. The guy who attacked her had it coming.
The idea of Maleficent wanting them alive didn’t settle in Cassiopeia’s stomach well. She looked at Layla then Rose before looking at her father and then the prisoner.
”What does she want us for? To try and get to our parents?”

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Willow smiled at her mother before glancing back at the menu. She still didn’t really know what she wanted so she shut the menu and pushed it aside. ”I’ll get whatever you’re having,” Willow said to her mother and picked up her water.
Willow glanced around the tavern, noting how different and how similar it was to bars back home. She sighed a little, missing some aspects of home but also came to the conclusion that there were many more things she didn’t miss. For one thing, this place had magic which was something Willow thought she would never witness other than in movies. Hearing that the Mad Hatter did have hats that elicited different magical abilities was neat.