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Grace nodded enthusiastically. She could tell Belle was going to be great at this mother thing. "Families should be happy together," she said. "Do you have a family?" She wanted to know everything.

...Maybe a little bit of it was that Grace didn't have a lot of experience with older women and was looking for role models, but it wasn't as if she knew that.

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Grace made one last face. "I don't know why anyone would," she admitted. It didn't make sense. "And I think it runs in the family a little bit. Papa inherited the hat from his papa. He says he's going to teach me to sense magic." She could feel it, a little bit, but it was confusing. 

She brightened up a little more. "We have a television! It's really cool. It's like getting to see a play anytime you want." Only the mummers back home hadn't been anywhere near as good as these.

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"I guess that's true." Grace herself wasn't always sure quite where she fit in, between the child she'd been and who she was now. "Is being a mayor that much different from being a princess?"

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Grace thought it was sad that Cyrus had been so lonely. "Well, you're with us, right? So you don't have to be so lonely anymore." When you had people, it was much better than not having anyone. "And then maybe you won't need to forgive us." She couldn't imagine doing something to hurt him.

That took Grace aback. "Me? Learn magic?" She thought of herself - Grace, the great magician. Or enchantress. Enchantress sounded better. "I don't think I'd want to learn magic. I think I'd be a great portal jumper, though." She'd like to explore other lands - as long as she got back home in time for tea, of course.

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Grace brightened. "I'd like that," she said. "Then it wouldn't be like we were wasting it." Waste not, want not. She didn't like to waste things. "I'm good at sewing. Papa taught me. Do they do sewing in Wonderland?" She hadn't remembered it from the book.

"Oh," she said, and followed Alice down the hall. "Strawberry pancakes?" She almost forgot to whisper, but didn't just at the last second. "Can we dye the pancakes pink?" Thad had always been fun.

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Grace put her hand over her mouth as she giggled. "Maybe it does have," she admitted. "You'd need a ladder. Or maybe if Alice stood on Papa's shoulders." They were both fairly tall -much taller than Grace was, although it seemed like everybody was. "I don't know who we would ask, though."

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Grace was terrified.

It wasn't that Queen Snow White was scary. She definitely wasn't as scary as the Evil Queen. It was that - well, Grace was finally here. And if she didn't get the Queen to help her, she didn't know who could help her save her papa.

So Mr. Peters had helped her sneak into the castle, carrying flowers. She got past the dwarves and the other guards, up into the Queen's bedroom. "Um. Your Majesty?" she called out. She knew her manners, but she was just so nervous!

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"I tried," Grace admitted. She liked cleaning things. Keeping things clean was important! "It didn't work very well. I couldn't reach the top shelves to dust them. I do a lot of vacuuming, though." Along with keeping her own room spotless. Everything was so pretty, it was a shame to ruin it with dust and dirt. 

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Grace had felt split into two since the curse broke. There was Grace, who missed her papa dreadfully and would have done anything to bring him home; and there was Paige, who'd been lost by her parents and taken in by Florence. In some ways, she wanted to be little girl Grace again, the one who'd had tea parties with toy animals and just been happy to be with her papa who loved her. But that wasn't all she was. There were too many things to be.

"I like old clothes," she said decisively. "I like fixing them up and making them work. They're not worn-out, they're well-used." She liked her clothes, and she didn't want to just give them up to be worn by somebody else. They were hers. 

Grace looked up at Alice. "I thought that was the curse," she said, feeling troubled. She hadn't talked much to the other girls in her class in the month since the curse broke, but then again not all of them had gone to school. "Or like, really evil people. Like the mayor." She didn't quite feel comfortable calling her Regina the way everyone else seemed to. "I don't know. Maybe you could be a healthy barbarian."

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"He's a great papa," Grace said promptly. "The only thing is, he's just been so lonely." She felt very strongly that her papa needed someone romantic in his life. She knew that he'd said that Belle was only a friend, but that didn't mean they couldn't be friendlier!

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Grace felt troubled. For a long time, they'd called her the Evil Queen, and there'd been reason for that. Even she'd heard about the awful things she did, not to mention being the reason her papa had to go away. The Queen had visited her once at the Peters - only once. She wasn't sure how she felt about that. "I guess maybe so you don't forget what she did," she said slowly. It was kind of scary, thinking about what the Mayor had done, and that she was still walking around. You just didn't know what she might do next. She didn't answer Cyrus' other question.

She shrugged, onto happier topics. "Maybe fairies were nicer where I lived. I think they're supposed to be the good guys!" At least she'd never heard of a fairy doing anything bad. "And I don't know, I think magic is kind of cool. It makes life interesting!"

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Grace smiled reflexively as Aurora bopped her nose. "I don't usually try to get Papa to do things," she said, reflecting. "But I don't suppose it could hurt." She still felt hurt by his leaving her, even if she knew it hadn't been his fault. "Sometimes I feel like he needs a lot of taking care of."

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Grace laughed. "Papa doesn't like people that much!" she exclaimed. She knew him well enough to know that. He liked his privacy. "He likes being able to give me stuff, though. Sometimes it makes me feel guilty. We had to give up a lot to have what we have now."

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Grace nodded enthusiastically. Belle understood about tea! She sat on the other side of the stump and took her tea like a lady. "This is a very nice teaparty," she said, a little primly. "I like tea parties very much. Do you like tea parties?" One of the things she'd learned from her papa was that when people were sad, you could sometimes distract them by talking. 

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Grace listened and filed that away. Adult lectures were sometimes interesting, sometimes not, but they usually meant she needed to listen carefully. Otherwise she might get burnt by fire or something. Mrs. Peters had liked to say that the burnt hand taught best, but it'd never completely made sense to her. "So like what Regina did with cursing the whole town?" And taking her papa away. She was maybe just as angry with her papa for going away as she was with Regina for taking him.

"Back in the Enchanted Forest, I didn't really see that much magic," Grace admitted. "But there were a lot of stories, and people who had seen magic. And you definitely have to be careful around fairy circles, because if you got stuck in one the fairies would be really mad at you." Or at least that was what Mrs. Peters had said. "And I guess it just takes practice. Sometimes I wake up as Grace and then everything is really odd. And then sometimes I wake up as Paige and other things are odd." That was the way it worked, it seemed.

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"I don't really mind smallness," Grace said, curling into herself comfortably. "As long as there's enough space to fit in and the people you love. And then you can make the rest work." Sometimes she felt a little lost in the big house her papa had now. Between the cottage, living with the Peters, and then living with Alice, she wasn't used to so much space.