Prompt (given on ff.net): New years party and midnight kisses.
Welcoming the new year [Heller-DeVil family + too many ships to mention]
To welcome the new year, it was decided to gather all the townspeople in the main road, making no distintions of age, friendships or between heroes and villains. It wasn’ common use actually, but after the recent attack from a new outside enemy, they all felt the need to be close as a community. And well, those who didn’t feel it weren’t left with many other choices. Of course, some people had a private dinner at their house and the youngest went to have some drinks at The Rabbit Hole, but at a minute to midnight they were all exceptionally together.
As he clock of the tower bell signed 20 seconds to midnight,suddenly a silly ferment was spread through the crowd. While everyone else started to look at each other and occupy themselves with something, Cruella sighed, then blinked a few times and decided to spend those last seconds to cast a careful glance around.
Right in front of her, near a table set up with drinks and food for the event, there were Victor and Ruby Whale. They were smiling at each other in a mischievous way, probably still flirting despite the many years of marriage.
At few steps, Granny Lucas was watching them with the arms crossed at her chest and a not so pleased expression. Probably, she was still skeptical about the choice of her neice. So sad that, because of resentment, the old wolf missed the loving look Geppetto casted on her instead.
A clear joyful laughter reached Cruella’s ears and urged her to move her eyes at the completely opposite direction. It belonged to Ariel, spotted in the exact moment she twas throwing her arms at his smiling husband.
Beside the happy two, another royal couple was making a public display of affection. In fact, Snow and Charming, one in the arms of the other, were already kissing. Needless to say, the black and white haired woman immediately turned away.
The first people that appeared in front of her eyes was the unlike pairing of doctor Hopper and Zelena. In that second, they both looked quite friendly with each other and so, quite shocked, she looked away again.
August Booth caressing Lily’s cheek was surely a better scene to be a witness of. Or at least, just one which she was much more used to.
A well known young boy ran to the couple, almost making them jump. Soon it was followed by an exhausted but yet enthusiastic Maleficent. Just by that single thing, it was clear that the dragon woman wanted to made up for the lost time with her daughter and at least, she was surely making an amazing job as grandmother.
The vision of a bottle raised up in the air recalled Cruella’s attention, but just a casual look was enough to understand what was going on. Rumplestiltskin was reading the label on one of the sparkling wine bottles that would have soon be opened. Probably it was an expensive wine, but he was holding his most precious thing with the other arm: his wife Belle.
That was not the only trace of alcohol though, and the second wasn’t passed when she caught another scene with the corner of the eye: Captain Hook and Robin Hood toasting and drinking together like old buddies. It was a friendship probably no one would have bet on.
Close to the two men, but yet at a safety distance, the Savior and the Evil queen were exchanging a complicit look and rubbing their hands, probably getting ready to create fireworks with their joined magic. Another unlikely but successful friendship, indeed.
Another laughter reached her ears after just some seconds from the first one, but apparently laughing hard was a family thing. In fact, it was Melody Prince the owner of it and, suprisingly, the reason of it was the newly single Peter Whale. Another couple was about to form? Since they both were ex of her children, Cruella couldn’t help but internally smirk at that, but however didn’t think about it that much.
Delightment: here was the emotion she felt for the fourth second of the countdown, as her eyes lain on Fitzgerald lovingly hugging his girlfriend from behind and whispering something in her ear.
And the delightment continued as she unexpectedly witnessed the kiss that Anita shyly placed on Neal’s lips in front of everyone. Cruella had secretly been a supporter of the couple since the very start and now she had to force herself not to applaude. An actual smile appeared on her lips though: oddly a sit seems, she was enthusiastic of both her possible children in law and it was a big deal, considering the fact that she hated everyone a priori.
Delightment suddenly turned into horror as Isaac moved in front of her, with the clear intention to turn around in the direction of where Anita and Neal were kissing. If he had actually seen the scene, the new year wouldn’t have probably started in the best way at all. So, she instinctively grabbed his arm to recall his attention.
“Isaac, darling, wait!” she exclaimed in a single breathe, actually unsure of what to say next.
The crowd bursted into a choir of acclaimes for the new year, the bottles were about to be opened and the first sparks of magic reached the sky. Isaac was looking at her uncertain and she was uncertain too, but still she let her first instict lead her and, for once, it was a rarely sweet one. Out of the blue, she grabbed him by his coat and kissed him hard on the lips, until they both remained out of breath – and she really hoped Neal and Anita were too in the meanwhile
“What was that for?” he asked, clearly taken aback, but not hiding the pleased grin forming on his face.
“Well, they say that what you do on the first of the year, you do it for all the year…” she replied with a mischievous smile.
He returned the hint of mischievousness and, taking her in his arms, attracted her closer. “So, you want to kiss me all year, Cru?”
She rolled her eyes, getting annoyed by her own teasing, and for a moment actually wished to get out of his embrace. But then, with the corner of her eye, she spotted her daughter and what had just probably become her new boyfried kissing again right behind Isaac’s back. Apparently, acidity and detachment would have had to wait a bit longer.
“Shut up, darling” she said in fact, and just kissed her husband again.
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