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Trapped in the Closet

My Kingdom For A Wraith

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It’s OK When It’s A Threeway

As always: If my co-writers wish to pick up these threads at a later date they need only tell me and I will be more than happy to oblige. 

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My Kingdom For A Wraith (closed)

It wasn’t working. She didn’t need to hear Regina shouting the same to know that much.  Or to know that if they didn’t get Jefferson’s hat working soon, the wraith would suck Regina dry… and probably finish off David, Mary Margaret, and her for dessert.

Assuming the fire her parents — that would never get normal — had intentionally set to keep the gruesome, floating spectre at bay didn’t burn the whole damn building down around their ears with them still in it.

Screw that. They needed to move; find somewhere to regroup and come up with a plan that worked or figure out why this one hadn’t. Emma turned to grab Regina by the arm, sure that she’d need to physically drag the other woman away…

…And it worked.

The stupid hat actually worked.  A wall of swirling purple smoke surrounded her and Regina as the hat… changed; growing in size as it flattened out into a vortex with a wide tattered felt rim that they both had to back-pedal to avoid.

That — magic — would never get normal either.

A shout from David pulled her focus from the hat or portal or whatever the hell it was now and she turned around just in time to see the wraith dive across the barrier, the wall of flame that had been holding it back apparently blown out by the wind stirred up by the Portal/hat thing-y.

Instinct kicked in. “Regina.” Emma threw herself at the other woman, wrapping her arms around the brunette’s waist as she shoved them both out of the way, the animal cry of the wraith being dragged back to whatever hell hole back in the Enchanted Forest that it had escaped from sounding the all clear.

It worked. They were safe.

Or not. No sooner had the smile started to form on her lips then Emma felt something wrap around her ankle. Something electric. Something strong. Something angry. Something pulling her in.

Another shout left her lips. Wordless. Fearful. But not so fearful that Emma didn’t let go of Regina. At least she tried to. Whatever had grabbed her was quick. Too quick to undo the instinct to tighten her grip — a grip still around Regina’s waist — when she first felt herself yanked back.

Her last thought as they both tipped over the edge and fell into the formless darkness was that if they survived, Regina would never let her hear the end of this.

And then there was nothing.

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My sincerest apologies ahead of time for the skype notifications in the background (that would be Jae, I don’t apologize at all really).

ALSO note that it’s been a couple of months since I played...and the F chord is still a PAIN.

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Headcanon #132:      On Regina Mills - Part One:

At this point, the only person Jessica has not lost in Timeline-Canon in some form or other (whether by death, leaving, or various other complicated means) is Regina Mills.

And she keeps telling me that she’s going to leave her, too.

Because she feels like she’s causing Henry to see Roger and she’s afraid he’s going to end up the way she did with Dana and she doesn’t want to cause that with anybody, let alone Henry, let alone with Regina’s son.

The thing is - Henry seeing Roger - it’s worse because his Roger is a delusion - or it might be his essence, which means she could try to bring Roger back again, to capture that and have him redrawn.  But it wouldn’t be him.  He’d be back, but she’d still be lost.

Regardless of that, she can see the heart eyes that Emma has for Regina and she feels like...like she’s in the way.

So on the one hand there’s this “I’m being a bad influence on your son” and on the other hand there’s this “but also I’m keeping you from possibly having this family” and she isn’t sure which exactly is the worst of the two.

BUT the further interesting thing is this - that the only person from At The Seams and As They Fall that Jessica does not contact is Regina.  This is mainly because Regina should have been getting Henry at just the time she and Roger are transformed, but I think she’s lying when she tells herself that.  I think it is also very much that she knows the cost, she knows what the cost of getting in contact again would be.

See - in previous “make my muse choose between x and y” Jessica has proven that she will choose Toon!Roger over any and every character with two exceptions - Charlotte (because she believes that is what Roger would want) and, in meta, Journey!Alana (simply because she believes this form of Alana needs her in a way that Roger doesn’t - which is debatable, but it is what she thinks).  She will choose Roger over Regina and has done so in the past.

However.

Journey!Alana is not a trump card and I’m coming to learn that although she would choose Roger over Regina and Journey!Alana over Roger, she would also choose Regina over Journey!Alana.

This leads to a sort of circular hierarchy that I can’t quite explain.

Also, as opposed to her decision to leave Dana, if Jessica did leave Regina, it wouldn’t be for...selfish reasons.  Whereas Jessica left Dana as a choice of Roger (who was dying - a choice that she regrets and regrets regretting, if that makes sense?), if she left Regina, it would be because she felt that staying hurt her - which, it should be noted, is not a decision she would make with...any other character, I think (which may be why Regina would trump Journey!Alana).

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Send my muse “We’re alone now, you could kiss me” for their reaction.

TC!Jessica Edition:She closes her eyes and her head aches and it is possible that, for once in her life, Jessica Rabbit has had too much to drink (it is because she didn’t spike her champagne with bleach and so temper her drinking that way).  It was New Year’s Eve and now it is New Year’s and somehow she is somewhere with Alana Bloom - near the bar she once lived above but not there, somewhere much classier.There’d been a party.  Neither of them had anything else to do (Doctor Bloom perhaps feeling a little isolationist and Jessica giving her employer space to spend the evening with her son - Regina had insisted, but Jessica...didn’t want to intrude, not just yet, even if it no longer hurt to see the woman enveloped in the yellow she had not lost).     She will be there in a few hours time - enough to sleep and make herself presentable.     Jessica had promised Henry parades and Regina that time to cook together and it felt     so domestic and so much like what she’d lost and....  There was an empty sort of ache     to it all.  (Roger would be in the background, she knows this, and hopefully he would     stay with Henry, stay away from stolen kisses in the kitchen, but the possible laughter     would draw him near, especially if--)Jessica pauses at the sound of Doctor Bloom’s words and there’s this flicker of something across her face because this is unexpected Doctor Bloom, what are you saying Doctor Bloom, why right now Doctor Bloom because she will be with Regina in a few hours and she cannot arrive smelling like her.  She steels her face and turns and there is the little therapist with this wavering sort of expression and this, too, hurts her.     She should never have gotten involved with Doctor Bloom.But it is New Year’s, and when the ball dropped there’d been a moment where their eyes met, but Jessica had not wanted to waste such a moment with her and she suspected that the other hadn’t wanted to waste it with her either, but now--Jessica is used to pain and she is used to betrayal and it tastes like Dip when she says, very firmly, “No.”

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Headcanon #129:     On Character Tags. Every character with a significant (timeline-canon, shipping, or familial) relationship to Jessica takes their character tag from either Dismantle.Repair or (*fin).  They are as follows:

Timeline-Canon:

Dog-Eared Dick - ;widowed

Betty - ;orphaned

Haruko - ;what you repeat

Miyoko - ;background music

Eleanor - ;abandoned

Roger - ;lifetime of you

Scully - ;undivided honesty

Alana - ;lost cause

Regina - ;lost like you

Shipping/Familial:

Andromeda - ;rewritten opinions

Bedelia - ;one last glance

Alana - ;four little souls

Marie - ;all we are

Haruko, Miyoko, Roger, Scully, Andromeda, and Bedelia all get their tags from Dismantle.Repair. Dog-Eared Dick, Betty, Eleanor, Alana (both verses), Regina, and Marie all get their tags from (*fin).

Dog-Eared Dick, Betty, and Eleanor’s tags come from the following lines:

    Widows and orphans aren’t hard to find.     They’re home missing daddy who’s saving the abandoned tonight. This is an explicit reference to the backstories of the characters.     Dog-Eared Dick is widowed due to his past relationship with Eleanor when he was Dead          Richard - a relationship he forgets when he becomes Droopy.     Betty is orphaned because she, by all rights, should have been part of the porn star Toon          movement but wa simply the beginning of it - so she is a sex symbol but not in the same          way that Toons of that Purpose are.  Further, it is an explicit reference to her work with          Toons of that Purpose - finding those Toons orphaned by the world and trying to raise          and look out for them as much as she possibly can.  (Betty is quite handy with a number          of Toon legalese and uses that for her ends.)     Eleanor is abandoned because she was abandoned (unintentionally) by Dead Richard, she          abandoned her half-Toon half-human son to human parents in a world where they would          never know his legacy, she abandons her own hurt to own both Jessica and Droopy.  She          was abandoned by the world.     Also - widows and orphans aren’t hard to find refers easily to the Toons of the Toon Porn          industry and saving the abandoned refers to Eleanor’s ownership of Jessica and Droopy -          saving the abandoned Toons who would have died without her intercession. Haruko’s tag comes from the following lines:     It’s not that I hang on every word;     I’d hang myself on what you repeat. The phrase in specific refers to phrases Haruko repeated to Jessica - her emotional ownership of her, how often she called Jessica hers even though technically she wasn’t, how comfortable Jessica felt in her embrace - but at the same time, Jessica’s relationships and her reactions to them are clear repetitions of what Haruko did to her - the leaving, mainly, but also her relationship with Alana Bloom in Timeline-Canon is a clear mimicry of how Haruko related to her.  Jessica quite easily hangs herself on what she repeats by repeating Haruko - the anime character is what Jessica repeats. Miyoko’s tag comes from the following lines:     If life has background music playing your song,     I’ve got to be honest, I try to escape you,     but the orchestra plays on. This refers to the idea of Rusted Transcendence and the ship therein - but also that Miyoko was the first opportunity that Jessica had to repeat more precisely what happened with Haruko and chose not to do so.  Miyoko and that choice are the background music for the rest of Jessica’s life - a pattern that she should and does not always follow. Roger’s tag comes from the following lines:     Give me time to prove--          Prove I want the rest of yours          (Prelude)     Call this a prelude to a lifetime of you. This is a reference both to Forgotten Prelude (these being the lines from which that half of the title came) but also to the fact that Jessica would be completely content to have a lifetime with Roger, that this is really all she wanted, and that - even when they get transfigured - her life is still wrapped up by and in him.  Roger always comes first, even when it appears that he doesnt.  Her lifetime is his. Scully’s tag comes from the following lines:     Four weeks felt like years since your full attention was all mine.     The night was young and so were we--          Talked about life, God, death, and your family.     Didn’t want any promises, just my undivided honesty. I really feel as though this entire stanza applies to them (the first two lines of which are found with Bedelia’s tag) - and it’s something that struck me the first time I was going through these lyrics and looking into the idea of lines or moments that refer to other characters in Jessica’s life. It’s intriguing to me - the stanza as a whole - because it is accurate, I think - because Jessica is completely honest with Scully in a way that she really isn’t with anybody else simply because she starts out so emotionally vulnerable there.  She starts the relationship being honest and open about both who she is and what she wants (although she does end up changing her Toon past into something much more human in her explanations) - which is, perhaps, why this line struck me as being so apt. Alana’s (Timeline-Canon) tag comes from the following lines:     Sympathy’s better than having to tell you the truth:          That you are the patron saint of lost causes.     All you are to them is now a lost cause.     All you are to them is now causes. I do take more than the line here just because the context fits well - because, after everything that happened to Alana in her post-season 2 timeline (and even as a direct result of season 2 and especially Mizumono), the first two lines are extremely apt. However, the phrase lost cause, although not what Jessica would use for her, is certainly one that describes her well here, especially in relation to the line - of what Alana has become to other people - and even Jessica - as a result not of her neurosis but perhaps as a result of not confronting them.  And, in some respects, Jessica does think of her as a lost cause - up until a certain forthcoming thread. Regina’s tag comes from the following line (repeated):     Patron Saint, are we all lost like you? It fits very so incredibly well with Jessica and Regina’s relationship.  Both characters come from a past that has not been entirely good to them, both have lost a former lover (through no act of their own), and both have had this moment of feeling like losing happiness.  Jessica identifies very strongly with Regina - with that losing happiness - because she’s seen the flash of yellow with Henry and she’s seen it being lost - and so this idea of lost like you refers to that identification she has with her - which was, in fact, the reason she slept with her in the first place (as a distraction from losing the yellow). Andromeda’s tag comes from the following lines:     I am the patron saint of lost causes--          A fraction of who I once believed.     (Change) only a matter of time--          Opinions I will try and rewrite. This is a clear reference to Jessica and her idea of the timers.  Jessica very much does not believe in the timers at all, not after what happened with Roger, and as a result does not believe in the idea of Andromeda as her soulmate.  However, this belief - an opinion, if you will - is certainly one that gets changed over the course of - and as a result of - their relationship.  Perhaps her research implies that the timer does not make soulmates and simply shows a point of impact - but she specifically chooses to rewrite the opinion that it cannot refer to Andromeda as a soulmate and, for herself, chooses - or tries to choose - Annie for her own, regardless. Bedelia’s tag comes from the following lines (opening):     One last glance from a taxi cab;     Images scar my mind. This is mainly meant as a reference both to when Bedelia takes her in, although it can also refer to Jessica’s leaving of her step-family and half-sister.  Even more importantly, it can refer to Jessica leaving after that huge horrible house party (courtesy of a certain Gillian Owens).  It’s also an idea of the way Jessica’s life might have been in other circumstances - a last glance into a real world instead of the craziness that it became with her band family. Alana’s (Journey-Verse) tag comes from the following lines:     Tommy, you left behind something that will mean everything right before you die.     What if you gain the whole world?  You’ve already lost four little souls from your life. This was actually intended to be the phrase most relevant to Alana in Timeline-Canon (and I considered switching the two, as both are especially relevant to Alana overall), but I like it best here.  I think it works well for what both characters have lost in reference to their backstories - but also I think just this idea of four little souls - not necessarily lost but there all the same - is especially relevant to this verse - because if you take the family, you have Jess and Alana and Marie - and that’s three (which begs the question who the fourth is) but it’s just this idea of being more than what you are. Marie’s tag comes from the following lines:     So all we are to you     Is all we are, is all we are--          All we are is all we are. The reason I pick this tag for Marie is that she is such a combination of so many characters in that verse (Alana and Jess, of course, but also Kyle and Kara and Haruko and Bedelia) - and it just...it makes sense to me.  They’re obviously more than Marie, but Marie is such an integral part of who they are and the development of the verse - part of the culmnation of it, in my opinion - such that the phrase all we are is very apt, to me.

If you put them in song lyric order: Dismantle.Repair:     Bedelia     Scully     Andromeda     Miyoko     Roger     Haruko (*fin):     Alana (Journey-Verse)     Dog-Eared Dick     Betty     Eleanor     Alana (Timeline-Canon)     Marie     Regina