@polyamships multiamory march day 1: home
read on ao3 here, or continue under cut
divider cred: one & two
fandom: once upon a time
pairing: emma swan/neal cassidy/lily page
main tags: silly, domestic fluff, established relationship
rating: G
word count: 357
"Where the fuck is it?" Lily cursed loudly, followed by another thud.
After looking over at Neal to see him not bothered at all by the noise, Emma sighed. His obliviousness was admittedly somewhat adorable. "What are you looking for?" she called out.
Emma leaned back, hiding her smile as she watched Neal. His focus was entirely on the movie, The Outsiders, which he hadn't seen yet. It was one of Emma's favorite movies, and she'd watched it dozens of times before now, so she barely paid any mind to the movie.
Though, she wouldn't be able to watch the movie in peace regardless, due to the continuous thudding noises of Lily rummaging through the kitchen.
"Where the fuck is it?" Lily cursed loudly, followed by another thud.
After looking over at Neal to see him not bothered at all by the noise, Emma sighed. His obliviousness was admittedly somewhat adorable. "What are you looking for?" she called out.
Her girlfriend huffed. "The bag of cheddar popcorn! I bought some last week, and now I can't find it.."
It'd taken a long time for the three of them to build enough trust each other, especially to even attempt the relationship they had now. Emma loved both of them dearly, they loved her, and each other, and it was good. What they had was good, and Emma wouldn't give it up for anything.
But admitting to eating Lily's food was the equivalent of confessing murder. Which was exactly what Emma—and Henry, to be entirely fair—had done last time her son had slept over. But Henry wasn't here to share blame.
"Huh. That's weird." Emma replied tightly. "Did you check behind the cereal boxes?"
She winced when Lily loudly stormed into the living room. Emma dared to look up at her, immediately meeting Lily's glare. "I have to be honest, I really doubt it's behind the fucking cereal, Emma." Lily hissed with narrowed eyes.
She gulped. Neal, finally noticing them, snickered next to her. "I really doubt it's in the pantry at all," he teased. Emma elbowed him.
After a tense silence, Lily relaxed, rolling her eyes. "You're lucky I love you," she grumbled, flopping down on the couch next to her. "or I'd be kicking your ass right now."
Emma wrapped an arm around her. "I'm sure you would," she giggled, pressing a kiss to the shorter girl's forehead.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Once Upon a Time (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Baelfire | Neal Cassidy/Lily | Lilith Page/Emma Swan
Characters: Baelfire | Neal Cassidy, Lily | Lilith Page, Emma Swan, Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold, Henry Mills (Once Upon a Time), Evil Queen | Regina Mills
Additional Tags: Soulmates, Time Skips, Pre-Poly, Baelfire | Neal Cassidy Lives, Fate & Destiny, Once Upon a Time Season 04B: Queens of Darkness Arc, finding soulmates, Humor, Light Angst, Friends to Enemies, Rumplestiltskin | Mr. Gold Being an Asshole, he means well for bae tho, is it really a soulmate au if soulmates are canon, Soulmate-Identifying Marks, Multiamory March, Multiamory March 2025
Series: Part 30 of multiamory march 2025
Summary:
Multiamory March Alt Prompt 5: Matching
Gold was strangely interested in her birthmark when he noticed it the first time.
“How long have you had the star?” He nodded towards her wrist.
“Since birth, I’d assume.” She rolled her eyes and steered the conversation back on topic, shoving her hand in her pocket subconsciously.
or, meeting Lily and Neal in an entire realm without magic hadn't been a coincidence.
I dabble in writing sometimes. This one, I'm proud of. So I'm sharing. I'm not sold on it being a one-shot, but the muse is else where.. What's a writer to do?
Summary: This is a rewrite of Emma arriving in Storybrooke, no curse, no magick, no fairytale backstory, modern au - that keeps to the facts of the story. I set things up to explore all the romantic relationships for Emma (not just my OTP) because I think it's ridiculous for people to fight over who she should be with (hence the title). All OTPs are equally important. (even though I forever ship CS, I can still appreciate the others.)
Read on ao3 or ffn
Sneak Peak Beneath the Pretty Line (or clickable link, whatever...)
The Other Shoe
It was ridiculous.
She was being ridiculous.
And she wasn't hiding very well at all, sitting in Granny's, pouting over a now luke-warm (and spiked) cup of cinnamon hot chocolate.
It wasn't the chocolates fault. It was her, and this town, and the ridiculousness of everything and anything and she didn't even know -
When had it all gone to shit?
She'd been in Storybrooke a month, not even a whole month, and her luck just had to break or teeter or rev it's ugly head back up and do something about her vaguely happy existence she had managed to find in this tiney tiny God forsaken town.
She couldn't help but think over the month here, staring out the window, ignoring her cocoa, ignoring Ruby’s attempts at friendly supportive whatever. Emma’s attention was only partially on the raindrops pelting the window or the fog out there, which made it harder to spot her from the outside (which was a wonderful thing).
She was hiding after all, poorly or otherwise.
She may have thanked God or the Universe or the giant spaghetti monster or whatever for the rain and the fog that kept her hidden a little better than normal.
She should have just picked a better spot.
She had practically been dragged into town by her son, her actual son, who had found her, on her birthday, right after she made a wish blowing out her candle on her pitiful little cupcake like that was a thing she ever did. (Only every year.) Wishing that she wouldn’t be alone, like that meant something, like that was an actual wish granted moment because her life had ever been that simple and perfect and -
Prompt: Emma doesn’t remember anything except that she comes from the Enchanted Forest. The first 8 years of her life are a blur but she does have a necklace to help her find her way… And apparently a man who thinks she could be the missing princess. Emma doesn’t know what to think except that it’s her only way to get back to the Enchanted Forest so if this Neal guy thinks she could be this princess she will go along with it. Love and family will find their way.
Zelena didn’t bother with her wild mane anymore, a quick snap of her fingers could take care of it, but why bother when she was stuck as she was. She paced the floor of her hidden home. Why was she still like this? She stopped in front of the mirror, cringed. Green. She was green. She cried out, frustration rising. Ten years have passed and yet here she stays, green and falling apart. Something must have gone wrong and what was this awful feeling in her stomach? A crash had her standing up straight and storming through the house.
“Who dares intrude on my solitude? Get out!” Zelena looked at the ground and found her once closest companion laying there, chest rising and falling. “Walsh? Is that you?” She peered through the smoke that filtered across the floor.
Walsh’s head popped up. “Master, you’re alive?”
Zelena gestured to herself, annoyance slitting her eyes. “Here in the flesh.”
Walsh stood up and straightened himself out. “You’re...green.”
Zelena hissed. “Something’s happened.” She walked in a circle, the fog billowing around her dress and cape.
“Uh,” Walsh wasn’t sure how to proceed. “Yeah.”
“I knew it!” Zelena threw her hands up and continued to pace. “I could feel the dark forces stirring.”
“I’m not surprised. I saw her,” Walsh spoke slow. He picked at his wings. “Emilia.”
“Emilia! Alive? That Charming Broad!”
“I guess a curse just ain’t what it used to be, huh?”
“That’s it!” Zelena cried. “This is why I’m green. My curse is unfulfilled. Look at me! I’m a wreck!” Zelena scraped her fingers through her hair before wiping her palms down the front of her dress.
“Actually,” Walsh said, shaking out his wings, “You look pretty good.”
“Really?”
“Is this the face of a monkey who would lie to you?” Come on. For a minute there you had your old spark back.”
Zelena dropped onto the lonely couch in the open concept home. What had become of her. “Before I lost the gift from the dark curses! The key to my powers.” One foolish mistake. She’d gone after Emilia herself. Big mistake. She fell right through the icce and lost the only thing that mattered to her, the magic.
Walsh tossed the green swirling tube between his hands. “What, you mean this reliquary?”
Zelena jumped off the couch to stare at what he held in his paws. “Where did you get that?’
“Oh, I found-”
“Give it to me!” Zelena snatched it from his paws.
“All right, all right. Don’t get so grabby.” Walsh watched Zelena, concern bubbling from deep in the pit of his gut.
“My old friend,” Zelena whispered, cradling the magic in her hands. “Together again. My dark purpose will be fulfilled, and the last of the Charmings will die!” Zelena turned to her mirror, laughing.
Walsh continued to look on, slowly backing away. What had he done?
“The Heart of the Truest Believer” Unused Script Snippets Compilation
So, as some of you know, recently I was lucky enough to win a script for “The Heart of the Truest Believer” in an OUAT auction. I think scripts are some of the most fun things you can win in auctions like these -- it’s cool to see how lines change and develop over the course of the writing and filming processes, they open the door to additional fun fan speculation, and of course, we get to see lines and actions that didn’t make the cut and in some cases, maybe see a completely new product!
And now that I have the script, I wanted to share it with everyone so we can do all of that groovy stuff!
There were a fair amount of changes, additional bits of dialogue, and honestly just funny things I noticed that I wanted to point out to laugh at like a fourth grader! I put in every thing that was in the script, but not in the episode, but if there’s a scene or something from the episode that you want to see, please let me know and i’ll see what I can do to get it to you (Sorry, buying the scripts and scanning can get expensive and I’m going to London this summer)!
Also, there’s a fair amount of shippy stuff in here, namely for Swan Fire, Sleeping Warrior, and Captain Swan (Ergo, the early ship tags). It’s not all that’s in here by any means, but I do want you going into this knowing that.
Finally, as a personal plea from me, let’s please try not to go too beserk over this, or rather, like our fandom sometimes tends to do. I wanted to share all of this good stuff for fun and archival purposes and I’d hate to inadvertently cause the next fandom war. And look, I get it: Fandoms be fandoms and my plea probably won’t factor into much in the grand scheme of things, but hey, I had to try, am I right? Just remember to treat each other the way you’d want to be treated. Certain scenes and ship that you might not like could mean a great deal to others and we should all try and respect each other.
Okay! Now that that’s out of the way, without further adieu, join me under the cut and let’s get to it!
First off, here’s a little observation: Apparently, in addition to comforting Emma, the doctor was supposed to give Emma a tissue. And given the sentences before that note, she’d definitely need it. :(
Another small cut line, but it makes you think just what a war on magic would be like. Also, I love the buildup of Tamara and Greg as these big antagonists and a third faction to counter the efforts of Pan and the heroes, only to pull the rug up from them and the audience. Kind of reminds me of how Dragon Ball Z transitioned from the androids to Cell.
Okay, enough nerding out! Moving on!
I was so happy that we got a juicy little bit of Rumple-y goodness in here! While I’m personally okay with the scene being excluded from the final episode, I do love how this scene builds up Rumple’s transformation back into his Dark One persona. I love the idea of the most dramatic spinning in television history and that crescendo of suspense. You know Isham would’ve had a time and a half orchestrating this scene! Can you just imagine the strings and the percussion?!
And speaking of Rumple, here’s some more Rumple dialogue!!! It builds on what we got in the final version in a more detailed way and makes for a strong moment in the Emma and Rumple dynamic.
As an added bonus, if you look at the bottom left of the page, it appears that whoever previously had this script helped setting up the sets! So that’s nifty!
Tamara is Spider-Man. OUAT/MCU CROSSOVER CONFIRMED!!
In a similar vein, we see Greg and Tamara here trying to do a bit more damage to the enemies than what we got in the finished episode.
Phillip! That’s Lumiere’s line! Silly man...
We get a bit more unused dialogue here (Loving the “arrow” joke!)! It’s basically just exposition, but we do get a bit of colliding personalities in here, especially between Neal and Mulan. Considering that these characters don’t get a ton of screen time after this season, this was a nice discovery to uncover.
I also like the smidge of character development Mulan got from Belle -- she’s now taken an interest in seeking knowledge after seeing how effective it can be!
More towards the bottom of the page, here we get two things that I found cool. First, we see a bit more to the guessing game of what is attacking the Jolly Roger and for certain Killian fans, seeing a Kraken out there is pretty cool!
Second...look the descriptions of some of the actions in these scripts is just phenomenal. And if you ever want to ensure a good ole case of alcohol poisoning, take a drink every time the F word is used! You will be PLASTERED before long! XD
We get a lot of additional dialogue here with some twinges of both Swan Fire and Sleeping Warrior nestled neatly in the actions and dialogue. My friends, I’d have KILLED to see that hand hold in the final product! I also really admire Neal’s steadfast determination here! It’s very reminiscent of Baelfire and is just utterly heartwarming to see how much he cares about his family.
And on top of that, we get a smidge more lore for the after effects of the sleeping curse! I’m no lore snob and I do find the explanation to be a biiiiiiiit weird, but hey -- it’s OUAT and weird is what I signed up for! It works well enough for me.
Tamara, you can’t blame others for your actions! You know better...or at least you should. I don’t know. For a while, at least, you seemed pretty smart and devious.
But more importantly than that: THE DARK ONE IS BACK! ...I just really liked that line. It reminds me of that old movie Commando. Rumple was trying to leave his past behind...sort of, but to save what matters to him, he’s gotta go back to his old ways. It’s a great mix of menacing and oddly triumphant! Honestly, it just sounds badass and I love that script note!!!
Like I said...the drinking games that could stem from these scripts could KILL someone! ...There’s nothing new here: I just thought this was funny.
MOVING ON!
Once again, we see some more Neal and Mulan dialogue with both direct and indirect nods to Swan Fire and Sleeping Warrior! I just have a lot of feels for these two, okay?!
So, we’ll see this a bit later in more detail, but there seemed to be something of a D-plot about the Jolly Roger sinking as a result of the storm. It’s only mentioned in the final product during the scene where our team finally arrives on the island, but there’s quite a few lines about this being more of a substantial plot point than what we ended up getting. Once again, I’m overall okay with its exclusion since the conflict of them having to work together was the more important part of the conflict.
And hey! We get a little bit of CS dialogue too, and I’m not complaining about that at all! I can’t help but feel like had that been included, it (Namely Killian calling Emma a sailor) would’ve been one of those OUAT-y things that just makes its way into all kinds of fan works -- like an OUAT meme that’s not played for comedy. You get what I’m saying? Ah well!
Let’s keep going!
...Again, not new, but the script direction was just too funny to leave out of this post!
Here we get a bit more dialogue of Emma trying to get her reluctant teammates to listen to her. While I’m fine with the scene as we got it, I would’ve liked it if this went into the final version. It builds up Emma’s desperation nicely and gives their lack of teamwork a subtle hint of tragedy that a solution is literally right in their face, but they won’t listen.
I also like that there’s a bit more to Hook’s extra line. Does one take it as him not believing her alongside the group, or him believing her and tragically pointing out that no one else does? I think the ultimate interpretation would’ve come down to how Colin played it, but I appreciate the nuance of the line!
So, here, like I said before, here’s where we get more of the meat of the Jolly Roger sinking plot point. There’s more of a weight to it. As I said before, while I like this extra dialogue, I do think that the final version was effective enough in showing the team working together and that an extra scene wouldn’t have contributed that meaningfully to it in the overall grand scheme of things.
That all having been said, additionally, we get some awesome Emma here, and I am always a fan of that! We get to see a bit of smugness with that “I was right” line and some frack-a-lackin’great leadership as she leads the group onto Neverland’s shores! It’s an honestly cool moment and I’m picturing Jen slaying as she delivers these great lines!
As you might be able to see on the first picture in this set, there’s a bit of cutoff dialogue. Unfortunately, that’s how I got the script and it happens occasionally in this script. However, if I may speculate, going by Emma’s next line, it seems like Hook was telling her that if they follow through with her plan, Pan will know they’re on his island for sure and will likely be able to find them with relative ease. It’s fitting for Hook’s view of Pan for him to be apprehensive about giving Pan an in like this and makes Emma’s willingness to go into the metaphorical fires of Neverland to be even cooler!
Finally, we end off with another bit of Swan Fire, and it’s honestly pretty touching! Like, he cries over her and she’s the love of his life! That’s just sweet!
Also, I’m pretty sure that Robin line at the top is new, and it’s pretty funny! Robin’s character does snark really well!
And with that, our journey through the uncut side of “The Heart of the Truest Believer” is complete! I hope you all liked these snippets and maybe got a bit more material to think on! I know I did!
Okay, I want to play a little game! Please reblog with your favorite(s) Once Upon A Time ship’s gif (or more because I can’t decide)! And it doesn’t matter if someone has already taken a certain gif I want to know what’s your favorite! Doesn’t matter who you ship, snowing, cs, oq, sq, rumpbelle, cc let’s fill everyone’s feed with lots of OUAT gifs and love!!!
