Origins of Love

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Maleficent and her daughter had a lot to talk about. She was sure that Lily had a million questions for her, and Maleficent was happy to answer everything that she possibly could have. There was never going to be anything to stifle the guilt that she felt for Lily having to grow up without her mother, but she was going to make it up to her in any way  possible. Currently, she was sitting on a bench on the docks, overlooking the water. She looked at the necklace that Lily was holding, and she gave her a small smile. "I'm so glad you kept it all of these years, Lily." Lily. Named after a flower. Ugh. Oh well. It was a nice enough name, she supposed. She was beautiful.. it fit her well. 

"That necklace came from..." she paused. This girl had only just found out that she was a dragon.. how would she explain that she was.. well..hatched? Just like pulling off a bandaid, Maleficent supposed. "It came from the egg you hatched from." She crossed one leg over the other and leaned back against the bench. "Don't get all freaked out now.. you were born a beautiful baby, so i'm told. I didn't get to see you." She could feel her heart aching as she thought of the moment when Snow White and Prince Charming took her little girl away. As a mother, she could understand.. but also as a mother..she was still bitter toward them for what they had done. "What was life like for you, growing up? Was your family good to you?"


Lily Page

[Lily Page]

Lily had searched long for a quiet place in Storybrooke. It seemed like they were so rare, that every single one seemed to be taken almost immediately. It was in passing that someone winked at her and pointed at the docks. Lily decided it was worth checking out. Sure enough she came across an unoccupied bench. It was calm there, calm enough for her to be alone with her thoughts. She had learned a few things, but now she had trouble reconciling the knowledge she had with the actual town she had. Her mother wasn’t like the stories said she would be. Maleficent was meant to be a big badass powerful evil dragon. But she wasn’t. She was… just a woman. And she could transform into a dragon, both of them could. Which was why she tried to be somewhere secluded.

“It was all I had from my birth parents. Kids like I keep stuff like that. Unless Emma has thrown it away, she still has her baby blanket.” At least Emma had once mentioned she still had that. For Lily it was the necklace. It was all she always had. And the birthmark on her wrist. But as her mother continued, she found herself dropping her necklace, staring at her in shock. And egg. This was from an egg, once she was hatched from. She was hatched from an egg. Lily found herself shivering slightly at that. “I hatched from an egg? How? And … how was I a baby then? A baby dragon?” Actually Lily had always liked the sight of baby dragons on tv, was it her female maternal dragon instinct thing? Did she want to mother on baby dragons, because she was a dragon? So weird. And kinda cool.

“They tried, at least. But they never really succeeded.” It took years to look back upon it to see that, yes, they had tried, very very hard.



@maleficent