Defying Gravity: 2/??
Title: Defying Gravity
Fandom: Once Upon A Time/Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Characters: Zelena, Will and Jafar in this chapter, more to follow but no spoilers here, dearies.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for all of OUATIW and OUAT up to S4 but goes AU for S5.
Notes: For eternal_moonie - I couldn't have done this one without you. Chapter titles are all Defying Gravity lyrics.
Summary: What happened when Jafar's lamp was brought to Storybrooke in the curse, ended up in Gold's shop and Zelena accidentally let him out? In this chapter Jafar realises how much in common he has with Zelena and thinks that she might be the person who can help him achieve his goal in changing the laws of magic, but does Zelena have other ideas?
Chapter 1 is here: I'm Through With Playing By The Rules Of Someone Else's Game
Jafar struggled to his feet, taking in the scene around him. He appeared to be in an extremely odd place, some kind of curiosity store. At first glance, he appeared to be in a land without magic, similar to the one he had visited so long before when he went to retrieve Alice’s father to take him to Wonderland. And yet, as his eyes wandered around his new surroundings, he wondered whether there was magic in this land after all. What were these strange devices emitting light that the store was using instead of candles? And what was that strange yellow object on wheels making its way past the window? Was this really a land without magic or not? What was this place?
“Bloody hell, Zelena, you don’t know what you’ve just done.”
Jafar turned around at the sound of that voice he had once known so well, but had hoped never to see again. Will Scarlet, the foolish knave, stood before him, head in his hands.
“Will Scarlet? You are here?”
As Jafar rounded on him, Will made a bolt for the door, mumbling something about needing to go and fetch the Sheriff.
Jafar continued to look around him. “What is this place?”
“Storybrooke, Maine. Everyone from the Enchanted Forest ended up here thanks to my sis. It’s a long bloody story. But never mind that.” The woman he had addressed as Zelena had got to her feet now. “Jafar. I’ve heard about you. Will mentioned you back when I was pretending to be Marian. You’re the one who tried to change the laws of magic. You could be just the person I need.”
Yes, he had tried to change the laws of magic, and in doing so, had ended up here in this lamp. Did this fool really think that she could succeed where he had failed?
“It started with my mother, Cora, who gave me up so she had the chance to meet a prince, after my father had abandoned her...”
Unwillingly Jafar found himself thinking of his own father, who had also walked away from his mother before he even knew that she was carrying his child, and of all the times he had wondered what would have happened had he been raised as the Sultan’s son.
Zelena hadn’t noticed the look on his face as she mentioned the past and carried on talking about her sister, Regina. “And I tried to change the past, so that I was the one raised by our mother and the one Rumple trusted to cast his curse, but it didn’t work, and I ended up stuck back here. Then my sister tried to get the author to write me out of existence...”
Jafar was no longer listening. If he had the opportunity to have written Mirza out of existence all those years ago, would he have done it? Faced with no other son but Jafar, would his father then have acknowledged Jafar as his own son, allowed him to become his heir? What kind of life could Jafar have had, if Mirza had never existed? He had to admit that he could understand where this Zelena was coming from as she wondered how life could have been different for her. Jafar had spent so many years imagining the life he could have had if his father had only accepted him, and then had come the day when he had finally managed to change the laws of magic, when his father had finally said that he loved Jafar as a son. Jafar had been unable to accept this at the time, choosing to kill him instead once he had got what he wanted, to hear his father tell him he loved him one time. And as he had taken his father’s life, he had enjoyed every last moment, thinking of the day when he had awoken among the rubbish of Agrabah, knowing his father had tried to kill him. However, this appeared not to be the case for Zelena.
“...and my mother died before I got the chance to meet her again, she was killed by a woman named Snow White, and now I’m never going to get the chance to build any kind of relationship with her, and I’m always going to wonder what might have been...”
Jafar found himself wondering if in this Zelena, he had finally found someone who could help him achieve his goal in changing the laws of magic. He had believed at one time that Amara was a worthy partner, and now he understood that he had made a mistake in stripping her of her powers and transforming her into a serpent. If he had not been determined to keep the power for himself, and Amara had still been his willing partner, then Amara would never have joined forces with Cyrus and Alice, and maybe Jafar would never have ended up trapped in this lamp.
“You know, Zelena, it may be possible for you to find out how things could have been if this Regina had never existed,” Jafar began. Just as it could be possible after all for Jafar to find out who he could have become in this alternate timeline. With him and Zelena working together, they could work out ways that it could be done, they could succeed where each of them had failed alone. He was about to open his mouth to say this to Zelena, but Zelena spoke first.
“Of course, you’re a bloody genie. You can grant my wish!” Before Jafar had the chance to stop her, to explain to her what he hoped they could achieve together, Zelena burst out with “I wish my sister Regina had never existed and I was the one in her place in everyone’s lives!”
To be continued...
Fandom: Once Upon A Time/Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Characters: Zelena, Will and Jafar in this chapter, more to follow but no spoilers here, dearies.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for all of OUATIW and OUAT up to S4 but goes AU for S5.
Notes: For eternal_moonie - I couldn't have done this one without you. Chapter titles are all Defying Gravity lyrics.
Summary: What happened when Jafar's lamp was brought to Storybrooke in the curse, ended up in Gold's shop and Zelena accidentally let him out? In this chapter Jafar realises how much in common he has with Zelena and thinks that she might be the person who can help him achieve his goal in changing the laws of magic, but does Zelena have other ideas?
Chapter 1 is here: I'm Through With Playing By The Rules Of Someone Else's Game
Jafar struggled to his feet, taking in the scene around him. He appeared to be in an extremely odd place, some kind of curiosity store. At first glance, he appeared to be in a land without magic, similar to the one he had visited so long before when he went to retrieve Alice’s father to take him to Wonderland. And yet, as his eyes wandered around his new surroundings, he wondered whether there was magic in this land after all. What were these strange devices emitting light that the store was using instead of candles? And what was that strange yellow object on wheels making its way past the window? Was this really a land without magic or not? What was this place?
“Bloody hell, Zelena, you don’t know what you’ve just done.”
Jafar turned around at the sound of that voice he had once known so well, but had hoped never to see again. Will Scarlet, the foolish knave, stood before him, head in his hands.
“Will Scarlet? You are here?”
As Jafar rounded on him, Will made a bolt for the door, mumbling something about needing to go and fetch the Sheriff.
Jafar continued to look around him. “What is this place?”
“Storybrooke, Maine. Everyone from the Enchanted Forest ended up here thanks to my sis. It’s a long bloody story. But never mind that.” The woman he had addressed as Zelena had got to her feet now. “Jafar. I’ve heard about you. Will mentioned you back when I was pretending to be Marian. You’re the one who tried to change the laws of magic. You could be just the person I need.”
Yes, he had tried to change the laws of magic, and in doing so, had ended up here in this lamp. Did this fool really think that she could succeed where he had failed?
“It started with my mother, Cora, who gave me up so she had the chance to meet a prince, after my father had abandoned her...”
Unwillingly Jafar found himself thinking of his own father, who had also walked away from his mother before he even knew that she was carrying his child, and of all the times he had wondered what would have happened had he been raised as the Sultan’s son.
Zelena hadn’t noticed the look on his face as she mentioned the past and carried on talking about her sister, Regina. “And I tried to change the past, so that I was the one raised by our mother and the one Rumple trusted to cast his curse, but it didn’t work, and I ended up stuck back here. Then my sister tried to get the author to write me out of existence...”
Jafar was no longer listening. If he had the opportunity to have written Mirza out of existence all those years ago, would he have done it? Faced with no other son but Jafar, would his father then have acknowledged Jafar as his own son, allowed him to become his heir? What kind of life could Jafar have had, if Mirza had never existed? He had to admit that he could understand where this Zelena was coming from as she wondered how life could have been different for her. Jafar had spent so many years imagining the life he could have had if his father had only accepted him, and then had come the day when he had finally managed to change the laws of magic, when his father had finally said that he loved Jafar as a son. Jafar had been unable to accept this at the time, choosing to kill him instead once he had got what he wanted, to hear his father tell him he loved him one time. And as he had taken his father’s life, he had enjoyed every last moment, thinking of the day when he had awoken among the rubbish of Agrabah, knowing his father had tried to kill him. However, this appeared not to be the case for Zelena.
“...and my mother died before I got the chance to meet her again, she was killed by a woman named Snow White, and now I’m never going to get the chance to build any kind of relationship with her, and I’m always going to wonder what might have been...”
Jafar found himself wondering if in this Zelena, he had finally found someone who could help him achieve his goal in changing the laws of magic. He had believed at one time that Amara was a worthy partner, and now he understood that he had made a mistake in stripping her of her powers and transforming her into a serpent. If he had not been determined to keep the power for himself, and Amara had still been his willing partner, then Amara would never have joined forces with Cyrus and Alice, and maybe Jafar would never have ended up trapped in this lamp.
“You know, Zelena, it may be possible for you to find out how things could have been if this Regina had never existed,” Jafar began. Just as it could be possible after all for Jafar to find out who he could have become in this alternate timeline. With him and Zelena working together, they could work out ways that it could be done, they could succeed where each of them had failed alone. He was about to open his mouth to say this to Zelena, but Zelena spoke first.
“Of course, you’re a bloody genie. You can grant my wish!” Before Jafar had the chance to stop her, to explain to her what he hoped they could achieve together, Zelena burst out with “I wish my sister Regina had never existed and I was the one in her place in everyone’s lives!”
To be continued...