Once Upon A Time: Chapter 4

Chapter 4

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A light snow had begun to fall over Arendelle,  casting a sparkling white powder over the seemingly peaceful land.

But how long would it last?


Hiccup stood at the Balcony of his and his husband's room in the snow palace, watching the window of the lower neighboring tower as

North worked in his workshop, building a small Wardrobe out of the enchanted tree.

Hiccup let out a small sigh, holding his now huge stomach through the soft white cloth of his nightgown, the cloth gentle and soft on his skin, dotted in small snowflakes and reaching the floor, the bottom trimmed in soft lace. Girly, but he'd grown fond of it.

"I don't want to do this."
The young dragon trainers face was twisted in sadness as He turned, walking back into the room towards his husband.

"It has to be you." Jack mumbled, setting down the black sweater he was holding, a gift Hiccup had been working on for the baby. A dragon version of Jack's hoodie, they had thought it would be cute...

"I'm not leaving you" Hiccup whimpered, Jack pulling him close, brushing a hard through his hair.
"Angel, you'll go in there, and you and the baby will be protected from the curse" Jack kissed his head. "You'll be safe, and the two of you will come back for us."

"But Pitch said it'd be on his 21st birthday!" Hiccup stared up at Jack. He couldn't be away from Jack that long.
"Whats 21 years when you have Eternal love?"

Hiccup laughed sadly, smiling at him.
"i have faith that you'll save me, just like I did you." Jack pulled the smaller's chin up, gently kissing him.
Hiccup hummed, wrapping his arms around Jack's neck, pressing close into his touch. Jack hugged him close, picking him up slightly, making Hiccup giggle into the kiss.

"mh!" Hiccup's eyes snapped open, pulling back from the kiss.
"Hiccup?" Jack looked at him, eyes wide with worry.
"What is it?"

"Baby....." Hiccup gasped, grabbing his stomach and bending forward, eyes going wide as sudden pain streaked through him.

"Hes coming!"




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Gobber shifted on his post on the castle wall, sighing slightly.
He heard a loud screech, looking up in surprise as dragons flew over head.

They looked like they were running from something...


He turned to the direction they were flying from. His eyes narrowed, a large black mist flowing over the distant hill tops, sparking with

green lights.

His eyes snapped open wide, rushing to the side of the wall, yelling out.

"ITS THE CURSE!! ITS HERE!!"






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"uggh....."


Noah groaned softly, pain throbbing in the side of his head.
He shifted, realizing he was laying down on something soft.

He also heard....whistling?

Green eyes slowly opened, squinting in the bright light of the room he was, apparently, in.
He reached a hand up, rubbing the now bandaged wound on his head, his brain feeling like it was pulsing.

Noah sat up slowly, feeling a small wave of dizziness come over him, making him wobble for a moment.
His eyes searched the room as his vision slowly faded in.

A....jail?


He blinked, noticing he was on a bed of a jail cell. what in the....

He winced at another whistling noise, the sound making his head throb.
He looked over at the other cell, noticing the other male sitting in it.

He was propped up against the wall, dark brown hair falling in his face as he whistled quietly. He was rather heavy set, wearing a plaid shirt and jeans.
The other young male seemed to take notice of Noah, giving him a slightly dirty, but almost flirting look. Like he was trying to be a jerk and hit on him at the same time.

"What are you lookin' at sister?"

Noah opened his mouth to give a sharp reply, but was cut off.

"Snout! Manners! We have guest!" A large man ordered, 'Snout' huffing and turning his head away.

The man was indeed, huge, but in the muscular way. He was tall, and slightly scary.

Which made Noah happily surprised when he smiled kindly at him.
"So, you are one who brought little Jamie home? Thank you, i know his mother was worried. You are welcome to stay as long as-"

"Actually, I was just dropping him off...." Noah rubbed his head again, making a face.

Snout snorted.
"Don't blame you. Kids that age? They're all brats, who needs them."

North glared in his direction.
"Well I would give anything for one."
"Oh cry me a river."

"Now Simon, If I'm going to let you out of there you need to behave" Another voice cut in.

A young man, older than Snout, younger than the larger Man, walked in, tossing the cell keys in his hand. He had nice eyes, slick brown

hair and a nice smile.
He opened Simon's ("snout's")Cell door.
"Now, try to stay out of trouble?"

Simon rolled his eyes, sending an over flirty smirk in Noah's direction.
"See you round babe~"
Noah hissed.
"Don't bet on it."

Simon smirked and went out the door.

The young man shook his head, turning to Noah.
"So, you're Noah, huh? Had a little too much to drink at the Mayors?"

Noah narrowed his eyes.
"I wasn't drunk. There was a wolf standing in the road, I swerved to miss it."
"Mhm~ riiight~" Noah glared at the snarky smirk on the mans face.
"Well, you manged to beat yourself and your car up pretty good-"

Noah's eyes widened, staring at the man in shock.
"FURY!? Ohhhhh shhiiiit Is she okay??"

The man laughed.
"She won't be driving any time soon."

Noah nearly whined.
"My baby......"

"Flynn! Jamie's run away again I-" Gothel stopped in the doorway, looking at Noah in surprise.
"...why is he here?"
"Long story..." Noah mumbled with a pout, rubbing his banged head.

Gothel moved quickly up to his cell.
"Do you know where he is???"
"Lady, I haven't seen the kid sense I dropped him at your house." Noah winced, pointing at his head wound.
"and I have a preeetty good alibi."
"Well he wasn't in his room this morning." Gothel crossed her arms.
"Did you try his friends?" Noah asked.
"He doesn't really have friends.....hes a bit of a loner...." Gothel looked away.

"Every kid has friends....." Noah mumbled. "did you check his computer? if hes close to someone he'd be emailing them."
"And you know this, how?" Flynn asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Finding people is what I do." Noah stated flatly.
"Look, heres an idea, you two let me out of here, I'll help you find him, deal?"


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"Smart Kid, he cleared his inbox." Noah smirked slightly, sitting in Jamie's room, Flynn nelt beside him as he worked at the boy's computer, Gothel pacing her sons room in worry.

"bbuut~ heres a little hardware recovery utility i like to use~" Noah poped a small flash drive into the computer.
"This is, far, from my kinda stuff" Flynn shook his head as he watched the raven haired male work.
"I'm more the, knocking on doors, pounding the pavement kind of guy..."

"Yeah well," Noah's eye were glued to the screen as he spoke.
"you get a payrole, I get paid by delivery. Normal payment is not a luxury I get..." He narrowed his eyes, typing a bit more.

"huh."
"What is it?"

Gothel turned in surprise to look at the computer.
"it looks like the kid hacked into the town records."
"What???"
"Yeah, looks like he went in looking for someone, I guess thats how he found me."
"Why in the world would you be in the town records?" Flynn asked.
"Well" Noah hummed.
"The kid did say he knew where my parents were...."

Gothel's eyes narrowed at Noah, something clicking in her head. She quickly brushed it off, trying to act normal.
"AH! and there's a bus ticket here....whoa thats, expensive, does he have a credit card?"

Gothel gave him a look.
"Hes 10"

"well, he used one. Lets look up a transaction record....." He blinked, reading the credit holders name out loud.

"Jay Bruce Snow?" Noah raised an eyebrow.
"Whos Jay Bruce Snow?"

Gothel stared at the computer.

"Jamie's teacher."



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"And as we build our bird houses remember, what you're making is a home, not a cage."

The children in the classroom smiled, working on their birdhouses and watching as the young teacher walked through the class, a small black bird sat happily in his hands.

He walked towards the window, Light catching on his Strawberry-brown hair, green eyes and freckled face smiling at the class.

"A bird is free and will do what it wants, this is for them, not us."
He turned, leaning towards the open window.
"They're loyal creatures,"

The kids all watched in awe as the Teacher held the little bird out the window. It took off, flying to a small bird house in the tree.
"If you love them, and they love you,"

He turned back inside, giving a little sigh.


"they will always find you".

The bell suddenly rung, snapped Jay out of his thoughts.
"Alright, we'll pick this up after recess! No running!" He called, watching as the kids filed out of the room.
A young girl offered him a Pear, which he smiled and too with a happy 'thank you', ruffling the girls Hair as she ran off.

Gothel pushed her way past kids, A near murderous glare in her eyes as she stomped up to him.
"M-ms. Mayor" Jay looked at her, seeming slightly frightened.
"What is it-'
"Where is my son?" She demanded, cutting the short male off.
"I don't know" Jay looked surprised.
"I assumed he was home sick with you-"
"You think I'd be here if he was?" She snapped
"Did you give him your credit card so he could find him?" She pointed towards Noah in the doorway, who waved sheepishly.

Jay glanced between them, looking at Noah.
"I'm sorry, who are you?"
"Noah, Noah Nightingale, We're not sure why Jamie came to me....He claimed to know where my parents are."

Jay blinked, picking up his bag and going through it, pulling his wallet out.
"You don't know anything about this, do you?" Noah asked, seeing the surprised Look in Jay's eyes when he found his credit card missing.
"No....." He sighed.
"Clever boy, I should of never given him that book...."
"What in the hell is this book I keep hearing about?" Gothel snapped, making Jay jump slightly.

"Just some old fairy tales is all. As you well know Jamie is a special boy, very smart, very creative..." Jay swallowed, eyes narrowing at Gothel.
"And as you might be aware, Lonely. He needed it."
"What he needs is a dose of reality" Gothel glared.

Noah blinked in surprise when Jay returned the glare, holding his ground. Glancing down, Noah also noticed something.

Jay's left foot was a prosthetic....

"this was a waste of time." Gothel growled, turning, knocking a stack of books over as she did, moving past Noah.
"Have a nice trip back to New York." She hissed at him, leaving out the door.

After a long awkward pause, Jay sighed, moving forward to bend down and pick up the books.
Noah moved as well, bending down to help him.
"Sorry to bother you like this-" Noah started, His eyes locking with Jay's for a moment.


Funny, if Noah didn't know any better he could swear they had the exact same eyes.....Same freckles too......


They both broke from the gaze-lock, quickly returning to picking up books.
"No don't worry, its...partly....my fault..."
Noah coughed awkwardly, Jay kept staring at him....

He had to break the silence.
"So how is the book suppose to help?"

Jay smiled at him, setting the books back up.
"What do you think stories are for? These stories are classics, there's a reason we all know them." He thankfully took the books Noah was

holding, taking them to the shelf.
"they're a way for us to, deal with our world." He sighed gently.
"The world doesn't always make sense...." He glanced at Noah.
"See, Jamie hasn't had the easiest life..."
"Yeah shes kinda a hard-ass."

Jay laughed slightly, the two exiting the school room, walking the hall together.
"Its more than her, hes like any adopted child.
He fights with that one question they all do, 'why would anyone give me away?' "

He glanced at Noah, noticing the sad look in his eyes.
"o-oh, y-ou, your, Oh im so sorry- I!"

Noah shook his head.
"Don't be, you're right. We all deal with that question. I just learned to leave it be."

Jay nodded.
"I gave Jamie the book so he'd have the most important thing anyone can have."
Noah looked at him in question.

Jay gave a tiny sad smile.
"Hope.

Believing in, even the possibility of a happy ending is a very powerful thing."

Noah stared at him, their matching eyes locked again.

"...you know where he is."
Jay smiled slightly.
"You might want to check his 'castle'."