Once Upon A Time In Lima (Prologue)

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Title: Once Upon A Time In Lima
Author: hopenight
Artist: breea1
Genre: Slash, Fantasy, Romance, Humor, Alternate Universe
Word Count: 15, 226
Rating: PG-13
Characters/Pairings: Finn Hudson, Will Schuester, Noah "Puck" Puckerman, Rachel Berry, Brittany, Quinn Fabray, Terri Schuester, Will/Finn, Rachel/Brittany, past Will/Terri, past Quinn/Finn, past Quinn/Puck
Warnings/Spoilers: boy kissing, age difference, AU
Author's Note: I would like to tank the people over at the winnners community for just being them! I would also like to thank starryskies/gleeful_beatfor just being there! I would like to thank my beta squire_conrad
Summary: We are shown early on that life isn’t like a fairytale or a legend. However, there are those rare cases when something magical happens. Finn Hudson’s case is in the more extreme version of things. After breaking into a house on a dare, he meets Will who is a really nice guy with a killer voice. Problem is that he’s kind of cursed to look like a horrible beast.
Suddenly Finn finds himself spending time with Will and falling a little bit in love. However, his best friend and his ex-girlfriend are keeping a secret. He has to help start a lesbian relationship. And in the midst of all this, he needs to make his happy ending. No said being in your own fairytale would be easy after all. It just makes life so much more interesting.

 

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairytale of all.” –Hans Christian Anderson

Fairytales are permeating. They are so interwoven into our society that we are not sure what exactly the truth is and what is fiction of those stories. The stories do teach important life lessons onto us as children: always be respectful to strangers but do not trust them, do not take food from people unknown to us, and (most importantly) be kind to the old beggar woman for you do not know when she will appear to you again. These are the most important lessons that fairytales teach children.

However the greatest lesson to learn is that there is a possibility of a happy ending if you fight for it, if you want it, and if your heart is pure then you will get it.

Years pass, however, and the lessons are lost. Technology replaces magic. Make-believe is crumbled in the wake of logic. Things that cannot be explained are often ignored while those that can are analyzed until there is no mystery, no wonder.

The lessons we learn as children are forgotten in the flames of adulthood.

It’s sad, tragic, to be locked in the tower of responsibilities and half truths. The world of adults is often a cold, cruel place. It’s the dark forest, the trip to the Underworld that few people can navigate in and out of. Those people are called dreamers and fools by these so called adults.

However, they forget that the fool’s number is zero. Making the fool have infinite possibilities

Stories, tales, the power of words, how to behave in the front of unknown, the rules of behavior in the face of something grand, the rules of…well…magic are hard to predict and ever harder to explain. Everything of magic perseveres even in the face of doubt and skepticism. The raw power that hums through the air, which comforts us in our darkest moments, that gives us the experience of belief is all around and it laughs in the face of logic.

Nothing is really logical; we only arrange the world so that it is.

It’s okay to be confused. Magic often is.

Still even in the face of logic and the dizzy unreality of magic, the stories persist. This is really what it is about: a story, a tale, a yarn by the open fire, whispered during class, told in the lunchroom, over the dinner table, read in a darkened room at night. A story has power, a life of its own, and it can take on many forms.

This is the beginning.

So gather around, young and young at heart because the magic is whispering in my ear. It is singing in the air and humming in my blood. A tale needs to be spun from soft words and beautiful melodies. If you listen hard enough, believe deep enough, than there is a good chance that you will hear the magic tell the tale in its emotionally raw power. It’s maddening, it’s heartbreaking, it’s beautiful, and it’s full of love and acceptance, and the question of happily ever after hangs in the air.

Pretty words will be written but try to look past the prettiness, try to learn a lesson, try to rekindle some of that belief. It has to be in there. The inner child has been suppressed long enough because they are begging to be let out. It is time to play after all. Otherwise…this has been a waste.

So get comfortable, make something hot to drink, get something sweet to eat, curl up with something warm and fuzzy. It’s time to begin.

Ready?

Once upon a time…

Part One

 

Comments

[crackt3h3rd.livejournal.com]

Honestly? This prologue could be used in a legit parody of a newfangled fairy tale, or a sci-fi novel. With a few edits, but otherwise, pretty cool.