Once Upon A Time In Lima (Epilogue)

[hopenight]

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.

“Happily Ever After is Once Upon a Time but it has given up hope.”-Unknown

So that’s the story.

Well…

That’s the story that I came to tell. Who knows you could have the continuation in you.

See here’s a problem with stories. Sometimes they don’t know when to end. See that’s fine for the stories but people need an ending all wrapped up in a nice little bow.

The problem with Will and Finn’s tale is that it doesn’t end in this moment. It continues on for a very long time. I could tell you how Will got a job and became the Spanish teacher. How he and Finn snuck around for a year until Finn went off to college nearby. I could tell you about how they grew comfortable with each other and were ridiculously happy. Not that they didn’t have their fights because I could tell you about those as well.

I could tell you about how Finn forgave Quinn and Puck in time. Or I can tell you how Rachel and Brittany were voted ‘Oddest Couple’ in the yearbook, not that they cared because they were too wrapped up in each other. I could tell you about Baby Fabray-Puckerman and how she came in to the world.

I have a thousand stories that I could weave and spin for you. But it would detract from the message. It would drag on forever. There is no good place to stop because even though the spell ended; the magic still lives on.

So it’s up to you, Reader, if you enjoyed it enough then you imagine it. I have done my part. I have told you a story.

I don’t leave you with a ‘Happily Ever After’ and all its false promises.

Instead I leave you with ‘Once Upon a Time’ and the endless possibilities that come with it.

Are you ready?

“Once Upon a Time…”

Master Post

Comments

[dark-dreymer.livejournal.com]

I really like this fic (just want to throw that one out there to begin) Beauty and the Beast is one of my favourite fairy-tales and I adore the Disney movie even though I'm now a teenager and shouldn't admit to liking kids stuff.

The narrative style and the constant comparison to fairy-tales, real life and other storytelling mediums could have been a little blase, but you handled it well and really made it work.

Some of the little details worked really well too. Like Rachel's doorbell playing ‘Clang, Clang Goes the Trolly’; that's great characterisation and I could see it actually being in the show.

My problem is the secondary storylines. Secondary pairings - such as the Brittany/Rachel in this fic - should always take a backseat to the primary pairing, but if you look at how much time they get it feels like as much time is spent with Finn setting the girls up as there is with Finn and Will being together. Then there's the Puck/Quinn thing which felt rather cheap what with it only acting as the device that brought the ending about.

Since this was for bigbang I can accept that this was to build towards the word limit, but I would've liked to see a little more of the building relationship between Will and Finn.

When you brought in the plot point of the Halloween dance I was expecting Finn to suggest Will go with him, as everyone would assume the Beast was only a costume. I feel that you could've had a really impactful finale rather than the kiss at Will's, which felt almost tacked on and glazed over.

I don't mean for this to sound harsh. I really did love this fic and the Will/Finn that is here was gorgeous. Like Finn being too afraid to admit that he'd heard Will singing about him, I just wanted to hug Finn and then hit him with the clue!shovel and then hug him again.

One last thing, I've tried viewing the art but every time I click the link it doesn't go anywhere. Is the entry friend locked or something?

[hfurude-hanyuu.livejournal.com]

I'm probably the first person to comment on this and I gotta say, this was such a sweet fic! It truly felt like I was reading a fairy tale again. I really loved the story, and the dialogue. I really don't like what Terri did to Will. But it helped him find Finn so in a way I'm kinda happy about what she did. I really enjoyed reading this. I hoping to see more too!

[mausimoo.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love this story. In fact, it may just be my favourite story, ever!
I agree with what part of what dark_dreymer said about the Halloween party - I totally expected Finn to invite Will, but I'm glad you didn't do this, because I think it would have been too obvious and would have seemed, to me, like an author taking the easy way out. (But I'm not trying to be argumentative with dark_dreymer, it's just my opinion!)
I love the way you used little quotes throughout the story. I've never seen an author do that before, but it worked really well and added to the feeling that this really was just a story. (I can actually picture this as a short book, with each quote given on an otherwise blank page before the beginning of each 'chapter')
Your dialogue between characters is wonderfully funny, particularly Finn and Puck discussing the story before he meets Will. (I got some very strange looks from my other half because I kept laughing so loudly when reading it!)
Anyway, thank you so much for writing this! It's nice to have a new Winn story to read, especially one as lovely as this! :)

[impalalove]

I love this. ♥!

[breea1.livejournal.com]

I still adore this fic and think you had a very fresh and original way of presenting a new spin on an old tale. I enjoyed reading it this time as much as I did when you first sent it to me - excellent work! The fanmix is now unlocked and viewable to all.

x

This will probably be longer than I intend

[tyhyin.livejournal.com]

This was amazing
Truely amazing
As soon as I read the epilouge I was hooked
It feels like a fairy tale but not a commercial one but a Hans Christian Anderson one
Full of knowledge and a place where magic is an element akin to water
I dont think it was lacking anything
To analyse something to much (although that is what I do) is to ultimately kill the enjoyment and mystery out of doing it
Sometimes
This is one of those things
It is to be taken at face value
It is not I think a retelling of Beauty and the Beast as there is only one similiarity between the two
The fact that Will is a beast
The rest is yours, the characters may not be nor the town but the situation you've put them in is
As much as i dont want it to end the last few paragraphs rang true for me
I'm the sort that never wants the good things to end, who does really
I've been known to keep writing chapters for a fic cos i like the character too much
But things have to end
Also what an amazing way to end it
Kudos to you

As a sidenote I really do like analysing things, writing giant massive reviews on books/stories but here it wasnt needed
Here all that was needed was praise
:D

[merlinmonster.livejournal.com]

Wow this is amazing I love the fairy tale feel that it has all the way through and of course I adore a happy ending. I thought the quotes were great too, a really interesting way of diving up the story. Also I never considered Rachel and Brittany as a couple but you write them beautifully. Really great fic!

P.S Love the Merlin reference in the last chapter XD

[tawg.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed this fic (I'm a sucker for fairy tales and legends), and you wrote it in four days? Wow! There are a few typos littered throughout, but seriously, wow.

I really liked the way the boys interacted - Finn and Puck had a great friend chemistry in the first chapters, and there were some really cute and dorky scenes with Will and Finn. Part of me wishes that this was a novel, because I can see all of these places where more things could be put in - I agree with you completely, this story doesn't end where you left it, but you chose a good place to stop writing :)