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 know the fic could have been better. That some parts seemed tacked on and slow. Something I've learned over the years with my writing is that anything can always be better, so don't worry about it.

But I'm proud considering I wrote it in a four day marathon write. I think marathon is the right word for a bigbang fic, it's an achievement just to finish ^^

I loved the characters especially Beast!Will. I really liked the way you presented beast!Will; the concept of him learning to play instruments even with his claws, music being such an important part of who he is, was really heart-warming :)

With your permission I'd like to be able to write my halloween party idea as a seperate fic, in posting it I will of course credit you and link to this fic, but I won't do it if you don't want me to.

[hopenight.livejournal.com]

Yeah I know what you mean. There are things that I wish I could rework in past stories.

Yeah I'll tell you one thing. After pounding out this baby, I came home from school the next day and slept. Never get your dates mixed up on a challenge in my piece of advice to you.

Beast!Will is adorable. I wish someone could have drawn him. People need to do more Winn stuff. I wrote a manifesto over at the shipper's manifesto community for the pairing. I felt that music is such a big part of his life that I needed to include it in the fic somehow. I had a blast trolling through my iPod for the perfect songs.

I, hopenight, give you, dark_dreymer, permission to write your halloween party idea. With your permission I would like to add it to the Master Post link when you're done. Also I would like to be notified of when you post so I can be the first person to comment. (Of course I want you to, hun. That's what I was saying in the Epilogue after all.)

[dark-dreymer.livejournal.com]

Never get your dates mixed up on a challenge in my piece of advice to you. I learned that lesson from an English Literature essay. "I've still got a week.... What's that? It's due tomorrow? SHIT!" XD

Beast!Will is adorable. I wish someone could have drawn him. I could give it a whirl if you like. Been trying to work on my art more recently, writing is still my forte but I'm trying to get good enough to do my own illustrations because my two artist friends are notorious procrastinators XD

I had a blast trolling through my iPod for the perfect songs. Looking for songs is always fun. I have notes for a really long Buffy fic that I'm working on and whenever I get bored I like to start considering what songs I'm gonna fit into the 'Once More With Feeling' episode :D

I, hopenight, give you, dark_dreymer, permission to write your halloween party idea. lol, well now that I've got it in such formal writing XD

(Of course I want you to, hun. That's what I was saying in the Epilogue after all.) I figured I should check anyway. Some people get pissy and possessive and don't want anyone else playing in their sandbox.

[hopenight.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I've done that before as well. Likely I work well under pressure.

Aw! You would draw him for me?! I don't want to trouble you or anything. But I would love to see how you would do it. I'm curious. (Oh by the way, the fanmix for the story is open and ready for listening/viewing)

I tend to fixate on a CD. For my Supernatural fic I've been listening to a lot of Repo! The Genetic Opera. For this it was a mix of Beauty and the Beast and the Glee Soundtracks.

Awesome Buffy episode! Love 'Once More With Feeling' :)

Well I had to make it official like that. So that way the haters don't get in the way. Plus I like overdramatic things, they're fun. Especially if you do them enough then people think that you're eccentric.

Eccentricity is always fun to play with.

Well thanks for checking! I don't get pissy easily. As long as I'm credited then I'm good.

[dark-dreymer.livejournal.com]

Usually if I've left it til the last minute it's because it's only a first draft that's due in; so I take a very apathetic approach with the motto "As long as I hand something in, that's what counts."

I have a few ideas, so if I have time I'll draw a few pictures. Might take a while though.

I try not to listen to music while I write, I end up singing along XD But music is good for me when I draw, so I'll probably listen to the fanmix :D

'Once More With Feeling' was one of the first episodes of Buffy I watched, back when my friends were trying to get me hooked. I was complaining about the lack of physical affection shown in Tara and Willow's relationship when compared to the hetero couples on the show so we watched it for the "singing sex" XD

Eccentricity is good and so is eclecticism =D

[hopenight.livejournal.com]

I have an approach where I don't care but I end up being mildly content with what I've written. It's a good system and has served me very, very well over the years. Currently, I'm just trying to get both of my BB's done. And then I will nap. I'm halfway through both. One's a 30k and the other is the minimum of 20k.

And all I really want to do is watch 'Were the World Mine' because my friend bought it for me on DVD. And I can't. It mocks me.

Take as much as you need. Can I link the art when you're done?

Hahaha! It's an awesome fanmix. :) When I write and listen to music as I'm doing it, I enter a state of being blank. Then the next I know three hours have passed and I have all these words in front of me.

I know! I was all for Willow/Tara but they didn't do much. I mean I loved them to bits and pieces. Still when Torchwood came out and Jack/Ianto became a reality. Well they were "hands on" ;)

Too true, too too true darlin'! :D

Plus insanity. It lets you get away with stuff.

[dark-dreymer.livejournal.com]

With my writing I'm always really happy with what I write, until about a year later when I've gotten better and then I look back and see all I could've done different.

Ugh, I know that feeling. I bought Final Fantasy XIII while I was supposed to be writing fic and I kept telling myself I'd find a balance between the two... Lie! XD

Of course you can. I'll probably post it to both my DA and my LJ, so I'll drop you a note when I've uploaded :)

I sort of liked Jack/Ianto, but then it started feeling a bit forced to me; and then Children of Earth ruined things >.<

Insanity can be fun, but it's a label that tends to stick.

[hopenight.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's how it is with me. Like I was really happy with 2000 words. But then I got a taste for longer fics.

I've been really good. I have schoolwork to do (on break currently) and I've been rewarding myself with finishing my fics as I do my work.

Yay! ;) Thanks hun.

Yeah I understand with what you mean about Jack/Ianto. Then I started Merlin and I've never really looked back slash wise. Plus I've sort of made Merlin into a little black dress character. I've got scads of unposted crossover fic of him getting it on with different guys. Not entirely sure how that happened. But what can you do.

Children of Earth? I refuse to acknowledge its existence. I enjoyed Ianto. He always had the best one liners and what did they do? Kill him.

True. But after four years of being labeled insane (aka high school outcast) you tend to get comfortable in it.

[dark-dreymer.livejournal.com]

I've never been good at keeping fics short. It took me six months of writing fanfic before I even attempted a drabble. I tend to speak in run-on sentences and that carries over into my fic I guess, I just can't shut up XD

Yeah, I basically ignore CoE's existence too, and the last episode of season 2 ._.

I was comfortable with being 'insane' until it got to the point where everyone assumed I was 'the crazy kid' and I was like "You don't even know me. Fuck you!" Of course being 'the gay kid' was no great improvement. School sucks D:

[hopenight.livejournal.com]

Yeah it was a gradual progession for me. But then one day I was like "You know what? I can totally write a long ass fic!"

And then I signed up for the Torchwood Big Bang! Hahaha!

Those two episodes never, ever happened. EVER. There are select episodes of other television shows that I ignore as well.

I'm cool with being insane or something like it. Let me tell you it's better then being ignored or 'The Shy Girl' or 'The Smart Girl'. People have expectations when you're labeled those things.

...School does suck. I hear it gets better in college though. And I'm taking comfort in that.

Hey did you hear about those Glee Fic Awards? I just got done nominating some fics! -such an obvious subject change from the evils of school-

[dark-dreymer.livejournal.com]

I wrote two truly awful chaptered fics when I was new to writing. One - the worse of the two - is thankfully now cyberdust as the site hosting it went kaput, the other remains lurking in a rarely frequented comm of LJ as a reminder to me that if I'm gonna write a chaptered fic I should plan in advance to avoid a plot with more holes than one of my Nan's sweaters.

I mostly stuck to oneshots after that; or wrote the whole fic and then broke it into chapters. Then for wintercompanion I wrote a 20 chaptered fic that was a crossover with FFX and I realised how much better my writing was when I had a plot to follow. So from that I learned I could handle epic fic so long as I got the plot straight in my head to begin with.

Isn't selective memory fun :D

People didn't have expectations of me once I'd been labelled 'the smart kid', they had assumptions; which I found to be a lot more annoying. So many people came up to my friends and I on the last day of school saying things like "I'm so sorry for thinking you were a freak and being horrible to you. I really wish I'd gotten to know you." and I was just a bit like "Yeah, maybe you should have gotten to know us!" Ah well, no use bitching about it now.... Not that that'll stop me XD

Heard about the Glee Fic Awards and nommed a litle already. Planning to do some more though (Because a flimsy excuse to reread Winn fic is still an excuse to reread Winn fic XD)

[hopenight.livejournal.com]

Ugh let's not talk about bad fics that we wrote. I wrote one when I was thirteen and...I still shudder thinking about it.

Yeah for most of my chapter fic I tend to have a vague idea of where I'm going for the most part. Not the best idea but hey it works. The characters run amok and I still end up with a semi-coherent fic! So it's all good.

I usually stick to one shot or turn it into a 'verse, a lot of one shots following the same idea is more appealing. But if it has to be chaptered then I tend to write it all at once, then break it up.

Selective memory is a glorious thing. It's my friend. Otherwise then I would remember six hellish years at an all girls Catholic school. Then high school happened and my life got loads better. Yay co-ed!

I still have a couple months before graduation. But I can see that coming. I tend to have really close friends that I would hang out with outside of class. But if I see anyone else I realize "Oh God I hate you." or "You're annoying. Why would I talk to you outside of class?"

And let's not get started on some of my teachers. Ugh...

I just finishing doing some nomm-ing. XD Any excuse to re-read Winn fic is a good one, my friend.

(PS: Is it cool if I friended you?)

[dark-dreymer.livejournal.com]

I sincerely doubt your bad!fic could be worse than my Fic-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named; I had a self-insert Stu, a self-insert Stu for the guy I liked at the time, A fem!Me Sue and a Sue with magic powers. It was such a mess XD

I'm in Sixth Form right now and I'm just biding my time til the end of year exams. I want to be done already, ugh.

(It's more than okay for you to friend me. I'll friend you right back :D)