Disclaimer: I don't own these characters! All rights go to Once Upon A Time for all their characters, and Hans Christian Andersen, for inspiring my little snow queen.

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The Enchanted Forest—28 years ago

"Push!" the medic cries.

Belle lets out an ear piercing scream, and her grip tightens on the edges of the hard slab of rock in her cell. She is in the Evil Queen's tower, where she has been ever since the Queen dragged her there.

"I won't stop fighting for him!" she had cried. "I'll never stop fighting for him!"

The 'him' in question is the father of her child. The child she is giving birth to right at this second.

The beautiful brown haired woman releases another cry of pain, but at that moment, another cry joins it: the cry of a baby. After a minute, a child is placed on Belle's bosom. She reaches up to her child, still sobbing, and runs her hand carefully over the baby's head, covered in little wisps of hair. She whispers softly to the child, calming it's sobs into hiccups.

"Boy or girl?" Belle asks gently

"Girl," the medic responds.

Belle looks at her child again and smiles. The child opens her eyes. Her right eye is blue, like her mother's eyes, and the left is a brilliant amber, like her father's eyes.

"Adanna," she whispers to the child.

Her father's daughter, Belle remembers the meaning of the name. The eyes only prove it.

"I learned a long time ago," she whispers to her baby, who looks up at her. "That when you find something that's worth fighting for…you never give up."

Belle holds her child close to her. Purple smoke engulfs the room, but before it reaches the baby, Adanna disappears in a cloud of green smoke.

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Storybrooke—32 years later

"Adanna."

Hands shake her.

"Adanna, darling, wake up."

Adanna rolls over to look up at the woman standing above her.

"Must I get up?"

"Why else would I wake you up?" Zelena says, sounding annoyed.

"Sorry," Adanna says.

"Come, we have work to do." Zelena walks out of the room like she owns the place.

"Yes, mother."