Chapter 1 Welcome to Storybrooke

It was ten minutes to 8:00 as Bridget Davenport quickly unlock the door to her apartment. She turned on the light and quickly ran toward the living room, where she almost tripped over her cat.

"Oh! I'm sorry Mimi. I didn't see you there," she said.

The white and grey Aegean cat meow at her owner. She kenw that sound. That was her 'I've been waiting all night for you. Where's my dinner' sound.

Bridget checked her watch. Seven more minutes. She threw her bag on the couch and ran into the kitchen. She opened up a can of cat food and poured it into a bowl. As soon as she set the bowl on the counter Mimi appears and starts chowing down. Sometimes she thinks Mimi was more pig than feline. Mimi looks up from dinner to give me a look, like she knew that Bridget was making fun of her. Another weird thing about her, she seems to know what Bridget was thinking at times. It must be a cat thing.

Not wanting to waste anymore time she grabs a bag of potatoe chips and heads for the living room. She sits down on the couch and turns on the TV. Soon the words 'Once Upon a Time' appeared on the screen. She lets out a happy squeal as the episode began. God, she loved this show! They just started the second season and she was loving every minute of it. Bridget thought it was genius the way Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz, the guys who did the show Lost, took all these fairy tales and put their own spin on it.

This was episode six and they were at the part where Emma betrayed Hook and left him on top of the beanstalk. Man, the guy who plays Hook was smokin hot. But so were a lot of the guys on the show. Charming , August, Graham (she missed him), Rumpelstiltskin, Dr. Whale. When she found out who Whale really was, she was like, 'that makes total sense'. Dr Frankenstein. Wow! At least she didn't have to wait so long to find out. On Lost she didn't find out how Locke ended up in the wheelchair until season three.

Just as they were nearing the end of the episode, the TV turns off by itself.

"What the hell," Bridget exclaimed.

She tried the remote but nothing happened. She got up and tried to turn on the TV from there. Still nothing. Oh come on! Please don't do this to me! She checked the back to see the wires were in right. Bridget gave the TV a couple whacks before the screen came to life, only instead of the show there was a bright. She covered her eyes as the light filled the room and then all she saw was darkness.

"Who is that?"

"Is she okay?"

"Where did she come from?"

"She just appeared out of nowhere."

"Is she from the Enchanted Forest?"

The first thing Bridget saw when she opened her eyes were a bunch of people standing over her.

What the hell were these people doing in my living room, she wondered.

But then she notice that she wasn't in her apartment. Somehow she was outside, lying on the sidewalk.

How did she get here?

"Look, she's waking up," someone said.

Bridget slowly sat up but groaned in pain. God, it felt like someone ran her over with a truck.

"Are you all right," a man with red hair and glasses asked her.

"Yeah. I'm fine. Where am I," she asked trying to stand up.

The man with the glasses helped her up along with a short, bald man.

"You're in Storybrooke," the man with the glasses answered.

She lets out a laugh. No. There was no way she heard him right.

"Yeah right. That's a good one. Seriously, where the hell am I," she asked.

"Like the man said, Storybrooke. Read the sign sister," the short man pointed behind me.

She turned around and saw a Welcome to Storybrooke sign a few blocks down the road. What? No! This is impossible. Storybrooke doesn't exist. It's a fictional town on a TV show! Bridget turned back to the crowd and finally got a really good look at them. She started to recognize them.

"You're Archie... Archie Hopper, right? Or do you prefer Jiminy Cricket" she asked the man with the glasses.

Archie stared at her shock.

"How did you..."

She ignored his question and turned to the short man.

"And you're Grumpy. One of the seven dwarves."

"How do you know that," he demanded.

One by one she stared at the faces in the crowd. Ruby (Red Hiding Hood), Granny, Ashley (Cinderella) with her baby, Jefferson (The Mad Hatter) and his daughter Grace, Mother Superior (The Blue Fairy), the rest of the dwarves, Regina (The Evil Queen), Mr. Gold (Rumpelstiltskin), Belle. Okay, this was getting way too weird.

"Hey, what's going on here?"

Everyone turned to see David Nolan walking over to the group with Henry right behind him.

"Prince Charming," she softly.

"Who are you," he asked Bridget.

This was too much. Before she knew what was happening, she fainted. Luckily David caught her before she hit the ground. He stared at the unconscious girl in his arms, confused as hell.

"Will someone please tell me what's going on and who this is," David demanded.

"We don't know. She just appeared," Ashley answered, rocking Alexandra in her arms.

"What do you mean she 'just appeared?"

Regina rolled her eyes at his stupidity.

"There was a bright light and she appeared in the middle of the sidewalk," Regina explained.

"Is she from the Enchanted Forest," Henry asked excited.

"I'm not sure. She doesn't seem familiar. But there's... something about this woman," Regina said.

"Well, I don't recognize her," David answered.

"I've never seen her before," Granny said.

"Me neither," Ruby added.

Everyone started talking at once. Some thought she was a lost soul while others thought she was something evil. David needed to get things under control.

"Look, everyone calm down. I'm gonna take her to the hospital to have her checked out and when she wakes up I'll ask her some questions," David explained.

"Well, here take this. She had this on her when she... arrived," Belle said, holding a brown book bag.

"I got it," Henry said, taking it from Belle.

"Thanks Henry," David said.

David carried Bridget to the squad car and placed her in the passenger seat. Henry was about to climb into the back seat when he felt something brush his leg. He looked down and saw a white and grey cat.

"Hey kitty," Henry greeted the cat.

It meowed at Henry and quickly jumped into the open window of the passenger window, where at in Bridget's lap. David looked at the cat surprise.

"She a friend of yours," he asked the surprise.

Mimi just meow. It looked like the cat wasn't gonna be leaving any time so he had no choice but to take her along.

"In the back," David said.

Mimi hopped off Bridget's lap and jumped in the back seat next to Henry.

"Hey, I'm Henry," he said to Mimi, as if she was a person.

He reached out to pet her. He noticed her collar and read her name.

"So... Mimi. I don't suppose you can tell us the name of your owner," he said.

Mimi started pawing at the bag in Henry's lap. Henry quickly got what Mimi was trying to tell him and started going through the bag. He found her wallet and looked inside.

"Her name is Bridget Davenport," he said, reading her driver's license out loud

"Henry what are you doing," David asked from the front seat.

"I just wanted to know her name," he explained.

"Well, you shouldn't go through other peoples stuff. Put it back."

Henry put the wallet and sat back. He turned to see the cat looking at him. It was like she knew what was happening. Weird cat. Soon they reached the hospital. David carried Bridget inside while Henry followed carrying Mimi. As they entered the hospital they spotted Dr. Whale.

"Whale, we need your help," David called to him.

"What seems to be the problem," Dr. Whale asked, coming toward them.

"This woman fainted and..."

"Bridget," Dr. Whale exclaimed.

Whale stared at the woman in David's arms, completely and utterly shock. It can't be! He took a closer look at her. Long red hair, heart shape face, pale skin. It was her! After all these years. She's alive. He was so lost in his own thoughts that he forgot that David and Henry were even in the room.

"Whale," David said, trying to get the man's attention.

Whale looked up to see David looking at her with questioning eyes.

"Do you know her," David asked, curious.

"Something like that. Follow me so I can examine her properly," he said.

Dr. Whale lead David to one of the examining rooms. Henry was gonna follow also but his grandfather stopped him.

"Wait here okay," David said.

"But I want to know who she is," Henry protested.

"I do too. But I need you to wait for me here. Plus, they don't allow pets in examining rooms. I promise I'll come get you as soon as we're done," he said.

"Okay," Henry nodded.

As Henry watched his grandpa leave he takes a seat in the waiting area. Henry had so many questions. How was Bridget girl? Was she from the Enchanted Forest like everyone else? And what was up with Dr. Whale? He acted funny when he saw her. Did he know her?

While Henry was busy thinking he failed to notice that Mimi's eyes began to glow bright green.