AN: Okay, it came to my attention from a reviewer and a couple good friends that with this LONG version of an Epilogue that I was taking away from the story. After thinking about it I decided that the kind people that brought it to my attention were right. I didn't want to not post it because I do like it, but it's just not fitting to the tone of the rest of the story. So, some, maybe a lot of you have already read this first chapter. I have already gotten reviews for it (see the bottom of the page).

I hope that you all enjoyed "The Games" and I hope that you enjoy this alternate, lengthy version with tons of kids and extra characters.

PS-There is a page I created on my tumblr (elisesdean) that contains all the other things I did for this story: The cover photo, a map, a family tree—for this version!—and a dream cast list—again, for this version of the ending.

Hope you enjoy!

Epilogue Part I:

A decade passed.

Emma and Regina came to rule over the Shadow Lands and the White Kingdom—Snow and Charming swiftly signed the White Kingdom over as soon as they were given the news that Regina was pregnant.

Regina and Emma then instated Emma's great-grandfather to remake the laws of the lands. He knew that he should uphold the traditions of the lands, but he also knew that he needed to update the laws with the times as the Regina had been trying to do since she'd come into power. The first thing he did, to everyone's pleasure but the court, was get rid of the court. He kept on a few men, the legislative linguists and just to be safe, extreme, radical, and moderate men on both the left and right sides of the spectrum to keep him in line and focused. Lord Big Shnoz was not one of those men. Other than that, he tried to work on his relationship with Maleficent. She allows him to call her Phyllipina now.

Snow and Charming officially moved into the castle around the same time Maleficent and Aurora moved from the quarters next to Regina and Emma to a more vacant wing in the castle. Maleficent and Snow had very different memories of Eva, and that led to many a conversation between the two. Maleficent and Aurora still didn't want children, but they were happy and entertained all the many children that occupied the castle.

And there were a LOT of children in the castle now. Between everyone living in the castle there were 15 kids ranging from 3 months to 12 years.

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Regina and Emma had a little girl: Bailee Eva Remma White. Regina wanted to name the baby after Emma's grandmother and Emma wanted to name the baby after the two of them, so they made their picks her middle names and asked Snow and Charming to name her. They didn't wait to discuss it; "Bailee" fell from their lips just after they were asked. It, of course, came to be known that had Emma had a little sister that was going to be the name they chose. A daughter for their daughter worked just as well.

Bailee was the apple of her mothers' eyes for a whole eight years. She fascinated everyone in the castle when they learned that she had magic; more specifically she fascinated them—as they weren't surprised with the fact that she had magic—when they saw that her magic was both purple and blue. She was part Pure One. This had never happened in the history of the pure ones, so after a visit to the cave, they learned that this was going to happen as time went on; essentially, they are starting a family of Pure Ones.

Regina and Emma never promised Bailee another brother or sister every time she asked; they simply said that if the gods wanted them to welcome another magical, pure baby that they would. Then, the week or so after Bailee's eighth birthday her brunette mom started getting nauseous. Bailee soon learned that it was because her moms finally got another baby growing in her brunette mother's belly. David Henry (named after their fathers, 'Henry' coming second so as not to confuse things with the French King) is now three months and Bailee is a very good big sister.

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The week before Bailee's birth, the new and enlarged and improved Shadow Lands made another drastic move. Chip and Allison married, stepping up to take the Western crown. Chip asked—not expecting an affirmative answer, and after consulting with Allison of course—if Regina and Emma wanted to combine their lands and rule together. He told them that Emma and Regina would have more say over the lands than he and Allison, but as they got down to the nitty, gritty part of the conversation, Emma shook her head. She looked to her wife and said, "They will rule with us over all the lands. Each person has a vote. And, if the predecessors want, they've a vote as well."

It was a week after Bailee's birth that Allison and Chip moved into the Shadow Castle. They became neighbors with Regina and Emma, deciding to have a 'royal hallway' of sorts.

After a year went by and the newest little princess was walking and scooting and sneaking around, Allison learned she was pregnant. The baby took two-thirds the time to grow. This was because of the wolf in Chip and the human in Allison. So, six months later, Allison gave birth to a baby girl. She was healthy and happy. Allison had wanted to keep her last name around, so Cameron Winona Lucas was the second official princess to the new Shadow Kingdom.

And four years or so later, Liam Christopher, the first Shadow Prince was welcomed to the world. Liam just turned three and Cameron seven. And, just like Bailee, Cameron is a very good big sister—or maybe Bailee was a good sister from watching Cameron…

~0~0~

Red and Belle became very happy grandparents, not unlike Snow and Charming. Also, like Snow and Charming with Maleficent, they had new family that they needed to get to know.

As it turned out, Ruby and Red were twins, the only survivors of their clan. Neither knew about the other, but their stories of their mother, their mother's name, who was in the clan, all of it was the same. And, after a quick genetics test, thanks to the lovely Dr. Allison Cameron, they learned that they were in fact sisters.

They moved into the Shadow castle quickly after their son and daughter-in-law. Regina made the observation that she was going to have to expand the castle or tear it down and just make a 'royal neighborhood'. No one is sure if the latter would have been better or not, but at this point, the castle did act as an indoor neighborhood.

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The biggest surprise, or the most surprises, came from Ruby and Graham. They were the third couple to marry (they came just after Maleficent and Aurora). And just six months later, they learned they were pregnant. And just six months after that, Graham and Ruby gave birth to a litter. Literally. They had quintuplets. Three girls and two boys. Rosalie, Roxanne, Robin, Grant and Grayson are all 8 now.

As the were-cubs came into everyone's lives, Allison deduced that Red and Belle had only one wolf because they were both women and created a magical baby—and that might be why he's 'evolved.' That might also be why she and her husband only had the one child: She, the female, was the human, and Chip, the male, was the wolf; where Ruby and Graham, a female werewolf and a male human created the litter.

Ruby was always fascinated with what Allison had to say, but what was more fascinating to her was how someone so pretty would work so hard to become a doctor to hide her looks. That led to an interesting conversation about an old boss of Allison's…

Not surprisingly, the quints were a handful. Everyone did their best to help when they could. Grandmas Ruby and Belle—who decided it was easier to just be called 'grandma' rather than 'aunt' by a few kids and 'grandmother' by a couple kids—helped out most as all they had to do in the day was play with the kids. This also helped Ruby and Red form a tighter bond.

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Pinocchio and Rapunzel tried to take things slow. Rapunzel tried to hold out Pinocchio's advances, and Pinocchio tried to resist them in the first place. But somehow after only two years, they'd married and had a bun in the oven. Jefferson didn't let that one go lightly; he'd asked if 'nest in a tree' was a more appropriate term. Flynn Eugene was now 3 and there was no sign of him being a toy or ever becoming one.

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Jefferson and Delaney took their relationship as it came to them. When Grace turned six, she asked them why they weren't married because they obviously loved each other like Aunts Emma and Regina. Jefferson knit his brows and looked to his daughter before looking to his girlfriend, "Would you marry me if I asked?"

"If you asked." Delany nodded, ensuring her answer would be yes.

12-year-old Grace now had 7-year-old twin sisters, Hope and Faith , and a 5-year-old sister, Mercy. Delaney wanted to keep a theme with the names and Jefferson enjoyed it. He secretly hoped for a boy, but after meeting each of them, he couldn't imagine life without his girls.

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Bae and Hook made their way around a few realms and in one, they found Mulan—or, Mulan almost killed Hook and seized his ship as she ran from her village and country for being outed as a woman. They weren't as accepting and praising as one might hope. They didn't even thank her for saving them all from the Huns.

It was as Hook looked over the warrior, as she sat on his chest with a knife to his throat; it was as they verbally sparred; and it was as he always made his verbal sparring dirty, that he knew that this was the woman he was going to spend the rest of his days with. She was feisty. He feared for his life. He liked that.

He played it cool though; let her think she was actually seizing the ship and taking them both hostage. Then he made his move and the two of them never looked back.

In another realm, they found Tiana. Bae had run from the ship as soon as they docked. This was mainly because Hook talked about wanting alone time with Mulan, and Bae was not going to stick around for that conversation—even if Hook got rejected, Bae just couldn't get on board with that. So, he started touring the seaside town and smelled the most wonderful food coming from one of the restaurants. His stomach brought him in, but he stayed because of his waitress.

When Hook and Mulan finally found him, staring longingly after Tiana, they decided to stay in the town a while. They knew that Bae would need more time to woo this stubborn, proud woman.

Needless to say, when they finally made it home from their trip, they took the castle by surprise. Since that time, Tiana and Bae married; they were the last to marry of everyone. And they had a baby boy, Neal. He was three now.

Mulan liked making Hook sweat in his boots; she also liked being independent and in her mind, independence came without a marriage contract or a husband or wife to depend on. She said yes to the engagement after Hook told her that he didn't expect marriage, he just wanted her to wear a ring so that men would stop coming on to her. His possessive jealousy and that damn beautiful ring were enough for her to say 'yes.'

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As the years passed, the representatives and royals went to many a wedding, but it had been a full two years since the last wedding. And that was precisely why Regina, Emma, Chip and Allison decided it was time to have everyone back in the Shadow Castle. It was going to be one large family-esque reunion. They invited all the royals and former competitors for Regina's hand to the Shadow Castle and the first of the arrivals were coming that day.

This was precisely the reason that the castle was abuzz with excitement. And the reason that Regina was in the main foyer yelling at people, telling them where to put things. It was also the reason Emma had David for the first line of defense as she and the baby joined her in the foyer.

"Oh, David, Mommy's so happy to have more people in the castle even though it's already bursting with 13 kids, five official advisors, five wives-slash-significant others that are also advisors, four grandparents, and two other royals that share the throne with us. Yes she is." Emma cooed at their three month old as she stood a few feet from her wife, holding his body and neck with one arm and his head with her other hand so that he was looking up at her. "So happy." David loved the silly tone of his mother's voice and started laughing a big belly laugh. "Oh, that's so funny, huh?" She moved her the hand that held his neck up so that the one arm held his entire weight, then covered his eyes a moment with the other before retracting her hand quickly, playing peek-a-boo, "So funny!" She sang as his eyes were unveiled. She earned another laugh, "So funny!" She said as she repeated the gesture.

"Darling?" Regina's voice was laced with irritation.

"Yes, my love?" Emma only changed David's position, putting his diapered tushy on her sternum, letting the baby really, truly be the first line of defense now that she had made their presence known.

"Darling, do you think you could take David and maybe, I don't know… put him down for a nap like you were going to an hour ago?"

"Honey, he won't sleep." Emma tilted her head to the side of her son to look at her wife, "He knows that his mommas are excited about something and he's refusing to miss it."

Regina sighed, knowingly. She stared at her baby boy, "Are you excited?"

Emma saw a smoke out of the corner of her eyes, "Bailee Cakes is excited, that's for sure."

Bailee's smoke faded revealing the nine-year-old, "Momma, how do you always know?"

"She's your mother. She just knows." Regina said as she took David from Emma's arms.

"I do. I just know."

Bailee eyed her blonde mother, "Yes, but how?!"

Emma smirked, "I'm not going to teach you the ways of the Pure until you're old enough."

"Well, when will that be? I can already do basically everything you can do anyways…"

Emma tried to keep a stern face as she crossed her arms, but her amusement of her daughter's arrogance gave way in the form of a smile. Bailee stared back with a knowing smile and eventually, Emma reached forward, pulling her daughter into a hug. "In due time, mini-me, okay?"

"Okay Momma." Bailee accepted that answer then looked to her other mother and baby brother, "Hi David." She smiled as she moved from her blonde mother to his face and kissed his cheek.

Regina smirked, "Would you like to hold your brother?"

Bailee smiled up at her mother, nodding, "Yeah."

Regina nodded back as she glanced to her lover, "Alright." She handed the baby over to her daughter.

"GIVE IT BACK!"

The scream of a young girl came from down the hall.

"GO! GO GRANT! WE GOT HER!"

Another tiny, feminine cry followed.

The pounding of fast footfalls were heard down the same hall, and a grunt, thud and thump followed then there were even faster footfalls than before.

"I SAID GIVE IT BACK!"

One of the culprits, one of Graham and Ruby's boys, Grant made it to the foyer, before Chip and Allison's girl, Cameron tackled him and took her sketchbook back. After they got up, Cameron shoved him as best she could. Then turned from him as the tears finally pricked her eyes.

"Awe, are you gonna cry? Little princess gonna cry 'cause I took her pretty little drawings?"

Regina, by this time, walked over to the two werewolf children and coughed loudly.

"Oh! Miss Regina!" Grant looked down, digging his foot in the ground innocently.

"Sorry, Miss Regina." Cameron looked down as well, hugging her sketchbook.

"What's going on here?" She asked as she took a curly lock of blonde hair of the other princess and stared at the little girl.

Cameron's response was automatic and immediate, "Nothing."

"Cameron?" Regina prompted.

"Go ahead, princess." Grant got behind her and muttered.

Cameron squeezed her eyes shut, hugging her sketchbook tighter, "Miss Regina, nothing's going on."

Emma saw the look of disdain for the were-boy in her daughter's eyes, "Go see if you have any luck putting him down for a nap, okay Bailee?" She whispered before walking over to her wife, who was debating on how to handle the situation.

"I think you're lying to me Cameron." Regina said before looking to Grant, "Grant, you want to tell my why you tried to run away from her with her sketchbook?"

Grant looked at the ground, "I didn't try to run away from her…"

Cameron glared, this time saying something, "But you did! Even though you know I'm faster than you, you—"

"You are not faster than me!"

"Then how come you only got to the foyer before I caught you up?"

The rest of the quints and Jefferson's twins made their way into the foyer after hearing the Shadow Queen's voice.

"Because I let you, Princess!"

"Stop calling me that like it's bad! Just because you're not a prince—"

"I wouldn't want to be a prince even if I was."

"You shouldn't have the right to a kingdom even if you did!"

"Okay!" Emma clapped her hands once to stop the fight before it started. Then she came forward, and placed her hands on the shoulders of Cameron, who looked so much like her mother and so much like Emma that it was a little scary. Cameron looked up at her, "You wanna go for a walk, Ditto?" the pet name came quickly as Allison and Emma saw just how much Cameron was going to look like them both.

Cameron looked at the woman thinking she was in trouble, but quickly nodded, as she realized Emma was simply getting her away from her cousins, "Yes."

Emma let her hands fall from the girl's shoulders and moved to her side, offering her hand.

"What's going on in here?" Chip and Allison came in the room with slightly overprotective, angry looks on their faces. Chip had obviously heard the fight and the scolding and relayed the news to his wife.

"Nothing!" Cameron said before taking Emma's hand.

Emma looked to them both, "We're going for a walk." She stared at her best friend, "Is that alright?"

Chip knew that Emma was just trying to take Cameron away from the situation. He swallowed and looked to his wife, who merely squeezed his hand telling him to allow their daughter to leave with Emma. None of the parents ever wanted to step on the other parents' toes when dealing with the children as a whole or single unit; so in situations like this, if the actual parent shows up or is there but the child goes to another adult they always made sure to ask permission.

…That is unless one of the parents were a little angry. Chip, in this moment was a little angry after seeing his daughter's sad face. He didn't hesitate as he zeroed in on Grant. "Why do you think you've the right to treat people the way you treat Cameron? I'm not asking you because she's my daughter, I'm asking you because she's a being with feelings. Just like you. Not only that, but she's a wolf. How can you treat another wolf that way when we are running on extinction…?"

Red, Belle, Ruby and Graham walked into the foyer.

"We'll handle it, Chip." Ruby said as she took her son's hand; she could smell his anger and was only happy that he didn't do more than just question him.

"Yes, as you've 'handled' it so many times before." He rolled his eyes at the woman.

"Watch your tone with my wife, Sir." Graham took a step into Chip's space.

Chip grit his teeth, "Watch your son around my daughter, Sir."

Graham nodded, as he tried to think of a comeback, but nothing came. He relented, knowing their son was at fault, yet again, for causing the ruckus. He clapped the man on the shoulder and walked with him out of wolf range, "We're doing everything we can. We can't watch him 24/7 and the nannies can't keep up at all times…"

Chip took a calming breath as he stared past Graham to the boy and looked apologetically to Ruby. He let his gaze turn back to Graham, "I know… Lucky for you, I believe in fate. And I believe in karma and dharma. And I believe, that your son will get what's coming to him. I just hope he's prepared."

Graham knit his brows, "Is that a threat?"

Chip chuckled, "Good friend, if it were a threat, I'd have my fangs out. You know that." He gave the man a toothy smile before walking back over to his wife.

Graham stood there contemplating the other man's words. He couldn't deny that he didn't believe in those things as well, and he couldn't deny that he had a feeling that his son would get what's coming to him. He just didn't know what to think when he heard the words come from someone else's mouth.

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Emma and Cameron walked down the long corridors and weaved through the bottom floor of the castle a couple times before deciding on the steps leading to the yard that the kids all played in. Cameron sat with her knees pulled to her chest; her eyes were wet. Emma sat next to her and stared out at the green.

She didn't say anything at first; she didn't know what to say aside from 'kids will be kids' or 'let bygones be bygones'. And those weren't good enough.

Finally, she opened her mouth, "On a scale of one to 'I want to run away', how bad is it?" She kept her stare on the yard; she didn't look at the young girl. On one side there was the garden and the other the hedge maze. Emma well knew that the property was lined with a fence, but she also knew that the little girl she was sitting next to was no normal little girl.

Cameron inhaled, wanting to speak, but only exhaled once more. She tried again as she felt tears come to her, "Sometimes…" And for the third time she inhaled, "Sometimes I…" She swallowed the lump, "Sometimes I can't decide which way would be easier. I could go through the garden, pick fruits and vegetables before I leave that way everyone knows I'm not hungry right away. Or, I can just run the hedge and be out in no time."

Emma nodded. She didn't feel the tears come to her eyes, but she did notice her vision had blurred. "I don't have any wise advice. I don't have anything to make it easier… But I can tell you that everyone in this castle would be devastated if you left."

"Grant wouldn't. And Robin wouldn't. And the other quints would be happy that they didn't have to put up with them and me."

"Grant is a butt face. And Robin is a butt face too. Is she the one that held you down while Grant got the head start?" Emma didn't let her answer, "What am I saying? Of course she was…" She sighed, "The other quints don't put up with you. They put up with Grant and Robin. They just don't stop them like they should." She looked to the girl finally. She gave the girl a half smile, "Grant and Robin are jealous of you. That's all." She let her half smile grow, "Own it. Don't let it bring you down. Don't let them deter you from who you are…" She put her hand on the girl's knee, "And don't run away. Not yet. Wait until everyone leaves in a week and a half because… who knows? A week and a half can change everything… A minute can change everything." She shrugged, "Everything was changed for me the minute I met Miss Regina."

"You think I'll fall in love?" The girl asked confused and a little disgusted by the notion.

"No…" Emma chuckled, "But I think that there are three more kids around your age and the ogre triplets and a baby headed this way. And I know that you'll want to see Amelia again. She's coming today. She was cool, wasn't she? She gave you a lot of cool stuff for your drawings?"

Allison nodded, "She's really powerful." She toyed with the edge of her sketchbook.

Emma smiled, "Yes. That's what happens when your father is a genie and your mother a muse…" She looked over to her mini-look alike, "And then Princess Olive and Prince Walker. Walker's coming today, like Amelia, and Olive is coming in three more days… You like them, don't you?"

"Yeah, I guess. They're nice I suppose. But Walker likes my cousins more than me. And Olive doesn't say much or hang around kids unless Bailee's there…"

Emma looked off in thought, "Have you met Remy? I don't think that you have… Last year she was sick and before that you two would have been three or four, and I think she was in trouble and not allowed to come to the party. Is that right?"

"I don't remember… But I haven't met her I don't think."

"Well, did you know she's a mermaid?"

"Like her mom?"

Emma nodded, "Yes. King Triton's magic made its way into her so she is able to change with the water just like Cordelia. You like mermaids, don't you? That drawing you showed me was really, really good."

"Thank you…" Cameron looked off in thought. "Remy's really a real mermaid?"

Emma smirked, "She is…" She stared at Cameron a moment as she turned to face her completely, "I need you to pinkie swear that you're not gonna even think about running away until everyone leaves." She stuck her pinkie out.

Cameron wrapped her pinkie around the older woman's, "Okay, I swear."

"Good girl." Emma stood, "Now, if you'll excuse me, I believe Holly and her kitchen staff are making chocolate cake, and Regina is nowhere to be found."

Cameron smiled up to her father's best friend and her confidante, "She's gonna find out…"

Emma chuckled, "I have no doubt, but I will have chocolate cake in my tummy and all will be good."

AN: I will post the next chapter soon!

As you can tell, the kids—mainly Cameron—have taken over the Epilogue of the story. The next chapter will explain who Olive and Walker are, and the chapter after that will give more incite to Remy.

Hope you enjoyed. Please read and review!

As I said at the top I have already received reviews for this chapter when it was posted over on "The Games." I have copied and pasted them here:

Once Upon a CBI NYPD Time: Ahh wow, cool start to the Epilogue :) I love how there are like so many kids running around the castle, its crazy (crazy in a good way, lol ) Can't wait for the next part. Love this story & your writing... It' really good. After this story finishes, do you have any more fics your gonna write? :)

KooshGID: haha love the House easter eggs :) also the nickname Ditto is awesome.

barbtulley: an old boss of Allison's…. lol. I love the kids. can't wait to meet the rest.

gnurd: I'm sorry, but weren't the past few chapters epilogue? I liked your story, but the most epilogue you need is the two main characters getting married. Don't introduce a bunch of characters just to see secondary characters live happily ever after, it harms the story. It's okay to leave loose ends, really!

Darkshadow-lord: Great chapter! Looking forward to reading the next!

zerodarkwolf: i see what you did ther anD I LOVE IT

LovaticFever: I have a huge migraine now because I was trying to keep up with whose related to who. And damn, that must be one huge ass castle! 15 kids? not to mention their parents, and their parents' parents, and their parents' parents' parents!

awhitefairytale: I love this! I of course am trying to keep up with all of this! I'm excited to see who everyone is :)

WhatHurtsMeMost: OMG OMG OMGGGG! SO MANY KIDSSSS! I kinda hate Graham's kids ' and totally love Cameron! I'll check your tumblr for the cast list and family tree! :D hope to read more soon! xoxo *Paula

Harley Quinn Davidson: Love it and can not wait for more.

ToTheYoungWhoWantToDie: asdfghjkl; SO FUCKING PERFECT! MORE! :3