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Offering the second to the “I’m not a Poo Poo Head Procrastinator” campaign ( @mossandmushroom look. a thing). A draft that was started over two years ago, fuelled by rage at canon OQ and wine. Lots of wine.

So here’s a 3×13 re-imagining ficlet with some things I wish had been done with Outlaw Queen. Again, very minorly edited because I don’t want to look at it anymore. Bye!

She meets him when she’s destined to forget him. (She would have been glad for it had she known, if truth be told.) She knows him from the crude drawings on his wanted posters –  but coming back from Storybrooke raw and grieving for Henry has her indifferent at best, despite her vicious hunting of him and his men a lifetime ago. Perhaps that imbalance is what pitches them into motion – an outlaw tolerated by the tyrant monarch is hardly in his depths, especially when he is thrust back into his own grieving process after nearly three decades of stagnancy. It’s all very much for either of them to fully process. Truth is that while she puts on a show of annoyed indifference, she is beyond itching in his presence.

He grieves and she rails. She objects and he mistrusts. A despot and a rebel do not easy allies make.

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