Fic: [OUaT] And Our House Will Be Called Evil Bitch Cottage (Regina, Emma).

And Our House Will be Called Evil Bitch Cottage, Once Upon a Time (Regina & Emma), pg-13, 2360 words.

Good daughters and evil bitches: sometimes the character you were born to play is not the story with your happy ending. Sometimes it's just a fixed game. Emma and Regina have a conversation.

( "So you've found me," Regina said. )

Inspired a bit by Mary Oliver's poem, "Dogfish". (Thanks, redbrunja, for posting it!)

Excerpt:

 

You don't want to hear the story

of my life, and anyway

I don't want to tell it, I want to listen

 

to the enormous waterfalls of the sun.

 

And anyway it's the same old story - - -

a few people just trying,

one way or another,

to survive.

 

Mostly, I want to be kind.

And nobody, of course, is kind,

or mean,

for a simple reason.