Six impossible things before breakfast [Giselle]

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Giselle was an undying optimist. No matter how bad things were, and there had never really been that many times that that had happened, Giselle was able to think positively and optimistically. She truly and firmly believed that things would always get better. Of course they would. It was how things always went in the story books and though her life wasn’t a story book, Giselle had a tendency to base her life off of romantic stories with princes and princesses.

And of course Giselle loved to talk about her Edward. He was her one true love after all and therefore one of her favorite things to talk about. She could talk about Edward for hours on end and never get bored. She could talk about his hair, his eyes, his smile, the way he talked so regally just as a prince should, and the list could go on and on and on. She didn’t have to be asked twice to talk about him. “Edward is wonderful,” she told Alyss brightly. “He’s everything a prince should be. Why, on the day he met he was hunting trolls in the forest. And one of them got away from him and it tried to come after me and eat me! But Edward saved me! He caught me when I fell out of a tree. And that was when I knew he was my true love.”

She sighed romantically. “He’s tall, dark and handsome and has the loveliest smile. And he’s very good at vanquishing his enemies I’ve heard. And smiting,” she added with a nod. “I can’t believe I’ve only known him a day,” she sighed. “It feels like a lifetime.”

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At first, Alyss was going to ask Giselle to elaborate on "everything a prince should be". Truth be told, apart from fairy tales, Alyss had very little background knowledge of how a prince should be. You didn't really have many princes in Wonderland, being a queendom and not at all looking for male heirs, after all. The closest she had really encountered back in Wonderland was Jack Diamond...and dear Lord, she certainly hoped that Giselle's Edward was better than that son of a jabberwock. Such a sweet girl deserved far better, Alyss was certain. As for the fairy tale princes...well, she supposed at their best, they sounded an awful lot like Westley, but with a royal title instead of an inherited name that was meant to strike fear into the hearts of every man, woman and child out at sea. Considering how happy Buttercup was, Alyss thought that would be far better for Giselle.

And speaking of fairy tales...Giselle's story certainly sounded like one. After all, trolls were everywhere in those things, it seemed. However, Alyss had to blink a few times when Giselle said that it was because of the rescue that she knew that this Edward was her true love. I mean, of course that seemed to be fairly common in fairy tales, but if you went by that logic...well, Buttercup probably wouldn't have been very happy with Alyss, now would she?

Then came the really insane part. One day? Now don't get her wrong, she was well aware of how common that was for fairy tales, but she really had no idea that this was what Giselle was basing her life on. It was really a wonder that Alyss hadn't choked on her coffee or something like that.

"Oh my...I suppose that does seal it, doesn't it?" Alyss responded, aiming to be polite about it all, of course. You just didn't ask people how they could talk about being true loves after one day. Being in love, well...sure, she supposed that she could agree with. But true love? It was a little hasty, was it not? But no, Alyss wouldn't dare put a damper on Giselle's clear joy.

"I'm sure you both will be very happy together."

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Giselle really did live in a fairytale world, so it was no wonder that Edward sounded like a fairytale prince. He was a fairytale prince and everything a fairytale prince was: charming, dashing, handsome, a good hunter oh so many other things. Giselle’s life was one whole fairytale. Not that she knew this of course. As far as Giselle was concerned everyone’s life must be like this. And if it wasn’t, well everyone would get to their happily ever after eventually.

Giselle just happened to find her true love before other people found theirs, that was all. And they had only known each other for a day, but it was still wonderful. Of course she had found her one true love. It had only taken a moment and then she knew. Wasn’t that the way it worked? Didn’t everyone just know when they found their one true love, their heart’s other half, their soul mate, their song’s duet? Giselle was quite sure that it was the same for everyone else.

“It does,” she told Alyss with a giggle, because it was just so lovely that someone else could share in her joy. And Alyss was just so kind and nice. “Oh, thank you. I do hope we will be happy. But then again we’re going to live happily ever after. And I’m sure that will be very nice.”

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"Well that is the way it's supposed to be, if you look at all the story books," Alyss replied, and she had to bless the world for somehow letting her at least come out of her experiences with so much tact...then again, perhaps the reason she was being so gentle with Giselle was because she knew exactly what it was like.

After all, was her story not the stuff of fairytales as well? An evil queen, dead parents, being forced out into a cold, unfeeling world? Not only that, but when she told anyone that she had hoped so dearly would listen, would accept that she was absolutely telling the truth about her origins, just how often had she been dismissed as silly, as a child who wasn't ready to deal with the true trauma she had faced, whatever that may be? Hadn't it gotten so bad that her story had been mutilated for the world to see, so bad that she almost started thinking she had made it all up?

Really, when you thought about that, Giselle finding true love within one day sounded entirely reasonable, and so it seemed that what was tact was now melting into belief. Or rather, belief that even if it wasn't at all right, Giselle had no way of realizing that, and it certainly didn't mean she was crazy.

Besides...perhaps, if both of their lives were the stuff of fairytales, that meant that perhaps Giselle wasn't wrong at all about happily ever after. Perhaps it was around the corner for Alyss, somewhere out there.

"Why, I should think anyone would want to be as lucky as you are...I know I would." You would think there'd be a hint of sadness in the blonde's tone, but no. Alyss was definitely smiling. Giselle truly was contagious, and besides, Alyss' new line of thinking, that bit of...logic, she supposed was the best way of putting it, had brightened her spirits. She didn't know what the future held, of course, but that didn't need to be so bad.

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“Oh, yes, of course!” Giselle cried happily. Of course she knew all about the story books. They were her favorite non-human and non-animal companion because they were just so wonderful! The adventure, the romance, the happily ever after, it was all so wonderful! So if Giselle’s life could be anything like a fairytale then that would be just the wonderful thing she could ever think of!

She had always dreamed of her very own happily ever after. It would be her very own fairytale ending. It would be so perfectly wonderful. And of course she might have to go through some unpleasant things like waiting and waiting for Edward to come for her, but she would persevere and push through it with a smile because Edward was worth waiting for. Just like her fairytale ending. It was all worth the wait. And so she would wait cheerfully until Edward would get here, because that’s what princesses did. They waited patiently for their prince to come and save them from terribly unpleasant things.

“Oh, I’m sure everyone else could be just as lucky as me,” She told Alyss. “Why, you just need a fairy godmother. Or something else magical! Why, that’s why the girls in stories are so lucky. They have magic to help them along.” It made perfect sense to Giselle. Magic always helped out the girls in stories in the end.