Summary: Unfazed by the Dark One's threat, Regina banded with Belle in order to gain a leverage to keep him from interfering with her retrieving Robin in New York, that is until Cruella told Pongo to fetch. In the past in 1920s fictional London, however, young Cruella met a man who travel between realms of story telling who learned how he should be living life instead of writing about it until he himself learned not to trust the girl with a Cinderella tale with a black widow twist.
