20. The Evil Queen

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Astrid walked over to her nephew who was sitting at the table, her signature smirk back on her face. "I'm back and know who I am!" Astrid announced as Henry grinned, "Now, I'm in a hurry to go explore this town and... get to know everyone." She chuckled at the last part.

Henry frowned slightly and answered in slight confusion but mostly in amusement, "What? Astrid wouldn't say that."

"I've been held back by this family's goody-moon-dust spell so long that I haven't done any real damage at all." Astrid told her nephew with a devious grin on her face.

"Okay, then let's discuss. What kind of damage we talking about?" Snow spoke up towards her daughter as she descended down the stairs and moved over to the two of them as Astrid simply answered, "Damage."

"I will allow you just enough freedom for one fun-sized Astrid episode-" Snow negotiated as Astrid shot her down, "No. Ain't gonna cut it."

"Fine, I'll allow one medium-sized Astrid episode where I go after that, "Heavens, Astrid, do you ever learn?" Sound good?" Snow renegotiated, now getting a little afraid of her daughter's devious attitude at the moment.

"Listen, Petunia, I've been living life on Candy Cane Lane the past three months and I am a pent-up, boiling cauldron of I'm-gonna-do-somethin'-" Astrid started now in slight excitement.

Emma stepped down the stairs and spoke up towards her sister, "How about we allow just enough freedom for one-"

"Quiet! I run the show." Astrid cut her off with a smirk, "You don't allow me, I allow you. You guys want the old Astrid back? Mama gonna do a big, bad thing."

"Well, I don't believe you will." Snow started, "Because we only brought you back to exactly where we need you to be, and we was very careful not to go too far." She watched her teenager's confident smirk grow on her face as she asked, "Right?"

Astrid stood up from her spot at the table and headed over to the door but faced her mother with a nod as her amused smile changed into a frown and she answered, "Wrong."

Astrid left out of the apartment and ran down the street, her axe strapped on her back in her case along with her quiver of arrows and bow; She also had her twin swords strapped on her hips like usual and her thirteen daggers hidden on her.

She decided to check on the mayor of this town first and headed to her office, knocking on Regina's office door, and then stepped into the room as Regina glanced up from her desk. "Astrid... What can I do for you, my dear?"

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