The Girl and the Nutcracker ~ A Once Upon a Time Story

All of Storybrooke was preparing for the holidays. Especially since Emma and Snow had returned, it was even more reason to go ahead and celebrate it along with Christmas. At Granny's, Henry was decorating the diner with Ruby and Clara.

Henry rummaged around in the decoration box, and saw something in it, "Hey, what's this?"

Clara walked over to him and saw Henry held up a little ornament, "Oh, I guess it's a special ornament to put in the tree. Sometimes people put more than just the regular things in their Christmas tree, you know?"

"But a ballerina? That's strange." Henry mentioned and Clara shrugged as she put it in the tree, "Well, maybe it's not an ordinary ballerina. She looks like... a Christmas ballerina fairy."

Ruby walked over to him, "I think it's one of the things that came over with the curse that nobody knows who it's from. How about you go and decorate the fence outside, Henry? We'll finish up in here."

"Okay." Henry answered as he took the box with the outdoors decoration with him. Clara sighed, "Thank you..."

"Of course." Ruby responded with a smile, "You helped me out with Billy during the full moon, now I want to help you during Christmas... assuming you're the same girl from that story?"

Clara chuckled, "Yes. But not a lot of people know that. It's either you know my name from the story or I have told you. It's not like there's any people alive from back then to tell either..."

~ Arendelle ~

It was Christmas Eve in Arendelle. That meant all the children were invited to visit the castle, and get presents from the royal family.

Clara was watching the children decorate the huge Christmas tree in the middle of the ballroom, along with her little brother Fritz. If you would ask Clara, he's one of the most annoying people in Arendelle ever, but it's also still her little brother.

"Do you think I'm finally getting a sword?" Fritz asked her, and Clara shook her head, "Father said no swords until you're 12 years old."

"But I turn 12 right after Christmas!" Fritz argued and Clara sighed, "That means you're still not 12."

Fritz started to talk and list his long number of reasons on why he should be getting a sword, and Clara just sighed and walked away from him. When she was walking down the halls, she saw someone standing there, looking at the paintings.

When Clara walked closer, he turned around and smiled, "My dearest Clara! It has been some time since I visited you all, hasn't it?"

"Uncle Drosselmeyer?!" Clara said with glee as she went up to hug him, "Are you the one who gives out the presents this year? Father said you were working on something new!"

Her godfather laughed as he let go of the hug, "Your father is always ruining my surprises, isn't he? Don't worry, Clara. I've reserved the best gift for you. I just hope little Fritz will be satisfied, I heard he's not so fond of dolls anymore."

"He only likes the ones you can fight with now, like those little figures you gave last Christmas. Besides that he only thinks about learning how to fight with a sword, but he's too young for that." Clara explained as she walked back to the ballroom with her godfather.

When she opened the door, all the children looked over and saw her and Drosselmeyer enter. The children all became excited, knowing they would get their gifts very soon.