Autor's note: Okay so I haven't written any fanfiction since forever so please don't expect a lot from this Xd Basically my reason for writing this fanfic is that after last episode A&E totally unnecessary killed off Hyde (and Jeckyll but who cares about him) I'm 100% done with how they always kill off my favorite characters and destroy my OTP's and I feel like I'm not the only one xD. So yeah. This is basically how the show would continue if I was to decide. I'll try to come up with a serious storyline and stuff but it will probably just be a lot of chaos and love drama. I don't own OUAT, which after reading this fanfic you'll probably realize is a good thing. The length of the chapters will probably really depend on the chapter, I know that the first one is awfully long but I'll try to keep it shorter in the next ones. Warning: Might include bad language, hints of sexual content, violence. Lots of craziness and the most random pairings ever. Takes place after 6x04.
It was only after Emma Swan had set her first steps outside that she realized something was wrong.
It was just one day after Killian killed off Jeckyll and Hyde. Ofcourse there were still the Evil Queen and other problems to be dealt with, but a small part of her had hoped that now finally things would go back to normal. She was on her way to the Sherrif station, a cup of coffee in her hand, but stopped walking just as she was about to get in her yellow bug. The air felt… strange. Like something was about to happen. She frowned and slowly looked up at the sky. Emma forgot to breathe for a moment.
At first sight, the sky seemed normal, except for the fact it seemed slightly glowing. But when she turned her head to the right, in the direction of the sea, the bright blue sky faded into green. It was hard to see because of the clouds, but in the distance… something was happening. Emma squeezed her eyes shut trying to get a better sight.
It was like a small tornado was appearing above the lake.
Emma shook her head and took a deep breath. "It's probably just the headache and the lack of sleep…" she mumbled. She had other things on her mind today, like trying to find a way to stop the Evil Queen from killing everyone in this town, a way that did not include Regina's death. She had barely slept tonight because of her concern about her friend's fate. And also Killian, she had asked him to move in with her but now she was starting to doubt her own offer. She wasn't sure if she was ready right now, not when everything was so chaotic. She simply didn't have any time to worry about stupid things that probably only existed in her imagination anyway.
"Emma?" she got interrupted in her thoughts by the familiar voice of her mother behind her. Emma turned around and attempted to smile. "Mom, hi."
Snow frowned in concern. "Emma, are you okay? You seem… worried."
Ofcourse she wouldn't be able to hide her thoughts from her mother. "It's nothing, mom. Just… something stupid." Emma glanced in the direction of the green sky again.
Snow followed her daughter's gaze and her eyes widened. "Woah… what's happening over there?"
Emma shrugged. "I have no idea, it's probably not important. Anyways, I have to go to work now. I'll see you around." She forced another smile, kissed her mother goodbye and got in the car, leaving Snow staring at the sky and mentally hoping it wasn't another villain trying to cause chaos in the once so peaceful Storybrooke.
Mr. Gold was just peacefully organizing things in his shop when the door slammed open. He didn't even have to look up to know who it was and sighed deeply. "The Evil Queen. Always a pleasure."
The Evil Queen didn't even answer him and walked straight over to him, slamming her hands down on the counter angrily. "Did you really think it would be this easy to get rid of us?"
He looked up at her with a wry smile. "My dear queen, I have no idea what you're talking about."
She rolled her eyes impatiently. "Stop playing stupid, you know what I'm talking about. Hyde. You think that now you've found the way to destroy him, you can destroy me as well?"
"Oh, I don't thínk that. As painful as it must be, I know. All that has to happen for you to die, is to kill Regina." Rumplestiltskin imparturbably continued what he was doing. "It's just that it's simply none of my concern, since you promised not to harm Belle and my son."
She sighed and leaned over the counter, closing the distance between them. "Is that why you killed him and not me?"
He didn't move, determined not to show any signs of being intimidated. "Actually, I'm not the one that killed him. The pirate did it." Still, he couldn't keep the bitterness out of his voice after mentioning Killian, even now that guy practically saved Belle's life. "So honestly, I don't understand why you're coming to me."
"Wait, what?" She blinked in confusion and leaned back. "But the serum…"
"Yes, I did try to kill him, but apparantly, that serum wasn't enough. It was Killian who unintendetly killed him by stabbing his… other half, dr. Jeckyll."
"The pirate? Really?" She quickly recovered from her confusion and smirked. "Now that's dissapointing, I thought you were always the one to come up with the smart ideas, Gold," she stated mockingly.
Mr. Gold rolled his eyes. "Like I said, it was pure accidental. The pirate didn't know that killing the one would mean the other's death as well. All he wanted was to protect Belle." He tried to say it in a neutral way, but couldn't keep the flash of sadness from his face when he mentioned Belle. It was like he could still hear her saying that she didn't need his protection.
"Belle." Her smirk widened. "So that's what this is all about? You're not able to protect her, but the pirate is?" She laughed hard. "This is brilliant."
He narrowed his eyes. "Are we done making fun of me?"
She bit her lip and locked eyes with him, still smirking. "So I suppose that means you're still not tired of waiting for her to accept you?"
"Nope. Never," he responded immediately, sounding a lot more sure than he felt when she was looking at him the way she did now.
The Evil Queen laughed and stepped back. "Lovely. Oh, before I forgot: I didn't come here only to make fun of you."
"Yeah, I figured that," he replied sarcastically.
"I came here to warn you that you can't get rid of me that easily… or Hyde."
"I'm sorry to interrupt your dreams, dearie, but Hyde is death and there's no way to bring back people from the death."
"You think so?" She laughed. "That's funny."
"Oh really? Why is that?" He asked, getting slightly annoyed.
"Remember Zelena? Your almost-ex-lover, my sister? Well, we're friends now, and she might still have some… connections in the underworld. Connections that go deeper than you might expect."
She winked at him before walking out of the shop, loudly slamming the door behind her.
"Aye, how are you doing, love?"
Belle looked up from her cup of coffee, slightly shocked at the sudden voice waking her up from her thoughts, but she relaxed when she saw Killian sitting down in front of her. She was sitting at Granny's, but she had barely touched her food since she got here. "Oh, Killian. I'm… I'm fine." She forced a reassuring smile.
Killian smiled slightly. "Really? You almost got killed by some crazy freak with a split personality while being trapped yesterday, I surely wouldn't be fine after that."
She laughed a little. "Yeah, alright. I'm not fine, but I will be. What about you?"
Killian shrugged. "I don't know… things are crazy right now."
"Yeah… Lots of crazy stuff going on right now."
"Like, Emma asked me to move on with her lately, but we've barely talked since and it somehow seems like she's… avoiding me. Ofcourse she has other things on her mind right now, but I feel like she's starting to regret her decission now." He frowned and took a sip from his coffee.
"What? Oh… I meant after you practically killed a man yesterday." Belle laughed slightly. "Or two men, depends on how you view it…"
"Oh, that…" He laughed too and shrugged again. "Don't know, I've done worse back in my pirate days, yaknow?"
"I see. And about Emma…" She briefly placed her hand over his before shyly staring down at her coffee. "Don't worry about it too much, I'm sure she doesn't regret it. We both know Emma, she has probably spent a lot of time thinking this through and she wouldn't ask you if she wouldn't be hundred percent sure about it. Right? And why would she possibly regret wanting to move in with someone like you?"
Killian grinned. "I suppose you have a point, love."
They were silent for a moment. Belle took a small sip from her coffee.
She was happy for him and Emma that things were going so well between them. She was almost jealous of their relationship sometimes. It was obvious that Killian cared a lot for Emma, he was willing to do anything for her and wait for her as long as it would take. But her own husband, on the contrary, wouldn't even try to be a better man for her…
"What's going on out there?" Killian suddenly moved closer to the window and stared at the sky outside.
"What's wrong? Killian?" Belle glanced outside as well, noticing the concern on his face. She felt her chin drop at the sight of the sky.
The sky, usually blue, seemed to be glowing in some sort of way, and the further she looked, the more it seemed to fade into green. And that wasn't the most shocking part. Something in the air in the distance was moving.
"Well. That doesn't look very good," Killian stated dryly.
Belle felt her stomach turn. "Killian… Do you think Rumple did this?"
"I have no idea who or what caused this," he answered. "But whatever it is… I have a feeling it's bad news."
"Oh my god, are you freaking kidding me?!"
Emma quickly clicked away the online game she was playing and pretended she was working hard, but it was too late. The mayor had already seen it.
Regina walked into the sherrif's office with a raised eyebrow. "Emma Swan, you're the sherrif in this town. Do you really have nothing better to do than playing a stupid video game?!"
"I wasn't…" Emma tried, but one look into the other woman's eyes made her give up. "Okay, I was playing Mario Kart for five minutes, but what else am I supposed to do? Everything is so.. calm right now."
"Seriously?! Of all the games in the world, you're playing Mario Kart?"
Emma raised an eyebrow. "What do you know about games?"
"Did you forget I have a fifteen-years-old son? And may I remind you of the fact that he's your son as well?"
"I suppose you have a…"
"And you don't know what you're supposed to do? Oh I don't know, how about trying to make sure that my evil half won't go on a casual killing spree..?"
Emma sighed. It was so exhausting to be around this woman this early in the morning, when she had only had two cups of coffee. "I don't know where she is, okay? And even if I knew, then what could I possibly do? We are both aware of the fact that the only way to destroy her is… well, we know how. And believe it or not, but the mayority of the town seems to afraid to cause any chaos right now."
"Okay, whatever." Regina sighed. "Anyways, right now I need your help. I mean, the town needs your help. Something is wrong."
"Isn't there always…" Emma started, but she stopped when she saw the look in Regina's eyes. "I mean, what is it that you need me to do?"
"Have you looked outside today?"
"As I matter of fact, I do sometimes glance outside of the window while… working."
"Excellent. Then surely, you know what this is about." Regina gestured to the window and Emma sighed before reluctantly standing up and shoving away the curtains of the office.
She forgot to breathe for a few moments. The truth was, she had not looked outside since she arrived at the sherrif's office and the sky had drastically changed since this morning.
When a few hours ago, it had only been a light glowing and a small spot of green appearing in the distance, right now almost the entire sky was green and glowing. And something was coming. A movement in the sky, in the near distance. Emma could swear she could see it coming closer with the minute.
She stepped back and glanced over at the other woman. "Well, euh, yeah. I suppose I should maybe go take a look at that."
Regina folded her arms. "That may or may not just be the smartest thing I've heard you say tomorrow, Emma." Despite the concern and the obvious annoyance in her voice, Emma could swear that the mayor was trying her best not to smile. She quickly grabbed her third cup of coffee before rushing out of the office.
"What the hell is the meaning of this?"
Jefferson, formerly known as the Mad Hatter and now the owner of a shop in Storybrooke mostly specialised in creating and selling hats, folded his arms and raised an eyebrow at the young girl who had just brutally bursted into the shop.
The girl, who couldn't be much older than eightteen, rolled her eyes and held out her hand. "Like I said, my name is Heat and I'm your new assistent."
Jefferson didn't shake her hand and kept staring at her in confusion and slight annoyance. "As far as I'm concerned, I have not asked for an assistent."
"Come on, why is everyone so boring? No one in this stupid ass town seems to be looking for an asistent either. You're my last hope. All you need to do is sign this contract." Heat reached in her bag until she eventually found a piece of paper and dropped it on the counter.
Jefferson sighed deeply and stared at her a few more moment before taking a glance at the paper. It was a contract for an internship. His eyes quickly scanned the lines before looking up at the girl again. "You're not from Storybrooke, are you?"
"Nope. I'm a student from New York, and the thing is, we were all supposed to find ourselves an internship outside of the city. So I thought, maybe…"
"And the due date is… today."
"Well… kinda. Yeah."
"And you only started looking for an internship today? Not a very great start, is it?"
"No, it's not at all like that!" Heat picked up one of the hats from the counter, much to Jefferson's dissaproval. "See, I was planning on starting way earlier, but I had a lot of stuff to do for school, mostly, so I kind of forgot about it. It was only today that I remembered, so I decided to pay this nice little town a visit and…"
"Yeah, alright, I get it." He tilted his head and thought about it. "How exactly do you think you could be helpful to me?"
"Well, I'm very good with… selling stuff. And I know a lot about…" Heat looked through the shop. "…hats."
"Really?" Jefferson asked sceptically.
"Yeah, ehm… My grandma used to make hats too."
"Alright…" He rolled his eyes and signed the contract. "Just try not to interrupt me too much when I'm working, okay?"
"Great! Thank you so much!" she smiled at him and looked around the shop. "So, euhm… what should I do now?"
"Anything's fine with me, as long as you don't disturb me."
"Awesome! Then I'll just go… check on the hats."
"That's not really…" Jefferson started, but Heat wasn't listening to him anymore as she walked over to one of the cupboards filled with hats. This girl was impossible. He rolled his eyes and tried to focus on fixing the hat in his hands.
Until a loud thundering noise from outside shook the both of them.
"What the hell is going on here?!" Emma asked slightly out of breath as she rushed to the crowd that had gathered together at Storybrooke's harbour, followed by Regina. They were all staring at the sky and talking over eachother alarmingly loud.
"Emma! Thank God, there you are." Snow grabbed her daughter's hands, looking panicked.
"Mom, what's happening? What is everyone doing here?"
Emma's own question was answered when she turned her head in the direction the others were looking.
The movement in the sky, which tomorrow had seemed so small and unimportant, was coming closer and closer now. It was a green, glowing tornado, crashing towards Storybrooke.
"What do we do?!" Snow cried out, holding onto Charming tightly.
He stroke his wife's hair in an effort to calm her down and stared at the sky with a big concerned frown. "There's nothing we can do anymore, no one had seen this coming. All we can do… is hope that it won't be the end of us."
"Seriously?! There's a giant tornado coming our way and all you're saying is that we should hope that it won't kill us?!" Regina stared at the Charmings in disbelief and frustration.
"Well, do you have a better idea?!" Emma tried to stay calm. "Come on, we can't just give up! There must be something we can do! After all we've been through, this can't be the end of us!"
Her parents only gave eachother a concerned glance, much to the annoyance of the two other women. "Emma… we don't even know what this is," Charming said. "or who caused it…"
"What the bloody hell is going on?!" Hook yelled, quickly making his way through the crowd, followed by Belle who kept looking around clutching her bag tightly, like she expected to be attacked any moment.
"Emma, thank god, there you are. Are you okay?" Hook kissed Emma's cheek, but she barely noticed his presence, since the tornado was coming closer every minute.
Regina slightly narrowed her eyes. "You're not exactly helping, guyliner."
"Well, if you know a way to defeat this 'thing' or whatever it is, I'm all ears," he replied sarcastically. Belle stood next to him, the fear written all over her face.
"Emma. We can try magic. Together." Regina grabbed the blonde's arm, bringing her back to earth.
Emma blinked. "Yes… Yes. Magic. Now! Everybody, move!" she yelled and the two women tried to make their way through the crowd.
Killian noticed Belle's discomfort and gently put his arm around her shoulders. "It will be okay, love. Emma is strong, together they can destroy this thing. I'm sure," he said, sounding a lot more confident than he felt.
Snow burried her face in Charming's shoulder and started sobbing quietly. "After all we've done, David, is it really going to end like this?"
"Does anyone know what's happening here?" Jefferson's voice caused all of them to look up. He looked relatively calm given the situation and stood next to a dark-haired girl they had never seen before.
She grabbed her phone to take a picture of the tornado. "So it's true… This town does have magic?"
Jefferson raised an eyebrow. "Heat, if you think that things like this happen everyday you're wrong, this town is usually extremely boring and ordinary. I still don't get why you wanted to do your internship here, actually…"
"Guys, do you not realize how serious this situation is!? We're all dying!" Snow yelled out, immediately embarrassed of her emotional outburst afterwards. "Oh my god I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…"
"Shh, it's okay darling, we all get a little emotional in situations like this." Charming reassuringly put his arms around his wife again. Hook rolled his eyes at the couple. Sometimes he wondered where Emma got her badass character from, given the fact that both of her parents were complete wimps.
Meanwhile, Emma and Regina were standing together in front of the crowd, both of their hands aimed at the tornado. Magic had been shooting from their hands for minutes now, but the tornado didn't slow down one bit.
"Jesus Christ, Emma this isn't working!" Regina yelled at her friend over the loud thunder.
"My sister is right. This isn't working." A calm, high-pitched voice behind them made both women abruptly drop their hands.
"Zelena? What are you…" Regina started, still breathless from the effort.
Zelena smiled. "You guys don't have to worry. Nothing bad is going to happen."
"What do you mean..." Emma wiped her forehead and raised an eyebrow.
"Zelena," Regina said sharply. "I swear to God, if you're the one who caused this…"
"But Regina, my dear, don't you want to see Robin again?" Zelena replied happily.
Her sister blinked. "Wait… what the hell are you talking about?"
Zelena stepped closer to the two other women, still smiling. "I know what you're thinking, that it's not possible to ever see Robin and Hades again since they were wiped out from existence. But Hades is the lord of the Underworld, did you really think we can wipe the lord of the Underworld out from existence?"
"Do you mean…" Regina swallowed hard, trying to comprehend this. "You mean that Robin is still…"
"I don't know where they are, but apparantly, Hades lied about that dagger. They didn't got wipen out from existence, they simply got sent back to the Underworld. He only made up that story to make sure that I wouln't go look for the both of you after he would have sent you there, like he originally planned."
Regina shared a look with Emma, not wanting to believe this crazy story. "Zelena…"
"No, listen, this isn't even the most best part. So you know that in the Underworld, there's this phonecell which allows you to shortly look at the living, right? But we can't send any messages back. Right? Well, apparantly, this dr. Jeckyll is a true genius and a long time ago, he was working on a way to communicate with the death. And don't ask me how, but it worked. Hyde knew about it, ofcourse, and he told my sister… I mean your evil half, he told her about it, just in case. And after he send her a message about Hades and Robin still being alive, she told me. And he told me that there was a way to get him, and a limited number of others, back to the living world. All I had to do was cast a spell that would bring them here." Zelena smiled widely while Regina was still staring at her wide-eyened.. "Sis, don't you get it? We're going to see Robin and Hades back. We're going to see our mother back. We can finally be a family."
Regina slowly shook her head. "This is… complete bullshit. It doesn't make any sense at all…"
"Yeah, don't ask me about the details, I'm not a scientist. But it's a fact that…" Zelena gestured to the green tornado approaching the harbour, now starting to slow down. "this spell will bring back everyone we loved. Aren't you happy?"
Regina finally remembered how to move and roughly grabbed her sister's shoulder. "Zelena, if this is true, do you have any idea what you have just done?!"
"What? What has she done?" Snow yelled out, making her way to her daughter followed by Charming and a bunch of other people. Regina decided not to waste any time answering her.
"Zelena," she hissed. "Why do you think she asked you to cast that spell and not me?! Because my evil half knew that Í wouldn't be stupid enough to believe her!"
"But…"
"Yes, maybe we can get our mother and our boyfriends back, but guess what else?! 'A limited number of other people as well', this means that all the villains we ever defeated may be here any minute, angry and looking for revenge! Can you imagine what it means for Storybrooke if they all team up together?!"
Zelena's eyes widened at the words. "I.. I suppose I didn't think of that…"
"You're such an idiot, Zelena, I don't understand how we could possibly be related!" Regina screamed.
Emma put an hand on her shoulder in an effort to calm her down. "Regina… it doesn't matter anymore. It's too late. Blaming eachother won't solve anything. We need to work altogether now, it's the only way of having any chance to ever get out of this alive."
The tornado stopped, and the green clouds slowly started to fade. All the people in Storybrooke forgot to breathe for a moment when they noticed the group of formerly death people standing in front of them.
Hades. Robin. Neal. August. Graham. But also Hyde. Jeckyll. Cora. Pan. Ingrid. James. Cruella.
Hell was empty, and all the devils were here.
Only one person wasn't outside. One person was moping the floor. Like he had been doing for 30 years straight.
He sighed deeply and stopped moping for a moment. It was quiet in the alysum. All that could be heard was the crazy mumbling of the prisoners. He was pretty sure he was going crazy as well. Or maybe he already was. How long had it been? He had stopped counting years ago. Everyday was the same anyways.
He had a name, but no one knew him. His story had never been told. The only thing people knew about him, was that he was the man who moped the floor in the mental alysum. Always moping the floor.
So I hope the first chapter wasn't too dissapointing already xD I'm sorry it might all seem unrealistic and vague, like I said I'm not good with creating deep storylines. Please leave a review if you have any suggestions for a couple you'd like to see in the story, or if you want me to include an OC with your name and short description and I'll see if I can somehow fit it in
