For LordSantiago.
Hi there! So this is my contribution to the SQ Big Bang. I just hope you like it.
This is based on the fanart by LordSantiago.
On with the show.
"If you cling to the darkness, you have a good reason. And it's beyond temptations, so what is it?" Regina asks as they are both standing over the well. Regina had walked over to it as Emma was apparently having a clearly complicated dilemma with herself.
"I don't know." Emma answered and both of them knew that the blonde was lying. Regina had already told her that, that she can see right through when she is lying. It's kind of how their relationship works; each of them know the other as if they had been best friends for ever and ever, even though the first couple of years consisted practically or trying to kill each other, or at least harm in some way, and fight over Henry. Neverland proved to be a place where they silently agreed to cooperate and from then, a friendship had blossom and for one of them, something even more.
"There's a difference between not knowing something and not wanting to admit it." Regina reasoned; when Regina had approached her, Emma thought it would be good to talk to someone who had known the darkness for decades and knew exactly what was that like. However, she had forgotten that tiny detail that Regina knew exactly when she wasn't being completely sincere.
"Those walls you put up Emma, it's time they come down." Regina said lowering her voice and Emma wondered what was she planning. The brunette pulled up the sleeves of her red dress and took the dagger that was sitting next to Excalibur and the light of Prometheus.
"What are you doing?" Emma asked with eyes wide open, panic and anxiety laced in her voice. Surely Regina wouldn't make her tell her why she was clinging to the darkness. Or would she?
"Helping you break the walls." Regina said and in that moment, she looked every bit of Evil Queen she had once been. "As your friend, I command you Dark One tell me why are you so afraid to give up the darkness?" Regina demanded as she hold the dagger in front of Emma's face, with a glare that it would be hard to say that this wasn't the Evil Queen.
"If I let it go I won't be able to protect my family." Emma says barley above a whisper and the both know it's just half the truth; it's true that Emma has always felt some kind of need to protect her family, and now with this new discovered magic she can't help but thinks it would be better to keep the dark magic despite knowing that this would certainly be a bad idea.
"That's just another wall Emma. Now, the truth." Regina said in a menacing tone. The brunette wouldn't let it go so easily.
"It is. Regina, please." Emma pleaded, because she could only resist the call of the dagger for so long; she didn't want to admit why she was really afraid to give up the darkness. Everything would be the same, if she couldn't love Regina the way she did she had to have something to cling to. Emma knew that nothing would hurt her as much as seeing the pity face she was sure Regina would have if she told her the truth.
"No it's not. You just have to be brave enough to knock down all those walls you're hiding behind." Regina asked her to, and it was the one that threatened the blonde to tell the truth. With Regina, she could be herself, even as the Dark one she was still Emma when she was around Regina. Around her parents and Henry, she had to fulfill the role as the Savior and with Hook… To be honest, she didn't know what Hook expected of her but certainly not this.
Everyone had expectations about her, expectations she wasn't sure she would be able to fulfill.
"The dagger can make you look but you have to choose to see. Now, come on Emma see. Tell me what you're really afraid of."
"I'm afraid of loving you." Emma whispered, her head looking at the groung and she wasn't sure Regina had heard her but by the look on her face, she was pretty sure Regina indeed had heard her. But she was saved by her parents and Hook, when they saw Regina holding the dagger. Only Emma noticed
"Regina, what are you doing?" David asked as she approached Regina, but Regina remained quiet, mouth agape.
Hook took the dagger from Regina. "Regina that's enough." Hook said in an angry voice, who did Regina believe she was? "You alright?" Hook adressed Emma. Emma finally lookes up, but not at Hook but at Regina and glared at her with anger in her eyes.
The blonde took the light of Prometheus and the dagger and walked away, leaving her parents and Hook in confussion over what had happened just before they arrived while leaving Regina with a stuned expression, and Emma knew that she had just ruined the one true friendship she had ever had.
Almost immediately, Snow started arguing with Regina… or at least she tried. "You really think you're helping her by being cruel?" Snow hissed. No one should ever control Emma.
"What?" Regina muttered after she finally got ou of the trance that Emma's confession had put her on.
"I said if you really think you're helping her by being cruel?" Snow repeated and was a bit confussed that Regina seemed not her usual confident self.
After Snow repeated the question, the Charmings and Regina started going back and forth on what was the best way to help Emma get rid of the darkness, while Hook rolled his eyes and started waling towards where Emma was.
"There you are. I've been looking everywhere for you." Hook said after finally finding Emma, she hadn't quite wandered a lot into the woods but she had made several turns so she wasn't at plain sight.
Emma was sitting on a lodge, staring at the flame and the dagger. "Dagger's right here, Regina was going to use it on me why not you?" And Emma knew that the only person she would ever allow to control her was Regina, she trusted her, but she couldn't help muster up the courage to tell Hook that she wasn't in love with him, what Regina had made her confess. Besides, Regina was with Robin and certainly in love, she would never leave him for Emma.
"What she did was wrong. I'm sorry it happened." Hook said.
Emma just shrugged, she knew it had been necessary. "She is right you know? I do know why I'm sacred to let go off the darkness." Emma knew the Charmings and Hook had listened what Regina had demamded of her, and she knew that sooner or later Hook would ask the same thing and she would have to lie to him.
"What are you so afraid Emma?" Hook asked and he sat next to Emma.
"This, our future." Emma answered as she showed him the advertisement she had found earlier with Henry. She wasn't afraid of commitment, she was afraid of living a life she didn't want and feeling like being imprisoned.
"When I told you I loved you back in Storybrooke it was because I thought I would never see you again, it was the same with Neal." Emma said, she lies because the real reason she said 'I love you' was not because of him, it wasn't even directed to him. It was directed to Regina but nobody had to know that.
"Well, it's even worse than I thought it was." Hook muttered, and he knew in that instant that Emma wasn't in love with him and he didn't even know if she would ever be.
"I'm so sorry Hook." Emma whispered, because she knew that he knew. She went to put a hand on top of his shoulder only to get it shvoed off and Hook standing abruptly.
"No, you don't get to tell me that. I've sacrificed everything for you!" Hook exploded. "I traded my ship, I traded the life as I knew it just so I could be you." Emma just stared at him, not knwoing where this version of Hook was cominf from. "We just have to to get you rid of the darkness and then you'll be back. This is just the darkness talking, we're going to have a future together and everything will be okay." Hook started rambling in an angry voice.
"Hook…" Emma whispered.
"Don't you dare. Now, we go back to the dinner and you do whatever you have to do to get rid of the darkness." Hook said and started to walk away, back to where all the others were.
Emma grunted, this had just gone espectacularly. She had no other choice but to follow him back into the dinner, back to where Regina was. God, that's going to be very awkward.
Once at the dinner, everyone were waiting for them; her parents, Regina, Belle, Robin, Merlin, Henry, Granny.
"Are you ready Emma? Are you ready to give up the darkness?" Merlin asked Emma.
"Yes." Emma simply stated and starts using her magic to move the flame into the air, once there she takes both, Excalibur and the dagger and started moving them closer to the flame. If Emma had been looking anywhere other but the flame, she would have seen a proud smile on Regina's face, because she wasn't looking at the flame as everyone else was she was looking at Emma and how far she had come to.
However, once both parts started melting so they could be once again joined, Hook grunted in pain as he fell to the ground.
Everyone's head snapped to look at Hook bleeding through her neck, exactly where Excalibur had grazed him when Arthur had attacked him.
"Hook!" Emma practically screamed; she rushed down to where Hook was lying and tried to heal him with magic but that only made the wound even worse.
"Nothing can heal a wound made from Excalibur, not even your magic Emma." Merlin explained as he saw the conufssion in Emma's face when she noticed that what she was doing was not helping him. She knew that she wasn't in love with him but she couldn't let him die.
"So what? Am I supposed to leave him here to die?" Emma asked, panic laced in her voice.
"Emma, there's nothing you can really do." Regina softly said, trying to make Emma see reason. Internally, she hoped that Emma wouldn't do anything stupid but at the same time, if Hook survived and she saw Emma with him, it would make impossible for her to forget Emma's confession because then it would make it all too real, that Emma was only with the pirate to avoid herself of thinking about Regina.
If Regina was being honest, she knew she was only in love with the idea of Robin; I mean, after he left her for Marian, after not wanting to leave Zelena even after he knew that she wasn't really Zelena, who in their five senses would ever be in love with him? She always knew to some extent that she had been in love with Emma for a long time but she wasn't going to admit, and she was just now being a bypocrite because she had told Emma that there was a difference between not knowing something and not wanitng to admit something.
"You don't get to tell me what I can or can't do. If this was Ribn Hood would ou ever tell me that?" Emma snapped, no longer panic induced but just furious of what Regina was telling her. The brunette was in love with Robin, why would she care if the man that she was supposed to be in love was dying? Even if she wasn't in love, the person she loved would never love her back, she had no right to ask her not to do anything. Anything is better than being helplessly in love who doesn't love you back, right?
Regina lookes at her, surprised at Emma's ourburst and she knew she didn't have a right to say anything. She just looked at Emma pleadingly.
Instead, Emma just poofed herself and Hook, along with Excalibur, away from the dinner and into the meadow Hook had took her just a couple days ago.
She was openly crying, she didn't want to lose Hook, she had lost enough people in her life to add one more to that list.
"Emma, please. Learn to love, don't stop living because of me." Hook said barely above a whisper, he doesn't want to live a life knowing that the woman she loves doesn't love her back but also he doesn't want her to live unhappily ever after.
"Don't ask me that, I can't lose another person in my life." Emma muttered.
"Learn to love." Hook pleaded her, just as he fades away.
"No! No!" Emma screams, and because her mind isn't thinking ratioanlly and because she is stupid as fuck and because she is selfish as fuck, seh taked Excalibur and clings the darkness into Hook, and just like that, Hook has become the new Dark One and Emma finally transitions into the thing she had been fighting against.
Hook watched this from the dreamcatcher Zelena had gave him. And with that knowledge, Hook becomes his worst self.
"You did this to me? You turned me into the thing I despise the most?" Hook asked Emma that stood inmovible in front of him.
"Hook, I'm so sorry." Emma whispers, but she knows that nothing she says will ever make up for what she had done.
"Oh boy, but you haven't seen the best part." Zelena sarcastically adds. "Do you want to know why she could never love you? Why she sacrificed herself for Regina?" Zelena asks, with a mischivious smile in her face. The Wicked Witch couldn't believe that the Saviour was in love with the Evil Queen, she had already know that but seeing the confirmation of such was even better.
"Zelena, please don't do that." Emma says, because she knows that if Hook sees what she had confessed to Regina, Hook will definitely never forgive her and god knwos what he would do.
"Yes." Hooks hisses, as his eyes turned a darkes shade, one that you only see when the darkness had taken over completely.
And Hook watched how Regina forced her to tell her what she was really afraid of, how she at first only told partially the truth and then how just above a whisper, she confessed her love to Regina and stormed away.
He let the dreamcatcher fall and stared directly into Emma's eyes.
"You're going to pay for this." Hook threatened and then he poofed herself into a cloud of black smoke and disappeared.
"Oh gods." Zelena laughs at the irony she's seeing. "This is just going to be worth watching." Zelena says and she as well poofs herself in a cloud of green smoke. "Don't worry dear, the spell will go away in just a few minutes now the good part is going to see what're you going to do."
Emma just let a sob come out. She knew what Zelena was referring to, Hook would make her suffer, he would inflict pain as she had never felt, and the three of them knew that the only way to make Emma hurt like that, was if he was going to hurt Regina.
She couldn't let this happen but for that, she also had to come out clean to her parents, to Henry and to Regina. That's why she had casted the curse, so Regina didn't remember what she had confessed and she hoped she would be able to wait a little longer but fate is not on her side and now, she had to save Regina.
How is she going to do just that?
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