(A/N: Hi Everyone! I hope you enjoyed the first chapter! Thank you for all those who reviewed and/or read! Here is the second. Please enjoy! Don't forget to review! Thanks! ~The Rising Phoenix~)
Chapter 2 – Names and An Unsavable Soul
Previously on Never Forgotten Soul
"I'm supposed to protect her, right?" David suddenly commented in question. Snow thought she heard a slight catch in his voice.
"You do David, what are you talking about?"
"So why can't I protect her from heartbreak?"
Upstairs in the loft, Emma cried silently for Hook; crying herself to sleep almost as soon as her head hit the pillow. She played with the ring he gave her. It was much too big to fit on any of her fingers. She tied to the shoelace that rested on her wrist.
That was all she could think of before sleep dragged her into its (hopefully peaceful) dark depths.
"Mom, you know how I was working to write everyone in the Underworld their unfinished business?" Henry said to Regina.
"Yes."
"Well, I figure I can still do that while I'm up here. I am the Author, right?"
Regina gave a quick glance at Robin to see if he thought the same thing.
"In theory, yes. You can try…"
"And I know just the person I'm helping next." Henry said, a smile on his face.
"That one? No." Said a voice, just entering the diner.
Regina glared, her lips thinning into a straight line.
"What do you mean?" Henry asked.
"I'm afraid that soul you can't write unfinished business for."
"Why not? I have to!" Henry said, passionately.
"But you can't. That is something only the unfinished business can fix."
"But how, if I don't write it?" Henry asked.
"It will come. In time."
Henry looked at Regina and Robin, then at Hades in confusion and frustration.
"I know it's having too much power, but what good is being the Author, if I can't help people move on from what's keeping them there, especially fi they don't know it?"
"Oh, trust me, this soul knows the unfinished business that's keeping them trapped down there. It's up to the Unfinished Business to figure it out – and if the Unfinished Business is told, well, the soul will never move on."
"Why not?" Robin asked, speaking for the first time about any of this.
"Because, this particular soul is special. The unfinished Business needs to be the one to realize it, and go to the soul it's caused to be trapped down there. The soul obviously can't go seeking for it. It needs to be one of pure recognition, and well that, and some other thing is involved. I am not quite sure, nor do I care. But neither here nor there…"
"But we just got back from The Underworld…How are we to get back down there?" Robin questioned.
"You can't do that Hades! You're out of the underworld now, you have no control over it anymore, that world, or it's souls!" Regina said.
"Ah, but this particular soul, I do dear. The only one I have left." Hades said, an arrogant smile to his face.
Henry rolled his eyes, turning away in frustration, and asked Granny for a hot chocolate with cinnamon.
Regina pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration, and Robin rolled his eyes, looking to the Heavens to keep his temper in check. He crossed his arms in frustration.
"Where's Zelena and the baby?" Regina asked, sensing Robin was not in the mood to talk.
"Right here." Zelena said, as she walked through the door with her and Robin's baby in her arms.
"And…Well I never thought I'd be the one to think of such a name, but considering the last few hours, well, I've been inspired." She said to Robin and Regina, all but rambling happily.
Robin arched an eyebrow, ready to internally cringe at the baby's possible name.
"Well, Zelena, being as it is our baby, what were you thinking? I've got a few in mind myself."
"Hope"
"What?" Robin asked, before he could stop himself. His outburst wasn't of anger, but of pure surprise.
Well that was the last name he even though he'd hear her pick let alone like it…Truth be told that was the main name he was considering, with only about two others.
"What do you think?" She asked Robin, who was still a bit stunned. "Hmm? What do you think of that for a name, little darling?" Zelena said to the baby, who cooed in her arms.
"Zelena," Robin said softly, to gain her attention. Zelena looked up with a smile. "Hope is perfect." Robin said with a smile.
"That's your name little girl. Hope." Zelena said. She saw Robin wanting to hold her, but not quite making the motions (moving forward, reaching out). She knew he was being respectful of her time with the baby, even though he didn't trust her as much as Regina came to.
"Do you want to go see Daddy?" Zelena said, ready to pass baby Hope to Robin.
Robin had a smile on his face, as he gathered Hope into his arms.
"Hello Hope. What a perfect little name for such a beautiful little girl." Robin said, the light shining in his eyes with love for his daughter.
'Thank you Robin."
"For?" Robin asked genuinely.
"For trusting me with her. I know it is hard…" Zelena decided not to include Hades in that statement. He didn't need to be included, even though he was standing right there. It was something everyone understood, and hadn't needed to be said aloud.
Robin nodded his head as if to say "You're Welcome," before turning and sitting at the booth Henry was waiting patiently in. He was staring out the window in contemplation of Hades words.
"So, let's cut to the chase Hades, what about Hook?" Regina said, getting down to business.
Hook made his way out of the depths of the Underworld's lowest point.
He hung out by the cliff of eternal light or eternal damnation. He just stared.
He made a promise to Emma that she wouldn't be his unfinished business. He intended to keep it.
So he wasn't exactly sure, other than Hades, and that he did sacrifice himself to save Emma, and the world from all the Dark Ones, why he was still there – what was his unfinished business?
"Staring at that won't help ya." Said a voice in the shadows behind him.
Killian didn't bother to look back, sitting against a rock pillar at the mouth of the entrance – away from the edges.
"Don't bother, mate. Just, let me be please." Hook replied, his eyes almost in despair.
"Just lettin' ya know of something I've already done, countless times and it's gotten me nowhere. So, what's your unfinished business?"
"I don't know yet, yours?"
The soul sighed. "A woman I loved."
"Been there, working on it not being my own."
"Yes, but is your unfinished business trying to figure out a way she can save herself?"
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