Hello everyone. I was planning on making this a one shot to get a theory that I knew the show wasn't going to do out of my head (the theory is about the curse not Will being the one that figures it out) but I received a review saying they liked it and it got my brain thinking about a second chapter so here it is. Any chapter after this won't come out until sometime after the next episode. Again I don't own OUAT or OUATiW and I make no money off this. Please watch the official shows. They are great. This story was inspired by the 2 hour special and the theory was formed from OUATiW so there are spoilers from both if you haven't seen it. I do not have a beta either so any and all mistakes are my own. Please review so I can improve and maybe learn to fight the dreaded writing illness known as OOC.
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Until then, enjoy.
Will's POV
'Blood brilliant. How am I going to tell the sheriff that her boyfriend is missing his heart? Based off the date I crashed and the jail time afterwards, they are quite serious. I'm pretty certain she kept me there longer than necessary out of spite. Maybe I'll go to the mayor instead. She did pardon me, but she's probably found out I lied about the breakout. Maybe the other sheriff. That'll be a bloody blast. Instead of telling one sheriff her boyfriend is missing a heart I get to tell the other that his daughter's boyfriend is missing a heart. I can't believe I'm thinking this but I miss the simplicity of Wonderland. At least there I knew what crazy stuff was happening. Wait is that Robin. Wonderful.' Will thought as he headed to the sheriff's station.
"Hey friend. I have a favor to ask of you."
"Really, and what might that be?" Robin replied cautiously.
"I have some information that the sheriffs in this town might want to know and I figure they might take to it a bit better if it comes from someone they know better. You seem to actually like these sheriffs so I thought you could tell them."
"Depends on the information. I'm not agreeing to anything until I know everything." Robin said giving me his full attention.
"A crocodile stole Captain Hook's heart." I told Robin with a straight face.
"Who knocked you on the head and how hard were you hit," Robin replied with a look of complete bewilderment.
"I'm serious mate. It probably wasn't an actual crocodile, I'm hoping the sheriffs will know what he meant by that, but the pirate with a hook for a hand, Captain Hook, has had his heart stolen."
"What makes you think that nonsense?"
"I just had a nice coded conversation with him at Granny's and I've spent many years heartless. I know the signs of magic that targets emotions when used on someone without a heart and they match the tales around him the last few days during the Snow Queen's curse."
"You're absolutely serious aren't you?" Robin asked. I just nodded as my answer. "In that case we should head to the sheriff's station and let them know."
"Great. Let me know how it all works out," I said as I started to turn and leave.
"Oh no. Wait right there. I said we. We are going to go to the sheriff's station and I'm going to sit back in a spot that is not in any way in the middle of a path between them and you and you are going to explain Killian being heartless and whatever you mean by a crocodile. I agree, they need to know but I'm not going to be the one in their sites when they find out." Robin said as he grabbed by shoulders, turned me around and started to push me towards the sheriff's station.
"Now cheer up. It won't be that bad. You're acting like I'm taking you to your own execution." Robin told me as he continued to push me towards our destination after seeing my face.
"I've been walked to my own execution before, a beheading actually. I preferred that feeling to this one," I told Robin with as much sarcasm in my voice as I could.
"One of these days we are going to have to sit down for a pint and we are going to catch up on what happened after we split paths but until then you have a story to tell the local sheriffs," Robin replied with an exasperated smirk on his face.
"Bloody Hell!"
"Hello David, my friend here has some information for you and your family. Where is your daughter?" Robin said once we entered the sheriff's station.
"She's out with her mother at the moment and what is your friend doing here? I thought he would avoid us after he broke out. Bed's still there if you want to stay again Will." David responded.
"Sorry mate, I believe your wife, the mayor, pardoned me so I'm technically a free man, but that's beside the point right now. You have a problem but before I go any farther I do have a request for you. Any way you can put your gun, knives, and any other weapons that you may use out of your arm reach. Just to be on the safe side." As I said this I noticed that Robin was slowly backing out of the line of fire and David was steadily growing more stone faced.
"How about you start talking now or I handcuff you to something so you can't dodge if there is something in arm's reach and you start talking mate," David replied putting an emphasis on the word mate.
"Okay first off you're not using mate right and second someone took Hook's heart and he says it was a crocodile. Whatever that bloody means," I told him quickly.
"Are you off your rocker?" David exclaimed.
"Why does everyone think that when I tell them this," I replied at the same time I heard Robin mutter, "Why would he be on a rocker in the first place?"
"It's an expression," Robin I said over my shoulder before I turned back to David.
"You're telling me that Killian got his HEART STOLEN," David repeated.
Before I could respond the door open and Regina walked in.
"I don't know who you are talking about but I haven't stolen anyone's heart since Neverland so if it was resent it wasn't me. Now, whose heart are we talking about?" Regina asked as she walked to stand over by Robin.
"Will here is under the impression that Killian's heart is missing. Also, what are you doing here Regina? You're not usually here unless we are having a meeting," David asked clearly getting annoyed with the mess that was forming.
"Robin texted me. He said that I would probably be needed here and it sounds like he might be right. Now, Will, why do you think Killian's heart has been taken," Regina responded with an air of irritation.
"Wait, since when does Robin have a phone?" I responded instead. About a week ago I know he didn't have a phone since we had to use mine to contact Regina about the page. I don't even know if he knew what one was.
"I got him one after he had to use yours so he could contact me directly if he needed something instead of running around trying to find me. Now I'll ask one more time. Why do you think Killian's heart has been stolen?" Regina asked with an edge of anger in her voice.
"Because of the Snow Queen's bloody curse. It affected him the same way similar types of magic affect those without hearts," I replied.
"What do you know about magic and hearts at that level?" Regina asked in a condescending tone.
"Because milady," as I gave a mock bowed at the milady portion purposely ignoring the glare Robin sent me for the trouble, "you may be more experienced with magic and taking people's hearts, but I've spent years without mine and have dealt with magic that targeted emotions. Without my heart the magic didn't affect me at all. Now my heart was in a different location than the magic so the magic didn't touch it. There is a chance that, since his heart was in the same location as the magic, it still got hit but without a heart emotions are dulled so even if the magic was able to touch the heart it would be so diluted that it never affected him. That is why Hook was able to not attack everyone he saw and had a beef with during the Snow Queen's curse. I also talked to him at Granny's and I hinted at the idea and he confirmed it."
"So Killian told you he didn't have a heart?" David asked as it seemed he was getting control of the situation.
"Not in so many words. We talked more in riddle that way if whoever has his heart asked he can claim that he doesn't know of anyone that knows but he did confirm it mate," I told David trying to put as much sincerity in my voice as possible and hide the irritation to make this go faster.
"Wonderful. The puppy pirate has his heart taken. Does your daughter know yet?" Regina asked.
"We haven't told her yet so as long as she hasn't figured it out on her own she doesn't know," David responded in a wary tone.
"Tell me Will, while you were out figuring this all out did you happen to get the name on who did this?" Regina asked tiredly.
"Depends. Do any of you know of any crocodiles that have held a centuries old vendetta against him that could bloody well do this because that's who Hook said stole it," I noticed that Regina and David tensed up at the word crocodile. "By your reaction I'm guessing yes. Who is it?"
"Gold though you may know him better as either Rumpelstiltskin or the Dark One," David responded after rubbing a hand over his face and through his hair.
"Bloody Hell. I'm not going to be the one to tell the rest of your group about this. How did Hook even get on Gold's radar let alone stay on it for centuries. He doesn't even have any magic that the Dark One would want. On second thought don't tell me. I don't want to know," I said as I sank into my seat wondering what I just got myself into and if there was any way I could get out of it and go back to focusing solely on getting back to Wonderland and Anastasia.
There we go, chapter 2. I know that Will mentioned the crocodile when he first told David this but I'm going with David was still processing the missing heart portion. Please leave a review to let me know what you think and I'll 'see' you all after the next episode. And for all of you in the USA happy Thanksgiving and for those of you that are not Happy Holidays.
