Chapter 02 - Drumming Song

Olivia had to take a deep breath before addressing these accusations. She had looked once at Killian, and it had been enough to know that whatever the pixie haired woman was saying was true. He was now looking at her, trying to guess her next move. Honestly, not even she knew the next move. The words she had spoken to Regina a few minutes ago rang in her head. Give him a chance. She turned to the angry woman and swallowed.

"Can you explain to me, exactly, how those events came to happen?" Olivia said slowly, and the other woman finally turned to her, as if seeing her for the first time. "From the beginning…"

Snow looked at the girl standing in front of her. She was so angry she hadn't even registered the girl until now. After the tirade she had with Hook, she had somehow found herself speechless. Snow didn't know this woman, but she knew Hook, which meant she wasn't exactly an ally. She frowned at the girl, but as her speaking ability came back to her Emma had already started to talk.

"Well, you already know that Earth, isn't the only land around." Emma started and Olivia nodded. "Okay, so, Regina," she pointed to the woman who had been under attack from Hook earlier. "Is the Evil Queen, from Snow White, she cursed Fairytale land. She transported all its people to a place with no magic. Earth. Hook was supposed to kill Cora, Regina's mother, so she couldn't interfere with the plan." Regina at some point had told them the whole story about how Hook met Cora. "But Cora decided to make a sweeter deal and Hook took her bait instead of Regina's."

"Yes, I remember that story. Something about a curse?" Olivia asked Emma who nodded.

"So you were in Neverland after the curse?" Emma countered and Olivia shrugged.

"She was." Hook finally spoke.

"Right." Emma continued. "Rumplestiltskin told my mother, Snow White, that I would save them from the curse. When I did, things, shifted in Fairytale Land and me and Snow were transported back there. Are you following me?" Emma asked and Olivia nodded. "We needed to get back here, my son Henry was here, and I couldn't leave him behind, not with Regina here." Olivia looked at the Evil Queen who looked at her feet. "In there we met, Captain Hook. He told us what we needed to get back here, even helped us some. It was short lived though. He showed his true colors after, by helping Cora come here. He ripped Aurora's heart out, so that Cora could control her to spy on us, without us knowing."

"Aren't you forgetting a small detail here and there?" Hook said walking towards Emma, but Olivia stepped in front of him and he stopped short before barreling into her.

"Continue…" Olivia said without turning back to Emma.

"He fought me, my mother and our allies after we escaped the prison." Emma continued her story. "We thought we had won, but Cora arrived in Storybrooke and then, Captain Hook " those two words were always spat, more than said. "He kidnapped my son and gave him to Cora."

"When you found us…" She heard Regina's voice speak. "We had just caught up with him, and I was trying to make him talk."

"Trying and failing, I might add." Hook said but hissed after that sentence came out. He had to start thinking before speaking.

"Did you do all this?" Olivia asked Hook.

"And much we don't know about I'm sure." Snow answered Olivia's question, but the girl didn't move.

"Did you do all this?!" Olivia shouted the question, looking into the captain's eyes. She already knew he did, but she had to hear him say it. Call her a masochist. "Did you rip some girl's heart out and kidnap a child?"

Hook bit his tongue and looked to the ground, to the ceiling, to Emma who had a raised eyebrow, but when Olivia's hand grabbed the collar of his shirt and pull him down to her eye level he had no other choice.

"Yes…" He said quietly and Olivia swallowed, turning her back on him. "But she left me in the beanstalk with a giant!" he shouted when her hands left his collar.

"Shut up." Olivia said quietly.

"She left me behind first…and I gave the he—"

"Shut up!" Olivia's shouted over Hook's complaints. "Just shut up! You have already done too much damage to even think about defending yourself. Kidnap a child?! Killian…a child?" He turned his back to her and placed his hand on his head.

"I gave the heart back." He mumbled over and over again.

"We'll help you find him." Olivia said to Emma. "I'm sorry about him. Believe it or not, this isn't…This isn't him…I'll help you find him. Even if I have to travel through all the lands in this universe. He'll help too."

"How can we trust him?" Snow asked, pointedly.

"He won't do anything against you." Olivia said, trying to convince everyone, maybe even herself. "I know he won't do anything against you. Please. If I go with you, he won't do anything to you. That's why I'm here, right Mr. Gold?"

Mr. Gold smirked and tilted his head sideways.

"Not just, but for that as well." He said.

Emma, looked at Snow, and both had a silent conversation. Emma was trying to think rationally. Hook was the only one who might have a slight idea of where Cora had taken Henry, and Olivia seemed to have him on a short leash. Emma prided herself on being a good people reader, she knew the girl was sincerely shocked by this whole story. She could see the confusion in her eyes, the questioning and the hurt. She couldn't fake that much hurt. Snow looked to her daughter, who nodded slightly at her.

"All right." Emma concluded. "But if he strays one inch from the plan, it will be the last time he does it. Your pleading won't do him any good."

Olivia nodded and sighed. One ordeal straightened out. Hook would live and she was once again going back to the magic realm of Neverland and other lands.

"We need to start searching for Henry right now. God knows what she'll do to him…" Snow started. "Where she may be right now."

"She needs a way back to Fairytale Land." Hook said, getting a look from everyone. Was he trying to be helpful?

"She has magic." Regina countered.

"She had magic before." He argued back. "It didn't do her any good. Cora needs a portal to get to Fairytale Land."

"How many portals are there?" Olivia asked.

"The wardrobe." Snow started. "The hatter's hat, the beans…"

"Elizabeth Tower…" Olivia added, earning a look from everyone. "Big Ben?"

"Big Ben is a portal to Fairytale Land?" Emma asked. Olivia nodded at Emma's question.

At this point everyone in the room had found a comfortable position in the shop. Emma was leaning against a table arms crossed on her chest. She was close to Regina, but the Evil Queen had her hands on the table. Snow and the man, who Olivia assumed to be Prince Charming, were seated on some of the wooden antique chairs on the shop. Olivia was mimicking Emma, but she was leaning against one of the counters, the one she had hit her head on, with Killian right beside her.

"I don't know if you'll land exactly on Fairytale Land, but you'll definitely splash around in Neverland." Olivia explained, stifling a yawn.

"Does she know that? About Big Ben?" Regina asked and Olivia shrugged.

"I don't think she knows much about this world." Hook offered. "She'll want to go back to a place she knows and can control."

"Does she have any portal with her? A new bean…some kind of magic?" Snow asked him and Killian half-heartedly shook his head.

"I don't know…" Emma frowned at him and started to come towards him, but he raised his hands up in defense. "Read my lips, love, I do not know. She could have hidden a small stash of ashes from the wardrobe for emergency sake. Cora's cunning. Unfortunately she left me out of this part of the deal."

"Obviously." Olivia mumbled looking up at Killian, the pirate grinning at her.

"So, for all we know, my dear mother, could be on her way to Fairytale Land. Worse, for all we know she's already there." Regina pointed.

"Is there a way to know if a portal has been summoned?" Olivia asked. "Magic tracking device?"

Everyone looked at Mr. Gold at that point, who had been silently listening to their conversation, seated on another antique chair. He drummed his fingers on the cane and shrugged. He got up from his chair and walked behind the glass counters, searching the store's stands for something. He walked to the store's front window and picked something up, walking back to the group silently.

In his hand was a silver mirror, with details carved to its backside. A faint trace of a rose with its petal's made of red glass. He looked at it and then back at everyone.

"Tell me, why should I do this for you?" Gold looked directly at Emma. "I'm not going to gain anything by helping you, so…name your price."

"Belle." Regina spoke instead and Gold's eyes widened for a second. "I took her once…I'll take her twice."

"You know what, dearie, I might just have forgotten how this goes." Mr. Gold walked back to where he came from and Emma took a step forward.

"I'll owe you one." Emma shouted and Gold stopped, as if to think about it, and then shook his head.

"You already owe me one." He turned around and leaned into his cane. "But I'll take someone else's." He looked directly at Hook.

Gold's whole purpose of this charade was to humiliate the captain even more. He would eventually help them find the boy, if anything to impress Belle. But to have this opportunity and just let out the door would be too much. Rumplestiltskin knew how prideful the pirate was, and he hoped to tear it apart piece by piece.

Olivia was looking at Killian. Jaw clenched, brow furrowed, his right hand clenching and unclenching. His bright blue eyes were looking at Gold with so much rage that Olivia wouldn't be surprise if laser beams would shoot out of them. His state of anxiety was making her nervous. He finally looked down to her and blinked.

"I'll owe you a favor." Killian spoke clearly and loudly, with his head held high.

"Well then," Mr. Gold smirked and walked back towards the group, still looking at the pirate. "What is it that you want me to do, Mr. Jones?"

"Help us find Henry." He kept his ground, never looking away from the man in front of him.

Mr. Gold grabbed the mirror and looked straight at it, he place a hand on the reflective part of the object and closed his eyes.

"Show me Cora." He said and the mirror shined bright for a moment. Gold took his hand from it and turned the mirror so that his spectators could see what it was showing.

The mirror was showing the evil witch, talking to Henry, in a stone bedroom. The boy was seated on a bed with a pleading expression, and Cora had a small smile on her lips. She turned around and walked out of the room, locking a wooden door behind her. She walked around and Regina gasped.

"She's there…She got back." Regina said.

"We need to go back!" Emma agreed.

"Can we go back tomorrow?" Olivia mumbled, unconsciously leaning her head on Hook's shoulder. She was dog tired. It earned her a look from everyone else in the room. "Maybe not."

"How do we go back?" Snow started. "We can't leave the town. We'll forget everything."

"You'll forget everything." Regina countered. "I never forgot…I can leave whenever I want."

"So can I." Emma stepped up.

"I'm not letting you go alone."

Olivia's groaned. In addition to her growing need to sleep, she could feel a headache going on. She felt Killian's arm around her waist, and shifted her weight so she could do the same. Maybe it was her sleep deprived head, but the accusations of what he had done seemed to escape her for a moment. She jumped when the pirate spoke.

"How did you two get back to this world?" The pirate chimed into the argument going on in the room.

Suddenly Emma's face brightened and she grinned.

"The well!" She said.

"There you go. A portal…" Killian smiled and raised an eyebrow.

"The well could be damaged." Regina said after a while. "We put a spell on it before you came through. I'm not sure how well the well will work."

"Do we really need this many people to help defeat the old lady?" Olivia blurted out and even Hook looked at her funny. "Suppose so…"

"We're going to need all the help we can have. Believe me." Emma said and Olivia shrugged.

"What if we open the portal from the other side?" Olivia yawned out. "The ones who can leave town will go through the Big Ben portal, find the other portal that brought you two back and open it from the other side."

"You still need a help from the other side, love. We can't just click our fingers and a portal opens up." Hook explain.

"All right." Emma said, frowning and sighing. "Let's go through the possibilities. The beans are out of the question. Unless we find Jack or the Giant."

"Yeah, no…" Killian shook his head at that thought. "I'm not climbing another beanstalk. Not with you anyways…" Emma rolled her eyes.

"We could ask Jefferson to make another hat." Emma continued her list of possibilities.

"I think that might have been a one-time kind of deal." Regina countered and Emma groaned.

"We need something portable, that we can take with us, to open a portal to here from the other land."

"May have something." Hook said.

In all honesty, there was noone in the room that wasn't surprise at Hook's effort to help. Emma was still not trusting the man, but she could see the effort. Apparently the girl did have some control over him. Like she had observed earlier, he wasn't changed, his demeanor hadn't become less pirate and more angel, but he was calmer.

"You know Tinkerbell?" Killian grimaced.

Olivia frowned.