Just a quick note, I am basing this on that no one knew how Emma had gotten Gold to help, plus I do not think she actually divulged hearing the whispers so yea. Plus this is fanfiction so…yea onward.

Revelation of the Savior

"Alright, so where in my instructions about getting Regina did I say to bring the rest of the gang?" Gold asked as he looked at Emma, Snow, and Henry, "Especially bringing the Savior along for the ride?"

"This is dangerous, especially since your son wants her." Zoso whispered from his spot near Gold.

Emma looked sharply at Gold, not because of what he had said to Belle, but because she faintly heard and faintly saw the man that was a predecessor to Rumple as the mantel of the Dark One. Gold noticed Emma's movement, "this is bad," he internally confirmed to his predecessor.

"Since you had Belle accuse me of stealing your dagger." Regina stated with arms crossed, oblivious to Emma's reaction.

Gold sighed heavily and shook his head, "I am sorry, but I did not mean to answer her questions like I was accusing you."

"I am sorry to…in case I didn't apologize before." Belle said more calmly and quietly to Regina, now fairly ashamed of her response.

Snow stepped in, "It's alright and it really doesn't matter anymore, we are here now and not leaving. What is going on? Why don't you have your dagger?"

Everyone watched as Gold struggled to get the wording to come out, "We could use Emma," Nimue's form appeared to Gold now; "he ordered you not to say a thing." He looked at Emma and saw her internal struggle. She was hiding it well, and was impressed that no one else noticed or was even aware of the Savior's struggle. He wouldn't even have known her struggle if it was not for the fact that he had his own struggle with the voices once upon a time.

"That would mean she would have to let her shield down," Hook commented in a bored drawl to the suggestion, "which she isn't about to do if she knows what's good for her crocodile."

"Which is why only one of us will talk to her," Nimue snarked in response before talking directly to Gold, "tell her to drop her shield. You both share the power, and he only ordered you to not do something, not her."

Gold thought it over, "Rumple?" he jumped as he looked at Belle's concerned face before becoming fully aware that everyone, except for Emma, was watching him, "Are you alright?"

"Yes of course, but to answer your question Snow I cannot say." Gold said, and continued before he could be chewed out he emphasized, "I really cannot say."

"Will this really work?" Gold thought silently as he looked at Emma's pained expression, "what are you doing to her?"

"It's the Dark Magic," Zoso responded this time, "being in your possession for so long must have affected the aura in here."

Zoso disappeared and Nimue replaced him, "He is right but it should. There has never been technically two Dark Ones before; now talk to her."

"Ms. Swan, I am going to need you to do something." Gold said to the blonde slowly and somewhat delicately.

Now the focus was on Emma, "What?"

"Hold on, why are you looking at her when it was me that you requested?" Regina snapped before Gold could say anything.

"Because dearie, I changed my mind;" Gold said simply, "but I still need you anyway. Just not at this moment." Then looking at Emma he said, "I need you to drop those mental shields."

Now eyes were on Emma, "Wait what?" Emma asked pretending not having heard him.

"Emma what is he talking about?" Snow asked slowly as she approached her daughter.

"I do not know." Emma lied.

"For someone who is such an expert on lying, she is terrible." Hook drawled out as he toyed with his hook.

"Shut up!" Gold snapped back in his head as he focused back on Emma, "Please Emma," this caught Emma's attention, "I wouldn't ask if I didn't need you too."

"I am not doing it." Emma said firmly.

"Do what?" Henry asked having had enough of keeping quiet, "What does he mean?"

Gold wanted to explain, but the order was putting a mental weight on his mind, "Tell her I want to talk to her." Nimue suggested, "She will not see Hook, make it as a deal and you will have to honor that."

Gold nodded to himself and came out from behind the counter, "Nimue wants to talk to you." Emma's eyes snapped to his, "Hold on, I'll make you a deal. You talk to Nimue only and Hook will not appear to you."

"How can she talk to Nimue? She isn't a Dark One any longer." Snow commented as she looked between Gold and Emma, "She doesn't have ties to the dagger."

Gold just looked at Emma and she stared back, silently communicating. Regina was watching intently and suddenly it clicked in her mind as to the nature of the meaning that Gold was getting at, "How long Emma?" Regina demanded to know.

"Mom?" Henry asked looking at Regina and then at Emma.

Emma broke eye contact and looked away, "Emma? You are not connected to the dagger." Snow said as if saying it would make it true, but then why would Rumple ask her to talk to Nimue?

"Since after I stabbed Killian with the sword." Emma answered after taking a deep to Regina's question and ignoring Snow's gasp, "That was how I knew that Gold took the power back. I blackmailed him into helping, saying that I would tell Belle if he didn't open the portal to Under-Brooke."

"Emma." Snow gasped again as she tried to take a step towards her daughter, but Emma stepped away, "Why didn't you tell us?"

Emma shook her head, "Because I thought it was a fluke at first. Like I didn't hear it initially, it just happened. However when we got back and everything else that happened, the voices never went away." So she continued to explain about the voices and that deep loathing feeling each time they were around her, and the feeling of being trapped about asking for help.

"We would have helped you." Henry spoke up softly as he grabbed his mother's hand, making her look at him, "Despite those feelings, you could have come to us."

Emma met his gaze, and then looked at Regina, Snow, and Belle. Gold was standing off to the side now looking agitated, and let her shield drop a bit. She could faintly make out Zoso's voice, then Hook's, and Nimue's before building her mental wall back up again, "And you did help, it was unknowingly on your part…sort of." So then she told them about her minor research based off of the movie she had watched with Henry, and how that paid off with what she was able to accomplish.

"So you knew that your tether was not completely broken, and decided to hide it from us?" Regina seethed, the feeling of betrayal settling in her which surprisingly, but not so much surprisingly, hurt, "Do you realize how stupid it was to keep that from us?"

Snow didn't even object to Regina's comment and motioned for Emma to answer, wanting to know the answer to that question too. Emma took her hand out of Henry's and replied, "Look I am sorry I kept that from you, but I figured if I could control the voices, me being slightly tethered shouldn't have been an issue. Besides it clearly doesn't affect me all that much since the dagger seems to only works on Gold if he has to keep his mouth shut about whoever has it. Which surprisingly, or not really surprisingly, could be Gideon."

"Gideon wouldn't do that to his father." Belle stated firmly, although a small lingering of doubt overcame her.

"But that is just it, please Emma." Eyes turned to Gold now as he spoke, voice almost laced with strain as he nearly begged, "Let Nimue in and talk to her, I will not let Hook come to you."

Emma looked at him and felt unease, but seeing his face she relented, "Fine I'll let her in, if you keep your end of the deal."

"This is a bad idea," Snow whispered to Emma as she grabbed her daughter away from the group to the door to have a bit of privacy, "I do not know how this works, but letting an entity that tried to kill us in your head is not the answer to this. This is something we have to talk about."

"What is there to discuss? I told you everything." Emma whispered back quickly as she looked over her shoulder to Gold who was getting an earful from Regina, and Henry standing awkwardly near Belle, mixed emotions crossing his face.

"Bull shit Emma." Snow snapped furiously, "I was your roommate and best friend before I was your mother. I know by now when you are hiding something from me." Seeing that Emma was beginning to look defensive, Snow backtracked a bit and said more softly yet sternly, "We have to think this through."

Emma relaxed her defensive posture and took a deep breath. If she was going to let Nimue in, she had to remain calm and collected, less she accidently let the full power of darkness through as well. Then they could all be in trouble, "There is really nothing more to think through. I will listen to what Nimue has to say, and then I'll get her out. We do not have much time, whoever stole the dagger has a two hour start ahead of us. Who knows? She might not be able to tell me anything."

Before Snow could retort, Emma walked back over to Gold and said, "Ok let's do this."

"Finally," Nimue snapped as Gold looked at her, "tell her to focus on me."

"Ok so-" Gold started to say.

"Already on it." Emma said cutting him off, which worried him a bit but wisely did not comment as she closed her eyes.

She focused on her breathing, and burying her emotions. This led to calming her mind, and once it was calm, she willed her fortress to appear. It was like the castle from the Enchanted Forest Wish Realm, with the exception that there was no bridge. It was stuck on the small island surrounded by open water. Once she reopened her eyes, she saw that she was on the balcony. Looking over to the other side and sees a dark cloaked figure. Emma focuses on creating a draw bridge, which easily drops from the main gate to the other side, and with caution the dark cloaked figure comes across. Once the figure is in the court yard, the bridge vanishes and Emma appears in a cloud of grey smoke, "That is far enough."

"This space is all I need." The figure spoke, the voice is female which Emma is relieved to hear. Delicately, as if to show no sign of threat, she pulls the hood back to reveal flowing black hair and deep hazel eyes, "To be honest I am surprised that you trust me this far. I was only expecting to be met half way across the bridge."

"That would have left us vulnerable to others." Emma said arms crossed, "Which I would rather not deal with."

"Trust me, you do not want to." Nimue spoke mimicking Emma's posture. She then looked around, "I see now though why we couldn't get in. You infused your mindscape with some pretty strong protection spells."

Emma smirked, "Being with you all was worth something after all."

"Glad you payed attention, but on to business." Nimue paused, as if waiting to see if the order that Rumple's son had given was going to affect her. She did not feel the weight like she felt with Rumple, so she decided to give it a try, "As you know the dagger was stolen."

"We gathered that much when Belle accused Regina of taking it." Emma stated in a bored tone, waiting for something useful.

Nimue nodded and continued on, not feeling resistance, "You were right in your assumption. Gideon took it. He has plans for you." She paused seeing that Emma was not surprised by this admission, "He was asking Rumpelstiltskin about your tether, and unfortunately you can guess how that conversation went."

Emma could have a pretty good guess, having been at the control of Regina and Regina unintentionally giving her orders from time to time, forgetting she had the dagger in her possession, "He wants to use the dagger to try and control me. Make me be a Dark One again."

"Technically you never stopped being one." Nimue pointed out, "You have just done a better job at blocking us out than most others." She paused again, still kind of surprised Emma had been willing to listen, but then added as an afterthought, "There has never been two Dark Ones at the same time so it probably helps that Rumpelstiltskin has taken on most of the power."

Emma shrugged, "I'll bite that sounds plausible." It wasn't that strong as she took on the full mantel, but it still was uncomfortable from time to time when someone or something was trying to poke around your head.

Nimue must have realized that too and said, "It was mainly Hook that has been trying to reach you, he is still angry you know."

"Moving on, what else have you got?" Emma demanded to know, not wanting to talk about Killian's Dark One persona.

Nimue was about to retort on Emma's deflection, but then wisely kept quiet about it. Taking a deep breath she said, "Truly nothing else other than to watch your back. We sensed some powerful and ancient magic on his person, so who knows what he has planned. His clue was that by the time he was done, his mother would always have the man she wanted."

Emma thought her words over and nodded, "Alright, thank you for the heads up."

"You are welcome." Nimue responded and turned to leave.

Just as she was putting her hood up and the draw bridge reappearing, Emma stopped her, "Wait. Why are you helping us? What else is in it for you? All of you?"

Nimue turned back around and looked at Emma again, she finished putting her hood on and said simply, "Nothing is in it for us, it's not like we can be free; thanks to you that is not possible, but at the same time you are technically one of us whether you admit to it or not. I doubt you want Gideon to control you too." Emma waited for more as Nimue thought over what she was trying to say, "Also the forces he is playing with, is not something we want to see happen. Even Dark Ones have morals and values, as misconstrued as they are. You are the only one of us that seemed to have really tried to keep on the straight and narrow. Good luck Savior. I hope to never have to be in your head again."

"I hope so too." Emma responded as she faintly saw a smirk appear underneath the hood, "What?"

"Nothing, it's just a shame that we are on two different sides. We would have made great friends if the circumstances were different." With that the first official Dark One left the courtyard and Emma as she crossed the bridge. Once she was on the other side, the bridge vanished and the shields went back up, before Emma focused on leaving, she saw the figure give a small wave before vanishing in a cloud of black smoke.

Snow, Regina, Henry, Gold, and Belle watched with bated breath as Emma's eyes reopened. Looking around she saw she was in a chair in the back room with Mother Superior lying on the couch, "How did I get here?" Emma asked, "Wasn't I in the front area before?"

"Never mind that," Regina stated, "tell us what happened."

Gold looked at Emma as she thought the conversation over, would she be able to do something he was not allowed to do, or would the order affect her despite the internal conversation that was just held? "Its ok, it worked; I managed to talk to her." Nimue said to him as she appeared at his side.

"Yea and that is all well and good, but-" Gold's internal response was cut off.

"Gideon did steal the dagger and long story short he has something major planned." Emma answered looking at them, avoiding the other part about involving his plans for her.

Belle stepped forward, arms crossed in a defensive manner as she spoke with the tone to match, "Hold on, this is a Dark One we are talking about. How do we know she isn't lying to us?"

"Gee thanks," Nimue huffed with an eye roll.

"She does make a point. I would be leery too." Zoso said, replacing Nimue's apparition.

"How do you not get a headache with this?" Hook then asked replacing Zoso's apparition next to Gold as he looked on in boredom.

Gold rolled his eyes and ignored them all, which was becoming harder to do for some reason. After a fair amount of time, he had been able to block out the voices and the apparitions, but now it was like he was starting over from square one. He made no comment though as he looked on, "Rumple?" Belle called to him, which he turned to look at her, "Is what Emma is saying true?"

Straightening up he looked at them, "You cannot say anything about this crocodile." Hook's teasing sing-song voice said, which was supposed to be a mockery of his tone he would use in the Enchanted Forest.

"I can neither confirm nor deny anything." Gold said as the weight once again formed in his core.

"Smart ass." Emma, Hook, Zoso, and Nimue said at the same time. This startled Emma a bit as she looked to the seemingly empty spot near Gold…at least to everyone else it looked empty.

Refocusing on the conversation, Emma shook her head and said, "Look I didn't sense anything out of the ordinary with our conversation, but if it is indeed true then we have to look for him." Seeing Belle was still in some sort of denial, Emma got up and went over to her, "I cannot begin to imagine how hard it must be for you to accept this, but-"

"But what? What are you going to do if he does have the dagger?" Belle demanded to know, "He is our son. Can you assure me that you will not hurt him?"

Emma looked at Belle, but before she could respond, Regina stepped up, "Now what a minute. We cannot guarantee anything, and without his dagger Rumple is at the mercy of your son, who might I remind you, tried to kill Emma one time before. Who knows if he is going to use the dagger on him to hurt her?"

"That's right, and between you and me as a mother, if he tries to kill Emma, he has another thing coming." Snow cut in now as she stood beside Regina.

That is not the issue, Emma thought as she reflected on Nimue's warning in her head, he will use the dagger to use me. Not like she would be that easy to control, she wasn't going to be weak like the last time since she knew what to expect, but still she remained quiet about that choosing to focus on one thing at a time, "Can we stop fighting please?" At Henry's words, she focused back on the conversation, "I know this looks bad, and if I could use the pen to change all this I would, but truth is we do not know why Gideon has the dagger. This could be just a lapse in judgement, because he is getting desperate, let's just take one thing at a time and find him first. Try reasoning with him."

Do not try and stop me, the order flashed in Gold's mind as he looked between Snow, Regina, and Belle. He couldn't hear this, because then there was an issue about trying to stop them from stopping his son, so he slowly started backing out of the room, "Where are you headed?" Regina asked as she noticed his movements.

"If it is all the same to you, I have errands that need running. I am getting rather bored." Gold said in his tone of superiority.

"Wait you cannot just leave." Snow said incredulously, "This is your son we are arguing about."

"Yes and you rather not want me around for this, now if you will excuse me." He then waved his hands and disappeared in a cloud of purple smoke.

"Unbelievable." Belle muttered as she crossed her arms, "Not even willing to help in this."

"He cannot help anyway." Emma muttered as she mimicked her posture and now the focus was on her, "He isn't allowed to stop your son."

"So then how did he get past that to tell you to talk to Nimue?" Snow asked curiously, "Isn't that like stopping Gideon to give you that information?"

Emma shook her head, "Not really no. He couldn't tell us anything, which is what he wanted to do. So since the order was given to him and not the rest of the Dark One's, they or she rather, was about to give it to me to translate. We are now talking about putting an end to his plans-"

"To which he cannot be a part of." Regina finished and Emma nodded, "Ok so how do we stop him."

"Depends on your definition." Belle countered.

"Now see here library rat-"

"Stop!" Emma yelled, "Look we find Gideon first, and then how about a deal?"

Eyes were now on Emma, "What kind of deal?" Belle asked.

"We do things your way when we see him;" Emma started to say, "but if after three tries and he still insists on playing his games, we do things our way."

Everyone was silent looking at Belle for confirmation, "No. We see him and we do things my way, however if I fail at getting him to relinquish the dagger, we do things your way…without killing him."

"No killing." Emma nodded, "Fine. Deal?" She held her hand out.

"Deal." Belle said shaking her hand.

They talked for a few more moments, before leaving the Pawn Shop. It wasn't until they were outside Regina, Snow, and Henry pulled Emma to the side, "What the hell did you just do?" Regina demanded, "You can't ensure something like that won't happen. What if he threatens Henry and we have no choice?"

"There is always a choice." Emma said glaring at the mayor, "I just already made it. No killing."

"You made a deal. Something in which we have to honor, what if he uses the dagger on you or does something worse?" Snow asked, "I do not think you understand what you just did."

"First off, we keep Henry away. No kid no arguing with me," Emma stated seeing that Henry was about to open his mouth to protest, "secondly, we just have to have faith. Isn't that what you are always teaching me?"

"There is faith, then there is blind stupidity." Regina mentioned, "I think you got the two mixed up."

Emma sighed and pulled away from them and continued walking down the road, "What's done is done. I made a deal and I intend to honor it, besides with Gideon dead, I'll never get Killian back so this is more selfish than it is selfless. Let's go get lunch before we have to track the son of a bitch." Regina, Snow, and Henry exchanged glances before following Emma to Granny's, feeling not so sure about what was about to come next.