Chapter Three: Duties
Killian and Rumplestilskin sat in silence, glaring at each other until Blue came the next morning. Their stomachs had both started growling the night before, so both were secretly hoping for food to be brought to them.
The moment Blue opened the door, Rumplestilskin perked up. He hadn't slept a wink at all last night, and clearly neither had the pirate, nor had they eaten.
"Hello boys," Blue giggled and set down a tray of food on the floor in the middle of the room; just one tray. Though it did have plenty of food for two men on it.
Neither of them said anything, but looked expectantly at her. Blue giggled again and motion for them to go ahead and eat. Both jerked awkwardly off their beds and over to the tray where they began to wolf down the food against their will, though they still did enjoy getting to have something in their stomach. Rumple just hated being in close proximity to the pirate, and clearly Killian felt the same way.
After they had polished off everything on the tray, Blue had them sit cross legged on the floor side by side behind the tray, their heads tilted up at attention. Rumple felt a growing hatred for this woman.
"Now boys, I need you to do two separate things, can you manage that?" Blue asked as if they were school boys.
Beside him, Killian tensed, furious. For once Rumple actually agreed with him; they were grown men, not little kids, and here the Blue fairy was treating them as such.
"Killian you will get Rumple the potion stuff he needs from that cabinet, you may not take anything out of it that he does not ask of you," Blue told him then turned her gaze onto Rumple, "You'll make three very specific spells for me, understand. The information you need is in the top drawl of the desk, get busy boys".
Blue picked up the tray and left the room, slamming the door shut behind her. A sharp crackle startled Rumple, and he looked back to see the cabinet's lock disappearing in a poof of smoke. Their heart and dagger forced them to their feet and they began to work.
Rumple sat down at the desk and took out the parchment, he was to do three fairly difficult spells that were very useful. The first was a temporary sleeping curse, a sleeping spell really. It would only last for twenty-four hours; the second was some sort of barrier spell to keep things out of a specific place, and the third one he didn't know what it did.
"Setra, Kiloe, and Firestra" Rumple said in a bored tone, Killian went over to the cabinet and picked out the first two potion bottles with relative ease but seemed to struggle with finding the third one.
"Hurry up Pirate, I want to get done sometime today so I can find a way out of here," Rumple snarled impatiently at Hook.
"I'm getting there Crocodile," Killian snapped at the dark one over his shoulder. How he hated being Rumple's "assistant" for the day. How humiliating, he would make sure that Blue would pay for this when he found a way to get his heart back.
After having found the last potion bottle, he walked back over to Rumplestilskin and purposely slammed one of the bottles down onto the other man's fingers. Rumple jerked his hand back, glaring furiously at Hook.
"Oops, sorry Dearie," Killian sneered at him before moving away before Rumple could do anything. Then it hit him, and he felt pleased. He could hurt Rumple by slamming the potions down on his hand, while Rumplestilskin couldn't do anything to hurt him in return.
That's when something hit him hard in his back, "Oof," Killian mumbled, pain shooting through him, the new wound throbbing painfully. Apparently I stand corrected, Killian thought, rubbing his back with his only hand.
Killian turned around to see what Rumple had hit him with and was surprised to see a now empty and shattered bottle laying on the floor behind him.
Killian leaned down and picked up the largest fragment and slowly, silently approached Rumplestilskin who was now working quietly.
When he was standing just behind the Dark one, he held the fragment firmly then drove the sharp end down into Rumple's shoulder.
"Ow!" Rumplestilskin jerked himself to his feet, forcing Killian backwards. The Dark one spun around much faster than Killian had anticipated and grabbed the chair he'd been sitting in.
Killian had no time to duck when Rumple slammed the chair against him, breaking it in half from the force. Killian staggered back from the blow, and Rumple hit him again.
This time Killian ducked and managed to grab the other half of the chair and brought it against Rumple's leg hard enough to cause him to slow his own rain of blows.
The Blue fairy chose that exact moment to open the door and stepped in; she looked at them in obvious amusement and then said:
"Well, well, look who's fighting when I told them not too, that demands punishment boys," she grinned evilly.