OK so I lied, I got my days muddled up!

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Re Reprehendo, Reality Check

They had gathered at Granny's to come up with a plan but with no clue where to start looking they were struggling to come up with anything useful. Emma threw her head back in despair against the back of the booth she sat in, this was getting them nowhere fast and she needed to do something.

"We'll find them Mom" Henry spoke out drawing her attention to him

He was sitting opposite her with the book that Thanatos had clambered from the day before on the table in front of him, he was always one to try using research, he loved books, understood them but she was more a woman of action and that was exactly why she felt so useless right now, she had no way of knowing what to do or where to go.

"Find anything useful in there?" she asked leaning forward and crossing her arms to lean on the table.

"Not yet but I'll keep reading" he replied with a reassuring smile.

"You do that Kid. If there's one person that I trust to help me figure this out it's you" she said with a smile of her own as she pulled herself to her feet and headed back across to the group of others who had a map spread out across another table in a booth near the back of the room.

"I say we split up into groups and divide the space up. There is a lot of ground to cover but if we all work together we should be able to get it done in less than two days" Robin had taken lead it would seem.

"Two days! That's too long" Mary-Margaret called out in anguish "Who knows what they are going through"

Emma walked up to stand next to her Mom "I agree but right now we don't have any other choice, we have no clue where they are so we have to search everywhere, this is a good plan"

Mary-Margaret's eyes shone with tears but she tried to smile, tried to keep hope, Emma could see her struggling against her very own nature in the reality of this situation.

"I think I have something" Henry yelled out and everyone turned as he lifted the book up and walked across the room with it in his hand "It says here that before Thanatos was bound to this book he liked to dwell in forest areas, finding shelter in underground hollows. Maybe his habits haven't changed"

"It's a place to start" Robin said turning back to the map on the table and scribbling furiously

Emma walked over to Henry and hugged him tightly.

"You did good kid" she pulled him back to look at him but at that moment Belle walked up with a look of confusion on her face.

"Where did you read that Henry, I have studied this book for weeks and didn't see anything about that"

Henry tugged himself out of Emma's grasp and opened the book again to show Belle, the librarian looked over the pages and her eyes went wide.

"This is new" she looked up with eyes like saucers "This section has changed, it read differently before."

"What? How is that possible" Emma gasped

"I don't know but the original story told of how Thanatos wrecked havoc upon the souls on earth before being tricked by Herakles to be sent to the Underworld. It really didn't make sense because we now know that he was bound to this book BUT it now reads differently. I am going to need time to study this and compare it to my notes but I think we may be on to something here. Henry do you want to come and help me?" Belles' voice was full of determination and Emma couldn't help the bubble of hope that rose inside her.

"Can I?" Henry asked quickly

"Go Kid, you two have got this. We are going to head out and search every patch of forest around and not stop until we bring them home"

Henry threw his arms around her middle again before following Belle out of the door and across the road to Mr. Gold's shop where they disappeared from sight. Emma turned back to her Mom with a grin on her face, for the first time they had something to work with.

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David couldn't quite believe what he had just heard, Hook seemed to really believe that he was dead and worst still he believed that he had been the one that killed him.

"Hey, open your eyes, look at me, am I dead?"

Hook just shook his head and grumbled "You are not here. I felt your blood on my hands...My blade in your gut... you are dead"

David had to snap him out of this quickly.

"HOOK OPEN YOUR GOD DAMNED EYES" he roared and again it worked for the second time as the Pirate looked at him in surprise "Would you just think for a minute. I don't know what is going on but you did NOT kill me, I am here. You were sleeping, it was only a dream"

"Not a dream" Hook breathed out as his eyes slid shut again

"You were asleep Hook, I promise. Tell me what happened besides the obvious"

Hook sighed and opened his eyes again turning his head to look into at him with a look of resignation across his features.

"I awoke and you were gone but you came back and told me that you had found a door but the Crocodile was on the other side and he told you that I had attacked him not the other way round. You said that I had betrayed you and that I was the reason for our capture. No matter what I said you would not listen and in the end you attacked me with your sword. I tried to fight you off but you cut me and while I was trying to compose myself you attacked again... I... you... I..." he swallowed hard closing his eyes against the memory and David decided he wouldn't push him

"I don't have my sword Hook, look around it's not here so how could I attack you with it"

The Pirate's eyes opened again and David watched as his brow furrowed deeply in thought "I don't have my cutlass" he muttered

"Neither of us have weapons so how could we have fought. Look I don't know what is going on but somehow when you are sleeping it is playing out like reality to you but it wasn't real, you didn't kill me."

Hook's eyes fell on him again with a new look in them, a look of hope "You are truly here? You are alright?"

"I am fine, I promise, not a scratch on me which is more than can be said for you" David chuckled but he was unprepared when Hook suddenly lurched forward and grabbed him pulling him into his embrace. David could feel the Pirate still shaking as he clung to him in relief so he just brought his hands onto Hook's back to sooth him, this was not like the Pirate but right now David knew that Hook just needed to know that he had not killed him so he left him alone to deal with this in his own way.

A few minutes later the Pirate pulled back apologizing as he flopped back onto the sand with a sigh.

"Hey, it's alright" David soothed "but I need to see to this cut on your stomach before you fill it full of sand, I do not need you picking up an infection."

He worked quickly seeing that the wound was ugly and long, it was certainly going to need stitches but right now all David could do was wash it off with some of the water before using the other sleeve of his torn up shirt to make another makeshift bandage to keep it covered.

"Anything else I should know about" he said with a laugh expecting the Pirate to shake his head but when Hook remained silent he knew that there was "What is it? Come on Hook, I'd rather know now than find out when we are trying to get out of here and you keel over again"

He watched as the Pirate seemed to aknowledge where he was coming from by giving a slight nod.

"My feet" he simply said

David's gaze moved instantly to Hook's feet, he cautiously moved down and took hold of his left boot and tugged it off eliciting a hiss from the Pirate. He looked up with concern as he pulled the dark sock off to reveal the mess beneath, there were cuts and bruises everywhere, what the hell had happened? He moved to the other foot and watched as Hook clamped his jaw shut and breathed heavily through gritted teeth again when David tugged it off followed by the sock. Hook's right foot was practically unrecognizable, it was so swollen that the skin had taken on a shiny tone and his toes were the darkest shade of purple David had ever seen.

"What happened?" David gasped out, he didn't know what to touch first, it all just looked so painful.

"I can advise not running through the forest without shoes" The Pirate grit out through his clamped jaw.

"This happened at the same time as the arrow?" David asked quietly.

"Aye" was all Hook replied as he tried not to show how much it hurt when David finally reached out to raise his right foot up to get a better look at his ankle, the whole joint was swollen and very warm to the touch, perhaps it was broken?

"Why didn't you tell me? I had you traipsing all round this cave, this must have been agony" David winced as he thought about what the Pirate must have gone through, no wonder he had looked so bad.

Hook didn't answer he just closed his eyes again.

"Hey, no sleeping."

"I don't think that's going to be a problem right now Mate" Hook gave a smirk and opened his eyes again tipping his head to the side to look at David again.

"I need to clean these, this is going to hurt and there is nothing I can do about that. I'm sorry" Hook looked so exhausted and David's stomach dropped at the thought of what he still had to put him through.

Hook just sighed loudly "Everything hurts Mate, just do your best and I will be fine"

David worked as gently as he could, he cleaned out the worst looking wounds carefully pulling bits of twigs and pine needles from them, it would seem that the dreams were more of a reality than David had given them credit for!

He tried to be gentle but Hook hissed and growled the whole time he worked and in the end he had to stop to allow him to calm his breathing down. David had no more bits of torn up shirt so he ended up having to use the Pirate's own black one to bind his feet but he didn't think that Hook would really care as he lay panting into the air when the pain became too much again. FINALLY David was satisfied that he'd done his best and he sat back on his heels wiping the sweat from his brow with the back of his hand.

"You OK?"

"What do you think?" Hook gasped out in reply.

"Right, not the best question to ask, sorry" David muttered feeling stupid for even thinking it

Hook turned his head and looked at him "I know you meant well, don't worry. I am fine, nothing that a nice long nap wouldn't fix" he said with a lopsided grin.

David laughed, they both knew that sleeping was out for the Pirate until further notice, it would seem that it was not a very restful pastime for him to partake in.

"You thirsty?" David asked suddenly as he realized that Hook had not had anything in hours.

"Aye, I could do with a drop of rum about now" Hook said struggling to sit himself up.

"Well so could I but I'm fresh out, how about some water instead?" David laughed turning quickly to grab the bottled water but as he moved Hook flinched bringing his arms up in an effort to protect his head, eyes going wide in fear.

David couldn't believe this, Hook really thought he was going to hit him, was he that disorientated?

"I wasn't going to... I was just getting the water" he said showing Hook the bottle cautiously and the Pirate visibly sagged as he breathed in relief but a few minutes later David could see Hook's arm still shaking as he reached out to take the opened bottle from his outstretched hand.

"Sorry. I just don't know what to believe anymore." Hook's eyes flicked up to meet his and he looked so ashamed of himself. "I'm still not 100% sure that this is reality, I want to believe it but..."

"Hey, I get it." David made a mental note to keep his movements slow and his voice low to try and help Hook adjust "No more sudden movements, I promise."

"Thanks Mate" Hook said with a sigh as he finally swigged the water he held in his hand.

They sat in silence for a few minutes until David suddenly remembered the fire he had been making. He jammed his own bottle into the sand and crawled over to the pile of wood before pulling out his lighter and getting to work trying to light it. He heard movement behind him and he peered over his shoulder to see Hook dragging himself over to the wall, he spoke as he went answering David's unasked question.

"I didn't want to lie down but my back was paining me too much to sit up unaided" he gave a small gasp as he lent his bare skin back against the cold wall behind him

David stood quickly, grabbed Hook's vest and jacket and headed over to his side. He wrestled him back into the vest them draped the jacket from his shoulders over his front, it wasn't ideal but it would have to do.

"Thanks" Hook said as he walked away

"You may need the jacket off in a few minutes when I get this bad boy going" David said with a grin dropping back down to the pile of wood.

He had collected quite a large amount and there was plenty more to keep the fire going, this would give them light when night came too but David had been so busy focusing on the fire that he was shocked when he looked up to see Hook's eyes closed and his head tipping forward.

"HOOK" he yelled and the Pirate's eyes flew open again as his head came up with a jerk of surprise "No sleeping"

"Bloody Hell... I wasn't sleeping" he complained as he stretched out his sore body then blinked his eyes widely trying to fight off the tiredness.

"Yeah and I wasn't building a fire" David retorted as he walked across to the Pirate giving him a sarcastic smile

David reached over and grabbed one of the loaves of bread tugging a large section off and handing it to Hook, the Pirate managed to get his hand out from beneath his jacket and took the food thanking him with a tight nod.

"Pity it wasn't marshmallows" David laughed as he plonked himself down next to Hook watching the flames roaring in front of him.

Hook may have taken the bread but David was aware that he just held it in his hand as he too stared into the flames "I have no idea what that is"

"You've never had marshmallows?" David said turning his head to look at the Pirate in disgust "Hook you have been in Storybrooke for long enough now, what have you been doing? I swear when we get out of here we will have them, toasted of course, that's the best way you know. Henry loves them, he was the one who introduced me to them one night around Thanksgiving a couple of years ago. Apparently pre coma David Nolan wasn't adventurous enough to go camping or do anything else that would involve toasting marshmallows, just wait until you get your first taste, you won't be disappointed"

"Sounds good to me..." Hook looked thoughtful for a minute before looking at David "He is a good Lad, Henry. You are lucky to have him in your life"

"Yeah, he's a good kid and WE are lucky to have him in our lives" David replied, he could see Hook struggling to stay awake, he needed to keep him distracted. "Tell me about your time in the Navy with your Brother, Liam wasn't it?"

"Aye but that was such a long time ago, it was a different life back then" Hook looked uncomfortable about the switch in topic

"Tell me, I want to know what you were like back then"

"Pretty much as I am now, Emma took the hate from my heart, what you see now is more Killian Jones than Captain Hook" he sighed out tipping his head back against the wall and slugging his water. David noted the bread still sitting on his leg untouched, he could also tell that Hook didn't want to talk of his past so he switched tactics "OK so tell me Killian Jones, tell me what you see in your future"

Hook furrowed his brow "I never used to think too far ahead. As old as I am I never truly believed that I would live a long life, I lived a day to day existence concentrating on only my revenge... until I met Emma. That is when that all changed for me and now... now it scares me" He looked back at David again and he could see the fear there deep in the Pirate's soul "I don't want to lose her... I don't want to leave her, I promised that I wouldn't"

"You won't. We are going to get out of here." David had to swallow his own emotions down at the sorrow in the Pirate's eyes. He could practically feel Hook's emotional turmoil rolling off of him in waves so he looked away to stare at the fire again and was happy to see the smoke billowing out into the air above them "I'm sending a signal right now" he added in a low voice and motioned with his eyes to the hole above them. Hook's head tipped back and a grin creased his face when he saw what David was talking about.

Yeah, they were going to get home and he would make toasted marshmallows for everyone, all they had to do was wait on someone finding them. David looked up too and gave a silent prayer of hope for them to hurry, he didn't even want to think what would happen to the Pirate if he fell asleep again, he grabbed his water and gulped it down knowing that there was a long night ahead of them, he needed to stay alert.