"RUMPLE! RUUMPPLEEE!" Jefferson screams into the darkness of the forest.

"You knew she was there! COME OUT YOU COWARD!" He continues on in his anger, walking around in a circle.

Jefferson continues to pace angrily before slumping down on a fallen log, his fists clenched, causing his knuckles to turn white. He rips his hat off of his head by the brim, he glares into, twisting the brim in his hands. He throws his hat off in front of him, standing up furiously, placing one hand on his hip and the other to rub the scruff across his cheek. He continues his pacing.

"You called for me, Hatter?"

Jefferson spins around in a torrent of rage, his eyes ablaze. He points at Rumple towards his face.

"You knew!" He growls to Rumplestiltskin. He turns away returning to his angry pace and rubbing his face.

Rumple clasps his hands in front of him, loosely hanging his arms. Jefferson turns back to him, his hand resting at his chin. Rumple does a hop step and sways his arms out to either side of him.

"She was the one to come to me. Searching for you. But unexpectedly, she found you anyways, after I refused to help her. It's a pity how fate works, don'tcha think, deary?" He says, taunting Jefferson.

Jefferson rolls his eyes and throws his hands up, dropping them to his side, then placing them on each hip, looking back to Rumple.

"Why do I find that hard to believe?" Jefferson sneers through gritted teeth, glaring into Rumplestiltskin's evil eyes.

Rumple shrugs and crosses his arms over his chest, he takes three steps to his right and then stops. Raising one finger in the air.

"Care to make a deal?" He implores playfully.

Jefferson looks up in frustration, grinding his teeth.

"Why not, what do you need? What else could you possibly want?" Jefferson replies angrily.

"When the Queen comes to you, do whatever it is that she asks. That's all. Just a promise to a job offer." Rumple says humbly.

"JUST BRING HER BACK!" Jefferson yells to him.

"Coming right up!" Rumple says, throwing his hands into that position as if he's presenting something.

Jefferson rubs one hand down his face and looks to where Rumple was standing, but seems to have disappeared. He angrily throws his hands in front of him, slapping them to his sides. He stomps over to his hat and picks it up hastily. Pacing back and forth.

"Change of plans, deary."

Katarina turns around in the cobble stone street outside of the tavern, to face Rumplestiltskin. She turns away from him quickly, breaking into a run towards the town exit. Rumplestiltskin appears before her.

"Not so fast." He puts one hand up in front of him, barely touching her forehead. She freezes instantly with a purple shimmer enveloping her. Her eyes shift nervously.

"See, I made another deal to bring you home. And that I shall. But first you have to do something for me." Rumple says enthusiastically as he walks around the frozen Katarina. "This won't hurt at all." He whispers over her shoulder into her ear.

He thrusts his hand into her back, pulling out a glowing heart, it's beat is rapid. He turns it over in his hand to reveal a crack at the top. He smiles to himself and waves his hand over it. A silver string elevates up from it, he pulls a glass vial from his vest and opens the stopper one-handed, the string flows into it and coils at the bottom. He replaces her heart without removing his eyes from the vial and closes it with his now free hand.

"Consider your debt repaid, deary. Now. Back home you go." He says darkly, snapping his fingers. She disappears with a small pop.

"CROCODILE!"

Rumple turns to the voice.