It's a Tale of Woe and Revenge

Chapter Ten

Meanwhile…

After splitting up from the others as they all left Granny's, Emma immediately used her powers to transport herself and David to the first place she thought of in order to begin their search for Killian, hoping that Killian's own instincts would be powerful enough to lead Brennan to a place of familiarity, even if that familiarity wasn't his own; onboard the Jolly Roger.

"Killian!" she shouted as she swiftly ran across the deck of the ship and down into Captain's quarters, only finding it to be empty, causing her heart to sink with grief upon him not being there. "No. Killian…"

"I'm so sorry, Emma," David said quietly with regret as he walked in the room seconds after she had, seeing the despair on his daughter's face.

She shook her head and responded curtly, "Don't. We've just started looking. He could be anywhere."

Her father finally reached out to grab her arm to get her to stop moving as she left Hook's quarters and started to search other areas of his ship, then he replied, "I mean, I'm sorry about what's happened. I can only imagine how angry you must be feeling, and how desperate you are to find him so that we can save Hook. To have been resurrected just days ago after all he suffered through, only to have his life ripped away from him again…"

"We're going to get him back," Emma answered angrily as she looked miserably into his eyes, while he looked into hers. "I don't care what I have to do, but I'll be damned if I let his father get away with this. You don't know what he did to Killian."

"At the diner, Brennan said something about how he sold Hook and his brother," the Prince responded sadly as they walked back out onto the deck after looking within the rest of the rooms below, including the brig. "Did Hook ever tell you the rest of the story?"

Emma closed her eyes while she thought for a few moments, then looked out over the ocean toward the horizon as Killian had taught her to do to help calm herself whenever she became stressed, and replied quietly, "He didn't really go much into the things that happened between him and his father, other than that the bastard sold him into servitude to another pirate by the name of Captain Silver when he was barely Henry's age after Hook first arrived here in Storybrooke."

David asked again, "Did he say why?"

"No," she answered with a sigh. "We were talking about the scars… lash marks I noticed on his back after he awoke from another nightmare. He's been dreaming about Hades and his time in the Underworld. For the first few nights, Killian slept here in case the nightmares he expected would come came, in hope that they would go away quickly. He didn't want to worry me, but the nightmares kept coming, even with me lying beside him. Anyway, the lashes were caused by Silver and the man's crew back when Killian was the man's slave. The pirates used to beat and torment him for just trying to stay alive, despite Liam's efforts to protect him. Killian says that he didn't have his brother's discipline for hard work or to keep from letting his anger get the better of him, but…"

"Brennan and the pirate he sold his sons to are to blame for what led up to Hook killing his father," the Savior's father responded sadly in understanding. "It's no wonder why he became, well became the Captain Hook from all the stories."

Emma scoffed and replied, "Yeah, if only J.M. Barrie knew the real story. If he had, he wouldn't have made Pan such a bloody hero, or Hook such a villain without a past to explain why he became who he was."

David couldn't help, but laugh at her use of the term, 'bloody' and then spoke up again saying, "He's certainly begun to rub off on you."

"Killian once told me he always knew there was a little pirate in me somewhere," his daughter answered sadly, though she smiled at the memory of them being trapped together in her parents' past as she knocked Marian unconscious after the woman refused to cooperate with them, then heard his laugh in her head. "Come on, we should keep moving. Brennan's never been here in Storybrooke before so he must be depending on Killian's memories to help him find someplace to hide."

"Well, where else would he go?" he asked in frustration.

Before she could continue, a cloud of green smoke suddenly appeared behind them as Zelena poofed herself and Henry onboard, then upon finding his mom and grandpa there, the teenager looked at Emma as he stated quickly, "I thought you'd come here first. I take it he wasn't here?"

The Savior shook her head as she responded, "No, kid. What about Regina? Did you find her?"

"Yeah Mom's fine," Henry replied in relief. "Hyde was the one who drew her down to her vault with the strange lights in the sky, then struck her over her head with something as she entered inside and caught him by surprise. She tried to go after him, but she thinks she must have blacked out for a few minutes because when she made it back outside, he was gone. That was when we arrived."

"Snow stayed behind with her so that she could help Regina check to see if Hyde was able to steal anything before she arrived," Zelena continued. "She asked us to come find you both to let you know and then help you search for the missing pirate."

Emma nodded and then answered, "Well, he might have headed to either Gold's shop or maybe even the mansion. Brennan would know he can probably find something at either place to help protect himself from us because Killian knows the kind of magic within this town. We should split up again."

As everyone began to leave the ship, Zelena stopped walking upon receiving a text from Snow, then read the message on her phone as she quickly called out, "Wait! Snow needs us to get back to the vault right away. She says my sister's trapped inside her mirror and needs me and Emma to see if our magic is powerful enough combined to get her out."

"How the hell did that happen?" the Savior asked curtly.

"I guess we'll find out when we get there," the former witch responded sternly as she placed her hand down on Henry's shoulder again. "I've got the boy. I guess you've got your father, Miss. Swan. Don't doddle."

Within seconds, the four of them appeared within two clouds of smoke inside the Queen's vault and found Snow standing near the magic mirror on the wall while she was reading one of Regina's books. Regina's image reflected from inside and both women couldn't help, but let off a sigh of relief when the others arrived.

David immediately rushed to his wife's side as he asked worryingly, "Snow, are you alright?"

She quickly replied, "I'm fine, David. But Regina…"

"What happened?" Zelena asked as she moved to stand in front of the mirror and looked at her sister with concern. "You were fine when we left and Hyde doesn't have magic. He couldn't have done this to you, even if he did come back for whatever it was he was after."

"Hyde was never here, at least not alone," Regina answered angrily. "It was the Evil Queen."

Emma came over to stand with the red headed woman and looked at her friend in confusion as she responded, "I don't understand. You don't mean…?"

Regina nodded and replied, "Unfortunately I do. It turns out that she didn't die like we thought she did. My evil twin somehow faked her death and she's here in town. Get me out of here and we can talk more about it in a minute."

The Savior and the former Wicked Witch looked between each other momentarily as they raised their hands, then both women released their magic into the mirror in effort to undo the Evil Queen's magic. Nearly two minutes passed before their magic seemed to work when all of a sudden, the glass of the mirror shattered and a large cloud of purple smoke poured out, then disappeared nearly as quickly as it appeared while Regina landed on her feet before them free and clear.

"You did it!" Snow exclaimed happily. "I knew you could."

"Yes, they did it," Regina answered curtly as she snatched the book from Snow's hands and then slammed it down in frustration. "Sorry. Thank you for getting me out of there, but we have to worry about my other self before we do any celebrating. There's a lot at stake right now, including Emma's boyfriend. Let's get out of here."