Chapter 10 -Don't trust anyone
A/N thanks to the guest reviewer for reviewing my last chapter.
Saunders stopped pacing as Charles finally flew into the window; just as Zelena ran into the room, quickly waving his hand Saunders turned Charles back into a human.
"What did you learn?!" Saunders demanded.
"That Anne girl told them everything," Charles said, out of breath slightly, "also a munchkin showed up telling them about Dorothy and the munchkin guard."
Zelena gasped looking at Saunders, her eyes bugging out of her head, "I told you we should have killed Anne." She said annoyed.
"Zelena, that would have looked suspicious." Saunders said.
"Well what do we do now?" Zelena asked Saunders desperately, "if Killian, Henry and Regina tell Snow and Charming what they found out then our plan is ruined!"
Saunders walked to the window watching as Regina, Henry and Killian ran towards the castle, chuckling he turned to Zelena, "don't forget my dear; we have the upper hand now thanks to Charles," Saunders turned to Charles smiling at him, "good job son."
"Thank you Father." Charles said smiling back, Saunders waved his hand turning Charles back into a crow, he flew to the window landing on the ledge, looking out of it.
"What are you proposing we do?" Zelena asked Saunders confused.
Saunders smiled at Zelena waving his hand, which caused the two of them to reappear at the front door of the castle, stopping Killian, Regina and Henry before they could reach the door.
"Let us through!" Regina yelled.
"We know you're not the real Emma!" Henry yelled as well.
Zelena and Saunders looked at each other, and then Saunders started slow clapping, "very good you figured it out."
"Where's the real Emma?!" Killian demanded.
"She should really be the last thing on your mind." Zelena said.
"We know what you did," Regina said making a fireball appear in her hand, "now let us through, or else." She warned.
Saunders laughed, "Do you honestly think I'm afraid of you?" He asked mockingly.
"You should be!" Regina yelled sending the fireball directly at Saunders and Zelena, Saunders laughed catching the fireball in his hand, and then throwing it back at the three of them.
"Watch out!" Killian yelled grabbing Henry and pulling him down with him, the fireball just missing the two of them.
"Ouch my arm!" Henry cried out in pain.
"Sorry lad." Killian said apologetically, before jumping up and standing beside Regina, "do you have any ideas?" He asked Regina hopeful.
"There's nothing you can do." Zelena said, "We won." She said proudly.
"We'll never let you win!" Regina yelled.
"Oh darling, we've already won." Zelena said as Saunders walking towards Regina.
"Stay back." Regina warned.
Saunders laughed waving his hand causing a gust of magic came out from it.
"My feet!" Killian said surprised, "I can't move!"
"Neither can I!" Regina cried trying to move but her feet were planted to the floor.
"Mom!" Henry cried out, as Zelena walked over to him.
"Henry!" Regina screamed trying to make another fireball appear, but her magic wasn't working.
"No!" Regina cried, trying desperately to get free before Zelena could do anything to hurt Henry, but it was no use, the magic that Saunders had used was a lot stronger then hers.
Zelena bent down to Henry's level, "I'm not going to lie," she said smiling, "this is going to hurt." Zelena said before shoving her hand through Henry's chest, pulling out his heart, Henry cried out in pain.
"Henry no!" Regina cried, "Zelena leave him alone!" she begged.
"Oh relax," Zelena said standing up, "I'm not planning on hurting the child," Zelena trailed off as she realized that Henry was still in pain, "at least not any more then he already is."
"You're a monster!" Killian yelled.
"I've had enough of you," Zelena said, "thank God you're no longer needed."
"What's that supposed to mean?" Killian asked trying to sound tough but his voice held the slightest bit of fear, as Zelena's words set in.
Zelena didn't respond, waving her hand making Killian disappear.
"Killian!" Regina cried, "What did you do to him?!" she demanded.
"That pirate should be the last thing on your mind." Saunders said walking closer to Regina, when he was directly in front of her he hesitated smiling, before ripping out her heart, Regina cried out in pain.
"Mom!" Henry cried.
Regina took a few deep breaths trying to make the pain go away, after it did Regina watched as Zelena and Saunders held her and Henry's heart in their hands, and a wave of fear overcame Regina as she realized that Saunders and Zelena could kill both her and Henry right now, Regina had killed many people by crushing their hearts and she knew that it hurt, she couldn't bear the thought of it happening to Henry.
"Please," Regina begged, "please let Henry live, just kill me."
"We're not going to kill you," Saunders said, "at least not yet."
"Then what do you want with us?" Henry asked, sounding much braver then Regina would have thought, then again he did grow up with the evil queen being his Mother, that should be enough to make anyone brave.
Zelena and Saunders smiled at each other and then turned their attention back to Henry and Regina, before Zelena brought Henry's heart up close to her mouth whispering into it, "you will forget what you saw here," she said, "and you will be in support of Saunders and I getting married."
"No!" Regina cried as she realized that they were controlling Henry, "stop it!" she cried trying desperately to get free from the magic spell that Saunders had her under.
"Also I'm Emma, your Mother." Zelena said, as she finished controlling Henry.
"Mom?" Henry asked confused, "what's going on?" He asked before trying to stand up and discovering that he couldn't, "why can't I stand?"
"Oops sorry, Henry," Zelena said waving her hands releasing Henry from the spell, he ran over to her hugging her, "I can't wait for you to marry Saunders, he's so much better then Killian!" Henry said smiling up at Saunders.
"You're a monster!" Regina yelled.
"Oh don't worry, Regina," Zelena said smiling at her, "you'll get to be this happy in just a minute."
Regina tried once again to get free, but it was no use, she watched feeling a slight twinge of fear in her as Regina watched Zelena lift her heart close to her mouth and started whispering into it as well, Regina had never been hypnotized before, it had always been her controlling other people.
"Forget about what you saw here, you'll also be happy for Saunders and me, as well as support our marriage, you'll also convince Snow and Charming that we love each other, and you're happy for us." Zelena then waved her hand making Regina's heart disappear.
"What's going on?" Regina asked confused before trying to take a step, and discovering that she couldn't move, "Emma why am I stuck?"
Zelena waved her hand making the magic that was holding Regina disappear, "just trying out a new spell." Zelena said innocently.
"Well it worked really well." Regina said impressed.
"Thank you." Zelena said happily, "now let's go we've only got a few hours before our wedding!"
"Yes that's right!" Saunders said taking Zelena's hand.
"Henry we should go talk to Snow and Charming, and tell them that we support this marriage," Regina said, looking at Zelena and Saunders, "I think they're still a little unsure because you guys are getting married so quickly, but I think you're the prefect couple." Regna said hugging Zelena.
"Me too!" Henry said high fiving Saunders.
"Then let's go!" Regina said walking inside the castle, Henry, Saunders and Zelena quickly followed her.
"You did it!" Saunders whispered squeezing Zelena's hand.
"Well to be fair, darling, we did it." Zelena whispered back.
Saunders winked at Zelena before whispering in her ear, "this will all be over by tonight."
"I know," Zelena said smiling from ear to ear, "I can't wait to finish our plan."
"Me neither."
Saunders whispered, as they continued following Regina and Henry down the hallway in the direction of Mary Margaret and David's room, just before they made it to their room Saunders and Zelena stopped walking.
"Listen, Regina and Henry," Saunders said, "we don't want to intimidate Emma's parents, so I think only you two should go in and we'll head back to our room to await their answer." Saunders suggested.
"That's a good idea." Zelena agreed.
"Alright, we'll see you in a bit." Regina said smiling, "come on, Henry," Regina said as her and Henry continued walking towards Mary Margaret's and David's room.
Mary Margaret smiled down at Neal as she fed him his bottle, despite the stress that she was feeling with what was going on with Emma and Saunders, Neal could always make her feel a thousand times better.
"How's it going in here?" David asked walking into the room shutting the door behind him.
"Fine." Mary Margaret said glancing at David before going right back to staring at Neal.
David walked over to the bed sitting beside Mary Margaret, glancing down at his son, and gave Neal a small smile, before sighing and running his hand through his hair.
"Stressed about the wedding?" Mary Margaret asked.
"If by stressed about the wedding you mean considering the fact that it feels like I don't even know our daughter anymore, then yes." David said.
"Regina should be here soon," Mary Margaret said handing the bottle to David so she could burp Neal, "maybe she can give us some advice."
"I hope so too." David said although his voice held no sign of hope.
After Mary Margaret had burped Neal, she stood up walking over to Neal's crib; putting him into it and kissing his head.
David stood up walking to his wife putting his hands around her waist, before resting his head against hers, and for a while neither one of them moved, neither David nor Mary Margaret knew what to do about Emma, although something was off about her that much they were both sure of.
"David, Mary Margaret?" Regina called before knocking on the door, "are you in there?"
David let go of Mary Margaret's hips, reluctantly before walking over to the door opening it.
"Hi, Regina," David said smiling before noticing Henry, "and Henry," David said surprised.
"Hi, David," Regina said smiling, "may we come in?" She asked.
David nodded stepping out of the way to allow Regina and Henry to walk into the room.
"Regina," Mary Margaret said sounding relieved, "are you here to talk to us about what to do with Emma?"
"I am." Regina said.
Mary Margaret hesitated waiting to see if Regina would continue, after a few moments of silence she continued.
"Well as you know David and I don't think that Emma should marry Saunders so soon, especially when we know nothing about him, and as I'm sure you know after they're married, David and I have to crown them, and we both think that they're not ready for that." Mary Margaret said.
"Well David and Mary Margaret," Regina began, "I think that Emma is old enough to make her own decisions and I support her decision to marry Saunders."
"I do too." Henry said smiling.
David and Mary Margaret's jaws both dropped as what Regina and Henry had said sank in, earlier today Regina had been trying to help the two of them find Henry's storybook to try and figure out who Saunders even was, and now Regina and Henry were in favor of the wedding.
"Are you serious?" David asked his voice full of shock.
"I like Saunders so much better then Killian." Henry stated.
"And I think he'll be a much better husband then Killian." Regina said smiling.
Mary Margaret and David looked at each other dumbfounded for a few long moments.
"So shall we get the bride and groom ready for the wedding?" Regina asked excitement in her voice.
Mary Margaret unable to speak just nodded her head, unsure of what else to do since it seemed that everyone was in favour of this wedding, everyone except her and David.
"Great let's go find the bride!" Regina yelled grabbing Mary Margaret's arm dragging her out of the room, leaving David alone with Henry.
"Henry," David said kneeling down in front of Henry, "you can't really like Saunders more than Killian, you hardly know the guy."
Henry shrugged, "I just want the best for my Mom, and that means Saunders."
David stared into Henry's eyes for a moment, trying to see if he was joking, or if there was something off about him, but his face held a smile, a genuine one, the same one that Henry always had when he was happy, and his eyes were clear, as usual, which meant that he wasn't under a spell, at least as far as David could tell.
"You're serious?" David asked just to be sure.
"Yes." Henry said.
"OK," David said standing up.
"We should go and find the groom." Henry said happily.
David didn't want to have to spend any more time with Saunders then he already had, trying to find Saunders an appropriate outfit that he could wear to marry his daughter, especially when David didn't even like him, proved to be quite difficult, but luckily they had, eventually.
"So what do you say?" Henry asked bring David out of his thoughts.
"About what?" David asked confused.
"About going to find the groom to tell him the good news," Henry said grinning ear to ear, "that Emma's Father finally approves of the wedding!"
David wanted to tell Henry that he was wrong, and he certainly didn't support this wedding, but Regina and Mary Margaret had already gone off to tell Emma that the wedding was on, he knew that now he had no choice but to fake happy and go and tell the groom the happy news, David felt his stomach twist uncomfortably as he thought of the idea of his daughter marrying Saunders, even though David wasn't the biggest fan of Killian, at first, he had proven to be worthy of Emma's hand in marriage, by proving himself to David, Saunders had done nothing to prove himself. Sighing David looked down at Henry, "alright," he began trying to sound excited, "let's go find the groom."
Henry smiled, and then ran towards the door, David looked at Neal, who was still sound asleep, he knew that leaving his son alone wasn't the best idea, walking to the door, and hesitating looking around he smiled as Leroy walked into view.
"Leroy!" David said happily.
"What's up?" Leroy asked.
"Can you please watch Neal for just a little while?" David asked hopeful.
Leroy crossed his arms and looked around confused, "where's Snow?"
"With Emma." David said.
"Why isn't Neal with her?"
"Because there's going to be a wedding in a few hours, and you know how girls are." David said trying to make a joke, but because his voice sounded so flat with worry and confusion, it didn't sound like one, Leroy thought for a moment, he really didn't like children and he didn't want to have to look after a baby, but because it was Snow's he decided to make an exception.
"Fine."
"Thanks, Leroy." David said turning and following Henry down the hall, feeling the knot in his stomach growing bigger and bigger by the minute, his gut told him something was wrong, other than the fact that he didn't approve of the man that his daughter was marrying, and that Mary Margaret had the strangest feeling that she knew him from her past, something inside David told him that change was coming, and that was making him even more nervous.
Emma had been driving for about a half hour, Forks wasn't that big but trying to find the apartment that her and Don would be staying in, which was Peter's, was proving to be difficult. After driving around for a few more minutes, Emma discovered that she was going in circles as she passed the same church, and street named "Fairview," for the fifth time. Emma sighed and pulled over to the side of the road, reaching across the still sleeping Don, to grab Peter's file, opening it up Emma scanned the page until she found the address.
"Twenty four Forks Avenue," Emma read to herself, before typing it into her GPS, something that she probably should have done right after she had driven off the ferry, but she figured that finding the street in a town as small as Forks would be easy, but she had been wrong.
"Drive west four miles." The female's voice said on the GPS, Emma followed the instructions that the GPS gave her, and she discovered that she wasn't actually that far away from the apartment, about ten minutes or so. Emma wasn't paying too much attention to the time.
"You've reached your destination." The GPS' voice finally said, as Emma pulled up to the apartment she slowed down, grateful that there weren't many cars on the road, and looked around, there wasn't a driveway, so she parked on the street, grateful that she didn't have to parallel park, since that wasn't her strong suit. Looking at the apartment Emma was surprised to see it was a house, she had pictured an actual apartment building, like a sky scraper, but she knew that that was silly, a town as small as Forks wouldn't have sky scrapers, there wasn't nearly enough people.
Don turned his head his eye lids fluttering slightly as he tried to open his eyes.
"You OK?" Emma asked him.
Don turned his head towards Emma, squinting, and then turned his head towards the window, opening his eyes up all the way, "Where are we?" Don asked slightly disoriented.
"We're at Peter's apartment." Emma said.
"Already?" Don asked surprised.
"Yeah you slept through the whole ferry ride." Emma said.
Don looked away from Emma and down at the ground slightly embarrassed, "sorry."
"Don't be," Emma said putting a hand on Don's shoulder, "I'm glad that the Gravol helped you since you were in pretty rough shape."
"Now you see why I don't go onto the boat with you in the summer." Don said giving Emma a weak smile.
Emma chuckled, "yes I do, and you're never going on a boat again."
"Sounds good to me." Don said also laughing.
"Now come on we should bring our stuff in, and call Captain Simpson, and then get started on our assignment." Emma said as she opened the door of the car walking to the trunk, Don followed her, grabbing Emma's bags before she had a chance to.
"I can carry my own bags." Emma said slightly annoyed.
"You're supposed to be my wife," Don said reminding Emma that since they were undercover then part of their new persona was that they were supposed to pretend to be married.
"That doesn't mean I can't carry my own stuff." Emma said trying to get her bag back.
Don turned his body slightly so Emma couldn't grab her bag back, "what kind of husband would I be if I let my wife carry her own bag?" Don asked playfully.
Emma rolled her eyes as she realized that Don wasn't going to give up her bag, sighing she turned and walked to the front door of the house, knocking on it, a middle aged balding man answered a few seconds later.
"Can I help you?" The man asked crossing his arms.
"Hi sir, my name is Detective Emma Swan, and this is my partner Detective Donald Brampton," Emma said taking out her badge showing it to the man.
"We're married." Don added earning a stern look from Emma.
The man read the badge and then looked at Emma raising an eyebrow, "what are you doing here?" He asked confused, "there's only two rooms here, one of them is mine and the other is rented."
"By Peter Simpson?" Don asked.
"How did you know that?" The man asked surprised.
"His Father sent us." Emma said, "Captain Simpson."
"Are you here to investigate his disappearance?" The man asked.
"Yes." Emma said.
"Ah in that case my name is, Nick." He said moving out of the way, "please come in, and hurry this gang has eyes everywhere."
Emma and Don followed Nick inside the apartment, walking up some stairs Emma and Don looked at each other nervously, was there a possibility the gang spying on them right now? Did they know that there were two new cops in Forks? Could they have seen them come off the ferry?
"Here we are." Nick said stopping in front of a door, taking a key out of his pocket and unlocking the door, before handing it to Emma, "this was Peter's apartment." As the door opened a small apartment was revealed, there was a couch that the door just barely missed when it was opened ,and then there was a kitchen with a fridge and a stove and microwave, they were all dusty, making Emma think that Peter probably didn't use them too much when he lived here, there were also two doors down a very small hallway just off the kitchen, which Emma figured must be a bedroom and the bathroom, at least Emma hoped that one of them was a bathroom since she really didn't want to have to leave the apartment to go to the bathroom.
"Nice place." Don said placing the suitcases down on top of the couch.
"Thanks." Nick said leaning against the door, "I feel I should warn you about something." He finally said.
"What's that?" Emma asked crossing her arms, she had a weird feeling about this guy, but she couldn't place her finger on why.
"Don't underestimate this gang." Nick warned, "They're more dangerous than you can even begin to imagine."
"Sounds like you have a history with them." Don stated.
Nick looked at Don and Emma and then chuckled, "you could say that."
"Thanks for the warning." Emma said forcing a smile.
Nick didn't say anything, nodding he walked out of the room closing the door, for a few seconds Emma and Don stood in silence.
"I have a bad feeling about that guy." Don said finally breaking the silence.
"I do too," Emma admitted, "but we can't worry about him right now," Emma said walking to the T.V picking up a frame that held a picture of Peter and Captain Simpson, Emma examined the picture focusing on Peter, he had hazel eyes, and a baby face, but that was because he didn't have any facial hair, his hair was dirty blonde, after Emma had memorized exactly what Peter's face looked like and had taken a photo on her phone, she examined the rest of the photo closer, Peter was smiling widely, next to him was Captain Simpson doing something that both Emma and Don rarely saw him doing, smiling, ever since Captain Simpson got divorced he never smiled, but standing next to Peter he had a huge smile on his face.
"Wow I haven't seen Captain Simpson smile in such a long time that I almost forgot what it looked like." Don said taking the picture from Emma examining it.
"We have to find Peter," Emma said, "we can't let Captain Simpson down he's already been through too much."
"We won't." Don said squeezing her hand.
Emma smiled at Don, he was always so optimistic, that was one of the reasons why Emma loved working with him so much, he kept her sane, even now when all Emma wanted to do was curl up into a ball, and forget about this assignment, since truth be told the warning that Nick had given her had actually scared her slightly, but Emma knew that she couldn't do that, she would see this assignment through one way or another.
"We should get going and start seeing if we can find out any more information on the Thug Gang and their members." Emma said after a few moments.
"Let's call Captain Simpson first." Don said.
Don said taking his cell phone out of his pocket dialing a number.
Nick listened through the door to the cops' conversation, although he couldn't hear too much of what they were saying, since they were whispering, something that all cops did in case someone was eavesdropping on their conversation, which in this case was happening.
"Yes sir we made it." Nick heard the guy cop, Don, say, probably into a phone, "yes we're about to head out," he said.
Nick decided that it was too risky to be standing there trying to listen through the door, since trying to explain to two cops why he was eavesdropping on their conversation would not be fun, and he didn't need to get arrested right now. Nick quickly ran away from the door, towards his room unlocking it and running inside before quickly closing it behind him, taking out his cellphone he scrolled through his saved numbers until he found the number that he was looking for.
"Sir," Nick said, "There's two new cops here about to go and start trying to spy on you guys, a male and a female," Nick said.
"What are their names?" The man that Nick was talking to asked.
"Emma Swan, and Donald Brampton," Nick said from memory, "Emma's quite pretty," Nick admitted, "she had blonde hair, and green eyes, and she's wearing a kind of red brown jacket, green shirt, blue jeans, and knee high boots, and then Donald is wearing a black jacket, red shirt, jeans and dressy shoes." Nick said from memory.
"Good job, Nick," the man said, "keep an eye out for when they come back, and then listen to their conversation, keep me posted."
"Of course, sir," Nick said hanging up the phone putting it back into his pocket.
"Let's go, Don." Nick heard Emma say, opening the door up slightly Nick watched as Emma and Donald walked past the door, not noticing Nick, and walked down the stairs, he heard the downstairs door open and close, and Nick knew that they were gone. Sighing Nick sat on the bed, he knew that it was wrong of him to spy on cops who were just doing their job, but he had no choice, since if he didn't then the consequences would be deadly.
End Chapter 10
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