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Chapter 11

Mary Margaret's head was pounding, she groaned as rubbed her sore temples.

"Why is my head so sore?" She asked herself, forcing her eyes open she gasped in surprise when she saw that she was in some sort of basement. There was very little light, just a small lightbulb above her head, and somewhere in the distance she could hear water dripping.

"Where the hell am I?" Mary Margaret asked trying to stand, but she ended up falling right back down. Looking down at her feet her eyes grew wide with fright when she saw that they were tied up.

"Ah good you're awake." A male's voice that Mary Margaret instantly recognized said.

"Gold?" She asked surprised, "what's going on?"

Mary Margaret waited for an answer, but Gold never responded, if it weren't for his breathing she would have thought that he left.

"Let me go!" Mary Margaret screamed.

"You're stuck here until I decide what to do with you." Gold said, as he stepped into view holding a tray, he placed it beside her; it contained a bottle of water, a piece of bread, and some soup.

"What's this?"

"You have to keep your strength up; I'll be back tomorrow morning with more." He said as he began walking away Mary Margaret gasped when she heard a door opened.

"Wait!" She screamed, "You can't keep me here!"

Gold didn't respond, instead he slammed the door shut.

"Gold!" Mary Margaret screamed at the top of her lungs, "Gold!" But the door didn't reopen, tears began falling from Mary Margaret's eyes as she hugged herself hoping that someone, anyone would find her before Gold could do anything bad to her.

Gold walked out of the abandoned house that Cora had driven them to. Cora had decided to wait in the car, in case they needed to make a quick get a way.

"Did she wake up?" Cora asked after Gold had gotten in the car.

"Yes, I gave her the bread and soup."

Cora smiled, "good job, Gold."

"Thank-you, ma'am, now we'd better get out of here before someone spots us sitting outside of an abandoned house and gets suspicious."

Cora nodded her head in agreement, and pulled out of the driveway. Smiling happily to herself as she realized that now no one was around who would ruin her plan.

David ran into Mary Margaret's building and to her door, banging on it.

"Mary Margaret!" He yelled, "Open this God damn door!"

When there was no response he banged on it again, "so what you're just going to ignore me?!" Once again there was no answer.

"You're such a chicken!"

"What is going on?" David turned his head coming face to face with one of Mary Margaret's neighbours, he frowned and crossed his arms.

"It is Christmas Eve, my child is sleeping do you mind?"

David took a deep breath, calming himself down, "sorry," He said before knocking on the door once again.

"Mary Margaret isn't home."

"How do you know?" David asked curiously.

"Because I always hear her T.V at night, and tonight I haven't heard anything."

David scoffed, "that doesn't mean anything."

"What do you want with her anyways?"

David didn't want to tell her neighbour anything, after all it wasn't any of her business, "look when Mary Margaret gets back have her call me."

"What's your number?"

David began walking away, "she knows it." He said before walking out of the building and back towards his apartment. Eventually Mary Margaret would show up and when she did he was going to give her an earful for hurting his brother.

Mercy sighed as she flipped through the channels on T.V, since it was Christmas Eve there were the typical things on like It's a Wonderful Life. TBS was doing its annual play a Christmas story for 24 hours thing, and there were countless other Christmas specials on. None of which Mercy wanted to watch. She was so bored and a small part of her missed the orphanage since every year they would bake cookies and sing Christmas carols, she had never been alone on Christmas Eve before and she didn't like it.

Deciding to go get a snack Mercy walked into the kitchen where she found Christmas cookies sitting on the counter, she smiled taking one. After she took a bite she looked around sighing, the house was far too quiet, and how she wished that Neal was still there with her. When Mercy walked back into the living room she picked up her cellphone, surprised to find a text from Neal:

Hey beautiful,

Listen I have some bad news… Peter won't be able to make it now, he's sick…

Mercy sighed sitting on the couch, now she was really going to be all alone for Christmas; she looked back down at her phone as she got another text message.

Chris is going to come and pick up what he needs to in the next hour or so, I'll be back tomorrow morning, since my Dad is currently sick and Mom's not hosting the dinner tomorrow.

Love you, hon, see you tomorrow.

Mercy smiled quickly replying to Neal's text message, before putting her phone down. Neal was going to come back tomorrow; she wasn't going to be alone for Christmas after all.

Finishing off her cookie Mercy lied down on the couch, deciding to watch The Simpsons as she waited for Chris to show up.

David walked back to his apartment still fuming, when he walked inside Ruby greeted him.

"Did you talk to her?"

"No," David said looking around, "where's James?"

"He went to have a shower."

"How's he doing?"

Ruby led David into the kitchen, where all the glass that had been on the floor when he had left was now gone.

"Well the good news is I convinced him to stop breaking beer bottles," she said pouring herself a glass of wine, "but the bad news is he's still hurting."

David sighed taking a beer out of the fridge, "well Mary Margaret wasn't home, but she will be eventually and then I'm going to give her a piece of my mind."

Ruby walked over to David hugging him, "well it's Christmas Eve, let's watch a movie and relax."

David looked down at Ruby, before leaning down and kissing her soft lips, "alright let's do it."

Ruby and David walked into the living room, David sat down on the couch and Ruby sat down beside him snuggling into him. The two of them deciding to watch A Christmas Story, but David wasn't really paying that much attention to it he was still far too angry at Mary Margaret. However he didn't want to ruin Ruby's Christmas so he made sure to laugh when she laughed, taking care to make sure it sounded sincere.

When Cora walked inside her house she found Killian and Regina in the kitchen they were eating some cookies and talking. Regina laughed when Killian said something funny.

"Hey Mom!" Regina said happily when she spotted Cora.

"Hi." Cora said.

"Did you finish whatever Gold needed your help with?" Regina asked.

Cora's breath caught in her throat, as she realized that she had completely forgotten about the lie she had told Regina about where she was going.

"Are you OK, Mom?" Regina asked concerned.

Cora smiled, "of course I am, Gold just wanted to discuss some things."

Regina and Killian looked at each other confused.

"Um… OK…" Regina said, not sure what else to say.

"I'm going to bed," Cora said smiling, "goodnight."

"Night." Regina and Killian said at the same time.

Once Cora was out of sight Killian turned to Regina, "your Mom is kind of weird."
Regina laughed wrapping her arms around Killian's neck, "maybe I'll turn out just like that."

Killian shuddered, "oh God I hope not."

Regina laughed again, standing on her tiptoes and kissing Killian's lips.

End Chapter 11

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