Just dropped in for a bite
Storytown 1867
"Okay, okay." Emma whispered as she slowly got to her feet. "Take it easy Regina." She held her hands up as Regina kept the revolver pointed at her. Emma looked over at Tonto and The Lone Ranger and of course they were sound asleep, she thought. The Lone Ranger even snores like a freight train.
"Don't call me that." Regina hissed at her. "I'm Queenie to you!" The pure hatred she looked at Emma with broke her heart. Her true love wanted to kill her. Regina was shoving Emma away from the camp with the gun pointed in her back. They were heading toward the horses. Keeping the gun leveled at Emma, Regina pulled rope from her saddle. She made Emma hold her hands out in front of her and then wrapped it around her wrists.
"Get on your horse." Regina ordered Emma and she complied. She wasn't planning on killing her right here, so maybe Emma had a chance she thought. Once Emma finished struggling to get onto her saddle Regina expertly climbed onto her horse keeping the barrel of the gun trained on her the whole time.
Regina moved her horse up to Emma's and grabbed its bridle in her free hand. She then turned her horse and led them both away. "Say goodbye to your friends Sheriff." she told her coldly. "You'll never see them again."
Emma gulped audibly.
Storybrooke (Anna and Elsa's room)
"I want to know everything!" Anna was giddy and bouncing up and down on the couch next to Elsa. The queen of Arendelle was smiling shyly at her sister's interest over the date.
"We went on a picnic in the woods." Elsa's smile was growing as she spoke.
"Oh! That's so romantic!" Anna put her hands on her cheek. "Then what?"
"Well, we were just about to start eating when she told me that she likes me." Elsa leaned in and whispered to her sister. "A lot!" She showed her pearly white teeth as she smiled. Anna squealed in excitement.
"Then what happened?" Anna asked putting her hands on Elsa's and squeezing them.
Elsa blushed. "We kissed!" Anna jumped to her feet and clapped her hands.
"Oh my God!" she screamed in delight. "You guys kissed! How long was it? What was it like? Is she a good kisser? Oh my God! I can't believe it! Are you in love? Is it love? I think it's love! I'm so happy for you! My sister's in love!"
Elsa held her hands up as she grinned at her babbling sister. "Slow down Anna! It's not love!" Anna stopped jumping and looked at her sister with a face that looked like a child that dropped their ice cream. Elsa gave her a slight smile. "Yet." Anna exploded in happiness again.
"Oh you two are so perfect together! You're going to fall in love! I can feel it!" Anna pulled her sister up and gave her a suffocating hug. Elsa hugged her back and hoped deep inside her that her sister was right.
She could really see herself falling in love with Mulan.
Storybrooke (the woods)
Mulan was happy and she didn't know what to do with the emotions so she exercised. She was practicing her katas and finding it hard to concentrate on her form. Her thoughts kept drifting back to a certain beautiful queen from Arendelle. Mulan felt so free during their date. She had never laid all her emotions out in front of someone like she had with Elsa. To the warrior's surprise and jubilation Elsa reciprocated her feelings. She liked Mulan! A smile spread on her face as she thought back to their kiss. Mulan had never felt that much passion in a single kiss. When she remembered the moment her lips tingled like it just happened.
Her mind was not concentrating at all on her surroundings, only the kiss with Elsa. If she hadn't been so distracted she might have been able to defend herself as Rumplestiltskin moved behind her at super speed and sank his fangs into her neck. As it was she barely had time to register what was happening before she slipped into unconsciousness as her life force ebbed from her body.
Storybrooke (the Charming farm)
Violet, Henry, Snow and David sat around the dining room table. "So you think the Author has been controlling everything in our life and he's the reason Regina went missing?" David asked Henry.
"Yes." Henry said with confidence. "He's not letting the stories play out like they are supposed to. He's manipulating them like Isaac was. But he's not doing it on a small scale like Isaac. Isaac just did it to make himself rich and get women. The Author isn't doing that."
"So why is he doing this?" Snow asked.
"I don't know. Maybe just to play with us?" Henry said. Snow shivered from his answer.
"That's terrifying Henry." Snow whispered. "That would mean that he can do whatever he wants with us."
"What do we do about it?" David said, looking for a way to take action.
"I'm going to find him." Henry said.
"Find him?" Snow asked. "How?"
Henry smiled. "By writing a better story than him."
Storytown 1867
They arrived at an abandoned mine right when the sun started to rise. Regina pushed Emma inside and shoved her down on the ground. "Hey! That hurt Regina!" Emma protested.
Regina looked at her with those angry eyes again that were full of fury.
"I told you not to call me that." She hissed at her. Emma held up her hands in front of Regina.
"Well can you at least take this rope off?" Emma asked.
Regina's head flew back as she gave Emma a humorless laugh. "Do I look like a fool sheriff? Why would I cut you lose? So you can kill me as soon as my back is turned?"
"I would never hurt you Regina." Emma said it with so much heart that Regina was taken aback for a moment. "You know I wouldn't."
She shook her head at Emma. "No, don't try and trick me sheriff. You're just trying to buy time."
"Regina, it's not a trick. This whole place is not real. You're not some outlaw gunslinger and I'm not some sheriff." Emma caught herself. "Well, I am a sheriff. But not here, back home in Storybrooke."
Regina looked at her like she was insane. "I think the sun has fried your brain sheriff. What are you babbling about?"
Emma looked at her, pleading with her bright green eyes. "Us Regina. I'm talking about us." Regina scoffed.
"Us? There is no us sheriff."
Emma tried to scoot closer to Regina but she was stopped by the gun the bandit was holding. "Yes there is Regina! We love each other!" Regina's eyes went wide. "We share a son together! Remember Henry? He's so worried about you! When you disappeared he and I both went nuts!"
Regina laughed again. "Nuts is right. And who is this Henry?"
"Our son Regina, I'm his birth mother and you adopted him, remember? You raised him for ten years Regina! Ten years!" Emma was trying desperately.
"Henry?" Emma's heart leapt in her throat as Regina looked thoughtfully for a moment. "Nope, doesn't ring a bell." Emma's hopes crashed.
"Regina, remember us." Emma's voice started to crack. "Please. I love you so much. I'm carrying our child. We're getting married."
"You're carrying our child? How is that even possible? You are delusional, how did they ever make you sheriff?" Regina smirked.
"I'm asking myself the same thing." Both Emma and Regina were startled by the voice and turned toward the cave opening. There were five men all holding revolvers aimed at them. In the center was the owner of the voice that interrupted them.
"August?" Emma asked disbelieving the situation.
"Augustus, I told you already. But it appears to me that you've gone plumb loco sheriff.
You see, we heard all that about you carrying her child and Storybrooke and all that. I don't think we can have you as sheriff anymore." The men around him murmured their agreement. "Now you drop that gun Queenie." Regina weighed her options and decided against trying to shoot them all. She dropped the gun in front of them. "Alright get them both up." August motioned to the other men. "And be careful with sheriff Swan, she's with child." The other men laughed, but Emma thought she saw something in his eyes for a moment. Some kind of understanding, but it was gone in a second. "Let's get back to town boys, looks like we're gonna have us a hanging today."
Emma's heart plunged to her stomach.
Storybrooke (Mill's family vault)
Dr. Whale and Van Helsing waited outside of the vault while Zelena was placing the remains of Dracula inside. Van Helsing looked around the area nervously. Whale noticed it and tried to reassure his mentor.
"Don't worry Abraham, I may not like magic but I respect its power. If Zelena says that Gold can't get past the protection spell then he can't get in." Whale said confidently.
Abraham didn't look reassured as he continued to scan the cemetery. "I hope you are right Victor. I am feeling very anxious about being here. There is something in the air." Abraham was about to continue speaking but an arrow lodged in his neck striking him dead. Whale screamed in surprise and lept back. He looked away from Van Helsing as he slowly crumpled to the ground and saw Mulan lowering her bow. He turned to run and ran right into a smiling Mr. Gold.
At that moment Zelena exited the vault with Robyn in her arms. She covered her mouth
in shock when she saw Van Helsing dead on the ground. Gold was holding Whale by the shoulder and looked at her as he sunk his teeth into Whale as he screamed and died. In a panic Zelena surrounded herself in green smoke and teleported away.
Gold stepped forward and touched the invisible barrier in front of the vault. "How will we get into the vault my lord?" Mulan asked Gold. He turned to her and smiled to her.
"Don't worry dearie. We will get in. It will just take a little longer." He grinned.
Storybrooke (the Charming farm)
Zelena materialized in front of the farmhouse in a panic. She ran up the stairs and banged on the door all the while holding Robyn close. Mary Margaret opened the door, surprised to find Zelena on the porch. "Zelena! Are you okay?" she could see how agitated the witch was.
"Gold is a vampire! He killed Whale! He's coming after me!" she was frantic. Mary Margaret took a moment to process and then pulled Zelena inside, all the while shaking her head.
"What are you talking about Zelena?" as she led Zelena into the living room David came in to see what the noise was about. He gave his wife a confused look and she gave him a nod indicating that he should sit down.
Zelena sat down shaking. "Why don't I hold Robyn, Zelena?" David offered. Zelena looked at him shakily and nodded as he took the baby. Mary Margaret held Zelena's shaking hands trying to calm her.
"Zelena what happened?" Mary Margaret said calmly.
"We were at Regina's vault, Whale and Van Helsing wanted a safe place to put the urn." her voice was cracking.
"Wait, Abraham Van Helsing? I met him. He was with Belle." Mary Margaret interjected.
"When I came out of the vault I saw Mulan and Gold, they were both vampires!" her voice was rising and Snow squeezed her hands tighter to comfort her. David's eyebrows went up in surprise.
"Gold's alive? How?"
Zelena ignored him. "Van Helsing had an arrow through his neck. Then I saw Gold bite Whale and kill him. I came here as fast as I could." she looked at Snow with fear in her eyes. "Snow, I have seen some really bad shit in my life, hell as the Wicked Witch I caused most of it, but what I saw there terrified me."
Snow felt a shiver run up her spine.
Storytown 1867
Once the posse reached the town they went straight to the jail. They hadn't cut Emma's ropes off yet and she was starting to get worried. During the ride back Emma kept her eyes on Regina. Most of the ride Regina kept her head down, just staring at her saddle. But every now and then Emma had caught Regina looking over at her. Their eyes met and Emma could see something in her eyes. It only lasted a second but Emma could see that Regina was struggling with something and that she would almost make the connection. But then just like that, a curtain would fall over her eyes and their would be no recognition. Emma slumped in her saddle, defeated.
Soon Augustus and his men were pulling them off their horses and pushing them into the sheriff's office. Regina was shoved into the cell and gave the men a look of pure hate. Augustus turned to Emma and cut her ropes and as Emma rubbed her wrists he shoved her in the cell too.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing? I'm the sheriff remember!" Emma yelled.
"Not anymore. We heard everything you said in that cave. I think you let her go on purpose." Augustus sneered at her. "I don't think the good people of Storytown want you as sheriff anymore." Then men around him nodded. "Now if you'll excuse us ladies, we have to get ready. Looks like we need enough rope for two."
He left the two alone in the sheriff's office. Emma's mouth was wide open and Regina noticed. "Close your mouth my dear, you'll catch flies." Emma whirled on her.
"You know what? I don't have time for this." Emma closed the distance between the two of them quickly. She pressed her lips against Regina's hard. Regina's hands went up in surprise and she yelled into Emma's mouth in protest. But as Emma continued to kiss her Regina's arms slowly went down and landed softly on Emma's shoulders. Her eyelids drooped slowly until they closed. Emma licked Regina's lip asking for entrance and Regina's lips parted and let the probing tongue into her mouth. Regina moaned into Emma's mouth. Her hands pressed Emma's body into her. Then a flash of light radiated from them and cascaded throughout the cell. Regina pulled back from Emma and looked at her with recognition in her eyes.
"Emma?" Regina said softly. Emma's eyes began to tear up and she nodded at her.
"Yeah!" Emma's voice cracked.
"You found me!" Regina's eyes also teared up and they embraced each other hard.
"I'll always find you." Emma whispered into her shoulder. Regina laughed as a tear rolled down her cheek in joy. Emma pulled back, keeping her arms wrapped around Regina's waist as she looked into her brown eyes.
"Now let's get the hell out of here and go home." Emma said.