Chapter Thirteen~

When Darcy woke up it was to a major headache and she found herself in the bedroom she was sharing with Emma. Confused, she started to get up but was stopped by Emma's voice saying,

"Best to take it slow Darcy." turning towards the voice, Darcy found Emma by the door looking ragged and exhausted as if she got no sleep and slowly sat up feeling every muscle in her body and every bone protest as she asked,

"What happened?"

"The clasp on your bracelet broke last night and you started to—well—Mr. Gold helped you out and he's supposed to be here soon to go over our next move." Emma told her, clearly withholding something but Darcy wasn't about to protest as she exhaled deeply trying to find a comfortable place on the bed. Just then the door opened and Mary entered smiling widely when she saw Darcy awake and said,

"Thank Heavens!" and coming over towards the bed took a gentle seat on it and brushed some of Darcy's hair away from her face saying,

"Emma was so worried over you dear, she nearly never slept the night making sure you were alright." Darcy was utterly surprised at this and turned to see Emma had fallen asleep against the wall so that Mary whispered,

"Let her sleep, she was up almost all night."

"Did—did I almost die?" Darcy asked hesitantly so that Mary bit her lip and replied honestly,

"I don't know, all I know is that David was called to the park and he came in carrying you were already limp as if asleep. Mr. Gold said you were fine but from the way Emma looked all shaken up—I've never seen her that upset over anything expect when Henry was thought dead." the sound of a knock on the front door sounded and Mary stood to get it saying,

"I'll be right back." leaving the door open and Darcy to try and stand only to find her legs were weighted down. Soon she heard footsteps coming towards the room, and the distinct sound of a cane and instantly called,

"Emma wake up, Mr. Gold is here." only Emma muttered something in her sleep as Mary and Mr. Gold appeared in the doorway, Mary saying,

"I'll leave you guys to it then." clearly not feeling safe around him in any sort of way so that Mr. Gold just stared at Darcy lying in bed as she asked,

"What do we do now?"

"A very good question my dear," he began entering the room only to be stopped by Emma who shot awake and put her foot right in the way of his two so that he'd trip if he took another step forward.

"Ah, good morning to you to dear Emma." he said as she glared at him standing up with wild hair from sleeping against the wall and snapped,

"You said those bracelets would protect us!"

"Ah and they did. If she hadn't been wearing it she'd have died in an instant. But because she had it on Regina's Magic didn't have time to take full effect. Thankfully I had that vial with me." Mr. Gold reasoned but Emma was about to blow up on him from lack of sleep if it wasn't for Darcy who said,

"We need to get down to business guys!" the two turned to her and it was Emma who agreed, sitting on the bed and waving for Mr. Gold to take the chair. As he did he pulled out a folded piece of paper saying as he did,

"This is an incantation I've been saving for several good ages; it can revoke the Magic of someone of Dark Magic. You see—there are two types of Magic, White and Dark and as you'd expect Regina is Dark. What we need to do—is trap her in a place she can't get out of and enact this incantation removing all of her Magic making her useless and vulnerable." the two exchanged glances with each other before Darcy asked,

"Place she can't get out of? What like someplace enchanted?" here Mr. Gold smiled saying,

"Now you're thinking."

"But where would work? I don't see many places with bars do you—" Emma said but she stopped midsentence as realization dawned on her so that the other two figured it out also—the police station.

"But what would we charge her with?" Darcy asked before adding,

"She is the Mayor, we'd have to have it legit as can be without any falsifications otherwise it won't go over."

"I can see to that part, and to the enchanting of the police station jail cells." Mr. Gold said evenly so that the two turned to him as Emma asked,

"And what do we need to enact this spell?" here Mr. Gold frowned saying in a hard tone,

"Some of Regina's own blood, otherwise I can gather all the other ingredients myself."

"Well then we're screwed! How are we supposed to get some of her blood?" Emma asked throwing her hands up in the air but Darcy smirked saying,

"Dr. Whale, I understand he has a longstanding beef with her over something she did to him in the past. We can convince him to give us a sample of her blood from the hospital." here Emma smiled hugging Darcy saying,

"You are too devilish sometimes you know that?" only Darcy just winked before turning to Mr. Gold to ask,

"And when do we need to do this? Is there like a time slot or something?" he nodded saying as he began to stand,

"This Friday on the full moon. We have three days to get ready so I suggest you rest up." then he was heading to the door and Emma followed him to make sure he left. As they reached the front door she stopped him with,

"This had better work Gold."

"Or what Savoir? Another deal will be made?" he smirked coly before stepping outside and leaving her standing there numbly to shut the door. When Emma returned to the shared bedroom she found Darcy just about to leave so that she said,

"Hey chill out will you?"

"No we need to get prepared Emma! We only have three days!" she shot back before they heard Mary's voice ask,

"Three days before what?" turning, the two saw Mary in the kitchen looking confused as Emma said,

"It's nothing."

"Don't lie to me, a mother knows when her child is lying." Mary said slipping into her Snow persona as she stepped over and then her face, tight with anxiety relax as she begged,

"Just tell me what's going on dear." exhaling deeply, Emma told Mary everything they were going to do before finishing with,

"You can't tell a single person, not even David."

"Why not David after all he is your father Emma." Mary countered so that Emma threw her hands up in the air saying,

"Fine then David too! Just I don't want this to fail ok? This has to work otherwise I don't think we'll have another chance of stopping her." seeing the pure look of desperation of her daughters face, Mary took Emma's cheeks into her hands and said,

"I understand, I felt the same way when I had to decide to put you into the Wardrobe alone. Do what you think is right and your father and I will support you one hundred percent."

"Even if it's with Mr. Gold's help?" Darcy chimed in so that Mary turned to her adding,

"As long as it works and we can be safe knowing she won't be able to hurt anyone ever, ever again then yes. Even with Mr. Gold's help." little did they know that outside one of the apartment windows was a black raven that took off into flight only cawing out once as it flew off—to Madam Mayors house.