It had been almost four hours since Skylar had left. Henry had fallen asleep on one of the couches and both Donovan and Regina were practically glued to the window, watching and waiting for Skylar to return. Both had looks of deep concern on their faces, wondering whether or not Skylar would make it back. Eventually, Emma and David made their way over to the two and the sheriff let out a sigh, "Maybe I should go and see what's going on. Donovan, where is what's his face being held?" ,the sheriff asked as she took a look out the window herself.
"I can't let you do that...I'm sorry, Sky can handle it don't worry" ,Donovan said in response even though he was unsure that she really could handle what she had went to face.
Regina could hear the uncertainty in Donovan's voice and it worried her even more, "If she can't handle it herself then I'm going to help..." ,Regina began as she looked to Donovan. "Where is she Donovan? I need to find her and if you don't help me then I will make you" ,she continued in a threatening tone.
"Oh, and how do you plan to do that?" ,Donovan replied as he took a step closer to Regina and crossed his arms over his chest. "Don't threaten me Regina, I'm in no mood to argue with anyone. If I let you go out there and you get hurt Skylar will never forgive me, so do what you want to me, the only person I take orders from isn't here right now in fact I don't even know if she's alive anymore...I can't...I can't feel her. Our bond is weakening" ,he continued as he quickly turned away from Regina and the other two while fighting back the tears threatening to spill from his eyes.
"Bond?" ,Emma asked curiously.
"Yeah...we've been part of the same pack for almost two hundred years. With time a bond builds and as time passes it gets stronger. We can sense each other in ways, like if one of us is scared, or in danger that way the rest of the pack can find each other when one of us is in trouble. The only way the bond is broken is if we're too far away from each other or..." ,Donovan began in response before he was cut off by David.
"If you die" ,David said before letting out a sigh. Even though the town was in danger because of Skylar, David could see how hurt Donovan looked at the thought of losing her and that told him there was good inside the beast before him and that meant there was good inside Skylar as well. It meant there was love in their hearts, the wolves were bonded by pure love and no matter how what they couldn't be pure evil because of the love they had. "Mary Margaret, stay with Henry and the girls. Donovan, let's go" ,he stated as he placed a hand on Donovan's shoulder.
Donovan looked to David and raised an eyebrow, "Why would you want to help us? Look what we've done, we're monsters" ,he said in response before turning to look out the window again. "Good isn't supposed to save evil, good is supposed to destroy evil" ,Donovan continued in a quiet tone.
"Can you honestly look me in the eyes and tell me that you're evil? That you don't care about anyone? That you really have no remorse or feeling inside your heart?" ,David began in response. "Donovan, I know that you not only care about Skylar but you care about the people of this town as well, with a few exceptions of course but wanting to hurt those who hurt you doesn't make you evil it makes you just like everyone else. Emma filled me in on your pack's story and we can all sit down and have a nice long chat later but right now I'm offering you my help are you gonna take it or not?" ,David continued.
Donovan took a deep breath then looked to David and nodded his head, "Alright...alright but stay close to me, that way if we run into danger I can keep you safe and get you back here to your family. I don't know if it's too late for Skylar but I'll be damned if I let a father who's just been reunited with his daughter die on my watch" ,Donovan said in response. "You're right David, despite everything that's happened tonight. We're not evil, we're just misunderstood. Thank you...for understanding, your the only one besides Regina who does understand".
"It's in my nature to see the good in people" ,David began with a smile before placing a hand on Donovan's shoulder. "Now, let's go make sure your family is okay" ,he continued before opening the front door. Before David could step outside Donovan had already shifted and led the way out the door. The massive beast sniffed the air then looked to David who nodded then followed him.
Donovan led the way to the docks and into an abandoned boat house. The wolf stopped for a moment before shifting back to human form. He had only shifted into wolf form while roaming the streets in case anything tried to attack them. "Rumpelstiltskin has Cassius locked up in here, Skylar should be here and Cassius should be dead by now if Skylar succeeded in what she came here to do that is" ,Donovan stated before opening a door to what looked like an office. When the two walked inside they could see Cassius in the cage Rumpelstiltskin and the others locked him in. "Where's Skylar and the pups?" ,Donovan asked in a demanding tone as David pointed his gun at Cassius.
Before Cassius could answer the door to the office opened again and Skylar along with the others walked inside. "We're right here and we have a big problem" ,Skylar stated as she walked over to Cassius' cage and glared at the vampire.
"What? Why didn't you kill him? What's going on?" ,Donovan asked in response.
"Because if he dies, all hell will break loose...literally" ,Skylar began in response. "The fucker made a deal with Hades, you know god of the underworld...we can't kill him...he's a key" ,the wolf continued as she paced back and forth.
"What do you mean a key?" ,David interjected as he looked around at everyone in the room.
Skylar looked to David then to Donovan and the twins, "If he dies a portal to the underworld opens and everything that's down there will be freed into the world, including Hades himself. If the people here thought we were bad then they are definitely not prepared for what will happen if this son of a bitch gets killed. The underworld is filled with things that nightmares are made of...it's filled with pure evil and that asshole is the fucking key to the world's end" ,Skylar explained. "So now we have to think of a plan B. Any ideas?"
"Why go through all the trouble of planning when all you have to do is sacrifice yourself and I will leave this pathetic little world alone" ,Cassius interrupted in a weak tone.
"Nobody else is going to die, we will find a way to fix this. Like it or not Cassius, good will always win, you will be taken down" ,David stated as he looked to the four wolves standing next to him.
"What do you mean good? Look at what's going on around you, how can anyone who's caused this be good?" ,Skylar growled out in response. "If I knew for sure he would keep his word I would've done it already. Plus it doesn't help that I've had the twins in my ear for the last four hours giving me reasons not too".
David looked to Skylar and sighed but then a smile formed on his face, "We'll talk about all of that later, right now we've got a plan B to create" ,he began in response before looking to Cassius. "How long will this cage hold him?" ,David asked as he looked the cage over.
"As long as no one frees him the cage will hold him as long as we want it to. The bars are silver and laced with vervain, they're also engraved with ancient symbols that make him weaker. Rumpelstiltskin is working on a barrier for the office so that no one but him and myself can enter, we don't want anyone from town to come in here and drive a stake in his heart" ,Skylar began in response. "If you're serious about plan B and keeping me alive then we're gonna take every precaution we can until we figure everything out, so that means this boat house has to be off limits to everyone in town and he needs to be checked on daily, Rumpel and I can do that...we need to figure something out and fast I don't want him somehow worming his way out of this. It would be hard for him to do but I've learned to never underestimate him, it'd be wise for people to fear him even in his weakened state" ,the wolf continued with a serious tone.
"Okay then, we will figure something out, for now let's get that barrier put up and get to planning" ,David said in response before leaving the office. The rest of the group followed him and once they were all out the door Rumpel put the barrier up and JC offered to keep watch with Jamie for the night. David and the other two wolves made their way back towards Regina's mansion to start planning things out, while they walked they kept a look out for anything else that could've possibly came through the portal with Skylar's pack.