Chapter 21
"Hello, Paige." Henry said as he appeared in Paige's cell.
Paige dropped her magazine when she saw the young man appeared.
"Henry? You're still alive?" Paige was surprised because she heard rumours that Henry was stabbed by the athame that should have killed him.
"I'm not here for small talk." the young man leaned against the jail wall.
"What are you here for? I've already told the other agents that I don't know anything." Paige dismissed Henry and went back to reading her magazine.
"Don't play coy with me, Paige, we both know you are very close to Gold. Now tell me where he is." Henry asked in a soft tone.
"I'm not telling." the young lady said defiantly.
Henry clenched his fist and immediately Paige's fingers started twisting.
"What are you doing?!" she screamed in pain.
"Getting what I want!" he squeezed his hand further breaking her bones one phalanges at a time.
Two of Paige's finger were broken and the pieces of bones protruded out of her skin.
"He's at the old warehouse behind the hospital." she said finally, unable to bear anymore pain.
"Thank you." Henry released his hold on the girl and disappeared from the cell as guards rushed over provoked by the screams coming from Paige's cell.
They opened the cell door to see Paige crying on the floor that was covered in drops of blood. They saw her hand was mangled and they were puzzled as to what happened. The guards helped her up and brought her to the medical centre.
Emma and Regina visited Paige at the medical centre upon hearing of her injury.
"How did this happen?" Emma asked the young lady.
"Henry. he came to my cell and did this to get information." Paige replied.
"What sort of information?" the blonde was afraid of the answer.
"Gold's whereabout." the young brunette replied.
"Did you tell him." Emma asked.
"Yes." she said feeling guilty.
Emma was notably upset but she did not blame the girl. By the looks of it, the girl held out longer than she herself would.
Paige had already been given some treatment for the hand. Since her bones were so broken up, they couldn't just cure it using a spell. A potion was given to her to aid in numbing the pain as well as speed up the bone mending process.
"Listen, Paige, I need you to cooperate with us. Henry is different now and he will destroy anybody that stands in his way. We need to get to Gold before he does." Emma explained.
"Could you tell us where Gold is?" Regina held her breath while she waited for the answer, hoping that the girl will finally cooperate.
"Yes."
Paige gave the full details of Gold's whereabouts as well as the location of the spell book. Upon receiving the information that they needed, Emma and Regina made a move to leave the room. Paige stopped them.
"Regina! I'm truly sorry for what I had done. I didn't want it to end up this way. I was blinded by Gold's promises."
The older brunette nodded her head. She needed more time before she could forgive the young lady.
Emma and Regina left the room.
Every available agent had been deployed to apprehend Gold at his hideout. They had the building surrounded.
Regina waved her hand in front of her to sense if Henry was in the building.
"Well?" Emma asked.
"He is in there. I also feel a battle going on." Regina said.
Emma signalled to Mary-Margaret and David to spread out. Emma and Regina took the front while the other two entered through the back. The other agents monitored the activities that went on inside and around the warehouse.
"I hope we're not too late." Regina whispered to the blonde as they sneaked into the top floors of the warehouse.
"We'll stop him this time." Emma promised.
"Time to face facts, dearie. If it wasn't for me, your life would have been spent being a slave to the ASF. I've given you more power than you could ever dream of!" Gold said to Henry.
"I have no use of your power. I just want you dead." Henry punctuated the end of the sentence with a fireball towards Gold.
The older man dodged the blast and laughed.
"You can't hurt me, Henry. The power you have came from me." Gold threw a fireball towards Henry.
The young man deflected the blast to the wall.
"Join me." the older man invited.
"What? Why would I join you?"
"Don't you want to grow your powers further? Learn all the things the ASF had kept locked up?"
Henry answered Gold's question with more blasts thrown at him. The first two blasts did not affect the older man at all but the last one pushed him backwards.
The young man smiled. He can use the powers against Gold. He just needed to keep throwing fireballs.
Henry raised his hand in preparation to throw a barrage of fireball when suddenly he teleported out of the warehouse.
"What the hell?" Henry was confused as to what had happened.
He tried to teleport back inside but he found that his powers were not working.
"Freeze!" Emma shouted across the room.
Gold smiled when he saw Agent Swan and Agent Mills appear in the room right after Henry left.
"Well… look who is back. Feels like deja vu." Gold said to Regina.
"The only difference is, your husband isn't here. I wonder what happened to that man." the older man teased.
It took a lot for Regina to not incinerate the despicable man right there and then.
"It's over Gold. We have you surrounded. There is nowhere for you to go." Emma said.
Both women had their arms up in front of them, ready to let out a blast in case of an attack.
Mary Margaret and David creeped in from behind the older man. He did not seem to notice their presence.
"It is over… for you!" Gold threw a huge fireball towards the two ladies in front of him.
The fireball stopped short inches in front of Emma and Regina. An invisible shield had absorbed the blast.
The other couple in the room threw a potion onto Gold. The potion restricted the old sorcerer's movements. He was immobilised. Mary Margaret and David walked over to the man and teleported him to the ASF jail.
Emma and Regina hugged, happy that this was all over and nobody got hurt.
"Where is Henry?" Emma broke from the hug.
"Somewhere safe. For now. If you would excuse me, I need to talk to my son." Regina teleported herself to her son.
Emma joined the other agents to locate the ancient spell book that started it all in the location Paige had told them.