Chapter 21
Regina and Cora stood in the middle of Gold's shop rummaging through all of his belonggings actively searching for the dagger, Regina could not get her sweet little girl off of her mind, she was so afraid that Rumple would harm her, but she knew her mother was right in the fact that he would not harm anything that was valuable to him, and Joanna had some value to him or he would have never taken her. Cora, however, had other things on her mind. She was filled with excitement at the idea of the power she was going to possess when she killed the dark one. She looked over at her daughter to see if she had made any progress in her search, she took in Regina's pale color, and could see how weak she was. She knew that she shouldn't have made Regina leave her hospital bed, that it was dangerous for her to be doing so much strenuous work a matter of hours after giving birth, but she just didn't care. She knew her emptiness resulted from the fact that she did not posses her heart anymore, but with her heart she could not gain the power she so desired, love was weakness, and even though she didn't have a heart she did know that Regina would be her weakness.
"Any luck Regina? It has to be here someplace. Rumple is smart, so it will be hidden in a very safe place."
"Mother I don't think it is here, he wouldn't hide something so important right under our noses."
Cora found a box of potions hidden under the counter, "I wonder if there is anything in her that could help us?" She pulled out a bottle clearly labeled To aquire what you most desire, "Here we go, this should lead us right to what we want." Cora opended the bottle and a purple haze floated out and drifted across the room, surrounding a globe sitting on the countertop. Cora and Regina circled around the globe, waiting for the the purple haze to diminish. What it revealed was a blinking dot on the spot where the dagger was hidden. Cora looked at Regina with confusion, "Do you know where this is?"
Regina knew exaclty where the dagger was hidden, "Yes, I do! In the forest, at the well. He has hidden the dagger in the most unlikely place."
Cora and Regina immediately left the store heading for the outskirts of town to retrieve the source to the Dark One's powers.
Emma, Mary Margaret, and David had searched the entire town looking for Rumple and Joanna, coming up with no leads. They all knew in thier hearts that he had left town with the baby therefore, losing all hope of ever finding her. They decided to head back to Regina's house to check in on Henry before going back to the hospital to inform Regina of their findings. As they entered the house they found Ruby still sitting in the library reading her book. Emma headed upstairs to check on Henry, only to discover he was missing. She ran downstairs to confront Ruby, "Where is he?!" Ruby looked confused, "He was upstairs, I haven't seen him come down." Emma looked at her parents. "He's gone, Henry's run away."
Henry stood outside of Gold's store watching Regina and Cora inside staring at the globe. He could barely hear what they were saying, but did hear Regina say that the dagger was at the well. As they exited the store he darted behind a parked car hiding from them. He waited patiently as they left town, waiting for them to get out of sight before he left. He headed back to Regina's house and left a note on the door, telling his mom and grandparents where to find them, then headed out of town toward the well. He knew there was no time to explain to them what was happening, he needed to get to the well and warn Regina about Cora before she obtained the power of the Dark One. Only he could stop Cora now, and save his mom and his little sister.