You Are Loved
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Lily roared angrily as Maleficent was struck down by the Prince's sword and began to fall from the sky. The anti-Savior wanted nothing more than to kill David, as well as Regina and Zelena, but her concern and fear for her mother was stronger, as she couldn't tell how bad off she was, or if she was even still alive. Lily saw her crash hard into the ground within the middle of the woods, but she couldn't tell where she had been struck. So, instead of taking the moment to strike back as much as she wanted to, she knew she had to find her mother first. She flew off into the woods and landed within a clearing, then transformed herself back into her human form to search for her mother.
When Lily finally found her mother, the Dragon Sorceress was once again in her human form as well, lying unconscious and bleeding out from a large wound within her upper left shoulder, as the Prince's sword lay on the ground beside her. It was impossible to tell whether Maleficent was alive or dead.
"Mom, no!" the younger woman cried out fearfully as she immediately rushed to her side and pulled her into arms, while her mother slowly began to come to. "I'm so sorry. Please be okay. Mom!"
"I'm al… alright, darling," Maleficent responded weakly as she slowly opened her eyes and then looked into her daughter's eyes. "I'll be alright. The wound is… isn't as bad… as it looks, I promise. I was lucky. The last time I was struck down by Prince David's sword, the Savior killed me."
While the more powerful of the women struggled to sit up with Lily's help, Lily replied worryingly, "I should have killed him right then when I had the chance. I should have killed Emma when I first saw her again after all these years."
Her mother slowly pulled away her hand from the wound to get a better look at it as she answered with frustration, "If you had, then you never would have found your way here to Storybrooke and I never would have found you again. Besides, it wasn't Emma to blame for this attack. It was the bastard Prince and Regina to blame. I should have been more cautious of my surroundings, but I do promise you that we will make them pay for this in time. I am sorry that I failed you today, Lily."
"You didn't fail me, Mom," the younger Dragon Sorceress whispered. "I was so consumed with my hate for them, that I didn't think that there was a chance you could get hurt. I mean, you're Maleficent. I forgot that you were also my mother and that you're just as vulnerable as I am."
"Don't you worry," Maleficent responded confidently as she managed to get back onto her feet. "We still have an advantage over them, as we still have the pirate. We'll show them what happens when they make two dragons angry."
Lily wrapped her arms around Maleficent once again and then transported them both back to the cave. By then, the rain that had surrounded only the town had finally stopped and the ocean had become stilled, or just as it was before the Sea Witch had used her power over the seas to help the heroes. Maleficent recognized the singing voice, so she knew her former colleague had returned to Storybrooke.
When they arrived, Lily turned to where they had left Hook chained up and found the broken shackles, with no sign of the pirate captain as she shouted angrily, "No! How the hell did they find him? There's no way he could have gotten free on his own!"
The older sorceress collapsed weakly against the embankment upon where she stood while her daughter finally knelt down at her side, then Maleficent said sternly, "We weren't exactly su… subtle when we emerged from this cave… earlier. It's possible that someone was walking along the beach… when we began our attack."
"What are we going to do now?" Lily replied in frustration. "We can't let them get away with this, but you're wounded badly. You need a doctor, or someone who can heal you. But no one will help us because we're villains again."
"The doctor here in this town doesn't care who he treats so long as he gets paid for his services," Maleficent answered assuredly. "And he won't say a word to the heroes. Whale has no loyalty to them one way or another."
Her daughter nodded and then responded, "I would rather someone heal you so that you won't have to suffer any longer than is necessary. But if this is our only option…"
She interrupted Lily as she replied quickly, "I promise you that I will be alright, dear. If you're worried about anyone interrupting us while I am being treated, don't. I can put the proper protection spells in place. In the meantime, we still have an advantage over the heroes. Regina and David did this to me. I want them to pay as badly as you do, but we can't make another strike against them as careless as we did today. We have to work with what we have."
"And what do we have, mother?" the younger woman asked curtly. "They know where we are and even if we were to find another place to hide, you just said we can't do anything to them now."
"I never said we couldn't do anything," Maleficent answered, as she smiled and made Killian's hook appear within her hand. "This hook is a part of that pirate, which means that we still have power over him. Most likely the Savior woke him with true loves' kiss and that will help us with what I have in mind. He'll need to be awake for what comes next."
Lily smiled as well, then she responded, "Okay, but first let's get you in to see the doctor."
At the town's clinic…
It was getting later into the evening and Dr. Whale was sitting inside his office getting drunk, as he always did whenever he could get the chance, especially while in the middle of a crisis, which on an evening after a dragon attack, it was cause for him to become very drunk despite those that needed him.
However, when he opened his desk drawer and opened another bottle of whisky after his last bottle became empty, then went to take another swig, both Maleficent and Lily suddenly appeared before him within a black smoke cloud, startling him as the doctor fell back in his chair to the floor.
He fearfully cried out, "Oh God! Please… please don't hurt me."
"Relax, doctor," Maleficent replied weakly, as she started to collapse until her daughter pulled her back up and then helped her to have a seat in the chair that was once occupied by Whale.
"We didn't come here to hurt you," Lily continued curtly. "If we had, we would have already done so. As you can see, my mother needs your help."
He saw the wound in the Dragon Sorceress' shoulder as he spoke again nervously, "I can see that, but… But I have other patients to attend to. Patients who are here because of your attack. They need my help too."
Lily picked up a scalpel she saw lying on the man's desk nearby, then the Dragon Sorceress' daughter walked close to the sniveling man and pointed it his throat as she retorted angrily, "You certainly make that quite clear, seeing as you're sitting here in your office getting wasted, while your patients are out there waiting for your assistance. We can help you disappear for awhile, where no one can bother you. It's obvious you have no problem with that any other time. So, what do you say, Whale? Will you help my mother by your own recognizance, or do we have to force you to help us? I promise you, it will certainly be better for you if you come with us willingly."
"No, I mean… of course I'll help you willingly," Whale answered in frustration. "But if you want me to help her, then you have to stay here where I will have the supplies I need to treat her wound. It's deep and it will need to be taken care of properly."
"Good," Maleficent stated cruelly. "Then, let's get to work."
