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5x07 Nimue/5x08 Birth

"The Black Fairy?" Fawn asked with confusion, "You've never mentioned her before. I didn't know you knew her."

"Did you?"

Fawn shrugged, "I knew of her, I never knew her." Peter gave a slight nod before gazing out over the balcony again deep in thought.

"How do you know her?" Fawn asked cautiously, slightly afraid of what Peter's answer might be. Peter didn't answer, he just kept looking out at the skyline. Fawn approached him wrapping her arms around him from behind and resting her cheek on his bare shoulder. She felt him take a deep breath.

"Technically, I never knew her, Malcolm did."

"She was a part of your old life?"

He nodded. "I'd heard rumors growing up about the fairy that came in the night and stole infants from their cribs. Years later after a night of scamming men with 'follow the lady' I ended up in an alleyway behind a pub. I heard a baby crying so I followed the sound. I never found the baby, only the woman who had taken it. I remember how different she looked from the other women. She wore all black leather and feathers and jewels, not like the rags and torn dull clothing the other women of the village wore. She had this energy about her, strong and powerful. She didn't stay to talk, she smirked and vanished in a purple light.

Every night after that I saw her, she'd be another face in the crowd, or I'd see her for a second sitting at a table watching me scam the men with my card games. Every night she was there always in a different way and I'd only see her for a moment before she'd vanish. Until one night when I was walking home from the pub I saw her enter the woods. It was the first night we talked and we talked every night after that. She enjoyed how I used what abilities I had to manipulate and exploit others."

He paused, beginning to look uncomfortable. He cleared his throat before continuing.

"We had a love affair." He paused again judging Fawn's reaction, she seemed absorbed in the story so he continued, "I had fallen in love, she enjoyed my manipulating ways, her magic could supply us with whatever we needed, I didn't have to have a job or responsibility to be happy. Then it was all ruined when Rumple was born." Fawn lifted her head from his shoulder in shock.

"The Black Fairy is Rumple's mother?"

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Emma placed Excalibur next to the Dark One's dagger on the stone.

"Why will you not leave me alone?" she said to an unseen spirit. Suddenly she twitched and turned to her left, "You tried to keep me from doing this." She continued to stare at nothing, looking around the cave before getting a small box that held a glowing ember. She summoned a small piece and with it ignited a flame. She rose the flame into the air and cupped it with her bare hands, when she released it, it shone with light, like it was a small sun. Then she took Excalibur and the dagger and plunged them into the ball of light. When the glowing diminished Excalibur was whole. Emma reached for it's handle but paused.

"Merlin. . . he told me not to do this when I was a girl." She looked around the cave again before grabbing the re-forged sword with a new look of determination in her eyes.

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Fawn was still getting over the news of Rumple's parentage but Peter continued, "I tried to get over my own desires and be a good father, I told myself I could do that for the woman I loved. Mainly because I thought she loved me back, and our child." His eyes returned to looking at the trees blowing in the breeze, "But she didn't, one night she just left. She didn't say why, she didn't say anything, she just left. She saddled me with that little crying bundle of misery and never came back." He said between clenched teeth as his knuckles turned white from how hard he was gripping the rail.

Neither one of them spoke for a long time after that, they just stood on the balcony watching the sun dip below the horizon deep in their own thoughts. When the stars started to show Peter spoke up again.

"I was afraid to feel after that. When you came to the island and began to worm your way into my life I did everything I could to keep you at arms length. I needed the Pixie Dust trees strong again and you did that, and after you started spending so much time at camp, spending time with the boys. You were so loyal, to all of us, you kept my secrets and did everything in your power to help me find the Truest Believer." He turned to face her, "I think I fell in love with you a long time ago but I spent so much time not feeling anything that it's hard for me to express any feeling at all. But I'm trying. . . I'm trying to be able to love again. . . for you."

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Robin and Regina burst into the basement of the hospital.

"What's wrong? What happened?" Robin asked the nurse.

"A bit difficult to explain. Better see for yourselves."

"Careful, could be another one of her tricks." Regina warned as the nurse opened the door revealing a very in pain, very pregnant Zelena.

"Well don't just stare, help me!"

"How – how's this happened? You're only two months pregnant?" Robin asked in shock.

"Well, how do you think? Dark magic!"

"Whose dark magic?"

The scene changed. Zelena was in a wheelchair being led through the hallways of the hospital with Regina and Robin on her heels. . . or rather wheels.

"You have to stay calm and breathe." Robin instructed.

"Shut up! I was a fake mid-wife I know the drill!" Zelena barked.

"Zelena, why would Emma do this?" Regina asked.

"I have no idea – ahh!"

"Are you sure it was her?"

"Let's just say when the Dark One offers you onion rings – ahh – don't eat them! AHH!"

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"Congratulations, it's a baby girl." Dr. Whale said as the baby's cries could be heard. Regina then entered the room as Robin held his daughter with a smile on his face.

"Regina, I have a daughter."

"That's wonderful." Regina smiled at the little pink bundle.

"Look who's green with envy now." Zelena added in right before the Dark Swan appeared in the room.

"Look whose glowing, congrats." She waved her hand and threw Whale into the wall. Robin drew his sword.

"I'm not letting you take this baby."

"Not without a fight." Regina added glaring at Emma.

"That would be a problem if it was the baby I was after." With another wave of her hand she and Zelena disappeared.

Tootles watched the mirror as it revealed Zelena and Hook held captive in Emma's cave. He watched the Dark Swan reveal her plan to put all the darkness into Zelena and kill her with Excalibur thus destroying all dark magic forever. When she left them alone Hook and Zelena struck a deal, he removed her magic blocking cuff and she used her powers to free the both of them. Hook stayed behind to get answers from Emma as Zelena made her escape out the back. Hook found a vial of hidden squid ink and used it on the Dark Swan as Zelena reentered.

"Zelena, why the hell did you come back?"

"Well I thought about how you said you couldn't run until you got some answers and I realized I couldn't run either, not without making the Dark One pay."

"Whatever you think your doing – " she paused when she saw the knife behind Zelena's back, "No!" she cried as Zelena stabbed Hook in the chest.

Zelena laughed evilly, "I bet you didn't see that coming did you? Of course that's nothing to the surprise you're feeling right now. Your saying to yourself 'I just got stabbed in the chest, but shouldn't it hurt more? Why am I not dead?'"

"What the hell is happening?" Hook asked gripping his shoulder. "ANSWER ME WITCH!"

"Well you could take my word, or you could return the memories that the Dark One stole." Zelena held up a dreamcatcher, "See for yourself. I found this outside."

"Don't trust her." Emma begged. "I can explain everything Killian."

"Do it." He told Zelena as she made the dreamcatcher reveal all the memories it had.

Hook watched as he suffered a mortal wound in Camelot and a distraught Emma used her new Dark One magic to do the impossible – use Excalibur as another dagger and turn Hook into a Dark One too. He looked shocked when the memories were done flashing before him.

"I am so sorry, Killian. But I did not have a choice."

"No, no, no, no, there has to be some other explanation." He whispered to himself in denial.

"Oh, are you finding the truth hard to swallow?" Zelena asked picking up Excalibur from the floor. "Here. Have a look at the sword." She waved her hand over the blade revealing the name Killian Jones.

"Glamor spell. Hehe, it was there the whole time, right under your nose. He didn't even see it." Zelena laughed. "I suppose it's not the Dark One anymore is it? More like. . . the Dark Ones."

"So that's why you saved my life twice tonight, I was never in any danger you just wanted to keep me from the truth." Hook said putting the pieces together.

"I wanted to fix it first to make up for what I had done."

"By killing me? How sweet." Zelena said with sarcasm in her tone.

"It was the only way to destroy the darkness in both of us. Everything I've done since we got back to Storybrooke was to try and save you Killian."

"This is saving? How could you do this to me?" Hook growled.

"I'm sorry."

"So much for our future, Swan."

Zelena laughed again, "Now, tell me, are you ready to learn what else happened in Camelot?"

"Aye, but first we have to take care of her." He glared at Emma as Zelena smiled.

A bit of a sweet moment between Fawn and Peter before we go into the midseason finale.