AN/ So, here we shall see what became of Hook, and get some Hook POV as well.
Enjoy.
Do you know what's worth fighting for?
When it's not worth dying for?
Does it take your breath away,
And you feel yourself suffocating?
Does the pain weigh out the pride,
And you look for a place to hide?
Did someone break your heart inside?
You're in ruins.
~21 Guns (Green Day)
Chapter Thirty-Five: 21 Guns
Once Snow and Charming met up with Rumplestiltskin at the bottom, and after he inspected the compass to make sure it was the correct one, they ventured off to the forest where Rumple tied up a knocked out Hook.
Snow looked at Hook, and thought of how peaceful he looked, lying there. Rumplestiltskin interrupted that, though, as he slapped Hook and woke him up.
Rumple dangled the compass in front of Hook, and he looked at it in shock. He sat up and cracked his neck, "How the hell did you get that?" Then he looked towards Snow and Charming. "Sending your dogs up, I take it? Too much of a coward to go face a giant by yourself, how very much like you, Crocodile."
"I don't have to explain myself to you, pirate," Rumple snapped back, then reached into Hook's chest and took his heart. "We have the compass, and now you, will get us that bean."
Using magic, Rumplestiltskin undid Hook's bonds, and he stood up with an angry look on his face. "That's an order?"
"I hold you heart, so… yes!" Rumple smiled. "Now go!"
And Hook left in search of Cora. "What does the compass do to make the bean work?"
"It doesn't make the bean work. It guides it to where we want it to go, as that bean that Cora has is petrified, it is a bit… unpredictable, and by using the compass, we make it so we control where and when it goes, got it?"
Snow nodded. "So what now?"
"We go back to the castle, and wait for Hook to get that bean."
(Scene change to Hook's mind)
Hook slashed and punched anything in his way as he worked towards Cora. Who knows where she is, after abandoning him to those three?
He told them it was to give him his chance at revenge, but that was just pride. They probably saw right through that quick charade of his.
And now Hook was on his way to get that bean for the man he wanted to kill more than anything in this world, from the woman who was probably second on his list at the moment, and all because he let himself get into a position where his heart could be taken.
How grand!
Somehow, he seemed to be heading in a direction he wasn't sure was his doing. It was probably the Crocodile, whispering the directions on where to go to his heart – to where Cora is.
It led him to the Sherwood Forest, where he's only been once or twice in his entire lifetime, as it was not near the ocean.
He broke in anger branch after branch and crushed the twigs with angry leaves, hooking his hook into anything he could without getting it stuck. Probably leaving a good trail to be followed if anyone would be following him.
His body (or lack of heart) led him to a cabin in the forest, where he saw a man leaning against a nearby tree. The man noticed Hook, and looked at him oddly.
The man walked over to him. "Who are you?"
"A friend of someone named Cora. You know her?" He nodded his head.
"The mother of the Evil Queen?"
"Indeed."
Hook and him stared at each other, studying. "Is she around here?"
"Why are you looking in the middle of nowhere?"
Hook snorted with a smile then quickly pinned him against a tree with his good arm, pointing his hook at the man's face. "Where is Cora?"
Robin struggled to breathe, then nodded towards the house. With hesitation, Hook released him, then went into the cabin.
But when he got inside, she wasn't there.
No one was.
AN/ The trio is becoming a forced foursome! But we are getting closer and closer to the end of this plot line. I'd say in the next ten or so chapters, we can start to wrap this up. Maybe fifteen…. Ahh sometimes soon, then we can get some new baddies and new stories and new emotions.
So, please review!