Hi, so here is another chapter and the first of Season 6 and the final arc of this story. I am going back to the shorter chapters and I hope you all enjoy.
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Paradise Lost
Chapter 52-Untold, Unspoken, Rise Up.
The first of Season Six. Giselle and Axel adjust to their new normal. Killian helps out Belle. Giselle goes back to School, there is a new villain, Emma is hiding something and Giselle must reconcile herself to becoming a big sister, even if her relationship with her father and his estranged wife is more...strained than ever.
"And I'll rise up, I'll rise like the day, I'll rise up, I'll rise unafraid, I'll rise up and I'll do it a thousand times again" (Song-Rise Up-Andra Day)
Storybrooke. Giselle's Perspective.
Two hours. That was how long the peace lasted. Two fucking hours.
Axel said much the same thing when the rumbling finally stopped shaking his damn mugs. Fortunately nothing had broken because as Axel said he was not made of money. They had been—well they had been making out on his couch and she swore as if a bolt of lightening had trickled down his spine and she had leapt up with so much fear in her veins that she had almost fallen off Axel's couch.
"Well I knew I was good" Axel grumbled under his breath reaching for the phone that had clattered to the floor. "I have never seen the point of these you know. Too many buttons"
"There's one button" Giselle said reaching for her boots and flipping her hair back over her shoulder. "And trust me when you get the hang of it your gonna wanna need it." She finally found her boots and she swallowed standing up and reaching for her jacket. Axel watched her and then when he spoke it was in a decidedly cooler voice than he had used before-as if he was worried about upsetting her when he gave his opinion.
"I thought you weren't getting involved?" he asked finally. "I thought you had decided to take a step back and go back to school?"
"I did but this is my Dad and therefore I have to go and help him. I just got him back and I don't want to lose him again" she finally managed to get a boot on and then she turned just as Axel kissed her his hand sneaking up to grab her by the head and pull her down. Giselle leant into the kiss and then she was gone leaving Axel in his new apartment.
She crashed into the Charming's apartment and upon the second that she saw her Dad she threw herself into his arms. She had no idea how she had become so clingy (she did—really) but she was and she only allowed herself to relax when she felt the hand come around the small of her back and then she breathed in the scent of the leather and she swallowed again.
"What happened?" she asked into the leather of his jacket.
There was a pause and Giselle realised that she had probably interrupted half of the Charming's in some heated debate about what to do and that when she was clinging onto her father it might show more worry than she had shown in…well…forever. She pulled back and looked around and from the expression on Emma's face she supposed that she was not the only one who still remembered that dark weak where her father had been dead and she had been struggling to lift her head from Axel's bed.
"Hyde took a group from the Land of Untold Stories and there scattered in the woods" Emma said finally. Giselle nodded. "Hyde?" she asked finally. Emma shrugged in response. "I don't know, he's holed up in the Town Hall, were gonna go and try and drag him out."
"We?" Giselle asked trying to keep the hysteria and the fear in her voice at a low minimum as she tore her gaze between Emma and her father.
"Yes" her Dad said not knowing what the hell was going on probably and then she was struggling to speak trying not to pretend that she was terrified at the thought of him going out in the field.
"I'm not gonna go then" she said finally. "I can go to Granny's and see if any people have come through. She needs to know what's going on—text me when you get Hyde in custody" and then she was gone before either Emma or her Dad's disconcerting eye could notice that her hands were shaking.
She felt sick she noted as she walked down Main Street. She felt sick to her very stomach because she knew one thing indefinitely, she could not live through what had happened in the Underworld again. Giselle admitted to herself it was hell—no pun intended and all she wanted to do was curl up in her bed and pretend that this threat was not coming towards her or her family. She wanted it ended. She wanted her Dad safe and sound and she knew that she could not be a part of the adventures and drama's that circulated around the Charming's and around Storybrooke if a load of people emerging from the sky pushed her towards a panic attack.
She ducked into Granny's and ordered herself a coffee and a slice of the banana and pecan loaf. She sat there stirring her coffee and wondering about why she was suddenly so afraid of letting her Dad out of her sight. She finished the coffee and then turned her thoughts (because she needed a distraction) to school.
Giselle's education—much like Henry's had been lacking somewhat because the two of them had been embroiled in major drama with their families. However this was her senior year, by the end of it she was graduating and while she wanted to graduate she knew that there was no sin in being a drop out, at least not in this town. There was no college so she risked leaving and forgetting about her memories or taking online courses and then what was the point of college? This whole thing was a mess from start to finish and it made her want to scream because she was smart and she knew it, she had done well in school and she wasn't sure if she wanted to go back and be a cross-breed between the Dark One's Daughter and the Pirate's Daughter because if Giselle was being truthful she had not yet—after everything she had been through—found a way to successful navigate the two lives that she had led and would lead.
And then there was the icing on top of the cake. Belle. Her pregnant step-mother and her absentee father whose second marriage was on the rocks and not looking very well.
The door to the diner chimed open and she looked up to see Henry come in through the doorway beaming.
"Hey Auntie Giselle" he said and Giselle had to wince because she had most certainly not given him permission to address her as thus and she did not want it known around town that she had. Henry say down across from her a stack of books in his hand.
"So Hook told me to tell you he's got Hyde…well…my Moms got Hyde and now he's in the asylum underneath the hospital. Anyhow the people from the blimp thing are still stuck in the forest but my grandparents are going to look for them and see if they can bring them back to Granny's.
Hopefully we can get some stories finished…" he rubbed his hand together in a crossover between a Bond villain Giselle thought and a fanfiction writer who could see the end to a story after months of work.
"Anyhow my Grandma told me to give you these and said that school starts on Monday. I'm already going and she's says that you need to get back into he swing of it as well if you ever want to graduate"
Giselle bristled, annoyed. Confused as she was about school she did not like the thought of being ordered around by Snow White and it was with that thought in mind that she tossed her hair back and said in what she hoped was a voice remnant of Regina, "What makes her think I'm coming back? I don't have too? Last time I checked I was not the only drop out in this town?"
Henry shrugged. "Hyde's in prision, my Mom is having teething trouble with her magic but nothing like last time, she's going to see Archie about it, she told Hook she think's is stress what with, you know" he finished lamely. "Anyhow there's no big bad this time. You can relax and enjoy your life, starting with history" He handed her the book and Giselle took it swallowing. Maybe Henry was onto something—maybe Emma was and seeking out Archie for help was something that she should do as well. God knows this panic and fear everytime her Dad went outdoors was not normal.
She was about to answer Henry truthfully when the door opened and she turned to see her Dad beaming when he caught sight of her. Giselle sighed to herself. The last thing she wanted was to let him down again when he asked her if she was going back to school. Henry beamed at her and then said something about dinner at his Mom's new house. Her Dad slid into a booth next to her and Giselle was left holding the stack of books that she was supposed to study for something she wasn't sure if she had the energy for.
"No wendigo today?" her Dad asked and Giselle rolled her eyes at the vaguely concealed glee in his tone. In another life she thought to herself her Dad and her father might have been friends or at the very least alike to each other. She shook her head turning back to the book.
"He's working"
"Oh. Too bad" yeah right she thought to herself.
"Anyhow I was wondering do you fancy staying tonight and helping out? Or do you have loads of studying too do? You ran off this morning so fast that I didn't have the chance to talk to you since New York?"
Giselle looked at him quizzically. "This going back to school really means a lot to you doesn't it?"
"Yes" he said automatically. "I know you think it's strange I get that, but…but Giselle I think that you are so smart. I think that you can do anything you want, Snow says your grades are good and you could easily pick up the work again. And I don't know about this college thing but I'm sure Regina could figure out something so if you stepped over the town line you'd be safe"
Giselle stared at him and then at the book in her hand and then with the sense that came with fighting a loosing battle she nodded.
"Alright, I'll give it a go, but don't get any idea's ok?"
Her Dad beamed and Giselle for once forgot about being terrified that he was going to die again and instead smiled back for once relieved that nothing sinister was around the corner. Even the absence of her father and Belle didn't worry her much today. Right now everything was perfect.
Oh how very wrong she was.
Again.
Eventually she popped over to Axel's after work and knocked on the door. That was what girlfriends did wasn't it? Bring their boyfriends desert? Anyhow she was stood there when he got the door. He looked like he had been in the middle of something but his smile was genuine when he let her in and it was then she noticed the law books scattered around the place that had not been there this morning.
"Are you becoming a lawyer or something?"
Axel blushed and it was stunningly cute.
"I was looking at the box things in the library and there were courses where you could study online. I know laws in this land are a little bit different than in Camelot but I figured that I want to help people, I don't want anyone going to prision and staying there indefinitely like I did just because their different. And if this is the best way to stop that then I will do just that"
He shot her a look. "You think I'm being stupid?" he asked finally. Giselle shook her head unable to contain the smile on her face. "No, I think your being a wonderful man"
Axel looked at her for a second as if to gaze weather or not she was lying and then his face split into a smile and Giselle came forwards the box with the cake crashing to the ground as he picked her up with so much energy if felt like her head was going to reach the clouds. He kissed her for a long time and Giselle unaware of what Hyde was planning, of where her father was right about now or that the Evil Queen was still alive or even that there was something else on the edge of the blackest horizon waiting to strike decided for once to let go of her believes that this was going to all come crashing down around and rose above everything and let herself for once, be happy.
So there is another chapter, the first of Season 6 and there is about nine more chapters left of this story. I hope to have them all published before I go back to school and I hope to have the second update up as soon as I can.
Next Chapter-Killian makes Belle and offer. Rumple comes back home, Emma's magic is playing up and the Evil Queen returns to Storybrooke ruining Giselle's new and peaceful life and ensuring her fear for her family is justified.
