Chapter 19

Previously on Love Bites:

The Queen turned around to look at Regina and her son, "Emma said something before you arrived. She said she lost us twice. What did she mean?", she glared at her light self as if she was to blame.

Regina felt Henry stiffen in her arms when the question had been asked and she looked at her son in confusion, "Henry?"

Henry closed his eyes and then stood up, "We should go downstairs with the others so that I can speak with Audrey."

He began to walk towards to the door, but was stopped by 'the mom tone', "Henry Daniel Mills you will stop right there!" Henry stopped and slowly turned around, bracing himself to face his mother times two.


BUZZ BUZZ

Regina pulled her cell phone out from her pocket to see Snow trying to call her. Rolling her eyes, she declined the call and looked back up at Henry who was now slowly walking back towards her without making eye contact.

BUZZ BUZZ

Looking at her cell she sees it's Snow again. "Not now, Snow." She presses the red 'decline' button and looks back up to see the Queen staring at her. "What?"

The Queen sneers at her, "You're pathetic. Friends with the enemy. She should be dead!"

BEEP BEEP

The sound alerting Regina to a text message has her checking her phone again to see Snow's name on the home screen. 'What the hell is going on?' She slides open her iPhone and reads the message, concerned that Snow is so adamant on reaching her. Once read, her face looks up at the Queen with a scolding expression.

The Queen now looks confused, "What?"

Regina huffs, "What did you do to the Blue Fairy? What spell was it that you used?"

The Queen looks legitimately confused, "I did nothing to that gnat. I haven't seen her to have to the chance. She should be glad I haven't found her yet."

Regina then looks to Henry and then back to her phone to read the text message, "911! Regina, I need your help! Answer your phone! Blue is here and Charming is about to kill her because her body keeps injuring itself, healing, and then getting injured again."

The Queen's eyes grow wide and she looks around the room and then closes her eyes. She raises her hands and slowly released a thin stream of purple magic which travels around the room and tries to flow through the walls. When it comes into contact with the walls, its color changes to a pale lilac. Dropping her arms, she sighs and looks down at the floor, "It's a protection spell. A nasty one at that. The Prostatévo."

Regina swallowed hard, remembering when her mother used that spell when she was little. "H-How? Did Mother do it?"

The Queen shook her head, "The magic is light magic."

Regina's expression went from confusion to realization, "Emma! How did she know about it?"

The Queen gave her a 'really?' type of expression, "Mother is here, isn't she?"

Just then, Regina's phone buzzed again so she answered it, "Hello, Snow. Yes, I just read your text."

The Queen was listening to Regina's answers, but decided she couldn't pass up this chance to get even with Blue. She interrupted Regina's phone call and turned to Henry, "This discussion isn't over, my little Prince. I will return once I've dealt with the blue fly.", then the Queen was gone in a puff of purple magic.

"No! Wait!" Regina yelled to try and stop her alter ego, but it was too late. "Snow! You're about to have a visitor. No. The Evil Queen." Then Regina heard Snow scream so she ended the call. "Henry, stay in this house. I'll be back soon. Just go downstairs with the others until I return." Henry simply nodded and watched his mother disappear. He breathed out a sigh of relief that he avoided the conversation.


Charming came running out of the bedroom after hearing his wife scream. Seeing the Evil Queen made him lift his sword in her direction.

"It would seem you're harboring a criminal in this hovel of yours, Dear.", the Queen glared at Snow.

Regina then arrived behind the Queen, "That's enough!"

"What is going on here?!", Snow screeched seeing two Reginas.

The Queen ignored Snow's question and addressed her 'good' self, "We both know Blue needs to be held accountable for what she did to us. We also know that I should be the one to do it since you're …", the Queen looked Regina up and down, "you."

Charming held his sword up to The Queen's neck, "You're not going anywhere." He then turned to Regina, "What's going on? How did this happen?"

The Queen disappeared and reappeared in the room where Blue was. She found the fairy hyperventilating, sweating, and moaning in agony. "Well, well, well. Look what we have here."

Blue recognized that voice and struggled to open her eyes that were squeezed shut so tightly. "What do you want?"

"Answers.", the Queen growled out.

"I've got nothing to say to you." She struggled to answer. It didn't have the snappiness that she wanted as she was so focused on her pain.

The Queen walked up to Blue and waved her hand over Blue's body, from head to toe. The pain the fairy was feeling dissipated and she blinked in shock. Blue raised her hands and saw that the skin was still peeling itself off down to the bone, but she felt nothing.

"I can stop your pain if you just answer some questions.", The Queen offered with a sly grin.

Blue studied her reoccurring injuries in shock, "This shouldn't be possible. There's no cure for this hideous spell."

The Queen's smile grew, "You're right. There isn't. There is, however, a spell that can remove the suffering on the victim."

"You're lying. There is not spell for that.", Blue snapped out.

"You feel nothing. I believe that proves that there is." The Queen then waved her hands again and Blue's pain returned. She screamed out in agony alerting the others in the living room. The Charmings and Regina ran into the room, but were frozen in place by the Queen's magic. "That's far enough." She then turned to Blue. "It's getting too crowded in here. Let's go somewhere else to…chat." The Queen snapped her fingers and Blue disappeared. She then turned to the horrified group, "I will deal with the rest of you later." She was gone in seconds.


Emma arrived at Rumple's vault and could already smell intruders, "Well someone was obviously here.", she sighed and walked in. She was surprised that there were no locks on the doors, "What the fuck, Bobbie? No security?"

"That would require magic which died with me, Dearie."

Emma whipped around at the familiar voice, "Holy shit!" She grabbed her chest and bent over taking a deep breath. "Don't scare me like that!" She stood back up and rolled her eyes, "I was wondering when your spirit was gonna show up." She walked over to a chair and sat down, bending down so her elbows were on her knees, a sign of how emotionally exhausted she was. "You've got a lot of explaining to do. I mean, what the fuck, Bobbie?!

"You always had a way with words, Emma." He walked over and sat in the chair next to her. "I had no choice. I knew I had to make sure everyone was cared for and that you were aware of the threat to the town. When I was murdered, I could at least rest easy knowing you would take care of things."

Emma sat up at that, "Murdered?"

"Yes. I realized it once I drank my tea. Belle and I were having our usual afternoon tea outside under her favorite cherry blossom tree. I noticed that the tea tasted strange, but by then it was too late. I had already swallowed some of it. The way my body reacted to it told me that I had been poisoned by sulfur shelf mushrooms. While benign to most, it is deadly to ones whose bodies harbor magic. I wasn't able to alert Belle because it had already incapacitated me."

Emma stared at the floor absorbing the information, "Christ, Bobbie, who did it?"

Staring at Emma, he grinned, "You haven't called me Bobbie since our last lesson."

Emma refused to make eye contact with him. She looked everywhere, but at his eyes. "Yeah, well, that happens when you wake up naked next to someone and have no memories of how it happened.", she snapped. Emma was torn because she had cared for him. She used to meet with him for secret magic lessons in order to impress Regina.

"You never did like calling me by my real name, Dearie. Why is that?"

Emma rolled her eyes, "It just sounded weird. Your cursed name was easier for me.", she shrugged.

"My cursed name was Robert Gold, not Bobbie Gold.", he chuckled.

Shrugging, Emma stood up and began walking around, taking inventory of all the items on the floor and on the shelves. With Rumple's memories, she knew what should be kept in his vault. Deciding to change the subject, Emma noted, "Everything's here. I don't see anything missing."

"Of course not, Dearie. They were probably after the dagger."

Emma stared down at her forearm and removed the spell hiding her dagger mark. Rumple then walked up and stared at the new tattoo, "They'll be coming for you next once they find out you have it."

Sighing, Emma shook her head, "They're already after me. They're after my loved ones. Did you know they went after Regina? How would they know about her?"

Rumple closed his eyes and took a deep breath, "I'm afraid you have Hook to thank for that. I believe he was the one responsible for my poisoning. I have no proof, but I was doing my own investigation on his escape and the vampires."

"So your letters said." Looking around, Emma held out her hands and gray magic began swirling from her palms. Gradually, all the magical items tossed on the floor were back in their proper place."

Rumple smiled, proud of his former student, "You've done well with your magic, Emma. I thought you'd be rusty having been away from Storybrooke for so long."

Emma gave a cocky smirk, "Even after I stopped coming to our lessons, I still practiced, Bobbie." Emma's expression then grew serious. "I still have no memories of that night."

Rumple nodded, "Nor do I." Clearing his throat, Rumple then looked around, "We should still check all the nooks and crannies for missing items." Emma nodded and began checking all drawers and cabinets.

An hour later, Emma was finishing up when she noticed one last cabinet that she hadn't checked. When she opened the double doors, her color went pale. Swallowing hard, she turned to Rumple, "Bobbie, please tell me I'm remembering wrong. Please tell me you did not keep a weapon like that in here!"

Rumple walked up and saw the empty cabinet as he began shaking his head in disbelief, "Oh no. Em, I had forgotten about it. I…"

"WHY WOULD YOU KEEP THAT THING?!" Emma was pacing and running her hands through her hair. "This changes everything. Now we have to worry about the entire town, not just our loved ones." She punched a hole into the stone wall next to the cabinet, watching as her blood ran down the jagged stones below. She then turned to Rumple, "Wait, they need magic to use it. They have none."

Rumple nodded, "That's true, but that also means they'll be looking for someone powerful enough to activate it."

They both looked at the floor in thought and then both looked at each other, simultaneously yelling at their concern, "REGINA!"


A/N: Short and sweet chapter just to get the story moving a little bit. Sorry for the long delays. Life has kept me very busy, but I'm trying to get more chapters completed and uploaded. Fear not, no stories abandoned here. My goal will be longer chapters in the future and get things moving along again. Just had to get this story to a certain point. Hang in there! It'll be worth it. I promise.