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Answers Pt 2
First Version of Hook's Pov:
He's right here. Barely even six or so sleeping bags away. He's right here. Many versions of him in this bloody, godforsaken room. So close within reach. I could gut him, slit his throat, poison him, choke him, suffocate him... In the distance a clock bell rings out, the third one I've listened out for, lasting eleven rings. Eleven at night, every blasted person in this room should be asleep, time for me to take my leave...
As silently as I can I release myself from the sleeping bag and start to make my way towards the aisle Swan had made down the middle of the room between groups one and two, and three and four. I walk pass the sleeping bodies of heroes and apparently future heroes (still think I've drunken too much rum to believe that, or perhaps not enough), when I stop in front of the last sleeping body in group four's section. Rumpelstiltskin.
I glare down at his sleeping form. I could do it right now. But alas, I've seen the queen and Swan use magic which means the Crocodile has his magic. No point when he or someone else could magically heal him. I'm about to continue to the aisle and start making my way to the doors when a voice speaks across the darkness.
"You know I'll have to stop you, right?". My body tenses and my head shoots up towards the other end of the room, next to the exit. "No matter how much I'd like him dead and no matter how much he deserves it, I'd have to stop you," present day Emma says. I glare at her as her words register.
"Aye. You'd have to try bloody hard if you wanted to keep me from killing him. Luckily for you, I'm not currently trying," I tell her as I move down the aisle closer to the exit, closer to Swan. "No bloody point if he'll just be magically healed," I mutter to myself. Swan unravels herself from her own sleeping quarter and comes to stand in front of me, forcing me to stop.
"Hook, even if you're not up close to the middle of the night to kill Rumpelstiltskin I can't have you wandering around City Hall or Storybrooke itself," Swan says. I feel my glare harden before I reply, "No offense, lass, but you can't control me or tell me what to do,". I step around her and make for the exit again.
"I know it's hard to believe but we're not lying, you know," she softly calls out. I stop to face her again, confused. She continues, "You and me, we are friends in the future. We do trust each other, even despite the things we've done to each other in the past. You're friends with everyone else in my family too, Belle as well, again despite the fact she's in love with Rumpelstiltskin. I know you may- No. I know you hate to hear it, but you have given up your revenge. You did go back to Neverland to help me save my son. You did give up the Jolly Roger just to give me my memories and have me save everyone. You do have a mark in the hero column nowadays. I know you don't understand why the future you has done the things that he has done, and I know you definitely don't agree with them, but I can't tell you what you want to hear. I can tell you to go ask any future version of yourself that has made these decisions and see if he's willing to tell you, but I can't guarantee that you'll get all the answers you want. The most I can say is that; none of us are lying, you can't go anywhere, I'm sorry you've been sent to the future where it appears like you've given up everything that is important to you and believe me you are not the only person here that wants to kill Gold, myself included. However, none of us can kill him so please don't bother trying. We're trying to send everybody back to their times where they can all get on with their present lives, whether it be killing Rumpelstiltskin, defeating the Wicked Witch or just me learning to forgive my parents. Just, please put all your plans and all your anger on pause while you are in the future, just so that you don't screw it up. If you can do that then we'll be able to send everybody back to their correct times and you won't even remember anything about the future, you won't remember any of the things you were and are going to be told about. Please just cooperate until I can fix everything. I know I don't have the right to ask you this, but please,".
I take a few moments to contemplate everything she has said. When I speak, I ask, "So you want to kill the Crocodile as well?". She huffs out a laugh, closes her eyes and mumbles to herself, "Of course that's the part you focus on," before she looks back at me and says, "Yes. I'm one of many in a very long line of people. You see the third version of me-" she points, "-she's at a- not quite breaking point, more cracking point- where she has been saying she'll happily shove his dagger into his heart. However, the fourth version of me-" she points again, "-has reached her breaking point, and could have and possibly would have killed him and I don't think I would've regretted it, not with what he just did," she trails off, staring in the general area of the fourth group, haunted look in her eyes.
"What did the Crocodile do that could make you think and feel as I do, lass?" I ask her softly. She turns back to me, haunted look leaving her eyes but sadness coming in, "Something similar to your Milah story. Not quite the same, but, just as dark and evil,". Once again, as I look in her eyes, I manage to find myself within them, even after everything that has happened between us so far. Maybe this is how we became friends... Oh, bloody hell! I do not need to start believing Swan and all the things she has said today, but that look in her eye. Oh, blast it all to hell! I'm already regretting this. Try something new Jones, it's called trust.
"Alright, lass. I'll put everything on... pause, as you said. I'll hold off on my revenge until we're back in our proper times, and I'll go back to my current sleeping quarters," I tell Swan. She smiles softly. "Thank you, Hook. And yes, please go back to your sleeping bag and get some sleep. If only so the fourth version of you can stop worrying about you killing someone or escaping, and get some sleep as well," she replies. I can feel the confusion on my face at what she just said, before I can ask, I hear "Was it that obvious, love?" from the direction I was previously lying.
I turn to see the fourth version of myself sitting up in his sleeping bag and looking at us. I hear Swan huff another laugh, "I just know you too well by now," she tells him. "Get some sleep Hook... both of you,". She then turns around and goes back to her sleeping bag. I head back to my own, passing myself on the way. "Were you awake the whole time?" I whisper to myself.
"Would you trust an angry, bitter and murderous version of yourself? Even if it was just the two of you and not anymore people," he asks as I lay down. I sigh. "Aye," I conceded, before I closed my eyes and waited for sleep to take me.
David's Pov:
We all meet up outside City Hall at 8am the next morning. "Snow and I dropped Neal off with Granny and got the usual breakfast for everyone inside," I say, tapping the side of the tub holding half of the orders. I continue, "Belle, I'm sorry, I had no clue what you would be wanting because of the pregnancy so I'll just offer that Henry can walk down with you when he inevitably gets hungry again,".
Belle laughed, "It's fine, David. I had some breakfast on the Jolly Roger. But I'll take up that offer for lunch if you're up to it Henry?" she asked, turning to face Henry. "More than up for it, Belle!" he grinned at her.
"Alright then, are we all ready to go in?" Regina asks, gesturing at the door. Everybody nods or mumbles agreements. She opens and holds the door for everyone to go through, and we all start shuffling through. "Is anyone else worried about what we may find when we go in there?" Snow askes.
"Yes. There are many ways this entire night could have gone wrong. I guess we just have to hope that Emma was able to keep control over the whole situation," Regina responds. We arrive at the doors to the meeting hall, and Regina quietly opens them as we all peer into the hall. Almost everybody is still asleep. No need to be worried. Unless one of the sleeping people are actually dead... No. They're not. Everybody's fine, just sleeping. Well, except for the Hook's.
In three out of four corners of the hall there are four Hook's wide awake and fiddling around with something within their reach. "Why-?" I start to ask, only to be cut off by the second version of Hook. "I'm the captain of a pirate ship, mate. I rise with the sun. We've all been up for about two or so hours," he softly calls out.
Our present group glances around the hall. "And you've all just sat here for two hours? Doing nothing? The first Guyliner hasn't attempted to escape? Because I know that would wake up many people in this room," Regina says.
"Aye. I'm quite patient, your majesty. I don't get terribly bored too easily either," the third version of Hook replies. "And my escape plan was planned for and hatched last night. Swan was still awake. She stopped me and convinced me to not escape and to not cause any trouble until we're all back in our own times, quite passionately might I add. Very persuasive," the first Hook also answers.
Present time Hook just sighs and mutters a quiet, "Bloody hell,", while the second version of Hook grumbles about having a feeling he would try to escape. "Alright. Well, I can let go of the attempt at escape as you seem like you're actually going to try and be helpful," Regina tells the first version of Hook.
"But what did I say? I told Emma she could handle everyone in the room," Snow says to our group. "Yeah, but now we need to wake everyone in the room," I tell her. Our group disperses, spreading out to wake people up and give them their breakfast. Some of the Hook's help by waking up the people closest to them. Within ten minutes everyone is up and eating their food.
"Alright. We left off with Baelfire had been shot and sent through a portal to the Enchanted Forest, where he was healed by some friends, he had somehow found out we were in Neverland and was trying to find a way there, and that Henry had been kidnapped by Greg and Tamara to Neverland. Greg and Tamara were minions working for Pan, who had wanted brought to him. And no, Peter Pan is not the happy-go-lucky child from this land's film, Guyliner and Gold will attest to that. As will the rest of us that have met him," Regina told the large group of time travelers.
The first version of Emma interrupted, "But what did... Peter Pan... want with Henry? What happened while he was there with him?".
Henry steps forward, "Mum, I was fine. I was only with him for a little while, a couple of days, a week or so, at most. Pan just tried to get me to become another Lost Boy until he needed me to do something later on. Which will be brought up soon, so please don't ask about it yet," he told her. She nodded reluctantly.
"I've got a question, your majesty," the first version of Gold said. "Why was my son trying to find a way to Neverland? He wanted nothing to do with magic. He just wanted to be in a Land Without Magic," he told her.
Regina huffs. "Well, how do you expect him to still be alive in The Land Without Magic when everything that happened between you two occurred centuries ago? He was in Neverland for almost as long as Hook, which is how those two have a past. He knew how to get to Neverland, and he knew things about Neverland that he thought would help us. He wanted to get to Neverland and help us because..." she trails off, looking at Emma.
Emma was biting her lip and glancing around the room. The last three versions of herself all looked the same as her, confused but contemplating, but all three alongside our Emma were taking glances at different versions of Henry. The people in the first group were confused, looking between Emma and Regina. Everyone else was watching Emma, who just looked conflicted. Finally, she sighed and turned to Gold.
"He wanted to help because we had met before, a few years earlier. I helped him out once, and it wasn't really in my favour, and I guess he finally wanted to apologise and help me out for once," she said. Gold looked like he wanted to ask more but accepted what she had told him and nodded, gratefully. "Um, I don't know anybody named Baelfire," the first version of Emma spoke up.
Emma closed her eyes and sighed again, "It is a Land Without Magic, he wasn't going to go around in the modern-day world with a name that didn't seem to belong in it. He had a fake name, so he could blend in and so his father couldn't find him. I will tell you that name, but you can't freak out or run away right now. If you can't promise not to do that, I won't say a word about him and you can't bother me about it. Make your choice, right now,".
The first version of Emma looked nervous but agreed. "Alright. His name here was... Neal," Emma said quietly. The first version of Emma quickly tenses, eyes shooting wide open. Her eyes start darting around the room, flickering from one thing to another but not really seeing, not really planning to run. Not really looking like she's breathing either...
"Emma? Emma are you alright?" the first version of myself starts to ask her. Everyone in the room is staring at her. The future versions in sadness, sorrow, sympathy. Her present group just in confusion. She's not responding, so my past self moves closer and reaches out his arm to shake her slightly. "Emma?" The touch of his hand suddenly jolts her back to life with a gasp.
"Sorry. Was someone saying something?" she asked my past self. "Are you alright? You looked... not yourself when you heard Baelfire's other name," he responded. His Emma nods her head quickly, "Yeah. I'm fine. Just... yeah, did him a favour that didn't benefit me in any way. We didn't end on real pleasant terms. That's all. You can continue now," she finished, looking up at us.
"Well, like Henry said. We were only there for a couple days, a week or two at most. Gold had separated from us the moment we were in Neverland with his own plan to defeat Pan, and we spent most of that time trying to find Pan's camp and save Henry, while Pan did everything to make sure we wouldn't... Giving us confusing messages, sending Lost Boys after us, giving us a map that would only work if I accepted who I really was, constantly changing where his camp was, giving us side-missions to rescue, Baelfire... We eventually got Tinkerbell to help us with finding Pan, saving Henry and leaving Neverland, despite the fact she didn't want to help Regina,".
The first version of Emma seemed to come out of her previous shock, only to start another one. "Ok, getting over the fact of Tinkerbell," she started, talking to herself, "How did you managed to piss off Tinkerbell?" she asked, looking up at Regina.
Regina took a breath and said, "Because in trying to help me, she lost her wings. She has them back now. However, she wasn't happy to see me in Neverland,". Before anyone else could ask more questions about this I interrupted.
"While all of this was going on, I had been poisoned with Dreamshade, a deadly Neverland poison, because I'd been grazed by one of the Lost Boys' arrows. Hook had been the only person to notice and I'd sworn him to secrecy. This led to Hook making a plan to get a sextant that could help us leave Neverland when we needed to. However, it was just a ruse to get me the water that would heal me. Drinking that meant I couldn't leave Neverland without dying. We got back to our camp and told the girls that the sextant was gone, and that Hook had saved my life against Lost Boys that had ambushed us. Hook only went along with it because I asked him to, he kept telling me to tell Snow and Emma," I finish.
"You were dying, and you didn't tell me? You were stuck on Neverland, and you didn't tell me?!" Snow shouted at me. I lowered my head, so I was staring at my feet. "We don't keep secrets from each other. Why would you think this was something that should be kept from me?" I sighed.
"I'm sorry. It's not that I wanted to keep it a secret from you. It's just that I didn't want you to worry, and I thought everyone's attention should be towards saving Henry," I told her. She opened her mouth to continue, but Emma spoke before she could.
"Don't worry, we found out very soon, and Neal made Gold – free of charge – make a cure out of Neverlands water. Hook brought a barrel of the water back to Storybrooke that dad kept drinking until Gold cured him completely. Now getting back on track... While dad and Hook were doing that, Regina, mum and I had managed to get a Lost Boy to take a small mirror to Henry and we were able to see him and tell him that we were in Neverland to rescue him,", she told them.
"After the five of us were together again is when Pan came to me with the message that Baelfire was still alive and was being held in the Echo Caves," Hook starts. "It's a cave where you have to tell your darkest secrets in order to rescue someone from within. May not sound like much but Pan wanted us to reveal our secrets in the hopes that they would destroy us. However, when this side-mission, as Swan put it, came about her majesty went off on her own to attempt to find Henry,".
"It was in the Echo Cave that we found out about dad being poisoned, and we did manage to rescue Baelfire. Which meant we had more help on how to possibly get home once we had rescued Henry," Emma told the group.
Regina took over, "As for myself, I eventually came across Gold and we started working together to find Henry and stop Pan. He had more minions working for him in this world, and so we sent a message to Belle via Ariel..."
Belle stepped forward, "I got their message from Ariel, and we magically sealed Storybrooke from outsiders. However, Pan's other minions, John and Michael, had already come into Storybrooke-"
"Wait!" the first Emma said. "John and Michael. Working for Peter Pan... John and Michael Darling?" she asked. "Pan held their sister hostage and forced them to do his bidding," Belle answered. The wide-eyed first group just nodded.
"Anyways, we'd shut off Storybrooke and found Pandora's Box for Ariel to swim back to Neverland with. However, John and Michael tied us up in the shop, got the box and went down to the mines to destroy it. Luckily, we got there in time to stop them and Ariel was able to get the box to Neverland," Belle finished.
"While this was going on, our group had split up and Hook, Neal and Emma were going to Dark Hollow to trap Pan's shadow so we could use it to fly the Jolly Roger back home," Snow said, looking at Hook and Emma.
"Aye, and after some complications Swan had managed to enslave the shadow right where we could hold it until we needed it," Hook added. "I believe the next part is Henry's story to tell. Lad?" he asked, turning to look at Henry. He nodded slowly and came to the front of our group.
"Pan took me to Skull Rock and told me that magic was dying, and he needed my help to save it. Except magic wasn't dying, Pan was. He told me he needed the heart of the Truest Believer for himself in order to save all magic. He needed my heart. He helped me to rip my own heart out, and my parents then showed up to try and stop me, but... I was so naïve, and I had just wanted to be a hero and save magic. I gave Pan my heart, and then blacked out," he told the group, who looked shocked and horrified.
"I put a preservation on his body," Regina continued the story. "And Emma managed to win over some Lost Boys and got them to tell us where Pan would be. She, Snow and I went to get Henry's heart back while everyone else made preparations to get everybody home, including the Lost Boys and Tinkerbell. Pan trapped the three of us when we went to confront him, luckily, I was able to break out and take back Henry's heart. Thankfully, we got Henry his heart back quickly and he alright, and we were all finally on our way back to Storybrooke. However, Pan got onto the Jolly Roger before we left and tried to take Henry's heart again. Rumpelstiltskin finally managed to capture him with Pandora's Box, or so we thought..." she finished.
"Or so you thought?" the first version of Gold asked. Henry spoke up again.
"Pan had actually swapped... I guess our minds. So, while Pan's body had been trapped inside Pandora's Box, it had actually been me in there. Pan had been wreaking havoc in my body, unsuspected until Emma had opened Pandora's Box on the other side of the town line and found out I was in Pan's body," he said.
The second version of myself interrupted, "You know, I don't think he was entirely unsuspected. Your mum- Emma, had a feeling that something bad was going to happen. She said something was off about you, and... and nobody believed her..." he trailed off. The guilt started to rise up in me, and other versions of Snow and myself, as I remembered what Emma had been saying. The only reaction any Emma gave was an angered scoff from the third version.
Regina picked up the story once again, "Pan had gotten ahold of the original Dark Curse and had recast the curse from in Storybrooke. Which meant that; no one would remember who they were, time would stand still, and without Snow and David's true love woven in Emma wouldn't be able to break the curse, no one would. It would become his new Neverland. We switched Pan and Henry back and got back the curse just a little too late. As the curse was starting, Gold managed to defeat Pan by killing him. However, that meant he had to kill himself in the process. Which we can all see clearly didn't last," she finished quickly.
She waited for the first group to calm down before continuing. "To stop the curse, I had to give up the thing I loved most, Henry. However, it just meant that everyone born in the Enchanted Forest would be sent back to the Enchanted Forest. Everybody but Henry would be taken back.* Since Emma was the Savior and had escaped the first curse, she could stay with Henry in this land. I gave the two of them new memories of Emma having kept Henry instead and stopped Pan's curse whilst sending the rest of us back," she said.
"We're separated again?" the first version of Snow asked, looking and sounding heartbroken. Almost everyone in the first group was distraught at the thought of us finally going on only at the expense of losing Emma and Henry, Regina especially.
"Well, milady, in the words of her majesty, as you can see that clearly didn't last too long," Hook told her gently, gesturing to the four future versions of themselves in front of them. The first group looked over and nodded to themselves, relieved by the presence of their futures selves for a change.
"How long were we all separated?" asked the first version of Henry, worried. "A year. Don't worry, it was just a year," replied Belle.
"During this time, we came across a new villain, the Wicked Witch, Zelena, who is also my half-sister from my mother..." Regina said. The first group seems to go into varying degrees of shock.
"What?!" the first version of Regina shouts to her mother. Before Cora can reply Regina's present self just sighs, and says, "Mother apparently had a baby with the gardener of a royal palace, who said he was a prince, and she abandoned Zelena in order to rid herself of her shame. Let's not go into details...".
"Zelena eventually got trained by Gold, who told her about me. Zelena resented the fact that our mother gave her up but decided to raise me. She assumed I lived this luxurious and wonderfully loved life. Obviously, she knew nothing about our mother. Zelena decided she was going to go back and make sure mother kept her and gave her the life I had and that I was never born. She was going to attempt time travel. She turned the people of the Enchanted Forest into flying monkeys and had them do her bidding and attack and make more people monkeys. One of these monkeys was in New York keeping an eye on Emma-".
"Wait! Why would a flying monkey be sent to keep an eye on Emma if she didn't have her memories of us?" asked the first version of myself.
"Based on what he said to me when I did finally have my memories back, I'm guessing he was there to make sure I wouldn't get my memories back and just wouldn't be able to interfere with Zelena's plans," Emma told him.
"Back to the Enchanted Forest. Zelena had managed to trick someone into resurrecting Rumpelstiltskin, unknowingly at the price of their own life. However, magical influences made it so Gold and that person resided in Gold's body until they were separated in Storybrooke by Emma, which is when that person died. Zelena's reason for resurrecting Rumpelstiltskin was that she had the Dark One on her side since she had his dagger. In order to cast her time spell Zelena needed someone's, courage, brain, heart and innocence. She ended up with David's courage, the essence of Gold's brain and my heart. However, she needed a newborn baby for the innocence. She had Aurora and Philip's baby lined up for that-" Regina was interrupted.
"Aurora and Philip? We're with Aurora now and she said that Philip was dead. How is he alive? How are they together and having a baby?" the first version of Snow asked. Emma responded, "I don't know what happened to Philip exactly, or how he was saved. All I know is I've met the guy in Storybrooke,".
"As Regina was saying, Zelena had their baby lined up to fulfil that part of the spell. However, in order to save their child, they sold out another couple who were expecting a baby, us..." Snow said, gesturing to the second version of ourselves that had a very pregnant Snow sitting amongst them. "It's horrible but I understand where they were coming from-" she started.
"And you sure as hell have no right to judge them. They just sold you out that you were expecting a baby, they didn't do anything to him," the third version of Emma interrupted, glaring at Snow. "Him?" the second version of Snow asked looking at the third Emma. "It's a boy?". The third group glanced at the second, and the third Snow replied, "Yes, it's a boy, but that's all we're going to say,".
"Around this point, we had decided to cast the Dark Curse again so we could get back to a Land Without Magic, back to Emma and Henry, and be able to defeat the Wicked Witch with Emma's help. Since the thing Regina loves most is Henry, she obviously wouldn't be the one to cast the curse, so I did," Snow told everyone. "I had to crush David's heart and enact the curse. However, I made Regina take my heart, split it in half and give one half to each of us, which is how he's still alive. The only problem is that Zelena found and added something to the curse that ensured we'd all lose our memories of the past year," she quickly finished.
"Someone managed to get a message and a memory potion to Hook, who believed that the message was from Snow and Charming. Hook mentioned earlier how he escaped the curse and found Emma. He obviously got her to take the memory potion and got her and Henry to return to Storybrooke. Unfortunately, Henry didn't have his memories back until... Well, the day the second group comes from," Regina said, gesturing to the group itself.
"In Storybrooke, Zelena was just causing terror amongst the people. She was in hiding but sending her monkeys to attack people, and we all had no idea why this was suddenly happening. During the past year, Snow and Charming found out the Savior would be the best enemy against Zelena. Which is why we tried so hard to come back and why Zelena had cursed Hook to try and take Emma's magic," Regina told everyone.
"Zelena was only able to take my magic when she tried to kill Hook and I was forced to save his life, which meant I had to let the curse take my magic," Emma told the large group. "But Miss Swan you have your magic. We've all seen you use it," the first version of Regina said to her. "Yeah. That will come up soon," Emma replied.
"Just before Emma lost her magic Snow went into labor," I started to tell the groups. "Just after he was born Zelena came, took him and started to cast her spell. However, Hook, Emma, Regina, Robin and I got there in time to stop her and take away her magic,".
"Uh, sorry, but who's Robin?" the first version of Emma askes. In the second group, the first version of Robin shifts forward so the first Emma can see him and waves his hand, "I'm Robin,". Emma nods at him, seeming confused. "You'd know him as Robin Hood, love!" Hook tells her. The first version of Emma moves her to look at him and nods once again, less confused this time.
"We locked her up in a jail cell since she couldn't escape. However, the next day the cell was locked but empty and the cameras showed Zelena seemingly killing herself-" the second version Zelena, in the fourth group, interrupted me.
"Actually, I didn't kill myself. I tried to get my magic to work so I could escape, but it was the Dark One who came and stabbed me, and as you said seemingly killing me. He probably changed what the cameras showed," she said. Every version of Belle seemed upset or shocked, the present Belle only said, "I would be shocked that he did that if I hadn't gone through the last few months,".
"Well, Gold stabbing Zelena seemed to set off her time spell, which means Miss Swan and Captain Guyliner are the only ones that truly know what happens next," Regina says, turning to face Hook and Emma.
They walked to the front of our group, and Emma started to speak, "During my baby brother's naming ceremony, or whatever, Hook and I were talking in the park when we noticed a yellow-orange light shooting into the sky, and we followed it right back to the farmhouse Zelena had tried to cast her spell in. Because of me, we got too close and got pulled in and we ended up in the Enchanted Forest about thirty years ago. We were able to work out when we were because we kind of interrupted mum and dad's first meeting...".
"What do you mean you interrupted our first meeting?" asked the second version of Snow. Emma took a breath. "You were in a tree, and the carriage dad was in had stopped because of the fallen tree. However, you'll remember you heard a noise, saw some figures hiding, and you fell out of your tree," she paused, all Snow's nodded their heads.
"Originally, dad got out and you were able to steal some of his jewels. He chased you and caught you, only to be surprised you were a woman and you hit him with a rock and escaped," Emma told everyone. "I don't remember that ever happening," said the first version of myself.
"There's a reason why, I accidently ruined it. So, Hook and I had to go to Rumpelstiltskin for help, which obviously took a minute to get," Emma said, gesturing to Hook. "He said he'd find us a way home and would take a memory potion to forget us, and he helped us find out where mum was and what she was trying to do. However, he wouldn't help us try to get my parents to meet, that was up to us. Mum was trying to get enough money to buy safe passage on a ship out of the Enchanted Forest, this led to Hook's idea that he go make a deal with mum that if she stole dad's jewels and brought them to him, he would give her safe passage. However, that meant I got the fun job of distracting Captain Hook so Captain Hook could go bargain with Snow White," she said.
"What do you mean you had to distract me?" asked the second version of Hook, eyebrow raised. "Well, couldn't have you two running into each other, or the past version of you coming back to the ship so I had to try and get the past version of you drunk and away from the Jolly Roger, while he made a deal with mum. The deal went alright, the problem was that past Hook was insistent about going back to his ship, and we ended up on the ship with present Hook who just knocked himself out and got us out of there," Emma responded.
"Why the bloody hell did I have to knock myself out? What did he do? Were you alright?" the second version of Hook asked. "Hook, I was fine. You were just drunk and successfully distracted might I add. Knocking you out just meant there'd be less chance you'd remember me and that we could leave quickly," Emma said. He nodded.
"We were going to wait in the forest, but we wouldn't know if mum had stolen the jewels. Rumpelstiltskin came and gave us clothes for a royal ball and disguises, so nobody knew who it actually was if they remembered us. We used fake names, Princess Leia..." she trailed off looking at the first two versions of Regina, who gasped and said "You! You escaped from my dungeons!".
"Aye, she did. I went as Prince Charles..." Hook said, looking at my past selves, who were wide-eyed. "So, your highness managed to steal the jewels, and I held off the guards so they wouldn't follow her. However, Regina did capture Emma," he continued. "Which is why I came to you two the next day while she was in a net. The princess I told you we were saving was Emma, who had escaped on her own. We had seen you seemingly be burned to death, and watched you be turned from a bug back to yourself, your highness," he continued, pointing to the past versions of Snow throughout.
"That's why you were crying and hugging me when I was turned back," the first version of Snow said, gasping. Emma nodded, "Yeah. Honestly thought you were dead until Hook mentioned I hadn't faded from existence and dad mention Dark Fairy Dust. Everything was the same from there, you two fighting the trolls, dad getting his jewels back and you two walking away from each other. The only thing different is that the other prisoner that was with me, I had also broken out, which I knew I shouldn't have but I couldn't just leave her to be killed by Regina. Trust me, I learnt my lesson. We went back to Rumpelstiltskin who showed us a wand that had the power to recreate any spell if someone has magic to wield it. When I told him I didn't have my magic anymore he locked us it a place he stores everything he won't even deal with. It took Hook forcing me to open up about why I might not have my magic back for it to actually come back. I was able to recreate the spell and get us and the women from the dungeon back to the present. We brought her so she wouldn't change the past, unfortunately she did affect our present, but we'll get into that soon. I think that's everything up until the point of the Zelena. Anything else to add?" she asked Hook.
He shook his head, "No, I think that was everything,". Emma nodded, released a breath and turned back to our past selves, "Any additional questions? Please tell me there are none!".