AN: I do not own OUAT
Thank you to all of those who are still reading along with me! I know this chapter will be up late since I've been so busy with work and then going back to school, hopefully, things will start to settle down here soon. Also, this will chapter will have some Rumbelle, and Red Beauty.
Back to the story.
Chapter 22: A New Portal
To Belle, she really believed that she could change the beast into a gentleman, show him the man he really was, and for a second she actually believed it had come true as she fixed the tie of his collar of his shirt in the front room of the shop and he procured a diamond necklace by the flick of a finger. But that all changed when Grumpy the dwarf came in the front door and demanded that Rumple give him back his pick-axe.
Once Grumpy had threatened to say that she was just another one of Rumple's many pieces of treasures that he collected over the years (Mostly stolen), Rumple couldn't think of anything better than to push that big man into the door behind him and wrap his cold hands around the poor dwarf's neck and start to strangle him until you could see the life disappearing from his eyes.
"Rumple, stop it! This isn't you anymore!" Belle tried to warm him with pity in her throat. Somehow sadness had found its way out as a crack came out into her voice and her eyebrows narrowed causing small wrinkles to form at the space between her eyebrows.
"Oh yes, it is dearie! Always was, always will be!" Rumple said with a high-pitched voice and a small giggle escaped through as he looked back at Belle.
And at that moment when her beloved turned around to face her with green scaly skin and snake like eyes, that was when she was woken up. She had awoken from a good dream that had become a nightmare, a nightmare she really hoped wouldn't become true. She had thought that Rumple was being honest to her when he said he was going to try to be a better man, but when she turned to her side and saw that Rumple wasn't in bed where he should have been, she had that feeling deep in her gut that something wasn't right.
Having that feeling deep down in her gut made her get out of bed, feeling the cold hardwood under her feet as she crept out the bedroom, down the stairs and when seeing that the entire house was quiet since all the lights were shut off she made her way outside. It wasn't long for her to notice the only light in the entire house coming from the basement window. So quietly she made her way on all fours and crept down to see the last thing she had wanted to.
There in the basement sitting at an old wooden spinning wheel was Rumple. Doing what he did best, spinning straw into gold. Belle hadn't thought anything of it since she knew spinning was how he cleared his mind, but that was until she saw him cutting the gold and placing it into a vial that immediately started to emit it's on luminescence light.
Emma was walking next to Killian along the path that leads straight to the Safe Haven, holding his hand. She was some what well rested from their small stop at camp and the pains in her stomach were gone, she went to sleep with the pains at its fullest and then when she awoke it was like she was a whole new person, like she was touched by magic. Which she wouldn't be surprised since when she awoke during the middle of the night she saw a bright white light, too bright for her to see where it was coming from, but the light warmed her, it made her feel new again.
"You alright there love?" Killian asked as he saw how deep in thought she had been. Once he had called her she instantly shot her head up at him with a straight face, getting out of her thoughts.
"Yeah, I'm better than alright actually, I feel like a whole new me." Emma squeezed his hand tighter than she had ever since the curse broke, now that she got her strength back she could now hold herself up and walk on her own and squeeze her husband's hand. She gave him a tight smile before looking into his Ocean blue eyes and placing her head on his shoulder with her arm looped around his.
"You know, I've been thinking and I don't know if I can do this, lie to everybody," Aurora said as she came up from behind Emma and Killian.
Emma looked up at Killian with a smile one last time before she nodded her head, telling him to go ahead of her. She waited for him to get a couple of feet ahead of them before she spoke. "Don't think of it as lying. Lancelot died an honorable man, a hero, and that's exactly what we'll be telling the villagers."
"But..." Aurora was about to speak but was cut off by the sound of Mulan shushing them up ahead. They were ducking behind that shrubs and looking a head of them just where the entrance of the Safe Haven should have been. "What is it?" She questioned a bit confused at what was going on.
Mulan point ahead of them at the watch tower of the hideout, "There, we always have watch outs."
As the others turned their heads to look they all noticed that there was no body out watching, and the closer they looked they noticed what seemed to be smoke rising up into the air making them become even more suspicious, leading them to stealthily walk up. But nothing was going to prepare them for what they were about to see.
Aurora let out a loud cry as she covered her mouth, preventing herself from throwing up not only because of the sight but because of the stench. All around them were dead people, their friends actually, everybody was gone.
Emma had to hide her face in Killian's jacket from the sight of not just because of the bodies, she had her share of seeing horrendous crime sense while cursed. It was because she saw the children who lost their lives, the parents who probably tried so hard to protect their families. It just reminded her that if they weren't careful then this would be them, not able to return home to their son and he wouldn't even know what had happened.
"This can't be, this was our Safe Haven, we were hidden. How did the ogres find us?" Mulan asked as she looked around at all of her fellow soldiers who had lost their lives because they were fighting for the lives of others.
Killian looked around as he wrapped an arm around Emma's waist and held her close to him, having a need to protect her if anything were to go wrong right now. He had noticed that every corpse had something in come, they all had holes where their hearts should lay, he had only seen something like this once before. "This wasn't no ogre lass. I know who did this...Cora, their hearts they were ripped out, this is her magic, twisted and evil."
All Mulan, Aurora, and Emma looked between one another. This wasn't the first time that Emma and Aurora had witnessed something like this, but last time Killian was on Cora's side, last time Emma and Killian weren't married with a son, they were fighting each other with blades on one another's throat.
Killian could feel the tenseness that Emma's body had against his, he could feel her shaking and feeling her heart pounding on his skin. "It's alright love, this time nobody's trying to kill you, this time I'm protecting you."
Emma looked at him with a tone that meant only 'Not the time to be making jokes.' That immediately made that sexy goofy smile and arched brow whip off his face and he licked his lips. "What are we suppose to do now? We have no idea what Cora is planning, there's no way we can be one step a head of her this time. We have to find a way to stop her!"
"It's too late, she killed them, she killed them all," Spoke Mulan as she wasn't able to take her eyes off of her dead friends.
"We have to stop her before she hurts anyone else!" Shouted Emma from Killian's arms where she held onto him tightly. This was strange for her to be caught in the middle of something dangerous with Killian. After they got together, and finally got married and had Henry everything was taken care of by her parents, Killian was Captain of the Navy along with his crew and she would usually join him for voyages but never were their lives at risk.
"Guys we need to figure out a way to get you back home before Cora finds out and tries to stop you once again!" Aurora shouted from her spot next to Emma and Killian. For a princess that didn't get out much, she knew what was best for the moment, she was a natural born leader after all.
Mulan looked over at Aurora, surprised at how she had spoken up. She was right, they did have to find another way for Emma and Hook to get back to their family, but there was just one thing wrong with that. "There is no other way Aurora, all portals were destroyed when the curse hit, and even with the curse gone, there's still no way. I' m sorry, but we can't help you anymore. Come back to our kingdom with us."
Emma was shocked at how Mulan was speaking to her, about giving up. She was a female warrior that fought in a war so her father wouldn't have to, she pretended to be a man and never gave up, no matter how drastic that consequences were. "Really? That's not the Mulan I knew long ago."
"Much has changed since you left!" Mulan snapped turning her head to the side as she watched Emma.
Killian didn't listen to the two maidens argue about what to do, instead, he was lost in his own little world, thinking about what could be done, and then it hit him. "Actually, I think there may still be a way back...but it's risky." He held his bride closer to his body, knowing that this adventure could mean life or death, especially if they were involved with Cora trying to get at them at every corner.
Once Rumple had finished working with magic in the basement he was surprised to see Belle sitting alone, quite in the living room, still wearing her sleeping attire and just looking a head of her into space. He expected her to still be asleep by the time he got back inside. "Belle..." The words came out mostly as a whisper.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Belle asked as she picked herself up from the couch and walked over to the kitchen island where she placed her palms and felt the coldness of the hard granite stone.
They look on her face said it all, she was upset with him and he was about to be in trouble. "Me...Well, I was about to make you breakfast." He started to gracefully walk over to the cooking area where everything laid, waiting to be touched. As he opened his hand on the refrigerator door, that was when she started to speak.
"No. In the basement," She began, "I saw you this morning, in the basement practicing magic." He was trying to pretend that he didn't do anything, pretending like he actually did change but deep down he knew he didn't and he probably never would.
Rumple, being the 'gentleman' that he was, ignored her statement completely and just continued on going with his idea about breakfast as he took out the orange juice from the fridge and placed it on the island in front of her. "How about some breakfast?" It was more of a whisper, something so low that it had its own whistle.
"No!" Exclaimed a slightly pissed off Belle, "We need to talk about this."
She was right, they did, and they probably should, but did he want to? No. "It was just a couple spells. Nothing to be concerned about."
"Okay, then be honest with me. Why did you bring magic here?" Belle questioned. She wanted to know the exact reason why he was doing all this since the curse broke. First, he brought magic here and on the exact same day he made a wraith go after Regina, and now he was hiding magic in the basement and was trying to get out of talking about it. So exactly why was he doing all of this?
"I told you, magic is power," Rumple told her as he looked into those blue orbs of hers.
That wasn't a valid answer for her, she wanted a real reason why, not some stupid little answer. "But why do you need it, that's what I don't understand, Rumple, please tell me!" But he never did, all he did was stand there like an idiot and gawk at her, like he did nothing wrong, because to him he never did. He squeezed her eyes and sighed as she reached her limit, she gave him his chance to answer, "You don't need power, what you need is courage to let me in."
He stood there as he watched her walk off back upstairs, probably to lock herself away in the bedroom until she was ready to come out and try to reason with him once again. He knew that she was right, that he had to let her in, that he needed to change and that he didn't need power. But to him, power was everything, power was how he was going to get his son back.
Emma was walking back and forth as Killian sat down on a log watch her trudge. After he told her his idea, she immediately dragged him away from the others and took him to a private place, away from the village. "The compass, are you serious?"
"Yes, it's our only hope at the moment, darling. It will work" Killian said watching as she stopped in front of him for just a single second before turning herself back to pacing back and forth with her biting down on her thumb and her eyes looking down at the ground. She looked absolutely adorable to him when she was like this, his swan, his princess, his wife.
"But the compass is destroyed." She remembered, she knew that she wasn't just thinking it or saw things at the moment, Killian almost died over it. "Remember? You were the one that smashed it to save us all instead of giving it to Cora."
"Aye, but since it was magical it may have recreated itself into something new...and the only person who would know of such a thing would be the person we got it from the first time," Killian spoke gently, he knew it was a long shot, that maybe that compass was just gone and there was nothing else like it that would open up a portal and help them find their way home.
Emma stopped pacing and shook her, this time she looked up into his eyes though, she was so scared of making the wrong decision. "I don't know. Are you sure about this? Are you sure that there would be another compass?"
"No, but it's a risk I'm willing to take it if it means it'll get us back to our son," He spoke as he stood up and gently wrapped her in his arms, feeling how worried she was from everything that they now had to deal with. "Hey, everything's going to be all right love. We have each other, and we will get back to Henry," he said as he lifted her chin up to where they were both looking into each other's eyes and they slowly started to lean forward until their lips touched in a sensual way that made every flower in the field bloom.
He was right, if they wanted to get home then they had to take risks, and if it meant climbing a bean stalk that took four and a half hours both ways to climb and then maybe going against another angry giant and almost getting squished to death, would all be worth it if they got home.
His lips on hers felt like melted ice cream, warm and sweet. She didn't want to break free, not even for air, she wanted to continue but she knew if they did, one thing would lead to another. So, instead, she broke them free so they could both catch their breath. "Come on, we should go tell everybody else."
They walked back to Aurora and Mulan who were anxiously waiting in the group of dead villagers, giving them all a moment of silence for the agony they had to go through and witness. It wasn't long until they both recognized them walking back and decided to go and meet them halfway to hear what was going to be happening next.
"So, what are we going to do? What's the plan?" Mulan anxiously asked. You could tell she didn't like the idea of having to deal with Cora once again, especially how last time she had stolen Aurora's heart and made her go against them, trapping them in Rumplestiltskin's cell
"The compass, we need to go and retrieve it once again, or hopefully retrieve it," Emma spoke looking up at Killian with worry in her eyes. Worry that there wasn't another compass, worried that perhaps this trip will be for nothing and they won't get home to their family after all. Their entire lives were hanging on this little strand of hope.
"I think Hook destroyed the compass?" Mulan stated in more of a question than a statement.
"Aye, but I'm hoping that there would be a way that it recreated itself once it was destroyed, that all the magic tethered to it leaked out and went into something else," Explained Killian the best way he possibly could at the moment.
Mulan's eyes widened, she couldn't believe what she was hearing. "That's an awfully big risk to be taking, considering your son is back home waiting for you to return."
"But it's the only chance we have left," Emma spoke in a saddened voice as the tears started to swell in her eyes as she felt the rattle pressing against her leg that was in her pocket.
Aurora knew how it felt to leave a loved one behind, she had to leave Philip behind on the resting spot she was left on for all those years after his soul was sucked. She didn't want them to lose their son. "We have to do this for them Mulan, if we don't they won't ever return home."
"You want to help us after it was mostly our fault for Philips' death?" Asked Emma confused. She knew they were best friends but after Aurora had tried to kill her she was very doubtful that they still were, even though she probably would do the exact same thing.
Aurora shrugged, "It might help me deal with the anger."
"Then it's settled, we'll leave now to get a head start on the journey, once the sun dips behind the horizon that is when we'll set up camp and continue on foot int he morning." Mulan was a great leader, it's what she was made for.
Belle hadn't stayed home to mope around because Rumple wouldn't tell her the truth, no instead she got dressed in the nicest clothes that she could find in Rumple's shop and went out to the local diner. Granny's. There she discovered this new drink that they didn't have in the Enchanted Forest, Iced Tea. It was delicious and very sweet, each one she had she just wanted more.
"Here you go," Ruby said placing down the third tall glass of iced tea in front of the curly haired brunette whom she had never seen before since today. But she knew much from her cursed life to know when a girl was going through a breakup or a rough time. "I'm sorry, but, are you alright? I mean this is your third iced tea, I wouldn't want to call you a cab," She joked with that feline smile of hers.
"No, I-I've never had it iced before. I-It's delicious." Belle had a wide smile on her face, the drink had definitely taken her nerves off of Rumple, she wished she had found out about this magical drink sooner.
Ruby giggled along with this girl, it was suspicious to her how she had never had an iced tea before, anybody living here had at least tried it once in their cursed life. "I haven't seen you around here before, are you new?"
Belle nodded along as she spoke, "I-I've been a kept women until recently."
Ruby knew exactly what those words meant, she herself...or her cursed self-said the exact same thing once before. Sitting down across the booth from Belle, she looked her in the eyes, "Let me guess, bad break up?"
Belle nodded, "I think it's heading in that direction, yes."
"Do you have a place to stay? Any family? Friends?"
Shaking her head with a slight frown, Belle shook her head and responded, "I-I'm not sure, I'm still looking, but I'm on my own for now." She had made a poster of her father, letting him know that she was looking for him but so far she hadn't heard from him at all.
"Well, in the mean time I'm sure Granny could set you up with a room here."
"Really?" This Ruby girl seemed awfully sweet and kind, like a good friend. She had just met her and was already offering her a room here at her grandmother's Bed and Breakfast. "Thanks, uh..." She hadn't yet learned this woman's name yet.
"Ruby."
Well, that was easy to remember, considering that this girl wore mostly all red like the ruby. "Belle," She said introducing herself, "But what I really need is, uh, a hobby, a job."
Ruby thought about it for a second, there wasn't much around here and most businesses weren't hiring at the moment. "Well, what do you like to do?"
Belle thought about it, after being locked up by the Evil Queen in her castle for so long and then once again in her cursed life for twenty-eight years she had almost forgotten exactly who she was, but then after thinking hard about it, something did come to her, something she always loved to do since she was a little girl. "Well, I do love books."
"The library," Ruby said immediately, "It's been closed forever but uh, things are changing now, maybe they need a librarian." The library was right under the clock tower, boarded up with newspapers in the windows, just waiting for its rightful owner to come and clean it up.
Belle was immediately interested in this so called library, so, after thanking Ruby she walked out of the diner and down the street where she saw the sign 'Storybrooke Library.' It didn't look like much from the outside since it was abandoned and now body ever took care of it, but she had a feeling that, that would all change here soon.
Walking up to the double metal doors she grabbed a hold of the handle and tried to pull it open, it wouldn't budge, it was locked. So she decided to walk along the wall of the windows until she found a big enough crack for her to look through to peer inside. There were shelves just stacked with books. Books about history, literature, physics, fairy tales, everything that you could possibly think of. She had a good feeling deep down in her gut.
"Snow! David!" Whale called out as he saw the couple outside of Granny's talking to some citizens that must've been worrying about everything that was happening from the curse breaking to not going back to their real home in the Enchanted Forest. "We need to talk."
Snow looked cautiously at David as she clenched Neal closer to her chest, if she knew anything, it was that this so called Dr. Whale could at times be a pervert to any girl around.
"What is it you want, Whale?" David asked as he sat down at the nearest table outside next to his wife and son. He still didn't know exactly who this man was and it frightened him since he had such a strange and dark vibe coming off of him. Surely not the darkness that came off of somebody when they murdered, but something very close to it.
"So, is it true. People are saying that you're trying to figure out a way to build a portal back to your land because that's where you think Emma and Killian are, that they're alive" Whale explained everything that he had heard people whispering about through out the town. He heard how the two got sucked into a portal and nobody even knew if they were alive, except for the two biggest believers in hope.
Snow bounced Neal as he looked as if he was about to let out a blood screeching shout, he had the worst timing for his tantrums. Luckily she was able to calm him down before he got too out of control. "Well, the whispers can stop, that's exactly what we're doing. We don't keep secrets from our people."
"But it's impossible, that land is gone, destroyed by the curse," Whale spoke what he believed since they hadn't gone back when the curse was broken four days ago.
"Apparently not," Said David as he wrote small notes down in a journal.
"Well, you have any luck?" Wondered Whale, he wanted to get back to his brother as soon as possible. He couldn't bear to stay away from him, even if he was completely dead since he had shot him in the head because his work only created him a monster.
"Oh, not yet, but we're working on it" Said Snow in a sweet innocent voice as she gave the doctor a smile before looking down at her baby boy who had his eyes wide open. She started to make happy faces at him, making him smile, he reminded her so much of Emma was she was a baby...Emma.
Whale leaned forward onto the table, not wanting anybody else around to hear their private conversation, "Does that mean all the lands still exist?"
David looked over at Snow who was looking at him confused before he turned to look back into the doctors' gray eyes. Who was he and where was he from? "...Possibly."
"So the Queen lied to us...again," Noted Whale, "Are you sure?"
David leaned forward to the point where he could see the other man's pupils dilate. "Remember who we're talking about."
Dr. Hopper was finishing up some work in his office when he had heard the small gentle knocks on his door. He wasn't expecting anybody right now, but he had also had a lot of surprise visits come and want to talk ever since the curse had broken, but he didn't think it would ever be Regina knocking on his door. She had a saddened look on her face. "Regina...are you here to see me?" This was definitely a big surprise.
"I've been trying not to use magic, to redeem myself, I'm trying to keep my promise to Henry," Regina spoke quickly, this wasn't like her, usually she would just deal with her pain by destroying others peoples lives. "It's been two days," She sounded as if she was about to burst that the feeling of magic was trying to push through but she was scarfing it down.
"That's an excellent start," Dr. Hopper said as he stepped aside, "Come on in."
Regina was hesitant as she took a deep breath before walking on into his office and taking a seat down on the big leather couch that took up one space of the small office.
"Alright, so where should we begin?" He kindly asked as he sat down on the chair he normally would with a client in the room. He had a notepad and a black pen in hand.
Before starting Regina went to twirl the ring around on her finger but when she touched it and nothing was there she remembered how she had lost it the other day because she was so caught up in trying to kill the savior. "Well, it's just that, magic has always been the way I got everything."
"It sounds like it's also been the way you lost everything" Hopper included in as he listened carefully to the pained Queen, also thinking about every word he would say next, not wanting to release the Evil Queen and have her blow his head off or turn him into a cricket again and stomp on him. "Regina this is your chance to start over, to earn having a family."
He was right, every family she ever had either made her miserable, or she was forced into, she never once was in a family who just loved her for her and wanted only the best for her, not for them. She was about to speak when the door to the office had swung open, revealing an angered Dr. Whale.
"Dr. Whale, this is entirely inappropriate, unless you're here to schedule a time with me I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave," Said Dr. Hopper, slightly aggravated how the man had just burst into his office without even a simple knock.
Whale walked straight up to Regina, he was angered, furious even. "Send me back!" He exclaimed through gritted teeth and clenched fists.
Regina looked over at Dr. Hopper who seemed a bit more confused and aggravated than she was at the moment. "Excuse me?" She didn't understand what this man was going on about.
"To my land, send me back to my brother," Said Whale as you could see the redness in his eyes get darker and darker as the veins stretched until they could no more.
"Why don't you check the missing board like everyone else?" Regina said in a sassy tone, she didn't have time for this right now. She was trying to change for the better, but she couldn't do that if people were going to march up to her out of nowhere and threaten her with things she had no idea what for.
"Your curse only brought the living." His brother had died not once but twice, both times were his fault. If only he hadn't of went to the graveyard and started to dig up that body, his brother wouldn't have gotten shot and bled to death within seconds. If he hadn't of been so caught up in trying to make his name famous then his brother wouldn't have become a monster and killed their father and then he wouldn't have had to shoot his brain out.
Regina leaned forward and looked the man in his eyes with her icy cold stare, was his brother another person he failed to bring back to life? Like he had with Daniel. "Well, then I'm sorry for your lost, but I'm afraid I can't send anyone, anywhere," It was the truth.
"Can't or won't!" Exclaimed Whale wanting an answer now. He knew of this Evil Queen he had helped create her, he knew of all the times she had lied.
Dr. Hopper had just about enough of this, he wasn't going to let some ignorant man come and disturb his time with a client in need. "Dr. Whale I have to insist, please. Go!" Exclaimed Hopper as he pointed to the door and watched as Whale looked once more at Regina, letting her know this wasn't over, before walking out the door and slamming it shut behind him.
Dr. Archie Hopper waited a couple of seconds before sitting back down in his chair and looking at her, he wanted to see if Regina was being serious about changing and the only way he was going to be able to see that is if she told him the truth about his next question. "What he said isn't entirely true, is it? About the curse only taking the living? The grave, your fathers here. "
"I don't care about Whale or his family, I brought who I wanted!" Regina snapped truthfully. She brought Snow white here to see her suffer, which didn't exactly work out in the long run, but watching her family suffer was just as good.
"Anyone else?" Archie asked arching an eyebrow curiously. He watched as Regina just rolled her eyes and looked to the side, there was something she was hiding. "Regina if you want to redeem yourself the first step is, to be honest with yourself and everybody around you. You need to learn to open up about the things that are bothering you. You have to trust me, stopping magic is a lot harder than starting"
She knew he was right, and she really did want to change for the greater good.
"So, I'm going to ask once again, is there anybody else you brought over with you?"
Regina took a deep breath, "Before I got married to the King, I was seeing a stable boy, we were engaged, but Snow ended up catching us one night and after she promised she wouldn't tell my mother, she broke that promise and did, causing my mother to kill him in front of me by crushing his heart," She began trying hard not to let any tears slip, "His name was Daniel, I enchanted his body with a preservation spell. He's dead but frozen, and I've kept him in my family mausoleum."
Now Archie understood where all her anger for Snow had come from, she had blamed Snow for her fiance being killed in cold blood. "Because you couldn't let go of him," Archie said, " If you can't let go of the past Regina, it's doom will haunt you."
"You know what," Regina said as she whipped away a tear that had escaped, "I think this has been quite enough." She stood up to leave but before she could even walk out the door Archie was running after her, trying to make her stay, he really did want to help her, but she was never one for these types of things, to begin with.
"Regina, wait! I can help you" Archie called as she just opened the door causing her to turn back around to look at him with a devil in her eyes.
"I doubt it!" Regina snapped as she walked out the door, never wanting to go back.
On the way back home Regina had been sobbing, her face was drenched in her tears as the rain came pouring down. Just bringing up Daniel again and actually telling somebody about him was more than she could take in just one hour of a theory session. She had been mourning him for more years than she could count, she lost track.
As she stopped at the red light on the road, no other cars were on the road, probably since everybody was uncursed and thought they didn't know how to drive in the rain. She had the feeling of being watched and she thought nothing of it since it was stormy outside anyway and usually, that's when people think somebody is watching them, but as she turned her head towards the town clock to see what time it was, that's where she saw him. Daniel.
Regina squeezed and rubbed her eyes, thinking she was only seeing things but by the time she opened her eyes again he was gone. Was it just her imagination playing tricks on her since she was tired? Or was just now actually going crazy and seeing dead loved ones, if that were the case she hoped she didn't see her mother if she were even dead.
Once that light had turned green she did not think twice before she slammed her foot on that gas peddle and raced to the graveyard where she had to run in the rain, on grass in high heels, not the best combo.
When she had finally reached her destination she opened the door, pushed her fathers resting spot to a side and walked down the stairs into her vault where she ran down the hall to Daniels room. She didn't even have to walk up to the see through glass coffin to noticed that there was no body. Daniel was alive.
Alive.
Finally that chapters done! I know this one probably isnt the best and doens't have a lot of CaptainSwan but I've also been very busy with the first days of school and haven't had a lot of time to sit down and write, so I hope you can forgive me this one time.
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Next time: Chapter 23 We Protect One Another