Author's note: I have two episodes put together and these are Strange Case and Street Rats.
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The next day, the family were all together for a breakfast, David was cooking as the others were sitting around the table in Gold's and Caitlynn's house. "This is still weird." David muttered.
"Yeah, I know." Snow muttered back to him as she had stood up and was next to him.
"You know, I can hear you." Gold called to them. Both Snow and David blushed.
"Well, that's awkward." Caitlynn comment as Emma snored. Then Caitlynn went serious. "Since everyone is here, there is something that we need to tell you."
"Are you pregnant?" Emma asked, curious as Gold spilled his drink.
"No." Caitlynn shook with her head.
"Hehe." Amelia muttered.
"Besides, if I were, Gold would be the first person to know." Caitlynn told her twin. "It's about something else and it's about a prophesy." Then, she sighed. "It's about: Two halves of a whole,
sister's they may be
Though as the last battle approaches,
The fate of one falls to the other to see
The Queen without her fire,
And a hand that continues to shake
The man who's dark side conspires
And a life that love shall take
But know that the other
That makes up the whole
Along with another
With a rather shady soul
Converges and learns
What Fate will try and steal
Both will in turn
Show fate how it feels...?"
"Wow." Henry comment, amazed.
"That's the prophecy." Caitlynn told them all. "I want no more secrets, so there is that."
"It's something..." Emma trailed off.
"Well, we think it's about an second savior and that's Caitlynn." Amelia revealed.
"Why do you think that?" Snow asked to her.
"If you heard closely, two halves of a whole." Amelia replied, explaining. "It's about Emma and Caitlynn. Emma is the savior, but Caitlynn as well."
"I understand that." Snow comment. "But i don't understand, why know."
"Everyone has its own path, some take longer than others." Jackson told her, wisely.
"I agree to that." Gold comment.
"So, two savior, huh?" Emma glanced at Caitlynn. "But what about my shaking hand and my dream?"
"We will figure it all out, sis." Caitlynn replied to her. "I will stand with you all the way."
Emma nodded. "Thanks for telling us all."
"You're welcome." Caitlynn smiled at her sister.
Just then, David comment to them all. "Here you go. More pancakes."
Emma looked at her pancakes. "Usually, I'm lucky to get a lukewarm cup of coffee on your way to work."
"Can't a father cook for his daughter?" David asked to her.
"Sure, but I'm the Savior, not a Romanian power lifter." Emma replied to him.
"Apparently, two saviors." Caitlynn comment as David give her pancakes as well.
"Enjoy the breakfast." David told them all as there were pancakes on the table.
"These leftovers will probably last the next month or so." Emma comment to her father.
"Yeah." Caitlynn nodded.
"This is good." Snow told them all. "Things are getting back to normal."
"For how long it takes." Caitlynn muttered.
Just then, Henry walked in. "You ready for your first day back at school, Grandma?" He asked to her.
"You know it." Snow nodded as then she and Henry went to front door, when Regina, Robin and Jekyll came in. "Oh, this can't be good."
"We need to talk." Regina told them all.
Then David came as well as he told to snow and Henry. "Whatever this is, we'll take care of it. You and Henry get to school. Remember... back to normal."
Ones Snow and Henry were gone to school, Emma asked to them. "What's wrong?"
"Shouldn't you be in the lab, working on the potion?" Caitlynn added.
"Technically, it's a serum." Jekyll corrected her. "And I'm afraid there's been a complication."
"It's Hyde. He's escaped." Regina told them all.
Gold sighed. "This isn't good." He glanced at Caitlynn.
"I know." Caitlynn nodded.
"I was at the lab until early morning." Jekyll held something up. "When I returned to my room at Granny's, I found this. It belonged to a woman I cared deeply for. Hyde knew. He's trying to taunt me with it."
"We need to get you back to the lab." Emma told them all. "Now we don't just need the serum to defeat the Evil Queen. We need it to finish Hyde."
"I agree." Gold told her.
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Later, Gold and Caitlynn put an protection spell up at the house, so nobody could come in. They believed that Hyde was coming for Caitlynn, to hurt the Dark One. Then Gold went back to his shop as Caitlynn was alone with her children. Just then, Jekyll came to them, asking. "Hello. I-Is anyone there?" As if he didn't know she was there, then Caitlynn walked down stairs with her children. "Oh, you are." He sighed. "Thank goodness you're here."
"And the question is why you're here." Caitlynn looked at him as she held her son close and Aubrey was behind her. "Uh… Shouldn't you be in the lab completing your serum?"
"Th-That's just it." Jekyll replied to her. "I did. And then Hyde found me and destroyed the lab."
"But what happened to the serum?" Caitlynn asked, frowning at him.
"The Dark One took it." Jekyll replied to him, Caitlynn looked at him and sensed that he was lying. "Apparently, he has some arrangement with the Evil Queen. Emma's looking for the Evil Queen."
"Yeah, Emma has just texted me." Caitlynn nodded.
"So…" Jekyll chuckled. "You're Caitlynn, the, uh, Dark One's wife. I'm, uh... I'm sorry for any harm he's caused you."
"I appreciate the sentiment." Caitlynn comment, noticed he wasn't looking at her.
"Sentiment won't bring back Mary." Jekyll told her.
"Mary?" Caitlynn looked at him. "Is she someone you loved?"
"With all my heart... until Hyde destroyed that love." Jekyll replied to her.
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Then, the tea kettle was whistling. Caitlynn held Quinten in a cloth around her, Aubrey sat on the ground, playing with her dolls. "Whatever happened..." Caitlynn told to Jekyll. "Whatever Hyde did to Mary, I'm sorry."
"If only she'd been strong enough to resist Hyde, she would be mine." Jekyll comment to her.
"Yours?" Caitlynn asked, frowning at him.
"I mean, we'd... we'd... we'd... we'd... be together." Jekyll stuttered.
"Yeah." Caitlynn comment. "Oh, let me get some sugar for you." Then she took Aubrey with her and went to the kitchen as she put up a protection spell that even Jekyll couldn't get past it.
Just then, Jekyll stood by the doorway as he couldn't get in. "You weren't getting the sugar."
Suddenly, Gold and Regina appeared. "What's going on? Who's in the house with her?" Regina asked.
"The real villain, of course." Gold replied to her as he went inside, Regina followed him.
"Stay away from me!" Caitlynn shouted as Jekyll did everything to get inside of the kitchen.
"I didn't come all this way to stop now. After all, when I heard you were trapped aboard this house, I couldn't believe my good luck." Jekyll had an evil look in his eye. "Finally, the chance I needed to make the Dark One pay."
"But please, she's got nothing to do with this." Gold pleaded with him.
"Neither did Mary." Jekyll snapped at him.
Just then, Caitlynn used her magic, choking him, till he was dead. Then she looked at Gold and Regina. "I'm sorry, but I had to do it. He was gonna kill me and the children." She lifted the spell as did Gold, now could everyone come in and out again.
Just then, Hyde came stumping in the doorway as then he fell dead on the ground. Gold looked at him. "Well... it appears there was one final twist."
"Well, indeed." Caitlynn added. "How the hell is he dead, btw?"
"I think we have just discovered the only fool proof way to destroy one's doppelganger... by killing the original." Regina replied to her.
"Wait." Caitlynn told her. "You're saying... the way to take out the Evil Queen... Is to kill you."
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Not much later, the twins were by Regina as they stood outside of the house. "You okay?" Emma asked worried.
"I have to die." Regina replied to her.
"What?" Emma asked, confused.
"To stop the Evil Queen, I have to die." Regina replied to her. "That's how it works." Then she explained it. "That's not the only bad news I got today. We all thought Jekyll was the good one. But even though he separated himself from the darkness... the capacity for evil remained. And it remains in you. It can grow back at any time."
"You're stronger than Jekyll." Caitlynn told her.
"Maybe." Regina looked at them. "But if I'm not... Back in Camelot, when you two were the Dark Ones, you two said you two trusted me to do what it took to keep your family safe. I need you two to promise me you'll do the same thing if it comes to that."
"I won't let it come to that. Promise." Emma told her, seriously.
"Me too." Caitlynn nodded. "You have our word."
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The next day, it was chaos as it was yesterday, they needed to find someone, Aladdin. With the help of Jasmine, later they found something, thinking Aladdin was dead and Emma was forced to tell her vision to the others, that she died in that vision. Only, Caitlynn new about that, which they were all angry about, they were angry at the twins, but they still needed to find Aladdin, they found him, but then they thought he was dead. Then Emma and Henry were talking as then Aladdin revealed himself, telling them that he used the scarab the throw them off. Then he changed his mind and told them all about the magical scissors that Jafar gave him to cut himself from being the savior. Then he gave them the scissors and give her a choice if she wanted to use it one day too. Moments later they were in Charming's apartment. "Pair of scissors? Why does magic always have to be so literal?"
"I don't know." Caitlynn replied to him.
Just then Snow and David came in. "We came as soon as we could." David replied to them.
"Still no sign of Archie." Snow added as then she looked at the scissors in Regina's hand. "Are those..."
"They are." Caitlynn nodded.
"Look, I brought those here because I'm done with secrets, but I do not want to use them." Emma began as then she was interrupted by Snow.
"Emma." Snow told her.
"Just hear me out." Emma glanced het her mother. "Aladdin didn't trust the people he loved. That's why he failed. But I believe in us to find a third way. It's kind of what we do. But if we don't and my magic does come with a price, I will pay it. The Savior is what I am, but I am also part of a family."
"Well, I choose to believe in us, too." Snow told her.
"Me too." Caitlynn added. "As I am also a Savior and believe that there is a third way."
"We all do." David added. "We can protect you, and we can protect this town."
"No more secrets. Take them." Emma told them as then she gave the scissors to her sister. "I don't want them used as a weapon if they fell into the wrong hands. We need to be sure to be rid of them."
"I will." Caitlynn promised her.
