Terms

Marissa asked for a oneshot of *season 6 spoilers!* (I hope you don't mind some slight editing to avoid repetition) Hyde arranging for Emma and Charming to meet him at the warehouse for a truce. His conditions include Charming and Emma doing what he wants and arresting people at his demand. Of course they refuse. Emma uses her magic against him, but it has no affect. Hyde knocks her out. He says to Charming that he knows how to make him do what he wants, and threatens to create an evil Emma.

Guest: Sorry, that kind of thing has already been done before.

Diana: Sorry, but I can't see Charming doing that to Neal.

Ausfan: No problem :). Thanks for keeping me updated!

"Remind me why we agreed to this?" Emma asked her dad quietly, as they both stood on edge in the middle of the abandoned warehouse.

"Good question." Charming sighed in response. He didn't like this, neither of them did. Hyde had sent them a note to the station requesting that they both meet him here. When they met, he would reveal the terms of a truce with him.

"You agreed to this because the pair of you, along with this whole town, know I am unstoppable." A smug voice said, coming in the back door. Charming and Emma made an effort to appear calm and collected, but inside both were tense.

"We're here, just like you agreed." Emma said quietly. "What do you want in exchange for a truce?" She asked. Hyde smiled at her.

"I want your complete and utter cooperation." He said coolly. "I am left to do as I please. You will arrest who I tell you to. That way, you and your loved ones are left unharmed. It seems fairly reasonable to me." Hyde told them. Charming and Emma couldn't believe even Hyde would come up with such an insulting offer for a truce. Surely he knew they would expect this to be a trap? They had not come unprepared for that outcome.

"No deal." Charming told him. "We're not allowing you to run rampant round this town any longer. We gave you a chance to be reasonable, you've wasted it." Charming nodded. Emma raised her hands and shot Hyde with the most powerful ball of magic she could muster. He grimaced, falling to his knees. Emma then ran forward, knowing it wouldn't hold him long. But as soon as she took hold of one of his wrists to put it in his special handcuffs, he bounced back up, battering Emma across the head.

"Emma!" Charming cried out. He tried to rush to his daughter's aid, but Hyde whipped out a syringe and held it threateningly against Emma's neck. Charming froze on the spot. Hyde laughed wickedly.

"I knew you wouldn't exactly like my conditions, but I think you'll see now you don't exactly have a choice." Hyde said coolly. "Either you agree to my terms, right here and right now, or I will create an evil version of your all powerful daughter. She'll be more than willing to help me, I suspect. I'd like to see you try and hurt even the evil version of your daughter. Even if you did manage it, you'd hurt this one as well." Charming was furious. How could he do anything but agree? Little did Hyde know, though, that Emma had regained consciousness. While Hyde was too busy being smug over his apparent victory, she snatched the handcuffs from the floor and quickly snapped them around Hyde's wrists. He howled with rage, but there was next to nothing he could do.

"Next time, try not to be so cocky before you've actually got what you want." Emma panted, going back over to her dad. Charming hugged Emma tightly, cradling the back of her head.

"Are you alright?" He asked her. "He didn't get you with the needle at all, did he?"

"No." Emma assured him. "I'm fine, dad." Emma pulled out of the hug, looking back at the enraged Hyde. "Let's get him locked back up."