The curse of his powers tormented his life
Obeying the crown was a sinister price
His soul was tortured by love and by pain
He surely would flee but the oath made him stay
He's torn between his honor and the true love of his life
He prayed for both but was denied
So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed
Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind?
So many years have passed, who are the noble and the wise?
Will all our sins be justified?
Within Temptation - Hand of Sorrow
Oz (The Outer Zone)
Six days prior to the Final Eclipse
Ekaterina Ozopov Zero had been waiting decades for her revenge. She'd been the firstborn, the rightful heir to the throne of the OZ but she'd lost everything the day her despised sister took her first breath.
"The majestic queen of the OZ
Had two lovely daughters she
One to darkness she be drawn
One to light she be shown
But only one and one alone
Shall hold the emerald and the throne
Only one and one alone." She recited bitterly.
She waved her hand over the mirror she'd been scrying from and the image of her sister vanished and glanced over at the portrait on the wall above her fireplace, her eyes narrowed to slits. She'd been drawn to the darkness through no fault of her own but her mother's when Queen Alexandra stripped her of her rightful place as heir to the throne of the OZ and gave it to Lavinia. Lavinia had proven to be one of the weakest rulers the Ozopov bloodline had produced and she'd stripped her eldest daughter of her right to the throne and given it to her spoiled, self-centered second daughter Dorothia.
"Mother?"
Katia turned around to see her son standing there, a travel storm token in his hand.
"Do us proud," Katia murmured and drew him into her arms. "Destroy the North Guardians and you will finally have the throne you were robbed of by my bitch sister!"
"And you will rule at my side, Mother as you should have before."
Though he'd been robbed of his rightful place as King of the OZ in his first life, the man who had once been Nicolai Ozopov was determined to reclaim his inheritance in his second by delivering to the dark goddess the hearts of two of the people with the power to destroy her, Azkadellia and Jiminy Ozopov. He was going to enjoy watching the bitch that had been his wife Dorothy and her lover destroy each other and release the goddess from her prison.
Having the soul of one of the OZ's most powerful kings reborn into her own son was the second greatest honor Katia could have been given. Her first was serving the will of Alemedia Demonia. Nonestica would be destroyed but their goddess had promised them the highest place of honor in the new one she planned to build in the land her parents had come from.
Seconds later a shot rang out and Katia's fingers were now wet with blood. Her son's blood. He slumped in her arms.
"NOOOO! Gregory!" she screamed and lay him down on the floor, opening his mouth. Suddenly she was thrown against the wall.
"Try all you want, bitch but you're not gonna bring him back. I've seen to that," Wyatt snarled as he approached her, his silver pistol in his hand.
"Bastard!" Katia yelled, struggling to free herself and began to chant in Ozian. A puff of red smoke appeared revealing DG, still under Alemedia's control. She knelt beside Zero and waved her hand over him.
"What have you done?" she demanded.
"Did you forget who is the Keeper of Souls?" Adora taunted when she appeared beside Wyatt. "You may have been able to resurrect him before, but you won't be able to again because I've destroyed his dark soul."
"Six days Ozmalita. Six days and I'm free to walk the mortal realm again." She smirked at Wyatt. "And good luck trying to get your precious 'Dottie' back. She's mine now as she was meant to be."
She laughed, and she and Katia vanished in a puff of smoke. Wyatt leaned against one of the pillars sighing heavily. "Dottie may have her heart back but she's still hurtin from what we did. And it's getting harder for me to stop her from taking control of me again."
"You have to hold her off long enough for Rumple to neutralize the first blade. Then it will weaken her hold on you and Dorothia."
"If it can be," Wyatt confessed sadly. "Banishing darkness he's kept company with for so long isn't gonna be easy for Rumplestiltskin but I'm not gonna just sit around and wait for him to do it. I got to Dottie in the dream realm once and I might still have a shot at doing it again. And I have to find Katia. Alemedia's got plans for her and I need to find out what they are."
"We'll find her together," she murmured.
Neverland
Six days prior to the Final Eclipse
Bae awoke to feel the familiar point of a spear poking into his ribcage. He groaned and rolled over to find an equally familiar face looking down at him.
"Welcome home….Baelfire," Felix taunted.
"This was never my home," Bae muttered.
"Never expected to see you back here…as an adult no less."
"Did you really think I would let Pan take MY son without a fight? Better think again!" He spun around and raised his fist in an attempt to strike Felix, but the younger boy's reflexes were much quicker. He thrust the tip of the spear into Bae's side. He cried out and sunk to his knees in pain.
"Maybe you should've left well enough alone."
"I'm gonna get him back," Bae panted.
"You really believe that? You were a lost boy. You know Peter Pan's not be to trifled with. You know how long he's been searching for the heart of the truest believer. Do you really believe he'll just... give him up?"
"Oh I know he won't….but he's gonna have one hell of a fight on his hands."
"From you?" Felix laughed harshly. "Look at you. You're old and now you're bleeding all over the grass. Good thing Pan wants you alive otherwise I'd let you here to rot." He turned the spear upside down and swung it like a baseball bat, striking Bae on the back of the head. He fell to the ground unconscious. Felix let out a loud whistle and several boys emerged from the bushes. "Take him back to the camp and put him with our other guest. Then have his wound treated. Pan wants him alive. Understand?"
They nodded and picked him, carrying him back to camp.
Rumple opened his eyes to find himself marooned on another part of the island. He stood up, brushed the sand from his clothes and glanced up at the sky. Night had fallen on Neverland and another day had come to an end, bringing them one more day closer to the Final Eclipse. There was no more time to waste. He summoned a pile of wood and lit a fire then pulled his dagger out of the inside pocket in his coat. He knew he'd taken a great risk bringing it to Neverland, but it had been an unfortunate necessity. He knelt and scraped the blade across the toe of his boot. A spectre floated out of it and hovered above him. Rumple held out the dagger to it.
"You what to do. Hide it!" he commanded. The spectre flew away, the dagger in its hand. Rumple nodded and sat on a rock in front of the fire then waved his hand in front of it, an image appearing in the flames. He made himself a makeshift bed on the sand and closed his eyes.
"Bring her to me," he murmured. He felt something soft land on his chest and opened his eyes to a familiar yet haunting sight. A straw doll wearing a blue coat.
"Papa," he hissed. "Show yerself, ye coward!"
"Now isn't that the pot calling the kettle black, laddie," Pan taunted. "I didn't run away from a battlefield. I'm not running away from who I am."
"I know who I am!"
"Do you? You condemn me for abandoning you when you did the same to your own son and for the same reason. Power. It's our addiction Rumple. We can't live without it."
"You can't but I can."
"Can you?"
"I lived without it for twenty-eight years and still managed," Rumple reminded him coldly. "You will lose more than your power when that hourglass runs out, Papa. A one-way journey to Ephesis and I hear the accommodations are quite painful!"
"Unless I take the heart of Lurline's successor."
"Over my dead body, dearie!"
"We'll see," Pan sneered and vanished.
Rumple hurled the doll into the fire, wishing he could burn his memories away with it.
Storybrooke, Maine
Five days prior to the Final Eclipse
She missed Rumple terribly, but Belle hadn't been one to just sit around and wait for him to return, not when there was so much that still needed to be done. Archie and Az continued training her and on that day they were going to teach her one of the most difficult lessons, astral projection.
"The dream realm is the only place the darkness cannot breach," Az was saying. She and Archie were in Belle's bedroom at the Victorian while the young woman lay on her bed. "It was how I awoke Archie before the curse broke. He always returned to his cursed state when he awoke but his personality began to change back into Commander Ozopov's."
"Now that Rumple's back on Neverland, the place where his darkness was born, the temptation to stay the Dark One is going to be much greater. Your mission in the dream realm is to remind Rumple of the man he is becoming, not the man he was," Archie added. "Pan is counting on Rumple staying the Dark One because then it will give him a greater chance to kill Henry and take his powers. It will also shift the Balance in the darkness's favor and make any chance we have of freeing DG and Wyatt impossible."
Moments later a dark spectre flew through the window and hovered above the bed. Belle gasped and sat up.
"What…what IS that?"
The figure handed the dagger to her. "Hide us. You know what my father will do if this falls into his hands and I cannot let that happen," it said in Rumple's voice. "We will return to him when the time is right."
"But what are you?"
"His shadow."
"You…you can remove your shadow?"
"It's painful as hell but yes," Archie replied.
"There is a shadow on Neverland, some say it's the spirit of the land itself that's been corrupted by Pan's dark magic," Az added. "Once you're on the island, it won't let you leave. How did you get through?"
"I'm the Shadow of a Guardian, dearie. I can come and go as I please. He awaits you in the one realm the darkness cannot breach. Find him," the shadow instructed Belle.
She smiled. "I will." She held up her teacup necklace. "You will be safe in here." The shadow, still holding the dagger floated into it. "I'm ready. Take me to Rumple," she murmured as she lay back down and closed her eyes.
The Dream Realm
Five days prior to the Final Eclipse
"…Rumple…Rumple!" he heard a familiar voice calling and opened his eyes to find Belle sitting beside him.
"You came," he murmured and reached out to caress her cheek. Then he backed away and rose to his feet. "You're another one of his tricks." He conjured a fireball and threw it at her. She held out her hand and caught it.
"Rumple, it's ME!"
"Of course, you would say that." He seized her by the arms and dragged her to the fire. "Burn away. Burn away with the rest of my memories!"
She kicked his legs out from under him and tackled him to the ground. "Listen to me. LISTEN TO ME! You are Rumplestiltskin Strogoff-Gold. You are the Guardian of the West Gate and the Keeper of the Blade of Fire. And you are the man I love." She pressed her lips to his. "He can't touch us here. No darkness can touch us here," she murmured as she began to untie the laces on his shirt. "I love you Rumple, and I will never stop fighting for you. I'm real and I'll prove it to you!"
"Belle, what….what are you doing?"
"Fighting for you," she whispered.
"Are you sure….?"
She nodded.
"Sweetheart, I don't want to hurt you…but you know I have to when…."
"I know…but I'm not afraid. I could never be afraid of you now."
He sighed. "This isn't right the time…or the place."
"It's the only time, the only place."
"Belle, you deserve so much better than me."
"No one decides my fate but me and I've chosen you. I'll always choose you!" she cried and kissed him again.
"And I will always choose you," he murmured. "I love you, Belle."
He gestured and a bed appeared on the sand beside them. He scooped her up into his arms and carried her over to it. This world was theirs, if only for a few hours.
"Belle, are you sure…?" he asked her again. She nodded and held her arms out to him, pulling him onto the bed with her. She felt him trembling as they removed the last of their clothing as he felt her trembling as their fears swept over them like tidal waves. Belle secretly longed to be taller, curvier. Rumple couldn't help feeling every one of his three hundred years as she looked on his body without the armor of his designer suits and leathers, yet the moment they looked in each other's eyes and saw the flames of love that hadn't diminished, those fears faded away and they finally found the courage to continue their journey. As they reached the peak of their passion neither of them noticed that the orange and white lights under their joined hands and surrounding their bodies glowing brighter until the lovers, exhausted and spent, collapsed in each other's arms and fell into a deep sleep.
The sleeping lovers never noticed the cloud of blue smoke that materialized before them, taking the form of a young girl with chestnut hair, blue eyes and wearing a shimmering silver gown. Rumple stirred and as he was about to awaken, she waved her hand over him, sending him back into slumber and keeping Belle in hers, a small smile on her lips as she gazed down at him and tenderly brushed a strand of hair away from his face as Belle often did.
"We will meet soon Rumplestiltskin, but not yet," she said softly. "You've only just begun to follow the path you must take for your redemption, but the road is long and there are many dangers still ahead but now that you have back one of your strongest sources to light your way you will succeed. You, Belle, are his strongest light, the first to see the man behind the beast and to retain your faith in your love even when he gave you cause to doubt him. You've bound yourself to him now body and soul and in doing so, you have begun the process of banishing the darkness from his heart, but it cannot fully be banished unless he agrees to surrender it. To do so he must defeat its source as a mortal."
"He must succeed, or your soul will return to Ozmalita and other families will be chosen for both of us." Ambrosia said sadly.
"NO! He WILL succeed Amber! He HAS TO!"
"He'd better! I've waited too long to be reunited with MY parents and I'm still in danger while Alemedia walks the mortal realm in her vessels. Now you're in danger too, not just from her but from the 'Father From Neverhell' as your sister-in-law calls him."
"My father's not the only one she's holding. She has your aunt and uncle too!"
Ambrosia sighed. "And driving her out of them will be much harder. That's why we need Rumple's curse broken now! The Balance will shift in our favor. You know what you have to."
The girl smiled evilly. "I'm going be a chip off the old block, dearie. And gods help him when I am. I'm not going easy on him."
"I almost feel sorry for him….almost." Ambrosia laughed and vanished.
"You will succeed, Papa. You will," the girl said firmly as she disappeared.
Belle awoke a short time later, a small smile on her lips as she gazed up at Rumple's sleeping face. She leaned over and kissed him awake.
"Hey," she greeted softly.
"Belle?" His eyes fluttered open and widened in shock. "Did I…did we…?"
"We did," she whispered.
"I wanted to wait…until we were married."
"I've been married to you in my heart for years. It's only a formality, dearie!"
"Are you…I mean….are you alright?" he asked as he held her closer.
"Why wouldn't I be?"
"Well ahh…."
"Rumple, please. I know what you're thinking but don't. I'm not Milah. I wanted to be with you tonight. I want to be with you for the rest of my life. A woman couldn't ask for a better man to be her first lover, but you will be my only lover."
"You couldn't get rid of me now if you tried."
"Good!"
"But you cannot stay here. Neverland is a place where the imagination runs wild and there is a chance my father could breach the safety of this realm."
"He's that powerful? How?"
"He's harnessing magic from our ancestors Belle. You know how unpredictable magic is in that world and I know little about it, but he does. He wants Henry and will kill anyone who gets in his way. Me still being cursed…."
"But we've gained an advantage tonight Rumple. There's just one more thing left to do." She reached into her chest and removed her heart. She waved her hand over the glowing organ and it divided into two pieces, one glowing white hovering above her.
"Belle, I can't. Not now," he said sadly.
"Why?" she cried as she put her heart back in her chest.
"It's not the right time."
"It may be the only chance we have."
"I may not able to divide mine…there's too much darkness in it."
"You don't know that!"
"Nor will I risk it," he countered. "Belle, please. I need you to trust me."
"I do but I'm not convinced Rumple. You're talking like you're not gonna survive this."
He looked away.
"What aren't you telling me?"
"I want you to prepare yourself, sweetheart."
"No."
"If I die, Wyatt Cain succeeds me as the West Guardian. The Balance must be restored Belle and you are still a Guardian. I want your word that you will not break the circle."
"Rumple…."
"Promise me!"
She clenched her hand into a fist and pressed it against her shoulder, kneeling. "I give you my word for my word as a Talon is my bond."
"You're learning the path of the dragon," he murmured.
"Rumple, you're so convinced you'll be defeated that you've forgotten that we have an advantage over Pan."
"What do you mean?"
"Come with me," she said, and they vanished in a puff of smoke.
They reappeared in the backroom of the pawnshop. "You have some of the most powerful weapons in all the realms at your disposal." She took off her chipped cup necklace and restored it to its actual size then opened the cupboard, returning it to its saucer. Suddenly a glowing square appeared on the floor. She pushed back the loose floorboard and took out a box.
"Pandora's Box," he murmured. "How did you know it was here?"
A ledger written in Ozian appeared in her hand. "I found this hidden among your books. This may be the best way we have of defeating Pan."
Rumple kissed her deeply. "I don't know why I didn't think of it myself. But I cannot bring it out of our dream. My father's magic is blocking it. But….there's always a loophole."
"What are you thinking?"
"If I can find someone to cross realms safely, they can bring the box to me. Our only chance is a mermaid, but they consider humans their mortal enemies after Tritan's bride was killed by one of them." He thought for a moment. "But…I do remember Regina owes a debt to one of his daughters. Now's the time for her to pay it."
"She can cross realms without interference from the Shadow?"
"Ariel is kin, so to speak."
"What?"
"Hades and Persephone weren't the only defectors from the Greek pantheon. So was Poseidon. Ariel descends from him, but she lost her powers when her father found out she tried to strike a deal with Ursula to become human, or at least someone she 'thought' was Ursula only it turned out to be Regina glamored to look like the cartoon version of Ariel's aunt."
"Ursula was Ariel's aunt?"
"Exiled but yes."
"Why?"
"I'm not sure. Only Ursula and Triton know the answer. But Ariel is our only chance of getting that box here."
"I can…"
"No! You will stay in Storybrooke."
"You forget, dearie, that I am YOUR guardian and it is my duty to protect you!" Belle ranted. "If the box doesn't work, I'm coming here and hitting that manchild son of a bitch with everything I've got!"
"You're not fully trained yet."
"I will be soon enough." She thought for a moment. "Rumple, there's one more thing we've forgotten about, something Pan would never see coming."
"What are you thinking?"
"Aramon's talisman."
"But that's in Oz and I don't want you going there either because you'd be facing not one but two Dark Ones at full strength."
"I told you I would never stop fighting for you and I meant it. I'm going to try everything."
He took her in his arms and kissed her tenderly. "I love you Belle….and I don't want you dying because of me."
"I don't believe we will….and you need to believe too. We're going to win." She cupped his face in her hands. "Remember who you are. You are Rumplestiltskin Strogoff. You are the West Guardian and you are the man I love."
"You need to go…before he finds you."
She gave him one last kiss before the spell was broken and her soul returned to her body.
Storybrooke, Maine
Five days prior to the Final Eclipse
Belle awoke with a gasp.
"Are you alright?" Az asked her.
"Pandora's Box. I have to get it. It might be the only way Rumple has of stopping Pan." She jumped out of bed and dressed herself with her magic.
"He has it?" Their eyes widened.
"Why are you surprised? He has quite a few of your ancestors' artifacts."
"Belle, you don't know what Pandora's Box really is, do you?" Archie murmured.
"It's supposed to contain the realms' darkest evils."
"That was its original purpose yes, but Hades 'modified' it when he stole it from his brother," Archie explained.
"To do what?" Belle demanded.
"It's one of the gates to Ephesis and it can only opened by someone from his bloodline. The souls trapped in there go to one of its worst prisons; the Realm of the Unwanted."
"So Pan goes to hell where he belongs."
"Belle, if Pan gets that box away from Rumple, HE can send HIM there!" Az cried.
"Then we get him out."
"Once a soul is sent there or to Paradise it belongs to the Keeper and only she can release it," Archie added.
"Then who is this Keeper in case I need to speak to her?"
"Ozmalita Diosa, Lurline and Alemedia's sister...but in her human form she was Adora Cain."
"Wyatt Cain's wife is Ozmalita?"
"Yes, and right now we're not too sure what side she's on because she's created a huge shift in the Balance by trying to seduce Wyatt away from my sister," Az said angrily.
Belle sighed heavily. "I'll do whatever it takes. I'm sure you would too. I'm going to the shop to get the box. Rumple is sending someone to get it."
"Who?"
"One of Poseidon's descendants. She's the only one that can leave Neverland without Pan or the Shadow trying to stop her."
"Unless he has someone in here ready to intercept her," Archie said.
"Archie, I'm going back to the shop with Belle."
"And I'm going to help David and his crew start searching for any intruders."
"….Molky! Look at this!" Edgar Navarro stood in front of what looked the bumper of a vehicle laying a few feet away from the town line. "Someone lost their bumper and it's got Minnesota plates on it!"
"It have a plate number we can run?"
"Yeah."
"Read it to me!"
David picked up the radio and was reading the numbers off to Terry back at the station when Archie appeared.
"What do we have?" he demanded.
"Bumper off a car. Looks like it was severed off. How the heck can that happen?" his brother inquired.
Archie scowled.
"It happened while they were trying to outrun the cloaking spell. Any hits on that plate?"
"Registered to a Jon Darling from Minnesota. It's them, Archie. It has to be. The Home Office."
"All right. Get everybody together and start searching every square inch of this town. I want them found and taken alive. Understand?"
"And then what?"
"They talk…or we make them talk!" he growled and vanished in a puff of smoke.
Neverland
Five days prior to the Final Eclipse
Time was running short and Rumple had very little of it to waste when the lives of his son and grandson depended on it. He teleported himself to the shore and waved his hands, pulling some of the water out of the ocean and created a small pool in the sand by his feet.
"Eye of Aramon, come to me
Show me now what I need to see!" he chanted.
He was his father in a cave, a spellbook hovering in front of him as he chanted in Gaelic. The words he spoke chilled Rumple to the bone. He could also see a spear coated with blood. Pan held out the spear and chanted louder until a figure appeared on the ground in the cave.
"NO! HENRY!" he screamed.
Pan's lips curved into an evil smile as he reached into Henry's chest and pulled out his heart, holding it up in triumph.
"Your growing powers are no match for mine, boy!" he sneered at Henry's unconscious form.
The Heart of the Truest Believer was his…and now he would walk, not among the gods, but above them.
Storybrooke, Maine
Five days prior to the Final Eclipse
The storm seemed to come out of nowhere. Everyone in the town immediately began to seek shelter as the winds howled and shrieked and rain poured down on them in buckets.
"What's happening? Where did that storm come from?" Belle shouted over the winds.
"The Balance…" Az moaned. "It's shifting again….Henry is dying."
"No!" Belle sank to her knees on the shop floor and began to cry, feeling her lover's sorrow along with her own.
It's too late. I've failed. I've failed! she heard him crying.
No! Hold on Rumple. Hold on. We can still save him. We can still save all of you. Just hold on. Please!
Neverland
Five days prior to the Final Eclipse
Regina, Emma, Bae, Snow and Charming awoke to find themselves tied to the trunks of trees.
"Welcome to Neverland," Pan greeted with a smirk. "You have the honor of dying in one of my most special places…the Forest of Regret and I'd say all five of you have plenty to regret."
"Yeah. Not being able to kill you!" Bae growled. "But your time's coming asshole because I'm not gonna be the one who snuffs you out. My father's gonna do it for me."
"Now why would he when I've done him a favor?"
"And just what does that mean, manchild?" Regina sneered.
"By killing the boy that would be his undoing as the Dark One." He lifted up his tunic, a golden light glowing on his chest where his heart world be. "And now I never have to worry about growing up again."
"Son of a bitch!" Charming struggled against the vines.
"A bit of a tight squeeze, isn't it Your Highness? It should be. You see, I abandoned my boy here all those years ago and this forest was born from my regret." He pointed to a tree where two skeletons were tied. "So many parents tried to come here to take back the children they threw away, but it was their own regrets that killed them…just as it's killing you now because you all threw your children away too."
"NO! We gave them their best chance!" Snow cried, feeling the vines squeeze tighter.
"By sending a baby through a magical wardrobe alone not knowing where she'd end up? They lied to you, you know. Blue and Geppetto. They lied. They sent Pinocchio through and told you it would only take one."
"Archie would've stopped them!" Charming protested.
"Oh, but he couldn't because he had his own guilty secret. He accidently killed Geppetto's parents with one my son's potions so Geppetto guilt tripped him into going along with their little scheme. Some protector that puppet turned out to be. Abandoned your little girl in a foster home. One of many. You remember that, don't you, Emma?"
"Yeah well I learned to be tough from that life," Emma said angrily.
"Not tough enough to keep your own son, were you, lassie?" he taunted. "You left him at the mercy of the system too."
"Leave her alone," Bae growled.
"Ah, Baelfire. It's been a long time, laddie. Welcome home."
"This was NEVER my home!"
"it's the only real home you had my boy since my son abandoned you at that portal because he was too afraid he'd lose his power. And then you abandoned your pregnant girlfriend because a former wooden puppet told you to. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree, does it?"
"I didn't know she was pregnant!" Bae protested, coughing. "Shut up you son a of a bitch! Just shut up!"
"How different things would've been had you stayed," Pan taunted. "Oh, they wouldn't be because you'd both be in jail and Henry would be alone anyway."
"He wasn't alone. He had ME!" Regina snarled.
"Ah, the Queen finally speaks. The one with the most to regret."
"You know what? You're right. I have done a lot of terrible things in my life. I should be dead by now from all the regret I'm feeling but I'm not!"
The vines snapped in half. Regina's eyes were glowing red as she approached Pan. She flicked her wrist and send him flying into the trunk of one of his own trees, the vines wrapping themselves around him. She reached her hand into his chest and yanked Henry's heart out. "…because it got me my son!"
The vines holding the others vanished.
"Now, let's go get Henry!"
"You bitch! This isn't over yet!" Pan yelled.
"It is for us," Regina laughed and teleported them out. They reappeared on the beach where an angry Rumple waited. He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the heart in Regina's possession.
"I don't understand…how did you do that, Regina?" Snow asked her.
"She's his Guardian. She can invoke his powers if he's incapacitated. It's time to complete that bond, dearie."
"Papa, we have to save Henry!" Bae reminded him.
"We are saving him Bae," Rumple said softly. "Are you ready, Regina."
"I've never been more ready."