Chapter 6

One year from now

"You really shouldn't have hit them so hard." comments Lilly.

Matt looks at the three unconscious men who are handcuffed on the floor. There were only three men in the house that were guarding them. Once Lilly and Matt were able to unlocked the basement door, they had no problems in dealing with the men.

Considering that he had to deal with vampires, normal people does not pose a challenge. Having someone who is a dragon does help.

"They tasered me and took my pants." said Matt as he fights the urge to kick them. Unfortunately, the three men did not have Matt's pants.
"Yeah, but we need to know what Hyde is planning." mentions Lilly as she try to be the voice of reason.

"Let's look and see what we can find." Matt looks at them and gives them a kick for good measure. He can still feel the sting from the taser. Matt walks away from the three men and start looking for any clue on what were their plans.

As Matt start looking around the house, he realizes something. The house is barren. There are only some chairs and tables. However, there is no computer, TV, sofa or pictures on the wall. It had only the bare essential. There is no carpet on the floor. The curtains that is hanging by the window are the light blocking kind. Matt looks out of the window. Quiet neighborhood. He wonders if anyone saw anything. Since there was no for sale sign outside, the house has to belong to someone.

Since Lilly has the kitchen and bathroom, Matt walks upstairs to the second floor. The second floor simply follows suit. Barren walls with only the bare necessities of a bed and lamp. Matt smiles as he saw his pants folded up on the bed.

He takes his pants and put them on. He smiles now that he had pants on. Now, he had to keep an eye for his gun. He walk over to the bedroom's window. He look outside. The only thing that Matt can see is the next door neighbor's backyard. Matt walk away from the window and walk toward the bathroom.

As Matt looks into the bathroom, the bar of soap and toothbrush are the only things in the bathroom. Matt starts to wonder where the three men were getting the basic supplies as he notices the toilet paper has ran out.

"Matt!" yells out Lilly from the downstairs. Matt runs to his partner, who is in the kitchen downstairs. The kitchen is like the rest of the house. Barren. There is a refrigerator and a microwave. There is a small table. Matt breath a sigh of relief when he saw their guns laying on the table. Lilly is taking out a rolled up blueprint from the trash.

"Thank god for stupid people." said Lilly. Matt takes the guns off the table as she lays the blueprint out on the kitchen table. Matt use the guns to keep the blueprint from rolling up.

"What the hell is this?" ask Matt as he looks at the blueprint.

"I can't make heads or tails out of this." said Lilly as she stare at the blueprint.

Matt looks at it.

"You are holding it upside down."
"You think?" said Lilly as she moves the blueprint in the right way. Matt and Lilly looks at the blueprint. "It looks familiar."

"Yes, it does." said Matt as he looks at the print. The design is precise. The lines is clean. The machine looks very steam punk. The more he looks at the design of this machine, the more it looks familiar. It look more like Santa sled than anything else. Once he saw the name on the lower right hand corner of the blueprint, his heart skips.

"Look." said Matt as he points out the name. Lilly place her focus on what Matt is pointing at.

"Whoa." said Lilly when she realizes what the name actually meant. "That can't be right."
"I am betting you that it is." said Matt as he slowly step away from the blueprint. "That is why it is so familiar."

The two friends looks at the plan.

"That is impossible." said Lilly as she takes the gun off the blueprint and let it roll up by itself. It finally occur to her what the blueprint is for. "He is not a character. He's real."

"Vic did a book report on it. One of the few times that she took something seriously. The report was about this." Matt pointed the blueprint. "The main character never had a name, Lilly."

"But that is impossible.." said Lilly as she hands Matt's gun to him.

"Says the woman who can turn into a dragon." points out Matt as he takes his gun. Both individuals secure them in their hostler.

"That is magic." Lilly looks at the plan. She take a big deep breath. "This is different."

"OK….Let's stop being Scully and be more like Mulder." said Matt.

"Fine."

"This is a game changer."

"Duh… Imagine what you can do with it."
"Imagine what Hyde can do with it." said Matt.

"Crap." said Lilly. "This is not good. He could do some serious damage."

"Yeah. Let's not even get into the fact that now we have to worry about the Evil Queen and the Dark One. Imagine what they could do with this? I mean this is forbidden in magic. Here is your loophole around that."

"Matt." said Lilly. "What if it does not work?"

"What?"

"I mean what would happen if that.." Lilly points at the blueprint. "..does not work. What would you think could happen?"

Matt looks at the roll up blueprint. Dealing with magic for so long, Matt never let that thought enter his mind.

"We already know what could happen if it works. Obviously, it could do some damage. But what if something goes wrong. Seriously, something like that. I am betting you that it would do some serious damage." said Lilly.

Matt looks at the house and his heart is starting to race.

"If they are building it, they would have to have some place to secure it. You can't have everyone in town knowing about it. You would have to make sure that no one else would know." said Matt as he tries to figure this out. "Just building it would make some noise. I bet they never built it here. Not to mentions what you would need to build it. That is why they got Walter's passes. It would be too obvious that you were up to something if you bought the stuff here. Someone would talk."

"They must not have done a test run yet. After all, Walter sends us here to get captured. I am betting you that they will make a test run here today." said Lilly
"We got to find it before they do their test run." said Matt as he start to walk toward the front door with Lilly following him.

"Needle in the haystack." said Lilly. "My favorite part of this job."

Present

Hyde walks up to the porch of the house. For the person that lives in the house, Hyde did not expect this. The house is neat and trim. Nothing looks broken. It look like the other houses in the town.

Mr. Hyde did not expect this person to adapt so quickly to Storybrooke. He made friends, found a house, and started a process of setting up a business.

Hyde did take several deep breaths. Unlike most individuals that he had encountered, this man is not someone he can take on. He is not a man that is intimidated by Mr. Hyde. Even though he is much older than Hyde, the man is not someone Hyde wanted to get into a fight.

Thankfully, they had an arrangement.

Hyde knocks on the door. As Hyde waits, he could hear the old man stomping his feet in anger. He could hear the rumbles from the door.

The old man opens the door and did not hide his disappointment on seeing Hyde.

"What are you doing here?" said the old man. The old man had a lot more gray hair than his natural black hair. White hairs are showing on his mustache and on his unshaven face. His face show his age, but the old man did not care. The muscles on his body shows that he was more fit than men half his age. His voice is deep and commands respect.

"Abraham, it has been a while." said Hyde with a small smile.

"The doctor left you off your leash again?" ask Abraham as he motions Hyde in.

"The doctor is no longer a part of me." corrects Hyde as he walks in.

"Too bad. He was really the best part of you." said Abraham as he closes the door.

The living room is bare other than a chair and a coffee table. Hyde stop as he look at the gold hourglass that is on a coffee table.

"It's moving." remarks a concern Mr. Hyde.

"Of course it is moving. You brought me here. My time has started up again since you brought me over to this land." said a frustrated Abraham. He did not bother to hide his frustration over Mr. Hyde's ignorance. "He knows that I am alive."

"I'm sorry." said Hyde in a rare instance of regret.

"You should be. When he finds me, you better keep your end of the arrangement and help me. The only reason why I stay in the Land of Untold Stories was to put a pause on that hourglass. I needed time to find my replacement."

"That is why I am here. I think I have found someone." said Mr. Hyde as he looks at Abraham.
"Someone for me to kill for you." corrects Abraham.
Hyde look at the old man with a shock expression.

"You really think that I am stupid? I know what you have been doing. You have been sending me people that you want eliminated pretending that they were suitable candidate." said the old man as he stares at the hourglass.

"So, why do you do it?"
"I am waiting for you to screw up." answers Abraham.

"Well, here is your next person." said Hyde as he hands Abraham a picture.

"I will do this one for you, but you better start getting serious." said Abraham. "I am getting old and weaker. He is not. Without someone like me, you will lose so much if He comes around."
"Do not worry. This place has heroes. I am sure we can find someone more suitable." answer Hyde as he heads out the door.

"Heroes? Ha!" said the Abraham. "I will not believe it until I see it."