In case anyone was wondering, I still don't own Once Upon A Time. This was made in no way to earn a profit. Enjoy.
Emma was, unsurprisingly, the first one to enter the large hall. She strode in stiffly from the long car ride with Regina and Killian on her heels only to bump right into the back of a long line. The crowd of people in front of them was dotted with dressed up fans and the really dressed up fans.
"They dress up for these things too. Do the people of this land know anything about the people they apparently worship." Hook questioned Emma.
"Not usually." She answered.
A man walked in from a staircase above and the crowd erupted in applause. Applause for The Author lasted longer than any of the three would care for. Though, they couldn't possible care for any applause for that man.
Regina curled her hand into a fist that would probably have been covered in flames of she were in Storybrooke.
Killian stared hard at the author for a moment and walked forward or at least tried to walk forward. He was almost immediately stopped by a larger group of book carrying fans.
"Hey! Hey, what are you doing?" One of them yelled at Hook.
"Back of the line, jerk." Another helpfully added.
"What in the bloody realms is," Killian started but was cut off suddenly by Emma.
"Sorry, this is his first book signing." She told them. Her terse tone made them hesitate to try and argue anymore.
"Whatever." The first one mumbled as Emma led Kilian back to their spot and a heavily frowning Regina.
"We're actually going to wait behind these, these...what did you call these people? Bloody groupies?" Hook asked Emma. His impatience leaking into his voice.
"This isn't the Enchanted Forest." Emma told him "We can't do anything with all these people out here unless you feel like getting arrested."
"You have so many bloody rules in this land. You might as well take away my other hand." Hook complained.
"You're going to need that soon enough." Emma looked around and finally noticed that a certain evil queen was missing. "Where's Regina?"
Hook glanced around himself. "If she's trying to get in front of those animals, I wish her luck."
Emma saw a familiar head of black hair and grabbed her shoulder to come face to face with someone was definitely not Regina. Though, the woman was wearing an I Love Regina pin.
"Sorry, I thought you were someone...else." She apologized.
"Oh, it's fine. Hey, do you want a pin? I got a deal by ordering in bulk. I have like a thousand of these." The Regina look-a-like asked her and didn't wait to to put one in Emma's hand.
"Um, thanks." Emma said to the already moving on woman.
A blaring noise suddenly rang over the crowd accompanied with flashing red lights.
"Fire alarm!" someone shouted from across the room. People seemed to deflate in the hall and complained as they were ushered out of the room by security guards. None of them acted more concerned about burning to death than missing out on their hero.
"I smell no smoke." Hook said to Emma as they tried their best to make their way to the front of the room.
"Yeah, neither do I but I do think that I've found Regina." Emma told him and pointed to an actually familiar figure approaching the Author from the side.
"Bloody, hell. That woman moves fast." Hooks said to an already gone Emma. She moved just as quickly forward to her unlucky target. The author was going to get a wake up call from the nice bedtime story he had written himself.
The alarms on the wall covered up Isaac's pleas as the Emma and Killian joined Regina in their somewhat discreet cornering and dragging of him into the hall and then into a randomly chosen supply room.
Emma was the first to let loose when the door slammed, leaving them with only boxes as witnesses. She finally got to do what she had when wanting to do since the moment she had gotten out of his newest piece. She punched him in the face.
It might not have been her most graceful punch but the fist on face sound made it the most satisfying.
Isaac fell back from the punch onto one of the boxes. It took him a couple of frantic seconds to pull himself back up and straighten his coat.
"Okay, okay." Isaac started. "I understand that you are probably upset at the moment but really this is all quite funny when you think about it."
"Funny. You think this is funny. Some big joke, huh." Regina said to him with a stare promising a slow death.
"Look, you got out of that story so really the score is settled. I'll go on my way and you go on your's. This doesn't need to get messy.
"The only thing messy about this situation will be your pitiful screams if you don't tell me where my son is right now."
The evil queen was coming out right in front of Isaac and she meant business. Pulling the fire alarm instead of actually burning the building down had already left her boiling. No one. No one kept her son away from her. This had gone on long enough.
Killian kept to the side of the two mother bears, though, he too only wanted to recover the boy.
Emma clutched her fists and considered punching the man again. Although, Regina's speech had probably made him more scared than her beating.
The reality of the situation crashed onto the author as he realized the implications of what he had done.
"Your son?" He asked, hoping that maybe, just maybe, they meant any other boy than the one he thought they meant.
"Henry." Emma practically spit at him.
"Henry. You, you have to understand that this was moving personal. It was a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes." He pleaded.
"Where is he?" Regina demanded, unease was apparent in her voice.
"Rumplestiltskin hadn't had me include him in Heroes and Villains so I didn't know what to do with him." The author told them.
"Where is he." Emma echoed Regina quietly.
"He was going to ruin my chance at a happy ending." Isaac was back to pleading. Sweat gathered on his brow.
"Where is he." Emma exploded.
"Henry is gone." Isaac whispered. "Your son is gone."
It was like the oxygen in the room had been set on fire for the two mothers.
Cliffhangers. As evil as they are fun.