The Queen Is Dead

Later that day, Mary Margaret was telling David and Gwen, Fallon, and Tamera about the phone call she got from Emma. They found Rumpelstiltskin's son and it turned out to be Henry's father! "So, Rumpelstiltskin is Henry's grandfather?" asked Tamera.

"Apparently," said Mary Margaret.

"But I'm his grandfather," said David.

"You can have more than one."

"So his…step-grandmother is Regina, the Evil Queen," said Fallon.

"Actually, his step-great-grandmother," said Tamera, "And she's also his adoptive mother."

"It's a good thing we don't have Thanksgiving in our land, because that dinner would suck," said David.

"Or, maybe this will mellow everyone out."

"I don't know Mare…" said Gwen, "I think it would be a very long time before we can all sit down at a table and have a dinner like one big happy family…."

The next day, Gwen, Tamera and Fallon were walking to the front door of the Sheriff's station. "So?" asked Tamera to Gwen, "How was your date with Archie last night."

Gwen smiled, "It was good. We had dinner at his place and watched a movie on Netflix."

"I'll tell you," said Fallon, "If anyone would have told me back home, that you would be dating Jimmy Cricket. I would have said they were crazy. But you guys seem so great together."

Gwen smiled again, "Archie is such a great guy. I guess I kind of have to thank Regina for casting the curse... Without it he would still be a cricket."

The three women walked into the office and saw David laying on the floor. "David!" They said as they rushed to his side and started to try to wake him up, "David?!"

He groaned as he woke up, "What happened?"

"Hook. He ambushed me," he said, as he started to get up.

"Are you okay?" asked Gwen.

"I'm fine. It's not me he wants. It's Gold," he looked in Emma's office and saw Hook's fake hand on Emma's desk, "…and his hook. Yeah, I'm going to enjoy throwing his ass in jail."

David sat down in a chair just as Mary Margaret walked in. She saw the mark on her husband's head, "What happened?"

"Hook ambushed him before we got here," said Fallon, "We were just about to head out to try and find him."

"Hook isn't the problem," said Mary Margaret.

"Tell that to my head," said David.

"It's Regina. She's been lying to us. She's working with Cora to find Gold's dagger."

"The dagger controls him," said Gwen, "If Cora gets it, she can force Gold and all his power to do her bidding."

"Or… Become the Dark One herself," said Mary Margaret.

"Neither one of those options sounds good," said Tamera.

David stood up, "Lucky for us, we can call the man himself. He's with Emma." He went to dial the phone.

"Tried it. Sent a message."

"Well, we can't just wait," said David, as he hung the phone up.

"No, we have to buy time until they call us back or return," said Mary Margaret.

"How?" asked Fallon.

"Regina. She doesn't trust her mother," said Mary Margaret, "Never has. If we can put some doubt in her about Cora's motives, it might slow them down."

"And you think she'll just trust you?" asked David.

"Well, she doesn't need to trust me. She just has to listen to me. And I know how to get her to do that."

Mary Margaret had called Regina and told her that she had heard from Henry and wanted to meet at Granny's to talk. When Regina got there Mary Margaret told Regina that she knew about her and her mother teaming up and that Cora didn't care about her or Henry and was only using her. Regina told Mary Margaret that if she knew what was good for her she would stay out of her and her mother's way. Mary Margaret went back to the Sheriff's station and told the others what happened. They decided they needed help. So, they headed to the convent to talk to Mother Superior. When they got there Mother Superior was already outside, "Mother Superior! We need your help," said Mary Margaret.

"I know. Something's wrong," she said, "I sense a great deal of dark magic has been expelled."

"That's why we're here," said Gwen, "Cora and Regina are trying to find Gold's dagger."

"So they may control The Dark One."

"We're hoping your magic will find the dagger first," said Mary Margaret. "Please, Mother Superior, you're our only hope."

A little while later they were all standing outside Mr. Gold's shop. Mother Superior, used her wand, to open the lock but her wand dropped from her hand as she felt a magical feedback, "Ah! He's cast a protection spell," said Mother Superior.

"Well, then we need to try something equally powerful," said Mary Margaret.

"Dark magic?" asked David.

"Dear, you don't know what you're saying."

"Cora can't get that dagger," said Mary Margaret, "If dark magic is the only thing that can break that protection spell, we need to make an exception and use it. Just like you told me once before."

Mother Superior was shocked, "What… I never told you any such thing."

"Look, I kept your secret."

Mother Superior looked insulted by Mary Margaret's insinuation. Just then David's cell phone rang. He took it out and saw it was Emma, "Everybody hold on," he said, "Emma? What have you got? It's where?" He looked up at the clock above the library.

David, Mary Margaret, Gwen, Tamera and Fallon climbed the steps inside the clock tower until they reached the clock itself. David took a pane of glass off the clock face and the dagger was attached to the minute hand of the clock, "It's here!"

"A clever hiding place for a very clever man," said Gwen as David removed the dagger from the hand of the clock. Then, he handed it to Mary Margaret.

"We did it," she said.

"The Dark One finally can be controlled," said Fallon.

Just then they heard Cora's voice, "Indeed he can be. But by whom?"

The looked up and saw Cora and Regina magically appear in a puff of purple smoke.

"Cora…" said Mary Margaret.

"You're too late," said Tamera.

"Actually, it seems that we found you just in time," said Cora.

Mary Margaret looked at Regina, "I told you to pick your side carefully. Good has won, just as it always does."

"I think the day's finally come, my darling Snow, for you to learn a long overdue lesson," said Cora. She waved her hand and Johanna magically appeared.

"Johanna!" said Mary Margaret.

"You see, in the end, it isn't good or evil that wins… But power."

Regina stuck her hand through Johanna's chest and pulled out her heart, "Your choice."

"Do not harm her," said Mary Margaret, "She has nothing to do with this."

"Of course she does," said Cora.

"Whatever they want, Snow, don't give it to them," said Johanna.

"Quiet, handmaid."

David drew his gun and pointed it at Cora. Gwen, Tamera and Fallon took their Jewels off their belts and they started to glow with magic "Mother, watch out," warned Regina.

Cora then magically knocked the gun and Jewels out of their hands, "Leave me, Snow!" said Johanna. Regina started to squeeze Johanna's heart and she started to yell in pain.

"Enough of this," said Cora, "Surrender the dagger. We all know you'll follow your mother's example, no matter the cost. All she ever wanted was for you to be good."

"Those words," said Mary Margaret, "Where did you hear those words?"

"Where do you think?"

"The Blue Fairy made me swear never to speak of that candle again. Not because it was a secret… But because it wasn't her."

"The dagger, dear."

"She didn't give me that candle. You did. My mother wasn't sick at all, was she?"

"Oh, she was quite sick."

"You did all of this. You killed my mother!"

"Actually, the candle would've worked. You could've saved her."

"But you knew I wouldn't. Why? Why did you take her from me?"

"To make my daughter the Queen."

"Hand over the dagger," said Regina.

"No. No," said Mary Margaret, "I will not let you win. Not again!"

"You've already lost your mother," said Cora, "How many connections to her do you have left? Not many, I'd wager."

"If we give up the dagger, we can still win," said David.

"Let me go, Snow. It's alright," said Johanna. Then, Regina squeezed Johanna's heart again.

"What would she say if she could see you now?" asked Cora, "If she wasn't dead" Regina continues to squeeze Johanna's heart and she yelled out again in pain, "The dagger, dear."

"Enough!" shouted Mary Margaret. Then she threw the dagger to the ground. Regina released her grip on Johanna's heart.

Cora magically brought the dagger to her hand, "Such a good girl."

"You have what you came for," said Gwen.

Regina put Johanna's heart back into her chest. Johanna then rushes over to the small group. Then Cora said, "Not quite everything." Cora then magically threw Johanna through the face of the clock and fell to the sidewalk below. Mary Margaret looked of the broken clock face and started to cry at the side of her old friend dead on the street below. David, Gwen, Tamera and Fallon wrapped her in a group hug to try and comfort her.

"Well, there you go. You see where good gets you?" asked Regina, then she and her mother disappeared in puff of purple smoke.

Mary Margaret, David, Gwen, Fallon and Tamera were at the graveyard. Mary Margaret was planting flowers of Johanna's grave, "It was a beautiful service," said Tamera.

"That never should've happened," said Mary Margaret, "Johanna was an innocent."

"You can't blame yourself, Mare," said Gwen, "You did the best you could do in an impossible situation."

"And yet, Regina's family mausoleum remains untouched."

"Mary Margaret…" said David.

"I've had the same rule my entire life," said Mary Margaret, "hold on to goodness. It's what my mother taught me. How many more lives is following that lesson going to take away from me?"

"You can't let Cora make you lose faith in who you are," said Fallon, "someone who does the right thing. You know, that's exactly what she wants."

"I made the 'right' decision, when I stopped Regina's execution all those years ago. When it could've saved us all of this heartache. I made the 'right' decision, when I sent Emma through the wardrobe alone, and we didn't see her first steps. I made the 'right' decision, when I let my own mother die from Cora's poison."

"And we keep beating them," said David.

"At what cost?" asked Mary Margaret, "All I want is our happy ending. It's time. We've earned it. No more lives lost. No more hearts broken."

"The dagger is useless until Gold returns to Storybrooke," said Gwen, "We have time. We'll get it back. And when we do, we can bring Cora and Regina to justice."

"I don't care about justice anymore. We keep thinking that people will change. What if that's wrong? What if I'm the one who has to change?"

"Change how?" asked David.

"I'm going to kill Cora," stated Mary Margaret.

David, Gwen, Tamera and Fallon all looked at each other. They had never heard Snow White talk like that... And it scared them...

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