So guys I know I haven't updated in a while and I wanted to say I am sorry. Life had gotten too busy and it's been difficult to find a time to write. Don't worry I know how the story will end and it will eventually. Just give me some time and I promise that everyone will get what they deserve.
Storybrooke
"No luck," Emma hanged up her phone for the third time. Mary Margaret was supposed to meet them at the clock tower half an hour ago. Maleficent knew this was a bad idea to let Snow help, something always went wrong when Snow was involved.
"Figures," Maleficent said in an unamused tone.
"Hey! That's my mom," Emma replied defensively.
"I know," Maleficent rolled her eyes.
"You know you could be a little grateful that we're helping you."
"We wouldn't be here if your mother didn't take my daughter," Maleficent was equally, if not more, annoyed as Emma. How hard was it to find two women in this small town? Instead they lost another one.
"Look," Emma took a deep breath to try to calm herself down, "fighting won't help. I'm going to make a call to see if we can get some more people to help and even a few to find my mom," Emma unlocked her phone and started to go through her contacts.
"Mother I would listen to her," both Maleficent and Emma quickly turned around to see Morgan standing behind them. "We're in big trouble," he handed Maleficent a necklace. She had sworn that she had seen it before, but forgot where. "That's Sophie's. I found it in the woods," instantly Maleficent remembered where she saw it. It was only a few days ago when she first saw her at the shop. God, that felt like a lifetime ago. Maleficent couldn't believe that she didn't put two and two together and realized that was Evie. She should had known then maybe they wouldn't be in this mess. "I think the Evil Queen got her. She would never take this off."
"Is that Lily's shell?" Maleficent's fingers traced the crescent shape fragment of the dragon shell. She couldn't believe Evie had this. Morgan nodded his head.
"I'll use a locator spell to see if I can find them," reluctantly, Maleficent handed the necklace back to her son. "I'll be back," with that, he was gone in a puff of orange smoke before she had a chance to tell him to be safe. She had to hope he would find them safe and sound. Either way, she knew she had to tell Regina what was going on.
"Emma, do you think," Maleficent didn't had a chance to finish as she saw Emma on her phone.
"Way ahead of you," she handed the phone to Maleficent. Her heart began to flutter as she heard Regina's voice on the small device. Maleficent began to explain what happened. How Snow was missing, the Evil Queen might have Evie, and how Morgan found a way to find Lily and Evie. Regina blamed herself for leaving during their search and told Maleficent about her niece. Maleficent understood and told her it was fine. Then a beep came from the phone. Maleficent pulled the phone away from her ear. It was from Snow, telling them that she would be there soon.
"I'll be there," Regina said before she hanged up the phone. Something in their gut told them that something wasn't right. Not a moment after they hanged up Regina appeared before the two blondes. Maleficent wished Morgan would come back and tell them where the girls were. Regina went over to Maleficent and grabbed her hand. Her thumb moved over the back of her hand as she told Maleficent that everything was going to be okay. This small gesture, for a moment, made Maleficent believe in Regina. That they would find the girls and stop the Evil Queen once and for all.
"Well isn't this precious," all three of them turned around to see the Evil Queen standing in front of the clock tower. "Everyone is here including Ms. Swan," she pointed at Emma. "Now the real fun can begin," she walked towards them. Then it hit Maleficent, and she could see Emma put two and two together, this was a trap.
"What have you done with Mary Margaret?" Emma angrily asked. Maleficent knew Emma was upset but she needed to keep her cool.
"She's close. And will remain unharmed if you do exactly what I tell you," the Evil Queen replied cooly.
"I would listen to her Emma," Maleficent's heart dropped when she heard that voice. No, it couldn't be. They couldn't be too late. But they were and Maleficent realized this when she saw her daughter walked out of an alley besides the clock tower and stood beside the Evil Queen.
"Lily?" Emma asked, unsure if it was her. Maleficent prayed that this was one of the Evil Queen's tricks and her daughter was far away from this.
"Lily what are you doing with her? Get away from her," Regina yelled as she got one of her fire balls ready to attack her evil self.
"No," Lily said defiantly. "She's not as evil as you said she is. She's trying to help me," Maleficent knew this was a lie. Both she and Regina knew how Regina was like in the Enchanted Forest. She cared more about her revenge than anything else, including family. The Evil Queen might had denied that idea, but her actions spoke loud and clear. Revenge was more important than her loved ones.
Maleficent did not know what the Evil Queen did to her daughter, but she was sure that she would fight for her.
Enchanted Forest
The fallen rocks blocked her path to her child. Heartbroken that the Charmings would take her child, Maleficent used what little magic she had left to clear her path. All she could think about was what the Charmings were planning to do with her child. Maleficent wasn't naïve, she knew there were tons of spells that required baby parts, and even more powerful ones that involved dragon babies. No doubt they made a deal with that imp to insure that their daughter won't be like Maleficent. A villain.
She kept blasting at the rock wall with little avail. But she wouldn't stop. Not for her child. Happy endings may not be for villains, but everything Maleficent had been through she deserved her child. Maleficent had never told Evie, but she did have dreams of her child. A beautiful little girl that had Regina's hair and eyes. Everything else about the child screamed Maleficent. The child was no more than five years of age. She would smile that mischievous grin to Maleficent and she would know everything would be okay.
Maleficent may had not the power to see into the future, but she knew that what the future would hold if she would leave with Evie and Regina. If she had her child, whether it be a boy or girl.
She would not give up on her child, not when they needed her. Then, with one final blast, the rocks blocking her path were blasted to smithereens. Maleficent did not wait for the smoke to clear, she ran out of the cave. Her body told her to stop and rest, but she refused to listen. She didn't care that her body still aches from laying her egg a day earlier, she wanted her child.
Maleficent suddenly stopped as she saw Evie at the mouth of the cave. Her heart was caught in her throat. The young girl's eyes were red as if she was crying. Something was terribly wrong.
"Maleficent, I'm sorry. I couldn't save them," Evie absent mindly shook her head slowly.
"Evie what happened?" Maleficent was afraid and was not prepared for what the young witch would say.
"When I was coming back," Evie took a deep breath to try to calm herself down, "I saw Snow, her prince, this old man, and the egg." Her breath became more rapid as fresh tears threaten to fall. "I'm sorry Maleficent. I wasn't fast enough."
"Evie what happened?" Maleficent had to know what happened to her child, even if it would kill her.
"It fell into this portal. I don't know where it went," Maleficent couldn't believe it. Her child was gone. Just like that. All her hopes and dreams for her child were crushed. She will never see her child grow up. Never see it fly. Never knowing if it was a boy or girl. Her child would never know who their family were.
"I'm sorry," Evie stood there, heartbroken, but nowhere as close as Maleficent. Normally Maleficent would comfort the child in her own way and ensure her that everything would be okay. Not this time. Everything was not okay. There was no going back. The Charming stole her child, and for what. To ensure that their child would be a hero. They were the true villains, not Maleficent.
"Mal," Evie took a step forward. Maleficent couldn't bear to look at her. Not after what she had just told her. Evie screwed up. Why wasn't she faster? Did she used her magic? She should had been there sooner. She should had been here with her and the baby. She should had waited a few days more or left a few days sooner.
"Go," Maleficent's voice betrayed her, letting Evie know just how broken she was on the inside.
"Just go," she yelled as Evie took another step close. She knew Evie wanted to help, but she couldn't. There was nothing she could do.
Evie flinched away from the harshness of Maleficent's voice. "Mal please, we can fix this."
"Fix this?" Her voice grew with anger. "You stupid girl, this can't be fixed. My child is gone and it's thanks to your stupid sister." The hate she had for Stefan and his family could not compare to the hatred she had for Snow's and hers. Snow wanted nothing to do with Maleficent and refused to help her stop Regina. As much as she disagreed, Maleficent respected her wishes and left her alone. Why couldn't Snow returned the favor. Then a thought hit her. How did Snow know about the egg? The only ones who knew were Cruella and Ursula. Where they were at, who knows. But Maleficent was sure that neither one of them would talk to Snow, so it left her with only one other person.
"Did you tell her?" Fear was shown through Evie's eye at her assumption.
"No," she shook her head quickly. "No Maleficent I swear I didn't tell anyone. You have to believe me." Maleficent didn't want to hear any of it. She didn't want to listen anymore.
"No I don't. Get out," she growled as she headed back to the cave. She was done. Done with talking to Evie. Done with trying to be "good". Done trying to help Regina. She just wanted to be alone. Was that too hard to ask.
"But," Evie started, Maleficent wasn't having it.
"Get out," Maleficent may had raised her voice at Evie. She made had yelled at her in very rare occasion. Never had she ever screamed at her, until now. Shock, fear, sorrow was written all over the young witch's face as Maleficent turned to face her. "I don't want to see you," she roared.
"What about the plan?"
"Forget your stupid plan. I want no part of it," at that moment Maleficent didn't care about anything. She could care less about their plan to leave. It didn't matter, she lost her child and more likely she had lost Regina as well. It was losing Morgan all over again. Only this time it felt a hundred times worse.
"We have a magic bean. We can find your child. Just let me finish the potion and we can leave," Maleficent could see that Evie was trying to help, it was in her nature, but she couldn't. There was nothing Evie could do to make this better. They could not save her child like she could not save her son.
"You really think that would work?" Evie was for a loss of words. It was a slim to none chance that they would ever find her child. And the longer they took to find them the less likely they would be alive. "You said so yourself. You don't even know where my child is. You have nothing of theirs. A far as I know, my child is dead," Maleficent did the best to hold back the tears. Now was not the time to be weak. Not in front of Evie. "I'm warning for the last time Evelyn, get out," she growled. "Or I'll do something that we will both regret."
Maleficent would never harm Evie, she just couldn't handle the sight of her. She was everything she couldn't have and would never get another chance to have. Maleficent didn't have the heart to tell Evie that everything that she hoped for, everything that she dreamt about, would never come true. For if she did, then it would make all of this real.
Maleficent turned her back to the child, she wanted to get far away from there.
"Here," Maleficent stopped in her tracks. "Should you ever want to find me," Evie said. Maleficent waited till she no longer felt Evie's presence to turn around. Her eyes landed on the ground. Her necklace. Evie's necklace. Using her magic, Maleficent had the piece of jewelry in her hand without moving from her spot. Little did she know that this would be the last thing she would ever get from the young witch. Little did she know that would be the last time she would ever see her apprentice ever again.
Storybrooke
"Lily listen to me, you don't know what she is capable of," Regina pleaded to her daughter. They had to get through to her before it was too late.
"That's exactly what Evie told me, but she didn't want to listen to us."
"What did she do to her?" Regina feared that something happened to her eldest child, especially since she was in the Evil Queen's grasp. "What did you do to her?" Regina turned and faced her evil self when Lily refused to answer her.
"She's fine and so is mommy dearest," the Evil Queen looked at Emma, "if you listen to me." Regina knew this was a bad idea. She wished she knew what her evil half was planning. All she knew it involved her girls and Emma.
"What do you want?"
"It's not what I want, it's what she wants," the Evil Queen pointed to Lily. "Your mother and father transferred all your potential darkness into her, then banish her to another realm. All she wants is for your darkness to be out of her."
"Lily listen to me, if I could I would in a second," Emma tried to plead to Lily, trying to make her to see reason.
"Oh but you can," the Evil Queen interrupted before Emma could continue or Lily could speak. "Take this,"the Evil Queen pulled out a black vial from her jacket, "and all our problems will be solved."
"How do I know it will work?"
"You don't, but you are going to have to trust me like Lily does," the Evil Queen hands Lily a white vial.
"Lily don't listen to her. She's using you," Regina said. She had lost one daughter to her evil ways, she wasn't losing another.
"Like you did? Tell me Regina, do you remember when I first came to this town about a year ago. You remember the first thing you did to me?" Sadly Regina did remember. She wanted to get her happy ending and to do that she needed ink. The blood of the savior that was dark. Lily's blood. "You used me to write your happy ending. And you say I can't trust her. It looks like I can't trust you."
"Lily i didn't-"
"That doesn't make it better if you said you didn't know," Lily interrupted Regina. "I can't trust you. Any of you," Lily looked to Emma then Maleficent. "All I want is for this darkness to be gone," in that moment Regina could see Evie in her youngest daughter's eyes. The look of helplessness, lost, hurt. Regina was the reason for her daughter's pain, both of them. If she would had let her vengeance for Snow go, then Evie wouldn't had to fake her death. Regina could had a second chance with Maleficent and Lily if she allowed herself. Now she had lost her daughters and by the look of it, possibly Maleficent as well.
"Will you come home if you do?" Everyone turned to Emma. "Will you give them a second chance if I take that?" Emma pointed to the black vial in the Evil Queen's hand.
"Emma No!" Regina knew Emma was noble, but not stupid. Well not that stupid. Could she not see this was a trap? The Evil Queen didn't play fair.
"Will you Lily?" Emma asked again.
"What does it matters to you?" Regina could see that Lily was confused.
"You're my friend, of course it matters," Emma walked to Lily and the Evil Queen. "I know I haven't been a good one," Emma took the vial from the Evil Queen, "but if this can help you heal then I'll do it."
"Emma don't do this," Regina could see that she had hurt Lily's feelings. She didn't mean to, but she didn't want Emma to get hurt either. But Emma, being the hero she was, did not listen and raised the vial to her lips. Without a second thought, tilted her head and vial.
"Emma No!" But it was too late as Mary Margaret's voice ranged out to the street. Emma fell to the ground, unconscious.
So what did you guys think? Was it worth the wait? With that I will see you next time.