Only Human

by FoundersDaughter

Do you ever wonder what would have happened if after hearing the rumours of the Dark Ones True Love, Cora had gotten jealous and decided to manipulate circumstances to ensure there would be someone to kill them both? What if that someone only pretended to follow the commands Cora set, but was never going to complete them? After all they are Only Human.

1. Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I do not own OUAT or anything associated with it. So if you can recognise it, it certainly is not mine.

Prologue

He stared at her in shock. "What did you say?" He heard his son ask incredulously. His first apprentice and old lover laughed, "I said it's a shame that your sister isn't here. She could see how it's really done. After all I've taught her to kill the Dark One and his True Love, I'm here doing it myself, but what can I expect from the spawn of the Dark One's True Love?"

He blinked and tried to raise himself up from his position on the cot. "I never lay with her. The child can't be mine." He snapped out angry that someone had slept with his Love. She laughed again at his struggle and bound his son and the saviour in ropes on the floor. "Oh you did, I stole her away from her little travels and brought her to you making sure it was the optimum time for her to conceive a child. I enchanted the pair of you and stuck you in a room for a week."

She leant her hip against one of the cabinets in the backroom of his shop and smirked, "I don't think you came up for air until I stole her back. I made you both think that it had been a dream and healed your precious Love back to the way she had been before that little trip. I waited a few weeks to make sure that the baby was forming then when she was captured I stole the child from her womb, planted the little thing in a crystal of pure magic and watched as it began to grow."

"It was only when my daughter enacted that curse that I realised that I had to do something drastic to make sure that I could access the girl, so I pushed the crystal through a portal enchanting it to find a suitable host. I guess it worked as I found her when she was 9 and began to mould her to be the perfect little killer. Shame she's failed. I can't really say I am surprised as she did what no one thought you would. She found her true love. And he's here." She cackled out gasping as her daughter pushed her heart back into her chest.

She fell to the floor in pain, dropping the dagger to the floor as he began to breathe freely again. The wound in his chest healed as she lay dying in front of him. "You were my only Love." She whispered to him and he grabbed her face, "Where is she?" He hissed at her, and she choked out a laugh. "She always was his monster." She told him before whispering that she loved her daughter and her eyes closed.