Sorry that took a bit longer than I excepted. But the semester and I only have one more until I am done. But now the continuation of the story. I'll try not to crush you as much as the winter finale crushed me. Please review, I love them. Here is my Christmas present to you, a review could be a Christmas present to me. Enjoy, and if there is something you don't like let me know so that I can try to improve.
Just trust me.
Hook's words rang in her mind "just trust me, we are a team". She had gone her life not trusting, all it had gotten her was pain and loss and now a pirate was asking for her trust. They had been an okay team, traveling through the magical land of Oz, but then he was standing next to the crazy man Peter acting like he was on his team and now she found herself in a dungeon. And she had had enough of it, of this quest with him.
She looked up at him and his charming smirk and grabbed the edge of his vest dragging him into one of nearby cells.
"Well now Regina if you wanted me alone all you had to do is ask." Hook said as he only pressed his body closer to her.
Regina pushed him away, "I have had enough of your attitude, now yes I thought maybe we could have been a team and it would have worked out, but you can't say that to me now. Because we were a team but now you are with Mr. Crazy upstairs and I am in a dungeon with this thing on my wrist again…do you recall what happened the last time I was wearing this?" Regina asked as she shook her wrist angrily in Hook's face.
"Regina, you're right, I'm sorry but you have to believe me we are still a team I'm just trying you help you."
"You're trying to help me, I repeat I am in a dungeon. Are you working with him or not?" Regina asked impatiently.
"It's complicated." Hook said, a look of guilt on his face.
"It's complicated is a phrase that is only used as a screen to hide lies, I've had enough lies in my life."
"He was threatening you because of magic, so with the bracelet he can't hurt you, he can control magic but if yours' is blocked then he can't hurt you and then I can fight back, we can fight back."
"Without my powers?" Regina asked.
"They weren't working that well before, and now we know why right? It is because he is controlling the magic."
Regina looked up with a new look of clarity.
"Regina what is it?" Hook asked.
"You can't just control magic…a man like him can't just control magic, I can't control magic like that, not other's people's magic."
"Well then what exactly is happening?" Hook asked.
"He poisoned the well, I knew it was technically possible but never knew of any cases but Peter did it, the Home Office probably used their same resources that made this stupid bracelet to make the poison. It is leaching out into the magic. Oz is a source that feeds other lands like the Enchanted Forest which then goes to Storybrooke so he could…oh my God."
"What is it?" Hook asked.
"He could control it all, control us all, he could kill everyone who has magic or control them, the good and the bad. It was once considered in the magical realm that the Dark One was above all untouchable, but now he could even be crushed, but this changes everything. Any mad man with the right poison can do anything and it seems like one mad man has."
"So what do we do?" Hook asked.
"We're going to stop him and save magic, and you are going to go upstairs and play his right hand man and learn more about what his is doing." Regina said, her voice confident.
"So we are still a team?" Hook asked.
"Yes we are still a team, so go and do your job and let me scheme, I'm quite good at it." Regina said.
Hook nodded and turned around and closed the door to the cell leaving Regina surrounded my darkness.
Regina sat down, leaning her head against the wall, it was cold. She had never before been in somewhere more dank more cold. For some reason Regina couldn't help feel her current situation somehow mirror her current location, cold and somewhat hopeless. She had faced a lot of battles in her life, she was never one to back down but she had never faced a magical battle without magic.
"Regina what do you think you are doing this is not a place for a Queen." A cold voice came from the darkness.
"Quite a battle you are facing dearie" Came another voice, with a tauntingly sing song tone.
"Mom, I miss you please come home." Came a voice that Regina had been missing from the moment she had left Storybrooke.
"You're not real, you're not here." Regina said, her voice strong trying to mask her confusion and sense of being lost that she hadn't been able to shake since landing in Oz.
"Oh no we are here dearie"
"Now what are you going to do about it?" Asked a cold voice as her mother's form stepped into a shred of light that is in the dark room, Rumplestiltskin and Henry following shortly after.