Chapter Twenty-Two: The New Danger
Jack and River returned to the TARDIS console room, leaving Snow and Emma to talk with Aurora about the dream she had about Henry. River couldn't get her mind off of the bizarre nature of the occurrence. It certainly wasn't coincidence in her mind. It was definitely a form of magic or sorcery that she had yet to figure out, much like all the other magic of that land.
Even Jack had trouble figuring it all out, which seemed to have made him frustrated. "How does she meet someone in a dream who she's never even met in reality?"
"I don't know."
"I-Is it even a dream or is it some type of premonition?"
"I don't know."
"Does this mean we have another way back to Storybrooke?"
His questions only frustrated her. "Why the hell are you asking me?"
"Because in the hundred years I've been trapped here – because of that damned Weeping Angel – I haven't seen anything like this. You've been here, too…you know just as much of the tricks of the trade…all the weirdness that goes on."
"That doesn't mean I have a clue how Aurora's able to see Henry in her dream any more than you. This is new to me as well, Jack. But the real question we should be focusing on is how you know of a way for us to return to Storybrooke with just the compass."
Jack sighed and shook his head with a chuckle, almost completely forgetting about the said compass that had been sitting in his coat pocket ever since he and Emma left the giant's lair. Pulling the compass out, he explained to River, "This compass has magical capabilities – ones that even the TARDIS is more than qualified of handling. What if we combine the magic of this compass with the technology of the TARDIS to guide us back to Storybrooke?"
"And how do you suppose that will work?"
Harkness shrugged, circling the hexagonal console. "I don't know for sure. This TARDIS is like…it looks so funky…and retro!"
"I like it." River smugly said.
"Well, it makes my plan difficult to put into action. Before it became all of this, it was as simple as putting the item right on this console…" He demonstrated by holding the compass close to the control console, "…and bam!"
At the moment Jack made the exclamation, the compass suddenly magnetized itself onto the TARDIS control console to Jack's immediate surprise. It was afterward when a massive tremor came over the room, knocking both River and Jack off their feet. As the both of them pulled themselves back up, River heard the all-too-familiar sound of the cloister bell. The distinctive, sonorous, ringing sound made Jack greatly cautious; he hadn't been inside the TARDIS enough times to ever hear it and know what it meant.
"What the hell is going on?" He yelled over the noise.
"Trouble," answered the heavily agitated River Song. "That's what the hell is going on…trouble."