Time to Go pt 5

Regina paces back and forth as sleeping Mary-Margaret wrestles with herself. Regina is about to wake her when Emma appears. "Uh-uh, Regina. We have a deal."

Regina cringes, she remembers her deals with Rumpelstiltskin. She never seemed satisfied with any of them. "Deals with you Emma bring a lot of heartache. I can't believe you are going to allow this terrible thing to happen."

"Be grateful that I am sparing you. I don't want to see Henry alone. I know you'll take care of him. But be warned, if that snowglobe isn't destroyed, the creature I'm sending with you will take your life. I have no control over it once it is let loose."

Regina nods. "I actually feel bad for Snow. I wanted her dead many times, but knowing what you have planned is worse than anything I could invent. You are truly dark, Emma." A smirk forms. "What are you going to do to your pirate?"

Emma smiles devilishly. "I'm not going to kill him. But he is going to suffer for what has happened. What he did is unforgivable." Emma transformed her outfit into black leather pants, leather vest and a black long-sleeved collared shirt. Fitting for the Dark One. A bit of shimmer and shine along her neck and fingertips that is very noticeable and Regina takes special interest.

"What is that, Emma? The gold flakes on your skin? It reminds me of Rumpelstiltskin's Dark One? Are you finally becoming him?"

Emma turns around so Regina can't look. "Becoming him? You best be going, Regina, before I change my mind. Find the Dark Faerie's wand where I told you to look and say my name three times. That will take you to Storybrooke."

"Goodbye, Emma." Regina walks away.

Emma kneels down before her mother. "Now, Mom, what you say we begin this game?"

Henry closes his eyes and takes a deep breath. "Emma Swan, are you here?"

"Of course I am, Henry."

"Mom, does this forest ever end?"

"No. It goes on forever. But there are dangers out there, Henry. You need to leave. Go home." Henry rushes towards her but she puts an invisible shield between them. "Henry, it isn't safe for you. Go back with Regina. I've told her how to leave."

"Come with us."

"I can't do that."

"When can you do that?" Henry is very persistent, he tries to reach out to her.

"I don't know, Henry."

"At least you can be honest with me. Don't lie about your future. I know that you know what's going to happen to you."

She waves away the invisible shield and embraces Henry. "Rumpelstiltskin saw into his future and saw what needed to be done. I guess you can say I sort of caught a glimpse into the future and saw what needs to be done to me."

"You're not going to kill yourself. I won't let you."

'Oh, Henry," she takes Henry's face into her hands and kisses his forehead, "I am not going to kill myself. I'm going to kill the light inside me. The darkness is growing. It needs more of me. I have become its true vessel. I am its true source of power. You don't understand how it feels." Her voice is changing. It is becoming intense, sensuous, ravaging. "The darkness flows through me, constantly flowing and pulling me closer to…"

"Mom?"

Emma comes out of the strong hold that is over her. "Henry." She suddenly grabs Henry and pulls him close to her. With a true panic in her voice, "Henry, you get out of here. I can't hold it back. I don't want to hurt you. Please, go."

"Okay, Mom. Promise me though, promise me that you will try to fight it. There are those who still love you."

Emma is starting to struggle with herself. The pull of darkness is wearing her down. "I promise, Henry. Go."

He slips away from her grip and she starts to weep. The tears dry up fast as a vicious look springs upon her face.

Regina and Henry find each other, exchange information they are allowed to share, and instantly hug. As Henry accepts what Regina was told to do, he offers another plan of attack against the darkness. "The dagger. We need to find it and find a way to destroy it. There has to be a way."

"I'm sure there is. And if there is, we will find it. But the dagger is well hidden somewhere in this world."

"I'm starting to think it isn't."

"What do you mean?"

"He means that the dagger is inside the Enchanted Forest, near the Dark One's vault," August says. He steps in closer but is still wary. "I am sure Emma is on her way to Killian right now so I can speak a little freely. Emma is very clever and she wouldn't risk her dagger being here in case we stumbled upon it."

"We are going back to Storybrooke," Regina says.

"No, you aren't. We are heading to the Enchanted Forest."

"How do you know?"

"Because Emma let something slip."

Killian plays with his hook. He stops when he feels he isn't alone. "Emma, is that you?"

"It's still me," Emma says as she appears before him. She is dressed in a silky black dress that Killian can't take his eyes off of. She hesitates at falling into his arms.

Killian resists the urge to grab her and kiss her because he is so upset that she has embraced the darkness. "Emma, why have you done this?"

"This is who I was meant to be. It was inevitable. Merlin's prophecy, it is all crap. This is who I needed to become. Not the savior. The Dark One."

Killian can't help himself. He rushes towards her and brings her into his arms. She nuzzles against his neck. He pulls himself away and looks into her eyes. "I went blindly into a portal after you, and now I'm in this bloody cursed world of yours, and still I'd go through whatever you asked me to. If only to hear you say…"

She silences his words with a finger against his lips. "You know, I meant when I said I love you. It doesn't change my feelings towards you being the Dark One. In fact, it enhances them, a lot." She puts her arms around him and pulls him closer to her. "You can kiss me. I won't poison you."

He can't resist her. He puts his hand gently around the back of her neck and they touch lips, softly at first, then they both let go of their restraints and enter into a passionate kissing match. She is forceful, he is catching up. When they part she winks at him. "I definitely need to keep you around." She walks away, kind of swishing her hips like a female cat in heat. "Coming, Captain?" She wiggles her finger behind her, indicating for him to follow.

Killian catches up to her and puts his arm around her. "Emma, where are we going?"

"We are here."

Killian looks through the bushes and sees David and Mary-Margaret standing there talking. The same conversation they had when he realized that she was the love of his life. "We've seen this before. What is the meaning of this, Swan?"

"Just watch. I find it quite enjoyable."

As David watches Snow put on the ring and he realizes that she is the one for him, Snow turns and runs off with the pouch of jewels and the gold coins and the ring. David is about to run after her when King Midas shows up, accuses him of betraying his daughter, and turns David into a gold statue.

Emma laughs madly. Almost like Rumpelstiltskin laughed when he was the Dark One. "Emma, what have you done?"

"There are no happy endings in my world." She continues laughing.

David, the gold statue, is carried away by some of Midas's men. Killian now understands how deep he is in this pretend world of Emma's.