Emma had been sitting alone in her bedroom for almost three days now, the only time she would come out was when she had to eat or go to the bathroom. Both Henry and Killian thought it was kind of strange but didn't say much about it, instead they were trying their best to get to know eachother even better. It had been a bit awkward at first, but after a few hours the tention had lightened up and they had actually had some really good moments together. Although Killian didn't like sleeping on the couch now that he had gotten used to the bed, it was way to cold without Emma. That was why he was really surprised when she suddently bursted out of her room at eight o'clock in the morning, and not just because it was a very sudden way to wake up.
"I've got it."
"Got what?"
Killian made an effort and sat up, gently rubbing the back of his head where he felt a soft ache that he didn't know where it came from. Emma walked up to him with a serious look on her face.
"Rumple captured Elsa in an urn once before right? So who is to say he can't do it again, but in something that is impossible to open?"
"And what would that be Swan?"
"Well, I was thinking something like... Pandoras Box."
Even though Rumplestilitskin had been awake for an hour, he was still lying there in bed next to Belle who was still sleeping. Normally he would have gone up right when he woke up, but ever since Elsa said those things about killing everyone he loved he had gotten even more protective and appriciating of his new wife. He could lie right here in bed all day and just watch her sleep and be completely fine with it. She was the most beautiful thing on earth and nothing and no one was going to take her away from him. Not even Elsa. Therefore he would have to come up with a good plan as soon as possible. Fortunately he had Emma and her family to help him. Hook would probably help him too, even if it was more for Belle's sake than his owns, but in this matter all help was wanted, even if it came from the one who stole Bae's mother away. Lately, Bae had been filling his fathers head more than usual, he often thought of the strong love he felt for his son that was so very different from the one he felt for Belle. It had begun to feel a bit tempting to feel that kind of love again somehow. Another child. The thought got Rumple scared to the bone, he didn't want another weakness added to the list that had grown quite long during these two years, but still he would like to try. After lying there in his bed thinking about it for another ten minutes he decided that it was something he should talk to Belle about, maybe not today but still soon. Very soon. Suddently his thoughts were interrupted by something unusual happened; the house phone was ringing.
This time there was no use in summoning the entire town, the only ones needed were already there: Rumplestilitskin, Emma Swan, The Charmings (along with baby Neal), Regina and Killian Jones or Captain Hook as some still called him. They had all agreed not to tell Henry, not only because he was at Grace's house today and Jefferson was looking after them, but also because neither one of Emma and Regina wanted to risk him getting hurt in any way. Emma had just finished explaining her plan to the group an was now looking around at their stunned faces, Snow White was the first one to say anything.
"So you want to trap Elsa in Pandoras Box? Isn't that a bit... harsch? I mean she has been locked up for what, a hundred years?"
"She said that she'd kill everyone he loves and that is also a lot of people that I care about too and I'm not going to let anyone of them get hurt."
Everyone in the room was looking at Emma was a hint of concern in their eyes, or was it fear? She couldn't be sure, those two emotions looked very much alike when people were trying to be sublte with them but Emma didn't care about their emotions because their looks mostly got her annoyed.
"What? You guys had no problem locking Pan up in there!"
"Well that's because we had no choice, he was putting up another curse. In Storybrooke. This time we're talking about a girl that is out for revenge, that's far from the worst thing we've handled."
"Really? That's what you're doing? You're comparing situations?"
"Well, it's a good way to see how grave a situation we've got here."
Suddently Rumplestiltskin, who had been sitting silent on his chair ever since he got there, actually said something outloud.
"I agree with Ms. Swan. Locking her up has worked before, why wouldn't it work again?"
"Thank you."
"Hold on dearie, I wasn't finished, because I also agree with Snow. Locking her up in Pandoras Box, that's way too cruel. That was only for Pan, beacuse he was the only one who'd done things awful enough to actually deserve it. This, this is just a girl that has no idea what she's doing. It's much easier."
"So, we lock her up, but in what?"
It sort of felt like David had been waiting for the opportunity to say something that sounded sort of smart, only this didn't. It was just a sentence summorizing all that Rumple had just said in a question that no one answered by the way. They all just looked at eachother. All except for Regina who was gently rubbing her stomach Emma wanted to ask why, but something told her that this wasn't the best time to think about Reginas stomach problems. Instead she kept quiet and thought of what she was going to cook for dinner tonight, it felt nice to think of something normal for once, even though the circumstances were completel unnormal.
