P.O.V Change

(An Hour And A Half Later)

Regina stood in her office admiring the Magic Beans she'd managed to snag from the Bean Crop.

She smiled to herself deviously before she heard someone approaching from outside.
She turned and hurried back to her desk, stopping in front of it with an almost relieved look when she realised that it wasn't who she was expecting.

"Captain"

Hook entered the office and shut the door behind him.

"You look like you've had a rough time"

"Indeed I have" he answered her.

He walked forward looking tired, shaking his head as if to remove all inclinations of sleep.

"I've come to ask you for your protection"

Needless to say she was a little shocked by his forwardness and a little confused by it.

"From Gold?" she asked him as he moved further into the room to come to stand by her

"I'm surprised you'd show your face in this town, once you noticed your murder didn't take" she continued.

"Well, we've got bigger problems" he said seriously "That man Greg Mendell? The one who hit me the night I shot Belle?"

Regina was starting to look fed up. She knew everything about that already and was tired of continuously hearing about it...especially from Gold.

"Well, he's in league with some woman" Hook continued "She abducted me in New York and dragged me back to Mendell"

Regina was seriously disbelieving anything that was coming out of his mouth, but she listened intently all the same.

"They want me to make an alliance with you, and then betray you. That's why they let me go"

He could clearly see the gears turning in Regina's mind and willed himself to be more convincing, then she pulled a look that was akin to her mothers and he knew then he had won.

"And I say, let's you and I make an alliance and we'll...we'll skip the unpleasant betrayal business"

There was a momentary pause between the two

"Why should I trust you?" Regina finally questioned

"I took up with your mother for a reason. Perhaps the three of us could re-establish our alliance"

She looked at him angrily and then remembered he wouldn't know about Cora, seeing as he'd run off to New York at the time.

"My mother died" she stated, trying her hardest not to crack all over again.

Hook looked as if he'd been slapped in the face.

"Well, that is sad news indeed. I'm sorry. She will be missed. I will tell you this, Regina. I knew her well enough to know that what she wanted most in the world was to see you win"

"You do realise you say 'indeed' quite a lot" said a voice from the table behind him. Both Regina and Hook quickly manoeuvred to stare at this strange person clad in dark blues, greens and browns and sporting a black hood and mask.

"Is it like your favourite word or something?"

"Who're you?" Regina said forcefully

"I'm no-one really. Just chilling, that's all"

"How did you even get in here?"

"How do you think?"

The stranger clapped their hands and was gone from sight in an instant.
The two stared at where the person had once been in awe.

"You do realise I already know what's going on don't you?" said the stranger from behind them, making them turn so quick that Hook had to steady Regina as she almost slipped on the tiled floor.

"And what's going on?" Hook asked her emotively.

The stranger smiled "What makes you think I'll say? You're the ones that have to find out for yourselves, I'm just Watching" they said and with another clap of their hands they disappeared entirely from the office.

The pair searched around just to make sure they were alone again.

"Do you think it was your sister playing games?" Hook asked Regina seriously, a little afraid of what the girl might do or who she would tell if it were her. Although...it shouldn't have been her if the plan was unfolding as it was supposed to.

"No. Last I saw Watcher she was looking for Henry. They had a mild argument a while ago. She'd probably still be with him, if anything"

They moved back to the front of the desk to continue their conversation from earlier.

"Where were we?" Hook asked himself before remembering quite quickly.

"Now, I failed in my revenge. The best tribute I could give to her, your mother, is to help you with yours"

"Can I..." Regina started, she sighed before she continued "Let me show you something"

She led him over to her Bean Vine situated near the door.

"Escape plan?" she heard him say from behind her. She looked to him with a smile.

"Oh, she'd have loved that. She brought that Giant for the Beans, so she could go back and start over with you"

"And now I'm going to do that with Henry" she verified. Hook was amazed at how the two Mills women thought alike.

"If you'll help me" she moved forward to stare at him with all seriousness "This is how we're going to escape the total destruction of Storybrooke. If I can trust you" her tone was malicious and dark. The Evil Queen was rising again, if the smirk was anything to go by.

"Now, when you say 'total destruction', including the crocodile, yes?" he wanted to make sure that that was part of the bargain. If it wasn't, he was out.

Regina scoffed at his words as if it were some sort of obvious joke "Oh, yes. Rumplestiltskin will die. If you help me" she pleaded

The conformation of the Crocodiles death only sealed the deal.

P.O.V Change

(Half An Hour Before)

Watcher had followed Henry into the woods.

She was a little concerned considering what had happened last time and she could swear her injury was ticking like a clock.

"Henry!"

Unbeknownst to her, Henry had gone back into town ages ago and was currently with Emma invading his dad's personal bubble.

She wandered up near the Wishing Well and peered down into it unhappily.

She felt worse with every passing moment.
What if he'd fallen down an embankment or something and broken his neck? Or drowned?

Emma would kill her, but that would be nothing compared to what Regina would do!

She had been hoping that she could avoid telling him everything. Had pleaded with all the gods above that he would listen to her just this once...although she couldn't suppress the nagging thought that kept telling her 'I told you so!'

She turned back to go the way she came but stopped at the sight of her shadow.

It was more defined than it had been moments ago. Honestly though, she didn't remember seeing her shadow the whole time she'd been up here. Too many trees blocked the sun and so there was nothing but shade.

She looked up above her to the leafy canopy to be doubly sure she wasn't going mad.
There was nothing but faint green light high above her head that didn't even touch the dirt floor.

'There's magic at work here'

She looked back down and wasn't all that shocked to see that her shadow was gone.

She decided she was mad and to head back to the Town and ask around there about Henry. Surely someone would know his whereabouts and if not, they would help her look.

She saw someone not too far ahead of her coming toward her.

Where she was, they were too far away to make out exactly who it was, but as they got closer, she recognised Tamara.

"Hi!" she called to her

Watcher seemed to catch the other woman off guard but Tamara smiled to her friendly.

"Hi there"

"I'm Sadie Miller" Watcher said with a friendly smile

"Tamara Harris" the other answered holding out her hand to the younger woman in greeting.

Watcher shook it with feigned friendliness.

"So why are you out here?" Watcher asked her

Tamara let out a breath "Well I was out here with my fiancé, but he left something important in our room back in Town. So I decided that I'd just walk along a track and see where my feet take me" she said with a smile, one Watcher could clearly see was a fake.

"What about you? What are you doing out here?" Tamara asked her

Watcher shrugged "One of the local kids decided to play 'hide and seek' and now there's a few of us seeking him"

Tamara looked genuinely concerned "Oh my god! Do you need any more help?"

"Nah, I think we'll be right. He probably is just playing games. We'll find him in no time. But thanks for the offer" Watcher said with a crooked smile.

"If you're sure then" Tamara said, still looking concerned.

Watcher gave a nod to say that she was "Well, I'll leave you to your wanderings. It was nice meeting you"

"You too, good luck finding him"

Watcher gave a smile and walked past Tamara, thinking she'd managed to get away scot free, meaning that she felt she hadn't aroused suspicion seeing as she was walking away.

But Tamara was smart, not like Owen.
No doubt Tamara would quickly accumulate some sort of suspicions about her.

Her hypothesis was proven correct when Tamara called her back.

"'Miller' is a popular name, almost as popular as 'Smith'-" Tamara stated

There was a resounding 'click' through the quiet air and Watcher turned in time to feel a stabbing sensation in her arm.
Tamara had actually fired a dart gun, Watcher could see the gun in her hand. She carefully pulled the dart from her neck, a little peeved that she'd still been close enough for a perfect shot.

As she sunk to the ground Tamara continued on with what she'd been saying

"-And the name is taken from those who were involved in milling. Another variation of the name is 'Mills'"

Watcher rolled onto her side and her vision became engulfed in darkness, but she could vaguely hear Tamara calling Owen to come to her, or at least that's what she thought, before she started pushing up 'Z's'.