P.O.V Change
Regina smirked to herself as she rode the elevator up to the Library, admiring her handy work.
The Diamond glistened in the dark light surrounding her and her smirk stretched into an evil grin.
With this, she could finally be rid of the Charmings and that pesky Swan...she would finally have Henry all to herself.
She felt she was forgetting something, something important, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.
If that was the case it obviously wasn't all that important.
The doors rolled open and as she stepped out she looked up to see Hook leaning against the front desk.
She gasped in surprise, faulted and stepped back, intent on keeping some distance between her and the supposed-to-be-dead pirate.
"How?"
"Startling, aren't I? Some people say 'striking'"
She hurridly placed the Diamond in a pouch and in her pocket, shaking her head in disbelief.
"You couldn't have survived that" she stated assuredly, though her voice played with doubt.
He innocently played with the tip of his hook "Well, you should know by now, the one thing I excel at is surviving"
He began to move toward her, trying to push her back further.
She was put off, because he no longer seemed to fear her in the slightest.
"The amazing thing is, you almost had me" he told her "All that stuff about a fresh, clean start, just killing them and moving on. It kind of touched me. For a moment there, I thought we had a real connection, and honestly, I almost put a stop to my plan"
"Your plan?" Regina questioned
"Well, their plan" he confirmed "But I fancied it. And they did save me from that wretched...whatever Maleficent is"
He held eye contact for a moment before he looked, and pointed, toward his right, which is where Tamara and Owen emerged from behind a shelf.
"Do you know these two? Well, they have a way with magic. Or should I say, a way against magic"
The new pair moved to the door and successfully blocked the way. With smug smirks and no fear.
Regina was done playing games, especially since it wasn't her game.
"Enough of this"
She placed her palm up and willed a fire ball...but nothing happened.
It was then she began to panic. She'd only ever had this happened once before and she did not want to repeat it.
She tried again and still nothing happened.
"Yeah, sorry, that's not gonna work" Owen told her from across the room "Not anymore"
She stared at the two, then her hands and her eyes fell on something new
"The cuff. You gave me this" she hissed at Hook
"Well, you rather insisted" he affirmed as Tamara and Owen shared a look
"You knew I would want it" Regina stated
"True. They rigged it with something that blocks your magic" Hook said with a smile and a chuckle "It's impressive"
Hook moved away as Regina moved toward the two barring her way out.
"So, little bitty Owen does grown-up magic of his own, now?" she jeered angrily as she removed her gloves
"It's not magic. Actually, this is something much better. Science"
He moved toward her as she tried to rip the cuff from her wrist.
She silently wondered if it was super glued on...and wishing that her sister was here. She would know what to do.
"You can stop doing that. It's not gonna work. You might be able to get rid of the leather, but inside are the toughest metals and machinery known to man, and right now, they're counteracting every magic bone in your body"
She couldn't stop staring at her hands. She was just too horrified...she hated repetition.
She finally looked to him as Tamara removed something from her coat pocket.
"Which one was she?" Tamara questioned her lover as she looked down at the list of names in her hand.
"She was the Queen. The Evil Queen" his eyes held amusement as he looked from Regina, to the list and back again.
"Yes, I was the Queen." Regina said, her pride swelling.
She listened to Owen, but had a momentary staring match with Tamara.
"But now? Here? You're nothing"
Even as Hook watched on in silence, he couldn't help but think that that was a little too harsh.
The fear was evident in Regina's eyes, but she wouldn't let it show on her face "And what are you?" she questioned Owen, grasping at strings to try and regain control of the situation.
He shrugged at her "I'm just a man. A man on a mission"
"And all this just to try to find your father? I already told you, I don't know where he is"
"Yes you do. But that's not my mission"
"Then what is?"
Hook had to admit even he was intrigued. Being a pirate he couldn't trust himself completely, let alone these two.
Owen smiled crookedly "I'm not telling you" he said with a shake of his head
Regina finally conceded to the thought that she had never had any control in the first place.
"Bag her"
Regina looked over to Tamara just as her vision became dark.
Something was jabbed into her arm, probably by Owen, and she rapidly lost all feeling in her body, falling in a heap to the floor with a loud thud. When she tried to ask what was going on she found she couldn't move her jaw.
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll go find the other Mills"
'Damn Hook!'
Regina seethed underneath the hood, willing herself to move even a finger. They were not going to take her son!
"We already got her" Tamara said from above Regina
'Her? Watcher!'
"What do you mean you've already got her? I thought we had a plan to deal with her?"
'Obviously they don't trust you as far as they can throw you!'
"We dealt with her before coming here" Tamara replied "We figured if something went wrong here we could use her as leverage"
'My sister is not leverage!' if Regina could've screamed, she would've.
"She's out cold back at the hideout" Owen confirmed.
"You left her there? Alone?"
"She'll be out for hours. She'll need to be for what we have planned"
"No more talking" Tamara put in urgently "Get her in the van"
Regina felt herself being picked up by two sets of hands and heard the doors of the Library being opened.
P.O.V. Change
David swung open the door to Regina's office.
He held his gun ready and had Emma in tow, but he quickly realised that he needn't have been so ready as he was, as the person they were looking for wasn't there.
"It's okay. She's not here" Emma called out into the hall.
Mary-Margaret and Henry, quickly but cautiously, entered the room.
David put his gun away.
"When you find her, you're not gonna hurt her, are you?" Henry questioned Emma
"No. We just want the beans she stole from us" Emma told him calmly, trying very hard to douse the quick rising flames of worry that were beginning to show in his eyes.
She moved to the security system, thinking that there something odd about it all.
"I don't get it" Mary-Margaret stated quietly "Why would Regina leave her office unlocked?"
'Funny. That's just what I was thinking' Emma told herself
"Especially when she's keeping the Beans here" David said as he made his way over to the Bean capsule to stand beside his Grandson.
Mary-Margaret sighed loudly as she looked at the Sprout "Was keeping them here. They're gone!"
"Something's not right" Emma said from behind them "Regina would never leave evidence like this behind"
"Maybe she already used them to portal out of Storybrooke" David suggested, looking away from the case and toward his daughter.
"Without Henry? I don't think so" Emma stated confidently, thinking that she obviously got her brains from her mother, considering all the things Regina had done just to get Henry.
"What if something bad happened to her?" Henry piped
Mary-Margaret placed a hand on the boys shoulder and shared a look with her husband.
"Security system says the last time someone was in the office was around six this morning" Emma pressed a button on the control pad.
'Security Override Enabled' flashed up on the screen.
"They used an override code to get in" she told the room, her suspicion making her skin itch
The others turned to look at her and David made his way to the centre of the room "Why would Regina need an override code on her own alarm?"
"She wouldn't" Emma could see the pieces falling into place now.
"You think someone else broke in and took the Beans?" her mother questioned her, also moving to the floor.
"Well, we haven't found Regina anywhere and haven't heard from her" Emma told the other woman logically.
"So something bad did happen to her" Henry started
"We're gonna find her, Henry. I promise" even though he had a right to be worried, Emma didn't need him freaking out on her, especially if it was all just a misunderstanding.
What also concerned her was that she hadn't seen Watcher around either. But the girl was such an introvert, not to mention ninja like, that it wouldn't be all that surprising if she turned up in the Diner or something later on.
P.O.V. Change
Tamara entered a room in the old Cannery that they had made their hideout.
She stared through the window to where Hook stood over Regina, who was strapped to a metal table, set up by the Earth world pair.
"Did you get into her office?"Owen questioned as he entered the room.
"Have I ever let you down?" she threw back somewhat sarcastically.
She turned to him.
"Look what I found"
He stared into the bean pod that she held in her hands and saw a few large, white coloured Bean shaped things.
"Are these what I think they are?"
"Magic Beans" she told him holding one out to show him "Neal told me all about them. They open Portals"
"I bet he told you a lot, huh?" Owen said out of the blue
"Don't be jealous" she looked up to him gently and held up her hand, pointing to the ring that adorned it "As soon as we're done, this is coming off"
"Yeah, well, you can have this one instead" He stated holding out a small golden pouch to her for her to take.
Tamara took it from him and sent a fed-up look at his turned back as she opened it. She was genuinely surprised by what rested within it's folds.
"What the hell is that?"
"I don't know. Regina had it on her" Owen told her as he fiddled with his favourite toy, something that they had pulled out of an abandoned asylum a few years ago.
Meanwhile, Tamara pulled out the object in the pouch.
It was a large Diamond. That shone black in the white lighting of the room.
"I'll send it back with the rest of the data"
She dropped the Bean Pod in with it.
"I think the Home Office is gonna have a field day with everything we've collected so far" she said with a smile
Owen mimicked her "I still have one more thing that I have to do"
"Make it quick. We'll be getting our instructions soon"
"Oh, this isn't gonna take long" he told her as he exited the room, pushing his toy.
Tamara sighed "I suppose I'll check on our other guest"
She made her way down a hall to an area laden with pipes and machinery.
There, struggling against her chains, was Watcher awake and kicking.
"I'm surprised. I thought you'd be out for at least another day" Tamara stated, waltzing over to stand in front of the girl.
"It's gonna take more than a tranquilizer to put me out" Watcher pulled at her restraints "Any chance you can let me go?"
Tamara snorted with mirth "You think I'm stupid?"
"Yes"
"Oh, you're funny little girl"
"I'll be even funnier when I slice your face off"
The pair glowered at each other.
"So why am I here?" Watcher eventually asked.
"Because of something inside of you" Tamara answered with a mysterious and evil edge
"Something inside of me?" Watcher chuckled "What could possibly be inside of me they you don't have...you're not in the Black Market for organs are you?" her tone was serious at this point.
"No" the other woman said with a smug smile and moved across to a set of instruments that had previously gone unnoticed.
"Did you really think I would fall for that trick?" Tamara asked her
"What trick?"
"Sadie Miller"
She trailed her fingers along a set of freshly sharpened knives and scalpels wondering which one she should use.
"What makes you think it's a trick?" Watcher questioned
"Because Neil doesn't know any Sadie Miller and he doesn't remember one from the Enchanted Forest-"
"It's a big place"
"-and as I said before, Miller is in association with Mills and there would be only one reason you would choose that particular name"
"And what's that?" Watcher questioned mockingly.
Tamara payed no attention to the fact that her voice echoed in the small area
"Because you're really a Mills"
She turned around and realised that all the talk and dramatics had only been a distraction as the prisoner had somehow escaped her bonds and was now nowhere to be seen.
Watcher silently dropped from the ceiling behind her and whistled to gain her attention throwing Tamara a hard punch to the face when she turned to her, sending the woman to the floor in a daze. She moved around the other again and gave her an even harder kick, just to be sure.
"A piece of advice, never take your eye off the ball. Especially if that ball is an escapee's fist"
She gave a rough sort of bow and turned around, sprinting away in search of an exit.
