"That's scary ain't it!"
'He sounds like a madman!'
David stepped into the doorway and fired his gun.
Mary-Margaret and Watcher hovered behind the wall keeping safe.
"Don't move!" David screamed as he stepped further into the room. There was a pause and then crashing and banging suggesting that there was a fight or something happening.
Before Watcher could protest, Mary-Margaret bounded into the room "David!" she called "We can't leave her. She'll die if we don't get her help"
Watcher hung around outside.
The hours that she'd been inside this infernal building had been her worst. They'd given her time to think. And thinking can be the worst torture for a breaking mind. Especially with the year she'd had so far. She was positive that this was going to be her final few months.
Greggson was here, so that meant that They weren't too far behind and her mission was falling to tatters...certain death was inevitable.
She'd met him...he was a nice guy...maybe it wouldn't be so bad at the end...
She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't see Owen sneaking up on her.
But she did feel the scalpel as he drove it into her spine...and twisted.
She screamed as the vertebrate was severed and she tumbled to the floor landing on her back and making her cry out again.
He was above her, admiring the short, silver coloured NanoCable he'd just ripped from her nervous system. The silver strands that allows her mind to send messages to her Nanos.
"Now that is interesting" he commented
David appeared with his gun at the ready, but Greg managed to dodge away down the hall.
David dropped to Watchers side.
"What happened?"
"I can't move" she stated pitifully.
David looked at her seriously, the words of Mary-Margaret outside Gold's shop echoing through his mind.
Maybe May-Margaret was right. Maybe the girl did need help...and not just at the moment.
He dug in his pockets for his phone and dialled Leroy.
"Leroy. David. I need you come to the old Cannery at the docks. Bring your truck and maybe another dwarf or two"
Watcher was carried up to the Loft by David. It un-nerved him how she was slipping in and out of consciousness.
She'd lost blood, yes, but there was something more involved.
Mother Superior, or the Blue Fairy, was already working on Regina when he entered.
He place Watcher on the table, face down while Mary-Margaret re-applied pressure to the wound like she had been in the truck.
The only sounds in the room were the tinkling of magic from Blue's wand and the shuffling of the Dwarfs as the help to care for Watcher.
David and Mary-Margaret, after they were sure Watcher would be fine with Leroy and the others, moved across the room nearer to Blue.
"Now that the cuff is off, she's gonna be okay, given time and rest. Her magic will return"
The door opened softly behind them and was closed absentmindedly by a preoccupied Emma.
Blue moved around the family quietly to make her way over to the other Mills sister, but listened carefully anyway.
"What happened?" David asked his daughter gently "What is it?"
"Where's Neal?" Mary-Margaret asked, clearly confused
Emma looked between her parents, completely stricken "He's gone. She killed him"
The room remained quiet, but was eventually broken by the same twinkling sound that eminated from Blue's wand as she worked on Watcher.
She checked the wound and could see silver strands of something laced along the inside, as if something had been torn out of the girl's body.
"Can you tell me anything about these strands?" she asked Leroy quietly.
He shook his head "We figured if they're inside of her, which they seem to be, then they're meant to be and we weren't gonna touch them"
"A safe bet" replied Blue as she watched the wound knit itself together again. She pet the girls head gently "You've been through a lot these few months, haven't you?"
Elsewhere, Owen was reburying his father.
Tamara approached from behind and he turned to see her.
"I'm sorry about your father"
"Me too" Owen said with a pout
She handed him the Diamond knowing full well that the information she was about to give him would raise his spirits.
"Do the folks back at the Home Office know anything about it?"
She gave him a small nod "Yeah. They did. And you are never gonna believe what it does.
"A trigger?" said David accusingly
"That will destroy Storybrooke" said Regina, having finally woken up only minutes before
"No" Mary-Margaret whispered, starting to feel sick. She'd just saved this woman's life! She'd felt she'd owed her something!
"I had a fail-safe built into the curse"
"And why exactly were you carrying it around?"
"She was gonna destroy us Mary-Margaret" David said quietly
"I was going to use the beans to take Henry back to the Enchanted Forest" Regina said, her voice croaking with tiredness.
"And in the process kill all of us"
"You want to discuss justification? You were going to abandon me" Regina accused "Or shall we discuss a more pressing issue? Which is that I no longer control the trigger!"
"What are we supposed to do with it?"
"They want us to move to the next phase"
Owen stared at her wide eyed and full of anticipation "Already?"
"Yeah" Tamara answered just as eager and a little scared
"There's only one way to get what we all want" she continued, plucking the over sized Diamond from her lovers fingers.
"We have to blow Storybrooke off the map" she finished with malice.
Watcher lay in her bed upstairs in the Loft feeling sore and sorry for herself.
She'd seen it.
Seen it hanging limply from the blade.
The silver NanoCable.
She couldn't feel it anymore, the familiar tingle that told her that her body was in working order.
She lay there blank faced, staring into The Void, feeling nothing.
Mary-Margaret and The Blue Fairy watched over her with worrying eyes.
"Are you sure there's nothing more you can do?" Mary-Margaret asked the Fairy.
Blue shook her head "I've done all I can do, whatever's wrong with her it's not physical"
"Was there anything strange about her injury?"
The Fairy thought on what she saw earlier and what Leroy had told her;
"We figured if they're inside of her, which they seem to be, then they're meant to be..."
Blue shook her head again.
Maybe the Dwarf was right. If those strands came from inside her, then maybe they were meant to be and it was best if she, The Blue Fairy, didn't touch them. It was best if nobody touched them. Anything could happen.
Then again, if they were something that was put inside her by Tamara and Owen...
It was quite the conundrum and the girl wasn't speaking. She hadn't spoken for a few hours now.
Maybe Mary-Margaret could work some of her magic.
"Mary-Margaret, I'm going to have to leave you. I have other things that I need to take care of at the church." The Fairy said as she made to leave.
"Of course Mother Superior"
Blue stopped in the doorway.
"Get her to speak" she said quietly "If she's going to talk to anyone, it'll be you"
She removed herself from the doorway making her way down the stairs and out the front door, leaving Mary-Margaret to stare after her standing in the space she had occupied previously.
Mary-Margaret moved slowly to sit by Watcher and began to stroke the girls hair.
"Did Tamara and Mendell do something to you?" she asked
Still Watcher did not speak
"Can you tell us what their next move is?" she tried again
Still nothing.
It was quiet for ten minutes, before;
"I'm broken"
Mary-Margaret's hand stopped midway through Watchers damp messy curls, but only for a moment.
"You're not broken. What would make you say something silly like that?"
"I am broken. I put you all in danger by coming here" Watcher said quietly not moving from her position
"I killed my friends! It was all my fault. It's why I'm here now!"
Mary-Margaret stared down at her seriously "What do you mean you 'killed your friends'?"
"And now...now Owens gone and torn the Fibre in my spine" Watcher went on quietly, unintentionally ignoring the others question.
Mary-Margaret shook the girls shoulder "What's 'all your fault'? What have you done?"
"Lies. Always lies. Why are we not allowed to say the truth? Why do we have to keep secrets? Because, that's why, just because. We have to protect everything because it'll all fall into chaos. It's what they told us"
She was just rambling, that much was obvious, but Mary-Margaret couldn't help but think there was more to it.
"Don't tell them" Watcher said suddenly, looking up to the other woman with pleading eyes "Don't tell them I can't protect them. Don't tell them I can't do it! Help me, please!"
"Watcher, you're not making any sense. You need to explain yourself to me, if you want me to help. What's going on?"
But she would get no answers as Watcher had fallen back into her stupor.