David looked slightly at Zelena, who was near Robin and Robyn. With Belle's heart on her chest again, David wanted everyone to continue to try to break the spell on his daughter. He knew both Rumple and Regina had tried and failed to come up with something, but with Zelena back, there was a chance she might know something they didn't.
He started walking to them and stood close to Robin. "Zelena, can I talk to you? In private?" He looked slightly at Robin, trying to tell him to go away.
Zelena nodded, put Robyn in Robin's arms and pushed David away from everyone else. "What's wrong?"
David wasn't really sure how to say what he wanted to say, so he just started. "Do you know anything that can help my daughter? Any spell or something that can wake her?"
Zelena had in fact helped Adda create the pretty much unbreakable curse they put on Emma. She hated herself for doing it, for letting herself be manipulated like that, but at the time she felt like she needed to repay Adda. After all, he had given her, her magic back. "David, I'm sorry, but I don't. Creating a curse is one thing, but breaking it is totally different. I can try of course, but right now, I can't think of anything which can help."
David nodded softly. He didn't really think she could, he was just making sure. He didn't really hate Zelena for what she had done, for working with Adda, but he wasn't really her biggest fan either. Adda may have done horrible things, but she helped him. "And what about Snow? Do you know anything which can help her?"
Zelena wasn't sure what David meant. As much as she hated it, Snow was dead. Zelena didn't know that Adda had planned that for the battle because if she did, she would have left his team sooner. She actually knew his plan was to kill every one of them, but for Zelena that seemed like a false promise, just something Adda wanted to do but never would. Zelena knew many people had tried to defeat them, and they all had failed. It was in fact Snow's death that made her realize she couldn't be a part of that team. She couldn't help the people who wanted to kill her friends, her family. "David, I'm sorry but Snow is dead. There is nothing I can do about it."
"Oh really?" David was trying to stay calm, to just have a normal conversation, but he knew Zelena was lying. She had to know something. Which was why he went from a tone a little louder than a whisper, to pretty much yell at her, making everyone in the cellar look at them. "Just like you couldn't do anything about Cruella? Or Robin? Somehow, you managed to break the rules and bring them back. Why can't we do the same to my wife? She deserves it more than any of them!"
"David, calm down." With Belle, Elsa and Robin looking at them, Zelena decided she didn't really have to whisper anymore. "I didn't bring any of them back, it was Adda. I would never be powerful enough to do any of that. Probably no one else would. You have no idea how much time he has been gathering power for this very moment. He prepared all of this years ago."
"But maybe if you start the spell... maybe our love will be strong enough to finish it. And to bring her back." David was pretty much begging at that point. He knew he had to be right. Snow always said that love is the most powerful magic of all, they even sang about it once, so he didn't care how powerful Adda was. They were more. They had to be.
"Even if we manage to replicate the spell, there is still a price, David. There always is. Bringing your wife back will require taking away a life, and you know that. When all the Dark Ones were here in Storybrooke, that was exactly what they tried to do, because that is the only way to do it. A life for a life. Are you really willing to kill someone just to have her back? Is that what she would have wanted?" Zelena remembered what Adda did to bring Cruella back. He went to the owner of the house Adda was then living in, and threw him to the portal they opened to the Underworld. Not long after, Cruella came through it. She didn't think that she and Regina alone could open a portal to the Underworld, but even if they managed to do it, they still needed to trap someone in there, so Snow could cross to the land of the living.
David looked at Zelena silently for a minute, thinking what he should say next. She was right: he couldn't sacrifice the life of an innocent to bring Snow back, his wife would hate him for it. Which was why he had to think of a different approach. "Depends on who that someone is. What if we manage to push Adda to the portal? A life for a life. We'd defeat him, and Snow would be back."
"David, that seems like a great idea, but it lacks reality. A lot of it. Adda would never let himself be trapped in the Underworld, and even if he did, how long would it take for him to find a way out and back to us? Besides, like I told you, we can't even open a portal." Zelena could definitely understand David had hope of seeing his wife again, being with her, but she knew that idea would never work. They would need to lure him into a place where they would open the portal, and push him inside. And she knew they would never be able to manipulate him like that. He was just too clever and powerful for that.
"Maybe my blood could open a portal. Rumpelstiltskin was once able to open one because he died and came back. Well, so did I." Robin looked at both David and Zelena hoping he could be helpful. He didn't even want to pretend to feel the pain David was feeling. He was once separated from Regina, when he left to New York, but it was different because they were both still alive. Just like David, in that time Robin also had hoped of reuniting with her one day, but the chances for them were much higher.
"I don't think that would work. When Rumple died, he went to the Underworld, but you didn't. You just went to the Void, like Adda called it. Your blood would probably just take us there, or maybe nowhere at all." Zelena knew everyone probably thought she didn't want to bring back Snow, but she was just trying to protect all of them from a plan which would fail. Because hoping to have Snow back, and then see that hope die with nothing no one could do about it, would only do one thing: break David's heart even more.
Before anyone could say anything, Belle took a step in their direction. She knew that was her queue. "Maybe you can't open a portal, but we all know someone who can: Rumple. He did it before, so he can do it again." They all knew they had to find a way to get Rumple back, and Belle acknowledged that, but it wouldn't hurt having one more motive to do it.
"And I can help you keep the portal opened until Snow comes through." Elsa smiled to David, glad she could finally have a way to help him find his path back to happiness.
"Well, that's just great, but unless one of you wants to take one for the team and be the one getting trapped down there, it doesn't matter if we can open a portal or not. Snow can't come through." Zelena wanted Snow back, of course, but it seemed like she was the only realistic person in that room.
"Maybe we can't get Adda and trap him in the Underworld. But what if we get someone else?" Before Zelena could reply with more negativism, David told everyone his plan, and for once, Zelena didn't think it was such a bad one.
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"Henry, are you sure we're in the right place?" Regina looked at Henry, who was just beside her, and then back to the house. They had walked through the woods the streets of Storybrooke, and Henry's 'feeling' had taken them to just that place: their own house.
Regina was still worried Adda could be behind that. She could still feel the protection spell around it, but she knew that didn't mean Adda couldn't be inside, waiting for them. He had brought down Rumple's shield, and he definitely could do the same to hers.
Henry was just as confused as Regina, but he knew that was where whatever he was feeling was coming from. Henry started walking towards the house and looked back at Regina who still hadn't moved. "Mom, let's go."
Regina was very reluctant to enter her own house. She knew there had to be something wrong, something big which was about to happen. She knew Adda had to be behind all that scheme. "I don't know, Henry. This doesn't seem safe."
Henry smiled and walked back to her. "Mom, I don't need you to trust my feeling, I need you to trust me. Can you do that?"
Regina nodded gently and looked around one last time before following Henry into the house. Regina trusted Henry, of course she did, and she really wanted to believe him. But there seemed to be a part of her which seemed to be stopping her from trusting Henry, pulling her from getting into the house. She couldn't really explain it, but it was clearly there.
As she walked inside, Regina looked around again, not seeing anyone. She sighed with relief, but she still knew it wasn't over. There could still be someone else in the house.
Henry turned to her, with a huge smile on his face. "Mom, come on. I think it's upstairs." He started running up the stairs, following that feeling he still had. He looked around the hallway and slowly turned left, taking small steps until he got to his bedroom door. And that was when he saw it. He couldn't believe that was what had drawn him all the way there, but he could feel it was. He walked to the bed, on the top of which was his storybook, as he realized that be seemed to understand every time less what was going on. But he could still feel the book calling out to him. He sat on the bed, grabbed the book, and that was when he saw it. In that moment, Henry saw the real truth of everything that had been happening for the past couple years, right there in that small town of Storybrooke. He saw how all of them had been preparing for Adda's arrival ever since the beginning, even though no one knew about it.