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Well, fans we have reached the end of this story. It has been a wonderful ride full of twists and turns, but mostly there is love and family. Enjoy.

Amelia reappeared at the apprentice's door and gave it three loud knocks.

It opened and the apprentice looked slightly confused. "What did you do now?" He asked

"I didn't do anything." Amelia sounded slightly insulted. "Gold is dying; the darkness is taking over. Can you do anything?"

"You don't seem like one who cared about him." The apprentice got his coat.

"Well, Gold is…" She made a gagging noise. "Family." She was still getting used to that word when it came to him. "You can't pick your family… wait in this case, I could have." She was getting off topic. "Can you save him?"

"Yes. Do you want me to?" He stared at her hard.

Did she want Gold to live? Not really, not after his most recent action. But she loved Neal and Gold was Neal's father. Besides, she never knew, having the Dark One on your side might not be a bad thing. "Yes, I want you to save him. Do you need anything?"

"The magical hat. We can attempt to pull the darkness out of him and safely into the hat. That should contain him…" He started to say, Amelia waved her hand and the said hat appeared in her hand. "Must you?"

"If you got it, flaunt it." Amelia shrugged her shoulders. "Ready to go?"

"Yes." The apprentice answered, closing the door behind him. Amelia snapped her fingers.

Gold was on the floor of the shop, Belle knelt next to him along with Neal. Everyone else was standing around, unsure how to feel at the current moment.

They saw a cloud of yellow smoke outside the front window and Amelia and the apprentice walked in.

It seemed they were in the middle of a conversation. "I do not abuse my magic." She almost pouted.

He would have responded as would have Neal. But there were bigger issues at hand right now. The apprentice knelt down and pulled Gold's heart out of his chest. It was almost completely black, there was the tiniest bit of red. If they didn't act quickly, Gold would be gone and there would just be the Dark One. And no one wanted to deal with strictly with that.

The apprentice held the heart in one hand while the other one had the magical hat. "I could use some assistance…" He looked around the room. When neither Regina nor Emma moved, he handed the heart to unprepared Amelia and began to say the magic words.

A shocked Amelia stared down at the black mass in her hand that passed for Gold's heart. Yes, she wanted him to live, but that was because she assumed she would just watch and not be involved. This changed everything. Amelia held his life in her hand, the power was undeniable. She could crush it so easily. Make him pay for all the pain he had caused her and Neal. For the pain he had caused everyone in the room. She could do it. She felt her eyes turn yellow and her hand began to slightly glow.

"Amelia." She heard her name and she locked eyes with Neal. He didn't say it as a warning or out of terror. It was gentle and reassuring. There was pure love and acceptance in his brown eyes. He trusted her with all his heart, he was her True Love, her everything. Only he could pull her back from the darkness that she found herself in. And Amelia would be eternally grateful. Maybe she would be okay with the rainy day story.

Her grip on Gold's heart relaxed and she put herself in the moment. She along with everyone else watched in amazement as the darkness transferred from the heart into the safety of the hat. It was slowly becoming bright red as it was supposed to be all along. Then a noise hit her ears that turned her blood cold.

Humming, very familiar humming.

Amelia whirled around to see Blinky hovering with an open portal behind her. Before she could scream, all the darkness that had been transferring to the hat now took a new direction, into the portal, into a different realm.

Blinky noticed Amelia's panic and closed up the portal. But enough darkness had gone through. There was still a tiny bit left in Gold's heart. Suddenly the hat deflated, as if it had given up its mission.

"I can contain the rest of this, it won't kill him." Amelia told them all. How she was able to fake calm was beyond her. Her hand moved over it, the reminder of darkness was surrounded by her magic and trapped in its current amount. Then she looked at the apprentice.

"You can put it back in." He gave her the go ahead.

Amelia paused. "Has anyone here ever put a heart back in?"

"You just shove it in." Emma told her. "Can't be much different than a voice."

Amelia knelt down next to Gold's body and took a deep breath before plunging the heart back into his chest.

The next few seconds felt like hours, but Gold took a large breath.

Amelia stood up. "Your face should be the first one he sees, not mine." She told Belle.

Gold opened his eyes and looked around confused. He began to ask questions. But Amelia heard none of it. She just stared at the area the portal had been.

"Amelia, where did the darkness go?" David asked.

"Another realm." The apprentice answered for her.

"Do we have to worry?" Regina asked.

Amelia Hunter turned to face the group; there was a tight smile on her face. "No, no reason to worry."

She lied.

She lied… cue the evil laugh now.

I love ending stories with an "Oh crap" title. This one might take the cake. Yes, I am going very off script, there is no Dark Emma or Underworld, but I'll try to make up for it with a worse Dark One and the Underworld... well, don't worry. Thank you for all the follows, favorites and reviews. The story "Flaws Stitched Together with Good Intentions" will be up January 1st. Or January 1st ish. It's the holiday and I will be up late partying and such.

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On a different front, I have yet another story in the works. This one is solely going to be on my tumblr page. It's the "Untold Tales: The Bounty Hunter". Just picture the Bernadette at the end of "People Like Me Don't Deserve Happy Endings" thrown into the drama of season 6. Fun times, kind of. More word on that when I finish it.