Here's a chapter for you! Is everyone excited for the return of Once? I know I am! Cannot wait to see what they all have planned for this season!
They all sat in the library looking for ways in which to get to Camelot and find Merlin. Nothing yet had come up and Regina was getting more and more frustrated and it appeared the darkness in her was taking advantage of this as she slammed a book shut and chucked it across the room. It hit the wall with a loud thump and fell to the floor making everyone in the room jump and look over at Regina with caution.
"This is ridiculous. We have been looking for days and come up with nothing." Regina snapped in frustration, hitting her hands off the table and standing up so quickly that the chair she had been sitting on fell behind her.
"Regina it's alright. We will find something." Mary-Margaret said placing a hand on top of Regina's.
Regina whipped her hand away, kicking the chair she walked away from the group around the table and began to pace up and down the room. "The last thing I need is one of your bloody hope speeches alright!"
"Regina…" Emma started but was soon cut off.
"Don't Regina me!" Regina hissed snapping round to face them all. "Hope hope and more hope don't you ever see bloody reality in things. What is the point in all this? We aren't finding anything. Maybe this is just how it is meant to be. Maybe I am doomed to be dark for the rest of my life. Why are we bothering with all this shit?!" Regina said her voice rising with each word. The anger and frustration in her was rising. The darkness taking over her bit by bit, no matter how hard she tried to fight it inside.
Magic shot out from her, making the whole room shake, books flying off the shelves, furniture shaking. Regina gasped, looking down at her hands and backed herself until she hit the wall behind her. The darkness slowly slipped away and it was then that she realised what she had said and how she had reacted. She bit her lip, trying to hold back the tears that were threatening to fall but it was useless. She slowly slipped down the wall, her hands in her hair and bringing her knees up to her chest as she started to cry. She couldn't control this darkness. It was starting to control her.
Everyone glanced at one another and then over to Regina wondering whether it would be safe to go over to Regina or not. Robin sighed and he slowly walked over to Regina. He crouched down beside Regina and placed a hand on her knee making her jump a little and look up at him showing him her tear stained face. "Regina we are going to find a way to get rid of this darkness in you. Whether you believe it or not there is hope out there, hope in here. Together we will help you." Robin said taking Regina's hand in his.
"I…I can't control it…" Regina whispered, tears slipping down her cheeks. "It's too much…too hard…"
"Remember the locket Regina…" Robin said reaching forward and pulling the locket out from beneath her top. "Remember the love of your family and friends. It is connected to that locket. If you feel the darkness wanting to take you just hold onto that locket. Hold on as tight as you can and think of us…your family the ones who love you."
Regina nodded and she let Robin pull her over to him and hold her in his arms. She tried to control her tears but they just kept falling. She had never felt so vulnerable. Never in her life and she had experienced vulnerability. This just felt so different. There was times where it felt that she wasn't in her body, she could see herself but could not control herself. She couldn't control how she felt. It was horrible to feel so out of control.
"I think I found something!" Henry said standing up from his chair and picking up the book he had been reading.
"What? What have you found?" David asked as he walked over to Henry to stand beside him.
Robin helped Regina up and she wiped at her eyes and cheeks as they walked over to Henry, as did Emma, Mary-Margaret and Hook. "There is a wand…a wand that could get us to Camelot. It has to be wielded by someone who knows of and has light and dark magic." Henry explained as he continued to try read the book.
"So that's you Regina right? You used light magic against Zelena…" Hook said.
"Hook's right you did. That must mean you." Mary-Margaret said.
Regina shook her head. "I don't think it would work if I done it."
"But you broke the curse to get us back here…you were the light one in the new story. And these guys are right you did use light magic against Zelena even though you have dark magic." David said with a frown.
"Yes but that was before the dark one came to me. That was before the darkness sucked out the light I did have in me." Regina sighed. "Right now even if I do have any light it will be the tiniest amount. Nowhere near enough to use that wand and get us to Camelot."
"Mom's right. The darkness is snuffing out the light she had." Henry said. "But there has to be someone else."
"What about you Emma? You were fighting with light and dark?" Mary-Margaret asked.
"Not enough dark. She never really used dark magic." Henry said shaking his head. "There has to be a balance."
"Well none of this matters anyway because we don't have the wand." Regina sighed. "No wand then no way to get there."
"What about Gold's shop? We could see if it's in there." Robin suggested.
"That's a good shout. Kid what does the wand look like?" Emma asked. Henry pushed the book over on the table to show the rest of them the picture of the wand. Emma nodded her head and leaned down ripping the picture out of the book. "Okay, Robin, Killian and Dad you go to Gold's shop and search for this. Me, Mom, Regina and the kid will stay here and try figure out who can work the wand." Emma said handing the picture to Robin.
The men nodded and made their way out of the library, Robin giving Regina a quick kiss before he left. Emma and Mary-Margaret then sat back down at the table along with Henry while Regina began to pace up and down the room again. "Okay so we need someone with both light and dark magic…" Mary-Margaret said.
Regina grabbed onto her locket. She could feel the darkness rising up in her and she closed her eyes, stopping in her steps. She breathed in and out and thought of her family, of the love she has in her life now. She tried has hard as she could to fight against the darkness that wanted to take over her. "Regina you alright?" Emma asked placing a hand on Regina's shoulder making her jump and pull her out of her thoughts.
Regina nodded her head and let go of her locket, the darkness seeming to have settled. Maybe the locket did work after all. "Yes…I'm fine…"
"Okay…" Emma said giving Regina a small smile. "So…can anyone think of anyone else in town that has used both light and dark magic? Or has it just now…"
"Well…" Henry started and then stopped, biting his lip and looking back down at the book on the table.
"What? What were you going to say Henry?" Regina asked walking over to him.
"You're probably not going to like who I am going to say…It's kind of someone you hate right not…like someone you really hate…" Henry said. "But ironically, even after everything she has done to ruin your life she could be the one person that could help you and get you to Camelot. She has her dark magic and well…now after recent events has a bit of light magic in her due to the baby."
"Zelena…" Regina said in quiet understanding. She knew straight away who Henry was talking about. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. "I don't think I can trust myself to go and see her again… not after what happened a couple of days ago."
"You'll be with us Regina…we will make sure nothing happens." Mary-Margaret said.
Regina nodded and then leaned on the table a little. "Okay. Let's say Zelena is the one who can use this wand…and if it is in Gold's shop and we have it doesn't mean Zelena will help. There is no way she would help me. She wanted to erase me from existence before. Why would she help me now?"
"Yes that is our only problem with if I am right and Zelena is the one who can help." Henry replied and he sat back down in his chair. "We need to figure out a way that she can't say no to helping. Offer her something that she can't resist."
"That would be me not existing." Regina replied.
"There must be something else she wants. freedom perhaps?" Emma said.
"Oh yes Miss Swan, let's just set her free so she can run riot and try and ruin our lives all over again." Regina threw in sarcastically.
"I don't mean let her go here. Send her elsewhere…like the Enchanted Forest or back to Oz." Emma said.
"That could maybe work. Offer her a life elsewhere." Mary-Margaret said.
"I don't think Robin would want to be separated from his child…" Regina said. She sighed and rested her head on the table. How were they going to work round this?