Sorry it took so long for this chapter. The truth is, I had a great premise for this crossover but no clear direction for the plot or resolution. I think I've got a direction, but feel free to shoot me some suggestions. Enjoy this one, I promise the next one won't be far behind. As always, reviews are lovely!
Chapter 4
Lauren took a deep breath and slowly walked over to Bo. After telling their new group of acquaintances the abbreviated version of their situation, everyone decided to just take a breather to let all this information sink in. She positioned herself next to Bo who was standing with her arms crossed. Noticing Bo's eyes flashing bright blue and a half smile on her face, Lauren followed her gaze. Lauren clucked her tongue when she saw what Bo was lusting after. Emma and Regina stood close together, engaged in a conversation no doubt about her and Bo.
"Down, girl." Lauren shook her head as she noticed how similar she and this Emma were physically. "Well, you certainly have a type."
Bo shook the lust off and glanced at Lauren with a smile. "Actually, it's the other one."
Lauren raised an eyebrow and looked at the gorgeous brunette across the cave. "Yeah. Witty, gorgeous, intelligent, fit to be a queen...that's who I was talking about."
Bo chuckled, her eyes never leaving Regina's face. "She just oozes sex appeal."
"Mmmm," Lauren hummed. "It doesn't take a succubus to realize who she's oozing for."
"Uh huh," Bo said, finally allowing the glow of her eyes to extinguish. She turned to face Lauren. "And it's most definitely mutual. But what's with the whole boyfriend thing?"
Lauren scoffed and crossed her arms. "I don't know. If anyone could understand the whole lusting after two people at the same time thing, I'd think it'd be you."
Bo sighed out but kept the playfulness between them. She pulled at Lauren's hip and leaned down to her ear. "You know you're the only one I love." She placed a soft kiss on Lauren's cheek, who turned and gave her an appreciative smile. "Well, the state of their love lives is second to figuring out where this Killian guy is. The sooner we do that, the sooner we can get the hell out of here."
"Bo, are you sure we should do that? He did die. Hades does have rights to his soul."
Bo took a deep breath. "From what they've said, this guy has been on the right path. It sounds like he deserves a second chance to end up somewhere other than the fiery pits of hell, don't you think?"
Lauren shrugged her shoulders. "I suppose. But knowing Hades, he's not going to just let him go without a fight."
Bo nodded. "Well, lets just see what daddy dearest is able to do about it." Bo walked over to where Emma and Regina were standing, and couldn't help but react slightly to the sexual tension that hit her like a wave. She cleared her throat as she forced her reaction back. When both women looked at her expectantly she just flicked her eyebrows. "So, I don't suppose you have a plan as to what your next move is?"
As the rest of the group moved closer to hear the conversation, their attention was brought to Gold. "Of course not. Miss Swan, guilt ridden and struck with grief, simply decided to blackmail me in order to bring us all in on a family vacation to the underworld. No plan, no valuable weapons, no nothing. Just one heart sick teenager with a death wish."
Emma's face burned with anger and her hand went to her holster. She startled when she felt Bo place her hand over her own, preventing her from drawing the weapon. She looked up to see a compassionate look on the face of the tall woman.
Bo settled Emma with a simple touch and looked over at Gold. "Sounds like someone trying to right a wrong, to me. Maybe you all charged in here head first, but sometimes that's what doing the right thing requires." She looked back down at Emma who nodded in thanks. "You may have had no idea that opening the portal would bring me here, but it has none the less. I promise I'll help you find this Killian."
"And how exactly do you propose to do that?" Regina's voice brought Bo's attention back to her. "Sounds like from your previous experience the 'King of the Underworld' is quite formidable, even for a sex fairy."
Bo raised an eyebrow and walked seductively over to where the former queen stood, arms crossed. She stepped inside Regina's personal space and stared down at the woman's red lips, licking her own at the same time. She allowed her eyes to glow as she squared off right in Regina's face.
Regina scoffed. "Please. Your feeble powers have no affect on me," Regina spewed at Bo, despite the feeling of desire pooling in her belly.
"That's right," Bo continued. "You have magic fingers, don't you."
Lauren looked on in annoyed interest and felt Emma squirm slightly next to her. Lauren was used to this game, well, as used to it as she could be, but certainly this is the first time Emma had witnessed Bo's prowess. Lauren glanced over at her and smirked. Definitely jealous. She looked back at Bo and Regina, realizing that making Emma jealous was exactly what Bo was trying to accomplish.
Regina was not to be beaten. She steadied herself and showed no reaction as she stared down the succubus. All she wanted to do was give in and let this intoxicating feeling of lust take her over. But she let none of it show, save for the dilating of her eyes which Bo definitely noticed. "Wouldn't you like to know," Regina whispered, leaning in slightly.
The intimate scene playing out in front of her had Emma feeling a strange sort of reaction, and suddenly she wanted nothing more than to pull Bo away from Regina and throttle her. Emma found herself moving forward and pulling gently on Regina's forearm. "Uh, hey, not in front of the kid," she whispered. She didn't realize the dirty look she shot Bo as finally the glowing eyes returned to their normal shade of brown.
Bo smiled back from Regina to Emma and took a step backward. "Sorry. I was just feeling a little hungry."
Emma dropped her hand off Regina's arm and faced the tall brunette. "Well, go feed off your girlfriend, not my-not my kid's other mother."
Bo snuffed and looked around, noticing that Snow White looked as if she might have a heart attack. "Well, since none of you have a plan, we need to talk about our next step here. I've been to the underworld before but not from this portal. I don't recognize any of it." Bo looked around at the dark cavern, noticing a handful of tunnels moving out in all different directions. Of course her father had made the Underworld into a maze. They could search for eternity and never find Killian, much less their way out again. Suddenly a thought struck her as funny. "I don't suppose any of you have any breadcrumbs do you?"
Emma rolled her eyes and Regina put her hand on her hip. "Very funny."
Bo chuckled to herself as she looked around at all the faces of her new fairy tale friends. Her face dropped. "Oh my God, that was true too? Get out."
Suddenly Gold burst forward to address Bo. "As titillating as this conversation has been, can perhaps we get this moving? I have a wife I'd like to get back to."
Lauren Raised her eyebrows. "Rumpelstiltskin has a wife?"
"Don't-...ask," Snow interjected as she shook her head. She knew this conversation could carry on forever if they let it.
"What about a locator spell?" Regina had already tuned them out as she tried to think of a way to find Killian.
"Great, but I had to give up Killian's ring to the ferryman. I don't have anything else that belongs to him," Emma said in exasperation.
"Locator spell? You can locate people by using something that belongs to them?" Lauren asked. Regina just nodded her head. "What about Hades' hand print? Bo has his mark, his hand print on her. Can you use that?"
Bo bristled. "Woah, woah, Lauren. That will bring us to Hades, not to this Killian guy. If there's any way to avoid coming face to face with daddy dearest, especially before we know where this guy is, that would be good!"
"That won't be necessary," Gold interjected. When all heads had turned to face him he smirked. "I have something that belongs to the good Captain."
Emma's eyes widened. "What do you have?" Gold reached into his pocket and slowly pulled out a small object, holding it up to the group between his fingers. Emma looked in confusion at the small silver ring, encrusted with small blue jewels. "Doesn't really seem like Hook's style."
Gold steeled his eyes on Emma, knowing what he was about to say would hurt her as much as it did him. "It belonged to Milah. My wife."
Everyone gritted their teeth and shifted uncomfortably. Regina's eyes locked onto Emma's face, finding herself feeling compassion for the conversation that was about to happen.
Emma stood frozen, twitching slightly. "I-I don't understand. Why would that be tied to Killian?"
Gold smirked. "It's her wedding band. A symbolic token representing her commitment, loyalty, and undying love." He slowly walked up to Emma, secretly enjoying seeing the blonde squirm. Now she would know just where Hook's heart truly laid. "As you know, my wife abandoned both me and our son and took up with your handsome pirate. She chose to forsake our vows and her commitment to me the day she left us."
Emma swallowed. "She fell in love with Killian."
Gold nodded almost imperceptibly, still stinging at his wife leaving him so cruelly. "And when she did, ownership of all this ring represents, her loyalty, her...love...was transferred to Killian. And with her dying breath those gifts she so brashly bestowed on the pirate were forever sealed into this ring. It, just like Milah's heart, forever belong to him."
Bo and Lauren's eyebrows shot up. They looked at each other and shook their heads. "Drama," Bo breathed under her breath.
Emma blinked several times without moving. She looked down at the floor, not really sure what to say. She knew that Hook had history with Milah, this was the whole feud between him and Gold to begin with. But to have their romance thrust in her face, to hear that it meant much more to both Milah and Killian than a simple roll in the hay...a realization that she had started to reveal to Regina on the ferry reentered her mind. Perhaps what she was clinging to Killian so desperately for was simply not there. She loved Killian, that was clear. But perhaps it wasn't the true love her family was so destined for. Maybe Milah was Killian's true love. So where did that leave Emma? A hand on her shoulder jolted her back to the present, and she looked over to see her mother looking sympathetically at her.
"It doesn't mean anything, Emma," Snow said softly.
Emma steeled her jaw and straightened her jacket. She looked around as all eyes were on her. They all appeared to be pitying her, all except for Regina. The look on Regina's face, well, she had no idea what that look was. It wasn't pity, though. More like...understanding. "Of course it does," Emma said as she licked her lips. "It means we have a way to find Hook." She nodded at Regina as she took the ring from Gold's hand. "Lets do this."
Regina nodded and lifted her hand to enact the locator spell, but paused as a slight hissing sound came to her ears. The group looked around at each other, each listening intently as the noise became louder, closer.
"What the hell is that?" Regina asked quietly.
Bo tightened her jaw as she pulled both her dagger and her sword from their sheaths, causing Lauren to do the same. "Exactly. Hell."
The hisses and growls came closer until from around the corner came a group of the undead. Rotting flesh, ripped and musty clothes, all reanimated from death, clamoring slowly toward the group of shocked interlopers. The fairy tale group slowly readied their weapons as their eyes grew wide in shock. They stood frozen as Bo stepped in front of them, ready to engage. "Well," she called back to them. "You all carry some decent looking weapons. Lets find out if you know how to use them."
Bo took a step forward as the closest corpse approached, arms outstretched, hissing and spitting bloody saliva. With one swipe the corpse was decapitated and the body fell, once again lifeless.
Regina swallowed hard and balled her hands into fists. "Get behind me, Henry," she instructed, before stepping forward and conjuring two fireballs in her hands.
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Bo had lost track of how many corpses she had dispatched, and was spinning to decapitate another. She didn't notice the one coming up from behind her and was knocked to the ground. She tried to scramble away but was suddenly surrounded. She tried to raise her sword as suddenly one corpse exploded into purple flames, while the other disintegrated into white ashes. She looked up to see Regina and Emma side by side, hands outstretched in her direction. Realizing she had just been saved by the evil queen and her almost-girlfriend, Bo couldn't help but smirk as she stood up and dusted herself off.
She took a few steps over to them, as the last few walking dead were dealt with by Robin and David. "So," she said stopped in front of the women. "You both have magic fingers. How wonderful for you."
Regina scowled at the insinuation, but felt Emma blush and shift her weight next to her. When she saw Emma steal a glance, she could have sworn the woman's face was flushed. What was that reaction about? Regina shook the thoughts of possibilities out of her head and dropped her hands.
Bo looked over as Snow approached her with a pleased look on her face. She glanced down at Bo's sword. "You're pretty good with that thing."
Bo chuckled silently and raised an eyebrow, looking down at Snow's own blade. "You're not so bad yourself. They definitely left the part about Snow White being a bad ass out of the storybooks."
Snow furrowed her eyebrows and shook her head. "So I've heard. Its such a shame how they took so many strong women from the Enchanted Forest and made them into weak damsels in distress. We can take care of ourselves just fine. In fact," Snow nodded over her shoulder toward David, "I've saved his butt more times than he has mine."
David looked up in shock. "Hey!"
"Enough with the competition, guys. Lets get going before more of those things show up," Emma interjected. She smiled as she walked up to Regina and held out the ring. When Regina looked back at her, eyes sparkling in the firelight of the torch, Emma felt her heart skip a beat. Her eyes locked onto those chocolate orbs for just a moment, and her breath caught. For just a fleeting second it was as if they connected on a more intimate level, one that went beyond their forged friendship. There was a kinship, an understanding, a commonality in fighting for love. The strong emotional pull lasted only the briefest moment, but as Emma shook her head to clear her mind, she wondered what it all meant. She cleared her throat as finally she felt Regina's gaze leave her and focus on the ring.
Regina hadn't intended to allow such a moment to transpire between her and Emma. The truth was Emma caught her in the rare moments where she wore her emotions on her face. But whatever the look was that they had exchanged, she didn't feel like Emma recoiled. In fact it was the opposite. But as quickly as the moment came, it was gone, and Regina refocused on casting the locator spell.
Lauren felt Bo nudge her in the ribs as they caught this little moment between Regina and Emma. Lauren half smiled, her eyes not leaving the pair in front of her, and just shook her head as she knew what has going through Bo's head: "Told you so." Lauren's eyes widened as she watched Regina close her eyes, moving her hands as gracefully as an orchestra conductor, bright purple waves cascading toward the ring in Emma's palm.