This chapter is dedicated to DisneyFantasy because this acc wrote a review on my birthday last week and I was inspired by it to continue the story. I'd like to say thank you to all of you who have my notifs on and like & review. Just know that this means a lot to me.
Emma, Felicity, Oliver and Killian stood in front of the cells in the Storybrooke Sheriff Department. Regina Mills had put a leather wrist band around the Wicked Witch's wrist of which she claimed it had the power to take Zelena's magic from her. Now Regina looked at the cell too, arms crossed in front of her chest. Zelena still was unconscious from being hit with the tree branch.
"I don't get it", Regina eventually let show what bothered her, "The only thing I achieved with my magic was buying time but you simply knocked her out without a weapon."
"That's what I do", Emma gave as a weak explanation, "You should have seen how I once crashed the head of an idiot who had gotten cheeky against his steering wheel."
"Although I don't know what that is, I'm certain you'd make a hell of a pirate", Killian said, scratching his ear with his pointer finger, grinning again.
"That's not the point", Regina said, stressed out. "The point is you arrive here from your sparkling city-" "Starling City", Felicity corrected her silently. "-and win over a very powerful witch that could have inflicted a lot of misery. Why?" Regina had turned her back to the cell while she spoke and was now facing the visitors from mentioned city.
"I have absolutely no idea" Emma replied, tempted to take a step back, feeling intimidated by the anger that seemed to surround the Mayor in her plain and tasteful business clothes. But maybe her feelings were due to the lack of answers she was able to give her own questions. The truth was the realization how much the people feared Zelena made her insecure. She couldn't tell why she'd won against her and it made her feel uncomfortable.
"But I do" Killian announced, drawing everyone's attention to him. Questioning looks pierced him while he didn't bother to reveal his knowledge right away. Oliver already was about to force him to speak when he finally opened his mouth again. To everyone else's disappointment he said two words precisely. "The prophesy."
"What prophesy?", Oliver asked. Killian looked from him to Emma and seemed more confused than Oliver. "Swan, didn't you tell them?"
"Might have forgotten that bit", Emma admitted, grimacing guiltily. "Or rather decided not to tell us", Felicity assumed, knowing her sister better.
"What prophesy?", Oliver asked again, louder this time but not less calm.
"Killian told me there was a woman who was able to rescue the…Enchanted Forest as soon as she believed whatever that means", Emma summarized the main idea of what Killian told her on his ship yesterday. Regina listened carefully. "What happened before you hit Zelena?", she questioned.
"Um I saw how you controlled this man by talking to his heart and that was the only thing in this crazy town, no fence, that was comprehensible for me and then I remembered the prophesy, drank from Killian's rum and took the tree branch", Emma recalled.
"Told you to start with the rum" Killian smirked, not noticing an annoyed side glance from Regina who assembled the puzzle pieces. "When you saw me controlling Graham you must have accepted your role and therefore-" "-Rose to victory over me. What a pity that I'm not defeated yet. Oopsie" Zelena smiled with satisfaction. She obviously had recovered from her unconsciousness and was back in the mood to argue with everyone else.
"What does she mean?" Oliver and Felicity asked with one voice.
"Froget about her. Those are empty threats" Regina assured, turning to Zelena before she ended her sentence, "because she can't use magic anymore. Leave her to me", she added with a devilish grin.
"Are you saying you want us to leave?", Felicity made sure.
"Well at least I'm not asking you to stay", Regina made clear. "Oh it's alright. Just go. I'm not a danger anymore", Zelena added, laughing. Felicity, Emma and Oliver looked from Regina to Zelena and then at each other. They knew each of them just wanted to get back to Starling City which wasn't particularly safer but less…enchanted.
They bid Regina Mills goodbye and left the Sheriff Department. On the main streets of Storybrooke they met David. It had emerged that he was the sheriff and therefore he had brought Zelena to her cell with Oliver's help.
"Are you leaving?", he asked surprised.
"It appears the Mayor is chucking us out", Oliver said.
"She's not the one for a kind 'Thank you'", David explained with a smile. "I've noticed", Emma muttered. "But we others are even more thankful for your help in this crisis", David offered genuinely.
"Our time in your town certainly was memorable", Felicity noted, leaving the judging of her comment to him.
"Goodbye and thanks again" David said, shaking hands with Oliver before he went back to Granny's diner where the towns people were having a post crisis meeting.
"Aye I'm going to join these three. Farewell", Killian exclaimed behind him, going to the docks with his company from Starling. Emma looked at him, asking: "Are you serious?"
"You've seen how the people in this town think of me. Here's nothing that holds me. And I gather I owe you a trip back home", Killian said, pressing his lips together in what looked like a discreet smile. Soon they were back at the docks. The sun was setting by now and drowned the harbor and the Jolly Roger in a deep orange light. They had arrived in the twilight this morning and now that they went back they couldn't believe this day really had happened.
Felicity felt as though all of this was a weird dream and when she woke up she would be lying with her head on top of her computer keyboard at her desk because she'd fallen asleep, waiting for Emma to come home. The pirate shouting, "Get ready to set sails", didn't help at all.
"Hey", Emma said, joining Felicity at her spot next to the ship's rail a short while later. "Hey", Felicity replied, without looking up. "I think we need to talk", Emma offered. Oliver saw the sisters and decided to give them privacy by going to Killian who steered the ship, standing at the helm which he held with his hook.
"Listen, all I ever wanted was protecting you and starting to cooperate with Arrow was the most risky thing I could have done. I knew that, so I wanted to keep you away from this and that's when I started to lie. To protect you. And at some point I got lost in this maze I created myself", Emma said, opening up completely.
Felicity listened closely to what she had to say. "Emma, I know all you did your whole life was protecting me but we're both grown ups now. I can bear the truth because at the end of the day it comes to light anyways. You should know that."
"You're right. I'm sorry. I told myself it was okay to lie to you in order to protect you but that was wrong. Can you forgive me?", Emma asked with a warm smile. Felicity opened her arms and gave her sister a long and genuine hug. "Consider yourself forgiven."
"Ladies, that was a crazy adventure for sure but believe me when I say, I'm glad as soon as I kick some real criminal asses back in Starling", Oliver announced as the closing word of the day. The sisters agreed and they talked about needing some sleep back home, this time not disappearing below deck.
Hours later, they arrived in Starling City, but instead of finding it as quiet as a big city before the rush hour could possibly be, they arrive in a city ruled by chaos. Police sirens, blue lights flashing and screams.
"There goes my eight hours sleep", Felicity sighed, not able to hide a yawn.
"What the hell happened here?"