Hidden Treasures Chapter 16, an once upon a time fanfic

OK, so I finished work earlier than I expected THEN managed to get my meeting wrapped up a lot quicker than I had anticipated with lots of good ideas coming from it sooooo here you go my lovely little Oncers... I typed up a chapter just for you.

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"What? I don't understand... How?" Emma was dumbstruck as her Dad practically yelled down her ear through her cell.

"Just meet me at my truck and I'll explain as we go, Whale is gonna meet us there too... Emma Hook's alive I promise you"

Then he was gone.

Emma pulled her cell away from her ear and just stared at it in disbelief, how could he be right? But her heart was thumping wildly in her chest just at the thought, was Hook really alive?

"Emma? What's going on?" Mary-Margaret spoke breaking her concentration but she didn't answer, she just started to run making her Mom yell after her "EMMA?"

"I gotta go Mom... Hook might still be alive. Stay with the Kid and Henry"

She didn't look back as her Mom called out after her in disbelief, Emma needed her Dad to be right so she just ran with all her might out into the parking lot, eyes darting around wildly, she had no idea where the truck was.

"EMMA over here" David's voice caught her attention and as she turned she saw him waving frantically at her, she was by his side in seconds.

"Dad? What's going on?"

"Get in, Whale is gonna follow in the ambulance" He yelled ducking into the cab.

Emma ran around to the other side and practically threw herself inside, the minute her ass hit the seat her Dad was thumping his foot on the gas and he looking over at her, worry clear on his face.

"I don't know HOW he's alive, I just know he is. I promise Emma, I just know it. Something wasn't right with the kid from the start... the whole two heart beat thing for one, he also had pains in places where he wasn't hurt. God Emma, he had a full blown panic attack, what five year old has panic attacks? Then just now, me and Henry were trying to explain to him about losing Hook after he saw us both crying. Henry was showing him pictures of the Jolly on his cell when the kid suddenly stopped him on a photo of Hook, then asked if he had died. I just thought he had put two and two together to begin with, we had just told him that we had lost Hook so I thought he had just assumed he died. We told him that Hook had just disappeared but then the kid asked if he died in the cave. Something just didn't feel right Emma so I asked him if he saw him there and he said that Hook had tried to help him, he had tried to protect him from the falling rocks. Emma, Hook was there at the same time as the kid... there are two of them!"

"I don't understand" Emma mumbled

"Me neither, it must be something to do with that gem but if I have learned anything over the years it's that I should listen to my gut and right now it is screaming at me"

"I hope you're right Dad, I really do" Emma gushed before turning to stare out the window, the rest of the journey passed in a blur, Emma's mind was reeling from all the what ifs she was trying to answer in her own head.

When they finally came to a stop a few minutes later Emma didn't hesitate, she just threw the door open and started running up the dunes towards the sand but as she hit the crest she gasped and cried out to anyone who was listening.

"Noooooooo... The tide is in!"

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"GRANDMA...Help!" Henry called as Snow rushed back into the room to find him struggling to hold up a semiconscious Killian as the boy lay gasping like a dying fish

"What happened?" she cried looking round wildly for somewhere to put a sleeping Neal down.

"I think he had another panic attack, it's Killian isn't it... I mean Our Killian, Hook. He's the one having the panic attacks isn't it?" Henry asked with eyes full of fear.

Snow quickly placed the sleeping baby down on the other bed before rushing back over to her boys and slamming her hand on the call button before pulling Killian from the bed and cradling him in her arms as he whined quietly. He was completely limp now and her heart clenched as she looked at his tear streaked face, this must be so confusing for him but when her eyes fell back on Henry she realized that she hadn't answered him and he looked scared too.

"I don't know Henry, I really don't" was all she could say as she hugged Killian to her front.

A nurse burst through the door seconds later and rushed over, Killian was pulled from her arms and placed back on the bed as Henry scooted out of the way. They both stood watching as the nurse checked Killian over but he seemed to be a bit more alert now and was crying loudly, calling for Liam. He was trying to fight off the nurse and in the next minute Snow's heart nearly burst when he locked eyes with her and wailed.

"I'm frightened Grandma... don't leave me in the dark"

In that second Snow didn't care if the nurse was annoyed with her or not she just rushed back over to the bed and pulled Killian back into her arms before dropping down onto the chair holding him like he was the most precious thing in the world.

"It's OK, Grandma's got you. Me and Henry are not going anywhere, I've got you" she rocked him back and forth a few times as he carried on sobbing but eventually he calmed enough for her to pull him back so he could look up at her. Snow gave him a soft smile as he let out a deep sigh. "I promise you Killian, you don't need to be frightened anymore"

He just gave a jerky nod of his head but didn't make any attempt to move in fact he snuggled in closer. The nurse seemed to be satisfied that everything was alright, she noted a few things down on Killian's chart before slipping it back in it's holder and leaving the room. Henry sat himself down on the chair next to her and when she glanced up to look at him she could see the worry still on his face.

"He's OK Henry, you did good" she gave him a reassuring smile

"Do you think Hook is OK too?" he asked in a small voice looking down at Killian who seemed to have nodded off

"I hope so" she replied with a sigh

They just sat side by side for a few minutes but when Neal started to stir on the other bed Snow didn't have a choice she had to move otherwise the baby might roll onto the floor. She pulled herself to her feet trying not to wake Killian but as she was about to put him down on his bed he suddenly opened his eyes in panic and gripped her front tighter, she couldn't do it, she couldn't leave him so instead she turned to Henry.

"Henry, can you help me?"

"Sure Grandma, what do you need me to do?"

"Can you lift Neal for me and bring him over?"

Henry did as he was asked and by the time he was walking back over to where Snow was with Neal hitched on his hip she had manged to hoist herself up onto the edge of Killian's bed. She scooted backwards settling herself into the middle of the mattress leaning back on the pillows before managing to tuck Killian into her left side. She turned to Henry and motioned for him to pass over Neal, she bent her knees and sat her Son down on her stomach so that he could lean back on her legs before looking back at her Grandson who was standing by the bed looking lost.

"There's room for another little one" she said with a smile patting the bed on her right hand side with her hand.

Henry's face split into a smile and he practically jumped back on to the bed and snuggled into her right side instantly cooing at the baby.

Snow sighed contentedly, all her boys were safe.

Rumple grit his teeth into another smile as Belle babbled by his side about some mundane something or another, he wasn't really listening but when she suddenly stopped and looked at him he realized that she was expecting an answer.

"Sorry... what?" her face fell into a frown so he quickly added the first thing that came into his head "Sorry I was distracted... I was thinking about that gem stone. Do we have any books on magical gems here?"

He asked the question already knowing the answer but he sauntered over to the bookcase anyway and started checking the spines of all the books on the shelf.

"I don't think I've seen any" Belle replied with another frown before suddenly standing up straight with a gasp "I think I may know just the book, it's at the library. I'll go and get it, give me ten minutes"

She looked so please with herself and inside Rumple was grinning too but instead of showing his true feelings he just said in a calm tone "Wonderful, I will make some tea and we can look over it together when you get back"

Belle grinned at him before leaning in and kissing him swiftly then with that she was turning on her heels and rushing from the shop. The minute she stepped out onto the street Rumple puffed in his smoke turning back into the boy then he was gone too, he had ten minutes to fix Regina and find that gem before his wife returned, when did his life get so complicated? He used to just do what he pleased when he pleased...

He pulled in a sigh and then he was standing in the cave but in a second he realized that he had not been fast enough, he had left Regina for too long. Hook lay passed out on the sand by the pool of water next to a pair of Regina's shoes but the Queen herself was nowhere to be seen. Rumple looked around frantically searching for her but he soon realized that she was gone.

"NOOOOOO" he roared before striding across to the Pirate, he stooped quickly and shoved Hook over onto his back causing him to lurch back into consciousness in a split second, eyes going wide in pain.

"WHERE DID SHE GO?" he screamed but Hook seemed incapable of answering as his eyes rolled in his head.

Rumple could have easily fixed the problem by healing the Pirate but right now he just wanted to inflict as much pain as possible on the man that had plagued him for centuries so he lent over so that he was right in Hook's face.

"I will ask you one more time. Where is she?"

He had expected Hook to react with fear when he opened his eyes and peered up at him but instead the Pirate smirked and breathed out.

"Careful Crocodile... your scales are showing"

"So you know the truth. That makes this a bit easier. I mean let's face it no one is coming so I can do whatever I like to you and no one will ever know and IF your skeleton is ever found no one will think that it is yours, not with the "other" you being back in Storybrooke."

Hook looked unsure for a moment but then he smirked again and croaked "But they are coming for me, they will know all too soon where I am"

Rumple growled as he again looked around the cave and when his eyes fell on the hole in the wall he smirked right back at the Pirate "Not if I have anything to do with it, I presume that Regina has managed to get through that hole into the tunnels beyond so finding her won't be an issue but the question I really need answered is where you have put that jewel?"

He watched as Hook's eyes flicked to the hole in the cave wall before coming back to look up at him but he now wore a look of steely determination on his face.

"I won't tell you" he snarled "You can do as you please, I will not assist you in whatever fool hardy plan you have going on inside that demented mind of yours"

"Is that so Dearie" Rumple curled his lip into a wicked smile and he was glad to see a look of fear streak across the Pirate's face for a split second "I think you'll find I have ways of MAKING you tell me"

With that he shoved his hand through the Pirate's chest and gripped his heart in his fist causing Hook's back to arch from the sand and a scream to echo around the cave, he didn't pull the heart out he just held it tightly waiting for the Pirate to stop writhing about and when he finally managed to settle his breathing and peek open an eye again Rumple lent in close again.

"Where is the Jewel?" Rumple squeezed gently to begin with but Hook still reacted like it was excruciating, his jaw fell open and he gasped loudly with his eyes clamped shut until Rumple released his grip.

"WHERE is the jewel?"

But Hook just chuckled at him "Is that all you have Crocodile?"

Rumple roared again, he didn't have time for this "You have one last chance Pirate, you either tell me or I pull your heart out of your chest and make you tell me... then I crush it"

He watched as Hook gulped and tried to shake his head but Rumple could see his resolve breaking and it would seem that the Gods were looking down on him as the Pirate suddenly gasped out.

"It makes no difference if you have it or not, your plan will fail...It is in that pool of water, near the middle"

Rumple couldn't help himself, he gave the Pirate's heart one last squeeze before pulling his hand free as Hook went limp on the sand in front of him. He suddenly realized that he was still wearing the Lost One's face when he looked down into the pool of water to see the boy staring back but he'd fix that later, he needed the jewel. His eyes danced about and in seconds he had found it, grinning widely he stuck his hand in the water and plucked it from he pebbles.

"At last" he cooed holding the jewel up in the dim light.

Now all he had to do was find Regina and fix that little issue before she told anyone what he had planned, she knew all too well what his jewels were capable of and he couldn't have her ruining this now that he was so close to finally getting what he wanted but just in case she did alert anyone to the Pirate's whereabouts before he got a chance to stop her he would fix the Pirate too. He turned back to Hook and waded his way from the water hoping that he didn't have to repeat this spell on a much lager scale for every resident in Storybrooke which he would if he needed too but it was not easy magic and he would much prefer to not have to deal with such things. He held his hand out over the unconscious form and let his magic flow, the Pirate would remember nothing of this and if at anytime in his near future he even so much as thought about uttering the words "Jewel of Duplicity" he would live to regret it.

"Now I just need to get back, distract Belle with something or another then wait for our Queen to make an appearance" he smirked to himself as he stood "Yes Regina, you didn't take into account that these particular set of tunnels lead straight to the vault beneath the library, all I have to do is sit and wait and you will come straight to me"

With that he was gone leaving Hook lying motionless on the sand as the tide slowly receded.