Hidden Treasures Chapter 64, an once upon a time fanfic

So I managed to do you another update tonight.

What is Devin going to get up to?

Oh Junior how I love you... you make me smile as I type.

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"Belle please! I do not wish to spend my entire afternoon surrounded by people that do not wish to see me there" Rumple cried following her through to the back shop

He had other things that he needed to do. Like track down that good for nothing Lost One and squeeze the living breath out of him with his own bare hands.

"Whether you like it or not Rumple Junior is now family and we are going..." Belle spoke gently with a shrug but then she mumbled something as she lifted the large gift from the table "although you will probably have to stay outside while we're there"

"I'm sorry what was that?" Rumple asked tipping his head but he knew exactly what Belle had just said he just didn't know why.

Belle blew out a breath "You can't go into the pool house any more. Regina used some potion or another so no one with dark magic or dark intentions can enter. They think that Devin has somehow been using magic and they are just trying to keep everyone safe... you can understand that can't you?"

Rumple was seething inside. How was he supposed to get HIS gem back if he couldn't get in the pool house?

"So let me get this straight. You want me" he stood himself up straighter and pointed to himself with a voice full of sarcasm "To attend a party for a duplicate copy... albeit a much younger duplicate copy of my oldest enemy and I can't even go inside the house to get out of the heat. Well why didn't you say so Belle? It sounds just like my cup of tea. Let's get going..."

"Don't you take that tone with me Rumplestiltskin" she cried out in despair "Look, can't you just do this for Henry. He is so excited to have a new Brother and you... you said that you would try your best to make him happy. Baelfire would want you to do this."

"Do not bring Bae into this" Rumple grit out

"Why not? It's true and you know it." Belle threw her hands out "Baelfire put his differences aside with Killian for the greater good. He could have held on to his hate and many people would not have blamed him but he didn't... for Henry. Surely you can do the same"

Rumple sighed, he was not going to win this fight so he held his hands up in surrender "You win Belle, I shall go BUT be warned if that boy so much as sneers at me with that same look his older self gives me I am leaving. He has already taken to calling me "Crocodile", I will not have it Belle, I will not have him disrespecting me in front of the town"

Belle grinned widely "He won't. David has already told him off for that. From here on in you will be addressed as Mr. Gold"

She surged forward and kissed his cheek but something in the way she looked as she pulled back had him worried "Are you alright? Is something wrong?"

She looked quite flustered for a minute then simply smiled and shrugged "I guess I'm just happy. I hope that Junior likes his gift"

"What did you get him?" he asked looking into her basket that she had dropped it into

"WE got him the full collection of Roald Dahl books. I must admit I have read a few from the library and they seem like fun" she was beaming from ear to ear and he couldn't help smiling along with her

"I am sure he will love them" he sighed holding out his arm for her to take "Come on then if we are to go I at least want there to be some food left"

She took his arm and they headed to the door which Rumple held open for her to walk through, he was just about to step out after her when he had a sudden feeling that someone was behind him. He spun quickly and narrowed his eyes but there was no one there... he must have imagined it so with a sigh he pulled the door closed and locked it before taking Belle's arm again and heading off down Main Street.

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So it would seem that the boy was NOT Hook's Son but a copy of Hook himself... this made things much more interesting. The gem had duplicated the Pirate, was this where the other boy that the Dark one had talked of going to come from? Was he going to duplicate someone? Devin walked around the counter to stand in the middle of Gold's shop and looked around curiously. He had heard rumors that he was supposed to have broken in here and stolen something so if people believed that he had he may as well make it the truth.

He sauntered around picking up many things and just letting them fall to the floor when he was done looking at them. He knew he had time... who would have thought that the Dark One would be attending a child's Birthday Party?! Devin smirked to himself as he walked through the curtain into the back shop. This place was crazy, there was so much good stuff that he had to remind himself that he was merely looking for two things, he needed nothing other than the gem and the Dark One's Dagger.

He walked around the shelves picking up strange objects and peering at them until his eyes fell on a old pick axe... maybe it had belonged to a dwarf at some point but right now it was exactly what he was looking for so with a grin he pulled it up, slung it over his shoulder and headed back into the front room. The way Devin looked at it was that he was dead anyway if the Dark One ever caught up to him so he might as well do something worth dying for.

"Now where oh where can a little gem be hiding?" he pondered letting his eyes roam the cabinets then with a grin he readied himself "How about in here?"

With that he swung the axe and the glass shattered into thousands of pieces sending them skittering across the floor. He lent heavily on the axe handle as the head rested on the floor and he peered amongst the ruins.

"Nope... guess not but this is fun" he grinned to himself as he systematically worked his way around the place striking out at everything he possibly could.

He was sweating heavily by the time he was heading back into the back shop to carry on with his game but it took him less than five minutes to find half of what he was searching for as he smashed his axe through the large bookcase and a load of jars fell to the floor. He knew the instant he saw it that this was the other gem, it was similar enough in size and had the same swirling pattern of the blue gem that he had held briefly to know that he had found what he was looking for. He picked it up in his fingers and held it up to the light.

"One down one to go" he laughed out shoving the gem into his pocket then just carrying on with his destruction... he was fairly sure that the blade was not here but he was having too much fun now to stop. He liked this axe, it felt good in his hand, he may just need to keep it. It would go very well with his crossbow that was still back at the loft... he was getting quite a collection of weapons and he liked it.

David grinned to himself as he made his way into Hook's bedroom, he needed his partner in crime to help him with his next endeavor. While the kids and most of the other guests played their games outside he still needed to fill over 200 water balloons.

"Hook" he hissed not wanting to startle the Pirate

"Hmmmmm?" he moaned as he peeked open an eye

"You awake?" David whispered

"I am now. Has that been an hour already?"

"Near enough but I need you"

Hook's eyebrow shot up and his eyes sprang open "Why? What's happened?"

"Nothing yet but we need to fill these bad boys while the kids are distracted. I have four big tubs to put them in so that we can store them for our teams"

Hook gave a cough as he sat up and swung his feet over the edge of the bed with a groan. Suddenly David regretted waking him, he still looked like crap.

"Or you could go back to sleep... I can manage if you're not up to it"

"And miss seeing this! Not likely Mate. I can sleep as long as I like tomorrow" he grit out through clenched teeth then sighed "but perhaps I could maybe use the wheeled chair for a while it would seem that I may have over done things a little"

"You sure you're up to this?"

"Aye Mate I just need my pills then I will be fine" Hook replied in earnest and the look on his face had David agreeing, he really didn't want to miss this.

"Alright" David agreed with a nod "I'll go grab the chair then we can start filling these. There's a faucet out on the patio that will make it easier and Emma has promised to keep the kids down on the lawn until we're done"

He ran out and grabbed the chair, the meds and a drink for the Pirate and he was back in no time. Hook took his pills with a grimace and a shake of his head then with David's help pulled himself to his feet to drop down into the chair. David just opened the doors in the bedroom that led to the patio and pushed the Pirate outside into the bright sunshine.

"Hang on, I'll grab the parasol so you're not fried to death"

"Thanks" Hook mumbled as he studied the little packets of balloons carefully before yanking one open with his teeth and holding up a yellow balloon raising an eyebrow "These things are tiny"

David dropped the parasol down and adjusted it so that they were sitting in the shade then tugged the balloon from Hook's fingers "Just watch"

He turned the water on to a slow trickle and brought the balloon up to the faucet where it quickly grew in size and when he pulled it back and tied it off the Pirate grinned "I like it. Let me do the filling, I'm not so sure I will be much use at the tying part!"

David pushed Hook's chair forward a bit so that he could easily reach and in no time at all they found a rhythm but even so it was slow going and by the time all the balloons were full Hook was obviously struggling with the whole leaning forward thing.

"You OK?" David asked as Hook sat back and rolled his head back and forth a few times.

"Aye, my neck is just a bit stiff but I'll be alright in a minute" he replied bringing his hand up to the back of his head

"I'll just get these tubs into place. We'll not start until you are up to it but don't rush, from what I can see they're still playing happily down there so take your time"

With that he was pulling the heavy tubs across the patio to each corner of the pool, he glanced up to see Hook had closed his eyes and tipped his head back but he was smiling to himself so David wasn't worried. Hook was about to be able to join in for the first time that day and David just knew that the Pirate in him would shine, he was going to love coming up with a plan to try and win and David found himself willing him to have a good time.

He made his way back over a few minutes later and dropped down to sit on the low wall next to Hook who opened his eyes and smiled "All done?"

"Yip, everything's in place we just need the teams now."

"And how are those decided?" Hook asked squinting up at him and David suddenly realized that the Pirate was looking into the sun so he stood and walked around to the other side making it look like he was just checking on the balloons.

"Easy, I have a hat that has strips of colored card in it. Four colors, four teams of four people that match the four tubs. So each person that wants to play sticks their hand in the hat and pulls out a color and they're in that team"

"And what are the rules to this game? What is the prize?"

"No rules" David chuckled "No prize. The aim of the game is to simply try and stay as dry as possible while soaking the opposition"

"In that case bring up the troops, this I have to see" Hook smiled widely "I think that we are ready, don't you?"

David nodded then stood quickly and walked to the top of the steps where he whistled loudly to get Emma's attention. She turned and when he gave her the thumbs up sign she waved back and in seconds the group were moving up towards the house again. Henry, Rapha and Junior were running up ahead and when they came to the top of the steps Henry yelled.

"WATER BALLOONS, YES"

"What are water balloons?" Junior asked looking at Henry who promptly stooped down and plucked one from the nearest tub

"This" he gave it a wiggle "Is a water balloon. We are about to have a fight with them. We split into teams and you have to throw these at the other teams to get them as wet as possible"

Junior grinned obviously liking the idea.

David stepped inside and grabbed the hat from the table and came back out "Right we need sixteen players, who's in?"

There was a murmur and a few people stepped forward.

"OK, everyone who wants to join in stick your hand in here and take out ONE bit of card, the card will match up with a tub, go stand next to it" he was about to start when he had a sudden thought, he glanced at Hook and saw that the tub next to him was red so he stuck his hand into the hat and pulled out a few bits of card before plucking a red one out and walking over to the Pirate and handing it over. "That way you don't need to move"

Hook slowly lifted his hand and took it blinking a couple of times in confusion "I am to play?"

"Of course you're gonna play you idiot, it's only water and you're about to get in the hot tub once were done anyway"

He turned away quickly trying not to laugh at the look of shock on Hook's face, did he really think that he was just going to have to watch?

"OK, Birthday boy first" David said holding out the hat to Junior who beamed up at him and stuck his hand in pulling out a red card.

"I am with Papa" he yelled out jumping into the air before running quickly over to the tub

Rapha was next and he picked yellow, Henry was blue, Emma was also blue, Snow was green, Regina... wait, Regina was actually planning on getting wet in a balloon fight?! Regina picked out green, Rufio was red, Tiger Lily was yellow then David picked and got red. All the dwarves except Leroy came in quick succession and that was it done.

David tossed the hat to one side and made his way over to his team crouching down and whispering "OK guys how do you want to play this?"

"I say slow and steady" Hook grinned sitting forward "The others will probably go in fast and hard, if we can concentrate on dodging a few first we will have the upper hand as they try to grab more balloons. David and Rufio if you stand either side of the tub and Junior stands in front I can feed you balloons as you need them, it means that you do not need to take your eyes away from the fight and you will see any coming your way but I need to be out of this thing. Can you assist me into sitting on the ground it will make this easier"

David had liked the plan up until this point, he stood up and shook his head "I'm not so sure that's a good idea"

"Come on Mate, five minutes of sitting on the ground will do me no harm... I can do this"

David sighed "Fine but if you hurt yourself don't say I didn't warn you"

Rufio and David pulled Hook from the chair and slowly lowered him down onto a pillow that Junior had grabbed from the bed inside and in no time at all they were ready to go.

David turned "OK teams, are you all ready?" there was a chorus of agreement so David turned to Leroy "Would you do the honors of starting our fight?"

"It would be my pleasure Brother" Leroy replied with a grin stepping forward "On the count of three everyone. OK... ONE... TWO...WAIT FOR IT... TH... THREE!"

The air was just a blur of color as everyone launched their balloons but Hook's tactic worked as the reds dodged the first barrage then as the others were grabbing more balloons they took that opportunity to strike.

Emma squealed loudly as a balloon burst on her ass and Regina was so busy laughing that she didn't see the one headed her way until it burst right in her face. Junior was laughing wildly but David was not surprised to find that the kid had a ridiculously good aim... was there anything he couldn't do?

David was hit a couple of times, both were just glancing blows that mostly sent water onto the ground but when he glanced at Junior it was to find water streaming off the kid. He wondered how he had gotten so wet but soon realized what was going on, every time a balloon was headed for Hook he was jumping in the way... he was protecting his Papa.

David was so distracted by this revelation that a balloon slapped him right in the face and he was left gasping as the cold water covered him, he looked round quickly to see who it had been that had thrown it to find Mary-Margaret grinning like a mad woman.

"You'll pay for that" he yelled out taking the offered balloon from Hook's hand without even looking back and launching it quickly back at his wife who gave a giggling scream as it soared straight for her hitting her mid chest

"OH MY GOSH THAT IS SO COLD" she cried out while laughing

Henry got in the next good shot hitting Rufio on the head making his Mohawk fall flat on his head, the former lost one just shook his head to take his hair from his eyes and launched one straight back which Henry tried to avoid but in his bid to escape he fell in the pool.

"HENRY IS THE WETTEST" Junior yelled out pointing and everyone laughed.

David was seriously starting to tire when Hook spoke up "Only six left, use them wisely men"

David looked around quickly to see that both the yellows and the greens had ran out of balloons and only the blues had any left but on the next volley which the reds managed to avoid the blues ran out too and David gave a wicked smile turning back to Junior.

"You have six left kid and no one else has any... you get free pick, who do you want to hit"

Junior grinned and stepped forward taking the first balloon "I think that I would like to hit... MOMMA"

His arm moved like a whip and the balloon was making contact before anyone knew what was happening. Emma gave an extra loud dramatic scream for effect and the kid bounced with joy. David glanced behind himself to see Hook one again clutching at his chest but he wore the most idiotic smile on his face... yeah he was having fun too this time.

"Right kid... who's next?"

He watched as Junior's eyes scoured the other teams "I choose... Rapha"

Again his arm flew and Rapha played along taking the hit and falling dramatically into the pool like he had been shot making Junior squeal with joy again.

"Four left... who is next?"

Junior turned and took the next balloon but also lent into the tub and took out another "I chose... Grandma and Gina"

David's eyes went wide in wonder as the kid launched the balloons simultaneously and hit both targets who made screaming noises like they were melting. David was looking back at Hook in an instant trying to ask how the kid managed it but the Pirate just grinned and gave a shrug before handing over the next balloon.

Junior gave a little giggle as he took a few steps away from his group... he looked around the others before turning quickly. David didn't have time to register what was happening before the balloon hit him in the face and he was drenched. He spluttered and gasped as the water once again covered his front.

"That was sneaky Junior Jones... we are supposed to be on the same team!" he blurted out but the kid just grinned wider and came back for the last balloon.

He was back to looking around the group, David watched his face as the grin that the kid had been wearing for most of the day faltered, Junior narrowed his eyes and a look that David had never seen on the boy before appeared... he wore a look of sheer hate and in that moment he looked just like Hook in his darkest days.

The balloon was launched and David followed it with his eyes as it sailed across the sky past the crowd of people in a high arc. He gave a sigh of relief thinking that the kid had missed everyone but he should have known better. The balloon quickly descended and there was a collective gasp from the crowd of people as it landed right on the head of the Dark One himself...

David turned quickly to see Junior grinning like a fool and when he looked back at Hook for support it was to find that he had an identical grin spread over his face.

It would seem that things were about to get very interesting!