The tire's on her car came to a screeching halt in front of Storybrooke General as she stopped just shy of Emma's yellow bug before jumping out of her black car to see Mary Margaret being carefully transferred into a wheelchair provided by nurse.
"Regina's on her way with Robin and the Merry Men" She informs the blonde as they follow the former Princess through the hospital corridor's "We'll be able slow Zelena and my Uncle down for a while"
"What about your thieves and mercenaries. Can they help?" Emma asked the woman as Dr. Whale found them.
"Not enough came through with the curse this time. Zelena laid siege on my home and killed most of them including Luke. I've barely got enough to run the bar let alone fight the Wicked Witch" she tells the blonde "I can spare a few to sure up the number's but we won't be able to hold off my Uncle or Zelena for long" she warns the blonde as Mary Margaret is taken into a room with Charming by her side.
"Do what you can, that's all I can ask" Emma tells her as the assassin give the savior a firm nod before going to leave the small family to meet her partner and friend at the entrance only for the blonde to stop her "Hey. I'm sorry" she simply says to the older woman with a look of sympathy.
"Don't be. He knew what he was doing, they call did" she gulped the feeling of guilt still present. No matter how much she told herself that the feeling never seemed to ease. She missed them more than she was letting on.
"Still, he was your friend. Your home"
"Monteriggioni was never a place, it's a people" she repeated the words that Romeo had said to her over and over again before finally leaving the blonde to organised the first line of defense against the Wicked Witch and her Uncle.
With what little men she could spare and willing to face the Wicked With once again, she left them armed with Robin Hood and his Merry Men in the hospital lobby ready for her to rejoin them one Mary Margaret was close to giving birth, leaving Regina and Emma to create magical barrier's on either end of the corridor to protect the laboring woman one Zelena got through their first line of defense.
The redhead watched through the observation as David continued to hold his wife's hand through the early contractions, she remembered them well knowing the worse was only to come. At least the woman didn't have to do it on a ship. Every so often the younger woman would look past her husband's shoulder to give the redhead a smile through the pain the wrecked through her body. Giving the younger woman a confident wink of 'You've got this' each time.
"You really think this protection spell will be enough to hold her off?" the blonde asked the more experienced sorceress down the hall.
"It depends" Regina answered the blonde as she turned and approach the savior "If your brand of magic is stronger than hers. If it is, no one wielding dark magic will be able to get in here" Regina tells her.
"That doesn't sound like a vote of confidence" Emma retorted.
"It isn't, but we're out of options" she sadly told the blonde she turned to join the redhead at the window reading Amelia's expression as a nurse pulled the curtain across to give Snow some privacy. The assassin hadn't left the window since she had arrived making the former Queen wonder what else could be on her mind.
"You're worried" the Queen easily observed in the reflection seeing the troubled look she gave off.
"I'm always worried about a sorceresses coming to harm Snow while she's giving birth" Amelia retorted.
"Funny" Regina dryly retorted to the redhead.
She needed to tell her about Robin, about what he said before the curse was broken and she got her memories back, but she knew it had to wait until everyone was safe. Regina looked at her in a mix of worry, at the Assassin lengthened silence
"What's wrong then? Other than the obvious"
"It can wait" she tries to brush off her concern yet again. Compared to what they were up against her brief affair with the thief was not important at the moment. And yet it was the only thing she could think about as his confession hung over her head before she got all her memories back.
"Melia" Regina call out to her taking her hand into hers "What ever it is, you can tell me"
"It's Robin" Amelia started "There's something I haven't told you about him, something that happened before the first curse-"
"What do you mean?" she asked with furrowed brow's of confusion.
"We had an affair" she saw the woman's face drop at the confession as the redhead "It was a year or so after his wife died, before I ever realized I was in love with you and it ended just as quickly as it started"
"W-What happened?" she stammered trying to keep a level head.
"He hurt the Widow" she tells the woman she loved "We had started talking about me giving up my vengeance to start again somewhere new together with Roland, but then he did something unforgivable in the eye's of the Widow, at the time Angelo kept slipping through every trap I had set up, to catch him until Robin had found him only to let him go again"
He betrayed her in the worst way possible. Not only did he let someone connected to Brotherhood go, he let go the man that had killed her husband and taken Thomas away. The former Queen could see the pain that still lived in the redheads eye's.
"How did you find out?"
"Rumple" the redhead gulped out "He showed me what happened, and when I confronted Robin about it, he admitted to it. So I sent him away never to be found again. Us meeting him the Forest again was the first time I saw him in years"
"If this is all in the past, why it worrying you now?"
"Something happened before the curse broke and I got my memories back. He-" she was cut off by the arrival of Henry and Tom escorted by Leroy.
"Hey mom. Is the baby here?" Henry asked his birth mother as she walked back down the hallway.
"Not yet, but it will be soon" Emma replied coming back from the other end of the corridor "I'm sorry, but I have to go. I have to take care of this witch, but it's gonna be alright and I'll be back before you know it" the tried to reassure her son.
"I know. I'm not worried"
"Yeah?"
"Defeating bad guys is what you do" he tells her before Emma brings her son into a loving embrace as Regina approaches the pair.
"Go" Regina tells the blonde "We'll keep him safe" taking her son by his shoulders as the looks towards the assassin who gives the blonde a reassuring wink.
"Thank you" Emma tells them before Hook called out to her.
"You ready, Swan?" the pirate called from down the hall.
"Yeah. Let's end this" she says stomping down the corridor to face the Wicked Witch. Leaving the other's to do their side of the job.
Time stretched for the group that remained behind as Mary Margaret's scream's became louder and more frequent with each painful contraction that passes through her. The former Assassin hadn't been able to speak further on the former's confession as the thief had joined them and their sons waiting for the assassin's order.
But they both knew they had to put what had been said on the back burner until they had dealt with the Wicked Witch. And now they had run out of time.
"Robin" she called to the thief opposite waiting for her orders, the thief looked up to her ready and willing with his crossbow "It's time" with a firm nod he left the Assassin as they heard another scream of pain through the walls.
"Lia?" Henry called out to the redhead who was with his mother, Archie and Tom.
Looking towards her soulmate she tried to convene how much she had loved the her in one look "We'll try and slow them down as much as we can, you need to be ready for when she comes" she warns the former queen getting a nod of understand from her as Tom suddenly steps away from the older woman and Henry as he starts to head towards the entrance
"What are we waiting for, let's go" Tom says making them blink at him in confusion as Amelia see's the gauntlets on his arms. He was planning on fighting the witch himself. The redhead had to practically run down the hallway to catch him by the scruff of his jacket to stop him in his tracks.
"No,no,no,no" she tells him as she rounded on him to put herself in his way "You're staying with Henry and Archie" she tells him.
"But Mom, I can fight, I can help" Tom lifted up his forearms to flick his wrists making the blades spring out "You gave me these for a reason, I can do it".
"I gave you those because I thought I was dying" she tells him straight "I couldn't die without giving you something that was rightfully your's. I know the way you found out about me wasn't the best way, but I meant everything I said to you but now I need you to listen to me as someone who knows what's best for you at this moment-"
"I have waited two lifetimes to get you back there is no way in hell I'm letting you anywhere near her, do you understand?" he finally nods in understanding looking down at the ground sheathing his blades. Amelia placed her palms on his cheeks making him look at her "So whatever you hear or see, I need to stay here with Regina and Archie and stay safe" he nodded once again in defeat before throwing himself into his mother's arms as she cradles the back of his head.
Slightly pulling out of the embrace she leaves a loving kiss on her son's forehead before making herself turn around to leave him with Regina, Archie and Henry to face the witch head on.
Finding Robin Hood with some of his Merry Men and her mercenaries, she saw them lined up at the back of the lobby with modern compact bow's in their hands as the thief himself met her in the middle of the emptied lobby ready fight back whatever was coming.
"We all ready?" she asks her long time friend as not being able to meet his eye.
"We are my lady" he confirms before he spoke up again in lowered voice "We need to speak about what I told you before-"
"Robin, now is really not the time. Snow is about to give birth and we have an ex-lover of mine and my uncle about to take said babe away"
"But when" he gently pressed "What I said-"
"Was before I remembered what you did" she reminded the man "You let the one man who knew where my son go. I don't even think the great Robin Hood can be forgiven for by anyone"
"My lady-" he starts
"Regina know's" she tells the man making him freeze "She know's about the relationship and why it ended, but she doesn't know about the kiss. And I intend not to tell her until Zelena has finally been dealt with"
"Right. I understand" he mournfully admits as the lights above them flicker and the hairs on her arm spring to life as she felt the dark magic that was closing down on the building
"She's here" she states before walking out of the main entrance ready to face the woman that had been a thorn in their sides.
This had gone on long enough. And she was going to end it one way or another.
Sauntering down the paved road, the Wicked Witch and the Dark One came closer to the entrance of the hospital were the last ingredient the Witch needed to complete her spell and change everything for her. To create her own destiny where Rumpelstiltskin had chosen her to cast the dark curse, not her little sister. One where Amelia would've chosen to stay in Oz to complete her vengeance with her and be loyal to only her.
As the pair neared the entrance, they saw a couple of dwarf's guarding it before a figure she recognized walked out of the building to meet them head on.
"Go inside" Amelia order's the dwarfs as she meet's Zelena's gaze. They look at her as she stares down the Wicked Witch with a blank expression as she flicked her hands and wrists out letting out hidden blades in her gauntlets beofre they slipped back in "Now" she pressed. They didn't hesitate at the woman's orders and run into the hospital.
"Incoming!" one of them shouted to Robin and his men inside leaving Amelia with the Wicked Witch and her Uncle. The villain stopped with the Dark One beside her as they saw the redhead not moving from her place firmly in their way to retrieve Snow's baby.
"Amelia" Zelena light voice chirped in greeting of the Assassin as she and the Dark came to stop in front of her "I assume you have all your memories back" she saw waving the dagger carelessly in the air.
"Every single one honey" she answered the Wicked Witch with a sickly grin.
"It's a shame really" Zelena started as she took a confident step towards the Assassin brandishing the Dark One's dagger in her hand "I rather liked you the way you were, oblivious, confused, weak"
"It must burn you that I found Regina even if I didn't know who you were"
"An inconvenience at most, dearie" as she got closer to the redhead. Zelena was a breath away from Amelia face as she brought the dagger up to the Assassins face placing the sharp tip on her cheek "We could've been powerful together" she whispered into the opposite ear "We could've had it all".
Closing the further between their faces so that the tip of her nose grazed Zelena's cheek affectionately before she whispered into the Wicked Witch's ear "Not. With. You" the sound of the red head's hidden blade was catalyst the fight that Amelia had been waiting for since their return form the Enchanted Forest. She knew it would be a bloody affair. And she wasn't disappointed.
With their aim steady at the front door's Robin and the men behind him as the silence drowned out the lobby of the entrance as they waited for anything to happened after the resident assassin went outside to confront their enemies head on to give Snow and David every second they she could before Zelena finally got through.
every second that she could.
That silence was broken as the Inner doors to the entrance burst open with Amelia being thrown through them onto the floor in front of them in a painful heap, quickly followed in by Zelena and Gold stopping just in front of the beaten Assassin who was slowly getting up from the ground.
Robin Hood and the Merry Men's eyes widened in shock to see a deep cut in the Wicket Witch's cheek compared to the burst lip and small cuts that littered the Assassins as she saw the deep bruises that were already forming on the red head's arms and face
"Who's next?" Zelena offered to men with weapons as Amelia leapt up from the floor to attack Zelena with her hidden blade. The sharp blade getting dangerously close to the Witches heart only for Gold thrust out a hand to throw his niece on to the wall behind the Merry Men. They heard the Assassins back hit the wall hard as she was being magically pinned to the wall by her throat as she couldn't help but choke at the pressure on her throat.
The thief could only watch as the woman frantically kicked out her legs in the struggle as her face turned red in the strain as she choked trying to pry the invisible force off her neck.
"Let her go!" Robin ordered the Dark One aiming his crossbow at the older man.
"I can't" the Dark One under Zelena's control told the thief.
Losing his cool Robin pulled the trigger of his crossbow letting the bolt fly towards the man's head only for it to be stopped the same way it did in the forest. Mid-flight the older man turned the bolt in the air, aiming it straight back at the thief before letting it go again. Robin ducked down for the bolt to miss him by inches only for it to go through Amelia's' left shoulder into the wall behind her making strangled sobs leave the woman's throat when The pressure that she felt on her that suddenly lifted as the scream finally left her throat.
With a wave of her wand any help the assassin may had received was stopped Zelena send the men to ground, leaving the assassin painfully pinned to the wall allowing Zelena and Gold continued down the corridor towards the woman in labor.
The duo rounded the corner to meet the next attempt to stop them in Belle. "Oh, didn't you learn your lesson the last time? This is more powerful than your true love" Zelena tells the librarian as they continued onward.
"I refuse to believe that" Belle retorted
"Belle, go" Gold tried to plead with his love.
"Listen to him, dear. No. You've put him through enough pain. And I'm not nearly done!" Zelena waved her hand again and sent Belle to collapse into Gold's arms "Your taste in women really has gone downhill" Zelena sniped at the old man laughing at his expense "Leave her dearie. Chop chop" she orders him. Reluctantly leaves his love on the hospital floor as he follows on.
Following his mother's instructions Tom stayed in the hospital corridor with Regina, Henry, and Archie as Snow's wails continued to come from inside the room they were protecting until they all heard something that made all jump and look down the hall to where the sound was coming from. A scream of pain that didn't come from the room next to them. More specifically his mother's scream.
Flicking the hidden blades from their sheathes the teen started to make a beeline towards the source of noise as he let his anger towards the witch take over his mind to confront the woman that had made his mother scream out like that.
He was almost at the end of the corridor before he heard heels catch up the teenager "Thomas stop!" Regina tells him pulling him back by his arm making his whip around to the person holding him back.
"She's hurting her!" he protested to the former Queen.
"Better her than you!" she yells back in his face as Henry and Archie watch on behind him "Believe me, when my sister come's I will not hesitate to make her pay to whatever she's done to your mother, but you'll only be putting yourself in danger. Melia know's what she was doing, she has always known what she was she's doing"
"Doing what exactly, getting herself killed?!" he angrily retorts.
"Protecting her family and the one's she loves. That now includes you. She had gave up an entire lifetime's worth of memories to make sure you were safe. Repay her now by listening to her" she tells him as they hear a pairs of footsteps approach them making the former Queen whirl around as they got louder.
"Tom. Henry, go with Dr. Hopper. Find a closet and lock yourselves inside" she tells them as she faces the empty corridor "You don't want to see this. It won't be pretty" Regina says as Archie drags Henry away only for Tom to stay by Regina's side.
"No, it won't" Zelena answered her younger sister as they rounded the corner as the corner of her lips twitched up in amusement as she see's the deep red cut on her half-sisters cheek knowing who is came from ready to face off against her half-sister and the Dark One as the teen stood his ground holding his head up high in defiance.
Something he must've inherited from his mother the Dark One observed as he saw the resemblance he held to his grandfather in his younger days.
"Hello Thomas" the witch greet's the teen with a sickly smirk ignoring the sting of the cut on her cheek "Your Mother tried her best to stop me, she's a little pinned down at the moment" she said trying to get a rise out of the boy only to be met with an unwavering look that told her that nothing was going to make him do something stupid. Like Mother like son.
"Take another step, and I'll roast you" Regina warned her half-sister summoning a fire ball in her hand as she saw the teen flick out the hidden blades
"Please" she scoffed waving her hand through the shield sending her sister and the teenager against the hospital wall, braking the barrier that divided them and knocking them both out on the hospital floor, allowing her to simply step over her sister and the assassin's son to get to her prize on the other side of the door.
"It's a boy!" Whale announced after Snow pushed for one last time holding onto her husbands hand as the baby boy took its first breath outside the womb and cried as Whale cleaned the infant up for the new parents.
"It's a boy" David chuckled happily as looked on in awe at the birth of his first son as the doctor handed the infant to him. Mary Margaret let herself burn into her memory of her husband holding their son in his arms before he gently placed the infant into the lap and helped her wrap their son in a blanket and held him in her arms for the first time.
Their moment was gone when the door burst open and in walked Zelena. Whale went to stop her only for a figure behind the red head to magically send the doctor into the sofa unconscious.
"What a charming family" Zelena says to the new parents as Mary Margaret held the baby close to her chest as David went for his sword pulling it out it sheath and going for Zelena only to be stopped frozen a green magical hue surround the Prince freezing him in place.
The new-born cried out in distress sensing the danger around him. Mary Margaret went to hold her son closer to her only or the infant to disappear from her arms, her head snapped up to see her son in the arms of Zelena's
"No! no,no,no,no" Mary Margaret panicked she went to go after her son only to be pushed back onto her bed by the Wicked Witch.
"So pure. So innocent. And now your mine" Zelena cooed over the baby as the former Princess couldn't; do anything to stop a cloud of smoke engulfed the Wicked Witch. The magic surround David and Mary Margaret disappeared making the prince stumble forward. Mary Margret wailed in pain as her husband look back to see his wife in pain.
Returning to the hospital from their own confrontation with the Wicked Witch at the farmhouse they were met with chaos as they saw people gathered towards the back of the lobby as Merry Men and Robin Hood surrounded a figure sat on the floor with nurses fussing around them as the blonde say Doc next next to the figure on the floor.
"What the devil happened here?" Hook exasperated seeing the scene before him.
"Zelena happened" Emma breathed out in horror as approached the crowd in dread of what she would find "Move!" the blonde ordered as a couple of men and Robin too a step aside to reveal a beaten and bruised Amelia Montague on the ground fighting off losing consciousness as Doc and a few nurses worked on the injured woman with a crossbow bolt impaled though her shoulder and out the other side into the drywall.
"What happened?" Emma breathed to the red head crouching down to her friend
"Never had a bolt in your shoulder Swan?" Amelia drawled out weakly as she winced every time someone brushed against the bolt as they tried to stem the flow of blood that had escaped from other wounds on her torso , she could see how much pain the assassin was in as the tears that escaped the red head's eyes as she strained her neck back in pain as Doc tried to move the bolt from its position.
"I'm sorry" Amelia breathed out once the pain had died down "I tried-".
"I know" Emma cut the woman off "It's okay" she tried to reassure the woman as Amelia finally let her heavy eye's fall close finally loosing conscious, her head went limp on the wall behind her as she let the darkness that had been threatening to take over, win.
"She'll be alright Emma" Doc told Emma as a nurse hooked a mask over the assassins mouth and nose supplying the woman with much needed air "She's been through worse and come out stronger".
"I hope your right" she says as she hears a pair of sneakers squeaking against the polished hospital floor, she heard the teenager before she saw him trying to push other people out of the way to get to his injured mother on floor.
"Mom!" he yelled out for the redhead who wasn't moving on the ground. He tried to get even closer before Hook had to pull him away to put himself between the son and his mother so Doc could continue his work on the assassin.
"Easy mate, she's getting the help she needs" he tells the young assassin in training as he tries to fight the older man off him.
"Is she? Is she?" he panted out in wide-eyed panic as he looked to Emma for the answer as Hook lets him go.
"She's fine just hurt" she tells the teen not sure if she even believed the words that left her mouth knowing this wasn't something without some magical intervention.
"I can't- I can't lose her" he pants through the visible tears in his eyes as Emma hears the heartbreak in his voice made the blonde engulf the teen a crushing hug that he needed at that moment.
She first met him as the lost boy they had once used to get a message to Henry when he had been so willing to do so without Regina taking his heart and here he was still in their lives sobbing over the woman that had taken him in after his the man he looked up to died. The year apart had together only solidified the bond they had shared and the confirmation that he was the toddler that had been taken away from her created a bond no one would ever be able to imitate.
And now she completely powerless to help him when he most needed. He was scared and she didn't know how else to help him in that moment except from just being there for him "I'm sorry" she mumbles into his shoulder "I'm so sorry".
"He's gone" Mary Margaret sighed form her bed weakly, as David stood next to her, completely powerless to what had just happened "It happened again"she exasperated in disbelief and heartbreak.
Having had enough David angrily ripped his hospital gown from his body and reached for his sword heading for the door, leaving his wife on the bed to me met with Henry in Regina's comforting arms as they had just seen Tom run to the lobby to find his mother.
Seeing David storming out of the room and heading down the corridor Regina called out after him "Where are you going?"
"To get my son back" he angrily answers her.
"You're gonna get yourself killed" she runs after the angry father and grabs him by the arm trying to pull him back "David, think about this".
"What's there to think about?" he growled her face
"Don't let him get hurt" Henry pleaded with his mother.
"What's going on here" Emma announced her appearance with Hook and Tom behind her to find the Prince outside the delivery room with his sword
"What happened?" David turned to face his eldest child "Did you find Zelena?".
"I... I did, but I couldn't stop her" she stuttered.
"She took your brother" he answered her.
"Because I failed?".
"We're all still here" Hook spoke up trying to reassure the blonde "So you haven't failed just yet"
"Hook's right. Come on" David went to leave only to be stopped by Emma this time.
"No, wait. Zelena took my magic" she told the group.
"How the hell did that happen?!" Regina exclaimed.
"Doesn't matter how. It just happened. So, we need to find another way to stop her"
"There is no other way" Regina gravely said to the other's.
"That's not true" Henry spoke up and face his mother "You can do it".
Regina shook her head at her son with a sorry look "Sweetheart, I don't think I can survive round three with my sister".
"Glinda was pretty specific" David tells them "Only the purveyors of the strongest light magic can defeat her"
"Zelena only beat you because you were using dark magic against her" Henry appealed to Regina again.
"But... it's all I have" the former Evil Queen tried to argue.
"No. It's not" Emma realized "When you kissed Henry, that was true love's kiss. That's light magic" Emma pointed out
"See? You can do it" Henry piped up beside her.
"Henry, I don't even have my heart right now" she said softly to her son.
"That doesn't matter. You broke the curse without it, and I know you still love me. I know there's good in you".
"He's right" Tom finally speaks up from his spot nest to Hook "My Mom know's you can beat that witch. That's what she's been doing right?" he says using the words the former Queen had come up with in the spur of the moment "Repay her sacrifice"
Tear's gathered in her eye's at the teenager's words. He was right. She sacrificed her memories for everyone in that hospital, to give them their best chance to beat her sister. She scarified, her home her friends for this moment. For her Queen to step up to the plate and become someone better.
"But I don't..." she tried to argue with the others.
"You have to" her son tells her "Once upon a time, you were a villain, mom. But you've changed. You're a hero now. And defeating bad guys is what heroes do. I believe in you. Now you need to believe, too"
With the new plan in mind the group headed towards the entrance of the building only to stop when Regina saw the evidence that would explain the screan she, Henry and Tom had heard from Mary Margaret's room, seeing a crossbow bolt in her shoulder.
Sweat covered the assassin's forehead as Doc and nurses were still gathered around the injured woman. Seeing the former Queen approach the dwarf moved aside for the older woman to see the full extent of the damage of the trial of blood that escaped the open wound had been soaked up by the woman's shirt. It it hadn't been for the stead rise and fall of her chest she would've though the woman was already dead.
"Melia" Regina whispered in concern for the woman she loved as she almost ran to the redhead crouching down at the woman level as the dwarf informed the former queen of her condition
"She's stable for now" the dwarf started "We managed to get the head out of the wall but it's going to take us a while to get the bolt out" he explained as the dark brunette gently brushed a piece of her shoulder length red hair behind her ear.
"Can you heal her?" Tom voice croaked out from next to her making her glance up to see the teen had taken a spot next to her.
"I can" she tell him "We need her more than ever" with a wave her hand the crossbow turned to dust as the wound closed arousing the Assassin awake.
The assassin gasped for air as she ripped the medical mask from her face as her eyes focused on her surroundings. She was still on the floor to see everyone watching her as concern turning into ones of relief as she caught up with what had happened. Her brief fight with Zelena, then being thrown back into the building and them the arrow.
Looking down she saw there was no longer a bolt in her shoulder as she looked to see Regina next to her with a watery smile, seeing as she was the one responsible for healing her.
"The baby?" was the first thing the assassin asked once she found David stood above her.
"Zelena has him" David told her "We're going to get him back".
With a nod talking a helpful hand from Emma the master assassin stood on her feet with determination ignoring her blood stained shoulder "Let's get the green bitch".
With the new-born and the final ingredient for her spell firmly in her possession. She and Gold had traveled to the barn she was using to stage her plan. She now had completed the ingredients that needed to complete her spell. Each with their own special significance places around the symbol that Gold had dug out for her ready for this moment.
The handle of Prince Charming's sword -Courage.
Her half-sister's dark heart- the Darkest Heart.
The solid gold brain of the Dark One- Knowledge.
"There's nothing more innocent than a new-born babe" Zelena tells Rumplestiltskin before settling the infant in a bassinet opposite Charming sword hilt "And you, my sweet, are the most innocent of all... the product of the truest love" she coo's at the baby before standing back to face her old teacher to adress hi
"See, once I change the past, you and I shall meet under different circumstances. And, Rumple, you will choose me. And I will be enough." she tells the older man as she prowls around him.
"No, you won't" he tells her "And no matter where you go in time, I will find a way to kill you" Gold growls at her to which Zelena only chuckles at his threat as she raises her arms to start the time spell. Each of the ingredients start to glow different colors. The streams of magic spiral together to meet in the middle "Don't worry, dearie. Once all this is over, you won't remember a thing".
"It isn't over yet" David voice was heard from the entrance. Whirling around the Wicked Witch saw the united front of the hero's and villains enter the barn from left to rigth stood Robin Hood with his crossbow, the newly healed Amelia with only her hidden blades extended from her wrists stronger than ever next to her love and soulamte Regina. David with his sword stood next to his daugther armed with her gun, now magically powerless with Hook with his saber pointed straight at the witch
"And who's gonna stop me?" Zelena challenged the groups hero's and villains "Certainly not the Saviour" she taunts them.
David looked towards his son in concern "Go. Get him. We got your back" Emma tells her father.
"Dibs on your heart Queenie" Amelia tell Regina her green eye meeting Regina's giving the Queen a wink as she moves to the right. The group split as the thief, the assassin and the Prince circled to Zelena's left with the savior and the pirate circled the other way. . Leaving Regina to take on her half-sister head on
"Zelena, stop now" Regina warns her "We're not gonna let you succeed" she tells her sister pointing to the small army she brought with her.
Zelena simple chuckles at her sisters warnings and turns to Gold "Rid me of those pests" she commands her soldier. Zelena waves her hands towards David, Amelia and Robin making them fall back onto bales of hay making the men drop their weapon's.
"Please no more water" Hook asks the Wicked Witch,
"Get the dagger" Gold tells them as he uses his magic to snatch Emma guns right out of her hands "Then the dark one will be on your side",
"It's easier said than done" Emma retorted.
"Do as I say, or I will destroy you both. I have no choice!" Gold yells at them as he sends a force of magic at them sending them into more bales of hay as on the opposite side Amelia was stood back up from being thrown back
"Come for another beating, sis?" Zelena asked her half-sister.
"No. I came for some jewelry" Regina went to grab the necklace that Zelena wore on her neck but was pushed back by the Wicked Witch's magic.
"Beautiful one. If you will?" Zelena called forth a flying monkey the flew through the window heading straight for the Prince and the Thief. David pushed Robin away from him as Amelia used her arms to protect her head from the flying monkeys claws.
"Remember, these creatures are our friends!" Robin cautioned the Prince and Assassin
"Don't worry. I'll use a gentle touch" David retorted as he swung his word ready to face the creature as.
"Unfortunately, that's not an option for me" Gold interrupted the conversation as he threw both and David harder into the bales of hay as Amelia jumped further into the barn away from the wave of magic she saw coming getting closer to Regina's heart landing on her front just out of arms reach of the new born Charming. The infant was surprisingly making any fuss despite the fighting around him.
Lifting her head off the ground she looked to the newest edition to Charming family to see him still moving "You're okay" she breathed out as she saw Zelena using her magic to lift Regina off the ground from her neck allowing the assassin to slowly crawl towards her soulmate's heart while Zelena and Gold stayed distracted.
Zelena turned back to face her younger half-sister and used her magic to lift her by the throat off the ground "Only light magic can harm me" Zelena tells her sister "And you're as dark as they come. It was your destiny to be this way. And will also be your undoing!".
"Don't tell me what I can be!" as Regina see's the assassin slowly inching closer to her heart as Robin comes round the rear, his crossbow aimed truly aimed at the Wicked Witch.
The witch chuckles at her sister "I tried to be good once, but it wasn't in the cards. This is who I am, and it's who you are!" She continues to choke while Regina see's Amelia back on her feet beofre throwing herself at the heart to take it off the plate it was placed on Holding up high Amelia showed the woman she loved that she had one of the ingredients Zelena needed.
"You're wrong, sis" Regina sneers at her sister as light magic appears in her hands.
"What are you doing?" the Wicked Witch gaped in surprise.
"Changing" Regina stated as her light magic knocked Zelena out of the circle dropping the Dark One's dagger onto the floor making the assassin jump out of the way of the flying Wicked Witch.
"What? How?" Zelena gasped from the ground as her younger sister approached her.
"I make my own destiny" Regina tells her sister as she rips the green jewel that powered the spell and the Wicked Witch, stopping the spell altogether.
Out of nowhere the flying monkey returned and headed straight for David. With all his strength David swung his sword towards the monkey neck only to turn back into Little John at the last second.
"Little John, you're back!" Robin exclaimed in glee seeing his old friend. Forcing his sword into John's hand and pushing him away to get to his new-born son who had started crying.
"David, the baby. Is he okay?" Emma asked her father as he gently picked his son up.
"Yeah. He can handle anything" He looks up to Emma "Just like his sister" David headed for the exit with Emma, Hook and Little John
"You failed" Regina told her sister chuckling "You're not going anywhere".
"I beg to differ" the others looked back as Gold used his magic to drag Zelena across the dirt towards him "I'm gonna make you pay for everything you've done to me"
Quickly picked up the dagger from the ground that had bee dropped the assassin held the weapon that controlled her Uncle "What are you waiting for?" Zelena taunted the man she used as a puppet "Just do it!" the red head yelled at the older man from the ground.
"With pleasure" he sneered at her
"No!" a voice protested as a forced made Gold stop, he looks up to see his niece holding the dagger in her hand making him stop from hurting the witch "Enough. This ends now" she tells the older man.
"After everything this witch has done... you're gonna protect her?" he pointed at Zelena in disbelief out of everyone here she had the most motive to kill the woman that had killed her cousin, destroyed her home and killed countless friends of hers trying to protects it's people.
"Good magic stopped her" Regina speaks up for the redhead "And good magic doesn't exact vengeance".
"She killed my son!" he angrily protested "Your own family" he adds looking at the assassin.
"How many lives have we taken trying to get what we want?" Amelia retorted
"You can't be serious" he scoffed at her.
"I am. Heroes don't kill" Amelia tells the man as Zelena looks up at the former Evil Queen and her Black Widow in disbelief
"So now you're a hero?" Zelena asked her sister from the ground
"Today, we are" the former Queen's tells her sister.
With some protest from the Assassin, Regina sat in front of her sister safely locked behind bars in one of the cells in the sheriff station powerless with only a blanket around her shoulders.
"Why, Regina?" she asked her younger half-sister "Why not just kill me and put me out of my misery?"
"Because I know why you did what you did" Regina replied "We're much alike. Our mother ruined you, too. I know what it's like to not have the life you wanted... the life you feel you deserve"
"Oh, boo-hoo" Zelena mocked her "You had to be Queen. You know nothing. I saw it all. You had everything"
"Did I?" Regina questioned her sister "So, you missed the part where I lost the love of my life"
"Mother did all that for you to achieve greatness" Zelena argued making the former Queen gently shake her head the witch.
"Not long ago, I was a lot like you. I wanted to kill someone who wronged me, and I failed. Had I killed Snow White; I wouldn't be in this world. I wouldn't be with these people, and... I wouldn't have my son, Henry. So, no, Zelena, I won't kill you. Instead, I'm gonna give you what I got. I'm gonna give you a second chance"
"What if I don't want it?"
"Well, that would be a mistake, dear. Take it. Use it" she urged her sister "Evil isn't born. It's made. And so is good. If I were you..." she paused as she stood up from her chair and walked slowly to the bars that separated the two sisters "I'd consider creating a new destiny" Regina lean her hand against the one of the bars and stuck her head in between them "Because if you don't, I'll be right there to take your heart and crush it" she almost snarled at the woman "Now, if you'll excuse me... ...I should put this somewhere safe" she said showing her sister her emerald pendant that held the witches power.
In her vault Regina carefully puts Zelena's emerald pendant safety into a small box before putting it away in cabinet safe away from anyone as satisfied grin grew on the Queens face as she heard a set of light footsteps behind her knowing who was already behind her.
Turning around with a smile on her face she found Amelia leaning on the threshold of the vault with room with the same mile on her face "Good talk?" the assassin asked her.
Regina went to kiss the assassin only for the red head to pull away holding the lapels of the Queen's jacket in her hands "I believe you owe me something" Amelia started with a teasing grin.
"Oh,do I now?" Regina teased with wicked smile.
"Hmmm" Amelia nodded as her nose grazed the Queens's "I remember you owing me a kiss after you got your heart back…and since I've got my memories back, I think it's time to make good on your promise"
"Well, I always endeavor to pay my debts"
"Good. Because I'm calling it in" with hesitation Amelia pulled the Queen towards her capturing her Queen's lips in her own in a searing kiss as Regina waved open the large mirror dragging her assassin into the secret room for a long awaited re-reunion.
AN: Yay, we're nearly at Season 4!
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