AN: Warning: Mentions of violence and torture
Quick Disclaimer: I don't own the scene I used for the purpose of the story which is owned by Disney
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David and Emma burst through the Mayor's office guns out and quickly search the office before Emma called out the all clear "It's okay. She's not here" Mary Margaret and Henry slowly enter the office after her daughters call. David had visited the field where they were growing the magic beans and found they had been burnt to a crisp. There was only one person that could be responsible for it and they were in her office trying to find her.
"When you find her, you're not gonna hurt her, right?" Henry asked his Mother and Grandfather
"No. We just want the beans she stole from us" Emma reassured her son
"I don't get it. Why would Regina leave her office unlocked?" Mary Margaret voiced for the group
"Especially when she's keeping the beans here" David pointed out as he and Henry walked towards a small plant tank that the beans should be growing in
"Was keeping them here" Mary Margaret corrected her husband "They're gone"
"Something's not right" Emma spoke up "Regina would never leave evidence like this behind" Emma walked over to the security system that was on the wall near the doors and opening the panel
"Maybe she already used them to portal out of Storybrooke" David suggested
"Without Henry? I don't think so"
"What if something bad happened to her?" Henry asked his family
"Security system says the last time someone was in the office was around 6:00 this morning" Emma told her family; she pushed a button that revealed that the system had been overridden "They used an override code to get in"
"Why would Regina need an override code on her own alarm?" David asked the room
"She wouldn't"
"You think someone else broke in and took the beans?" her mother suggested
"Well, we haven't found Regina anywhere and haven't heard from her"
"I've already tried calling Lia, she's been MIA for a whole day" Emma told her parents
David scoffed at his daughter "No kidding, she's probably in on it"
"We don't know that, the same thing might've happened to her" Mary Margaret tried to argue but it seemed to fall on deaf ears
"No" David disagreed "She knew something was going on, she asked me about Anton and the beans the other day"
"What? she was?" Emma asked her father gaped at her father
"She was asking if Anton was part of the giants that grew beans, apparently her mother used to tell her stories about them"
"What did you tell her?" his wife asked
"That she'd have to ask herself"
"So you lied to her" she accused him "After everything-"
"Mary Margaret-"
"Enough guys" Emma interrupted the growing argument "Arguing isn't going to find either of them"
"So, something bad did happen to them" Henry spoke up
"We're gonna find them, Henry. I promise" Emma tried to reassure his son
"There's only one person who could overpower Regina and Lia" Mary Margaret told her family
"Gold" David answered
But Emma shook her head at his suggestion "He's too busy with his new/old girlfriend. No, this wasn't Gold. This was Tamara"
"Haven't you already gone down that road?" her mother reminded her
"Maybe not far enough" Emma rebutted
"Or, maybe it's time for you to let it go"
"August was attacked the day Tamara came to town. I don't think that was a coincidence"
"What if you're wrong?" David voiced "If Regina's in trouble, we can't just drop everything else because of a hunch"
"Which is why we're not gonna drop everything else. Go to Gold. I'm sure he has some kind of magic that can help locate Regina and Lia while you're at it" she told her parents
"Where are you going?" her mother asked her
"Back to Tamara's room"
She was woken up by a hard slap to her cheek that whipped her head to the side. She struggled to open her eye's as the effects of the drug she accidentally taken the previous night was gradually wearing off, she tries to move her arms and legs onto to find she couldn't move them. She was tied to a chair. Great
She rolled her head around opening her eyes to be met by a bare roof above her "This isn't how I wanted last night to go" Greg Mendel's voice came to her ears making her pull her head up straight to look straight ahead and see the man flanked by three other's she recognised from back home. Templar's. That's when she noticed the ring of Greg's finger. The chunky silver ring that adorned a red cross.
"I know how you wanted last night to go" she drawled out "Believe me. This is better"
"I believe you know these men with me" he pointed to them as one the men tipped her chair back, she panicked as her stocking covered feet could no longer feel the ground beneath them and turned her head to see a drop at least two floors down "I'll admit, it took some convincing for them to work against the infamous Black Widow" the man put her back onto the ground "You managed to scare loyal soldiers into submission"
"What can I say?" she said with a sickly wide toothy smile "I have a certain kind of charm"
"No kidding" he chuckled at the red head "I've heard many stories about you. The Black Widow. And she turns out to be simply pretty face"
"You really think I'm pretty" she retorts at the man; unfazed Greg looks at this phone after it pinged announcing a text
"I'm needed elsewhere, but I'll leave you in these men's capable hand's" at that Greg left with the three Templar's in sheepskin denim jackets, jeans and flannel shirts
"Well boys, what're you waiting for? Your mommy to hold your hand" she said before a fist came flying to her face
"Did you get them into the office?" Greg asked Tamara as he set up equipment in the cannery. Regina was tied to a table in the other room.
"Did you take care of the Assassin?" Tamara retorted to Greg
"She won't be getting out anytime soon. Trust me"
"Then have I ever let you down? She teased "Look what I found" she took out a pouch she had found on the Evil Queen and showed him a pod of magic beans
"Are these what I think they are?"
"Magic beans. Neal told me all about them. They open portals"
"I bet he told you a lot, huh?" Greg commented in jealousy
"Don't be jealous. As soon as we're done, this" she points to the engagement ring that sat on her wedding finger "is coming off"
"Yeah, well, you can have this one instead" Greg handed her a small pouch of his own that contained a brown diamond
"What the hell is that?"
"I don't know. Regina had it on her"
"We'll send it back with the rest of the data. I think the Home Office is gonna have a field day with everything we've collected so far"
"I still have one thing that I have to do"
"Make it quick. We'll be getting our instructions soon"
"Oh, this isn't gonna take long" he enters the room where he was holding Regina. Hook stood her as he waited for Greg and Tamara
"Whatever they're offering you, it's not worth it" Regina tells the prate
"Well, considering they're offering to have me kill Rumplestiltskin, I'd say it is" the pirate tells her
"And you actually trust them? You don't even know who you're working for" she retorts as Greg finally speaks
"Good morning, Regina" Gregg greets her with a smile as he wheeled the equipment in place
"This part of your "mission"?" she spat at him from the table
"No. This, this is personal. See, this is about my father" he says to her as he connects Regina to the machine
"I already told you, he left town" she answers
"Yet he never came to find his only son?" He turns to Hook "Look, would you mind lending me a hand? And, preferably your good one?" he chuckled at his own joke
"Sorry, mate. Gonna have to say no. When you're interested in killing Rumplestiltskin and not torturing the Queen, find me" he tells the man before leaving him to his plans with the Evil Queen
"Well, I guess it's just me and you" he starts as he flicks up switches on the machine he brought into the room connecting it to her
"Is that supposed to frighten me?"
"Well, it should. You see, this is how we deal with your kind. And yes, it's going to be unpleasant. Now, exactly how unpleasant—well, that depends on you. Now, where is my father?"
"Where is the Apple of Eden!" the older man of the three repeated to her as his son tilted her chair back once again over the drop down
"Hogwarts" she spat out. The older Templar's son brought her back up to flat ground only to send the back of his hand into her cheek for the fourth time that morning, her head whipped to head once again as a metallic taste met her lip's and turned her head to face her captors. The drug at this point had finally worn off allowing to feel everything that the men in front of her was giving her. It hurt.
"Did your mother ever tell you not to hit woman who couldn't hit back" she drawled out between hits "It's considered rude"
"She would've if you hadn't killed her"
"I didn't kill her, your order killed her" she said before the older man became enraged and grabbed her neck in vice grip, he went to squeeze only for her ringtone to disturb them. The three froze at the sudden noise and waited it for ring out before it started to ring again. Seriously? They didn't take her phone.
Amateurs
"You might want me to answer that" she croaked out to the older Templar "People have a habit of tracking me down if I don't answer by the third ring"
The older man instructed his son to retrieve her phone from her purse that laid on the ground away from her. After taking it out he brought it to her answering it before shoving it between her shoulder and ear
"Hello?" she answered call clearing her throat
"Amelia! Thank God!" Mary Margaret exclaimed down the phone "we need your help"
"Are you kidding me I'm working" she replied to the former Princess
"Lia this is important"
"I'm in the middle of an interrogation" she said giving a look at the Templar's "These morons are giving me everything"
"Interrogation!" Mary Margaret exclaimed in shock at the assassin
"Look you can't pull me out right now" Amelia tried to continue only for the person on the other end of the phone call to change
"Amelia" David's voice came through her phone "It's Regina, she's missing, we think she's been taken" her body stiffened at the news as she went quiet "Amelia?" he called out to her
After a beat Amelia answered "Could you put me on hold for a minute" she said into the speaker
"Uh..sure" David answered in confusion, Mary Margaret waited next to her husband as his face turned into confusion as he listened to commotion on the other end of the phone, he heard grunts of pain and the sound of wood snapping before a the sound of a metal chain.
"Where's Regina now?" Amelia's voice suddenly came back on the other side of the phone
"We don't know, Gold gave us something to try and to find her with, Mary Margaret couldn't get anything from them"
"But she's alive"
"We think so" he told her
"Close enough" she huffed "I'll meet you at the loft I need a change of clothes" she tells them before hanging up on the couple as she picked up her discarded heels leaving the Templar's lying on the floor in pain and the other handing over the drop by a chain by his foot.
Quick AN: Look up Avengers 2012 Black Widow Interrogation scene on Youtube to see what she did to the Templar' s ;)
Back at the Cannery where Regina was being held by Owen Flynn and Tamara, she was allowed a moment peace as Tamara entered the room to speak to Owen
"Everything's taken care of" she assured the man
"They bought it?"
"As far as Emma and Neal are concerned, I'm just running along the beach. How are things going with the Queen?"
"You know, she's not exactly cooperative. But that's all about to change, right, Regina?" He turns the machine on again, this time even more powerful and painful than before. She groans in excruciating agony until Greg turns it off, though she is still extremely weak.
"You have no... idea who you're dealing with" Regina weakly croaks out
"Actually, no, you have no idea who you are dealing with" he retorted
"I wasn't…talking about… me" she tells them with a wicked smile
"Oh, you mean Amelia, right?" Regina stiffened hearing Amelia's name "Red head? Rocking bod? Yeah, I know her, she won't be coming anytime soon" the man light his left hand to fiddle with a chunky silver ring that sat on his middle finger with a symbol Amelia had taught her all about "You see during our little date she slipped something in my drink, hoping to knock me out and drive me out of town, that was the plan right Regina? Well you see I was one step ahead of her I know who she was before I came into town, even the infamous Black Widow can be outwitted, now you'll never see her again"
"A couple of fools in over their heads who go around stealing magic" the Templars wasn't the only thing Amelia had taught her over the years of service, she also taught her how to get answers to a questions she wasn't asking.
"Stealing magic" Tamara chuckled out "That's what you think we're here to do?"
"We're not here to steal magic. We're here to destroy it" Greg announces
"Magic does not belong in this world. It's unholy. We're here to cleanse this land of it"
Regina laughs at them this time "You think you can destroy magic? Just the two of you?"
"Well, who said there's only two of us? Oh, we're everywhere, Regina. See, after I left Storybrooke, as a boy, I was babbling about magic, about what I had seen, and what had happened to my father. Most folks, they wrote me off. But some didn't. And they found me"
"They?" Regina queried
"Believers. Amelia likes to call them Templar;s" Greg tells her "People that know that magic is real"
"And that it doesn't belongs in this world, and are willing to do something about it" Tamara adds
"This little quest of yours, to cleanse the world of magic, it's not gonna work" Regina tell them
"No, of course it will" Greg tells her "We've done it before, and we'll do it again. Do you think that Storybrooke was the first time that magic has crossed over?"
"Magic has been doing its damage for a long time"
"And people like us—we're here to stop it" Greg says before turning the machine back on
Leading her ex-boyfriend into the poorly lit cannery with her gun in her hand after being slued into where Regina was currently being held in to meet up with her parents and to her relief Amelia. She had no idea what had happened to the redhead in the past 24 hours.
"Sure you wanna be here?" Emma asked her ex as they slowly walked through the building with only a flashlight to guide them
"I'm not gonna leave you alone in this place" he tells her
"If something does go down with Tamara, I need to know you've got my back"
"Emma, if Tamara is hiding Regina here in her evil lair by the docks, yeah, I got your back" Emma slowed up as she heard clattering up ahead holding her gun tight in her hand as they rounded the corner only be met with David holding a gun up at her. Mary Margaret squeaked in surprise holding her pounding heart seeing her daughter and Neal, while Amelia didn't even flinch at the gun pointed at her head
Emma let out a shaky exhale lowering her armed hand "What the hell guy's!"
"Nice to see you too saviour" Amelia retorted as the blonde saw her irises were a faint gold tinge in them as she survey her surroundings before they faded back to their usual green
David handed his daughter a walkie "Here, so that doesn't happen again" she takes it gratefully as she turns to Amelia
"Where the hell have you been?" she asks the former Assassin before seeing the leather jacket Amelia was wearing over with a pair of jeans she recognised as her own "Is that my jacket?"
"Trust me it wasn't by choice" Amelia retorted dryly "have you seen your mothers wardrobe lately?"
"At least she's wearing something more than a robe" Neal added remembering the last time he saw the redhead
"What?" Emma whirled her head toward Neal with the question
"Never mind that" Amelia interrupted Emma's line of questioning "Regina's here, but I don't know where, in the last twenty-four hours I have been drugged, kidnapped and interrogated. I'm extremely pissed off and I need to find someone to take it out on"
Emma nodded at Amelia's silent threat towards those involved "You three take the basement, we'll search the main floor. Regina's gotta be somewhere" Amelia was the first to find the basement
Tamara watched the security camera closely as she watched Neal and Emma spilt off from her parents with the Assassin "Shit" she cursed to herself, she thought Greg had taken care of her. Gathering her gun she tapped on the widow that separated their 'office' from the torture chamber Greg had set up gaining the mans attention away from the Queen. Nodding towards the door Tamara met Greg in the doorway between rooms
"Time to go" she tells him "They've found us"
"Who? Emma and Neal? I thought that you took care of them"
"Yeah, I thought you took care of the Assassin. She's here" Regina let out a breath of relief as she heard that Amelia had found her way to her "We need to go"
"No, no. No, no, no" he protested "I... I need more time with her"
"Greg, if you get caught, this whole thing is blown" Tamara tries to warn him
"We wouldn't even know about this town if it wasn't for my dad" he argued back "I'm not leaving until I find out where he is"
"Fine. Meet me at the rendezvous point when you're done" she tells him before leaving. He rushed back to the machine the hurt Regina and started to hurriedly turn switches on the console as he spoke to the former Queen
"I'm moving up the timeline. Now I'm gonna give you one last chance. Tell me where my father is" Regina stay silent in defiance" Impatient Greg turned to the console "Okay, time's up"
"Wait" Regina stopped him
"Where is he?" he asked her again
Regina weakly smiled at the man "Dead. I killed him. The minute you ran away..."
"No, you're... you're lying to me"
"Don't believe me? Go see for yourself. I buried his body at your campsite. I doubt he gets many visitors there. Now go ahead and kill me. I just wanted to see the look on your face when I.." she was interrupted as Greg switch the machine on again "Aah!
Amelia froze on the spot as she heard the screams. Mary Margaret bumped into the frozen Assassins back "Lia? What is it?" the former Princess asked the red head in concern before Amelia sprinted off towards the sound.
"Lia!" David called after the red head before quickly running after her
"You feel that? Huh?" Greg tormented her as electricity coursed through her body "That's the end of you!" he yells at her slamming his hand onto a button again making Regina groan and convulse on the table "That's scary ain't it!" he turns the machine off as Regina collapse onto the table "Now you're never gonna hurt anyone. Ever Again" he turns to start the machine again but is interrupted as he feels a foreign hand on his back taking a fistful of the back of jacket and drag him away from the machine and onto the floor.
Landing on his back he looks up to see the Black Widow looking down at him dangerously. He didn't have any time to come to his senses before two hand wrapped around his neck and started to squeeze tightly. He tried to pry the Widow's hands off him, but she was too strong even for him. He felt her nails uncomfortably into the soft skin of his neck as he struggled to breath. He even saw the famous hidden blades strapped to her forearms; he knew all about them that she wanted to make him suffer as she killed him.
His eye's met hers as he started to see black spots appear in his vision as he started to lose his grip on reality, this would be the last thing he would see, the empty green eyes that watched him as he died by her hands.
Two-gun shots rang out hitting the machine Greg had been using which made The Widow flinch loosening her grip on the man's throat, allowing him to push her off him on the ground as sparks flew off the machinery "Don't move!" David's voice rang out
Greg coughed and spluttered as he was finally able to breathe as she scrambled off the ground and run out from the room, Amelia jumped up to run after him only for Mary Margaret voice to stop her
"Amelia stop!" Lia turned to see Regina for the first time in 24 hours, she was sickly pale as Mary Margaret continued to plead to her "We need to help her, she needs you" Amelia nodded and rushed over to help unbind the leather straps as her eye's find how bad her Queen looked.
"We need to get her to the fairies. I don't-" Amelia choked out as she gently pulls the wires from Regina's head. The couple could hear the Assassin's shaky voice as she tended to the woman she loved. Amelia ignored David on the walkie updating Emma on developments as Mary Margaret watched the red head fight back the tears as she gently rested her palm on the former Evil Queens forehead
"You really love her, don't' you?" it was more of a statement than a question that came from Mary Margaret. Amelia's eyes flickered back up as she saw a tear leave the Assassins eye before looking back down to the woman she loved.
"Don't use words I don't understand anymore"
Once back at the loft they had put Regina on the bed downstairs still unconscious and covered with a blanket as Amelia sat next to her holding one of her hands in her's. No one dared to try and move the red head as Blue finally appeared to tend to the Queen.
The fairy stood next to the sleeping form of Regina and waved her wand over her sleeping form. The cuff that was on her left wrist disappeared as Amelia let out a sigh of relief as she saw the colour of her skin instantly become healthier.
"Now that the cuff is off, she's gonna be okay given time and rest. Her magic will return" Mother Superiors told the royal couple and Amelia as the door to the loft opened and closed
"Thank you" Amelia told the blue fairy. A tight lipped appreciative grew on the fairy's face as Amelia heard the conversation behind her
"Where's Neal?" Mary Margaret asked her daughter in deep concern
"He's gone. She killed him"
A tear left the assassin's eye as she heard of the man's demise. Just another man's blood on her hands she would have to somehow wipe away. But she couldn't focus on that now, she needed to see the woman she loved well again before she could focus on anything else.
As the news sunk in of Neal's demise, Amelia continued to hold Regina's hand subtly sweeping a finger across her pulse, just to make sure it was still there. It was. And it was getting stronger as she felt Regina's fingers starting to grip back as she roused awake from her deep slumber. Amelia held her breath as Regina slowly opened her eyes for the first time in which seemed like days.
Brown eye's met green as Amelia's mouth widened into a gentle smile. At that the world seemed to go back on its axis. Everything was right again.
"Hi" Amelia greeted her with a watery smile. She watched as Regina slowly reached up to cup the redheads cheek as if to prove she was actually there and she wasn't dreaming, gently stroking the lightly bruised skin. She saw more evidence of the hell she had been put through, one started to take form under her eye , with the bottom of her lip had split open from the beatings she must've taken from the people that held her.
"Melia, you're-"
"You really thought a few idiot Templar's would be able to stop me from getting to you" Amelia chuckled out with a toothy smile "You scared the hell out of me Queenie" Regina's lips upturned at the unofficial nickname
"I'm sorry" she whispered as her own tears formed in her eye.
"Don't be, its not like I can teach them a lesson like I could back home" she shrugs the woman's concern off "I'm sorry I couldn't get there in time" the gentle smile she got from the Queen did nothing to ease the guilt she felt for letting herself be fooled.
Regina seemed to see the storm that went on behind her eyes as she continued to stroke her cheek like they were the only two people in the whole world.
This is what she wanted. Just Regina.
Their moment came to an end as the royal couple saw the former Queen finally awake and talking as they approached the bed making the former Queen take her hand from her face to see the couple standing over her.
"You…you saved me" she told the couple in disbelief
"Yes" Mary Margaret confirmed
"You really think we'd let you die?" David asked the Queen as a tear finally left the brunette eye "Despite our difference we're family"
Regina suddenly sits up "Where are they?" she asked the three around her. they looked at her in confusion at her sudden outburst "Where are Greg and Tamara?"
"They got away"
"So they still have it" she says outload
"Still have what?" the Assassin asked her
He could feel the bruise around his neck grow as he stood at his father's unmarked grave in the middle of the woods burying the remains' he found at the site they once camped on thirty years ago. Tamara found him after her altercation with Emma and Neal.
"I'm sorry about your father" she sighed
"Me too" he replied. Tamara hands him the stone making him look at it worryingly "Do the folks back at the home office know anything about it?"
"Yeah. They did. And you're never gonna believe what it does"
"A trigger?" David questioned the Queen
"That will destroy Storybrooke" she confirmed from the bed
"No" Amelia heard Mary Margaret fret
"I had a fail-safe built into the curse" Regina continued
"Why exactly were you carrying it around?"
"She was going to destroy us, Mary Margaret" David answered for the Queen
"I was going to use the beans to take Henry back to the Enchanted Forest" Regina admitted to the others. At the admission the redhead shoot up off the bed to step away from the woman. Who was she kidding? Amelia was never in her plans, she just used her. Again
Fool me once,shame you, fool me twice shame on me.
"And in the process, kill all of us!" Mary Margaret anger slipped
"You wanna discuss justification? You were going to abandon me" the older woman accused the younger "Or shall we discuss the issue, which is that I no longer control the trigger?"
AN: Hi!
Eeek! We're nearly there!
I hope you saw the cheeky Authors Note in the story, when I wrote this scene at the time I wasn't very confident about writing fight scenes but I love that scene and wanted to use it for this story
Hope you enjoyed the chapter
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