The Evil Queen's Black Widow

by 06bromleys

Nothing is True. Everything is Permitted. Cursed for betraying her Queen, Amelia Montague must figure out how she wants the rest of the world to perceive her. As the villain she became, or the hero she wants to be, but will her feelings for the Queen be a help or hindrance to the Master Assassin or she will she always be known as the infamous Black Widow (Rated M for safety)

90. Chapter 90: Birth

Storybrooke

Present

Sat in the passenger seat of David's red truck, Anastasia willed for the dark surroundings to calm her nerves of capturing Arthur for his deceit, she couldn't make a mistake when they confronted the King, not after seeing the images that played in Merlin's message. But she couldn't get the image of her sister killing Merlin out of her mind. Would she really do that? Why? The questions were endless, but the answers she needed lied within the King as an involuntary sniff escaped her nose, making her emotions known to the men in the truck.

"Statia?" David called out to the former Duchess as he saw her wipe away the tears that fell from her eye's "Listen, if you need to stay in the truck..".

"No. That wasn't my sister in that message" she defiantly tells the former Prince as Robin and Killian listen from the back. It just couldn't. She wouldn't kill the only person that would be able to help Emma, she just wouldn't. Her sister was many things in her past, but she would never kill someone's only hope.

"We don't know that do we love" Hook tells the younger blonde in the front, not letting his friendship with the woman blind him to the possibility of the Widow rearing her ugly head just when the needed her to stay away. The ways she held herself, the way she spoke screamed the Back Widow and then some more.

"What will happen if it is true? That she really did kill Merlin?" the blonde assassin asked the others.

"We'll deal with it " David tells her as he pulls up to the Camelot campsite.

All four of them vacated the truck as they easily found the King's tent in the middle of the campsite "That's Arthur's tent. I'll go in first. You three stand guard" David tells the others as he cocks his gun ready for the confrontation.

"And if our dishonest king should put up a fight?" Robin asks the man with his bow and quiver across his body as Anastasia tightened her gauntlets on her arms.

"We'll make him wish he hadn't" Hook tells them as they take their positions around the tent, ready for whatever eventuality.

Entering the tent on his own like planned, the King was taken by surprise to see his friend, this late at night after his disappointing discovery "Arthur" David greeted the King who was sat at the other end of the tent with his Queen

"David! Good to see you, my friend. Come, sit. Join us" he offer's the sheriff.

"Why don't you explain why you lied to me?" the Prince didn't feel the need to beat around the bush of the reason for his late visit "Why you tried to burn the Crimson Crown".

"So, you found me out" Arthur simply replied after a pregnant pause.

"Yeah, I found out" David quickly stopped him "Friend".

"Now, that part was real" Arthur tried to argue.

"Ah, it doesn't matter. Not anymore." David tells him "But I want answers. See... There was a message in there for Merlin. It said there was only one person who could destroy the Dark One, named Nimue. You tell me who that is" he demanded to know from the man aiming his gun at him.

Instead of answering the Prince the King flipped over the table as he grabbed his sword to make a quick escape through the back of his tent, cutting a whole big enough for him to escape through only for his quick escape to be halted when he saw Anastasia stood there with two golden hidden blade sliding out of her gauntlets.

"Your Majesty" the assassin greeted the man "Nice evening for a walk don't you think?" she asked him as she prowled in front of him.

The King replied swinging his swords towards the assassin as the steel was blocked by a golden gauntlet leaving a free blade to be widely swung towards the man only for the King to quickly jump away. But as quickly as he jumped away Arthur was on the offensive straight away seeing that she was the only thing in between his 'freedom' and David, he brought his sword down from over his head as he watched the blonde calculate what she needed to do to block him, only to quickly change his attack so that she didn't have time to stop the tip of his sword from slicing across her un-armored stomach.

"Ahh!" the scream escaped her lips as she felt blood instantly soak into her shirt as she doubled over herself to cover the wound with her hands as she King kicked her to the ground, onto her knee's running straight past her into the woods to make his escape.

"Duchess!" Killian yelled after the young woman seeing her on the ground holding her stomach, seeing the blood on her hands straight away.

"No!" she protested his help waving him towards the fleeing King "He's getting away!" quickly changing direction the pirate ran after the King as Robin and David caught up to the sound of her scream. Robin fell straight onto his knees to tend to the injured assassin as the blonde simply watched as Hook and Arthur disappeared into the woods.

---

Leaving Anastasia at her request the pirate ran after the fleeing King as he was taken deep into the woods. The pirate easily kept up with the man that betrayed them as the King kept looking back to see how close his chaser was getting, until he was tripped up by a fallen log. Seeing the fallen King, the pirate simply steps over the offending object as he step close enough to the man on the floor to kick his legs out from under him, making him drop his sword as he fell on the ground in a heap.

Taking advantage the King pulls himself onto his feet to pick up his bloodied sword from the ground to stand over the fallen pirate as he stands over the man with his weapon poised as Killian tries to reach for his sword, only to stop when he senses that he's been beaten.

"Look at that" Arthur pants "Seems you brought a hook to a sword fight".

"Actually, I brought a sword, but I seem to have misplaced it" he tells the King from the ground.

"Shame. It's always the simple mistakes that get us killed, just like your assassin back there" swinging his sword back, Arthur goes to end his life only for his sword to be stopped mid-swing as Emma appears, blocking his blocking his sword with the newly re-formed Excalibur, before the Dark One quickly disarms the King, holding the sword threateningly at the man.

"Excalibur." he breathes shallowly seeing the sword whole for the first time "It's whole".

"Yes, it is. But it's not going to help you" she tells the man "This sword doesn't control anyone now" with a wave of her hand she sends a pulse-wave of magic towards the King making him fly into the air away from her and Killan, making him hit a tree that knocks him out as Hook gets up off the ground

"That was for Amelia" she adds knowing her friend would appreciate the man getting hurt for what he did to her in Camelot. It wouldn't make up for it, but it was a start.

"I suppose I should say "thank you" Hook tells her, for saving his life.

"You don't need to say anything. Just don't do that again" she sternly tells him.

"I should apologize for what I said that day aboard my ship"

"For when you refused to accept me or when you said you did not love me?".

"It's a bit more complicated than that" he tried to reason with her.

"Doesn't matter. I'm the Dark One".

"You're more than the Dark One. You're still you. You saved me. That was Emma".

"What do you want from me?".

"I want to help you" he tells her "And I need your help to do it. Who is Nimue, and how can she defeat the darkness?".

"Nimue doesn't matter anymore. This will all be over tomorrow".

"What will be over? What have you done with the Widow? And why do you need that damned sword?" he asks her only to be met with stubborn silence "Ah. All this power, and you don't even have the courage to answer one simple bloody question. Why do you need Excalibur?" he questioned her again only for the Dark One to run his back on him and walk away "I know you're still in there, Emma, and I know that despite everything, you always have your reasons!" he calls after her.

"You're right! I do!" she yells back as she came to a stop "You want to know why I'm doing all of this? I'm doing it for Amelia!" she exclaims into the night before taking in a deep breath to look back at her love behind her "I'm doing it for you" she admits to him before she disappears in black smoke, leaving him behind to contemplate what she had just said.

---

While the David, Anastasia and Killian left the vault to find Arthur. The other's stayed behind as they tried and failed to reach Amelia on her phone. The former Queen paced the floor of her vault with with Mary Margaret and her son's watching on as she tried again to contact Amelia after what they had discovered in the message they needed to find her as soon as possible.

"You've reached Amelia, leave a message after the tone" Regina huffed once again as she was sent straight to voicemail for the fifth time.

The tone rung out taking the woman by surprise as she shook the dark thoughts out of her mind of what could've happened to her in the hours between when she discovered that Emma had kidnapped Senu and now and with what they knew, the combination of the Black Widow and Dark One Emma would be one.

"Melia, where are you?" Regina said into the receiver as placing a frustrated hand on her hip "It's been hours since Swan called you in for a chat, I'm worried. We managed to get a message from Merlin" she cut herself off as the image of her soulmate killing the only person that could help them coming to the front of her mind "Just... please call me. Just tell us you're okay" hanging up the call she stopped pacing trying to figure out why Amelia would relapse on her Black Widow day's.

"I'm sure she's fine Regina" Mary Margaret tried to reassure the older woman "She's always been okay".

"I don't know, she's never done this, she would at least send me a message back home from Senu, not just disappear. The last time she did I thought…" she choked on her words remembering the last time she went silent on her.

"You think she's dead" Tom finished her thoughts making her turn to face his own worried face.

"No" she firmly told him as she quickly closed the distance between them taking his hand in hers as the other took his chin making him look at her "Don't ever think that, there is nothing in this whole world that would stop her from coming back to us".

"You saw what she did to Merlin, Mom. Something bad happened" tears shone in Regina's eye's at the way Tom called her 'Mom', she knew Henry called Amelia Mom, but she never expected for the teenager to call her that.

"Your right" she gulped keeping her own tears at bay to stay strong for him "But whatever happened, we will fix it. Okay?" Tom nodded he put on a brave face for his step-mother.

"Okay" with that the former Queen brought the teen into a warm motherly hug, not sure if she needed it more in that moment than he did.

---

Outside Camelot

Three Weeks Earlier

With the sudden disappearance of Merlin, Emma wandered back to Granny's with the spark to see Henry sat at the counter while Tom sat with MJ in a booth seeming to get along after the other night when she tried to kill Amelia in her sleep for her father's death.

Her actions had left the teen heartbroken as the trust between them had seemed irreparable in the moment but they seemed like they were mending burnt bridges as they looked up at the chime of the bell above the door as Emma entered the diner.

"Mom" Henry greeted the blonde in excitement as she engulfed him a brief hug "Did you do it? Did you find the Spark of...".

"Prometheus, yes" Emma finished for her son "Now we can use it to fix Excalibur".

"Finally, some good news" Granny chimed in as she rounded the counter to give the pair some privacy.

"That's great, Mom. Let's get that darkness out of you"/

"Yes, let's" she said to him "Where's the sword?" she asked the young teen.

"I don't know" Henry shook his and turned in his seat to look at Tom who was already listening into the conversation "Tom".

"No one's come back with it" Tom informed the blonde.

"Really? They should've been back hours ago. Have any of you seen Merlin?" she asked all three teens in the diner.

"We thought he was with you" the teenage assassin asked her.

"He was, but then he vanished. Something's wrong" Emma voiced out-load "I don't think we're safe here anymore. Granny, let's close up shop".

"One step ahead of you" Granny said coming back into the diner with her crossbow in hand "Henry, lock the front. Tom make sure we haven't got any stragglers outside. I got the back. MJ make sure the bathrooms are clear"

Granny still hadn't forgiven her for sneaking into the bathroom while they were preparing for their flight. Tom stood from the booth and ran to the front widows as MJ headed outback.

Henry stood from his place at the counter as Tom's eye's turned gold as he peeked through the blinds as Granny thew the front door key to Henry only for a purple hue to encase, Granny, Tom, Henry. MJ who had made it to the jukebox before she stopped as well as the key mid-air.

"Henry? Tom?" Emma asked the boys in concern as they suddenly froze on the spot.

"They'll be fine" Merlin's voice flouted into the air, making the blonde look up to see him in the doorway "Once we're done" he adds having found the Dark One. "I'm sorry for the theatrics. It's not usually my style, but... I had to follow orders" e says as he steps forward to look between the people he had frozen in place.

"Orders?" the blonde asked the sorcerer "Who's orders?".

"Arthur's" he tells her "My wayward pupil has done something I did not foresee. He's tethered me to Excalibur. Arthur has ordered me to re-forge Excalibur into a whole sword, which means I will need your dagger and the Promethean Flame".

"No" Emma instantly told him.

"Then he will order me to kill your family, and Emma, as much as I hate it, I will obey him".

"Arthur has my family?".

"Yes" he confirmed "Because of me. I'm sorry. He wants to make a trade in the heart of the Caledonian Forest in one hour. Their lives for the dagger and the flame".

"That's not enough time" Emma argued "This isn't even a flame yet".

"Things are more dire" Merlin told her "Arthur has managed to free Juno from the sword. By mortally wounding Amelia with his half of Excalibur. Juno now walks the land".

"What?" she almost whispered "Is she?".

"Dead? No. Juno healed her fatal wound, but she's trapped inside now, a passenger in her own body only able to watch as Juno wreaks havoc with your family and the ones she loves, including Amelia's son" he adds glancing at the teenager at the windows "She will not have the patience Arthur has, she will hurt the one's you love one by one to to get what she wants".

"I've seen the strength in you, Emma" Merlin went on "When you're ready to light the spark, it will burn. And Arthur and Juno will have what they want. The sword will be whole once again By restoring the blade, we restore her true power".

"So, I'm just supposed to give up without a fight?".

"Acceptance is a form of strength. I know the darkness lives in you, Emma, but I beg you, please. Do not seek vengeance. Do not make the same mistakes as Nimue".

---

No-one still hadn't heard from Amelia as the former Queen, Mary Margaret and joined Hook and David at the Sheriff's station with King Arthur behind bars, firmly in their custody. They needed the answers as much as anyone else did on why he would stop them from speaking to Merlin.

But their plan to capture him hadn't gone quite to plan as Robin tried to best to patch up Anastasia's stomach from the deep cut Arthur had made in his attempt to escape them. With many protests from the blonde assassin she was taken to Storybrooke General to get the deep wound tended to while the other's interrogated the King.

"Who is Nimue? What the hell happened back in Camelot?" Hook asked the King and he held the King by his armor against the bars of cell in the Sheriffs Station.

"I wish I knew" Arthur tells him "That blonde demon took my memory, same as yours".

"Then why destroy Merlin's message? What aren't you bloody telling us?!" Hook yelled in his face.

"That's enough!" David stopped Hook's line of questioning by pulling the pirate away from the bar's as Regina, Mary Margaret and Tom watched on from outside the Sheriffs office. "He doesn't know anything. He's a king with no kingdom. As much as he hates it... He's not important anymore" David taunted the King as they walked away from the cells to join the other's.

"Feel any better?" Regina asked Hook as he and David joined them.

"I'll feel better when I have some answers" Hook tells her "Emma said this whole thing was about me and the Widow".

Regina scoffed a chuckle at the pirate "Are you really that naive? She's manipulating you. That's what the Dark One does" she tells him.

"No. This was Emma talking" he instited to the former Queen.

"There may not be any Emma" Mary Margaret said out-load "Not anymore".

"She's right" Regina agreed with the teacher "This Dark One, she has Excalibur, and she is going to destroy all light magic".

"So, that's what you think it's about? A sword she hasn't actually used?" Hook continues to argue.

"Well, obviously, she needs another ingredient to cast the spell" Regina continues "So, we figure out what that is and stop her from getting it. And we get our Emma back"

"You can all look at magic spells till you're blue in the face. But something happened between me and her in Camelot. The only way to help Emma is to find out what the hell it was" he tells them as a pair of footsteps enter the station, making them look up to a woman they hadn't seen sicne earlier that day.

"What's going on?" a familiar voice made them look behind them to see Amelia herself alive and well, walking into the station in trepidation to what or who she would find.

"Mom!" Tom jumped forward to his mother and engulfed the redhead into a tight embrace, holding her as tight as he could her stomach would allow him as Hook stepped forward.

"You're okay" he almost sobbed into her shoulder as she returned the hug.

"I'm okay" she says before gently pushing her son off of her "What happened? Did you manage to talk to Merlin?".

"Where the bloody hell have you been?" Hook asked the redhead with a dark tone to his voice as she gently pushed her son away from her seeing the look in his eye.

"Busy" she spits at the pirate "Talking to your girlfriend" she retorted as he heatedly stepped forward to confront the assassin head-on with the other's quickly following.

"Really? Or have you been plotting with her this whole time" he accused her as tried her best to back away from the angry pirate only for her back to quickly meet a wall as his hand wrapped around her throat in a blink of an eye, holding her against the wall as a hook dangerously poised to the base of her jaw "We know what you did to Merlin, Widow" he lowly growled into the woman's face.

"Hook!" the other's yelled out in protest from harming their pregnant friend as the redhead did little to pull his hand off her neck knowing she couldn't harm him.

"That..wasn't..me" she choked out as his hand gripped her throat tighter.

"So you do know what happened?" he deduced from the woman's' words.

"I-I'm sorry. I c-can't" Amelia told the pirate as her vision started to blur around the edges, knowing she couldn't harm him, not without Emma's secret getting out.

"Can't or won't" he growled in her face.

Amelia was about to answer when Hook heard the familiar sound of a hidden blade sliding out of its sheath as Hook felt the tip of the blade brushed against the stubble on his neck. But it wasn't Amelia's hidden blade that was dangerously close to cutting Hook.

"Let. Her. Go" Tom told him slowly. Hook's eye slowly turned to see Tom holding one of his blades to his throat with a dark look on his face "Now".The room froze at the teen's demand as the pirate could only chuckle at the teen's very real threat.

"Look who's finally stepping out his mothers shadow" Hook chuckled out as he let go of Amelia's throat and hold his arm's up in surrender stepping away as Amelia gasped for breath holding onto the wall behind her to stay on her feet.

The threatening blade quickly slipped back into it's place as the teen caught his mother from falling onto floor of the sheriffs station as she gasped for breath as Regina and Mary Margaret quickly out themselves between the frustrated pirate and assassin in case Hook got another idea of trying to more information from the woman again.

"Enough" the former Queen sternly tells the one handed pirate "If she knows what happened in Camelot, she can tell us" Regina tried to reason with the man in front of her.

"Well you can forget it. She's gone" Hook deadpanned to the woman who just looked back at him in confusion, whirling the pair saw a disheartened teenager staring down the hallway alone with no sign of the redheaded assassin.

"Where'd she go?" Mary Margaret voiced to the other's seeing how upset Tom was as he held a leather cord in his hand, one that usually sat around his mother's neck keeping something she couldn't let what was coming get their hands on it "Tom" she called out for him to tell them.

Taking in deep breaths the silent tears left his eye's as he answered the group "All she said was 'I'm sorry and to stay away from her'".

"What does mean by that?".

"Well seeing as she has her memories back" David spoke up "and what happened in the message".

"Nothing good" Hook finished the Prince's sentence.

---

She did it. That's all that mattered as she felt the the first kick coming from the inside of her stomach. The sign's that the Dark Swan's potion would speed up her pregnancy and save her baby. But she couldn't bring this child into the world alone as she tried to ignore the pangs of pain that radiated from her stomach as it grew with every step she made towards the Inn.

The same thing would be happening to Zelena anytime now and there was only one other doctor that could help her through this.

As she reached the Inn door her pain ripped through her belly as she staggered to the door, not strong enough to keep her on her feet as she used the door to slowly slide herself to the ground. Her fists pounded the lock door as her scream echoed through the chilled night.

"Ahhhh!" she screamed into the night as she pounded the door with her fist, trying to keep herself from falling onto her knee's from the pain.

After a beat, Granny herself finally opened the door to see the Master Assassin hunched over on her knees in clear pain as she clutched her now large stomach

"Help me" she begged the grey-haired woman "Please".

Nodding in understanding the elder grabbed the Assassin's arm helping her into the Inn and guiding her upstairs "I hope you don't mind 90% cotton sheets".

"I don't' care, as long as I get this kid out of me" the redhead growled out as a contraction ripped through her body once again.

---

Awaiting her current Dark One, to come to them with the Prometheus Spark and dagger in return for the 'safe' return of her family and friends. So that left the deity to entertain herself as much as she could with the humans that were chained to the tree's. She couldn't help but feel the life that grew inside her, she never had the privilege to carry children of the own with her own love a millennia ago.

"You're Juno" David was the one to speak to the deity that stood in their friends body gaining her attention away from the vessels condition.

"I see my reputation's preceded me" she tell the Prince with a smirk that made his skin crawl, the deity took slow steps towards the chained man as the other's watched the deity inhabiting their friends body get into the man's personal space. Juno looked like Amelia, sounded like Amelia, even walked like the assassin, but they couldn't see through the mask that seemed to cover their friend's face "Tell me, what is it that you've heard about me".

"That you could destroy the darkness" he tells her. The simple statement made the deity laugh at his words thinking he was joking only to see that he was serious.

"Now why would I do that?" she blinked at the man "I created the Dark One, why would I destroy it?" she questioned the man before look over her shoulder to the man that had freed her from her prison "What exactly have you told them about me Arthur?" the deity asks the King.

"What they wanted to hear Juno" the King tells her with a smirk aimed straight at the former Prince.

"I see" she muses to herself as she gets a good look at the Dark One's family. She held all of Amelia's memories of her life with these people. The one's that have hurt her the most in her short life compared to her own. The one's she had fallen in love with, the one's she thought as her own flesh and blood.

But as much as she wanted to torture the people around her, they still needed the spark and dagger delivered to them. Emma's hour was nearly up, but she found herself not wanting to waiting any longer

"She's taking her time" Juno tells the King as she takes her place to wait for the Dark One to meet her deadline on Arthur's right "I say we send Emma some good old motivation. Perhaps the pirate's other hand?" she suggested to the King and Wicked Witch "Her Father's eyes?"

"No" Merlin quickly tells the deity "She will come" he insists as Juno felt the familiar energy that belonged to one of her Dark One's

"Speak of the Dark One" Juno suddenly said as she saw the woman herself approach them with a small box in her hand "Hello Emma".

The blonde couldn't help but look at the deity that held her physical vessel for the first time in centuries. The power she held was palpable even at half her strength, She wouldn't be able to hurt her, not without hurting the woman she had come to see as a friend and someone to look to when all hope seemed lost.

"I brought the dagger and the flame, but you don't get it until you free my family" Emma demanded out of the people that held her family.

"No" Arthur refused Emma's offer "You will hand it over now, or I unleash Merlin" he warns her holding up his half of Excalibur .

"Emma, please" Merlin pleads to the woman "I don't want to fight you".

"No, but I do" Zelena spoke up as she stepped forward to speak to the new Dark One. As Juno eyed her across from her "So, now that mommy's got her magic back... tell us, Dark One. What are you gonna do?".

---

"You have to stay calm and breathe" Robin advised Zelena as she was wheeled through the hospital by Nurse Ratched and Regina following on. They had gotten an urgent call from the nurse about Zelena in the psych ward underneath Storybrooke General to see that her pregnancy had sped up and now in the beginnings of labor.

"Shut up!" she snapped at the thief "I was a fake midwife. I know the drill" she yelled through the contractions.

"Zelena, why would Emma do this?" Regina asked her sister as she followed behind.

"I have no idea!" Zelena screamed at her.

"Are you sure it was her?".

"Let's just say when the Dark One offers you onion rings... Aah!... Don't eat them!".

---

Zelena's screams could be heard from down the hall from where Anastasia had been left in a hospital bed with layers of bandages wrapped around her stomach after her wound was closed by the same doctor that had been requested to meet the newly arrived Wicked Witch.

Following the screams the blonde assassins found herself trailing behind the screaming witch, her sister and thief as she kept her distance to them she stood in the doorway of the room the nurse had put the witch in as Dr. Whale greeted the mother to be on the bed.

"Someone scream for a doctor?" he greeted the Wicked Witch coolly putting on his gloves.

"There is an angry baby inside of me. Get it out!" Zelena yelled at him.

"You know, the last time I delivered a baby, you tried to steal it" he retorted to the woman "But why try to steal one when making one is so much more fun, right?" he held out a hand to Zelena and introduced himself "Dr. Whale" he introduced himself to the woman holding out a hand towards her only for it and him to be stated at by the sister's.

"We really need another doctor in this town" Regina drawled as she saw his new hair color "And what's with the dye job?".

"Oh, so... so Emma changes her hair and no one makes a fuss, but I get ridiculed?" he questioned them "Yeah? Come on. You know you like it".

"Oh, my God, stop talking!" Zelena angrily exclaimed at the Doctor "Didn't I kill you the last time I was here?".

"No, you just threw me across the room" he corrected her "I hope that doesn't happen again this time" he tried to jest to the woman in labour, only to be met by silence "Okay, all business today. Got it. Uh, let's get those vitals going, get that baby out of you" Whale instructed the nurses as Mary Margaret rushed into the room followed by Belle with a heavy brown book in her hands ignoring Anastasia's presence there.

"Everybody get ready" the teacher announced to the people in the room "We have to protect that baby from Emma".

"She's here?" Robin asked her in panic hearing this.

"She will be soon" Belle spoke up opening the book to show Regina and Robin "And we found that spell to destroy light magic in Merlin's spell book".

"The only thing she needs other than Excalibur is..." Mary Margaret trailed off.

"Cries of a newborn child" Regina read off the page. She was after the baby. The discovery made the blonde assassin at the door take in a sharp intake of breath as her mind went straight to her sister. Zelena wasn't the only pregnant woman in Storybrooke, and Amelia had literally been to see the Dark One that very day.

"Well, she's not taking this baby" Robin told the room "Not while I'm still alive".

"Regina" Zelena addressed her younger half-sister "Take this cuff off so I can defend myself and my child. Please!".

"You are far from trustworthy" Regina told her sister "But worry not. I'll protect the baby. What happens to you, well...".

"Just do something!" she creamed at her sister as another contraction racked through the lower half of her body.

"I'll do something" Anastasia announced from the doorway of the delivery room making the group look at her "I'm finding my sister. Now" at that the blonde turned on her heel to storm out of the hospital.

"Anastasia, wait!" the former Queen called out to the blonde assassin as she tried to catch up to the determined woman. Despite her injury she winced through every step that jarred the tight stitching that was literally keeping her together.

"Even if you are my sister's true love. You will not get in my way, or have you forgotten about her already" she fumed at the Queen behind her as she made her way out of the hospital.

"Of course we haven't forgotten about her" she retorted. No one had but they had to get to Zelena first.

"Then where is she!?" she screamed out as she stopped to turn on the older woman to take her aback with the sudden burst of anger "She could be anywhere, she could be where Zelena is now. Undefended and alone. If Swan is really after a baby it could be either one of them. I am not willing to gamble with my sister's life whether she killed Merlin or not. She is my sister, the only real family I have left".

"Anya" the former Queen breathed out "That's not true" she tried to argue.

"Stay here with your Wicked sister. I'm going to find mine, because that is what we do" without a second thought the blonde assassin left her sister's true love in the middle of the hospital corridor as Zelena's screams continued in the room behind her.

---

With a frantic phone call to Doc. The dwarf arrived at the Inn to find the former Black Widow in one of Granny's beds with the old woman herself as she screamed through another painful contraction. Sweat covered the red head's face as she whimpered through the last few cramps died away for the next few minutes as Doc set everything up he had to hand, down at her feet as Leroy hovered at the door.

"That was a long one girlie" Granny told the redhead noticing how close she was to giving birth "Are you sure you don't want your Queen here?".

"No!" she quickly told the woman "No, no not her" she panted through her mouth as the back of her head hit the pillow closing her eye's bracing herself for the next contraction "John" she panted in heavy breaths as she felt the next one making its way thought her stomach "Get John".

Granny turned to the dwarf in the doorway just as another wave of pain rose in the redhead's pelvis "You heard her Leroy, go get the Captain" with a nod of his head he ran out to find her Captain as he heard her distant scream's.

---

"So, Dark One, who should I execute first?" Zelena asked the Dark One "Hmm? Your boyfriend or your father?".

A silent Emma thought about the ultimatum that Zelena gave her as she looked past Juno to Hook.

"Decide Emma" Juno's voiced to the blonde making her look to her "Or I'll kill them both, even at half my strength, you're no match for me Dark One".

She was right. She could feel the power that radiated from the woman in front of her. She could only compare it to the times she had been close enough to the Apple of Eden to know that she could easily overpower her even as the Dark One.

"You can have the flame" Emma told her handing the box containing the spark to the pregnant Wicked Witch.

A pleasing smile graced the woman's lips getting the object from the Dark One. Juno saw the trick she was playing on the villain, she couldn't help but smirk to herself.

Maybe she wasn't such a waste after all.

"Zelena, make sure that's real" Arthur instructed his ally. The smile fell of her lips at the Kings instruction as the witch slowly opened the lid, seeing a hit of the spark only for dark ropes erupt from the box wrapping themselves around her wrists. The Wicked Witch was powerless to stop them from dragging her back before tying her to a tree.

Looking back the deity saw the woman that went by the Evil Queen smirk to herself seeing her sister suffer just a little bit for her part of their failed mission to retrieve the sword and for Amelia's demise.

"Amateur's. Am I right, Your Majesty?" her soulmate's voice made her jump to look up to see her looking straight at her with a spark of mischief in her eye's only to see the invisible mask that covered Amelia's face before she looked away from her.

"Now you want to give me my family?" Emma said looking at the King and Juno "Or keep fighting?".

"Merlin!" Arthur prompted Merlin to attack the Dark One.

"Please, Emma" Merlin pleaded with the woman "Give him the flame. This is a battle you cannot win" he warned her.

Merlin conjured his power and shot It forward closely met by Emma's own magic. Bursts of magic one blue and one white met in the middle shimmering brightly making the other's watching on flinch in fear with the exception of Juno who simply stood still and watched as two of her experiments fought one another.

"I wish you could defeat me, Emma" Merlin grunted through his magic "But I've played this game for too long".

The two's magics hold, but Emma soon loses to the legendary sorcerer and is knocked back on the leafs covered forest floor.

"Aah!" Juno and Emma exclaimed in union as the deity felt the full force of the magic through her Dark One as she fell onto a knee as her vision swam in front of her that went noticed by the former Queen. She had a weakness.

"Merlin, kill her mother" At Arthur's orders Merlin turns towards Mary Margaret and conjures a vine to snake around the former Princess neck tightening the vine around her neck as she started to choke.

"Mary Margaret!" David yelled to his wife as he fought his restraints along with the others following suit to get to the choking Princess as the other's tried to free themselves from their chains to help the woman.

"Quiet Shepherd!" Juno growled through gritted teeth as she summoned her own tree branch and wrapped it around his neck, muffling his calls to his wife. She didn't have much power to spare but seeing the pair suffer while their daughter watched on from the ground. It was worth was little power she still held while the sword remained broken. She needed her Dark One to fight back. She needed to give the Dark One all the motivation she could give her to kill Merlin where he stood.

"It's no good. They're too strong" Robin spoke up to the other's as he tried to fight against his binds.

"Keep trying" Regina encouraged as she saw Juno struggle to maintain her 'magic'. Whatever the reason David needed to hang on as long as he could until she was too tired to continue her attack.

"Merlin, you have to fight it" Emma told the sorcerer as he continued to follow Arthur's order.

Merlin gritted his teeth, his hand shaking as he tried to fight off Arthur's orders "I can't!" he yelled back to her as he saw Juno starting to falter.

"You are the greatest sorcerer that has ever lived. If you cannot fight off the darkness, no one can" Emma continued.

Merlin's hand continued to shake as his hold on Mary Margaret's neck only tightened as he fought the hold the sword held over his. With a scream Merlin fought off the control taking his hand away from Mary Margaret as the vine's let the choking princess go, allowing her to breath once more as Juno finally fell onto the ground as she had to let go of her hold over the Prince.

"I said kill her!" Arthur angrily yelled at the man "By the sword, I command you! Kill her!".

Merlin locked his hands to his sides as he fought against Arthur's orders "I can't hold him off much longer" Merlin warned the other's as Mary Margaret and David gasped for much needed breath.

Unbeknownst to anyone Hook had managed to escape by taking his hook off his stump where his hand once was "You... will... kill her".

"Not today, mate" Hook told the King as got near the distracted King. Hearing the new voice Arthur wildly swung Excalibur at the pirate nicking him on the throat before the pirate swung his hook at the King sending him to the ground making him drop Excalibur as Juno could only watched as the pirate Hook stepped on Arthur's hand to keep him from picking us the half sword again.

"I know someone else who needs that" with a grunt Arthur left the sword and stood up from the ground and ran to Zelena untying her from the tree.

"Get us out of here" the King tells the witch as she touches solid group again. Zelena quickly summoned a swirl of think green smoke taking her and the King away from the hero's whose shackles had freed Arthur's prisoners.

Free from her shackles Anastasia quickly closes the distance between her and the deity that possessed her sister's body as her hidden blade slid out of the gauntlet ready to take on the deity herself as Merlin looks up to see th blonde assassin trying to do the impossible.

"No!" he yells out as a cloud of dark gold smoke engulfed the deity just as the assassin set to pounce on her unsuspecting form, to appear in front of the the brave assassin to take a hold of the younger woman around her neck as a broken blade appeared on the base of the former Duchesses neck as the blonde assassin's eye's bore into the pair of green she didn't recognize anymore as she struggled to pry herself out of the deity's hand and firmly held her in the air.

"Well, this wasn't what I had in mind" Juno's voiced as she held the blonde assassin "I guess that's what you get for trusting two idiots to free you after centuries".

"Juno" Merlin called out to the god that currently held Anastasia's life in the balance "Do not harm her, she is innocent".

"Innocent?" she questioned the man's use of the word "As innocent as the babe you ordered Altair to kill still in it's mothers womb".

"Leave him alone!" Emma was the one to step up to defend the sorcerer still on his knee's making the deity twist her head around to see the Dark One defiantly stand up against her.

"You don't scare me Dark One. I made you who you are!" with a thrust of her hand the deity sent the Dark One back into the arms of her love making her lose her grip on the blonde assassin as her world around her spun around her from the energy she used as the humans around her called out to the blonde in concern, giving Robin and John the time they needed to drag Anastasia away from the deity that had taken over the redhead's body and mind.

"Your precious Merlin isn't the saint you see him as" Juno continues "He's a murdered hundreds! Thousands! All in the name of keeping me remaining trapped for eternity. He would choke on the amount of blood he's spilled if he could die".

"I should be proud. You're as corrupt and dark as any Dark One that's ever taken the name. You even let Amelia believe in you. She believed you would be able to save her and her child" she says to the sorcerer with a hand resting over the life that grew within her.

"And yet, I did that, I am the reason her daughter is still alive. Think what I could do for Emma sorcerer once you reunite the blades. You need me" she tells the sorcerer before looking towards the humans around her "You all need me!" she exclaimed at them as they stood their ground against Juno.

"Go back to your prison Juno. Leave the human's alone" the sorcerer growled out to the deity as he waved his hand in the air. With a flash of gold the deity eye's shone bright as he pulled the deity's essence out of her vessels mind back to the yellow jewel that sat in the middle of Excalibur's hilt in Emma's hand.

The other's paused in trepidation as they saw Amelia's green eye's once again as a flash of recognition went through them as she blinked herself out of the daze she found herself in seeing her soulmate stood before her.

"Regina" was all the assassin barely whispered out before her eye's involuntarily rolled into the back of her head her head tipping to the side with her body quickly following it onto the ground.

"Melia!" Regina exclaimed in concern as she ran to the woman with Robin, Anastasia and John quickly following suit. Her knee's hit the floor uncaring of the condition of her dress as she gently took the Assassin's head into her hands seeing the small cut Arthur had made on her with Excalibur before he sent it into her abdomen.

There was no evidence of the fatal wound, as Regina healed the cut as she stroked the soft skin of her neck as the Assassin slept her possession off, with even peaceful breaths leaving the woman's nose reassured the Queen of her health. She was okay. Alive.

"Is she okay?" Robin asked the former Queen as Emma arm in arm with Hook and her parents walked over to the sleeping Assassin.

"She will be" she informs the other's "She just needs to sleep it off. Her body's been through a lot".

"And the baby?" John voiced in concern. Regina looked down at her stomach seeing the firm bump even through her clothing.

With a hesitant hand she reached down and placed her palm over the small bump and used her magic to gently reach out to the child to find it still alive and strong within her mother's womb. A smirk grew on the woman's face as she felt its small heart beating "Safe…and strong" she gladly told her family.

"What happened to Juno?" Mary Margaret spoke up.

"In sword back in her prison" Emma informed her parents "She won't be getting out anytime soon".

"Good to know" David sighed still feeling the branch around his neck.

"Here" John said stepping forward "I've got her" the privateer reached out to take his wife into his arms only for a hand and a hook to drag him back away from Amelia.

"I think you've done enough already mate" Hook told the man, clearly distrustful of the man's intentions. His betrayal to them wouldn't be forgotten as quickly as he would've hoped.

"He's right" Robin his oldest friend told him "She wouldn't have been chained like an animal if it wasn't for you tell Arthur about us".

John's face screwed up in anger as he snatches Hook's hook off his shoulder to round on Amelia's supposed family "I wouldn't have had to if she told me about the baby, told any of us. Arthur gave me his word that no harm would come to her, and I believed him. That's on me" John admitted to the others "But you've been keeping everything from me up until this point".

"Is there a point to this Captain?" Regina asked from the ground.

"It mean's whatever it takes to get the darkness out of Emma, count me in as long as it protects Amelia and my children".

An amused smirk grew on the pirates face before he hit the Captain's shoulder "Welcome back mate".

"Come on let's get back" Mary Margaret prompted the family as the all headed back to Granny's.

John went to pick up Amelia again only to stop as the Queen put herself between the former married couple, she paused looking into his eyes for any sign that his words weren't genuine to helping them through that last few hurdles of getting the darkness out of Emma.

"Regina" the Captain stated as he stood his ground against the Queen.

"John" she nodded as she stepped aside to let the man pick up his estranged wife into his arms, placing her head comfortably on his shoulder as he started the trek back to Granny's diner with the others.

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All was quiet in the diner as the family waited word from David, Regina, Robin and Anastasia on the whereabouts of Arthur and Zelena.

Leaving Amelia to sleep off Juno's brief but strenuous possession of her mind and body, the woman woke up from her ordeal just as the other's left to search the woods for any signs of the pair that had briefly killed the redhead.

Sat in booth with Granny next to her, the master assassin looked drained and weak as she rested her head on the wall next to her as the older woman tried to get anything out of the pregnant woman beside her, plying her with a small plate of food and a cold glass of water with the promise it would make her feel better.

It didn't. She felt awful. Her head thumped behind her eye's and she could hardly concentrate on anything in front of her as her mind replayed the last time she was 'awake', with Excalibur buried inside her body, she heard the screams, the cries as her world went dark. She never once thought death would be so cold.

The only thing that kept her grounded was the feeling of Tom giving her finger's a gentle squeeze whenever she seemed to drift off in her own thoughts, giving her a warm smile each time she looked to him. Even with the news of her condition, the teenager hadn't left his mother's side as he focused his energy on trying to get the mother he knew would be out there trying to find Arthur and Zelena herself.

With his father sat next to him, the thief turned privateer couldn't help but to see how bad his ex-wife looked. Like she had given up.

The same could be said about Merlin who hadn't moved a muscle since fighting Excalibur's influence over him. Mary Margaret and Belle kept the sorcerer company at a table as Hook retold the last few hours to Henry and the dwarfs at the counter.

"You punched him?" Henry asked the pirate in awe "Awesome".

"Gave him a left hook, if you know what I mean" he teased the teen making the dwarf's laugh.

The triumphant pirate was cut off when the search party returned with David leading them back into the diner.

"Well, the woods are clear" David announced to the Storybrooke residents and Merlin as Regina stepped in to see Amelia awake sat in a booth with Granny and Tom opposite her keeping her eye's downcast on the table in front other that held an untouched plate of food "Zelena and Arthur must have retreated somewhere far from here".

"I'm afraid Merlin or Amelia won't be much help" Belle told them as the former Queen looked towards the redheaded assassin, who looked like she was seconds away from passing out again from the way she leaned her head against he wall to keep herself sat up "Resisting Excalibur has taken its toll on him. And Amelia woke up shorty after you all left, hasn't said a word to anyone" hearing her name the assassin closed her eye's like it was the only way to shut out the world around her.

"And Emma?" Regina asked everyone, shaking her thoughts away from the pregnant assassin "How's she doing with the spark?".

"Well, she said she needed some time alone" Mary Margaret told the former Queen "She took it outside" giving Amelia another glance Regina left to find Emma outside.

Finding Amelia in a booth both Robin and Anastasia joined their friend and sister as Granny vacated her seat to allow her sister to slide up next to her sister, taking one of her hands into her own feeling how cold she was.

Feeling a familiar hand in her's she turned her head enough to see her sister sat next to her with a sad smile as she tried her best to warm up her hand the same way Romeo would warm up theirs in the coldest of winters. The briefest of smiles grew on the redheads lips seeing her sister

"Does she hate me?" she was referring to Regina who hardly looked at her.

"I don't think she ever could. She's just a little shocked. We all are" she told her as Hook, David and Mary Margaret left the diner "She'll come around. I know she will" with a weak nod the redhead turned her head back to close her eye's once again to shut the world out once again.

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Sprinting down main street seemed like the quickest way to get to the Inn after Leroy found him in the apartment he shared with Anastasia. The full grown man didn't think twice. He just ran, leaving the dwarf to trail after him. But it had worked as the fit man made it to the Inn in minutes, rounding the corner to the Inn's entrance the privateer was surprised to see Anastasia already there, making her way to the building the opposite way.

"What are you doing here!" the pair exclaimed in union "You first!" they asked the other.

"Argh!" the blonde assassin growled in frustration "The Dark One sped up Zelena's pregnancy. I'm trying to find my sister, she's after a newborns cries for a spell to destroy light magic" she tells the man, "Whats your excuse".

"Amelia's in labor" was all he had to say as the pair connected the dots in their mind as they ran down the path to the Inn, letting themselves into the hotel, they heard the screams coming upstairs straight away. Taking the steps two at a time, the pair burst into room to find the redhead sat up against the headboard with Granny sat with her, clutching onto her hand as she pushed will all the strength she had as Doc sat at the end of the bed with a sheet covering her legs guiding her through the last few waves of labor.

Hearing the arrival the grandmother was surprised not only see the Captain there but Anastasia as Doc instructed the redhead to stop pushing as the next contraction stopped.

"Made it just in time Cap. Baby's almost here Granny said to the man letting go of the redhead's hand it was quickly replaced with John's as he knelt next to the bed.

"You're here" Amelia cried out in relief seeing the man she loved first.

"I'm here, I'm here" he reassured her kissing her knuckles, she looked exhausted as they awaited the final contraction, she looked to Granny who had joined Doc at the end of the bed.

"How is she giving birth? Dr. Whale said she was only four months' along" he voiced to the pair.

"It was Emma wasn't it?" Anastasia asked her sister from the doorway as her sister looked to see her sister stood there "That's why she called you for a talk, she needs you for something".

"You don't understand I had to" she panted out "I-ahhhhh!" she was cut off as yet another contraction wrecked through her body.

"You might want to catch up later this baby is coming now" Granny told the couple as she joined Doc at the end of the bed.

"No, no, no" Amelia whined to the older woman as she fought off the urge to push "I can't, I can't do it" she was too tired, it was too hard.

"Hey, you can, you know you can" John tried to tell his wife.

"No, I can't it's too much" seeing as he couldn't' through to his wife John stood up and moved himself so that he was sat behind her so that she sat comfortably between his jean clad legs, taking her weight onto his chest as he wrapped his arms around her, as her right hand reached back to grasp the back of his neck as his lips went to the shell of her ear.

"There is nothing in this world that you can't beat. You are the strongest person I know, Amy. Our child needs you to be the strongest you have ever been. You need to see the women see every time I see you, the woman I fell in love with. You have been though worse Amelia. This is nothing you can't handle".

"You need to start pushing now" Doc told her over the sheet that covered her below the waist. Through gritted teeth Amelia Montague used all the strength she had left to push her child out of her body with her husband behind her encouraging her on until she could push no more. With her eye's closed the room seemed to go silent with the exemption of the gentle cries of a newborn child.

---

At the same time at Storybrooke General Hospital Robin's child came into the world as Regina could hear the cries of the new-born from outside the room where her half-sister had just given birth her niece or nephew.

She had given up trying to get a hold of her love once Anastasia had left to find her. Chances were she was doing to same wherever she was. Emma was gambling on who would give birth first. Which only made the Queen worry more for the redhead. If Swan would do this to Zelena, what the hell would she do to Amelia.

What would Amelia say in this situation. She may have hated her half-sister with every fibre of her body, but would she really blame a child for the actions of his or her's parents. She had been adamant from the start that she would help Robin with his child, but Amelia was not here and nowhere to be found once again. She would have to do this on her own this time. And against Emma Swan of all people.

"I can't believe it's come to this. Am I really helping Zelena?" Regina voice in disbelief to Mary Margaret.

"It's the right thing to do, Regina" the schoolteacher told the mayor with the voice of reason "Lia would've wanted this, you know that. She knows what if feels like to have a child taken away from her, she wouldn't want that to happen to her worst enemy".

"And yet she's not here" Regina lightly scoffed to the younger woman.

"We don't know what happened between her and Emma, whatever it is she's keeping you and all of us away from it. But right now you need to be here" Mary Margaret told her "So…are you ready to meet the newest member of your family?".

"Honestly..." the former Evil Queen trailed off shaking her head "I don't know".

Letting herself into her sister's room the former Queen saw Dr. Whale was handing a bundle wrapping in a pick blanket to Robin. A smile grew on her face as she saw the thief with his new-born his arms as she gently knocked on the doorway to get his attention. Looking up from his daughter a permanent grin fixed onto his face as he saw his friends love make herself known.

"Robin" Regina greeted the man as she stepped into the room.

"Regina. I have a daughter" the man told her as she crossed the room to see the baby herself.

"That's wonderful" she tells with a chuckle as she hesitantly brushed her fingers across the new-born's cheek. Amelia should be here, not her.

"Look who's green with envy now?" Zelena bit at her sister from her bed making her younger sister look at her.

"Look who's glowing" the Dark One made her presence known from the door. "Congrats" she add's before flinging Dr. Whale against the wall knocking him unconscious as she went for Zelena on the bed.

Unsheathing his sword and the thief pointed it warning at the Dark Swan across the bed as he held his daughter tightly against him "I will not let you take this baby" he warns the Dark One.

"Not without a fight" Regina added putting a protective arm across the child.

Pausing the Dark One looked between the pair protecting the one thing she wasn't after that night . "That would be a problem if it was the baby I was after" she tells them making Zelena snap her head towards her.

Taking a hold of the Wicked Witches wrist she looked at the former Queen to break the news that had only happened a few minutes previously.

"You might want to go find Captain Smith, Regina. He's with his new-born daughter at the Inn" she told the former Queen before she summoned a swirl of dark smoke disappearing with Zelena in tow.

After a beat the thief looked towards the former Queen with furrowed brows not too sure what he had heard from the Dark One "I'm sorry. What did she just say?".

"She took Amelia" the brunette breathed out in horror as she waved her hands in front of her. Purple smoke engulfed her form to take her out of the delivery room and to the Inn.

---

With glazed tired eye's Amelia watched with her first love, as Doc handed a small bundle wrapped up in white towel to Granny as the grandmother stepped towards the new parents with a knowing smile as the redhead waited for Granny or Doc to tell them something.

"A girl" Granny tells them with a smile "Congratulations".

"A girl" John echoed the woman's words in disbelief from behind her. He always wanted a daughter. One that looked just like her mother in every way.

Reaching out for her little girl, Granny happily eased the newborn into her mother's waiting arms as John watched awestruck at the little person they had unintentionally made months ago.

Their daughter quickly settled into a gentle coo as John looked over Amelia's shoulder to watch the woman, he loved seeing the tears streak down her face.

"She's beautiful" John almost whispered making Amelia take her eye off her daughter to meet his blue eye's she remembered falling in love with so long ago, the same eye's she saw fall into the ocean near death and the same that she saw again in Granny's just over four months ago "Just like her mother" he finished as their eye's got caught in a lingering gaze. Amelia gently rested her forehead not his closing her eyes as he did the same.

"I'm sorry" John whispered to the redhead "I shouldn't have left".

Fresh tears fell from her eye's as she felt her heart clench at her first love's admission. "I know" she gulped "I'm sorry too" she whispered stretching her neck up she placed a sweet kiss on the corner on his lips. Before he could kiss her back she turned away to find Anastasia stood frozen at the door with watery eye's as she saw her sister with her child in her arms.

"Anya. Come meet my daughter" Taking small steps towards the bed the blonde assassin took a seat on the bed next to her sister careful of the wound on her stomach to take a look at the girl that sat in her mother's arms. She was smaller than what she thought she would be, and by how much her sister complained of the extra weight for the last few days. Reaching over the blonde assassin stroked the back of her niece's hand as the tiny finger took grabbed her pinkie finger.

"She likes you already" the redhead chuckled out seeing the look on her sister's face "No surprise there" she added as a 'whoosh' interrupted the moment from behind Anastasia as the redhead's time had run out.

"Sorry to interrupt the moment" Emma's dull voice made the others except from Amelia snap out of the moment. The redhead stared at her daughter trying to commit every morsel detail of her little girl's face to memory before Emma took her away from her.

Granny and Doc jumped into action to grab anything to defend themselves with only to be frozen still by Emma herself as Anastasia stood from her seat on the bed to put herself in-between her sister and the Dark One as two blade slipped out of her gauntlets to face the Dark One herself.

"What do you want?" John almost growled at the Dark One as he leapt off the bed with clenched fists.

"Amelia made a deal. I'm making sure she keeps it" Emma replied looking straight at the redhead with her hands clasped behind her back knowing Amelia would try and back out of the deal she made with the Dark One only hours ago.

"Whatever deal she made, she's not taking it" the Duchess tells Emma through gritted teeth.

"She has no choice, she already agreed to it" Emma argued with the assassin in her way of getting to Amelia.

"Like hell-" he was cut off when he felt a hand taking his.

"John" Amelia's small voice called out to her husband as she gently pulled him back onto the edge of the bed "It's okay" she tells him with tear filled eye's as Anastasia whirled around to face her sister.

"No, it's not" Anastasia argues "Whatever deal you made we can fix it. I don't care what you did to Merlin. I just want my sister back. Is it that hard to believe that I still need you".

"It's not, because I need you just as much, which means you can't get in the way this Anya. It's not something you can fix, not this time" she tells her "I have to do this on my own.

"Emma" Amelia simply stated to the Dark One. With a nod of understanding the Dark One froze her sister as she tried to keep her resolve, but she couldn't let Anastasia get in the way or killed.

"Please, don't do this" John's voice broke as she cupped his cheek with her free hand.

"Tell Tom I love him" Amelia tells gently encouraging him to take his daughter into his safe arms as she felt her heart break for the second time in hours "Name her after your mother, like we always planned" she stifled a choke as the baby quickly snuggled into her father's strong chest.

"Please" he begged her as the tear's that threatened to fall, fell down his face as her green eye's met his blue one's.

"Close your eyes" Amelia instructed him with a gentle smile "Just close them and it'll be over".

John tried to keep his eye's on his wife before they fluttered closed shut. He heard a whoosh of magic as he opened his eye's again to see the remnants of dark smoke that had taken his wife evaporate in the air as Anastasia, Granny and Doc were freed form their frozen state as his daughter seemed to cry out for her mother.

Letting out a shuddering breath he heard another whoosh of magic to see Regina emerge from a bloom of purple smoke as she tried to search for Amelia only to see Anastasia on her knees staring blankly at the wall as John sat on the edge of the bed with with his own bundle in his arms as it's cry's filled the room. John simply looked at her through his tears.

"You're too late" he gulped at the woman "She's gone".

---

She couldn't stop the tears from falling as the master assassin sat on the couch in the Dark One's home as she waited for the woman herself to give her the rest of her memories from Camelot. With Hook and Zelena safely locked up in the basement Emma's plan to remove the darkness of the Dark One from herself and Hook into Zelena to use as a vessel with the inclusion of Juno. With the newly whole Excalibur, she would be able to destroy the darkness and Juno all at the same time.

She didn't like the method, but it was the only plan they had.

Wiping the tears from her eye's the Dark One had kept her part of the deal of saving her daughter, now it was her's to do the rest. She would have to remember that last few memories that remained in the dream catcher.

She remembered what it was like to have Juno in her head, what she did while in control of her body, how strong she was to push her back on to the deepest depths of her mind.

Closing her eyes she forced herself to think of her soulmate in Camelot. How her heart thumped in her chest waiting for her to come down with David and Hook teasing her. And then she saw her.

Everyone in the room evaporated as her eye's met Regina's as she slowly walked down towards her. it was just the two of them as her feet moved her forward to meet her halfway up to take her and to make sure that her mind was not playing tricks with her, to make sure she was real.

That moment she took her hand was the moment she decided she was going to anything to stay with her forever.

Footsteps hitting the wooden floor took her out of the few memories she had of Camelot as Emma appeared in front of her sat on the coffee table with her dream catcher. The woman in front of her looked at her with as much sympathy as she could muster. She knew under everything the Emma Swan she knew was still there

"You ready for this?" the Dark One asked her.

"No" Amelia shook her head at the savior "But what choice do I have?".

"You know what to do?".

"Do you?" Amelia retorted "If your plan goes wrong?".

"It won't come to that" Emma argued shaking her head at the woman she had entrusted her of what happened in Camelot in. She was the only person that could help her finish this. To save Hook.

"No Dark One does. Otherwise it would be you going toe to toe with her not me" the redhead tells her "In Camelot you asked Regina and I to do what needed to be done to stop you. Just promise me you'll do the same".

"It won't come to that" Emma insisted not wanting to think of what she would have to do if she couldn't fight Juno.

"You don't know that Emma" she gulped "This is a battle my father tried to warn me about. It goes way beyond any Dark One or Assassin" the redhead took in a deep sigh letting what resolve she had left gone in front of her friend as she swiped away the tear's that fell from her eye's and onto her cheeks "Stupid hormones" she grumbled sniffing as more fat tears fell from her eye's.

Emma had never seen her like this. She'd always been the strong one when things got bad. Calm. Collected. Maybe she was asking too much this time. To let Juno in and fight her from the inside. But it had to be done.

Sniffing once more Amelia wiped the last remaining tear from her cheeks as she cleared her throat and sat up straight on the couch, the walls that had just come down had managed to re-build themselves in a manner of seconds as the strong resolve came back.

"If Juno wants a fight, I'll be the one to give it to her. I'm ready".

With a small nod Emma lighted the dream catcher to Amelia's eyesight waving her hand over the oven center as images appeared in the middle drawing Amelia's emerald eyes as she watched the last few moments of her time in Camelot. Emma watched as her eyes turns a bright yellow gold before the redhead fell onto to the old couch seamlessly dead to the world.

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She had never felt more distance between her and Regina then she did now. Stood with the Charming couple and John, Amelia glanced over to the dark brunette catching her deep brown eyes as she stood with Robin as they waited for Emma to finally reunite Excalibur and the Dagger.

Merlin had assured the redhead and rest that reuniting the two wouldn't set Juno free once more. She would be trapped in the Piece of Eden for the rest of eternity.

As the couple's eyes met across the room Amelia tried to give the woman a small smile only for the former Queen's to force her gaze away from the redhead refusing on what was taking place in front of them.

"Are you ready?" Merlin asked the blonde savior on the other side of the small table that held the ignited spark of Prometheus with both halves of Excalibur.

"Yes" she answered him.

"Then it's time to destroy the darkness once and for all" the sorcerer said as he opened the box that contained the final ingredient to uniting the blades.

Opening the box revealed the spark of Prometheus, with her magic Emma summoned the ball off flame into her hands lifting it into the air before clasping the flame between her hands trapping it between them before letting it go again causing the ball of fire to shine bright.

Amelia flinched at the sudden brightness making her shield her eye's from the source of light as Emma took a hold of the dagger and broken sword in her hands making them join in the middle of the spark.

That's when Hook and Amelia started to feel dizzy, the Assassin's eyelid fluttered as she grasped for John's strong arm to steady to herself gaining his attention as he turned to see Amelia gasp in pain as her hand flew to her neck as fresh blood leaked through her fingers.

Tom was alerted by his sixth sense as he allowed it to show him what was happening to his mother.

"Mom!" he exclaimed in horror alerting the others to see blood trickling through her fingers as Hook made his situation made known to the other's.

"Bloody hell" Hook mumbled before he grasped his neck with is hand as his own blood escaped through his fingers.

"Hook what's wrong?" David asked the man.

"Amy!" John exclaimed as Amelia's knee's gave out from her. The privateer just about caught her figure lowering her to the floor as she gasped for breath as Regina quickly went to the redheads side to see her desperate for breath look towards the Queen as she held onto her husband as Robin keep her son back.

"They're bleeding!" Mary Margaret exclaimed as Hook staggered across the diner before falling onto the floor next to the hurt assassin.

Stopping what she was doing, the savior put the blades down to come to Killian's aide as she saw the exact same thing was happening to Amelia.

"When did that happen?" Regina looked at the blonde as she tended to her love.

"It was Excalibur" Emma tells them "But it was just a small cut. I healed it. What about Lia?".

"Same. Arthur cut her with the sword before he killed her. I-I don't understand I healed it when Juno left her" Regina stuttered in panic as she tried her best to help her soulmate.

"I'm afraid it only seemed that way" Merlin told both women gravely "Excalibur was forged to cut immortal ties. A wound from it cannot be healed".

"What?" Mary Margaret gasped at the sorcerer "There has to be something we can do, that she can do" she voiced to the sorcerer in the diner.

"Even Emma's power isn't strong enough, nor is my own. There is a way to save Amelia though, but it will come with a heavy price for her".

"What is it?" Regina asked the man making them all look to him, but he stayed silent "Tell us!".

"Juno" he gulped out "She would be able to heal the wound" Merlin tells her"But only if she takes Amelia as a vessel once again".

"No" Amelia choked out from the floor of the diner between heavy breaths "No, please. No" she continued to beg her family. She didn't want to go through that again. Not again.

"He's right you know" a voice only Emma heard say to her. Snapping her head up she saw Juno knelt down in front of her like all the times she would see Rumpelstiltskin "I can save her; you just need to free me".

"No" Emma told the image in front of her making David look to the empty space next to him.

"Emma?" Regina called out to blonde.

"Juno's here" she breathed out in fear as the vision of the deity smirked at her.

"You mustn't listen to her Emma" Merlin protested "Whatever she is saying do not believe her".

"I can tell you how to save your love as well" Juno tempted her further. Emma shook her head and looked to Hook on the floor.

"Killian, you have to hold on" Emma pleaded with the man she loved "I can't lose you".

"It's all right" he weakly choked out "Emma, it's all right".

"No. Please, no. Don't leave me. You have to stay. You have to stay. Come on, Killian. What about our future together?".

"Our future is now" he tells her "Reunite the blades so we can see them before we go" Grunts out glancing towards Amelia who was still holding onto life across the floor.

"No!" Emma refused.

"No?" Regina questioned her.

"I'm not gonna let them die when I know there's a way to save them" Emma told her family.

"Emma... Merlin said it" she told the blonde letting out a heavy breath as she stoked Amelia's cheek "There's nothing you can do".

Regina looked down at her love as she realized she was once again going to lose the person she loved. It was happening again and she could do nothing to stop it.

Emma turned her head to look behind her to Merlin "That's what he said, but it's not true, is it? You told me how powerful I am. Let's use that power. I-I can use the Promethean Flame to release you from Excalibur, and then I can use it to tether Hook's life to it instead. It could save him and free Juno to save Amelia. I can trap her again".

"Emma, you know what that could do" Merlin pleaded with the savior.

"Create another Dark One" Regina realized next to her.

"It will multiply the darkness so that it cannot be destroyed" Merlin told the blonde "Not without you paying the steepest of prices. It will be your final step into the dark. Juno would go to any lengths not to get trapped in the sword for a third time. Neither you nor I would be able to stop her even at half her power. You'd be playing right into her hands".

"I don't care what happens to me" Emma snapped at the man.

"Emma, wait" her father called out to her.

"Please. Listen, you can't" her mother added.

"Emma, your parents are right" Regina voiced to the woman even if she lost Amelia. There was no right answer to this. She could either lose Amelia as she was now, or lose her in once again to the god that wanted to use her for god's know's what. Losing her was the lesser evil here, surrounded by people who loved her.

Emma's head snapped to Regina "If you could've saved Daniel or Lia... Look how far you were willing to go, how far you pushed me to save her!" her voice broke as she yelled at Regina "I'm not gonna lose either of them. I won't let anyone stop me" Grabbing Amelia a swirl of dark smoke engulfed Emma as she took Hook and Amelia out of the diner to somewhere she could save them both.

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She had no idea how she got outside. She remembered being in the diner when she felt her knee's give out under her, and now she was looking up into the blue sky surrounded by grass and pink Middle-mist flowers. She was so cold. She just wanted to sleep as her eyelid's fluttered closed ready to finally welcome death to take her away from this pain.

"Lia you need to hold on" she heard Emma's voice above her as she felt herself being shaken awake "You need to hang on" Amelia weakly nodded to the blonde as she heard a voice beside her through the grass blades she could see Hook laying next to her with sickly pale skin.

"Emma" his weak voice called out to the blonde as she went to kneel beside him "Emma".

"Killian. You're going to be okay. Both of you".

"No, please. You have to let me go" he groaned out "I don't want to pay this price. I don't... I don't want to become that" he pleaded to his love.

"You won't" she told him" You can fight the darkness. I can help you. We can do it together".

"I'm not as strong as you are... or Merlin. I'm weak. The things I've done... I've done. I've succumbed to darkness before in my life. And it took centuries to push it away. I don't know if I can do it again" Amelia felt a tear fall down the side of her face.

"But our future..".

"I'll just be happy knowing that... that you have one. Aah!".

"That's not enough for me!" Amelia heard Emma yell at Hook making her eye's flutter open.

"Emma" Amelia's small voice called out to blonde "Please…don't' do this".

"Juno can save you and your baby" Emma gripped the Assassin's hand that was lying on her small bump.

"No" she panted "You don't know what it's like to have her in your head" she gritted through her teeth as the pain from her neck only got worse.

"You can fight her, she can be beaten" Emma tells the woman as she takes Excalibur into her hand, holding it over Killian's form as she summoned the darkness that tethered Merlin to the sword. Amelia closed her eyes shut as she waited whatever fate the Dark One had decided for her.

The next time she opened her eye's Emma had changed, she was now dressed in dark leather and her long blonde hair was now more white than yellow, looked down at her with a dull expression.

"Please" she whispered as desperate tears fell down her face, at the complete mercy to Dark One above her "Let me go".

"I'm sorry" Emma told her before she sent the sword into her abdomen making her gasp out in pain before darkness overtook her once again that day.

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Seeing Amelia's new-born daughter in her father's arms was enough for Regina to no longer pull any punches as she stormed towards Emma's new house with David and Mary Margaret following after the angry mayor.

"I don't understand" Mary Margaret voiced as the reached the front gate to the house "How can Emma destroy light magic using Zelena and Lia?".

"She can't" Regina tells the schoolteacher as she let herself through the white picket gate.

"What is she planning?" David asked her as she let herself onto the property.

"Your guess is as good as mine" she retorted "All I know is no one hurts my sister but me. And no one certainly take's Amelia".

"What are you planning to do once you find Emma?" Mary Margaret asked the older woman making her stop to look back at the Charming couple

"Oh, it's simple. I'm going to show the Dark Swan what dark magic really looks like".

"Regina, she's still our daughter" David pointed out the woman.

"We can't go to war with her" Mary Margaret voiced.

"If you don't have the stomach for this..." Regina said before Mary Margaret cut her off.

"I'm not going to hurt her".

"This is exactly why she gave me and Melia the dagger. She knew we were the only ones who could do what has to be done. And now she has her. Now, stand back, or I'll make you stand back" Regina warned the couple.

"No, we are coming with you" the teacher retorted "And not only will we stop her, we will save her".

Behind Regina the front door opened to reveal Emma as she stepped out of the house "I don't need saving. And Lia doesn't either" she tells her parent and Regina as she walked down the front porch steps "You're gonna have to trust me. By the time I'm done with Zelena, you'll all be thanking me, especially you, Regina".

"And why would I thank you?" the older woman queried with the Dark One.

"You don't remember this, but back in Camelot, you helped me admit some things about myself. And now I'm ready to repay the favor. Because deep down, we both know you and Amelia will be happier when Zelena is gone".

"Gone? This is not the way, Miss Swan, and you know it".

"We're back to Miss Swan?".

"Well, start acting like Emma again and we'll talk".

"I am Emma" Emma tells them as she thrusts the tip of the newly reunited Excalibur into the sidewalk, which puts a magical barrier around the house and freezes her family in place.

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Emerging from the basement after staging a breakout, Zelena and Hook entered the foyer to the house to see a bright light coming through the net curtains that covered the front door.

"Good, she's busy" Zelena comments seeing the light through the window "We'll have to sneak out the back" she went to head to the back door only for Hook to stay where he was.

"I'm not coming with you" Hook tells her.

"Are you joking?" she questions the pirate in disbelief "I actually keep my word, and you decide to go down with the ship".

"If I don't stop Emma, she'll just find somebody else to put her darkness into, and if I leave now, I may never get the answers I need" he argued.

"And how are you going to get them? I don't think she's in a sharing mood".

"Emma stole squid ink from Gold's shop. If I can find it, then I can get her to tell me what I want".

"Well then, you better hope she doesn't find you first. Ta-ta" with that Zelena sauntered to the back door leaving the pirate to his quest to find the squid ink.

He headed to his left first to the living room only see a figure sprawled across the couch seemly dead to the world if he hadn't seen the deep even breaths, she was taking.

"Amelia?" Hook steps towards the sleeping redhead and tries to shake her awake with his hand only to get no response from the woman "Luv?" He looked down he saw how flat her stomach was. She wasn't pregnant anymore "What did she do to you?" he asked the sleeping woman.

Emma must have done the same thing she did to Zelena to Amelia. But why? Was Amelia the backup if her plan with Zelena failed "Stay there. I'll get us out of here" he instructed the unconscious Assassin as he went to work.

He first went to a desk pulling out all the draws out of the places searching through its contents when something caught his eye. It was a framed painting of a forest. Then he remembered how the crocodile hid everything. Pulling the frame off the wall he braced to find a safe of some sort onto the be met with disappointment to find the wallpaper.

Ready to move onto the next hiding place Hook leaned the frame against the couch Amelia was lying on, only to fail to notice the now vacant piece of furniture when the front door opened to see Emma walk through it, catching him red handed.

"Really? I was trying to help you" she tells him.

"Swan" he addresses the woman as he sees the squid ink taped to the back of the picture and throws the contents of the bottle at Emma freezing the Dark One in place, as she dropped the sword.

"I'm sorry, love. You've left me no choice. Regina was right. You are a villain now, and now you're gonna tell me exactly what happened in Camelot to make you that way. How are you going to make me do that?".

"I've got some ideas" a voice made the Captain look towards the kitchen to see the redhead awake and standing up "I see you found the squid ink, Captain" Amelia observed out loud as she walked towards them.

"Amelia" he sighed in relief seeing the woman now awake.

"Oh, it is good to be back" she drawled as she approached the frozen Emma as Zelena re-entered the house "You really should've invited me back sooner Swan. I missed all the fun" she says placing her hand on her flat stomach.

"Back? what are you talking about?" he asked the redhead as he saw Zelena return "Zelena, why the hell did you come back?"

"I thought about how you said you couldn't run until you got some answers, and I realized I couldn't run either..." Zelena told the pirate "Not without making the Dark One pay" she sneer's at Emma before looking towards the redhead.

"Hello Zelena" Amelia greeted the Wicked Witch without the bitterness that usually went with the Assassin's voice whenever she spoke to the woman.

"Whatever you think you're doing…" Emma was cut off when she see the knife that Zelena was holding behind her back "No! No!" Emma protected loudly as Zelena viciously sent the blade into Killian's chest making him panic.

Zelena let out a raucous laugh as the pirate realized that he wasn't in and any from the blade as he pulled it out of his chest "I bet you didn't see that coming, did you? Of course that's nothing compared to the surprise that you're feeling right now. You're saying to yourself, "I just got stabbed in the chest. Why shouldn't it hurt more? Why am I not dead?".

"What the hell is happening?" Hook looked between Amelia and Emma as he looked for an answer "Answer me, Witch!".

"Well, you could take our word" Amelia told the pirate "Or you could return the memories that the Dark One stole" the redhead held up a dream catcher in her hand "See for yourself. The lovely Zelena found this outside".

"Don't trust them" Emma tied to plead to the man "I can explain everything, Killian".

"Do it" Hook instructed Amelia as she held up the dream catcher to the man's head gifting him the memories from Camelot.

With an upturned smirk Juno watched as Hook was transfixed to the center of the dream catcher as the memories of the last six week returned to the pirate as the last of his memories till on the image of him merging from the Dark One's vault as the a new Dark One. Jolting out of the memories as his eyes sort that of his makers as a flash of recognition went through his when he saw her.

"Juno" he breathed out.

A smirk grew on the deity's face as she looked at one of her newest creations in the eye "Welcome back Dark One".

"I'm so sorry, Killian" Emma tell him from her place "But I did not have a choice" she tells the man.

"No, no, no. No, there has to be some other explanation" he tried to tell himself as Juno rolled her eye's at the man

"Denial" Juno sighed to herself as she saw her newest Dark One start his

"Aw. Are you finding the truth hard to swallow?" Zelena asked the man picking Excalibur up from the floor, the Wicked Witch crossed the room to hand it to the new Dark One only for Juno to stop her.

"Ah, ah ah" Juno stopped the Witch hold out her hand to the woman as she looked over her shoulder to meet the woman's eye "That's mine".

A sweet smile pulled on the Wicked Witches lips as she handed Excalibur over to the deity before handing it over to Hook. Juno waved her hand over the blade to reveal his name engraved on the legendary sword.

"A glamour spell" Zelena stated to the man chuckling to herself "It was there the whole time right under your nose, and you didn't even see it" she laughs at the man's misfortune, looking between the pair of pair of Dark One's "Ooh, I suppose it's not the Dark One anymore, is it? More like the Dark Ones".

"Enough Zelena" Juno told the woman growing tired of the woman's laughter.

"So, that's why you saved my life twice tonight" the man realized "I was never in any danger. You just wanted to keep me from the truth".

"I wanted to fix it first to make up for what I had done" she tried to tell him.

"By killing me? How sweet" the Wicked Witch sneered into to the blonde Dark One's ear.

"Zelena" Juno drawled out in warning not wanting the woman's continued commentary.

"It was the only way to destroy the darkness in both of us" Emma tells the man she loved "Everything I've done since we got back to Storybrooke was to try to save you, Killian. To save Amelia from Juno"

"This is saving?" he questions her "How could you do this to me? To Amelia?".

"Ouch" Juno voiced her offence to the pirate.

"I'm sorry".

"So much for our future, Swan" he says making Juno laugh at the pirate as she turns to face her newest Dark One.

"Now, tell me. Are you ready to learn what else happened in Camelot?" Juno asks the pirate with the dream catcher still in her hand.

"Aye" he slowly drawls out as he looks darkly at the woman he loves "But first we have to take care of her".

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