She stood corrected. The beds at the Inn weren't the most uncomfortable place she had ever had the misfortune to spend the night on. There was a worse place still.
Her only saving grace was the poppy seed sending her into a deep enough sleep in which she wasn't plagued with the recurring nightmare of someone killing her. Only her price so to speak was the stiff back and neck she woke up with made her fear that it would never be the same again.
However, her head and neck weren't her main concern at that moment. It was her head. It felt like Thor had taken a swing at her with Mjolnir. She'd felt better the morning after her's and Regina's night on the town with Mal, Cruella, Ursula and Anastasia.
True to the Black Widow's word Nurse Rachet had woken her up just before sun rise, giving the assassin enough time to stumble her way back home on foot. Sneaking back into the large home, the former Widow just about closed the front door shut gently enough to save her aching head from further torture as she took a moment to take in the silence of the home as she rested her head on the wooden door before a voice pierced through her head.
"There you are!".
"Fuuuuuck" the redhead drawled out to herself as the accompanying heeled footsteps followed the voice as she made herself turn around to make her way up to the foyer to meet her wife, son dressed in his school uniform and surprisingly Dr. Jekyll stood there to greet her home from the night spent in the ward.
And from the way her hand was gripping her waist she was wasn't in a happy mood to see her love sneaking back into their home after spending the night out. Not that she was planning on it.
"Where the hell have you been?" she fumed at the redhead as Jekyll and Tom watched on "We've been worried sick".
"I-" she tried to answer only to get interrupted by her wife.
"You know what. I don't care" snapped at the assassin not wanting to hear the answer from her distant spouse seeing her in the same clothes she wore yesterday "We've got a bigger problem than you up and leaving for a whole day and night without a phone call" .
Oh right. Getting lost in the woods. Basim. The Oracle. It was all coming back to her now. Yep. She was in trouble.
"If you are talking about Hyde, I already know" Amelia supplied to her wife making her go silent "I found out when I went to visit him last night only to find his cell empty".
"And did this happen to be at a bar by any chance? You look wrecked" referring to her paler hungover complexion.
"I wish" Amelia mumbled to herself before answering "Instead I had an overdue visit by the Widow herself" she explained as panic filled the former Queen's chest hearing this.
"What did she want?" she asked dreading the answer.
"Nothing much" she brushed the question off not wanting to share what the Widow had told her "I spent the night down there after she blew poppy dust at me. Rachet only woke me up an hour or so ago".
"We need to talk to Emma" Tom voices to his mother's panic in his eyes hearing this from his mother.
"No" the former Queen sternly her step-son turning to him "You are going back to school with Henry and have a normal day without our evil half's wreaking havoc. We will deal with it".
"Bu-" he tried to argue.
"It's either back to school or you stay grounded" she tells him.
The teen stilled at the ultimatum posed by his step-mother. He hated being stuck at home or chaperoned by a dwarf since coming back from New York. He'd hardly seen MJ and if he was being honest, if he spent another day in the house he would stage a breakout and risk a longer sentence.
"School" he quickly answered with a firm nod of his head. That's what she thought.
"Come on" the former Queen prompts the others "We need to go find Emma" she says as led, Tom and Jekyll out of the house, leaving Amelia in the foyer desperate for a shower to get the previous day and night off her.
"Could I at least get a coffee first?" she complained to her wife as they reached the front door. Waving her hand in the air a mug of coffee appeared in the assassin's hand filled with the caffeinated hot drink, the assassin brought the rim to her lips to take a sip of hoping the hot drink would help with the headache only to grimace at the true temperature "Still not as good as Granny's" she grumbles to herself as she follows the other's out of the house
With the addition of Dr. Jekyll the Mill's/ Montague family walked down the last few hundred metres from where they parked the Mayors car towards the Swan household as the redhead safely carried her barely month old daughter happily gurgling to herself unaware of everything that was going on around her with her favourite blanket secured around her that her Aunt Anastasia had found in a box simply labelled 'Monteriggioni'.
She recognised the blanket straight away, according to Paola it was her own blanket Juliet had wrapped her in when she was born. It wasn't a traditional soft baby blanket but it's silk like material seemed to help her sleep better, and she was happy whenever it was near her. Who was she to judge? Seeing as her oldest child's prized possession when he was small was a wooden Jackdaw that now proudly sat displayed on his desk in his room.
"So what did I miss while I was out?" Amelia asked her wife next to her as they continued towards the two story home the saviour resided in with her son when he stayed with her.
"Nothing other than my other half trying her best to keep her promise to us".
"Lovely" the assass drawled out
"I also spoke with Zelena" she tells the redhead next.
"How did that go?" .
"She's given Robin a rattle our mother gave to me. The only way she could've gotten it is from the Queen".
"Sorry I couldn't be there".
She was being shown a vision of her and Emma's possible death. Not that it was a good excuse.
"It's fine. I'm dealing with it. We introduced Jekyll to Dr. Whale or as he want's to go by now Dr. Frankenstein.
"Dr. Jekyll and Dr. Frankenstein working together. That sound like the worst doctor's appointment ever And I've had my fair share".
"What about you? What kept you out of everything, I'd thought You'd be in the middle of it all.
"Uh, according to the Widow I was caught up in a trick of the Queen's to keep me out of town for the day".
"What did she want?" Regina asked the redhead at the mention of the Black Widow "Did she say anything that might help us?" she tries to pry the information out of the redhead as they enter the front garden.
"Nothing about Hyde" Amelia tells her wife as they quickly climbed up the porch steps and let themselves into the house announcing their presence to the Charming/ Swan family. They were met by Snow and Henry in his school uniform looking like they were about to leave.
"Oh, this can't be good" Snow greeted the family plus the doctor.
"We need to talk" the former Queen replied as David and Emma made their way from the kitchen.
Seeing the saviour for the first time since finding out that their fates had some how connected made the assassin heart best just a little faster than before as she felt the nervousness of knowing that the saviour had seen that the same vision she had been seeing.
"Whatever this is, we'll take care of it" David quickly jumped in holding their infant son in his arms as he took control of the situation, brining the assassin back into the room to the issue at hand "You, Tom and Henry get to school" he tells his true love "Remember... back to normal" at that the teacher and students filed out of the house as they waited for them to leave before they spoke of the problem that had cropped up overnight.
"What's wrong?" Emma asks them, looking at the good doctor "Shouldn't you be in the lab, working on the potion?".
"Technically, it's a serum" he corrected the saviour "And I'm afraid there's been a complication".
"It's Hyde. He's escaped" Regina told the group.
"I was at the lab until early morning. When I returned to my room at Granny's, I found this" he hold up a necklace to show David and Emma "It belonged to a woman I cared deeply for. Hyde knew. He's trying to taunt me with it".
"We need to get you back to the lab. Now we don't just need the serum to defeat the Evil Queen and the Black Widow. We need it to finish Hyde" Emma tells them before taking a double take on Amelia, she looked like she had been out drinking with her boyfriend...again.
"No offence, but you look like hell. What happened to you?"
"Rough night" she answered the blonde "I was the one to find Hyde's cell empty".
"You did?" the Prince exclaimed "Why didn't you call us?" David asked.
"Trust me, the sheriff's would been the first people I would've called if I hadn't had a visitor to stop me from doing so".
"Visitor?" Emma' brows furrowed "Who?".
"The Widow" she states to the pair.
"What did she want?" David was the one to ask her.
"Nothing" she tells them !We talked and then she blew poppy dust in my face. Spent the night in his cell".
"Did she say anything about Hyde by any chance" Emma pressed her.
"Nothing about Hyde" she reports to the blonde as the latter hears the small lie
"But she did say something" Emma added knowing the woman better than that.
"Look we can stand here all day and talk about the Black Widow a we can actually do something useful like making a potion-".
"Serum" Jekyll corrected her.
"Serum" she forced out "A serum to get rid of her once and for all. Agreed?" she sent the question towards the others as she eyed the plate of food laid out on the kitchen table. The sight made her stomach rumble. God's she was hungry.
"Agreed" they all chimed in.
"Now, are any of those pancakes going spare. I haven't eaten since yesterday and I'm starving".
While the other's spent the day dealing with the latest twist, returning to something she loved doing was the most normal thing she could think of doing as she walked down the familiar hall with her grandson on one side and his step-brother on the other as the assassin apprentice now stood an inch taller than her. He was growing fast and showed no sign of stopping as he looked forward to continue his training with his mother on weekends.
"It's good to have you back, Grandma" Henry voiced to his grandmother as they three made their way down the hallway.
"It's like I never left" she replies with a relaxed smile on her face as they reached Henry's classroom as Violet and MJ appeared in their uniforms to find their boyfriends.
"Morning, Henry" Violet greeted Henry.
"Morning Tom" MJ chorused with the younger girl as the pair affectionately kiss their respective boyfriends on their cheeks making the former Princess uncomfortably look away as Tom quickly found his hand in her's like it always did, when they were close enough. Like magnets.
"That's different..." Snow whispered to herself averting her eye's at the image in front of her.
"I hope you have a good day" Henry wishes his grandmother.
"You, too" she replies with a chuckle as Henry and Tom enter the classroom with their girlfriends as Snow heads down the hall only to bump her shoulder against someone else's.
"Oh, I am s...".
"Ohh. Ohh, I'm so sorry" the other woman profusely apologises to her for bumping into her making her turn around to face her.
"Oh, no, it's fine" Snow reassured the young woman.
"I just, um... I think I'm lost" she nervously chuckled out to herself. "Do you know where room 20 is?" she asks her.
"I do" Snow answers her with a rye smile on her lips "That's my classroom".
"I'm your new teacher's aid. My name is Shirin" the younger woman introduces herself.
"Oh, from the Land of Untold Stories, like the students" 'Shirin' nods shaking Snows hand "It's very nice to meet you, Shirin. I'm Snow".
"As in Snow White, the princess?".
This was the Princess her brother had told her about meeting the woods. The one close with the assassin "What's a princess like you doing working here as a teacher?".
"It's complicated" Snow chuckles out "I don't know how much you know about the curse that created Storybrooke?
"Very little, I'm afraid" Shirin tells her.
"Well, the short version is, I didn't always know I was a princess. I mean, I did, and then I didn't. And, well, then I did again. But when I didn't, I was a teacher. And even though the curse is long gone, I realized... I really loved teaching" she summarized for the teaching aid.
"That's very admirable" Shirin voices to her "But I supposed I shouldn't be surprised. You're Snow White. Your reputation precedes you" she tells the former Princess as the bell rang out above them.
"Oh, yes, it does" Snow agrees as they walk together to their classroom "Let's get started. Uh, have you ever built a birdhouse?".
Despite filling her stomach with the pancakes the saviour's father had made for his daughter, the combination of the food and caffeine had cleared her mind of the powder and brought her mind back to the brick wall she had hit as the memories of the vision of her's and Emma's demise to the two figure in the middle of Main Street.
The images hung heavy in her mind as she tried her best not to stare at the saviour for too long. She was having the same visions she was having. Could she talk to her? Or would that somehow effect the outcome. She was at a painful standstill to what to do as she stood in Dr. Frankenstein's garage turned laboratory, tempted to open the fridge just to take her mind off her currents thoughts as the Doctor worked with Dr. Jekyll to create the serum that would end the nightmare that was having their evil halves in town.
The feeling of uselessness was slowing creeping up on her as the stab wound on her side that she had received from the Queen started to throb out in pain. It was taking it's time healing. Maybe she should get one of the Doctor's in the room to take a look at it while all three of them were, even if one of them did get their doctorate from a pickaxe.
She needed to speak to Basim again. He knew more what was going on with her,
"I'm at the lab" she heard Emma say into her phone as she stood with the others "I'll let you know as soon as we get to Hyde. Bye" the redhead heard the tale end of the conversation before the blonde hung up.
"Guys, that was Hook" she announced to the group making them turn away from the array of equipment that would help the good doctor re-create the serum "Gold trapped Belle on the Jolly Roger with some kind of protection spell. He thinks Hyde's coming after her".
"The Dark One's wife?" Jekyll asked as they all moved towards the blonde "I thought she was under a sleeping curse".
"It's always out of one prison, into another with her" Regina voiced. Her aunt had the worst luck sometimes.
"I don't get it" David voiced the group "Why would Hyde go after her?".
"Rumple" Amelia quickly figured out for the group gaining their attention "In the cage when we told him about Belle, he seemed interested. Whatever my Uncle did to him, I'd bet good money on good old fashioned vengeance. And she's carrying the only thing that can currently hurt him".
"Wait" Jekyll spoke up as his brows furrowed in confusion "The Dark One is your Uncle as well?" he asked her.
"Trust me ,its still hard to believe even now" the former assassin grumbled back.
"We need to speed this up" Emma interrupted any further conversation looking towards the Doctor "Are you close with the serum?".
"I'm afraid I've hit a bit of an impasse" the doctor nervously tells the saviour.
"All right. What about Gold?" the former Prince suggested.
"You think he'd be willing to help us?"
"You told us he helped you finish the original serum, and he wants Hyde gone just as much as we do" Emma explained before looking to the former Queen "Regina, you think you could talk to him?".
"Yeah, I can talk to him" Regina agreed along with the saviour.
"Dad, Lia and I will track down the Evil Queen and Hyde" she said picking up the electric baton that once took down Hyde before "Call us when the serum's ready".
"Leroy, you and Doc keep an eye on things here" David instructed the dwarves as Regina and Amelia left the garage.
"Yeah, don't worry, brother. We've been keeping an eye on things since the day we hatched" Leroy assured the Prince as Amelia headed for the yellow bug.
As her soulmate headed for her own, the former Queen couldn't help but to run after her love, taking the assassin's hand into her's, making her stop and turn to face her love as Emma and David continued leaving the married couple alone.
"Do I need to tell you to be careful?" Regina states to her.
The piece of sentiment made the redhead smile to herself as she felt the familiar warmth spread within her. or maybe that was the food coming back up on her.
"You don't" she assured her love "I'll be fine".
"I know" she replied "It's just…after last night and seeing the Widow. You've been quiet" she gulped "More than usual". She hated when the assassin was like this, closing herself off. It meant she was thinking about something she shouldn't be, or at least not on her own.
"Melia, what did she say to you?".
"Nothing" she answered needing her love to believe her. It wasn't anything the Widow had said to her that was bothering her "Please just trust me, she didn't say a thing that wasn't true".
She didn't need the Black Widow to keep the pain away. To take on her future on her own. To fight against the grief that threatened to cripple her at every waking hour. She could do that on her own, because she had people around her that loved her without her darker self there.
"Okay" the former Queen relented "I believe you".
"Let's just focus on that serum for now" Amelia quickly changed the subject "Go speak to my Uncle, you two have always has this understanding..." she trailed off not sure what to call it. She always felt like the third wheel whenever the three were together. There was this tension the room that always make her feel uncomfortable, which was made easier on the assassin as she was quickly dismissed from the room.
"Between the two of you" she continued "But if it helps getting rid of our other halves, I'm all for it. Besides I have some backup, that baton packs a punch" Amelia reassured her wife which didn't do much to ease the brunettes concerns as she turned to join Emma and David in the bug.
Trekking through the woods was something Amelia was used to doing when it came to villains in Storybrooke, but listening to David telling his daughter how he made the pancakes she helped herself to earlier, made her wish either Hyde or the Queen would make an appearance to save her from this form on torture.
In the hours she had been stuck in the woods or asleep in Hyde's cell, the saviour had asked Hook to move in with her. If it hadn't been for current situation she would've taken the time out to properly congratulate the blonde, but seeing as she was the one leading the daughter and father through the woods, using her sixth sense to give her a heads up that they weren't completely alone, she would have to save any celebrations to herself for the time being.
"You know what my secret for the pancakes is?" David asks his daughter "Nutmeg" he tells her "Now you can make them for Hook".
"Dad, are you sure you're okay with me and Hook?" she asks her father.
"Even as much as I hated that pirate when I first met him" the statement made the assassin in front of them scoff audibly knowing exactly how he felt about the pirate when they first met, only the Prince to ignore the assassin's interruption to continue "If you're happy, so am I" he said as both Amelia and Emma came to a sudden stop.
"What?" he asked the two woman as Amelia's vision turned back to their normal green colour.
"Someone's here" Emma said as Amelia was the first one to spin on her heel to see Hyde standing behind them. Hyde.
"Indeed! You found me" he announces his presence to the group as Emma and David turn in unison with the former pointing the electric baton at the strong man in front of them it whirring to life as the man confidently started to walked towards them as Amelia saw David reaching for his gun in its holster.
"Oh, did you really think I would let you defeat me with that again?" at that Emma let the bolt of electricity out of the weapon only for Hyde to duck in time for the sparks to hit a tree behind him
"David No!" the assassin exclaimed at the former Prince as he aimed his gun at Hyde. But Amelia's warning came too late as the second the sheriff pointed his gun towards Hyde, with his finger on the trigger, the former quickly closed the distance between himself and the weapon, forcing the gun out of David's hand before picking up the second sheriff by his shoulders and throwing him up in the air before landing heavily onto the forest floor, with and uncomfortable thud.
"Dad! David!" the women shouted out as they ran towards the man on the ground groaning in pain. Blinking her sixth sense on the assassin quickly search for any broken bones from going airborne as he continued to groan out in pain as his daughter knelt down on his other side "Are you okay? Dad?".
Looking back up at Hyde, Emma saw his retreating form running away from them. He couldn't get away just like that, not now. And between her and Amelia, the assassin would be able to catch up to the man.
"Go after Hyde!" Emma ordered Amelia making the redhead look up to see the desperation in them "Go after Hyde. I've got him".
With a nod, the assassin rose to her feet and started her pursuit of Hyde through the woods, easily catching up to him as he looked back behind him wo see the assassin not too far away from him, her presence hot on his heels distracted him from what was lying in ait for him as a dagger suddenly sunk into his chest making him stop to see the one holding the pommel at the other end. The Dark One himself.
Skidding to a stop the assassin managed to stay on her feet as she saw her Uncle dagger deep in Hyde's chest. At least sending Regina to talk to him worked.
"So, tell me..." Gold snarled at Hyde as the latter gasped "Was this how you imagined your story playing out?"
"Actually, yes" Hyde said stepping away from the Dark One with the dagger still in his chest as he miraculously recovers from being stabbed in the heart "It is quite a twist, don't you think?" a grunt escapes him as he pulled out the bloody dagger from his chest as Amelia and Gold gaped in disbelief at what they were witnessing as the redhead's stomach churned uncomfortably. Yep, the pancakes were gonna make a comeback.
"How?" Gold shuddered in fear having given over the only thing that could control him over to the enemy.
"Oh, Jekyll always tries to get the better of me, but he never can. Do you know why? It's because he's all mind, no heart, which makes him a very dull and predictable boy, indeed" he said turning around to see Amelia giving the redhead a sickly grin while taking out a vial of red serum. The same serum she had used to rid herself of the Black Widow once and for all.
"You switched vials" Gold whispered in realisation at Hyde had done when he visited the garage/ laboratory.
"What do you mean switched vials?" Amelia asked her Uncle in fear for the answer.
"It mean's Amelia" Hyde spoke up for the Dark One as he turned to face her "That the old man tried to rid of me himself with the real serum safe in my hands" Hyde explained himself before turning back towards her Uncle "Well, I couldn't very well let you have it, now, could I?" he tells him throwing the vial of serum onto some rocks, the vial shattering on impact.
"What is it you want?".
"Oh, I think you know the answer to that. I want to show you the end of our story, and I want to watch you suffer. Now... take us to Belle" with a wave of his hand red smoke engulfed the Dark One, Hyde and Amelia taking them out of the forest.
Sat by the window of his classroom, the teenage assassin apprentice found his mind drifting from the subject that was being taught by the teacher at the front of the room yet again that day, struggling to concentrate on the piece of text the class had been studying for the last half an hour. He hated to admit that he was struggling going through the motions of being normal again despite the freedom that came with being at school again.
Instead his mind drifted the problem that had emerged that morning after finding out that Hyde had managed to escape his cell and his mother's sudden reappearance after going missing for the entire day and night. Classes that morning had sped by as he suddenly found himself sat outside with Henry, Violet and MJ eating lunch.
But once he had found himself sat in his English Literature class with a copy of The Picture of Dorian Gray on his desk, not even Oscar Wilde's novel could keep his mind from drifting to whatever was happening outside the four walls of the school.
Turning to the window to fuel his boredom the teenager's brows furrowed as he saw his Aunt Snow outside in the playground with her class and another teacher with a bow and arrow in her hand.
Whirling round he saw that no one else had noticed what was going on outside, he turned back to the widow blinking his sixth sense on as he concentrated on what was going on below him as his teacher's voice turned into background noise he could ignore.
"Newton's Third Law every action... has a reaction" Snow tells her class taking her bow and arrow from the teachers aid before notching the arrow in place, the teacher took a shooting stance, towards a tree that had some paper hung at it's trunk.
"This is the action" she states to the class as she pulls the string of bow and back tight, taking aim "And this" she says letting the arrow loose striking the target true "..the is the equal and opposite reaction. Now, who wants to give it a try?".
"Mr. Smith!" his name being yelled out from the front of the class made him look away from the window as his eye's went back to their normal brown to face the front to see the whole class looking at him, including his teacher, who didn't have a very happy look on their face "Perhaps you can tell the class the significant of the portrait in this chapter" the teacher blinked at him, waiting for an answer.
Looking down at the book, hoping to see what chapter they were on, his hopes were dashed to see the novel still closed.
"Shit".
Reappearing at the docks, the three stood at the slip where the Jolly Roger had been indefinitely anchored, Amelia and Gold walked the wooden boardwalk either side of Hyde as they saw Belle running from something on the deck of the ship.
"Ah, here we are" Hyde drawls as they watched
"Whatever you're planning, stop" Gold warns Hyde "You might control that dagger now, but you won't always" the Dark One tells him "And I promise you, if you harm Belle...".
"You both don't need to worry" Hyde interrupts the old man "I won't harm Belle. You see, there's one final twist. I am not the monster you need to worry about".
"Rumple, lift the spell!" Belle shouted over to her husband seeing no way off the ship after seeing him stood on dryland with Hyde and Amelia.
"I can't" he tells her before looking over to Hyde "What's going on?" he demands from the man "Who's on the boat with her?".
"The real villain, of course" Hyde drawls out as Dr. Jekyll emerges from the hull with the electric baton in his hand threatening the pregnant woman with it.
"No. Get away from me!" Belle exclaimed at the good doctor as the ran from him.
"I didn't come all this way to stop now" Jekyll tells her "After all, when I heard you were trapped aboard this ship, I couldn't believe my good luck. Finally, the chance I needed to make the Dark One pay".
Seeing her friend in distress the assassin stepped forward towards the ship to help her aunt and friend only to be stopped as the Dark One's dagger it held out in front of her by Hyde.
"Ah, ah ah" Hyde stopped the assassin from stepping any further to intervene. She was just as powerless as her Uncle.
"She's got nothing to do with this" Amelia pleaded with him to let her help her aunt.
"Neither did Mary" Hyde tells her turning to look at her "You're not the first Assassin I've met Amelia. Always there to protect the innocent from the shadows only to crumble underneath their own sense of self-worth. For their Saviour will always by their downfall, no matter how hard they try and fight the end of their story".
The mention of Emma send shivers down her arms as he saw the fear that flashed in her eyes. He knew what the Oracle had shown her, it wasn't hard to tell as her breath shallowed.
The Dark One had no clue what Hyde was speaking to his niece about, but it scared her, he'd rarely seen her fearful in front of villains as Hyde continued.
"Now the question you have to ask yourself Amelia, is how much you value your own life blindly following the Saviours every wish of helping those that you face together all in the name of being better than the Black Widow".
A scream coming from the deck of the Jolly Roger interrupted the man as all three of them looked around to see Hook now on deck with Dr. Jekyll impaled on a harpoon.
"This story isn't over yet" Hyde announced turning to face the older man holding out the dagger in front of him "Dark One, I command you..." Hyde's command falters on his lip as he suddenly groans out in pain holding onto his stomach.
Amelia and her Uncle stood dumbfounded as they watched the strong man crumble down on his knees hitting the wooden boardwalk as the Dark One's dagger fell from his hand. Looking to his other half on the deck dying from being kicked into the harpoon by the pirate as fresh blood bubbled up out of the corn of his lips, down onto chin before collapsing dead in front of them.
His knee's gave out as he tried to catch himself on the redhead only to make her go down with him. Amelia watched in fear as a trail of blood escaped the corner of his mouth as the life drained from his eye's before the assassin allowed the man to slump back dead on the decking.
Silence deafened the pair as Gold slowly approached dead man, crouching down to retrieve his dagger ground as his niece stood in a state of silent shock at what had happened to him after Dr. Jekyll met his end on the deck of the ship.
"Well... it appears there was one final twist" Gold said to the corpse as heeled joined footsteps joined them on the wooden boardwalk.
It couldn't be coincidence that Hyde would die shorty after Jekyll met his maker on the ship. Hyde was the darker side of Jekyll or Jekyll was the darker side to Hyde, she didn't understand anymore. But there was one thing she knew for sure, and it defiantly wasn't a good thing.
"There you are" The former Queen sighed in relief seeing her wife safe and sound with her uncle beside her and Hyde dead.
"Looks like you got what you wanted" Gold voiced to the former Queen
"Now we know the serum works" the former Queen says to the pair, seeing that their plan had worked.
"It wasn't the serum" Amelia tells her love "Hyde destroyed it".
"Then how the hell is he dead?" she asks looking between the pair for an answer.
"I think we have just discovered the only fool proof way to destroy one's doppelganger..." Gold voiced Amelia's own thoughts "..by killing the original".
"Wait. You're saying..." Regina paused as Gold stood back up "The way to take out the Evil Queen and the Black Widow-".
"Is to kill you both" Gold supplied to their pair.
After pulling Jekyll's body from the Jolly Roger Amelia had gone missing after David and Emma finally caught up to them.
Her head spun from the information she had gathered in so little time, she needed to get away from everyone, so when the sheriff's showed up she took herself away from the group, leaving the other's wonder where she went.
Regina was the one to find her on a more secluded part of the board walk crouched down on her heels as she watched the sunlight ripple across the waves. The former Queen had always found it odd how the redhead could think more clearly near a body of water, but she understood it now. She first thought it was because of the home she found on it with John and the Godspeed, but it was the first man she ever loved, even if she didn't know the truth.
She had spent years travelling the Enchanted Forest on the Jackdaw with her father, or with someone she thought as a father figure, she was at home near the water, it smoothed out her muddled thoughts, gave her comfort when she needed it most and it reminded her of a simpler time when she only had to think about one simple task. No villains, no secret family members, no hidden agendas.
Amelia's brow quirked up in attention at the sound and presence behind her, the only person who would be able to open her up and talk about what was going on. But she the redhead already knew what was going through her own head as the former Queen came to a stop just behind the redhead.
"Before you even ask. No" the redhead started before her spouse even got a chance to talk "I'm not killing you if it ever came to it".
"Melia, you don't know that what happened today is only the start" Regina tried to argue as the redhead stood up straight her back still to her "Jekyll was supposed to be the good one, but even though he separated himself from the darkness… the capacity for evil remained, it remains in us, and it can grow back at any time".
"We're stronger than him" Amelia sternly retorted.
"Maybe" Regina sighed "But if I'm not..".
"No" Amelia told her turning around for Regina to see the heartbreak in her eyes "Don't you dare ask me to do that" she snarled out.
"But..".
"No Regina!" Amelia exclaimed in frustration "Firstly; screw you, for ever thinking that you could just ask me that question. Secondly" she paused as she took a calm breath to compose herself "Why can't you see you're possibly the only person I could never kill. So don't ask, what I can't do".
"I'm sorry" Regina replied considering asking her wife to do such a thing before remembering the vision Juno has shown her not that long ago "That's not entirely true though is it?" she challenged the redhead.
"What are you talking about?" she gulped.
"You've killed me before, you've even thought about doing it" shaking her head at her wife the assassin refused to look at her wife as she carried on, knowing what she about to say. Just the thought of it was painful, but the thought at she would've gone through with it. Now that was unbearable. "Juno, she showed me what you wanted to do when the first curse was coming, to prove to me that you chose to be cursed instead of-".
"That's not the same" the redhead interrupts her "I made a different call" she argued.
"A call that changed everything Melia" she points out "If you-".
"We don't know what would've happened!" she yelled out as the frustration of the situation had gotten to her "Juno showed you wanted she wanted to show. We don't know that for sure. We still don't know how powerful a product of Star-Crossed Lover's is or was. It's not like I can ask her anymore Regina. She's gone. And the only other person that did is now dead!".
Hyde knew something. She and Saviour were connected, from the moment they first met in the hallway as a new-born in her father's arms and the villain trying to stop him from getting his daughter to safety.
Something happened the moment she looked down at that girl. Something had changed, the darkness around her vision lifted long enough for Amelia to overpower the Black Widow and see what she had done.
She saved her and ever since. That was the connection. Like fate was trying to get them to that moment in time when either or both of them would die protecting their family. Without ever knowing what she was doing. The Product of Star Crossed Lover's protected the Product of True Love.
"What do you mean by that?" Regina's voice brought her out of her thoughts as the former Queen blinked at her in confusion. What could've Hyde possibly known?.
"It's nothing" she brushes her concern off, knowing what she needed to do next.
"Melia-".
"We'll get through this" Amelia tells her love "Like we've always gotten through everything. This is nothing compared to everything else that's been thrown our way. Whatever it takes".
"Whatever it takes" Regina repeated to her love, not sure how else to reply to her wife's sudden ramblings of hope.
"I, uh, need to go find someone" she says taking her phone out of her jacket pocket to send a quick text.
"Where? To do what?" Regina questions her.
"To make a different call" was all the redhead said before leaving her love on the boardwalk to do something she should've done as soon as she saw the vision of her's and Emma's future.
Letting herself into the building, the assassin made quick work of the stairs that led up to his office and let herself in as per the man's instructions. Opening the door she was met by the image of Archie looking up from his desk with Pongo comfortably sat on his bed as she closed the door behind her as the man turned to see her at the door.
"Amelia I'm glad you finally called" he greeted her, relieved that she was finally taking him up on a chance to go through everything that was bothering her since returning from the Underworld "I was getting worried that-".
"I know about Emma visions about the future" she interrupted his words stepping into the middle of the room to meet him halfway, getting straight to the point of her visit "And I know that you know about them too".
"H=How do you know that?".
"Because you'd be the only person I'd trust enough to tell about them" she admits to him. As much as she loved Regina, she could never bring herself to tell her about them.
"Amelia, you know I can't talk about other patients to you-".
"Not even if I'm the person that get's killed trying to save Emma from the two figures on Main Street" the statement silenced the man as they heard the door open behind the redhead for Emma to walk into the office already seeing Amelia there after receiving the odd and sudden text message from her, telling her to meet her at Archie's office as soon as she could.
"Hey,-" she trailed off looking between the assassin and Archie making the redhead turn to face her "What's going on?".
"We're changing our fates" Amelia tells the Saviour "Together".
The Saviour and her Assassin will change their fates.
Whatever it took.
With the school day finally over with no disruption to whatever had been going on outside the school, Snow sat behind her desk tidying up her work knowing the only bad thing that happened today was Tom getting detention for not concentrating on his work, the princess was interrupted when her new teacher's aide Shirin came into the classroom to bid her goodnight after a long day.
"Goodnight" the young aide wished her new friend seeing her behind her desk about to leave only for Snow to stop her.
"Oh! Wait, I have something for you" walking further into the classroom, Snow stood from her seat to pick up a red apple from a bowl sat on her desk to present it to her new aide, making the latter chuckle in amusement
"What's that for?" Shirin asks taking the fruit from her.
"It's a tradition in this world that, for personal reasons I just can't get behind, but they are delicious. Enjoy" the teacher wishes her aide.
"Thank you" Shirin replies "See you tomorrow" she adds turning to leave only to get stopped again.
"Hey. That princess from your kingdom..did she ever fix things there?" she asks the younger woman in curiosity.
"I left for the Land of Untold Stories, but..I don't think so" she answers her.
"Maybe someday" Snow hums to her.
"Maybe".
"Goodnight Snow".
Making her way out of the school, the royal Princess of Agrabah barely made it out of the front entrance when she was found by her younger half-brother Basim waiting for her on the steps leading up to the building with his arms casually crossed against his chest
"Have a good day 'ukht?" (sister) Basim warmly asks his older half-sibling.
"I did. Thank you" she replies with a smile on her lips that made him mirror it. Despite everything that hung over them, he lived to see his sister happy,
"Are your ready to go find her? We'll be losing light soon".
"I 'am" Jasmine breathes out, ready to fae the Oracle her brother had seemed to know better than her "Lead the way" she prompts him as the pair head out the school grounds unaware of the teenage assassin that was making own way out of the school after spending the last hour behind stuck in detention after the incident in his English class.
With his phone pressed firmly to his ear the teen as he tried to converse with his girlfriend as he swung his backpack onto his shoulder.
"I know, I'm late. Both my Mom's are gonna be pissed I got detention on my first day back. It's not my fault I got distracted by my Aunt, he-" he was cut off when he saw the retreating figure of is Aunt's new teacher's aide walking along side the assassin that he had met in the diner, the one with the missing ring finger. He had a bad feeling about it as his instants told him to follow the pair to wherever they were headed instead of going straight home and hoping his English teacher hadn't called any of his guardians of what had happened that day.
"Listen. I gotta go. I'll text you later" he didn't give MJ much of a chance to reply as he hung up the call and his feet instantly found themselves following the pair into the woods making sure to tag the pair with his vision, a golden trail was left behind for him to follow the pair into the woods that surrounded the school.
Keeping a good distance between himself the teacher's aide and the assassin from the Land of Untold Stories knowing the seasoned assassin could easily tell if they were being followed, night had fallen upon Storybrooke as he took to the trees branches above them as the pair on the ground came to stop by the wishing well.
"You can come out now" the teacher's aide whispered out into the clearing as a second or two later a young girl with a wooden staff came from almost nowhere to approach the aide and the assassin.
"Where have you been?" the mysterious girl asks the pair in front of her.
"We had to wait until dark to make sure it was safe" Basim told the girl keeping his voice low believing they were still alone.
Then they still don't know who you really are?" the mysterious girl sent the question towards the teacher aide and the assassin.
"They have no idea" Basim the assassin informs the girl "And what of your mission? Have you found any evidence he's here?" he pressed for an answer.
Mission? He? Tom thought to himself as he continued to listen to the conversation from high in the trees.
"No" the girl with the staff replies "But I know he is. I've foreseen it".
"My brother and I did not come this far and sacrifice so much only to give up on finding Aladdin" the aide tells the girl, unaware that his phone in his pocket had lit-up notifying him of an incoming phone call from the inside of his pocket.
"I know, and I won't leave your side until we do. I promise you, we will find him, Jasmine".
"Spider-Man, Spider-Man
Does whatever a spider can!".
Recognising his ringtone as quickly as he could the teenage assassin frantically looked for his phone on his person as his chosen ringtone continued to blare out in the middle of the quiet woods as the people on the ground frantically looked up for where the sudden music was coming from.
"Spins a web, any size
Catches thieves just like flies!
Look out!
Here comes the Spider-".
Rejecting the incoming phone call from his Mom as quickly as he could the teen froze in his place in the trees knowing the moment he moved he would be heard and chased by the assassin on the ground. He couldn't move, he couldn't so much as breath too loudly in fear of being found by the assassin.
"We were followed" Basim states to his sister holding out his hand towards her "Come we must go".
Taking his hand Jasmine followed her brother out of the woods as the Oracle fled from whoever was out there. Basim would have to find their spy at first light and make them pay dearly for daring to follow them.
AN:
Okay. I admit, I've procrastinated on this chapter for far too long. Forgive me?
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