A/N: This is my second fic I wrote ever, and the first fic I'm publishing ever. I'm scared and thrilled to share it in public. Comments are welcome and greatly appreciated.

After dumping Hook in the water and being heartbroken that she didn't get her singing voice back, there's no other place for Ursula to go to than Rumplestiltskin's cabin. Right in time, because she just saw the Charmings make their way inside. Waiting for the right moment to step in, Ursula observed not too far away. Meanwhile, she again felt the pang of false hope. She actually thought there's progressive development with getting her singing voice back. As a villain, she always gives room for the worse outcome, but she actually believed that the deal with Hook may be the final answer for this matter. Ursula snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a clunk of a metal object. She immediately thought, one of the Charmings probably hit Cruella with a frying pan. "So uninspired. This trick has always been done and it's so boring. It doesn't even work most of the time. Poor Cru." She needed to step in now, to distract the Charmings so Cruella can escape and warn the others. This wasn't planned but as she, Mal and Cruella have been friends, they learned to feed off each other's villainous ways. It's like improv acting. Or gal pals sharing a secret language.

Ursula burst into the cabin. "No one is going anywhere."

All the charade have to happen. All the things she needs to act out: the threatening, the actual hurting of the heroes. To distract these naive, gullible, annoying as fuck heroes, so Cruella can make her way out. At this point though, she actually wanted to hurt Snow for threatening her and Cruella not long ago in the middle of the night, near the woods, in the pouring rain.

Ursula has killed people. She had her reign of terror as queen of the sea, as the sea witch, before getting dumped into this world. Somehow though, living in NYC, alone after Cruella and her parted ways, made her soft. It made her remember who she was when she had her singing voice. She decided that if she gets her tentacles back, ever, not only would she pursue getting her singing voice back but she will only hurt, even kill the people who wronged her. No more innocent people. However annoying they can be.

She kept the villain act. Yes, the Charmings wronged her, sent her and Cruella to this Land Without Magic but at this point, the exhaustion of 30 years being banished made her pragmatic.

Because it is very possible that, even if the Charmings didn't commit their idiocy, Cruella and her will still end up in the Land Without Magic. Mal did when she got left behind, and got swept by Regina's idea of revenge. It is true though, that the day Mal, Cruella and her escaped the Chernabog cave, they began researching and brainstorming on how to escape the Dark Curse. They found no way. She might be adept at opening portals as a sea creature but they discovered it won't help. The Dark Curse will wipe away all magical properties from the land. The three of them in their search of a solution, actually run into a certain Cora, who is a powerful witch. They only knew that she has some pretty amazing powers, travelled across realms, came recently from a land called Wonderland. "What an idiotic name," they all thought while looking at each other. "Every land is fascinating and magical enough to be called wonder-land but to name it as such is simplistic and uninspiring." The three of them might not have telepathic powers as some fairies in a small Southern French sounding town but the few weeks they have spent together made them in sync. Though not as in sync as Cruella and Ursula are slowly becoming, but neither will admit until later.

They knew nothing more about this Cora. They dare not challenge her to a duel because what is the point? They need to move fast. So if Cora doesn't share any relevant information in evading the curse, they have to move on. This Cora is acting cold and heartless and unwelcoming to help anyway. All villains are, but there's something about her that they dare not touch. Something clever and dangerous. But unlike with the three of them, as much as heartless and unwelcoming they can be, circumstance led them to trust each other. They know it's unheard of in the villain world but at least they have to try. Just for the sake of self-preservation, of evading Regina's curse. Maybe Rumplestiltskin has done something selfless after all, even if it was only incidental.

And so, they continued their search for the solution. Fast forward to the Charming's idea of good parenting and the portal jump.

Now, here they are in Rumple's cabin. Only this time Ursula is the one with the power. She would only hurt the Charmings if they prove to be a serious threat in this August situation. Ursula considers Hook as the sole reason for her misery and therefore only wants to kill that bloody pirate. And she did.

Or so she thought. Hook burst into the cabin to the surprise of all in the room. Yadda-Yadda, she got her singing voice back. Became civil enough with Hook and actually helped the heroes with spilling Rumple's plan. And finally joined her father in their way to their kingdom in the sea.

But not until she met secretly with Cruella that evening.