Time To Go pt 9

Mary-Margaret holds onto the side of a stone wall and keeps reminding herself that David will find her. He will always find her. Her encounter with Darkness himself, or itself, depending on the form it comes in, has shown her that hope isn't always their shield. Sometimes it's a weakness. She is torn, desperately. How she wants to be home with her family, but also she wants to learn more about Darkness. Who really changed him?

Henry isn't being satisfied as well as Regina hoped. Killian has returned to his ship to check on his crew. She decides to take Henry for a walk, with the intent on making him see things as they are, not as he wishes them to be.

"I already know what you're up to, so save it."

"Henry, this attitude of yours needs to stop. I am doing my best."

He looks down at her belly. She will start to show soon and those pretty dresses of hers will become crumpled up in the back of a closet. "You don't care anymore. You've got your baby on the way. Whatever happens to my mother doesn't affect your happiness. And you won't need me either, because you'll have a new son, or a daughter. Someone who is part of you."

Regina is very hurt by this. She never expected him to say such things. "Henry, I am going to forget you said this. I know how upset you are, but if you ever say this to me again…"

"You'll what? Kill me? Go ahead. My mom almost did. And you never really wanted me, so it's not a loss to you." Henry runs off and Regina could poof and grab him, but she is too hurt to continue their argument.

Henry finds Killian and carries the argument to him. "You! Captain Hook. Come down off your ship."

"Now, you behave yourselves and I'll be back in a while," Killian says to his crew.

"But, Captain, there is something wrong here. We are not hungry, we are not thirsty. What happened to us on the water?"

"Smee, you will shut your mouth before you swallow my hook." He raises his hook and taps the tip of Smee's mouth. Killian comes down off the ship to the fired up Henry.

"You love my mom?"

"Henry, what is this about? You know I do."

"Would you want her to get rid of me if you and her had a child?"

Killian almost blushes. "Is this about Regina?"

"I thought she couldn't get pregnant. She told me she couldn't."

"It seems that Emma is not all dark. She gave this blessing to Regina. She is trying to do good."

"You're only saying that because you love my mom."

"No. I'm saying that because it's the truth."

Henry looks up at the ship and bears a strange expression. "Killian, what is wrong with your crew?"

Killian turns towards the ship with a knowing look. There is a blue aura around each crew member and their skin is slowly fading away.

"Is it a curse?"

"Aye. The curse of death. They are dead."

"What about you?"

"Your mother put a curse upon me and it looks like it's kept me safe from death. But who knows for how long. I never should have went to Neverland, but your mother likes playing games."

Henry hugs Killian. "I'm going to help you."

"Henry!" Killian bites his lip then heads back to the ship.

"Mom?" Henry says, looking around the palace.

Regina comes down the hallway. She is pale, sick. She has her hand over her stomach.

"What's wrong?"

"I think something is wrong with the baby."

"I need you to fix Killian. My mom has him under a curse and I know you can help him."

"Maybe." She tries to make it to her bedroom. Henry has her lean on him.

Regina looks through her dresser and then remembers that she hid it with a cloaking spell. She waves her hand and the Dark Faerie wand appears. "It's possible I can take away the curse with this. But Hook doesn't want me to use it."

"He has no choice."

Regina and Henry walk down to the shore where Killian is arguing with his crew. Regina poofs her and Henry on board.

"The evil queen," Smee says.

Killian's eyes grow wide when he sees the wand. "Regina, don't use it."

"It's for your own good." She gives it a wave and then moves it around in a circle. Killian drops to his knees. The crew experience extreme fatigue, then the blue aura around them pulsates. Without warning, all the blue auras combine and send out a shockwave of blue light. In the next second, we see the crew is gone. Killian gets to his feet and screams out. Regina isn't sure what she's done, but Killian knows.

"What happened to them?" Henry asks.

"You bloody killed them," Killian says, stepping closer to Regina.

"They were already dead. I recognize that blue light."

"True, but now you've sent their souls into some kind of limbo. They will be forever lost."

"Well, I'm sorry. I was trying to help you."

"Great. You may have freed me, but you've damned us all." He points to the sky above them.

Sitting in the air is the monster that Emma attached to Killian. A ghoulish apparition with a thirst for blood and souls. It swoops down towards Regina. Killian lunges to make sure Henry is out of the way. He knocks him down to the ground. The apparition floats before Regina. It extends a hand draped in mist and crumbling flesh. It moves its hand down to her stomach, then smiles.

"No. Don't. I beg of you," Regina says.

It plunges its hand into her stomach and takes out a blue orb. It pulsates as if it has a heartbeat. The apparition eats the orb, then flies off and disappears into the clouds.

Regina turns to Killian. "You knew this would happen and you did not stop me."

"I warned you."

"Mom, calm down."

As Regina readies a fireball to take out Killian, Emma appears and the fireball hits her. It bounces off her body and lands into the water.

"Emma, get out of the way," Regina says.

"No. I gave you your chance and you blew it. I warned you to destroy the snowglobe and you haven't. But you're making use of that wand I see."

"I don't know where the snowglobe is," Regina says.

"It's where everything began." Emma disappears into a cloud of black smoke.

"The Dark Ones never makes it easy," Regina says.

Henry burst into tears. Killian consoles him.

A swirl of black smoke takes Killian from them and Regina and Henry hold on to each other, just in case.

Killian finds himself inside a very dark room with only a candle burning for a poor man's version of light. He thinks he sees someone moving around in the dark. He goes to grab the candle but the flame whips at the top of his hand. "Show your bloody face!"

"Killian?" a familiar voice says.

"Snow White?"

Mary-Margaret crawls over to Killian. Almost tempted to hug him. "Killian, did Emma bring you here?"

"Aye. I believe she thought she was saving me from Regina's wrath."

"What wrath? Did you make her angry?"

"She took Emma's curse off me and I got angry because she also lost my crew." Seeing her confusion, he added in, "Long story. Where the bloody hell are we?"

"Dark One's vault, but it's not like the vault you've heard of. I've met him. Darkness. This isn't just some Dark One, this is the essence of the Dark One. This is where it comes from. He is feeling oppressed and I think we can help him."

"You want to help the person responsible for turning Emma into the Dark One?"

"Everyone deserves the chance to change."

Killian looks at her like she is absolutely off the deep end. Maybe she has been down here too long.

James, David, and Robin head into the woods after receiving word on where to find Snow White. "We will walk the horses for a bit," David says.

James looks bored. Robin take his bow off his back and keeps it in his hand, ready for action.

"I hope we find monsters along the way," James says.

David can't believe him. He is so egotistical. "What happens if all that we find is my wife sitting at the bottom of a well?"

"I shall have to invent some catastrophe," James says.

David laughs.

"I just want to get home and tend to my wife," Robin says.

"I am getting a divorce," James says. David looks at him oddly. James grins. "It's going to be wonderful to get out there and stretch these feet."

"Let's go a few minutes in silence," David says.

Emma walks around the entrance to the Dark One's vault. She is so pure looking in a white dress with pearls along the bottom. Her hair is loose like her typical style. Her face is fresh and smooth. But there is a lingering darkness in her blue-green eyes. "I could have saved you all, but you wanted to be heroes. You couldn't let me live my life inside the perfect world I built for myself."

"Was it really perfect?" a voice says.

"I know that you're not Rumpelstiltskin, so don't bother coming out dressed as him."

Darkness steps out of the shadow of a tree, dressed in his fine clothes. His eyes are black, his face is wrinkled. "You're not making this easy, Emma. Look at my beautiful skin all pruned up. You're causing it. Your mother is going to suffer, your lover too. What about Henry?"

"You leave Henry out of this."

"You are powerful, but you can't beat me. Even if you combine your powers with the other two, there's no beating the thing that feeds you your strength."

"Your face says differently." She suddenly feels weak and is forced to her knees. "I am trying to stop all this. But it's too strong to fight. I have to return to my world."

Darkness stands before her, raises her head to meet his eyes. "You feeling a bit weak?"

"Sick."

He grins. "Then perhaps you should stay here. Returning to your world will only make you…"

"Stronger." She grins and then stands to meet his eyes better. He isn't very much taller than her and she almost feels like his equal as she looks into his eyes. "I can see what you desire. Maybe you can't be beaten, but as long as I stay in that world I built, you cannot reach me. There, I can fight the darkness if I choose to, or I can let it swim through me." She reaches up to his face, but he pushes her way and hisses at her.

"I have something of yours."

She looks on with concern.

He brings out from the inside of his jacket the snowglobe. The flakes have turned black. She reaches for it.

"That shouldn't look like that."

"I know. I changed it. I created this snowglobe when you were born. So I can do whatever I want with it. I can even…" He almost drops it. She almost loses control over her anger.

"Give it to me."

"Why? So you can destroy it or get one of those pathetic heroes to destroy it for you? Oh, no, Emma, you aren't getting away with it that easy. You're going to suffer along with your family and friends and your pirate. You think you're the only one who can play games. You think Rumpelstiltskin is the only one who can make delicious deals. You think Zelena is the real wicked one. You're in for a real treat when you see what I have cooked up for all of you."

He disappears into thin air. Emma sinks into the ground, literally.

Mary-Margaret and Killian stare into the flame of the candle. "There must be a way to extinguish it," Killian says as he tries to knock the candle down with his hook. His hook misses it, even though it was right against it. It looks like it went through the candle, but he is sure that he touched it.

"It's no use. I've tried everything with that candle."

"Hello, dearies," Rumpelstiltskin says.

Killian jumps up and runs straight towards Rumpelstiltskin. He rams his hook into his chest and Rumpelstiltskin laughs. He sheds his skin and reveals Darkness. "Really? You look like an idiot." With a wave, Killian flies back towards Mary-Margaret.

"What do you want?" she asks.

"I've come to tell you something, if you ask a question."

She pats Killian on the arm, then stands before Darkness. "Who is my daughter?"

Darkness is curious about her question. He did not expect that. "That's not your question."

She smiles, glad that he can see through her. "Who is the dark faerie?"

He smiles then giggles. "That's better. Why, it's your daughter."