I cannot fully express how much I have been aching to have something to write about again. I have had nearly a years worth of writers block and nil for inspiration. Then about a month ago this show fell in my lap and the characters literally leaped off the page asking to be written. First off a thank you to all of you amazing writers who have taken your time to create such beautiful stories, I know the time and work that goes into each of them so I applaud you and thank you from the bottom of my heart! I appreciate you! Without further ado, welcome to my world dear, My name is the Queen Under The Mountain.
Running, she drew out her sword feeling the cold steel run across her leg. The freezing night air threatened to freeze her poorly clad body as she dodged another vine.
"Freeze!" She yelled.
The offender halted to a dead stop less than 15 feet away.
"We've got you surrounded, stop and put your hands up and tell us where you took Regina!"
The hooded figure paused, slowly pivoting on their small feet. As the perpetrator faced the group raising their hands the hood fell from above their head.
Emma gasped, the slight curls from blonde hair piled up on top of her head in a bun fell down to frame the scared face of a young looking girl.
"Tinkerbell?!"
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The night sky folded over the edges of this realms galaxy like a blanket covered in stars.
"You seem lost my Queen."
Regina turned, flicking small water droplets over her shoulder, registering the hook that was now stopping the ship from it's current course.
"Why are you slowing down? In case you didn't know my sons life is in danger."
"Oh I know, my hot-headed Queen," Hook responded, glancing at her out of the corner of his eye, keeping one on the wheel, "my plan is to take us to the far side of the island, link up with the widest part of the river. Then we shall sail through and take him by surprise."
Regina blinked. She had not been expecting the captain to respond back so quickly to her remark, much less tell her his plan.
"The irony," he added before she could think.
"What irony?" She found herself questioning.
"Oh. I spent more time than I care to remember trying to leave this place and kill Rumpelstiltskin. And here I am sailing right back into it's heart with him as my guest of honor," he said adding under his breath as he looked out upon the ship, "It's not quite the happy ending I was hoping for."
The brunette was taken aback at the pirates openness. Ever since they had made it through the portal and the initial adrenaline that had brought the not so likely crew together all aboard the same small living space in hopes to save Henry had warn off, her mind had begun to race. How did they really plan to save him? No one had bothered to think about the fact that all of the members aboard the old ship were in some fashion mortal enemies to another. She hadn't even thought about the irony revolving around the captain letting the man he swore to kill step foot aboard his ship, much less take up quarters for the time remaining. She had been to preoccupied with her thoughts circling the Charming family. How in a flash of few moments, , they all stood together believing they were going to die, mortal enemies, together yet alone,. Herself accepting her fate that she would absorb the power of the trigger until her body couldn't contain it any longer, then die along with the rest of the town. Then as if by fate, the blonde breaking away for the embrace of her family with a new found light in her eye proclaiming that she might be able to stop the crystal if she were to join in containing it. The intense rush of magic coursing through her veins as the blonde began to restrain the diamond followed by the blast of energy as the magic con-caved and the immanent destruction of the town stopped.
Her thoughts then began to jumble as the seconds flashed by of her realizing that by the aid of the other woman they had saved Storybrooke, and their lives all to then realize that they had lost Henry in the process. The immediate fear that had struck her heart was sickening as she ran after the perpetrators who had her son. All to be to late as the end of the portal collapsed just out of reach with her son no where in sight. Then the joining of the unlikely rescue crew and the dawning of the ship going through the portal containing the woman who she had sworn to rid of her happiness in the arms of her true love, the man who had darkened her mind and blackened her heart with magic, the self serving pirate at the helm and the woman who was supposed to be her undoing next to her.
There were no words for the tornado that swept through her mind at the present moment. Not in a million years did she think she would find herself in a situation like this, surrounded by the people she despised and having to work together with them in order to find her son. And never did she think that she would be standing next to the pirate who betrayed her sharing his heart while the ventured through the night.
The cold air gusted sending wisps of hair round her face.
"Greg Mendel said something funny to me," she found herself saying through the fog in her head as she brushed back her hair. "He said I'm a villain."
The captain turned his head towards her, and she took it as an invitation to continue.
"And that villains don't get happy endings." She paused letting the realization that she was sharing her innermost thoughts with a pirate who she could not yet read. Yet she shocked herself more still when she heard herself ask meekly,, "you believe that?"
"Of course I don't." He responded almost instantly.
"What do you mean?"
"How can I when yours is sitting less than 10 feet away." The Pirate pointed. Down-casting his eyes to the lower part of the ship. The stunned Queen followed his line of vision.
Standing there at the cross point of the the pirate and the queens gaze, with her back turned to the unusual duo, was none other than Emma Swan.
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Emma Swan found herself not believing what she had just uttered from her lips.
"Hook, I already told you," She yelled to the Pirate who was currently leading the group, "Pan tricked us, this map has no end point, no X marks the spot, it's just an outline of the island. So where are we going?"
"Were looking for a fairy who lived here," he yelled back, "she might still be on the island."
In the lush of the dark jungle surrounding her she stood halted in the middle of the small group that formed her sons unlikely rescue party.
"Wait," she said, racking her brain, "a fairy?"
"Aye,, the trickiest of them all." The Pirate said only pausing his movement for a second.
Emma furrowed her brow, as the only possible answer came to mind, "Tinkerbell?"
Hook froze and turned from his spot in front of her, "I take it you know that name from one of those fairy tale books you used to read as a child."
The blonde opened her eyes, "you can't be serious?"
"Completely serious, she would be the only one on this island who knows all of Pans hiding places inside out and could lead us to Henry with a little bit of persuasion. But be warned, she is not anything thing to be trifled with."
"But Tinkerbell?" Emma stated again, "I thought she was mute and wore a tiny green dress and-"
"She does."
All eyes turned to Regina who until now had fallen silent, unnoticed by the group.
"You know her?" Said Emma stunned by the brunette standing across from her's unexpected statement.
Regina's eyes seemed to have glazed over, her mind seeming to be in another place from where she stood in the middle of the group.
"Once- she does wear a green dress." She spoke, and as if the restating snapped her out of her memory added, "And if there's anyone we shouldn't go to for help, it's her." The brunette turned towards the Pirate, her eyes ablaze.
"You know Tinkerbell?" Mary Margret chimed in from the front of the group.
"Were going to out our trust in one of Pan's friends? Why?" David questioned.
"Aye, we're going to go to her." Hook stood up taller commanding the group, "We're going to get her help because she is the best chance we have. We already know that Pan lied to us about the map since Emma has apparently admitted who she is and yet there is no clue of where Henry is located to be seen. So regardless of any past memories or descriptions any of you may know of her from a book, know this, Tinkerbell is a fairy, a powerful one to say the least. She will charm you when you are looking and curse you the second you turn your back, so don't be fooled. But she is also a woman. And I wouldn't go so far as to say that she is Pan's friend at the moment. Not after what he did to her."
"What did he do to her?" Mary Margret asked.
The Pirate turned to her, "He broke her heart."
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The dark sky thundered as a lightning bolt streaked across it outside of the glass and wrought iron window. There was no rain, just flashes of blinding white and then tidal waves of sound that rocked the small chamber in which the brunette stood.
"I hope you're comfortable." Said a voice from behind her.
Regina turned from her spot in front of the window to face non other than the small blonde fairy.
"Your son is quite adorable." The small fairy continued, carrying a tray of food into the room with no doors. "He has such beautiful eyes,, and he even speaks like you. But bears little other resemblance to you whatsoever in his looks. I must say I almost wouldn't have put it together until I heard his name. Henry right?" She asked.
The brunette stood her ground,, not saying a word to the small girl coming closer.
"Oh Regina, still holding a flame for daddy dearest? Don't you know you're not supposed to name your pets?"
AN: Don't own any of the characters, working on Lana though... just the ideas! Thank you to whoever on Tumblr who made the gif set of the conversation between Regina and Hook, you inspired me! I literally searched all day through my likes feed to find it so I could link it but came up short, if you know the one I'm talking about please send a link, you can see some of my inspiration posts on my Tumblr, the link is in my description.
Cheers!