healed souls

✨sword fighting✨

"hey september" august said,coming up to me as i sat on a bench on the board walk

"hey august" i grin slightly but he frowns

"alright what's wrong?"

"what do you mean?" i ask confused

"something is bothering you that's what i mean"

i sigh "i've just been thinking about henry's curse theory,what if it is true?"

"did you read the book?" he asks

"i did,a-and nothing happened" my shoulders slump at mention of my failed attempt

he thinks for a few minutes in silence before he speaks "why are you trying to believe?" he asks

"what?" i looks up at him in confusion

"why are you trying to believe? henry believes so emma can save everyone and break the curse,i believe because i'm trying to help emma,and guide her through this,so why are you trying to believe?" he asks again

"i....i think i want to believe because...." i sigh "i think i want to believe because if i believe hard enough and this curse is real,maybe i'll have a family,maybe i'll have parents,because i don't here" i finally say and it feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

august lays a hand on mine and squeezed gently "maybe dont focus all the way on your family,maybe focus on more,if you believe maybe you'll save emma,maybe you'll save mary margaret,get everyone out and help henry and me" i think for a moment before nodding

"i think i can do that" i smile and he stands up "good,now let's do something fun"

[...]

"when you said fun,i wasn't expecting wooden swords" i say and he chuckled

"it'll be great i promise"

i slightly roll my eyes before we attack, our swords meet in an 'x' shape,and then i felt his leg sweep beneath me sending me to the ground before he pokes me with the sword "focus."

i grunt,"that was un called for" i stand up

"you're better than this"

"oh absolutely" i say sarcastically

we charge again,our swords meet in an 'x' for the second time and he does a half circle with his sword,freeing my sword from my hand before lightly kicking me backwards,not enough to hurt me but with enough force for me to land on my butt once again. i groan and stand up

"i said focus"

"i can't do this" i complain

"just focus and it'll come back to you" he reassures 'wait come back to me?'

i get up and grab my sword before we get into another fighting stance and go at it again,this time,our swords not making an 'x' but they do clank together

"look for weaknesses bailey"

i see august raise his arm up and i elbow him in the side making him stumble a bit,our swords meet again and he went to swing

"be light on your feet"

i swiftly move back a step so he wouldn't hit me,then i hurriedly run behind him and kick his butt,him landing on the ground but his sword was still pointed in my direction

"precise hand movement lass"

i did the same thing to august as he did the second time to me and i rotated my sword,doing a 360 and as expected his sword flew up and came back down,me catching it,and tapping him with it.

"that's my little girl"

i smirk in victory and he smiles "told ya" and now i was kinda in shock

"i did that" i say but it came out as a question

"you did bailey" he nods

"what?" i ask

"nothing" he shakes his head and got up but stumbles a bit and grunts "whoa you okay august?" i ask and help him stand up

"i'm fine,just not as well as i used to be" i furrow my brows "what do you mean?"

"let's go to my place" i nod and get on his motorcycle.

[...]

after the kinda slow ride because of august we got to his apartment but i didn't mind,we enter through his door,me shutting it behind me and he sits on the couch.

"there's something i have to show you" he bends down and rolls up his pant leg and his leg was wooden my eyes widen

"bloody hell" i didn't mean to say it but it slipped out

"you see it?" he asks and i nod "your bloody leg is wooden!"

"it's the curse,it's slowly affecting me" i furrow my brows

"august,what's your real name?" i ask,looking at him and he sighs "pinocchio" 'of course idiot' i mentally scold myself but before i could say anything else there's a knock on the door,he gets up and opens it

"hey"

"how could you do this? how could you do this to me, to mary margaret?" emma's voice came through

"whoa slow down,do what?" he asks

"the shovel was gone when i got there,regina knew i was coming for it" 'shovel? what shovel?'

"you think that i told her?" august asks in shock

"you were the only other person who knew about it"

"i would hope that you would have enough faith to know that i would never betray you"he tries to reason

"why should i?" emma asks him "how do i know you're not lying about this? about everything?"

"i'm not a liar" he denies

"that is exactly what a liar would say" i heard emma walk away before he closed the door.

[...]

it was a few hours later when me and august were walking out of granny's when emma came up to us "hey,i'm sorry"

"for what?" he asks

"for doubting you,i made a mistake" she holds up a small clear bag

"what's that?" i ask

"evidence,evidence that proves that i've been trusting all the wrong people,i should have listened to you,this bug,is from sidney"

"the newspaper guy?"august asks

"i should've seen it" she scolds herself

"no,don't beat yourself up about it emma,sometimes it's hard to see what's right in front of us,but i knew you would."

"i'm trying" she smiled slightly,the moment was ruined when we heard double R scream,we ran over to her "ruby whats going on?"i ask

"she-she's in the alley"she stutters

"who ruby? what happened?" emma asks but she didn't say anything,me and emma run in the alley to see someone laying there,emma turns her around and we see "kathryn?" emma whispers

'oh shit'