Everything isn't the same

Chapter 10 - Shattered Sight

Caitlynn sat in the shop alone, waiting for the curse to happen. When it happened, Caitlynn wasn't under the spell. She looked very surprised by it. 'What did Gold do?' She thought. 'Or is it the connection from my twin sister?' Then, she walked to the door as then Gold walked inside his shop. "Gold, it appears that I'm not affected by the curse."

Gold looked at her, blinking a bit. "Oh." He walked towards her. "How did that happen?"

"I don't know, I hoped you would know." Caitlynn replied to him.

"Are you sure that you are not affected by the curse?" Gold asked to her.

"Where is Aubrey?" She fired back.

Just then, their daughter walked in the shop, who hesitated to come into the shop with her father, but did it anyway, because of the people that were outside of the shop. They were very angry at each other. "Mommy, daddy, what is going on? Why are people angry?"

Caitlynn looked at her daughter. "There is a curse, that makes people do this."

"Wha...?!" Aubrey looked with eyes widened.

Then, Gold crouched down to her eye level, making his daughter to look at him. "It is a curse, that's making people hate each other and angry."

"Oh, why would someone do this, daddy?" Aubrey asked to her father.

"Someone who is very sad and angry about what had happened in the past." Gold replied to her.

"Okay, daddy." Aubrey nodded to her father.

Then, Gold stood up and looked at Caitlynn. "I think that you not affected by the curse that you here in the shop, I have the shop protected for curses and potions."

"So, I can't go out of the shop?" Caitlynn asked to him.

"Maybe you can, but I don't know for sure." Gold replied to her.

Just then, Caitlynn and Aubrey went behind the curtains as then Hook enters the shop. "Where's the missus? She turned homicidal on you yet?"

"None of your business. What kept you?" Gold asked to him.

"Well, it's like swimming with sharks out there." Hook replied to him. "The minute one of them tastes blood, they'll tear each other apart."

"Well, count your blessings you're not one of them." Gold comment.

"Why was I spared the cloud's curse?" Hook asked confused.

"Because your heart wasn't in your chest, dearie." Gold replied to him. "It was here in my shop with me. In protective custody, so to speak."

Hook sighed, before he asked. "What is it you need, Crocodile?"

"Once I finish packing, I'm gonna take Caitlynn and Aubrey to the town line." Gold replied to him. "I need you to find Henry and do the same thing."

"So you still think you're leaving?" Hook looked at him.

"Oh, ye of little faith." Gold glanced at him as he grabbed the magical hat. "Tomorrow night, when the stars in the sky align with the stars in the hat, I shall finally cleave myself from this dagger and be on the other side of that ice wall before dawn."

Hook glared at him. "Are you saying there's a bloody way out of here?"

"Dark One always finds a way." Gold comment.

"Well, if the Dark One is so powerful, why doesn't he magic his grandson to his side?" Hook mimicked him.

"Because that would require me knowing where his mothers have locked him away for safekeeping." Gold looked at him. "Now unless you really, really have no need for that tongue, I suggest you slither back outside into the hostile current and find Henry. You'll be needing this."