Everything isn't the same

Chapter 11 - Heroes and Villains

In Gold's shop, Gold had called Hook via his heart. When he came, he spoke to him. "They didn't leave. The Snow Queen mucked up the border. Once you cross, there's no c... Coming back."

"If only the Snow Queen had succeeded..." Gold muttered loud enough that Hook could hear him. "Everything would be much simpler."

"Yes. Perfect cover for your exit." Hook told him sarcastic. "But everybody survived. Sorry for the inconvenience."

"What about our friends from Arendelle?" Gold asked to him.

"Well, they're still searching for a portal back." Hook replied to him.

"Well, that is a problem." Gold told him. "Can't have that Anna running around town."

"She knows, doesn't she?" He explained. "She knows what you were doing, cleaving yourself from the dagger so you can leave with your power. Emma told me Belle confessed about knowing Anna."

"Still, quite the supposition." Gold comment.

"Why else would you care?" He told him, smirking. "Anna's a danger to you. Your wife knows but everyone else..."

"Watch Anna." Gold looked at him, sternly. "Make sure she comes nowhere near this shop."

"But if I had the choice." Hook comment.

"Well, you don't." Gold fired back. "Your usefulness was unexpectedly extended. But tonight, when the stars in the sky align with the stars in the sorcerer's hat, I will finally do what I should have done so many years ago. I will crush your heart."

Hook rolled with his eyes. "And while I'm out doing your dirty work, what are you gonna do?" He asked to him.

"I'm simply gonna go to my wife and daughter and prepare them for my greatest gift." Gold replied to him. "They are gonna have the life they have always wanted."

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Gold went home to his wife and his daughter, he walked inside of the house as then he saw Caitlynn was on the phone and Aubrey playing with a doll. He smiled at his daughter as then he heard Caitlynn talking to her adopted mother. "Yes, mom, I will be careful." She sighed. "See you soon, mom, say hello to dad, please." Then she hung up as then she saw that Gold was there. "Hello, my love." She greeted him.

"Hello, sweetheart." Gold greeted her back. "I heard you called your mother."

"Yeah, I figured we will go there, when you are freed from your dagger." Caitlynn informed him.

"I wanted to surprise you." Gold pouted a little.

Caitlynn laughed. "Sorry to spool your surprise." She told him. "Maybe next time do better."

"I will." Gold looked at her, then they kissed as they daughter made a disgusted face.

"Blagh." Aubrey called as then her parents went apart and laughed.

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Sometime later, the sweep leaded Gold and Hook to the abandoned mansion. "You may have got the best of me this time, Dark One, but I promise you, in the next life, it won't be so pleasant for you." Hook told him.

"Well, then, given my immortality, you'll have quite the wait amongst the fire and brimstone." Gold comment to him as then they stepped inside of the house and walked to the main room.

"If I really am to die, at least give me all the information." Hook asked to him. "Whose house is this?"

"A powerful sorcerer. He brought the Snow Queen from Arendelle to this world, which means his magic is strong enough to move between that world and ours. There's a portal around here somewhere. We simply need to find it." Gold told him as then a portal appeared. "There." Then Hook looked at it as well.