Finding You Always

One Heart

Chapter 195: One Heart

Snow and David appeared at home in their living room and they looked around in confusion.

"Why would he send us here? It's hardly hiding," David said and Snow looked out the window, only to find Regina and Emma there, putting up a shield.

"That's why...they know they can't hide us," she said.

"So we're prisoners now?" he questioned in irritation. She crossed her arms over her chest and looked at him.

"If it means keeping you safe from...from..." Snow said, as she struggled to say the words.

"Snow..." he started to say, as she crumpled into his arms.

"She's going to hurt people..." Snow cried.

"We'll stop her," he promised.

"How? We can't banish my other half. We tried that with the Queen and now she's back!" Snow cried.

"The only way to deal with my other half is to..." but the words died on her lips.

"Don't..." he hissed.

"Don't even think that!" he said in outrage.

"I need you...I can't live without you..." he said, his voice thick with grief just at the possibility of losing her again.

"If she gets to you..." she started to say.

"I'll be fine..." he finished for her.

"Will you? Can you honestly tell me that your other half isn't fighting to get out and go to her right now? Because I know us...we are them. He wants her as much as you want me," Snow said fiercely. He sighed.

"I won't hide...so we hide the chalice," he replied.

"How?" she asked.

"Good question...that's what we need to figure out," Regina said, as she and Emma appeared in the house. They sighed in relief, as the rest of their children and David's father appeared as well. Summer and Bobby ran to their parents and they hugged them fiercely. Snow and David looked up at Regina, knowing that they also had to discuss what Bobby had just done and what it could mean.

Aphrodite covered her mouth in horror and felt the bile rise in her throat, as they arrived on the smoldering Mount Olympus. They had no warning and never had a chance. She knew for a fact that Athena had been in her Temple and wasn't surprised when she appeared alongside Hermes and herself.

"How could I not foresee this..." she uttered sadly. Aphrodite and Hermes hugged her.

"You couldn't have known...and Seth would have been in your blind spot. He's a Titan," the blonde admonished.

"She's right," Poseidon said gravely, as they saw him beside Zeus' charred Throne. There wasn't much left of him, but the body was clearly that of his youngest brother and Athena's father.

"Father and I rarely saw eye to eye...but I did love him," Athena said.

"Of course you did. Zeus was difficult at best, but not even he deserved this," Hermes agreed. Aphrodite sniffed and felt James' arms around her waist. She turned to him and finally collapsed in his embrace. He hugged her fiercely against his chest and rested his head on hers, as he stroked her back.

"I'm so sorry, my love..." he whispered to her. She pulled back and looked at him with wide eyes.

"I...I need to get you and the children out of Storybrooke," she said in a panicked tone.

"We're not leaving you..." he protested.

"James...I can't protect you and our babies from him! My magic is no match!" she said frantically, as she turned to Hermes.