Once Upon a Dream:

Page 36: Finding Out Where Regina is:

Meanwhile, Tamara walked back to the docks to talk to Greg about Emma being curious about her motives. 

"Everything's taken care of," Tamara said, on the other side of the table that Regina was lying on. 

"They bought it?" Greg asked, sounding shocked. 

"As far as Emma and Neal are concerned, I'm just running on the beach. Worried about his missing sister... How are things going with the Queen?" Tamara asked when she looked down at Regina, who was weak and felt like she would die soon.

"You know, she's not exactly cooperative. But that's all about to change. Right, Regina?" Greg asked, turning up the shock on his machine.

The two of them watched Regina wince and shake from the shock. Once it stopped, Regina tried to catch her breath. 

"You have no idea who you're dealing with," Regina said, weakly, trying to sound threatening. 

"Actually, no, you have no idea who you are dealing with." Greg corrected her, making Regina weakly chuckle. 

"A couple of fools in over their heads who go around stealing magic." She continued to say, weakly. 

"Stealing magic?" Tamara chuckled, looking over at Greg. "That's what you think we're here to do?" She continued to ask Regina.

"We're not here to steal magic. We're here to destroy it." Greg added, explaining their big plan. 

"Magic does not belong in this world. It's unholy. We're here to cleanse this land of it." Tamara added, making Regina laugh at them again, despite not having the energy to.

"You think... you can destroy magic? Just the two of you?" Regina asked them, still laughing weakly.

"Well, who said there's only two of us? We're everywhere, Regina." Greg said, walking back to the table, when he leaned forward so that Regina could look him in the eyes. "See, after I left Storybrooke, as a boy, I was babbling about magic. About what I had seen. And what had happened to my father... Now, most folks, they wrote me off. But some didn't. And they found me." Greg continued to explain.

"They?" Regina asked him.

"Believers. People that know that magic is real." Greg added.

"And that it doesn't belong in this world. And are willing to do something about it." Tamara said to Regina, who kept looking at Greg. 

"This little quest of yours? To cleanse the world of magic? It's not gonna work." Regina said to them. 

"Of course, it will. We've done it before. And we'll do it again. I mean, do you think that Storybrooke is the first time that magic has crossed over?" Greg continued to explain. 

"Magic has been doing its damage for a long time," Tamara added. 

"And people like us, we're here to stop it," Greg said, standing straight up to hit the button on the machine again.

Back at the loft.

"Mary Margaret? You okay?" David asked, holding his hands on the other sides of her face.

"It was awful." She said in a whisper since the spell wore off and she did not feel the pain that Regina felt anymore. "The worst pain I've ever felt... Wherever Regina... wherever Dream and her are, she's powerless. She can't fight back." Mary Margaret sighed when David moved to sit back in his seat.

"Could you see where they were? Was Dream there? Could you see who was keeping them there?" David asked her when Mary Margaret just sighed.

"I just remember pain... And screaming..." She cried out.

"Okay, okay... Okay. Concentrate. The smallest detail might lead us to them."

"I don't know... My hands were tied down. And my legs... It was cold. And it smelled weird, like sardines... And all I remember thinking about was if Dream was okay... I don't know! I wish I could remember more." She continued to cry when she moved so that David could comfort her with a hug.

The docks.

"So, she didn't see anything?" Emma asked her father while she still walked with Neal.

"No, not much... She could sense Regina was in pain. Worrying about Dream. It was cold. She was strapped down." David said, over the phone, while he rubbed his wife's back. "Oh, yeah, she said she could smell sardines."

Emma turned to look over to the Storybrooke Cannery Co., which had a picture of sardines under the sign. "Get down to the docks right now," Emma said to her father before hanging up her phone. 

"I was right. Tamara was not down here for a run. She was in there with Regina and Dream." Emma said before running to find a way inside.

~season 2, episode 21: "Second Star to the Right"~

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