Finding Love

Chapter 17

REGINA

"YOU DID WHAT?!" I shout, unable to contain my sudden anger towards them.

"She looked so sad and curious. She promised she wouldn't let him go and-" Snow began to say as she placed a cool rag on her husband's forehead. Who apparently was stupid enough to go near my sister offering a hug.

"You believed her?! After everything I told you two?! How is it, that after all this time you two have managed not to die by shear dumb luck? I tried everything to destroy you and even when I'm trying to help you, you manage to find brand new ways of making everything complicated." I stress rubbing my temple.

"Excuse me for interrupting your majesty, but I had followed her inside the room and hid in the darkness in case she had lied to us. She was not the one who set him free. Rumplestiltskin had some sort of scroll and the ink made the bars of the cell disappear. Your sister is innocent apart from knocking out the Prince. A pirate was there and had your sister's heart in his hand." Robin Hood says after nodding at me respectfully and with worry? Must be because I fainted after seeing his tattoo.

"He has her heart?!" I shout in pure rage then my vision gets blurry and I lay back down in bed. My head is pounding like a bitch.

"Indeed!" I pale at the sound of giggling through the room. I turn my head to see him sitting right beside me on the bed with a frown on his face as he studied me. "You're dying." He whispers placing a scaly wrist on my head.

"Can you save her? Use your magic. I'll pay whatever the price of magic is." Snow says in a scared tone. Why would she care if I die or not? Isn't this what she wanted?

"Now why would I do that, dearie? She failed me. I have no use for her anymore. Not now that I know there's another who could cast the curse." He giggles. Everyone in the room stiffens and I would've, if I hadn't already been shivering from my sickness.

"W-what if I can tell you where the pirate is heading?" I whisper a bit desperate to rid myself of this sickness.

Rumple narrowed his eyes at me. "A deal? Information for your life?" He asks with a twinkle in his eye. 

"Yes. Deal? Or would you rather never have him hurt or taint your daughter's innocence?" I say with full knowledge that she's way past the point of innocence. That was taken by another man whom I'd very much prefer to kill then let Rumple do it.

Rumple growls and put a hand to my throat threateningly. "Deal! Now tell me and I'll try to help cure you of this poison." He whispers.

"He's after a special prisoner of mine in the prison at the bottomless sea. Someone I took who you cared deeply for. He's looking for the dagger, Rumple. He's intending to trade it for both of your weaknesses." I smirk through my pain.

Rumple's tough facade weakens and he backs away from me as if I burned him. "You are a dreadful liar!"

"I didn't kill her. So why are you so angry?" I feign ignorance. I can practically feel Snow's confused glare.

"No, you did something much worse. You locked her up and put her there so you could kill her when it suited you. A fate worse then death. Now give me your arm. I need a sample of your blood to see what poison is in your system." He says angrily.

I sigh and hesitantly give him my arm. "Here. Have at it."

He takes my arm and pulls back my sleeve to my bandaged arm. "What did this to you?"