𝓞𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓤𝓹𝓸𝓷 𝓐 𝓣𝓲𝓶𝓮

3x07 Dark Hollow

SCENE: Storybrooke. Five Days ago. Belle and Mr. Gold stand on the dock. David and Logan stand on the ramp leading into the Jolly Roger.

Mr. Gold: You have to stay here.

Belle: No! Why? I wanna help.

Mr. Gold: Well, Greg and Tamara weren't working alone. Others will follow. (hands her a scroll) It's a cloaking spell. It'll shield the town making it impossible to find.

Belle: Then how will you find your way back to me? (Gold glances at David. David and Logan board the ship) You're not coming back to me, are you?

Mr. Gold: The prophecy. The boy and girl are my undoings, but they're also my grandson and granddaughter. I must save them.

Belle: I understand, but I also know... that the future isn't always what it seems. I will see you again. (They kiss. The Jolly Roger disappears into a portal. Leroy, Archie, Mother Superior, and the rest of the dwarves run onto the dock.)

Leroy: They did it! They saved us! They did save us, didn't they? (notices Belle crying) Tears of joy?

Archie: Are you okay?

Mother Superior: What happened? Where is everyone?

Belle: When they stopped the self-destruct device those people who came, Greg and Tamara... They kidnapped Henry and Izzy, and they took them through a portal.

Mother Superior: A portal to where?

Belle: I--I--I don't know. Everyone else followed them on Hook's ship.

Leroy: Why'd you stay behind?

Belle: Because I had to. (takes out the scroll, removes a vial from it, and then shows the scroll to Mother Superior)

Mother Superior: It's a cloaking spell. Why?

Belle: Because Rumple said--he said that others were coming.

(The frame cuts to a red car, driving down a road. Inside are John and Michael Darling. The frame cuts back to inside Storybrooke. The mines.)

Leroy: Who exactly does Gold think is coming?

Belle: He didn't say specifically.

Archie: Well let's not panic. I mean, for all we know, it's a precaution. Right?

Belle: He did say they were working with the people who tried to destroy the town.

Leroy: Can we panic now?

Archie: Yeah, sure, maybe, just... a little.

Belle: We'll be fine as long as we get this up in time. (She nearly walks into a support beam. Leroy guides her away.)

Leroy: Careful sister. Mines are a dangerous place.

Mother Superior: Fairy dust. We just need to open a vein and that'll carry the magic through town.

Leroy: No time for whistlin', boys, let's get swingin'. (the dwarves start chipping away at the rock. The frame cuts again, showing the Darlings getting closer to the town. They open a fairy dust vein and Belle approaches to cast the spell, but pauses.) What is it?

Belle: Oh... I've never cast a spell before. Maybe you should do this. (turns to Mother Superior.)

Mother Superior: No. Mr. Gold entrusted this task to you for a reason. You just need to believe in yourself.

Belle: Okay. (She pours the contents of the vial into the vein of fairy dust. They wait. Nothing happens.)

Leroy: You might want to believe a little harder.