Once Upon a Time in Storybrooke - OUAT DR

Chapter 22 - Breaking the Dark Curse

I found Emma in the hospital room at Henry's bedside and she started talking fast, clearly scared and panicked about her son, Dr. Wale told us it wasn't poison, they had no idea what it was but Henry was slipping away. Emma grabbed his backpack and dumped it on the bed, saying it was like magic.

I grabbed her shoulders and stopped her, staring into her eyes and telling her it was magic - it was all true, she had to believe, the book was real, it was all real. She grabbed the book and I could see and feel the change in her as she accepted the truth. 

She believed. 

Regina came into the room then and Emma threw her into a closet, having a pretty intense confrontation. I decided to leave them to it and stay with Henry, waiting for them to come back. I wasn't sure if Regina knew about me or not and I was not trying to put myself in her line of fire after seeing all the things she did and has done. 

This was Emma's fight. 

The two women come out of the closet and I'm surprised to see no blackeyes or broken noses, both of them just seeming a bit ruffled and heated. Emma walked over to Henry's bed and ran her hands through his hair before she turned and asked me to come with her and Regina to talk to Gold and get help for Henry. 

Regina confirmed everything was real on the walk over there, not even bothering to ask who I was or how I was involved since Emma had been the one to bring me along. She also informed me that Rumpelstiltskin was Mr. Gold. My landlord was the big bad Dark One. Hearing Mayor Regina Mills admit to it all being true, well, if I had had any remaining doubts they were definitely gone now. As crazy as it all was, it all really was true.

And I'm the surprise daughter of the heroes of the story. 

I go with them to Mr. Gold's shop and he can tell right away we both believe. He doesn't seem surprised by us being there and already knows the reason we're there. He then explains that True Love will break the curse on Henry, and he had bottled some up using the hair of our parents which made the most powerful potion in all the realm. He used a single drop of this potion on the parchment he used to create the Dark Curse as a "safety valve." 

I whisper that we're a product of magic, but Gold corrects me and says she is. I wasn't supposed to be born, I was never supposed to exist, so it has to be Emma - she's the Savior - it's why she can break the curse. I felt the guilt start to settle in about me causing Emma to grow up the way she did - alone and without a mom, clueless to her destiny.

Gold - Rumplestiltskin - explained that he hadn't used all the potion but getting it was going to be an issue. He also informed us that it had to be Emma since she was the product of the magic, nobody else could retrieve the potion, giving her our father's sword to prepare her.

My heart raced and I knew by the look on Regina's face that whatever Emma was about to face would be terrifying.  

I went back to the hospital with them and decided to stay and watch over Henry while she did her Savior thing. She and I did get a moment to talk while Regina was in Henry's room. We don't get a lot in, but we get to at least acknowledge how jarring this all is and agree we'll need to talk about the whole twin thing once she saves Henry. I then brought up August and we agreed she needed to go talk to him. 

I told her I'd stay behind, make sure Regina leaves when she's supposed to, call Mary Margaret and catch her up, and keep Henry safe until she returned with the potion. 

Regina and I shared a few words before she left the hospital, having put together that Snow and Charming must have had twins and how quaint that was given my father was a twin and his twins' death was the only reason he got to where he was. She pondered aloud if the same fate would befall me, getting the destiny meant for my sister at the price of her death. I took a deep breath and chose not to strike her, flipping her off instead before telling her she better leave to save my nephew, and that if he died, a far worse fate would be waiting for her. How careless it was that she even did such a thing knowing Henry's belief of the book and who she was and the relationship he had with Emma. This was all entirely her fault, so she had to do everything in her power to make it right.