"She's not strong enough to move yet." Hook spat at the Charmings, while Arthur and Emma stayed back with the stroller of the twins.
"So, the rumors are true..." Arthur sighed, making Emma look away from the back-and-forth bickering to the teacher, who joined them, given his nature skills back in the Enchanted Forest.
"What rumors?" Emma asked, furrowing her brows.
"Dream is dying... I heard some at Granny's talking about it. They say many different things, but the gossip mentions that it was the Dark One who cursed her." Arthur said, glancing at Hook, who kept kneeling down by Dream's side as she tried to sit up weakly.
"Gold did a lot of messed up stuff... Trying to crush her heart in front of Hook, but he didn't curse her. From what Mother Superior said... this is Regina's price for using magic to have Dream. And then, it didn't help that Dream had the twins." Emma sighed, keeping her arms crossed over her chest. "You know her?" Emma asked, raising a brow as Arthur lightly chuckled.
"I had her in my class. Once she got a little older, she offered to watch my daughter." He smiled, looking at Dream. "She's always been a good kid. So, has Henry... your son, right?" He asked, turning to look back at Emma.
"Y-Yeah..." Emma nodded, surveying Arthur.
She had not seen him before. She was a little skeptical since she had never heard or seen him. It would be understandable if he came in the second curse. But that was not his story.
"Just breathe, love... It's not good for the little lad." Hook sighed, rubbing Dream's back as Dream could not slow her panic attack.
"H-H... He can... He can't-- He was... B-Banished..." Dream continued to stutter. She feared that her dreams were just visions in disguise. Or, she should say, the nightmares she had been having.
"Relax... We won't let Gold anywhere near you and the twins." David tried to comfort Dream while he gave her a paper bag from Granny's old takeout from a few days ago. The bag smelled heavily of Granny's meatloaf.
"Hey, I know this is a lot to take in..." Emma began to say, making the group look at her. "But I think we really need to go to Belle... Maybe she could help us figure out how Gold got back here.
"Isn't..." Dream continued to stutter. "He--H-He's a m-monster..." Dream stammered before using the paper bag as a puke bucket instead of the breathing bag that David gave her.
"Dream... This is important." Emma sighed, kneeling in front of Dream after waiting a moment as everyone groaned in disgust from seeing Dream throw up.
"I thought he was gone for good." Dream sighed, looking up at Emma while tears streamed down her cheeks.
"We're gonna figure out how to ensure that he's gone for good," Emma said, giving her a small smile.
Dream nodded, slowly, while David and Hook moved to help her stand up. Mary Margaret's face scrunched up in disgust as she carefully tossed the poor paper bag into the small plastic trash bag from Dream's diaper bag where she kept in case of a sudden diaper change.
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Fanfiction***Fifth book in the Dream series*** ****Part 2 to Villain or Hero?**** Mr. Gold has been banished from Storybrooke by his precious wife, Belle. The last time we saw him, he was threatening the life of his daughter, Dream, and Captain Hook. He had H...
