"Well, that was a royal waste of time." Regina scoffed, walking away from the Sorcerer's mansion with Gold and Maleficent.
"The door may not be in the Sorcerer's mansion, but it's somewhere in Storybrooke. We will find it." Gold told them before they stopped, seeing Cruella's car pull up.
Cruella halted the car to an abrupt stop, getting out as the other three looked confused.
"What are you doing here? Where's August?" Gold asked her with a scoff.
"They rescued him. The heroes..." Cruella panted.
"You had one simple task--" Gold went to scold her.
"It wasn't my fault. We have a mole." Cruella said as Regina's eyes widened.
"Who would be foolish enough to cross us?" Maleficent asked with a scoff.
"I know exactly who," Cruella said, malice in her tone. She took a quick glance at Regina, then turned back to Gold. "Ursula. She sold us out for a reunion with Daddy Dearest." Cruella scoffed as Regina sighed in relief.
"All right... We may have lost our informant, but we still have his information." Gold said before turning to Regina. "Bring us the illustration of the door. Maybe there's something in it the puppet missed." Gold told Regina as Regina nodded, trying to figure out a way to get the illustration without giving Gold the actual page.
"I suppose this is farewell..." Hook said to Ursula as they met at the docks again.
"It is, but first, I have to hold up my end of the deal." Ursula smiled at Hook. She turned to her dad, giving him a nod to give her and Hook a moment. "Gold's plan... I'm afraid it involves Dream... and Emma. They are the only way he can secure happy endings for the villains." Ursula sighed as Hook looked confused.
"Well, I thought he was gonna get the Author to rewrite everyone's stories?" Hook asked, furrowing his brows.
"The Author can't just change things in this world because he didn't give everyone their happy endings here."
"Emma did..." Hook sighed, realizing what she was referring to.
"She's the Savior. And as long as there's a Savior, the Author can't give the villains what they really want. And the Dark One knows this." She explained as Hook sighed, looking concerned.
"The Dark One's going to try to kill Emma?"
"Worse... He plans to fill Dream's heart with darkness, and then have her kill Emma. Forever..." Ursula sighed as Hook's face turned to fear.
Meanwhile, Regina carefully walked into the Charming's apartment, seeing Emma at the kitchen aisle. She glanced to the side, seeing Henry flipping through the book and August asleep on the couch. She walked in, carefully closing the door.
"We're lucky, he's okay..." Regina sighed, looking at August.
"It wasn't luck. You got us that message. Thank you." Emma said, returning back to making hot cocoa.
"I need your help with something," Regina said, leaning on the other side of the counter, facing Emma.
"What is it?" Emma asked, looking up at her.
"I had a dream. Robin Hood came back. We were finally together. But the, I, the Evil Queen, showed up. With a fireball in her hand." Regina sighed, looking very concerned.
"I may not be Archie, but it sounds like you're afraid of the villain you used to be... and the one you might become again," Emma said, trying to help Regina out.
"No, I don't think that's it... In my dream, I don't think the Evil Queen was there to hurt Robin. I think she was there to protect him."
"From what?" Emma asked, furrowing her brows.
"I don't know. I just felt it." Regina sighed, looking down. "You used to track people for a living. Can you get me a phone number? A way to contact him... Anything?" Regina sighed, sounding a bit desperate.
"Yeah. Yeah, I can do that." Emma nodded without hesitation.
"Mom!" Henry called out, setting his book down as both of his moms looked over at him.
August woke up as he looked at Regina while Emma knelt down next to him. "What is she doing here?" He asked, referring to Regina.
"Oh, it's okay. I promise." Emma tried to reassure her.
"August, we need to talk about how I'm going to keep up my cover with Gold. The only reason I was able to come here is because they think I'm stealing this page. We didn't find the door at the Sorcerer's mansion..." Regina sighed, picking up the page of the door.
"That's because it's not there," August said, making the three of them look confused.
"What?" Henry asked him.
"But..." Emma went to ask.
"But you said you didn't know where it was," Regina said with furrowed brows. "And your nose didn't grow..."
"My nose didn't grow because I wasn't lying. When Gold asked me, I didn't know where the door was, because I didn't know where Henry was keeping this page." He said, pointing to the page before moving a bit. "Regina... this isn't just an illustration. This is the door. The Author is trapped inside the book."
~season 3, episode 16: "Poor Unfortunate Soul"~
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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...
