𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓛𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓟𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓼𝓼

Lily

Brooklyn sat on the stool, her back leaned against the counter as she stared up at her sister. Emma was stood, looking around at her family and friends, having gathered them to the diner, for a small meeting.

"I'm going after gold." She stated, Brooklyn's eyebrows raising.

"First, Cruella. Now, Gold?" She asked, Jackson giving her a small look.

"He made this happen, he needs to answer for it." She spoke, not giving the girl a second look.

"Careful, don't go off half cold."

"Hook's right, he wants you angry."

"Yeah, well I am angry." Emma stated, turning her flare to her father. "That doesn't mean, he's gonna get what he's after. Do I wish I could change what I did to, Cruella? Yes. But, that's regret. Not..darkness." Emma looked over to her mother, her head tilted. "I think we've all done things we regret. Right now, we need to focus on one thing. How to keep, Gold and the author from causing anymore damage." She finished, a voice coming from behind them all.

"I might be able to help with that." They all turned to see, Maleficent standing at the door. She strutted toward the blonde, getting straight to the point. "It now appears, we have a common foe. Rumplestilskin."

"Oh, he didn't give you, your pretty, little evil ending?" Brooklyn joked, smirking at the woman.

"He's resurrected you?" David asked, ignoring his daughter's late timing.

"To help himself not me. Cruella's death only confirmed that."

"Now, you want to turn on him, before he turns on you?" Jackson questioned, now standing as he glared at her.

"I knew that, Gold couldn't keep the dragon on her leash, for long." Regina spoke, her smile wide. Clearly amused at the woman's situation.

"What do you want?" Mary Margaret, asked.

"Nothing from you. But, your daughters, I hear have a talent for tracking.." she looked over at, Brooklyn, who herself, kept quiet. "And, finding people." She finished, her eyes moving onto, Emma.

"Yeah, we do. Who do you want found?"

"My daughter." Maleficent spoke, everyone looking shocked.

"She's alive?"

"Yes. She survived the journey to this land, the journey you sent her on." Maleficent spat. "You want to prevent, Runplestilskin from achieving, whatever he wants. What better way, than leaving this town, and helping me?"

"We're not running away from, Gold." Brooklyn told her, joining the blondes side.

"It's not running from him, it's hindering him."

Emma turned to the younger woman, the two sharing a similar look.

"What do you know about her?" She asked, after a minute of thinking.

"Just what the, Dark One showed me. That she was banished to this world, thirty years ago, to a place called, Minnesota. Where she was adopted by a couple, and they named her, Lilith."

Emma looked as though she had seen a ghost, Brooklyn taking her arm, gently. "Emma?" She asked, the woman not looking back at her.

"No." She whispered, her eyes focused on the woman in front of them. After a moment, Emma ran out of the Diner, not giving them any answers.

•••

"Ain't fate a bitch?"

Brooklyn looked down at the computer screen, her eyes narrowed. She and Regina had made them way to the Station, both wanting to check up on, Emma. What shocked her the most was to find out, that, Maleficent's daughter was a friend of the blondes years ago.