Operation Heroes

Operation Waiting Game

Chapter Nine

June moved by slowly. No new leads on the Operation or any clues. Though Lux had told Kellen to stay away, Avery talked to him about it, they didn't break up, they just talked and set boundaries. Avery was about as hopeless as Henry. The trio were sitting around doing nothing. Avery suddenly jumped up and headed up that stairs grabbing her papers once more. She came back down. The two teens looked up when she sat back down. She spread out the adoption papers and newspaper clippings.

"Look at these," she said, more towards Henry then Lux.

Henry scrunched his eyebrows together, "This article looks kind of like Emma's the date is different and it's slightly different."

Avery just nodded.

"Wait? Is this you? I didn't know you were adopted," Henry said looking at Avery.

"Yes, most people don't notice," Avery said with a small smile.

"Show him the other thing!" Lux said excitedly.

"I'm getting to that," Avery said calming her sister down. She then pulled out the other page, "This showed up in my binder shortly after our parents died."

Henry grabbed the page and looked at it closely, "Is this, my mom and Robin?"

Avery nodded as he flipped through the book and finds the same page number.

"This doesn't make any sense. This is the page where she enacted the curse."

"I'm not sure how it is completely possible either. I don't even know how I'm still sitting here," Avery agreed.

Henry's head shoots up and looks at her, "You're the baby?"

Avery nodded, "It's the only thing that makes sense. Somehow I was sent here and I ended up on the road."

"You do kind of look like them, thinking about it," Henry mused looking to her.

The trio continued working on the plan for how to get to Isaac and have everyone there. Henry had to work on getting the Lester's to let him take Neal "shopping" for a day. A two year old wouldn't want to go shopping and he knew that. He just had to figure something out. It was summer time so neither teen had to worry about school. If all of this worked both Kennedy girls would stay in Storybrooke. So, Avery made a note to quit. Of course she would have to give Kellen an explanation and invite him to come with them to Storybrooke after this whole ordeal was over.

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Hades was out and about, he would pop in on random houses to see if he needed to watch any for upcoming deaths. He did all kinds of things though. That was one thing Rumplestiltskin hadn't realized. Being lord on the Underworld, Hades could travel to any realm he wanted whenever he wanted. One limitation however, no going back in time. Most of the dead people did care about time travel. Some of the dead do ask if he can go back and kill someone sooner so their life wasn't as miserable. Even if he wanted to he couldn't. All though Hades was frozen in his Twenty-five year old body he still had fun changing his appearance. Once a soul leaves its vessel, the person is dead. Hades can then enter the vessel making all the people around him think the person is still alive.

That was one of his favorite pastimes. Sometimes in the mundane worlds his magic didn't work so well and he couldn't take over a vessel. Other times it was super easy. He had also cloned the person in a way. He can fool others into thinking he was one person even when that person was still alive. At the time Hades remained invisible while he listened to Avery, Lux, and Henry plan something. Of course all of them were blind to the intruder in the house. At least he thought so until the oldest, a dark haired, brown eyed, female, Avery suddenly looked up and tensed.

"What is it, Av?" The reddish brown haired, freckled, other female, Lux asked.

The dark haired female shook her head, "It's nothing."

"Avery Hood, that kind of sounds like a band. Since you are my moms daughter, do you have magic?" The male, Henry, asked.

"I wouldn't sway a band, a stage name, maybe. The point is, it sounds badass.I don't know, although I never really tried."

"When we go to Storybrooke you could try. Magic is there."

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About six months ago Avery became Neal's babysitter. This gave the Lester's ability to go to work. Avery was able to get less hours because she was being payed to watch Neal. At two and a half he was a bit of a handful, nothing Avery couldn't handle though. She had fun watching him. One day she did however see her connection to him. She was Neal's step aunt. She chuckled at that seeing how simple her tie was to everyone where Henry was just about related to half of the entire town.

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Avery was in a dark place, it smelled of rotten everything and dirt. There was a distinct buzzing which she thought were flies. It was cold, this gave Avery goosebumps. As her eyes adjusted she could just make out se shapes.

"Hello? Anyone there?" She asked, only to have her echo reply.

She started walking carefully. Her hands were out trying to find a wall. She shuffled her feet to feel any sudden dips in the ground. She could hear something getting louder at a slow rate.

"Hello, Avery Hood," a voice sounded from all around her.

"Where am I?"

"The underworld of course!" The voice said as a man in his mid-twenties early thirties appeared in front of her scaring her, "BOO!"

The man, who had facial hair and dark hair that was long enough to use gel with, was leaning against the wall. He looked at her before doing something. Light lit up the room. It was empty which surprised Avery.

"You get used to the smell and noises," the man said dismissively.

"Why am I here?"

"Well my dear, Miss Hood," the man began, " I wanted to meet you technically, before your time is up. You don't have much longer. Of course the nice thing to do would tell you how much longer. Alas, I am Hades, and I love watching people scramble to clean up any messes that may still be own." With that the man disappeared from where he had appeared.

Avery woke up suddenly. She looked around. Her clock read 4 AM. She tried to fall back asleep but she couldn't. Little did the she know that the dream was not just a dream but an actual meeting with the lord of the Underworld.

So yeah, here's chapter nine. Hope you enjoy. Sorry it took so long to post. I will be starting college next week so updates will be slower. Read, comment, vote!!!