Everything isn't the same

Chapter 4 - Rocky Road

Caitlynn stood in the shop with Gold, Emma, Hook and Elsa as Gold told them. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I've never seen her before in my life."

"So how'd she end up inside your urn?' Emma asked suspicions. "Inside your secret vault of terror?"

"Look, if you really wanna know how she wound up there, she's standing right beside you, Miss Swan." Gold looked at Elsa. "Why don't you simply ask her?"

"She did." Elsa replied to him. "But I can't remember. Something happened to my memories."

"Well, an all-too-common affliction around these parts." Gold explained to them. "Pity. But as you can see, many objects fall into my possession. Urns, necklaces, all manner of things. I can't know the history behind all of them."

"Only if there's something in it for you." Hook comment. "Right, mate?"

Caitlynn rolled with her eyes as then Gold replied to Hook. "Yeah, well, that may have been true once. But recently my life has been turned upside down. I've lost a son." He glanced at Caitlynn, who smiled at him. "I've gained a wife and a daughter. So you might say I've decided to turn over a new leaf."

"Don't forget about my superpower." Emma warned him. "I'll be able to tell if you're lying."

"How about I do you one better?" Gold looked at her. "Let's simply have Caitlynn use the dagger on me."

"No." Caitlynn grabbed his arm. "No, Gold, you don't have to do that."

"No, no, no, your sister wants proof." Gold argued back. "And I'm happy to cooperate."

"No, Gold, I will not do that." Then Caitlynn looked at her twin. "You trust me, don't you sis?"

"Yeah." Emma nodded to her.

"Then trust on this, that he is telling you the truth what he just said." Caitlynn told to her twin.

Emma nodded to her sister. "Yeah, he checks out." She muttered to the others.

Then they leave the shop as Gold called after them. "I wish you the best of luck finding her."

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Later that day, the bell from the door jingled as Gold glanced up from his work to Hook and Elsa walking towards them, then he worked further on it. "I must apologize, but I'm really rather busy today."

"Here I was hoping for a warm hello from the newly reformed Mr. Gold." Hook comment to him.

"This is still a place of business." Gold said to him, without looking up. He was glad that Caitlynn and Aubrey were in the back from the shop. "So unless you have something to offer me, I'm afraid I can be of no further help."

"Well, as it turns out, I do have something to offer you." Hook told him as then Gold looked up, curiously. "My silence. See, I know that that dagger you gave Caitlynn was a fake."

"Is that right?" Gold mocked at him.

"Mmm. I've hunted you a long time, my old crocodile, and I know you better than most." Hook looked as Gold sighed on how wrong he was, but Hook didn't seem too noticed as he talked further. "And I know that you would never let anyone have power over you. Not even Caitlynn."

"And you expect her to believe you without a shred of proof?" Gold asked to him.

"Well, I could ask her to summon you with the dagger." Hook replied to him. "Then when it doesn't work... Proof."

'It will work, you just wrong about what you are saying right now, but I will bite.' Gold thought as then he told to him. "That's a very dangerous insinuation."