Ch.37: The Queen Is Dead
When Snow came downstairs she saw Charming cooking breakfast and then she saw a birthday present on the table, so she opened it. It was revealed to be the crown that had once been her mother’s. The card said that it was from Johanna whom had been one of her mother’s close friends whom had tried to help when her mother had gotten sick.
After receiving the present, she left to go find Johanna.
Charming entered the police station and put his coat on the hanger, only to get knocked out by Hook with a crow bar.
“Apologies, mate. I believe you have something of mine,” Hook said after knocking him out. Then he went looking around and soon found his hook and put the hook back on. Then he left the station.
When Snow met up with Johanna, she told her that she found the crown in Gold’s shop and knew Snow had to have it. She also said that the flowers in the field that she was working on, reminded her of Snow because they could survive the harshest winters and Snow was born in the harshest winter of all.
When they heard something, Snow went to investigate and found Regina and Cora looking for the dagger. So Snow went to the station, only to find Charming knocked out.
When Charming woke up, he told her that it was Hook whom wanted his hook and Rumple. Then when he was sitting in the chair, she told Charming that Regina was working with Cora to find Rumple’s dagger. Their idea was that Cora wanted it to either use it to control Rumple or use it to become The Dark One herself.
Neal and Henry went inside a pizza shop, while Katherine and Rumple stayed outside, knowing they weren’t invited.
“The saddest truth is that the ones closest to us are capable of causing us the most pain,” Rumple said. “Not so common ground, miss Pierce. My son and I have some way to go.”
“I couldn’t agree more,” she replied.
“I need you to talk to him. Try and convince him to come back to Storybrooke with me.”
“I can try, but it’s hard to convince someone that you don’t know much about,” she replied.
When Neal and Henry went up to the apartment to get Henry’s camera, Katherine and Rumple waited downstairs for them.
Suddenly, Katherine felt someone push her out of the way and saw Hook stab Rumple with his hook.
“Time’s up, Crocodile. Tick tock. You took Mila, my love, my happiness. And for that I now take your life.”
Katherine got up and, since she wasn’t a fairytale character and had magic outside of Storybrooke because of that, she magically through Hook away from Rumple and knelt in front of Rumple whom was seated on the ground.
“Gold, you alright?” she asked.
Neal and Henry came down the stairs.
“What the hell happened?” Neal asked. He knelt by Katherine. “What’s going on?”
“One of your dad’s enemies found us,” she told him.
“Hook,” Neal said, before Katherine could tell him who he was.
“You know him?”
Neal didn’t answer, since he was too worried about what Hook did to his father.
“Papa,” he said, when he saw that he was bleeding a little.
Neal got Rumple on the couch in his apartment, while Katherine used rope to tie Hook to a chair in the apartment. It was the best she could do. It wasn’t like there were any close by holding cells.
When she found a map on Hook, she pulled it out.
“Looks like Hook sailed his ship here,” she said.
“How do you sail a pirate ship into New York?” he inquired.
“It’s cloaked,” she replied. She knelt down to eye level with Henry. “Don’t worry. He won’t hurt anyone else.”
“But is Mr. Gold going to be okay?” Henry asked.
“Henry, he’ll be fine,” Neal said.
Katherine told Henry to go to the other room.
Rumple took his scarf off and with his jacket and shirt open a little, you could see that it was bad.
“We gotta get him to an ER,” Neal said.
“It’s pointless,” Rumple said.
“What is that?” Katherine asked Rumple.
“Poison. It’s Hook’s making. There’s no antidote here.”
“There’s gotta be some way we can save you,” Neal said, not wanting him to die.
“There is,” Rumple replied.
“Storybrooke. We gotta get him back. There’s magic there now,” she told Neal.
“I’ll get a car,” Neal said.
“No. We gotta take the ship.”
Katherine realized why. She realized that he was saying that the ship was faster than a car somehow.
“Who’s going to sail it? The only pirate here wants you dead. I could make Hook cooperate, but I’ll have to wake him up first.”
“I can do it,” Neal informed her.
“Bae?” Rumple inquired.
“Yeah. I can do it.”
“Then let’s get going,” Katherine said. “How do you know Hook, though?”
“Long story short. This world wasn’t my first stop. If it was, I’d be a couple hundred years old by now.”
In Storybrooke, Snow and Charming finally found Gold’s dagger, only to be ambushed by Cora and Regina and Johanna died, even though Cora got the dagger from them.
Regina and Cora entered Regina’s office.
Cora sat at Regina’s desk and set the dagger down.
“I like what you’ve done to the place.”
“So happy you approve,” Regina replied.
“What is it, my love? You’re troubled.”
“You never told me about the history with Snow’s mother.”
“I spared you the burden like any good parent would do.”
“You didn’t think I deserved to know what it took for me to become queen?”
“Now you know,” Cora said.
“That day at the stables. When I rescued her. That wasn’t an accident, was it?” Regina replied, talking about the time when she’d saved Snow when she was a child whom couldn’t get control of the horse she was riding. “You won, mother. I’m queen. If that’s all you wanted, why do you need Rumpelstiltskin’s dagger now?”
“You’re worried my interests no longer align with yours,” Cora realized.
“My only interest now is Henry.”
“And I told you. You’ll have him.”
“But how? Now that Mary Margaret and David know we have the dagger, we can’t use Gold to kill them without Henry finding out.”
“Have patience, my love. By the time Rumpelstiltskin and Katherine Pierce arrive, they’ll be nothing more than an unpleasant memory, and Henry will be yours.”
Neal and Katherine found a car and Neal told her it was a friend’s car. That’s when some girl caught up with Neal and told him that he couldn’t just say that he was leaving town for a while, and that he had to tell her what was going on.
“Neal,” Katherine said.
The girl looked at Katherine.
“I’m Amara,” she greeted.
“Katherine,” she greeted back to the girl.
“My fiancée,” Neal told her.
Snow and Charming were by Johanna’s grave. After talking for a bit, swept up in grief, she didn’t want anyone else to die. She had the thought that maybe to save lives, she had to change.
“Change how?” Charming asked.
“I’m going to kill Cora,” Snow replied.
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