Ch.41: The Evil Queen
After Tamara and Greg had a talk with Hook, telling and showing him at the clock tower that Rumple was alive, Hook agreed to help Greg find his father whom was taken by Regina a long time ago.
*Flashback*
It was a dismal night in the enchanted forest, as The Evil Queen and a few of her knights searched for Snow at a village that Snow had been hiding out in. She was gone though, which gave Regina the thought that maybe someone tipped her off. The villagers were even silent, as if they hadn’t seen Snow in the village. They didn’t even say anything when Regina offered them gold for telling her where Snow was at. So, when the search was unsuccessful and nobody was talking, she gave the order to kill them all.
*End*
*Present*
It was a dismal night at the docks, as Snow and Charming talked about leaving to go back to their homeland.
“If we’re going back to the enchanted forest, are we really going to leave Regina behind?” Snow asked him.
“She’s too dangerous to bring with us. We have to leave her,” Charming replied.
“Henry won’t like it. She is his mother, despite all the horrors.”
“Mary Margaret, those horrors will continue. You want to give her another chance? Because every time we do, she—,” he began, but Snow cut him off.
“She slips. I know. What do we do?”
“Instead of a second chance, we give her a choice. Come back, live out her days in Rumple’s cell, or stay here.”
While they were talking on the bench, they didn’t notice a fisherman on a boat nearby, although it wasn’t one at all. The fisherman left the boat and turned into Regina whom had been eavesdropping on them.
“Jail cell? I don’t think so,” she said to herself, concealed by a boat so they wouldn’t see her.
The next day, Henry was putting some stuff inside one of the bird houses outside, when Regina stopped on the other side of the white picket fence.
“Good morning, Henry,” she greeted him.
He stopped and looked at her.
“Um, what are you doing here?”
She went around the picket fence into the yard.
“I’ve missed you. And I wanted to show you something.” She took out a bag that had magical beans inside. “Katherine and Mary Margaret have been keeping this from you, darling. They’ve been growing magic beans in secret. They want to take you to the enchanted forest. Without me.”
“Maybe we’re all going and they just haven’t included you yet?”
“No. They won’t let me to help. They don’t see the good in me. The good you’ve seen. They only see the evil queen, which they named me. I don’t want to be that anymore. This is my chance to go back and start over. For me to be the hero. You’d like that, right?”
“I’d love that,” he replied.
“There’s a fail-safe created inside the curse,” she informed him.
“Like a self-destruct button, but you never used it,” he figured. “What happens to Storybrooke?”
“It disappears. Forever,” she informed him. “No need to worry, dear. We can get away first by using this.”
“But what about everyone else?”
“They die.”
“What?”
“I don’t have any other choice. As long as there are other people in our lives, you can never fully be mine. You loved me once. With them gone, you’ll love me again and you can see me for what I truly am. A hero.”
“Not if you kill everyone. You’re a villain,” he replied.
“Me? They’re the ones that have been keeping us apart. They’re the villains.”
“How can I love someone that can do such horrible things? Why would you even tell me this?”
“Because I don’t have anyone else to talk to.”
“Well, I’m gonna stop you.”
“Everything I just said will come to pass.”
“Never. Why would I let you do any of this?”
She took out a spell book from her purse, opened it, and looked at a page, and then looked at him again. “Because you won’t remember a thing.” She did a spell, put the spell book away, and then looked at him again.
“Mom, what are you doing here?” he asked her.
“I just came to say hello. I’ve missed you. Why don’t you show me that bird feeder? It sure will make the birds really happy.”
Regina was in her office, when Hook walked in.
“Captain. You look like you’ve had a rough time.”
“Indeed, I have,” he agreed. He approached her. “I’ve come to ask you for your protection.”
“From Gold? I’m surprised you’d show your face in this town. You noticed your murder didn’t take?”
“We’ve got bigger problems,” Hook informed her. He informed her that Greg and Tamara want him to make an alliance with her and then betray her. “I say we make an alliance and skip the unpleasant betrayal business.”
“Why should I trust you?” she questioned him.
“Because I’d never betray you,” he replied. “Why don’t the three of us realign our alliance.”
“My mother died,” she informed him.
“Well, she’ll be missed. I knew her well enough to know what she wanted the most. Now I failed in my vengeance. The least I can do is help you with yours.”
“Let me show you something,” she said, and walked over to where she had a plant growing that had magic beans.
“An escape plan,” he commented. He informed her of Cora’s plan to leave Storybrooke with a bean to start over with her.
“And now I’m going to do the same with Henry. If you’ll help me,” Regina informed him. “This is how we’ll escape the total destruction of Storybrooke. If I can trust you.”
“You’re saying the complete destruction. Including the Crocodile, yes?”
“Oh, yes. Rumpelstiltskin will die. If you’ll help me.”
After having a chat with Tamara and seeing that she had a list of everyone in Storybrooke and what their fairytale character names were, she warned her what could happen if anyone found out about Storybrooke. Tamara told her that she could trust her, which Katherine sensed to be a lie, so she went home and warned Snow whom wanted her to keep it a secret until she knew more.
Katherine watched, as Snow left and when she turned around, she saw Henry dressed and everything.
“So, we’re back in business.”
“I thought you were in the shower.”
“Exactly. We’re investigating Tamara, right?”
Since she knew she wouldn’t be able to stop him, she told him, “Get your coat.”
It was a cold, rainy day as Katherine sat in the car with Henry, doing a stake out while having a drink and eating a donut. When Henry mentioned how fun it was and that it was also fun to shoot bow and arrows and stuff, she looked at him.
“Is that something you still want? A way to go back to the enchanted forest?”
“Is there? There is! A bean or something. The giant brought it with him, didn’t he? We could get a castle or something.” When he saw someone come out of the store, he told her to duck, so she did.
When she looked, there was Neal and Tamara.
“Operation Preying Mantis is on,” he announced.
A few minutes later, she was working on unlocking the apartment.
“So, once we find out that Tamara is evil, I guess the wedding is off?” he questioned her.
“That’s something you’ll have to talk to your father about. Whoever your real mother is, he hasn’t seen her in a long time, if she’s even still alive. And I doubt Regina would ever fall for your mother. I know you want both worlds, but sometimes you can’t have both. Sometimes you either have your father or you have your mother. Not both. And sometimes tragic things happen and you lose them both. I know you hope to have a big, happy family but not everyone gets those. I’m just being honest for once in my long life. There’s a chance that you’ll be able to be with your father, but you’ll either have to choose between Neal or Regina, or only be able to see him at certain times. I’ve been alive for way longer than you. I know how it goes with people that have similar family problems that you do. Hell, my doppelganger had foster parents that died and then later found out that her real father was actually her uncle and that her mother was turned by one of the vampires I turned during my long vampire life,” she replied.
While she was investigating, she had Henry wait outside. She hadn’t started investigating for five minutes, when Neal came home to find Henry by his apartment door. That’s when he realized that something was going on.
“Oh, hell no.” Assuming who it was, he called for her. “Katherine!” He opened the door and Henry came with him. “What’s this about?” he asked.
“Tamara,” she truthfully told him. “I think she’s playing you.”
“She’s playing me? How?”
“I think she’s the ‘she’ August was trying to warn us about. I didn’t wanna tell you until I had proof.”
“Well, as long as you broke into our room to spare my feelings. What? Are you out of your mind?”
“He warned us about a woman.”
“You brought the kid into this?”
“I didn’t bring him into this. He came on his own. She lied to me. Look, she’s got a list of fairytale characters and who they are. Whoever she’s gonna give that to, they could blow this whole town wide open.”
“I helped her make that list,” he admitted. “To help her come to grips with this place. It’s not easy, you know? She’s trying to deal with it for me.”
“I know what this looks like, but it isn’t. I’m not trying to sabotage anything. There’s a floorboard loose. It shouldn’t be. If there’s nothing under there, fine. I back off.”
“Okay, sure. What the hell,” he replied.
When they looked under the board, there wasn’t anything there, so she and Henry left.
After Regina came back upstairs at the library after retrieving the fail-safe, she found Hook there, alive. She was surprised, since she’d sent him to keep Maleficent distracted.
Tamara and Greg came into view after he informed her that they saved him from Maleficent and that they have a way against magic.
“Enough of this.”
She tried to poof off, but it didn’t work.
“That’s not going to work. Not anymore,” Greg informed her.
Meanwhile, Katherine was having a bowl of ice cream with Henry.
“You know, I believe you about Tamara,” Henry told her.
“You should, ‘cause I’m right.”
“And when you prove it, we can all go back to the enchanted forest.”
Regina looked at Hook.
“The cuff. You gave me this.”
“Well, you insisted.”
“You knew I’d want it.”
“They rigged it with something that blocks your magic,” Hook informed her.
Greg approached her, as she said, “So little bitty Owen does some magic of his own now.”
“Not magic. Actually, this is something much better,” Greg informed her. “Science.”
She continued trying to get it off her wrist.
“You can stop doing that. It’s not going to work,” Greg informed her. “You can get rid of the leather, but inside, there’s the toughest metal and machinery known to man. They’re counter acting every magical bone in your body.”
Tamara took out the list.
“Which one was she?”
“The Queen. The Evil Queen.”
“Yes. I was,” Regina said.
“But here, you’re nothing,” Greg reminded her.
“And what are you?”
“I’m just a man. A man on a mission.”
“And all this just to try and find your father. I already told you. I don’t know where he is.”
“Yes, you do,” Greg told her. “But that’s not my mission.”
“Then what is?”
“I’m not going to tell you,” Greg said, and then told Tamara, “Bag her.”
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