Ch.65: Family Business
Rumple was putting the case that had the hat in it in his safe, which was also where his dagger was. When he heard Belle though, he quickly closed the safe and locked it, before putting the picture on the wall back into place, which was where he hid the safe at.
“Rumple?” Belle called and then entered the front of the shop, where he was.
He turned to look at her.
“Belle.”
“Hey. I’ve been looking all over the house for you. Didn’t even hear you leave.”
“I didn’t want to wake you,” he informed her. “Just a few things to take care of before we open,” he added, pointing behind him.
“Well, whatever it is, it’ll have to wait. Katherine called. She needs to see us right away.”
Katherine was at the station with Hook, Regina, Snow, Charming, Henry, Belle, and Rumple. When Belle mentioned about wondering how she even got to Storybrooke, Katherine turned and looked at Rumple.
“We were hoping Gold could tell us that. You spent more time trying to get here than anyone. How the hell did she do it?”
“Considering the time I spent on the same task, I’d love to know.”
“Does it really matter?” Charming questioned. “I mean, shouldn’t we be more concerned about why?”
“Obviously, she needs her for something. But what? Well, that’s our next problem,” Regina interjected.
“Well, we know she’s hiding somewhere in the North Woods. We combed every inch of her shop, we tore apart her house. She must have cleared everything out days before,” Charming replied.
“Which means she must be hiding something,” Hook added.
“But where?” Katherine inquired.
“What about her ice cream truck?” Henry suggested.
“Whoa. Snow Queen has an ice cream truck?” Katherine asked, looking at him.
“I’m a kid. I notice these kind of things,” Henry replied.
Katherine looked at Charming when he spoke.
“Then we split up into groups, we search the town, the woods. Hook, Regina, Katherine, you take the west. Gold, you’re with me for the east.”
“I think we all know I work best alone,” Rumple reminded him.
“No time to argue that,” Charming agreed. “Belle, how are you at tracking?”
“Uh, actually, I think I’ll be more helpful at the library,” she replied. “Maybe I can dig something up on the Snow Queen.”
Elsa stood up where she’d been sitting in a chair and looked at her.
“I’d like to come with you, Belle, if that’s okay. Maybe something about my sister will be there, too. Unless, you’d rather not have the company.”
“No, not at all. I would love some.”
Elsa and Belle left and then Rumple left.
Belle was in a corner, looking at an old map of Arendelle, when Elsa spoke after examining a bookshelf of books, her back turned to Belle. When she spoke, Belle put the map away.
“There doesn’t seem to be anything on Arendelle here. Do you know where to look?”
Elsa turned around to look at her.
“No. I’m sorry. I’m really not that familiar with Arendelle. Or your sister.”
The Snow Queen had just left her ice cream truck, when Katherine spotted it and spoke into the walkie talkie.
“David, call off the search party. We found the truck near the Merry Men’s camp.”
She put her walkie talkie away and approached Robin.
“Thanks for keeping an eye out.”
“Gladly. You’re the first sheriff I don’t mind assisting.”
Katherine walked ahead, Hook at her side, Regina behind her.
Robin fell in step beside Regina.
“Uh, Regina, I was hoping we could talk.”
“Uh, in case you haven’t noticed, I’m about to storm an evil ice cream truck.”
Regina walked ahead of him and went to walk next to Katherine, Hook now behind Robin.
“You could have said ‘Maybe later’,” Katherine told her.
“I know you try to make everything better, but staying out of it is your best bet. It’s bad enough I’m stuck with you and Captain Guy-liner making eyes at each other.”
“I don’t make eyes,” Katherine told her, as she walked ahead of Katherine, and Hook caught up with Katherine to walk beside her again.
He looked at her.
“Ready, love?” He then walked ahead towards the truck.
They entered the truck.
“It appears she beat us to it,” Hook commented, since they didn’t see anything in there. “She’s cleared out her vessel.”
“What now? Should we question the cows she gets her milk from? Maybe search the waffle cone factory?” Regina questioned Katherine, looking at her.
Katherine noticed a lock on the freezer she knew ice cream was usually stored and grabbed the lock in her hand, looking at it.
“Hang on. Look. Who locks their freezer? Was she afraid someone was gonna steal the Rocky Road?”
“Stand back,” Hook warned, and Katherine obeyed. He used his hooked hand to open the lock, which worked.
Katherine opened the freezer and saw a folder and opened it up, which had information on Katherine.
“It looks like the Dairy Queen’s been looking for me for a long time.”
“Since when?” Regina questioned.
“Since before I ended up in this town,” she replied, and handed Regina the paper in her hand, which had part of a newspaper that was showing the gruesome sight she hadn’t seen since 1492. The night she’d found her villagers and parents slaughtered, though the paper only showed her parents.
Belle and Elsa were at the library. Elsa was sitting at a table, Belle standing by it with a book in her hand.
“Are you okay?” Belle asked, since snow was forming around her.
Elsa made the snow disappear and then said, “This is pointless. I don’t know why I thought I’d find anything about Anna in here.”
“You know she’s somewhere. You know she’s alive. You heard her heartbeat with Bo Peep’s staff, right?”
“But if what the Snow Queen told me is true, and Anna is the one who put me in that urn, then maybe she doesn’t want me to find her.”
“That’s not true, Elsa,” Belle assured her.
“You’re just saying that to make me feel better.”
“No, I promise you, I’m not.”
“How would you know what my sister thinks? You’ve never even met her.”
“Well, just from what you’ve been saying, I feel like I know her. You two were very close. Something must have pulled you apart. Something beyond your control.”
“But my memories are gone. And no one in this town has even been to Arendelle. I need to face the truth, Belle. No one here can help me. And I’m afraid that means I might never see Anna again.”
“Look, you will,” Belle assured her, a hand on top of hers. “I know it. Now keep looking. I’ll be back.”
“What? Where are you going?”
“There’s something I need to take care of. We will find Anna.”
Regina was standing by a tree, thinking, when Robin saw her after one of his Merry Men left, and Robin approached her.
“I can’t help but think you’re avoiding me.”
Regina began to walk away from him.
“Well, not very well it seems.”
“You’re upset because of what I said. That I’m still in love with you.”
“I suppose I should never have told you.”
“That’s not why I’m avoiding you,” she assured him.
She turned around to face him and he stood in front of her.
“Then why can’t you look me in the eye?”
“Because I don’t know how to tell you the truth.”
“You know you can tell me anything.”
“Nothing I do seems to be good enough,” Regina informed him.
“But it will be, Regina. I have faith in you. You will figure out a way eventually.”
“That’s what I’m trying to tell you. I’m not sure I can figure it out.”
Rumple was by himself in another part of the woods.
“You can show yourself, dearie. I’m not the one you’re hiding from.”
The Snow Queen stood against a tree, a hand on her hip.
“No, you’re not.”
“To what do I owe this intrusion?”
“A warning. Katherine Pierce is on to you. She knows you’ve been looking for her long before you came to Storybrooke.”
“I’m aware. Do you really think she would have discovered that if I hadn’t wanted her to? It’s all part of my plan,” she replied, as she walked around. “A plan you thankfully know little about.”
“You’re being awfully secretive,” he replied, suspicious of what her plan may be.
“You didn’t come to warn me. You came to find out my secrets.”
“Or offer up a deal. Whatever suits you best. But if you decline, I’d be careful.”
“There it is! There’s the warning. You want something out of me? Why don’t you just ask for it?”
“If I wanted something out of you, dearie, believe me, I’d take it.”
“But you can’t, can you? Otherwise, you would. You and I both know to get what you want, you need one thing that I have and you’re sorely lacking. Leverage. And until you get that, I have a warning for you. Stay out of my way,” the Snow Queen replied, as if she knew him all too well.
Snow went to a closet at the shop and grabbed her coat and put her boots on and grabbed an axe. She looked at it.
“Don’t worry, Anna. I’ll find you,” she said, having met Anna before when she’d once visited Arendelle to get her memories restored of what had happened to her mother, since she didn’t remember how her mother had died during the Ogre war. She was determined to find her, since she wanted to make what she did a long time ago better.
She was ready to leave, when Rumple entered the shop.
“Belle, where are you headed?” he greeted.
“To the North Woods. Where the Snow Queen’s hiding.”
“And what business do you have with her?” he wanted to know.
“I have to fix a mistake that I made a long time ago.”
“What are you talking about?”
“I’m afraid I can’t tell you. You wouldn’t understand.”
“Whether or not that’s true, the fact remains that she defeated both Katherine and Regina. She is far more dangerous than you realize.”
“I know. That’s why I was hoping you’d come with me.”
“I’m sorry, Belle, that’s out of the question,” he said, not wanting harm to come to either her or himself. “I won’t let you anywhere near her,” he added, walking around her.
“I was worried you were going to say that,” she said, and set the axe down. Then she pulled out the dagger. “Because I really, really didn’t want to do this.”
He turned to look at her and saw the dagger in her hand.
“Belle, I gave you that dagger because I trusted you. Because I thought you would never control me.”
“I know. I know, and I’m so, so sorry, Rumple. But if you won’t come with me willingly, what choice do I have?” She stood just inches in front of him and raised the dagger towards him. “Take me to the Snow Queen.”
Hook and Katherine were outside the ice cream truck, Katherine walking around with the papers in her hand, looking to see how well she had searched into her history. When she did, she realized that the Snow Queen knew almost everything about her and that was how long she had looked for her. She still didn’t understand how the Snow Queen would know of her, though. She’d never been to the enchanted forest until the past couple years ago up to this year if she counted all the times she’d accidentally been sucked into a portal that had made her end up there. When she mentioned to Hook about the fact that the Snow Queen knew almost everything about her and mentioned one place that she’d been the longest at, he said, “Aye?”
“That’s the longest I was ever in one spot,” she informed him.
“You all right, Pierce?”
“I’m fine. It was all a long time ago,” she assured him, sitting down on a log, Hook standing by her.
“Perhaps, but wounds that are made when we’re young tend to linger.”
“How would you know?”
“Believe it or not, I was once a child.”
“Yeah, like a million years ago.”
“It’s more like 200.”
Katherine opened up the folder again and saw more of her own history.
Hook saw her look.
“What is it?”
“It’s a drawing I did when I was younger,” she explained.
“Is that so surprising?”
“This is most of my history. You don’t keep stuff like this unless you care about someone.”
“Well, perhaps the Snow Queen wasn’t simply looking for you,” he suggested. “Perhaps she’d grown fond of you over time.”
“There has to be a clue as to why she would go through all this trouble to look for me.”
He noticed a scroll in the pile.
“Perhaps there is. If you read hieroglyphs.”
She took it, looking at it.
“This isn’t from my world,” she stated.
Rumple and Belle were outside the cave where the Snow Queen was living.
“This is it? This is where she’s hiding?” Belle asked him.
“Indeed. But she’s not at home. I don’t sense her magic.”
“Good. Okay, you stay here as lookout. I’m going in.”
“Belle, you’re not going in there alone.”
“Look, I won’t be long. I just need to find something.”
“What could you possibly want from the Snow Queen’s cave?”
“A hat. One that can strip a magical being of their powers.”
Rumple knew the hat she was referring to was the hat he had in his safe at the shop.
“Sounds like a remarkable object. Almost too good to be true. Which means it probably is.”
“It isn’t and I know she has it. And I need to get it from her. It’s the only way to force her to tell us where Anna is.”
“So this is about Elsa’s sister?” he questioned. “Why are you so invested in a girl you’ve never even met?”
“Because a hero always helps strangers.” She held up the dagger. “Now keep watch. I’ll call out to you if I need your help.”
Belle entered the cave and it immediately became freezing once she entered it.
“The hat must be in here somewhere.”
When she heard something with her voice calling to her, she took a sheet off of the mirror and it began to tell her things. After a few minutes or so, Rumple came in to let her know that the Snow Queen was coming and he made her and himself appear in the shop. That’s when she realized something.
“I hurt you. I’m so sorry, Rumple.”
She let the dagger fall to the floor and sank to her knees.
Rumple knelt in front of her, assuring her that it was okay.
“When I found that mirror, something came over me, like a spell. And it spoke to me, and made me…Made me believe all these horrible things. And it said to me that the dagger you gave me is fake.”
“I can assure you that nothing that mirror said is true. It was imbued with the darkest of magic. I know you would never wrong me.”
“I have wronged you,” she replied. “I’ve kept a terrible secret from you. I’m the reason that Anna’s missing. I didn’t want anyone to know until I could make things right and save Anna. But I couldn’t. I failed. And all I managed to do was abuse the dagger and take advantage of you. My true love. I don’t even know if I deserve to be with you anymore.”
“No, no, no. You were only doing what you thought was right.”
“You forgive me?”
“Of course I forgive you.”
They hugged.
“Thank you for telling me everything,” he said, as they hugged.
“Thank you for understanding. I never should’ve kept a secret from you. Especially, ‘cause I know that you’d never keep one from me. I love you, Rumple.”
“And I love you, too.”
Rumple entered the cave, where the Snow Queen was siting in her chair made of ice.
“I’m afraid we have a problem, dearie. I caught a glimpse of your mirror today.”
“It’s rather impressive, isn’t it?” she commented, seeming to not be worried. She stood up. “I had no idea your bride would be so easy to turn.” She approached him.
“Watch yourself,” he warned her. “Now, I don’t know exactly when you intend to use this mirror, but you should know this, I won’t allow you to hurt those I care about.”
He looked into the mirror.
“And I won’t allow you to derail my plans because you’ve suddenly gotten sentimental.”
“You only get one warning.”
“Which is more than you get. I can’t make any promises over who may or may not survive.”
He turned around to face her.
“You know, you were wrong before.”
“That you needed leverage to get what you want?”
“No, that I didn’t have it. I do.” He made the hat appear in its full form, in his hand.
She looked at it for a few moments and was suddenly afraid, but kept it together.
“Where did you get that?”
“Oh, that’s irrelevant,” he told her. “But now that I know what you’re up to, we can have a real talk. You might wanna reconsider your position. Because I doubt you’d enjoy becoming just another embroidery on this hat. Looks like you’ve just lost your leverage, dearie.”
Katherine was at the station with Elsa whom had found something about the Snow Queen, both standing at a desk, Hook by a desk behind them.
“The Snow Queen is your aunt?” Katherine questioned.
“According to this heraldry book I found in the library. Her name is Ingrid. I didn’t even know my mother had any sisters. I’m as surprised as you are.”
Hook grabbed some stuff from the desk behind Elsa and walked over.
“Well, spend a little more time in this town, love, you’ll realize just about everyone’s related.”
“This book traces the lineage in Arendelle for generations.” Elsa pointed to a picture. “That’s Gerda. My mother. And this is Helga, my other aunt.”
Hook looked at the picture.
“Bloody hell, Pierce. Look at her. She looks just like you. Maybe that’s why she’s so obsessed with you.”
Katherine looked at the picture closer and knew he was right.
“Why she kept all those relics from your past.”
Elsa picked up the scroll and looked at it.
“She came to this world looking for brunettes? There’s a lot more than just me.”
“Don’t I know it.”
She looked over at him and he gave her a smile.
“She wasn’t looking for a brunette. She was looking for the Savior.”
“What?” Katherine questioned.
“The scroll, the writing is Runic. It’s a prophecy. It says, “The name of the Savior is Katherine.”
“She knew?” Katherine questioned.
“Before you even did. She knew you were powerful.”
“But why?” Katherine asked, and looked over at Hook.
“It says it right here, “And the Savior shall become Ingrid’s sister.”
“What the hell does that mean?” Katherine asked. She had enough Petrova family. She didn’t want any more.
“Well, my mother died. And her other sister, she’s not around anymore. I think Ingrid believes in this prophecy. I think she’s looking to replace them.”
Belle entered the station.
“Elsa.”
Elsa looked at Belle.
“Yes?”
“I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry. But…”
“What?”
“I’ve been keeping a secret. I know your sister, Anna. She helped me once. But when I had a chance to help her, I let her down. And because I did, she was captured by the Snow Queen.”
“What? Where did this happen? When?” Elsa immediately questioned her.
“Arendelle. Long, long time ago. And I have no idea where she is now. But I’m afraid we have a more pressing concern. The Snow Queen has a mirror, imbued with terrible magic that can do terrible things.”
“A mirror? Easy enough. Let’s just go smash it,” Hook commented.
Belle went over to stand by Hook, looking at him.
“It’s not that simple. Rumple told me it’s part of an awful spell. The spell of Shattered Sight. If she casts it, its magic will make everyone in Storybrooke turn on one another.”
“Bloody hell, the entire town will destroy itself,” Hook realized.
“And there’d be no one left,” Belle added.
“Except us,” Katherine realized, assuming Ingrid’s plan now, looking at Elsa.
“What makes you think that she’d spare you and Elsa?” Belle wanted to know, looking at Katherine and Elsa.
“Because of this,” she said, pointing to the book.
“She wants it to be just the three of us,” Elsa said.
“Her prefect family,” Katherine said, looking at Elsa.
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