Defying Gravity: 10/??
Title: Defying Gravity
Fandom: Once Upon A Time/Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Characters: Rumplestiltskin, Jafar, Zelena, Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Will, Leroy, Regina, Robin, Granny, Belle and Captain Hook in this chapter, more to follow but no spoilers here, dearies.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for all of OUATIW and OUAT up to S4 but goes AU for S5.
Notes: For eternal_moonie - I couldn't have done this one without you. Chapter titles are all Defying Gravity lyrics.
Summary: What happened when Jafar's lamp was brought to Storybrooke in the curse, ended up in Gold's shop and Zelena accidentally let him out? In this chapter, Captain Hook recruits Jafar to help him get revenge on Emma, while the heroes try and work out what their next move might be and how to stop them.
Chapter 1 is here: I'm Through With Playing By The Rules Of Someone Else's Game
Chapter 2 is here: Dreams, The Way We Planned'em, If We Work In Tandem
Chapter 3 is here: I Really Hope You Get It, And You Don't Live To Regret It
Chapter 4 is here: You Can Still Be With The Wizard, What You've Worked And Waited For
Chapter 5 is here: No Wizard That There Is Or Was Is Ever Gonna Bring Me Down
Chapter 6 is here: No One Mourns The Wicked, So We've Got to Bring Her Down
Chapter 7 is here: Too Long I've Been Afraid Of Losing Love I Guess I've Lost
Chapter 8 is here: To Those Who'd Ground Me, Take a Message Back From Me
Chapter 9 is here: Well, If That's Love, It Comes At Much Too High A Cost
Hook surveyed the man stood before him, wondering exactly what deal Rumple could have made with him, if any, and what Hook could do to use this to his advantage.
“It’s true, dearie,” came a voice from behind him; Hook deliberately didn’t turn round, not wanting to see the face of the man who had haunted him for so many years ever since Milah’s death at his hands. “I made a deal with him. He granted a wish for Zelena to erase Regina from existence, and I needed her back. So we agreed.”
The worst part of having become the new Dark One was having that voice, and especially the irritating giggle, in his head all the time. Not to mention having to see that face, the one that had haunted his nightmares for so many years, the one he had determined to eradicate from the world, and now there was no escape. “Shut up!” Hook yelled. Fortunately for him, Zelena had muttered something as she stirred, so Hook was able to convince Jafar that he had been talking to her. He flicked his wrist and Zelena fell back, lying in her prone position on the floor of Gold’s shop. Jafar laughed, said “I’ve been waiting for someone to shut her up for a long time.”
Hook smiled. “So, you made a deal with Rumplestiltskin?”
Jafar began to recount his tale of how Zelena had let him out of the lamp, how she had wished Regina out of existence only to realise she should have been careful what she had wished for. Rumplestiltskin chipped in when he could, much to Hook’s irritation, either adding his own take on the story or once when he felt that something Jafar had said hadn’t portrayed him in a positive enough light.
“And he told me that he never went back on his deals, and then I get here to find he’s not even the Dark One any more and can’t help me. No offence, but who the bloody hell are you?”
“I’m the new Dark One now, well, one of them.”
“In fact, he’s just like me, dearie.” Rumple giggled, even though Jafar couldn’t hear him. Hook clenched his one good fist. He had always hated the thought that he and Rumplestiltskin had anything in common, even having known all along that their feelings for Milah and having both been father figures to Baelfire were always going to give the two men common ground. But the day when Hook had found out what had happened with Rumplestiltskin’s father, and realised that both men had a history of having been abandoned by their fathers and had survived that, he had felt some irritation at knowing that he had even more in common with the man he hated the most.
“So what is it that I can do for you, Jafar?” Hook asked.
“I want to be freed from my lamp, to be able to walk the earth, to do magic again, without being dependent on someone to release me from the lamp and ask me for three wishes.”
Hook smirked in the direction of where Zelena still lay slumped on the floor. “Yes, I can quite see why you no longer wish to be linked to her. Well, we may be able to help each other out with that. I have a plan to eliminate all light magic from the world, to bring back all the Dark Ones. If I succeed, the light magic which trapped you in the lamp will cease to exist and you will be free. But there’s something I need you to help me with first. Are you familiar with the name Emma Swan?”
Jafar nodded. “The saviour. Rumplestiltskin mentioned her name. I had to help him get Regina back into existence so that she could be born.”
Hook snorted. “She’s the reason I became the Dark One. She took everything I was from me, and now I need to take something from her. Will you help me with that?”
Hook could see the frustration flash across Jafar’s face as he saw that yet another Dark One was asking him for a favour. But he also knew that the promise of freedom would win out.
“What do you need me to do?”
“So where is this Jafar now?” Mary Margaret asked. The group were gathered in Granny’s - Mary Margaret, David, Regina, Robin, Leroy, Emma, Granny, Belle, listening to Will tell his tale.
“I don’t know. I left him and Zelena in the shop while I went to get you lot.” Will explained.
“You left a genie who wanted to change the laws of magic alone with my sister, with three wishes, giving her the opportunity to wish for who the hell knows what?” Regina demanded.
“Shouting at him isn’t going to work, Regina,” David pointed out. “Go on, Will.”
“That’s all I know.” Will explained. “But we have to do something to stop him.”
“And if someone like that meets Killian, then who knows what might happen?” Emma asked. “We have to find some way to stop him.”
“Too bad we don’t have a handy Nyx around to put him back in his lamp,” Leroy growled. “Jafar, Zelena and Hook, just the combination we don’t want together.”
“We have an advantage now,” Mary Margaret pointed out. “Will, you’ve gone up against Jafar before, so you know what tactics he might use. That was an advantage you didn’t have back then. Based on what you know of him, what do you think he might do?”
“He’s a bloody genie, Mary Margaret,” Will pointed out. “He has to go along with whatever Zelena wishes for. But at the time, he used to use people’s loved ones against them. Maybe because it was something he never had himself. He used Anastasia against me, and he tried to use Alice’s father to get her to do what he wanted. So he might try that one again.”
He looked at Emma, then at Regina. “Oh, bloody hell.”
“What’s the matter?” Robin asked.
“So, Killian hates you,” Will said to Emma, “and Zelena hates you,” to Regina, “and Jafar’s going to play on that.”
“Regina?” Emma asked. “Where is Henry?”
Fandom: Once Upon A Time/Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Characters: Rumplestiltskin, Jafar, Zelena, Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Will, Leroy, Regina, Robin, Granny, Belle and Captain Hook in this chapter, more to follow but no spoilers here, dearies.
Rating: PG
Warnings: Spoilers for all of OUATIW and OUAT up to S4 but goes AU for S5.
Notes: For eternal_moonie - I couldn't have done this one without you. Chapter titles are all Defying Gravity lyrics.
Summary: What happened when Jafar's lamp was brought to Storybrooke in the curse, ended up in Gold's shop and Zelena accidentally let him out? In this chapter, Captain Hook recruits Jafar to help him get revenge on Emma, while the heroes try and work out what their next move might be and how to stop them.
Chapter 1 is here: I'm Through With Playing By The Rules Of Someone Else's Game
Chapter 2 is here: Dreams, The Way We Planned'em, If We Work In Tandem
Chapter 3 is here: I Really Hope You Get It, And You Don't Live To Regret It
Chapter 4 is here: You Can Still Be With The Wizard, What You've Worked And Waited For
Chapter 5 is here: No Wizard That There Is Or Was Is Ever Gonna Bring Me Down
Chapter 6 is here: No One Mourns The Wicked, So We've Got to Bring Her Down
Chapter 7 is here: Too Long I've Been Afraid Of Losing Love I Guess I've Lost
Chapter 8 is here: To Those Who'd Ground Me, Take a Message Back From Me
Chapter 9 is here: Well, If That's Love, It Comes At Much Too High A Cost
Hook surveyed the man stood before him, wondering exactly what deal Rumple could have made with him, if any, and what Hook could do to use this to his advantage.
“It’s true, dearie,” came a voice from behind him; Hook deliberately didn’t turn round, not wanting to see the face of the man who had haunted him for so many years ever since Milah’s death at his hands. “I made a deal with him. He granted a wish for Zelena to erase Regina from existence, and I needed her back. So we agreed.”
The worst part of having become the new Dark One was having that voice, and especially the irritating giggle, in his head all the time. Not to mention having to see that face, the one that had haunted his nightmares for so many years, the one he had determined to eradicate from the world, and now there was no escape. “Shut up!” Hook yelled. Fortunately for him, Zelena had muttered something as she stirred, so Hook was able to convince Jafar that he had been talking to her. He flicked his wrist and Zelena fell back, lying in her prone position on the floor of Gold’s shop. Jafar laughed, said “I’ve been waiting for someone to shut her up for a long time.”
Hook smiled. “So, you made a deal with Rumplestiltskin?”
Jafar began to recount his tale of how Zelena had let him out of the lamp, how she had wished Regina out of existence only to realise she should have been careful what she had wished for. Rumplestiltskin chipped in when he could, much to Hook’s irritation, either adding his own take on the story or once when he felt that something Jafar had said hadn’t portrayed him in a positive enough light.
“And he told me that he never went back on his deals, and then I get here to find he’s not even the Dark One any more and can’t help me. No offence, but who the bloody hell are you?”
“I’m the new Dark One now, well, one of them.”
“In fact, he’s just like me, dearie.” Rumple giggled, even though Jafar couldn’t hear him. Hook clenched his one good fist. He had always hated the thought that he and Rumplestiltskin had anything in common, even having known all along that their feelings for Milah and having both been father figures to Baelfire were always going to give the two men common ground. But the day when Hook had found out what had happened with Rumplestiltskin’s father, and realised that both men had a history of having been abandoned by their fathers and had survived that, he had felt some irritation at knowing that he had even more in common with the man he hated the most.
“So what is it that I can do for you, Jafar?” Hook asked.
“I want to be freed from my lamp, to be able to walk the earth, to do magic again, without being dependent on someone to release me from the lamp and ask me for three wishes.”
Hook smirked in the direction of where Zelena still lay slumped on the floor. “Yes, I can quite see why you no longer wish to be linked to her. Well, we may be able to help each other out with that. I have a plan to eliminate all light magic from the world, to bring back all the Dark Ones. If I succeed, the light magic which trapped you in the lamp will cease to exist and you will be free. But there’s something I need you to help me with first. Are you familiar with the name Emma Swan?”
Jafar nodded. “The saviour. Rumplestiltskin mentioned her name. I had to help him get Regina back into existence so that she could be born.”
Hook snorted. “She’s the reason I became the Dark One. She took everything I was from me, and now I need to take something from her. Will you help me with that?”
Hook could see the frustration flash across Jafar’s face as he saw that yet another Dark One was asking him for a favour. But he also knew that the promise of freedom would win out.
“What do you need me to do?”
“So where is this Jafar now?” Mary Margaret asked. The group were gathered in Granny’s - Mary Margaret, David, Regina, Robin, Leroy, Emma, Granny, Belle, listening to Will tell his tale.
“I don’t know. I left him and Zelena in the shop while I went to get you lot.” Will explained.
“You left a genie who wanted to change the laws of magic alone with my sister, with three wishes, giving her the opportunity to wish for who the hell knows what?” Regina demanded.
“Shouting at him isn’t going to work, Regina,” David pointed out. “Go on, Will.”
“That’s all I know.” Will explained. “But we have to do something to stop him.”
“And if someone like that meets Killian, then who knows what might happen?” Emma asked. “We have to find some way to stop him.”
“Too bad we don’t have a handy Nyx around to put him back in his lamp,” Leroy growled. “Jafar, Zelena and Hook, just the combination we don’t want together.”
“We have an advantage now,” Mary Margaret pointed out. “Will, you’ve gone up against Jafar before, so you know what tactics he might use. That was an advantage you didn’t have back then. Based on what you know of him, what do you think he might do?”
“He’s a bloody genie, Mary Margaret,” Will pointed out. “He has to go along with whatever Zelena wishes for. But at the time, he used to use people’s loved ones against them. Maybe because it was something he never had himself. He used Anastasia against me, and he tried to use Alice’s father to get her to do what he wanted. So he might try that one again.”
He looked at Emma, then at Regina. “Oh, bloody hell.”
“What’s the matter?” Robin asked.
“So, Killian hates you,” Will said to Emma, “and Zelena hates you,” to Regina, “and Jafar’s going to play on that.”
“Regina?” Emma asked. “Where is Henry?”