Defying Gravity: 12/12
Title: Defying Gravity
Fandom: Once Upon A Time/Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Characters: Zelena, Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Jafar, Hook, Henry, Rumple, Belle, Regina, Robin in this chapter
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, the heroes finally rescue Henry, and it doesn't end well for Jafar.
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
Chapter 10 is here: Something Has Changed Within Me, Something Is Not The Same
Chapter 11 is here: But I Don't Want It, No, I Can't Want It Anymore
“You’re not seriously considering it?” Robin asked. “You can’t trust her. None of us can.”
“It’s for Henry.” Regina replied. “I have to take that chance. If it was Roland, and Zelena was the only chance of saving him, wouldn’t you take that chance? David, Mary Margaret, you would do the same for Neal, right?”
“Regina’s right.” Emma nodded. “Come on, Zelena. It’s the only way.”
“No funny business.” Regina glared at Zelena. “I’ll take this.” With a flick of her wrist, the severed hand was now in Regina’s possession.
“Oh, please, you think I’m going to try anything? I want rid of your brat just as much as you want him back.” Zelena glared at Regina as they made their way towards the house where Emma had once lived. “And screwing over Rumple, Hook and Jafar is more important to me than screwing you.”
“Rumple?” Belle repeated. “Excuse me, but what does he have to do with anything?”
“We don’t have time for that,” Emma interrupted. “We’re here.”
“I still don’t understand what you want with him,” Jafar said, pointing at Henry. “Why do we need him for our plan to work? I can understand why you want him,” he continued, this time gesturing towards Rumplestiltskin, who lay sleeping on the floor. Henry wasn’t sure whether he had woken up once since they’d been there. “Since you finally got the chance to get your revenge. But what use is the kid to anyone?”
“It’s part of me getting a little revenge of my own, on Miss Swan.” Hook smirked.
Henry felt like telling him he needn’t have bothered. Since Mom Emma had become the Dark One, he had questioned whether she cared about him at all. That whole thing with Violet’s heart...that wasn’t something a mother would do. She was becoming like Grandpa, only caring about the darkness and the power, and Killian was now as bad. So he wasn’t pinning any hopes on her coming to rescue him.
“And after Zelena’s attempt at wishing Regina out of existence didn’t go her way, she needed some other means of getting revenge on her.” Hook went on.
Mom Regina. That was who he was pinning his hopes upon now. Henry knew of Hook’s protection spell, but he also believed that if anyone could get past it, it would be her. He had to believe that she would do whatever it took to rescue him.
“You want to do it, or shall I?” Regina asked.
Emma reached out and took hold of Hook’s severed hand. “Together.”
Each of them with a hold on the hand, they opened the door of Emma’s old house.
“So where is Zelena, anyway?” Jafar asked, suddenly noticing she was missing.
“She’s right here!” Zelena exclaimed, storming into the room with Regina and the others.
“Rumple!” Belle exclaimed, running to the side of her comatose husband, while Emma and Regina rushed to Henry, trying to unfasten his restraints.
“What the hell have you done?” Hook roared. “Are you trying to screw us over?”
Zelena slowly clapped her hands. “And he’s finally got it. Just like you all tried to screw me over so many times. You, you’re supposed to grant wishes, not interfere and mess everything up. Well, I’ve still got my one last wish, and I intend to use it to bring you down!” She reached into her pocket and waved the green stone representing her last wish tantalisingly in Hook’s and Jafar’s faces.
“No!” Hook yelled, lunging for Zelena as Jafar, fearing what she might do with it, tried to muscle his way in between them. In the confusion, the stone clattered to the floor. None of the three of them noticed in time to stop Henry, now free from the ropes that had been binding him, from picking it up, but Regina saw him, nodded once and she knew that Henry had understood what he meant.
“I wish...” Henry began, as Zelena, Jafar and Hook turned around with identical frozen looks of horror on their faces, “that my mom and Killian were no longer the Dark Ones!”
As Regina, Henry, Robin, Mary Margaret and David watched, the dark cloud that had made its way towards Regina back when Emma had accepted the darkness instead began making its way towards her again.
“She took it for me once,” Regina began, “now I have to take it for her.”
“Regina, don’t do this,” Robin began, but before he could get any further, Rumplestiltskin staggered to his feet, stepped in front of her. As everyone watched, Rumple was enveloped by the darkness.
“What have you done?” Belle screamed, staring in horror at her husband who was now the Dark One again, her expression matched only by Zelena’s who was coming to realise that in spite of all her efforts, by becoming the Dark One once again, Rumple had managed to get exactly what he wanted.
“I’m sorry, Belle,” Rumple began, “But I missed my power. I’m not me without it.”
As Belle turned away and walked out in disgust, Rumple chasing her, Zelena reflected that Rumple hadn’t quite got his happy ending after all. She’d take that for now, and find another way to fix him later.
As Henry embraced Emma, he asked “Where did Jafar go?”
“You used the last wish,” Regina explained, pointing to where the dirty old lamp lay discarded on the floor. “Which means he’s trapped in there now until someone else rubs the lamp.”
“Then we’ll have to do something to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Hook suggested. “Maybe I’ll take a leaf out of your book, Zelena. I rather liked your suggestion of taking it out and dropping it in the bloody ocean. But maybe we’d better find somewhere safe for it instead. Not Rumple’s shop again.”
“What about Zelena?” Robin asked, watching the look on her face as Zelena realised that nothing was quite turning out as she had planned. “What are we going to do with her?”
“We can’t quite trust her yet,” Regina replied, waving her hand and the bracelet was once more on Zelena’s wrist. “She came through for us today, but it was about stopping Jafar, not helping us. Take her back to her cell for now, but we can reconsider it later.”
As Hook and David led Zelena away, she reflected on how she could have done things differently. Regina may have won this time, but Zelena wasn’t out of the game quite yet. Maybe one day she’d find another way to change the past....
Fandom: Once Upon A Time/Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Characters: Zelena, Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Jafar, Hook, Henry, Rumple, Belle, Regina, Robin in this chapter
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, the heroes finally rescue Henry, and it doesn't end well for Jafar.
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
Chapter 10 is here: Something Has Changed Within Me, Something Is Not The Same
Chapter 11 is here: But I Don't Want It, No, I Can't Want It Anymore
“You’re not seriously considering it?” Robin asked. “You can’t trust her. None of us can.”
“It’s for Henry.” Regina replied. “I have to take that chance. If it was Roland, and Zelena was the only chance of saving him, wouldn’t you take that chance? David, Mary Margaret, you would do the same for Neal, right?”
“Regina’s right.” Emma nodded. “Come on, Zelena. It’s the only way.”
“No funny business.” Regina glared at Zelena. “I’ll take this.” With a flick of her wrist, the severed hand was now in Regina’s possession.
“Oh, please, you think I’m going to try anything? I want rid of your brat just as much as you want him back.” Zelena glared at Regina as they made their way towards the house where Emma had once lived. “And screwing over Rumple, Hook and Jafar is more important to me than screwing you.”
“Rumple?” Belle repeated. “Excuse me, but what does he have to do with anything?”
“We don’t have time for that,” Emma interrupted. “We’re here.”
“I still don’t understand what you want with him,” Jafar said, pointing at Henry. “Why do we need him for our plan to work? I can understand why you want him,” he continued, this time gesturing towards Rumplestiltskin, who lay sleeping on the floor. Henry wasn’t sure whether he had woken up once since they’d been there. “Since you finally got the chance to get your revenge. But what use is the kid to anyone?”
“It’s part of me getting a little revenge of my own, on Miss Swan.” Hook smirked.
Henry felt like telling him he needn’t have bothered. Since Mom Emma had become the Dark One, he had questioned whether she cared about him at all. That whole thing with Violet’s heart...that wasn’t something a mother would do. She was becoming like Grandpa, only caring about the darkness and the power, and Killian was now as bad. So he wasn’t pinning any hopes on her coming to rescue him.
“And after Zelena’s attempt at wishing Regina out of existence didn’t go her way, she needed some other means of getting revenge on her.” Hook went on.
Mom Regina. That was who he was pinning his hopes upon now. Henry knew of Hook’s protection spell, but he also believed that if anyone could get past it, it would be her. He had to believe that she would do whatever it took to rescue him.
“You want to do it, or shall I?” Regina asked.
Emma reached out and took hold of Hook’s severed hand. “Together.”
Each of them with a hold on the hand, they opened the door of Emma’s old house.
“So where is Zelena, anyway?” Jafar asked, suddenly noticing she was missing.
“She’s right here!” Zelena exclaimed, storming into the room with Regina and the others.
“Rumple!” Belle exclaimed, running to the side of her comatose husband, while Emma and Regina rushed to Henry, trying to unfasten his restraints.
“What the hell have you done?” Hook roared. “Are you trying to screw us over?”
Zelena slowly clapped her hands. “And he’s finally got it. Just like you all tried to screw me over so many times. You, you’re supposed to grant wishes, not interfere and mess everything up. Well, I’ve still got my one last wish, and I intend to use it to bring you down!” She reached into her pocket and waved the green stone representing her last wish tantalisingly in Hook’s and Jafar’s faces.
“No!” Hook yelled, lunging for Zelena as Jafar, fearing what she might do with it, tried to muscle his way in between them. In the confusion, the stone clattered to the floor. None of the three of them noticed in time to stop Henry, now free from the ropes that had been binding him, from picking it up, but Regina saw him, nodded once and she knew that Henry had understood what he meant.
“I wish...” Henry began, as Zelena, Jafar and Hook turned around with identical frozen looks of horror on their faces, “that my mom and Killian were no longer the Dark Ones!”
As Regina, Henry, Robin, Mary Margaret and David watched, the dark cloud that had made its way towards Regina back when Emma had accepted the darkness instead began making its way towards her again.
“She took it for me once,” Regina began, “now I have to take it for her.”
“Regina, don’t do this,” Robin began, but before he could get any further, Rumplestiltskin staggered to his feet, stepped in front of her. As everyone watched, Rumple was enveloped by the darkness.
“What have you done?” Belle screamed, staring in horror at her husband who was now the Dark One again, her expression matched only by Zelena’s who was coming to realise that in spite of all her efforts, by becoming the Dark One once again, Rumple had managed to get exactly what he wanted.
“I’m sorry, Belle,” Rumple began, “But I missed my power. I’m not me without it.”
As Belle turned away and walked out in disgust, Rumple chasing her, Zelena reflected that Rumple hadn’t quite got his happy ending after all. She’d take that for now, and find another way to fix him later.
As Henry embraced Emma, he asked “Where did Jafar go?”
“You used the last wish,” Regina explained, pointing to where the dirty old lamp lay discarded on the floor. “Which means he’s trapped in there now until someone else rubs the lamp.”
“Then we’ll have to do something to make sure that doesn’t happen,” Hook suggested. “Maybe I’ll take a leaf out of your book, Zelena. I rather liked your suggestion of taking it out and dropping it in the bloody ocean. But maybe we’d better find somewhere safe for it instead. Not Rumple’s shop again.”
“What about Zelena?” Robin asked, watching the look on her face as Zelena realised that nothing was quite turning out as she had planned. “What are we going to do with her?”
“We can’t quite trust her yet,” Regina replied, waving her hand and the bracelet was once more on Zelena’s wrist. “She came through for us today, but it was about stopping Jafar, not helping us. Take her back to her cell for now, but we can reconsider it later.”
As Hook and David led Zelena away, she reflected on how she could have done things differently. Regina may have won this time, but Zelena wasn’t out of the game quite yet. Maybe one day she’d find another way to change the past....