DESTINY

Chapter 13 - Wicked is back

        The days have passed without anything new to ponder. The winter came earlier than usual and the snow falls harder and harder each day. Everywhere you look, everything is covered in white and it’s extremely cold that it started bothering everyone in town. Searching for Elsa has been the priority of the authority since she was last seen on Granny’s diner, to no extent, no one has seen her. David is still leading the pursuit of finding the Snow Queen and her sister while ensuring the safety of the people. He’s accompanied by Hook and Robin mostly, and he’s also busy keeping an eye on Zelena. But the night when the green smoke dispersed on the sheriff’s office where the Wicked Witch was held captive, David sought Emma’s help. The past nights, Emma was watching over Zelena with Hook. It has been days since then and it is quite just right to assume that Zelena has regained her power, maybe not all of it, but she has magic back.

“My days here have been uninteresting, don’t you think?” Zelena asked as she ran her fingers through the bars that kept her locked up. “But I quite enjoy the attention that all of you have been giving me,” she smirked looking at Emma, David, Hook and Robin, one after the other.

“What are you really up to?” Emma questioned.

“It’s charming the way you speak, like you have the supremacy over me,” she teased. “You may have been the savior, but you’re no match to me,” the Wicked Witch boasted.

“Coming from you who can’t even come out of that cell?” Hook responded with disgust.

Zelena just looked at him, her eyes coldly blue, she snapped her right hand and looked away from Hook while the green smolder appeared on her hand and a hook dangling on her finger. She smiled in satisfaction. Emma glanced at Hook’s handless arm, his hook isn’t there. “But how…” Emma began but she wasn’t able to finish her question, she was shocked.

“You don’t have the necklace that holds your power. How is that possible?” David asked as he drew his sword.

“Magic is strange,” Zelena answered enthusiastically. “But details, details… I demand to see my sister! Perhaps, the thief could help me,” she said looking at Robin Hood.

“I…” his voice wavered.

“She once entrusted you her heart, I doubt asking her to come here would be a problem.”

“She’s busy finding trails of Elsa and ways on stopping this horrible winter,” Emma answered for Robin.

“How about you ask her to see me and I’ll tell her what I know about this Snow Queen and Anna, her sister?” Zelena bargained.

“How about you tell me what you know and we’ll think if we could let you slip away?” Emma negotiated.

Zelena laughed, “I am giving you options. You don’t get to tell me what I should do.” She looked at the savior expectantly but Emma didn’t respond. “So, how about I should just go myself and meet her?” She grinned. She waved her hands across her face, a thick puff of green smoke appeared and poof! She was gone, leaving an empty cell and eyes anxious and stunned.

“Regina,” Robin murmured to himself. He grabbed his bow and his quiver and bolted to the door but Emma caught him and seized him by his arm, she shook her head, signaling him to stop.

                o-o

                Her majesty was seating on the mayor’s throne, with papers in front of her and Henry just a few steps from her, playing with his Gameboy. “Why do I need to do all this stuff,” Regina complained mostly to herself.

“Because you’re the mayor?” Henry responded without taking his eyes off his game.

“I suppose so,” Regina replied as she looked at Henry for a moment. She examined her child, careful not to creep him out, “You’ve grown a lot,” Regina mentioned louder than she intended.

Henry lifted his head and met his mom’s gaze, he stood up proudly and spread his arms, “Of course I did,” he answered boldly and laughed.

Regina then just chuckled and walked towards him. She leveled at where Henry was standing and measured his shoulder against hers, “Glad that I’m still taller than you,” she smiled and kissed his forehead.

“Oh mom,” Henry blushed. “I’m a grown up man…”

“But you’re still my little prince,” Regina cut him off and hugged him tightly.

“Oh, such a sweet scene,” a voice resounded in the office accompanied by slow claps.

The Queen posed upright protecting her prince behind her as an instinct, Zelena, she thought. “Show yourself!” She commanded. Henry just held his mom’s hand, keeping his eyes opened as they wandered throughout the room.

She exposed herself out of the green smoke with her hands raised in submission, “The green smoke is starting to sell me, don’t you think, sis?” She voluntarily and comfortably sat on a couch opposite her sister and step-nephew. “Don’t be scared, I’m not going to hurt you,” she looked at Henry, and added, “Not again Henry, not again.”

“What made you think that I’ll let you come near my son?!” Regina yelled.

“Your son?” She chuckled.

Regina glared at her, disliking the tone of her question. “You’re not welcome here. You better return to your cage or I’ll drag you to it!” She threatened.

“Oh why? I just want to see my little sister. I waited for you to visit me at the sheriff’s office, but you didn’t come and that’s a bit rude. Don’t you think that it’s nice to have family in town?” Zelena asked, tilting her head to the left.

“We may have the same mother, but we’re not sisters.”

“I’m sure our blood disagrees to that.”

“Blood doesn’t decide who’s family and who’s not,” Regina clarified, holding on Henry a bit tighter.

Zelena just pursed her lips and raised her eyebrows at the same time. “Well I say you’re my sister. The last time I saw you…” her words faded, hesitant to say the next lines. But she continued anyway, “You offered me a second chance. That’s all I ask now.”

“Regina!” Robin appeared and his voice filled the room, echoing on Regina’s ears and on her head. He arrived in an instant with Emma using her magic. He pulled his bow, an arrow loaded on it, and directed it towards the Wicked Witch.