The Magic Within ↠ Once Upon A Time

[Chapter 71] Revelation

Everyone who was with me, besides my family, when we found Sabor and Clayton's cabin visits me often. They try to keep me occupied with solving our case.

It's not easy trying to depict the specific curse Sabor wants to use. We've tried to solve the puzzle by using the spell books and other knick-knacks I snagged, but even trying to translate the text is next to impossible. We could only get so far. The spell books are definitely a mystery worth solving. Not only are the words from another ancient language entirely, but no one knows where the books could've come from.

The only way anyone can get anywhere with these books is by calling upon the biggest bookworm in Storybrooke.

Belle.

Which explains why she, Emma, Zelena, Snow, my mom, and I were scavenging through what looks like a junkyard threw up in the living room. There were too many notes, too many old maps, and too many opened books for us to keep track. But we stopped trying to clean up the mess since last weekend.

It's hard looking for answers when you don't know where to look.

Good thing Belle is so resourceful. When one book or map leads nowhere, she manages to find another that could help. Some have leads but they eventually go nowhere. There's some that have potential, but with not enough information, the only thing any of us can do it is set them aside until we can find a connection.

It can be frustrating, but that's not what has me on edge-because I know the answer will come eventually.

What does bother me is the fact that Belle's here. I can't help but not be comfortable in the same room as her.

Listen. It's not that she's the reason why-I know that she would want Sabor defeated as much as I do, given the fact she has Gideon to worry about-but she's Gold's wife. They're bounded by marriage. And even though Gold hasn't made another appearance since our last unsettling talk, who knows when he'll pop up with her. He could come to taunt me again. He could come to threaten me again. He could come to scare me into my room again (that happened once when he was only dropping off Belle, and he was in his car the whole time).

Either way, I can't deal with another enemy right now. I've got Sabor and Clayton to worry about. I have the curse to stop. To add to my growing list, I have my past to figure out.

Who would've guessed that my own past would now go against me?

But it's partially my fault. There are things I've missed that've led me here. I killed Sabor's son without realizing I did. Who knows what secrets Gold, and my own mom, are purposely keeping from me. What horrible thing happened that Gold is more than happy to taunt me with? There could be things that I don't remember doing. There are holes left in my past, so what else has gone wrong?

Could all of this, every issue that keeps popping up, be my fault?

Is this what I was destined to become- to be the harbor of every problem, to be a failure, to live in sorrow?

Am I destined to become what the Prophecy showed me?

"Melody-" Mom taps me on the shoulder.

I jerk my eyes away from the map I wasn't even looking at. I turn around, looking up at her as she was sitting on the sofa while I was on the ground.

"Is everything alright?" she asks. Then she looks down

Before I could reply, I could feel my own body quaking, and if that wasn't enough, the papers shuffling under my hands pointed at my condition. Without thinking, I let go of the papers in one hand and use it to grab the other, attempting to stop it from shaking.