Page 39: The Trigger?!?

                                    

                                          

A few minutes later, David moved to sit on the stairs with Emma, who kept staring off into space, trying to keep it together, while Dream sat by her mother, trying not to cry, but a few tears ran down her cheek, while she held her mother's hand.
"Emma... I'm so sorry." David said while he rubbed her back.
"How am I gonna tell Henry?" Emma asked, making David sigh when he turned to look at Dream, who was wiping her eyes, before moving back to kiss Emma's head.
"Let me." Dream said, making Mary Margaret look at her while she was wiping Regina's head. 
Mary Margaret nodded when Dream moved to sit where Mary Margaret sat, wiping her mother's head.
Suddenly, Regina started to wake up, seeing the Charmings standing behind her daughter. "You... You saved me?" Regina asked, still weak, when Dream moved, smiling that her mom was okay. 
"Yes." Mary Margaret said when David moved his hand to Dream's shoulder. 
"You really think we'd let you die? Despite our differences, we're family." David said when Regina sighed, moving to hold her daughter's hand.
"Where are they? Where are Greg and Tamara?" Regina asked, rubbing her thumb over the back of Dream's hand.
"They got away." David sighed when Regina took out a deep breath. 
"So, they still have it." Regina sighed when Dream and the Charmings looked at her in concern. 
"Still have what, Mom?" Dream asked when Regina sighed before going to explain what Tamara and Greg took from her.

Meanwhile.
In the woods.
Tamara, who was sweaty and tired from running, walked over to where Greg found his father's skeleton buried in the ground. "I'm sorry about your father." Tamara sighed when Greg turned to her with the shovel in his hand. 
"Me, too..." Greg sighed when Tamara handed him the diamond-like trigger. "Do the folks back at the home office know anything about it?" Greg asked her when he looked down at the trigger.
"Yeah... They did. And you're never gonna believe what it does." Tamara said to him.

Back at the loft.
"A trigger?" David asked Regina while Regina rubbed her head.
"That will destroy Storybrooke... I had a fail-safe built into the curse." Regina explained as Dream sighed, moving the hair from her mom's face. 
"And why exactly were you carrying it around?" Mary Margaret asked when David moved his hands to his hips. 
"She was gonna destroy us, Mary Margaret..." David said, causing Dream to look at him.
"You don't know that." Dream fought, looking at the Charmings.
"I was going to use the beans to take Dream and Henry back to the Enchanted Forest." Regina tried to explain when Dream looked back at her mother. 
"And in the process, kill all of us." Mary Margaret scoffed when Dream sighed, looking at her mom. 
"You want to discuss justification? You were going to abandon me. Take my children from me. Or shall we discuss a more pressing issue? Which is that I no longer control the trigger." Regina said when they all looked worried.

Back in the woods.
"What are we supposed to do with it?" Greg asked, holding the trigger.
"They want us to move to the next phase." Tamara sighed, sounding a little scared. 
"Already?"
"Yeah... there's only one way to get what we all want," Tamara said when she grabbed the trigger from his hands. "We have to blow Storybrooke off the map." She said, looking up at Greg, speaking in a harsh tone.







~season 2, episode 21: "Second Star to the Right"~
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