Reply To: Emma + Baelfire = Swanfire

[kfchimera]

So I had this dark speculation that I am putting here because I know it would upset certain people on this board too much in the normal places for slightly cracky theory tossing.

  What if the reason Hook is at Emma’s door is he kills Neal and casts the dark curse, after being manipulated by WWW?  I see it unfolding this way, Neal and Hook know they both love Emma and work together to find her.  Neal shows Hook the crystal ball and as they’re gazing at Emma in NY, the ball clouds up and a green face appears. Neal backs away because he’s seen the Wizard of Oz moive.  He doesn’t trust her, but Hook says the legends he knows are not the same and they should listen. She says she originally wrote the “blessing” to cross worlds but the Dark One  stole it and the Evil Queen twisted it to her purposes.  She needs their help to cast it again, so she can find a terrible Wizard who has escaped to the Land Without Magic and bring him to justice.  Hook says they should listen and take her aid, and they enlist the Charmings too.  So they get Rapunzel’s hair from a tower where Regina imprisoned her pre-curse.  Regina is reluctant to help because she doesn’t trust Wicked, knowing the curse was not a blessing.  RH believes her but not a lot of other people do because they’re so eager to help save Emma and Henry.  She keeps trying to stop them helping Wicked and everyone assumes she’s up to no good. (Sympathy for Regina from RH.) After they get all the ingredients, Wicked reveals there IS one more ingredient–the heart of the one you love most.  Neal and Hook are stunned, but Wicked explains its only the heart of the one you love most in the land you’re in and she can see there’s a bond and a rivalry between these two–who love Emma more? Even though he wants to get to his boy and the woman he loves, Neal refuses to kill Hook–but  Hook kills Neal because “a man unwilling to fight for what he wants….” and all that piratey way of thinking, but he tells Neal he’ll take good care of Emma and “the boy” as he falls–Regina cast a preservation spell, because she anticipated something like this happening, and she’s not going to let Henry’s father die! When they get to the cursed land, Hook still has his memories, and so does Wicked, because like Rumple, she built in triggers so she’d remember.  Except she needs Emma to break the curse so she can go find the Wizard, and Hook goes to get her figuring he’ll win her love before she finds out about Neal.   So all this plays out in flashbacks, and Neal’s fate isn’t revealed until mid-way through, when Emma finds his body.   Regina explains that Neal’s only mostly dead because she cast a preservation spell, and there might be a magical loophole using Frankenstein’s research if he can get another heart, and they use an artificial (tin) heart because Frank’s updated his knowledge of science, and Emma revives Neal with TLK  and he doesn’t turn into a monster.  Frankenstein has his happy ending of his research working–but he knows it would not be easy to duplicate.    Ok…that was my weird speculation/fic that popped into my head this morning.   I expect something much less convoluted to actually happen but I had to share the idea somewhere.