Such A Sad Love, Deep in Your Eyes Ch 13

Chapter 13: Something Frightening

“And you yelled at me for hiding my pain!” Kyle snapped at his elder sister.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah.” Kat rolled her eyes. She was sitting on her bed, clothed in only what she needed to be modest. All over her body were bandages.

“Kat!” Kyle reprimanded, “If you were injured any worse you would have been hospitalized.”

Kat stayed silent for a moment before chuckling, “When you act like that I wonder who is the elder sibling.”

Kyle quickly laughed at that, “Well, you tend act reckless a lot.”

Kat rolled her eyes in good humor. She did act reckless a lot, mainly when it came to protecting her brother, she knew that. But she didn’t think what just happened was reckless. She didn’t know what was going to happen.

“I’m gonna go put my night clothes on.” She muttered before moving to stand up. As she attempted to stand up, she flinched, her wounds stinging  with every movement.

“You okay?” Kyle had noticed her flinch.

“Yeah.” She lied, only to flinch again.

“Liar.” Kyle responded, “Are you even able to walk?”

“Yeah, just very slowly and very carefully.” Kat said. If anything, she was stubborn.

~~~

The next morning, the siblings met up with Red at the diner, which was closed, and offered to help in what ever way they could.

“You okay?” Red asked when she got a good look at her friend, “You don’t look so good.”

“Couldn’t get much sleep last night,” Kat responded as she rubbed her eye. Really she couldn’t every time she tried to lay down, her wounds burned. Didn’t matter what side was against the mattress as she had scrapes, cuts, and bruises all over.

“She was outside last night during that weird storm,” Kyle explained, ignoring his sister’s glare, “Got a bit ruffed up.”

“Oh!” Red gasped, “Are you sure you’re okay then?”

“Yes!” Kat snapped, she hated being fussed over like that, “The cuts aren’t stinging that much anymore. Can we just go help everyone else now.”

Red was bit taken back by the woman’s response while Kyle rolled his eyes.

“You heard my sis, what can we do?” Kyle asked, not really fazed by his sister. Stress and injuries made her old anger issues pop back up.

~~~

“If you are looking for a family member, come to the front table. If you need counseling, Dr. Hopper has a signup sheet. IF the wraith damaged your house, there are cots at the school.” Ruby called out. 

Everyone was scattered outside of town hall. Some were putting up posters, while other were getting checked for injuries. Kat was over by the front table; writing down list of family members while Kyle was running things over to the school for those who would be staying there.

“Okay, you’re looking for your son. Alright, what’s his name?” Kat asked looking at the old man, Geppetto. She had feeling she knew who it was, August, but she didn’t say any thing as she was not one hundred percent.

“Pinnochio.” He responded, looking glum. 

“Don’t worry, sir, we’ll contact you immediately if we get any information.” Kat tried to reassure the man before jotting down the name.

A few more people later, Kat was surprised to see a familiar face.

“Hey, Paige,” Kat greeted.

“Actually its Grace,” She responded, “How are you doing?”

“Alright, Grace, and you?” Kat said before noticing a flyer in the girl’s hands, “What’s that?”

Grace held up the flyer to show her hand drawn image of a man, “My papa, I got separated from him before the Curse thanks the Queen, I’m trying to find him.”

“Oh,” Kat said softly as she noticed the sad expression on the girl as she spoke, “I take it he’s your only family.”

“How did you know?”

“I was studying to be a behavior analyst in college.” Kat explained before noticing the blank look on the girl’s face, “Er, I was learning to read people based on their actions. As you spoke your face showed that such sadness that implied that you don’t have many people you are close to.”

“Oh!” Grace gasped, “Yeah, Papa is the only family I have. He said mama went away when I was really little.”

“I’m sorry to hear that.” Kat said before picking up her pen, “Do you happen to know your papa’s name so I can write it down.”

“Jefferson.” Grace responded.

“Okay, Grace, if me or anyone else hears anything, anything at all, about your papa, we’ll tell you immediately.” Kat smiled reassuringly at the girl.

“Oh, thank you!” Grace cheered, jumping up and down.

“You’re welcome,” Kat said, amused by her antics, “Now go post that flyer on the board so people will see it.”

“Okay!” Grace said before running off.

~~~

Cait looked at the manor that Regina lived in with such hatred that it was a wonder the house was not on fire. She was livid. Regina had taken her away from her home. And now, now, thanks to the Curse, Cait was stuck in her human form. She wouldn’t be able to go back home. Going from place to place was something she could do easily, but going from world to world was something she needed to be in her true form for.

“You’ll pay for this, Reggie.” Cait muttered darkly, “No one fucks with a member of the Cheshire clan.”

The green-eyed girl suddenly disappeared, and re-appeared in the home she was previously glaring at.

“Hello, mate.” Cait greeted the person she was standing behind.

Regina whipped around to see Cait standing there, a pocketknife twirling in her hands.

“Cheshire.” Regina greeted, “How… unexpected.”

“Yeah, well you should have expected it the moment you trapped me here,” Cait glared.

“You kidnapped my father,” Regina responded, “You took him to the Queen of Hearts. You should be lucky I was so merciless.”

“Merciless,” Cait scoffed, “You know the Cheshire clan is trade-for-hire. Yet you were too weak to go after the true reason your father was taken. Instead you go and shoot the messenger.”

Regina looked at the girl in worry, even if she had her powers she would be wary of the Cheshire. That clan was insane and deadly. If she had thought that Cait would remember, she would have had her locked up in the asylum, not that it would have done much.

“What are you here for, revenge?” Regina asked.

“Originally, yes,” Cait responded as she stepped closer to the former queen. Once she was at arms length, Cait moved her hand closer to the woman’s face and traced her jaw line with the pocketknife. “But now I’ve decided I’ll just make your like a living hell.” Cait dropped her hand, letting a small knick appear by the queen’s chin.

As Cait started to disappear, she gave Regina one last warning.

“Better sleep with one eye open, mate.”

~~~

A while later, Kat noticed Charming arriving in the crowd. She had learned from Henry earlier about what happened to Emma and Snow. She watched as Charming walked over to his grandson.

“Henry. Have you seen Blue?” Charming said before correcting himself, “Mother Superior.”

“No,” The boy shook his head, “But everyone is looking for you.”

Red walked over to the two, followed shortly by others.

“Do we know where Rump… Mr. Gold is?” Red asked.

“Wait. Does the Queen still have power?” Archie asked, worried.

“I thought I would find my boy.” Geppetto moaned, “Are the lists complete. He’s gotta be planning something!”

“Hey, let me ask you something,” Dr. Whale started, “Are the nuns still nuns, or can they, you know, date?”

Kat rolled her eyes, hearing the perverted doctor’s question.

“Uh, I don’t know.” Charming responded uneasily before calling out, “Blue!”

“Don’t say its me asking.” Dr. Whale said as the fairy walked over.

Once the fairy made her way over to the group, the prince turned to her, “Could there be a tree on this side? The way we sent Emma through as a baby… maybe I could go after ‘em that way.”

“It’s possible,” Blue simply stated, “but without fairy dust to guide us here, uh, no, it’s hopeless.”

Kat frowned at that statement. She wasn’t an expert on going to and from different worlds, but she knew that she never needed to use fairy dust when she went to visit the goblins or came back. Perhaps it was just because of the world they were trying to get to. Jareth had once told her that different worlds have different rules.

“You’ll find another way. In the book, things always look worse before there’s good news.” Henry reassured his grandfather.

As if fate just loved to jinx Henry, Leroy, or rather Grumpy, came running over with his brothers.

“Terrible news!” Grumpy shouted as he ran over towards the prince, “Terrible news! We were out at town limits.” He explained before turning to one of his brothers, “Tell ‘em who you think you are, Sneezy!”

“Will you stop calling me that?” Sneezy shouted as he shrugged out of his brothers’ grips, “You know who I am. I’m Tom Clark. I own the Dark Star Pharmacy. What’s going on here?”

Kat frowned, realizing exactly what was going on.

“If you cross the border, you lose your memory all over again.” Grumpy explained.

“And coming back doesn’t fix it?” Archie asked innocently.

“If it did, would I have come running in yelling ‘terrible news’?” Came Grumpy’s sarcastic response before repeating himself, “If we leave, our cursed selves become our only selves.”

At that, everyone just started to talk at once while Charming started to move out of the crowd.

“Do we know that anything’s gotten out that way?” Red asked.

“I wonder if Mom knows.” Henry pondered.

“Help! We need help.”

“I can help!” Henry called out to his grandfather, wanting to be useful.

“Don’t leave us here!”

“We need something now!”

“What do we do?” Leroy questioned.

“People! Everybody!” Charming shouted, causing everyone to calm down and shut up, “Everybody, meet back here in two hours. I’ll tell you my plan to fix everything.”

He walked off, with Red soon following him.

“What’s the plan?” She asked, curious.

“I don’t know, but I got two hours to figure it out.” Charming replied before walking off.

~~~

Kyle was setting up one of the cots when he heard a familiar voice call his name.

“Kyle,” Turning around, the teen saw that it was Faline, Cait, standing there.

“Oh, hey,” Kyle greeted. He had no clue what to think of Cait now, he had no clue what Cait was like.

“Is there any spare cots here, I need a place to crash.” Cait explained.

“Ummm, yeah, I think so,” Kyle stated as he glanced at the different cots around the area.

“Thanks,” Cait smiled a toothy grin.

“Hey,” Kyle decided he might as well ask, “Who exactly are you? Fairy tale wise.”

“I believe you would consider me the Cheshire Cat,” Cait said, “Though in truth I am just one member of the vast Cheshire clan.”

“Woah,” Kyle blinked, “Freaking weird.”

“How so?”

“Well, its just that my sister is obsessed with Alice in Wonderland and I’m the one whose friends with a real life version of one of its most famous characters.”

“…” Cait was silent for a moment, “You still consider me your friend?”

“Yeah,” Kyle nodded, “I mean, I don’t really know the real you that well but I still consider you my friend.”

“…” Cait was silent for a moment, “My clan taught me to only trust fellow clan members. No friends, only family.”

Kyle looked over at her before smiling, “Then I guess I’m your first friend!”

“Yeah.” Cait blinked at the boy’s cheerful demeanor. She never really met anyone who wasn’t terrified of her clan, not that she was upset by that, or surprised.

This boy was truly confusing to her.

~~~

Jefferson groaned as he woke up. He was in his car, which was upside down. He had been trying to drive over to see Grace at the house she lived in. He was so happy to finally be able to reunite with her. He was happy, that is, until the wraith came by and the storm it brought in caused his car to flip.

Now he was stuck in his car.

Hearing someone near his car, he started to pound on the door, trying to draw their attention. “Hey! Hey! Hey!” He shouted repeatedly until he felt someone open the door. He fell onto the ceiling of the car, still clutching the stuffed rabbit he had bought for Grace. He had brought several toys with him, hoping to give them to his daughter as an apology for leaving her for so long. “Oh, thank you. No one heard me.”

“You okay?” Charming asked the man he had just saved. When the man nodded, the prince continued, “Good. That means we can talk.” Charming said before pulling Jefferson out of the car.

~~~

Everyone was at town hall, waiting for Prince Charming to arrive. Henry was frantically calling the man on his cell phone while Red attempted to calm everyone down.

“Please, everyone, just be patient. I’m sure he’s gonna be here any second.” Red called out. Just then her Granny walked by, crossbow in her hands. “Granny, do you really need that?”

“We got a lawless town, Ruby.” Granny replied, “Damn right I need it.”

Kat walked over to Henry, “Any luck?”

“He’s not picking up.” Henry shook his head.

“I’m sure he’ll turn up. Just keep trying, Henry,” Kat reassured the boy, or at least attempted to.

SLAM

Everyone’s heads snapped to the door that just opened. At the door way was Regina, who was very confident. It was like the parting of the sea after that, with everyone backing away from the doors, and Regina.

“My…” Regina commented as she started to walk into the room, “What a nice turn out. No need for a fuss. It’s just little old me.”

Archie seemed to be the only balls enough to go near the woman, “Regina, think about what you’re doing.”

“Bug.” Regina tensely told the man as she lifted her hand.

“Aah!” Archie cried out, flying back into a group of people.

“Hey!” Grumpy called out as he ran at the witch. Regina just waved her hand again and sent Grumpy flying to the floor.

WOOSH!

Everyone watched as Granny’s arrow flew towards Regina, only for her to catch it in her hands with ease.

“How sweet.” Regina commented as she lit the arrow aflame. She then forced the fire to go towards the panicking crowd and over their heads before coming back and hitting the town emblem behind her.

Finally, Red seemed to have enough as she marched towards the front of the crowd and stood in front of them as she demanded, “What do you want?”

“Me.” Henry called out amidst the crowd, “She wants me.” Henry walked over towards the woman who had adopted him, “Okay, I’ll come with you. Just… leave them alone.”

Regina walked over to her son and place a hand under his chin, smiling, “That’s my boy.” She then put an arm around his shoulder as she walked him out, closing the doors behind her with her magic.

Once she left, everyone started to panic. Shout of leaving the town soon followed.

Red turned to Kat, who was now standing next to her, “We gotta go get David.”

“Yeah,” Kat commented as she stared at the people.