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[unhand]

Awful inconvenient, isn't it? Learning about me just a little bit at a time. Always doubting your take on me, not knowing if I've got magic or if I'm just particularly good at pirating. Aurora's not the first girl whose heart I've stolen, but it might not be so literal with the others.

And you can't count on your little theory being anything resembling reality. What part of this story has ever been predictable?

You'll never be a step ahead. Learn to live with it.

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[uncurse]

Had me fooled. [ she says it with chagrin, because they both know how few people can say that. ]

[unhand]

Maybe you're not as good at figuring out the truth as you thought.

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You're not the first person I've been wrong about. So sue me for hoping there was more to you, anyway.

[unhand]

You didn't hope very hard. If you had, you wouldn't have left me.

[uncurse]

Is that what this is about? Lashing out because I turned on you before you could do the same?

[unhand]

Might have something to do with it. [Yes. Definitely.] I would have rather worked with you.

[uncurse]

[ thanks for sealing in that guilt that she was already feeling about causing aurora to lose her heart. ]

Then maybe you should have come back and found us instead of jumping on board with Cora and ripping out a girl's heart. Because all you did is make sure that is never going to happen.

[unhand]

So it was all a test? [One that clearly he failed.] And here I thought chaining me up was your way of saying you didn't want to work with me. Can you blame me for finding someone who did?

[uncurse]

[ with something of a sigh, reluctant admission comes. ] No. [ but then she hardens, tone sharp and critical. ] But, I can and do blame you for what you did for her. It's a little hard to ask trust when you're willing to rip out someone's heart just to send a message.

[unhand]

Her heart gave me a bit more than that. [But Emma probably doesn't want to hear about that.] She's not dead. I may be able to undo what I've done.

[uncurse]

May be? [ that's incredulity there. her tone hardens again. ] How.

lalalala making shit up

[unhand]

Put the heart back where it came from. It's the same spell, only in reverse.

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[uncurse]

So, we can help her. We just need to get the heart back from Cora. [ and they were already going to trap her with the ink, which means they can just grab the heart when they're getting the dust. ]

LOOK IT MAKES SENSE

[unhand]

And if you'll take me with you when you cross over, I'll help you.

IT DOES

[uncurse]

I'm not taking you anywhere. After what you did, you'll be lucky if we don't really leave you for the ogres on our way out of this world. [ she shakes her head. ] Might be kinder than what Cora'll do.

[unhand]

And that's why I'm working with Cora now and not you. Good luck getting Aurora's heart back inside her, if you even manage to get it back at all.

[uncurse]

And whose fault would it be if we didn't? You want me to feel guilty? I don't. I am going to do everything I can to help Aurora because of what you chose to do to her. Not anyone else, not something anyone forced you into. You chose it.

[unhand]

Yeah, I did. Because it was a hell of a lot easier than figuring out what it'd take to impress you. I know how to deal with Cora. It may not be pretty, it may not be nice, but it'll get me what I want. Revenge.

[uncurse]

Good to know that things being easy for you ranks over other people. You two deserve each other.

[unhand]

My revenge comes before everything! You knew that.

[uncurse]

Even if that means sacrificing your principles and becoming what you hate. Hook, if you let revenge consume you, that is all you'll ever be. [ beat. ] What do you think Milah would say to that?

[unhand]

She can't say anything. She's dead. That's the whole point.

[uncurse]

And this is how you're letting her memory survive. In hate and pain and violence.

[unhand]

I'm killing the thing that killed her. The world'll be better off with him gone. You have to see it.

[uncurse]

You wanna know what I don't see? Where good people becoming collateral damage doesn't even register for you. From where I'm sitting, anyone who doesn't blink at that is someone the world would be better off without. [ yeah she went there go die in a hole hook. ]