January 4, 2023

[hughville]

In a deleted scene from Mother’s Little Helper, Emma and Gideon are running from the spider and hide inside a room in the Sorcerer's mansion. Emma wonders "what the hell" that was. Gideon explains that it was the Great Spider from the Echoless Forest. "The what from the what?", she asks. He tells her that it is a monster from a book, Her Handsome Hero. Emma remarks, "From a book. Great. We are running from a pop-up character" and wonders why the Black Fairy would send it here. Gideon says that she did it to kill them before they get the chance to kill her. An angry Gideon throws a table lamp into the wall, where it breaks in a shower of electricity. Emma tells him to calm down or he's going to get them both killed. Gideon wonders why she cares anyway; without the tear, the spell is destroyed, and she is not getting Hook back. He believes that their alliance is at an end, but Emma refuses to abandon him. He tells her that after everything he's done, she should walk away. Emma says that Saviors don't do that, and she won't let the Black Fairy or her "itsy-bitsy nightmare" terrorize him or her or this town. "So, let's go down there and destroy it", she whispers. At that, she walks off to fight the beast. Gideon reluctantly follows.