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When he was eventually locked away in a third type of prison he had had a long time to think about what had happened. At first he was angry, he wanted revenge and to hurt Regina. Show her that he was not a fool nor was he to be treated so badly. He wanted her to feel his wrath. But that soon gave way to the love he felt for her and he began spending his time thinking about Regina and learning to understand the woman and how she ticked.

It wasn’t long before he realised he wasn’t going to get anywhere by serving her, by being of use to her. Regina was royalty, she had no respect for people who were weak and she saw Sidney as weak. He knew that he had to show Regina what he was capable of, get her to see his strength and how alike they were. If he was going to have Regina in his life he needed to be more like her, to take what he wanted.

To do that he needed magic. His magic had always been confined to the lamp but this was Storybrooke and magic was different here. Day by day he had discovered that he was storing magic and as time went on he began to realise that he could perform basic tricks if he waited long enough to store magic.

After that he simply needed a plan and he had a lot of time to come up with one. A simple suggestion spell on the nurse and she even let him out without realising it. A visit to Gold’s shop to pick up what he needed to do what he had to do. And, finally, the cabin that he had built during those long Storybrooke years. He had always known something was odd about the town, you couldn’t be an investigative journalist and not realise that something was wrong. He had always suspected that one day he might need a safe haven where no one would find him so he built one in the middle of the woods.

He found himself collecting mirrors even though he had no idea why. He didn’t even like them, but it was like a compulsion and had to have as many mirrors as he could find. He couldn’t stand to see them in his house so he put them in the cabin. When he was locked in his cell and he put the pieces together he had laughed manically for a full day.

And now it was just a matter of remembering the spells and harnessing the magic, the magical items and the lamp were helping to increase the amount of magic he was able to store but he was still struggling with getting the mirrors to work. His anger sent a vibration through the air that caused another of the mirrors to crack and he took a deep breath to calm himself as he held out his hand towards another mirror and focussed with all his might.

The mirror fogged over and suddenly the middle cleared and he could see Henry Mills. Sidney smiled to himself as he watched the boy happily brushing his teeth in the bathroom mirror. Magic was delightfully different in Storybrooke and Sidney intended to use that to his advantage.

Chapter 85

As Gold limped away from the hospital he turned to Emma, “tell Regina to cover her mirrors immediately.”

“What?” Emma frowned.

“Sidney, the man in the mirror, Miss Swan,” Gold sighed, “if he has magic, and it appears that he does, he’ll use it to spy on the object of his affections.”

“Regina?” Emma swallowed hard.

“Of course,” Gold said, “he’s infatuated with her. And he is unstable, as you may have gathered from your previous dealings with him.”

Emma pulled her phone out of her pocket and quickly called Regina the time it took to connect the call seemed unreasonably long but Emma supposed that was always the case when you were making an urgent call.

Regina had barely started her standard telephone greeting when Emma quickly interrupted, “Sidney’s escaped.”

“What?” Regina seemed honestly shocked by the development, “are you sure?”

“He’s gone,” Emma confirmed.

“Tell her to cover the mirrors,” Gold hissed, irritated at the chatter.

“Gold says to cover your mirrors,” Emma relayed.

“But..” Regina started.

Gold pulled the phone from Emma’s hand and put it to his ear, “Regina, he has magic, cover your mirrors and don’t leave the house.”

Emma looked at Gold and realised he was concerned which in turn concerned Emma because she had never seen the man look slightly bothered about a potential threat. He hung up the phone and tossed it back to Emma carelessly and walked over to the Bug that she had driven them there in.

“What aren’t you telling me?” Emma demanded.

“You’re in possession of all the facts,” Gold told her.

“Sidney has escaped,” Emma said as she opened the car doors and they both got in.

Gold looked at her with confusion, “for a reasonably intelligent woman you can be very slow sometimes.”

“Hey,” Emma complained but Gold waved his hand to dismiss her argument and she started to drive them away from the hospital.

“Sidney Glass spent thousands of years in captivity granting other people wishes and dreaming of freedom. He has just spent the last year in captivity again. He is mentally unbalanced and obsessed with your girlfriend and he now has discovered that he has magic abilities, does that clear everything up for you?”