Swan Song ❂ Killian Jones [1]

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"Well, Operation Platypus is off to a swimming start." Odette said as the group of four stood off to the side after managing to secure the Lost Boy by typing him to a tree. Her words were met with a couple of curious looks, but Odette knew where she was going with this.

"Platypus? Where'd you get that one?" Emma couldn't help but ask, surprised that Odette actually had a name for this little plan of theirs.

"Don't look so impressed by my skills of naming operations, it's a recycled one." Odette revealed before continuing on with an explanation. "It's what Henry used when he decided on the mission to make me less lonely. He thought swan was too on the nose, and apparently platypuses are very lonely animals." Odette revealed.

She sent her three companions a pointed look, silently reminding them of what she'd said to Killian. About planting something in the boy's mind that wouldn't be able to keep himself from teasing Henry about when he went back to the camp.

And while it took Regina and Snow a few moments, Emma was the first to catch on. Operation Cobra was too grand, and something Pan may know about. But a smaller one, one that only Odette and Henry himself knew about until now, that was perfect.

"Is it platypuses? Or platipi? Platipusay?" The goddaughter played along, posing questions that made her repeat the main word as many times as possible. "Or is it just platypus for both singular and plural?"

"Doesn't really matter. The main point is to keep Henry from feeling as lonely as a platypus in this place. Hence, Operation Platypus." Odette shrugged her shoulders simply, hoping that some of it would stick in the child's mind and make him slip up when he next spoke to Henry.

"It's too late for that now!" The boy called to them in a mocking tone making the women share pleased looks between themselves as he revealed he'd been listening to them. Just as they intended. "Henry is a Lost Boy now!" He called as they walked back to them. "Your boy is one of the most vicious recruits we've had in ages!"

While at first, his taunts weren't getting to them in the beginning, soon Emma charged through the space left between them, her hands going to the boy's throat as anger consumed her. Snow was quick to pry her away from him before she did something she would regret.

"Don't let him get to you, okay?" The mother tried to calm Emma, believing violence wasn't the right way to accomplish what they needed with the boy.

"Move aside." Regina on the other hand had different ideas, her god cop act dropping as she tried to walk towards the boy only to have Snow step in her way and block her from doing so.

"Why?" The short haired woman questioned with a suspicious look in her eyes.

"So, I can rip his heart out! Then he'll do exactly what we want." Regina said, another smile sent towards the boy, this one more sinister than friendly. And the shift it caused in his confident demeanour was rather clear.