"Don't," she hissed into the phone, leaning forward against her desk, hand on her forehead. Regina had been working late. A couple things needed to be finished if she was going to take the mini-pirate and flee before her brother sacrificed her heart into a bubbling pot and unleash a curse. "If you hadn't gone out he would have figured out another way, Neal. Maybe have been a little more violent about it."
But now he had Excalibur, and their time was officially running out.
She snapped her laptop shut, fingernails drumming along the surface. That altered their plans, heavily, but it still wouldn't change leaving out of necessity. "I'll take Kenzi and go. There's no other way right now. I can't let him kill his own relative because the dark side promised him a happy ending with a side of cookies."