Ok so this is going to be a miniseries while I am putting together my new Frozen story and taking finals. I had asked the wonderful and talented JustMeandMyKeyboard a request in their Our Charming Family story based on the game that Katniss and Peeta play in Mocking Jay part 2 'Real or Not Real'. Anyway it was amazing and I asked permission to write my own spin on it and JMAMK agreed that it was ok. So shout out to you! Thank you again!

Now this will take place after the events of Emma and Killian being the Dark Ones. So that drama is over, and while Killian comes out semi-unscratched (aside from being incredibly guilty and kind of avoiding Emma) however even though he opened up the gates of the Underworld, it was the darkness of the Underworld that affected Emma the most. She had already been so vulnerable that all the previous Dark Ones hijacked her mind by warping the images of her friends and family. So it is an aftermath take starting from 5x11. Hope you all enjoy!

Real or Not Real?

They watched as Emma stood in the middle of the street panting due to the mass amounts of magic she had just preformed to banish the Dark Ones back to the Underworld. She was no longer in the clothes that showed her darkness nor was her hair stark white. Instead she looked just as she had when they were in Camelot: wearing the beautiful white dress, and blonde hair down pulled back loosely with a flower like crown in her hair. Her mouth was open as she continued to pant with exhaustion and Excalibur fell out of her hands and clattered to the pavement. Taking this as a sign, Henry made the first to move towards his mother, "You did it!" He cheered, "You really did it!"

However the hug that he was expecting when he flew at her did not come. Instead Emma reacted and thrust her hand out and he was levitated in the air, the feeling of suffocation coming over him as he gasped for the oxygen that would not reach his lungs, "Emma!" Snow, Charming, Regina, Robin, and Hook gasped as they quickly ran over to try and save Henry.

Emma saw this and thrust her other hand out and they too were levitated in the air gasping, "Stay away from me!" She yelled, "You all are not my family!"

"Love please-" Hook gasped out this time trying to lock eyes with her, but when she did meet his gaze she waved her hands and they were all tossed to the side and fell on the pavement…hard.

Emma took a predatory step closer to Killian and before anyone could react, she waved her hand once more and he was lifted in the air again, gasping, "This is all your fault. You caused all this."

"Mom stop! What are you doing?!" Henry yelled as he made a move again to get to his mother.

Snow and Charming grabbed hold of the boy, and Regina stepped forward, fireball at the ready, "Let him go Emma!" She commanded. Despite this being Hook's fault, she knew understood that it was the darkness that made Killian react the way he had, "You really do not want to do this." Regina stated as she saw something flash in the blonde's eyes.

"Please Emma. I am sorry…please…I love you." He tried again.

Emma's eyes changed from dark and cloudy, back to her normal hazel eyes. Realizing what she was doing, she gasped and Killian fell back on the pavement, "No…no, no, no…what did I-" She looked at the terrified and confused faces of her family.

Snow saw Emma backing away from them, as the town started to emerge from their safe places. She instantly flashed back to when Emma had lost control of her magic and was determined to not make the same mistake, "Emma it is ok. It will be-"

"No it won't!" Emma yelled, "I just blanked out…I saw Henry and-" She cut herself off as she shook her head and began muttering, "Not real…not real…" Killian tried to go over to Emma and seeing this Emma turned back around and snapped, "Get away from me!" He stopped and felt his heart constricting with pain.

"Emma please," Killian stated, "let us help you. I can help-"

Emma flinched back when he tried to take a step closer to her. Charming placed a hand on the pirate's shoulder, "Perhaps it is best if you listen. Go back to your ship." Killian's face fell and without arguing he turned away from them. Charming watched him go and then looked at his daughter.

"I'll make sure he gets there safely." Robin offered as he looked at Regina who was focusing intently on the blonde, "Will you be ok?"

Regina snapped out of her thoughts and looked towards him, "Yes, uhm…just make sure he doesn't do anything stupid. Well stupider than normal." Robin looked unsure at the positive answer he had gotten, but none the less he ran to catch up with the pirate. Regina looked back towards Emma as Snow came to her side, "I do not understand," Regina stated as she sensed Snow back to ask her what was wrong with Emma, "she used light magic to do what she did. I did not sense a trace of darkness within it."

Emma kept pacing back and forth as if having a conversation with herself. Henry watches broken as he says, "She did that on her own accord? For some sort of self-defense?"

Charming watches as well and has flashes of his time as a young boy on the farm, "Something really spooked her and she reacted. She must have saw you as a threat."

Henry went to retort, but they heard someone else's voice, "It is the darkness." Their heads snapped towards the new speaker and saw Rumple and Belle approaching, and it was Rumple that spoke as he slide over next to Regina, "She did go to the Underworld for a short period of time to us, but who knows how long she was actually there. Time runs differently between realms and as she was stripping herself of the darkness, who knows how vulnerable that made her…not taking into account whichever Dark One had her fears thrown at her again and again."

"So are you saying that the Dark Ones had somehow warped her memory or-" Snow began to ask.

"More like hijacked really." Rumple stated as he watched the blonde finally stopped pacing to get herself under control, "May I?" He motioned towards her.

"If you can get her to calm down." Snow stated.

They watched as Rumple walked over to Emma, holding his hands up in surrender and in peace as Emma got ready to attack. Regina also got ready to defend as he said, "You are safe. I am not here to harm you."

"Yea right. You had been nothing but a pain in my ass since I became the Dark One nearly two months ago." Emma snarled as magic crackled in her hand.

"That was a personification of me. A spirit as it were, however I am real. I am not that person." Rumple said in a gentle voice that no one had ever heard before, except for Belle.

"Real? I do not even know what is real." Emma admitted as she stopped the crackling and lowered her hand. Regina however did not lower her own defenses.

Snow looked at Regina, "What did she mean?"

"It is just as imp said. The darkness somehow hijacked her mind while she was in the Underworld." Regina responded as she watched the situation closely.

"Well why do we not start with what is real then? What do you know for certain that is real? Something that the Dark Ones did not take away from you." Rumple suggested easily.

"My name…my origins I guess…" Emma said trailing off.

The group started to slowly approach as Rumple gave them the signal that it was ok, "Alright then dearie." Emma flinched at the word which did not go unnoticed, "Tell us." Seeing that Emma was now on guard with everyone around he said quickly, "Focus Emma…tell me what you believe to be real." Still seeing she was unsure, he sighed and said, "Tell me your name…"

Emma's gaze lingered on them for a bit before locking eyes back with Gold, "My name is Emma Swan, I know that to be real."

"Ok good, now who are you?" Gold asked signaling her to continue.

"My name is Emma Swan." She repeated as she started to once again hear echoes in her head and black faceless demons in her mind's eye, "I am an orphan because I was abandoned on the side of a highway," Snow and Charming felt a giant ball of weight in their stomach form that made them feel instantly sick, "I grew up in the foster system, and later became a bailbonds person."

"Ok that is a start." Rumple said as he saw the devastation on the faces of Henry and the Charmings. Regina however tried to look indifferent, but of course knowing the woman for many years, he could read her like an open book, "Belle, please go back to my shop and make some tea for us." Belle nodded and ran back to the shop, "Henry try and find Doctor Hopper, we are going to need his assistance."

"But I want to stay and help." Henry said as he tried to go near his mother, but Emma immediately got defense and magic around her hands started to crackle again.

"Henry please." Rumple stated firmly before Regina, Snow, and Charming could say anything.

Henry's mouth went dry as he saw his mother reacting that way with him, turned the other way and took off without another word. Looking back at Regina he said, "I need you to try and summon the cuffs, make them like handcuffs chained together." Seeing she was about to argue, he said, "Now is not the time for questioning just do it." He ordered as he looked back at Emma who did not seem to listening as she got a blank look in her eye as she kept staring at where Henry once stood, "Do it discretely." He added when he saw Regina wave her hands in front of her.

Regina scowled, but did as she was told. She placed her hands behind her back and thought about the cuffs that she was once chained to when the Home Office, had come to Storybrook and had captured her due to Hook's help. Once she felt them in her hands, she pulled them from behind her back and handed them to Gold, "Very good, now then…" Looking back at Emma, who had not moved a muscle, he said, "Emma, I am going to place you in these." Her dull hazel eyes looked back to him, "You know that you need these. We do not want any accidents right?"

"Why should I trust anything you are saying?" Then locking eyes with the remaining people she said, "Why should I trust any of you?"

"Do you want answers?" Emma nodded, "Then trust us." He held out the cuffs and Emma turned away for a brief instant before holding her hands up.

Rumple quickly cuffed her and Emma immediately felt drain and was about to collapse to her knees, when Snow and Charming caught her, "What are these?" Charming asked, "These are not like the cuffs before."

Emma was trying to weakly fight against them, "You tricked me." Snow and David kept a firm hold, "When I get out of these, I will kill you! You hear me?!"

Seeing a larger crowd forming, Regina waved her hand and Emma fell limp against her father, "There now let's get her to your shop and you can explain further." She stated swiftly and began leading them towards the shop as David scooped Emma up in his arms to follow.

"This is not magically induced is it?" Snow asked as Rumple sighed and had started to follow. He stopped to look at her as she continued, "That's why you need Archie right?"

"The darkness may have caused it, but yes. There is no spell or curse that did this. It is purely psychological." Rumple said, "Unfortunately magic could only do so much, and with the trauma that she has already endured, magic cannot help her. But we should probably discuss this in my shop." He stated as the towns people started making their way towards them, so they quickly walked to the shop.