HI EVERYONE I'M BACK! After a three year long hiatus (you can blame my freshman year of college for that) I am back to write new and hopefully exciting fanfiction. I still love my Newsies and all Broadway more than life but I'm also kind of obsessed with Once Upon a Time and oops I may have imagined a potential story line for season 8 so yeah sorry not sorry. P Anyway it's good to be back! As always I do not own anything except my OC all credit goes to the OUAT creative team and ABC. I hope you enjoy this first chapter, if you do please leave a review the more you review the more I write.

On a brisk fall afternoon a young couple can be seen having a quiet argument at Looking Glass Lake. The young mother's frustration can be seen as well as felt. In contrast the man at her side, evidently the father seems to be enjoying himself and gently brushing aside his wife's concerns.

"Killian we should go back it's too cold for her." She tucks a strand of blonde hair behind her ear. A nervous gesture that he always found endearing.

"It's a lovely brisk fall day there's nothing cold about it love."

She puts a hand firmly on the stroller and looks at him in all seriousness. "Leia is too little for this weather."

He places a hand on top of hers and raises that infuriating eyebrow, " Nonsense, the fresh air is good for the lass".

Emma starts to argue back when she notices a young woman from earlier now in much closer proximity. And if her instincts were correct she was watching them. Killian follows her gaze and sees the young woman, probably in her late teens or early twenties. She seems to feel their gaze and makes her way toward them in a swift businesslike manner.

"Are you the Jones'?"

Emma can practically feel the girl's icy blue eyes pierce her searchingly. But she frowns when she sees her gaze shift to Killian for a moment and soften visibly. Emma responds coldly. "Do we know you?"

The girl is unfazed by Emma's harsh tone. "No sorry, I'm just new to the area my name is Kelly and I…"

"I'm going to stop you right there…" Emma cuts her off briskly. For as long as she can remember she has had the ability to know whenever someone is lying. "Every word that just came out of your mouth was complete bullshit.

Killian is taken aback, "Now hold on a moment Swan…"

She cuts him off, "No! Who are you and why are you pretending to be someone else and what do you want?" The words fly off her tongue hot, furious, and defensive. Emma is sick and tired of everything and everyone attacking the people she loves and screwing over her attempt at happily ever after.

The girl just shakes her head incredulously tears threatening to pool in her eyes. "Wow, Henry and Dad were right…it's you it's really you."

Emma is taken aback, "Wait Henry? My Henry? Who the hell are you?"

"Part of me hoped you'd know but it was unreasonable to hope…"

Hope. Her mother's word, Snow White's mantra. The way she said it sounded so natural as if the girl had heard it every day of her life.

"Please listen to me and understand this is going to be hard to take in."

Killian scoffs and mocking adds, "Harder than believing Zeus brought me back from the dead?"

Without blinking and eye she shoots back, "Even harder than believing you went back in time and punched yourself in the face. Although my story runs along those lines. And you're used to this type of insanity well at least according to what Dad always…"

Killian cuts in abruptly, "I'm sorry love I don't think I'm quite following you."

She takes a deep breath and kneels down next to the stroller smiling at the baby tucked inside. "Here's the thing, this baby girl is me eighteen years ago or you could I'm her eighteen years from now. Whichever way you prefer to say it the fact is we are essentially the same person."

Emma looks more carefully at the girls' eyes and sees a circle of green intertwined in the blue and the same spark of mischief and ferocity that she wakes up to every morning. "Believe it or not Leia that is not the craziest thing I've ever heard."

She smirks, "I believe it. Henry told you I could ID you with your superpower, the lie detector as he like to call it."

Emma smiles thinking about her brilliant boy building his own family, but evidently still making time for his sister. Killian breaks into her thoughts, "I'm confused love I we really are your parents wouldn't you be able to identify us by sight? We couldn't have changed that much after all" he grimaces dramatically "Swan made me switch to water during the week."

He sees her eyes darken visibly, she bites her lip and tucks that same adorable strand of hair behind her ear before attempting an explanation. "Well, you see this is the hard part to say. I do recognize you completely you don't look much different at all but mom…I've…I've only seen her in pictures."

A cold horror washes over Emma as she considers the possibility that something caused her to abandon her daughter. "No… I couldn't have done this again! Why? Why did I leave you? What happened?" Without full realizing it she reaches out and grips Leia tightly on both arms searching for an answer in a pair of eyes much too old for a nineteen year old girl.

Leia shakes her head and her held back tears began to stream against her will trying to choke her words, "It's not like that! You didn't leave exactly…you…you…" She trails off unable to continue.

Emma shakes her slightly, "What? What did I do? Tell me!"

Before Killian can intervene Leia wrenches herself from her mother's arms and whispers brokenly, "You died."

What did you think let me know but uh take it easy on me I'm a little rusty

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