This is a plotline I haven't seen much on. Feel free to post a review with ideas, concerns, what not. I don't own Once Upon a Time so don't sue me. This is solely for entertainment purposes. I am definitely not getting paid for doing this.

A pulse of golden light encompasses everyone in the room as Regina and Robin kiss each other in front of a squealing Zelena. Emma holds Rumplestiltskin back as he desperately tries to break the two apart.

Just as quickly as they had been transported there, they found themselves lying on the ground in Storybrooke.

Emma was the first to get her bearings. She jogged down to to her loft, making note of the various people waking up on the streets.

She bursted into the apartment and was immediately scoped into a tight embrace from her parents for a moment before pulling back.

"I have to find Hook." She tells them, giving a pointed look to her father.

"He was right over there when it happened." Charming says and gestures over to where some notebooks and the storybook were lying on the floor.

Her eyes scanned the run.

"Everyone reappeared where they were before this whole mess started. He's not, you don't think he could be..."

She stared down at the floor.

The parents and daughter were all startled as a voice came out from the upper floor.

"Eh, sorry about the mess. I really needed to find that book and," the pirate was interrupted as Emma ran up the stairs to embrace him.

"Killian." She breathed and they both toppled onto the bed.

"Sorry to cause a panic." He started, "I woke up just moments before you and came up here to look for your boy."

"So you're fine? He's fine..." her eyes widened. "Where is Henry?"

She sat up from her position on top of him and looked around.

"I'm not certain. He was here before we were whisked away to that new bloody book." Killian told her with furrowed brows. "He wasn't in the story, though. Was he?"

"No, He wasn't. Isaac must have never wrote him into it." Emma answered.

She tore down the stairs with Hook right behind.

" Emma," Snow starts in surprise at her daughter's panicked expression. "What's wrong? We were about to track down the author."

"Yeah, well, it's become a hunt, now." She told her mother and pulled out her gun from her purse. She tucked it under her belt.

"Where's Henry?" Charming asked. "He was just upstairs before everything."

"The boy's not there, anymore." Hook explained.

"Hunting it is." Charming agreed.

"Henry may just be looking for us. I'm going to try to call his phone or maybe Granny's." Snow tried to reason and took out her phone.

Emma nodded her head and lead the way out of the apartment and to the street.

They almost made it to Gold's shop when they were stopped by Regina.

"Emma, good to see you're all still alive." The once evil queen said.

"You too, Regina." Charming returned.

"We can't find Henry." Emma suddenly said to her, cutting them off.

Regina's face tightened. "I had to come the other side of town and didn't see him along the way. Robin would have called me if he found him on the way to...check on Zelena.

"No answer on his phone and Granny hasn't seen him." Snow added and hung up her phone.

Regina got out her own phone and dialed his number. It went automatically to voicemail.

"That's it." Emma said. "We're finding the author and Gold."

"Gold." Regina growled. "He's responsible for this."

"We don't know that anything happened." Snow again tried to reason. "He may be looking for us just like we're looking for him and his phone died."

"I sincerely hope you're right this time." Regina told Snow.

The wind seemed to pick up as Snow White, Charming, The Savior, and The Evil Queen made there way to Gold's shop.

Charming peeked into the window and after a moment bursted in with the rest in tow.

"Where is he?" He shouted to what appeared to be an empty room.

"The authors gone. Disappeared before I even woke up." A voice groaned from the ground behind a counter.

The dark one was sitting on the floor, supporting himself on a pillar.

Killian lifted him up and slammed him into a wall.

"The boy, Alligator. Where is Henry?"

"How should I know? I woke up here just like the rest of you."

"You were the one to create all of this." Emma accused. "What? Is Henry somehow apart of your back up plan?"

Gold laughed.

"There was no backup plan other than that I've managed to buy myself time and rest assured I have nothing to do with your boy's disappearance."

Killian let Rumplestiltskin sink to the ground.

"I think I believe him." Snow whispers to the group.

"He's a liar. Always has been." Killian not so whispered back.

"He's telling the truth this time." Emma told them all.

Regina snorts.

"He doesn't know where Henry is and he doesn't know where to find the only person who knows where Henry is. Isn't that convenient for him?"

"How do you know that the boy is even missing? Unless you awoke hours before me, which I suppose is possible in my condition, you couldn't have even begun to really look for him." Rumplestiltskin asked them.

The room got silent for a second.

"We know he's not here with us." Emma finished and walked out of the pawn shop.

Regina and Killian followed her again to where she was storming.

"Where do you think you're going?" Regina asked.

"I don't know." She shouted. "I thought this was over but now..."

Hook placed his not hook hand on her shoulder. "We're going to find him."

Emma took a deep breath.

"I know. We just have to...follow his footprints. Gold didn't do it. The author doesn't seem like the type to outright take someone. Where would a boy go if he thought his entire family was missing?"

"I'm not sure if my experience will help us." Killian said.

"Home. He would go home." Regina answered.

"He's not there." Emma told her.

"He has more than one home." Regina stiffly informed an uneasily shifting Emma.

"Okay, we check your house. Where are my parents?"

"Dealing with the alligator."

"Oh, great. The two most forgiving people in The Enchanted Forest." Regina complained to melt some of the tension she had caused. "Well, let's go. We don't have all day. My son is who knows where."

Emma nodded.

It took them ten minutes to get to the mayor's house. Three of those minutes involved dodging question after question from confused Storybrooke residents.

Emma was the first to reach the porch and knelt down to pick up a rock from beside it.

"What are you doing?" A huffing Regina said as she came up behind her. Killian stood behind them both, trying to peer into the windows.

Emma held up a key.

"How did...Henry." Regina realized.

"Not that I needed it but yes."

"There's a light on in the second floor." Hook interrupted them.

Emma unlocked the door and rushed up to the second floor calling Henry's name.

She opened the door to his room. His empty room. His old night light was on the the corner. Its normally rotating sides were stuck in place, making a soft clicking noise.

"He's not here." Regina said. "If he was still in Storybrooke, someone would have found him by now or he would have found us. If he could."

Emma looked around the room and her eyes landed on where the light was shining on his bookcase.

"What's this?" She asked and pulled out a book from the shelve.

Killian read out the title.

"Heroes and Villains"

That's right. In this AU, the author's work in our world didn't disappear when everyone got out of the original book. Gold's condition is going to be suspended for a while.

R and R!