A/N: This is my very first fanfiction, so bear with me. I'm new to this, so... but if this goes smoothly, I'm planning on making this a big story.
In Season 2 Episode 1, what if David made it into the portal after Snow and Emma jump in?
Chapter 1: I Will Not Lose My Family Again
The doors of the room started rattling as the lights flickered out. They all knew that it was almost time before the wraith broke in and they had to send it into the magical hat, which would send it to their home, which unfortunately no longer existed. That's what Regina said, anyway. The doors kept rattling as Regina spun the hat faster and faster, trying to make it into a portal again. It wasn't working.
"Regina-" Emma warned, stepping back along with everyone else from the far side of the entrance.
"I'm trying." She replied, still spinning the hat. Nothing was happening. They all heard the loud noise the wraith made from the hallway outside the doors, and prepared themselves for the worst. They knew it was too late. Regina paused and looked up as the double doors flew wide open, letting the dangerous creature inside.
David quickly ran towards the wraith with the flame on one of the "torches" he and Mary Margaret had made out of old brooms for everyone. Yes, they were a bit old-fashioned. He was prepared to protect everyone, just as he did back in the Enchanted Forest.
"Regina-!" Mary Margaret warned again.
"I know!" Regina replied, spinning the hat faster once more. The wraith was flying above David and he swatted at it, stalling the wraith so they could open the portal behind him. Nothing was happening to the hat.
"DAVID!" Mary Margaret shouted over the noise as she created a barrier with the gate in the front of the room, asking for more time, if it was possible. David looked behind him and quickly went to shut the two gates to block the wraith, then he set the barrier on fire.
"HURRY!" David shouted at them. The portal still hasn't worked yet.
"It's not working!" Regina informed everyone around her, trying everything she could to open the portal from the hat.
David stalled more, but they were all running out of time. The wraith swatted at him back, but missed. Him and the wraith kept battling.
"It's not working!" Regina yelled again, frustrated.
"What is the problem?!" Emma asked.
"Magic," Regina answered. "it's different here."
"Now would be the time!" David yelled at them, struggling to battle the wraith any longer.
Regina couldn't get the portal to open. It was useless. The magic here was too unpredictable. They had failed. Just then, Emma put her hand on Regina's arm, and Regina gave the hat one more spin. All of a sudden, a purple form of smoke came clouding around the hat as it spun on its own. The hat was opening wider, creating a portal. Regina looked at Emma, amazed.
The wraith sent David flying across the floor against the door. He noticed that the wraith then went straight for Emma and Regina, whose backs were facing the wraith.
"It's coming!" He warned, as loud as he could over the noise of both the spinning hat and the wraith. Emma saw the wraith behind her before Regina did and pushed her out of the way, safely from the portal as the wraith missed them and fell in. Just then, the portal caught Emma's leg too and tugged at her, trying to pull her in as well. Mary Margaret was too late to catch her in time. Emma fell in.
"NO!" Mary Margaret screamed, still trying to reach for Emma. She already lost her daughter once because of the curse; she doesn't want to lost her again.
"NO!" David noticed Emma fell in. He quickly got up and made his way across the room towards the portal. He jumped over the gate.
"I'M NOT LOSING HER AGAIN!" Mary Margaret said, then jumped fearlessly into the portal after Emma.
"NEITHER AM I!" David made it over the gate and jumped into the portal after Mary Margaret. The portal swallowed the three of them up, plus the wraith who went in first. Then all in the room went silent as Regina stared at the torn and destroyed hat.