It's been five years since the end of season 5, where Emma manages to defeat the darkness, and ceases to be The Dark One. However, this fanfic will not name almost nothing about it. The following years changed the lifestyle of Storybrooke, everyone began to take a quiet life. Killian and Emma are engaged, Henry has a girlfriend named Kathryn, Robin and Regina are living together, Charming and Snow are nervous by Neal be about to start school, Gold is living alone and is still trying to win Belle, who became an English teacher at school. Almost everyone has found their happy ending, even the villains.
Emma woke up in the middle of a forest, her head seemed to explode at any moment. Her first thought was immediately that she was in the woods of Storybrooke, maybe she was sleep walking. She gets up and look at all the possible sides then realized that she had never been in this place. Her thoughts were interrupted by four riders who crossed the forest with great speed. Emma hid behind a tree hoping they would not see her.
They passed her, still at high speed, and neither one looked around. Emma wasn't their priority. This should be a good thing, she thought.
Emma was wearing the same clothes from the previous day, a black pants, a white blouse and her red coat.
"Wait ... Knights? Oh great I am in enchanted forest." She said out loud
Emma started walking in search of her family. If she was here they also should be. After a nearly two-hour hike finally spotted a camp, Emma estimated that should have been there about seven people by the amount of tents.
"Hello? Mom?"
Emma heard a noise and then grabbed a sword that was abandoned on the ground.
"Emma?" Regina said
"Regina? What are you wearing?" Emma watched Regina who returned to their long black dresses worthy of a queen. The evil queen actually.
Seriously? We woke up here and your first concern is what I'm wearing?
"I'm sorry but its kind freaking me out".
"Alright genius and now what do we do?
"If you're here the others should also be, we have to look"
"You saw the riders?"
"Yes, that's bad?"
"There are only black knights when there was a queen. That means someone is in power and it's not like your dear mother."
"Another evil queen?"
"There's only one evil queen."
"We have to get going its almost dark."
Emma walked ahead while Regina fell behind due to the pompous dress she wore. Previously she did not have to walk through the woods, she had carriages or magic, but now for some reason her magic was weak and could not use it, and also had no idea where the rest of the people were.
"Come on Regina." Emma said looking back
"You must think it's easy to walk in this dress."
"You passed your whole life to use it, you should already be accustomed to."
"I lived in a castle and when I wanted to leave someone would take me or my magic would help me. And I don't have both."
"You think the others came here too?"
"I don't know, I hope so, I don't want to spend the rest of my life to put up with you. That would be boring."
Emma would respond to Regina when they heard a twig break, someone was in that forest to watching them.
"You're not going to say anything?" Regina said "Well that surprises me."
"Shh".
"Do not Shh me."
Regina was caught by surprise when someone practically jumped on top of her, leaving her full of dirt and in a very bad mood.
"Hey!" Regina yelled
Emma laughed out loud when she realized it was Robin Hood trying to scare Regina.
"My dress!"
"I missed your scary face."
"Robin? It's dark I cannot even see you right."
Robin gets out of her and gives her a helping hand to get. When she saw Robin was relieved for no longer need to look any further for him, and above all, he was there with her. Robin hugged her, happy to see her.
"Did you saw Henry?" Regina asked
"I'm sorry but no. I woke up in the woods, with the clothes I used to wear here. It's seems like I never left this place."
"You woke up alone?" Regina asked
"Yes, then I went searching of Ronald and found it with my friends. He's fine."
"Good." said Regina
"You saw Killian?
"No, I've been looking for you when I started listening to Regina get cranky." Robin looked at her smiling
Emma started to get seriously worried for some reason felt that something was more wrong than it already was. She couldn't shake this feeling that something bad is happening every minute it passes without finding her family, without finding Killian mostly.
They kept moving, Regina and Robin were behind talking and smiling at each other, Emma didn't want to interrupt them so she kept ahead. It was getting colder and she just wanted Killian was with her, as well as Regina is with Robin. Killian was a gentleman, probably would take his coat just to give Emma.
Emma Began to see a light in the woods, she ran to her without thinking that maybe it was not anyone she knew. She wasn't even sure about the exact moment where they land into. That light could be someone relate to the knights, and like Regina said, someone was in the power but she could not miss the opportunity to be who she hoped would be.
"Mom?"
"Henry" Emma screamed pushing away the branches on the way
Regina heard Emma screamed her son's name and desperately ran after Emma, trying not to trip over the dress.
"Henry are you okay?" Emma nearly lifted him as a response of how glad she was to see him. Henry had already sixteen years so it was difficult to lift him, it was a lot easier when he was ten and walked behind her with the book.
"Henry?" Regina shouted, holding her dress with one hand and with the other to ward off the hair from her eyes.
Henry let out a laugh and ran to hug Regina, who was caught by surprise.
"Are you okay?" Regina asked looking at his face
"Yes mom ... But what is happening?"
Robin finally managed to catch them, for someone who has a long dress Regina went quite fast, he thought.
"Henry I'm glad you're okay" Robin said running his hand through his hair ruffling
"Is good to see you." Regina watched this moment, amazed and happy to have the two loves of her life together.
"Let's move we have to find the others." said Emma
They followed Emma, who seemed unstoppable. Henry realized that something was wrong so he took hurried footsteps to stand beside her.
"Mom?"
"Yes kid?"
"You're walking too fast."
"I just want to check in on the other, don't worry about me."
"Emma we should stop, it's getting darker and darker and there are many pitfalls in the forest. Believe me I know." Said Robin
Emma couldn't stop, not when she had no idea where he was Killian, nor her parents. But Henry was clearly tired, and Regina was frustrated.
"Okay, but in the morning we started walking." said Emma
Robin joined a few branches and managed to make a fire, everyone gathered along it, Robin and Regina were hugging each other and Henry embraced Emma. They stayed like that until all fall asleep, warm and tired.
Emma got up without waking Henry, who was asleep on her shoulder and stretched her legs. She had only been able to sleep for a few minutes, so she tried to look for any sign that someone was there at the dark, or where Hook could be. After a few minutes of standing and walking around, realized that her legs were killing her, although she was not psychologically tired, physically she was.
Emma went back to lean against the tree next to Henry, who continued to sleep like a rock. Still unable to sleep, she began to play with the engagement ring on her finger. She was so relieved to see that ring, more than ever. After four years and three attempts Killian ask and Emma finally accepted. At first she was frightened by it, but Killian as always, was patient, and now she was never so happy to have the ring on her finger. Emma never thought she would be a wife, in fact, she never thought anyone would love her, for many years, in her head she would always be that girl that didn't matter to anyone. That girl that even her parents didn't choose. Always alone in this world. Until Killian appeared. Emma Jones sounded pretty good, she thought. Emma then fell asleep with this thought in mind.
Emma woke up with Regina shaking her to wake up. Emma opened her eyes, after several attempts to make her wake up and the first thing she saw was the impatient dark eyes of Regina.
"Finally you're awake. You were saying something strange in your sleep, made me wake up."
"Where is Henry?" said Emma rising
"I'm here. I think I know where the others are." said Henry uncertain
Emma's eyes gained hope and in a matter of seconds she was no longer sleepy, and was interrupted by a wave of enthusiasm and energy.
"So? Where are they?" she asked
"I think everyone is back to where they were when the first curse was launched."
"Mine" Regina said with a proud tone
"Are you sure?"
"Well it makes sense, I was in a carriage to pass through the forest."
"And I was in the woods alone, while leaving Ron with my mates." Robin said
"But who would do this? And how?" asked Regina
"Oh no," said Emma taking her hands to the head "No no, please."
"What is wrong Emma?" asked Regina worried
Emma turned slowly to Regina, and she could have sworn she saw everything crashing down around them. Regina watched Emma and knew that look, the passage between a sad look to a look of vengeance.
"I know that look." said Regina "That's my look."
"That was it that bitch, I should have killed her when I could."
"Who are you talking about?" said Regina looking immediately for Henry worried about what Emma said
"Lily! This is all her fault, I can't believe how I could be so naive."
"Mom what the hell are you talking about? It was Lily who sent us here, and how?"
"The last thing I remember was being with her, I can't remember what we were talking but then I woke up here. And now you think it all went back to where they were in the first curse, and Hook was not here when the first curse was released!"
"He was with my mother," said Regina
Emma launched to Regina by pulling its dress collar, this would not help but Emma needed to blame someone, or rather needed to punch someone.
"Emma do you really think this is my fault?" Regina asked leaning against a tree
"Emma!" said Henry advancing on her, getting alongside her "Don't do this."
"Why didn't you let me kill her in the first place? All this is because of her, she wants to destroy everything that I have. Probably something happened to my parents too!"
Regina didn't say anything, Emma was right, her parents may be in trouble too, since when the curse was launched Charming was dying, and it was clear that this may be some revenge plan. Emma left Regina, who immediately put his hands around his neck, Robin went immediately to her. Emma won notion that it wasn't Regina's fault, the only thing she did was to be her friend, it was her fault by believing that good always win and all the bullshit that her parents always talk about. Believing that Lily could be good, when she knew his heart was completely black. Believing may cost her losing Killian.
"Wait Emma, my mother and Hook were in the enchanted forest, she made a spell so they couldn't be affected by my curse so he's here." said Regina
"Do you really think that? Emma asked
"If Henry is right then Hook's here."
Emma smiled in relief, then invaded by a sense of shame and guilt.
"I'm Sorry Regina, it's wrong to blame you, I just ..."
"I know what feels like having your happing ending disappear in front of your eyes."
Regina was right, and despite everything, it was Emma's fault once.
"So where are we going?" Regina asked
"We should be looking for the castle where Mary Marget and David used to live." said Henry
They started walking with Regina giving directions where the castle once stood, and hearing some stories that Robin told about their time in the forest, stealing from the poor and giving to the rich.
Henry shook hands with Emma who was playing with her ring.
"Don't worry mom you will find Hook."
"Yeah" she said, reminding herself of all the times Killian said not to worry that he was a survivor.
