Author Note: Take place in Season 6, just after the finale! Also, this was inspired by a good French TV Show called The Returned.

The Returned

Chapter One: The Dead Who Came Back To Life

Henry woke up suddenly with a gasp. He looked around and sighed in relief when he saw he was just in his bedroom at Regina's. He reached for his phone to inform himself of the time. It was early in the morning, only eight A.M. He stood up, dressed himself and climbed down the stairs. The young boy sat on a chair in front of the table as his other mother appeared, a plate in her hands.
"I heard you moving and whining this night." Regina said in worry.
"Yeah, I had a nightmare but I don't remember it." He replied with a smile. "Don't worry about me, mom."
The woman nodded and went back to the kitchen. Henry finished eating, went to the bathroom to brush his teethes. As he was doing so, he heard Regina gasping on the phone.
"Are you sure?! It's impossible!" She yelled. "It must be an illusion or something… Right. Okay, I am coming over with Henry. Just… I guess, just stay calm. We are going to find out what is happening in this town… Once again. I just hope it's not another villain from whatever story. Alright. See you later, Emma."
Henry finished his business before joining Regina. She looked quite shocked by what his other mother had told her.
"Come on, Henry. We have to go visit old family relatives." She said as she took her car key.

They arrived at the dinner and entered it. Regina stopped in her tracks and started to hyperventilate at the sight of her father, standing here, alive, with Daniel (her former lover), Robin and Cora. Someone rushed to help her sit down on a chair and gave her an already prepared glass of water. Henry was also shocked to see Neal speaking with his mother and the man noted that his son was there. The teenager rushed toward him and hugged him tightly. The older man chuckled and ruffled his son's hair.
"You grew up, ugh?"
The parents of Snow were there too, well alive, talking with everyone. Emma and Hook walked toward Regina who was just observing her old loved ones.
"What…? How…?" She babbled.
"We don't know how, but they are pretty much real." The former pirate said as he eyed his brother with a smile.
"We also think someone is behind this." Emma added seriously, hands on her hips.
"Oh please, Miss Saviour." Cora told her. "Let us reunite with our daughter… And lover." She said as she looked at the two men who were standing awkwardly next to each other.
"Of course. Take all the time you need."
They looked around, holding hands and felt a bit happy about this situation, because all their deceased friends and relatives and more were there, alive. Ruby was chatting with her deceased and former nearly boyfriend who didn't seem to be afraid of her and to have forgiven her for killing him. Graham was there too, talking with Neal and Henry. Zelina walked in the dinner and reunited with her mother. Suddenly, Rumpletilskin and Belle entered the dinner, accompanied by Malcom, who was whispering curses. The Charmings family froze on their spots because they feared that even if Malcom was in his adult body, he may still had his powers and they guessed that the man only wanted to cause chaos everywhere in town and to take revenge on them. Belle saw that and smiled at the assembly.
"You don't have to worry about him. He is harmless."
"And we made sure that he doesn't touch any magic related item." The former Dark One added.
"Henry!" Malcom smirked at the teenage boy. "Why don't you come here and give your great grandfather have a hug?"
The boy seemed to be very uncomfortable by this that he hided behind Neal and his others grandparents. Eva, Snow White's mother, looked at the man.
"Who is this?"
"My father." Rumpletilskin answered. "A vile character if you ask me…. And everyone here."
"There are still people missing." David said. "The dwarves are searching for more and so are some trusted knights and friends."
"And I am going to do this also." Graham informed them, looking at Regina. "I think I can help."
"Wait… What if the Black Fairy is here? Maybe she will try to kill us again… or worse!" Emma panicked.
"Don't worry, dear child." Cora told her. "I noted that I loose my powers, so have this man child and probably the rest of the people who used to have magic before they died."
Malcom sat on a high chair in front of the bar. Ruby glared at him and he chuckled at that.
"I am not scared of you, werewolf."
"You should be."
Hook saw that his older brother was walking out of the small restaurant so he went after him quickly.
"Hey, what are you doing? Aren't you happy to see me?"
"Yes I am, Killian but… I feel out of place. So much things happened to you, you are a married man now… I am going to help this sheriff to find the missing ones."
"Emma and I are going to search near the whishing well and around. We never know who we can find." Hook approved.
"Right… Killian. If you see father…"
"Don't worry, I know what I will do with him. Good luck, brother. We will see each other tonight. I want to eat and drink with you and told you about the amazing adventures I have been on!" The former pirate laughed as he watched his brother go with Graham.
He knew how his brother was feeling. Out of place. But who, from the dead people who came suddenly back to life, wasn't? He observed as Neal and Emma were talking on a friendly tone, with Henry by their side. He sighed, waiting for his wife to come out and she did, with another person. Neal was there too.
"Neal is coming with us." The blond woman informed him.
"I can see that, love. What for?" He asked.
"If I recall well, all the people who were killed by whatever person or by a disease, related to us, is now alive. That mean that Felix too and he is the only one missing person that I know." Neal answered, looking at him in worry. "And I don't know what he will do alone in the forest."
"Shit." Emma cursed as she felt drops of rain falling on her body. "It's starting to rain."
"And it's going to rain heavily for the whole day and night. A little storm." Grumpy said as he walked quickly in with a blind woman at his side in the dinner.
"What do we do?" Killian asked his wife.
"We will search for the boy tomorrow." She decided. "He is a lost boy, isn't he? Then, he will survive this little storm."
"I hope so." Neal sighed, looking at the sky. "I know for sure he is resourceful but I hope he will find shelter soon."
"Why are you worrying about him, Neal?" Emma asked him as she watched Killian going back inside. "He was on Pan's side the last time we saw him."
"Emma, for the Dark Curse, Pan needed the heart of the thing he loved the most and I am pretty sure it was Felix. Now, imagine this: you are alone, in a place you don't really know, you had been betrayed by your friends and by your best friend, by your leader to whom you literally vowed a cult to… If he remembers all that, I am not certain he is feeling at his best…" The man told her.
The blond woman nodded, understand what he meant.
"Alright. Granny is offering free rooms for people who need one, or you could sleep at my place…"
"No. Don't be worried about me. Your good friend Graham still has his house and he offered me to sleep there." He smiled as he saw the man waiting for him inside his car, with Daniel, the first love of Regina, killed by his mother. "I hope Hook doesn't mind me hanging with you tomorrow."
"He doesn't. Like the rest of us, he is a bit… shaken up by what is happening right now."

Malcom walked around the house of his son, watching the family pictures and other photos and paintings. He stopped at one, where everyone of Henry's family was there, looking at the camera, smiling happily… Even his son… It disgusted him. Rumpletilskin once had all the powers in the worlds and realms, thanks to him. If he didn't had abandoned him, his son would be someone… weak. He sighed, trying once again to see if his magic was working but it wasn't.
"I told you so many times already, papa. The dead who are now alive and who used to have magic doesn't have it anymore." The former Dark One taunted his father with a cruel smile.
"Did you find any of the lost boys?" Malcom asked, falsely interested.
"Yes, reunited with their families who adopted them. But… About the one you loved very much and that you sacrificed for your own revenge, he still was not found and as you know, it's raining very hard outside…"
"I don't care about him. If he is alive, well good for him, if he dies…"
"I know when you are lying, papa. I read it on your face. Whatever you two had in Neverland, this kind of relationship is not allowed here. Also, I don't think he wants to see or talk to you, after all what you did to him. Poor boy… Betrayed by everyone he trusted…" He teased.
"SILENCE!" Malcom roared as he turned toward his son. "You know nothing about this! You know nothing about me, about him, about Neverland!"
"Careful papa. Don't say things you could regret. Most of the town inhabitants would love to see you in prison or… dead." Rumpletilskin said as he circled him. "And I won't hesitate to do so."
The older man hummed angrily and Belle arrived in the room.
"Your bedroom is ready but don't expect me to clean or tidy it up." She declared, a book in her hands.
"Thank you, step daughter." He grinned evilly. "Have a nice night you two…"
Belle went beside her husband and looked at him in worry.
"What if he tries to do anything?" She murmured.
"He won't. He has a bracelet that only I can get it off of him that forbid him to touch magic related things. Also, I installed some cameras inside his bedroom so I can watch what he is doing." The man answered in a whisper.
"Something is troubling you." Belle noted.
"Yes, I think that if we find Felix, the former second in command of my father when he was Peter Pan, I fear that he will want to see him…" He revealed.
"What? He is going to manipulate this boy again?!"
He nodded and he kissed her forehead.
"I hope Emma, Neal and Killian will find him soon then." The brown haired woman whispered. "And that he is alive."
"Don't worry, Belle… Don't worry…"

Emma frowned when she saw the wishing well and no boy was around, also no corpse.
"This mean that he may be alive, if we don't see his corpse." Killian said.
"Yes." Emma agreed. "Let's try to find clues or a trail… Neal?" The woman questioned the other man, who was crouching. "What are you doing?"
"There are marks of fight here but I can't see it clearly, because it rained yesterday. I guess an animal against a human."
"Felix?"
"I think so. There is blood here. Seems like the animal ran away too, look at this trail, but no blood." Neal explained to the two adults as he showed them. "It's going on the opposite direction but this one is headed in this direction. I can see footprints but it will be hard to track them down…"
"Let's follow them." Emma decided as Neal rose up from the ground.
"So, what are we going to say to him?" Killian asked as they walked in the forest. "Hey remember us? We forced you out of your dear island, your only home, to put you in a cell that you escaped thanks to your murderous friend that killed you right after?"
"Sounds good to me." Emma said, shrugging as she was following right behind Neal. "He tried to kill Henry. He was an accomplice of Pan."
"I prefer the term manipulated by Pan." Neal objected. "All the boys were. I see it with my own eyes. I still don't know why Felix worshipped him so much. There were a few rumours and stories made up by the boys at this time." He said, recalling each one of them.
"Yeah, I heard about one of them." Killian said. "Mermaids are quite talkative when they want to."
Emma stared at the two men in wonder.
"So, what happened to Felix?"
"The story from the mermaids I heard was that Felix was a boy Pan fell in love with and that he made his life so miserable that Felix felt lost. When he did feel so, Pan's shadow took him to Neverland but Pan preferred to act like he never loved Felix in front of the boys but in private…" Killian coughed. "I don't want to talk about that."
Neal stopped suddenly as he kneeled down. There was blood on the ground, near a ditch and quite a lot. The man cursed and turned to the two adults.
"He must be around here."
"Let's search in the ditch." Killian said.
After walking around for a moment, they found the lonely lost boy, moaning in pain, as he was trying to tie a cloth around his right leg. He raised his head when he heard moves and he frowned when he saw the three adults, looking down at him, in pity.
"What?" He spat. "Are you going to feed on my misery?"
"No, we are not going to do that." Emma said as she crouched down next to him and tried to heal him with her magic. She scowled when she saw it didn't really worked.
"Come on, mate." Killian said as he helped the boy to his feet. "We are going to correctly treat this wound, find some warm clothes for you and nice family to welcome you in."
"I don't need a family and I don't need your pity either!" Felix growled as he pushed Killian from him.
"Listen boy, you should be glad that those two wanted desperately to find you because they feared for your life." Emma scolded him with authority. "So now, you are under our charge and since you are a minor, you are going to listen to every order we will give you."
Felix didn't answer but he was clearly unhappy about this decision. Emma sighed and turned to look at her husband.
"Let's go back to Storybrooke."

Author Note: The first chapter was quite… messy, don't you guys think? But I hope that you guys liked this one, it's just based on a idea I had one day… Anyway, I hope I didn't make any single mistake, leave a comment or review and have a nice day or night! ^^