Caitlynn sat down on the ground as Mulan stood by Neal as then he woke up and the first Mulan asked to him. "Who are you?"

"Neal." He replied to her.

"How many times to I have to tell you, don't have to ask him anymore, you know already him name." Caitlynn grumbled.

"Is he well?" Aurora and Philip came to them.

"Well enough to be questioned." Mulan replied to her.

"No, there will no questioning." Caitlynn told her, clearly a day.

Aurora grabbed glass of water for Neal as she told him. "Here. Drink. Drink." She helped him drinking. "You must be thirsty."

"Where am I?" Neal asked after he drank the glass of water empty.

"You're in our kingdom." Aurora replied to him as Caitlynn stood up while she still had a little head ache left.

"Where's your…" Neal asked to her. "where's your kingdom?"

"The Enchanted Forest." Philip replied to him.

"Yep, your back." Caitlynn nodded to Neal.

He frowned at her. "I'm back."

"Back?" Aurora asked to him, surprised. "You mean you're from here?"

"He's lying. Look at his clothes." Mulan told them. "He's from the same world Emma and Snow are from."

"He isn't laying, i am not laying, we came from the land without magic." Caitlynn rolled her eyes, as if she wasn't heard to them.

"Emma? Emma swan? You know her?" Neal asked to them.

"How do you know her?" Mulan asked, frowning at him.

"She's… She's my… I.. I don't know." He groaned in pain as he was trying to sit up. "But she's in danger. I have to get back to her. I have to help her!" Then he sat fully up as Caitlynn helped him.

"You need to rest." Philip advised him. "You were gravely injured when we found you." Then he looked at his wound, that was bandaged up. "Were you hit by some kind of arrow?"

"45 caliber arrow. Look, I…" He glanced at Caitlynn. "We… need your help. I need to know that Emma and Henry are all right."

"You're… You're Henry's father?" Aurora asked to him as he nodded to her, then she told her story. "I was once under a sleeping curse. Snow taught me how to control the nightmare. And with practice, I'm able to walk the dream world, find others like me who have passed through." Then Neal stood up. "It's possible I can make contact with them. If I can, what would you like me to tell them?"

"Tell Emma I'm alive, and I love her." Neal replied to her.

"And that I'm alive as well and tell Gold that I miss him." Caitlynn told Aurora.

Aurora nodded to her as she lied down on the thing, where Neal had lied on, Philip helped her. Then Neal turned to Caitlynn. "How… How can you love him?"

Caitlynn looked at him. "Because, I accept him, not trying to change him in what he isn't, to be honest, he changed a little himself, cause he wanted that, not that I mind it."

Neal eyes narrowed a little. "I can't believe that."

"I'm sorry you can't believe that, but it is what it is." Caitlynn told him. "I know were are not on good terms, but at least we have the same coal to go back to my sister Emma." She looked at him. "And just you know, I'm bad, if you get to know me." She smiled at him.

He nodded to her. "Maybe you are right, I don't know you." He looked at her. "And we have the same coal."

"You just have to get to know me." Caitlynn smiled at him.

Then Mulan came to them. "Feeling better?" She asked.

"Yeah." Neal replied to her.

"How did you two get here?" Mulan asked to both of them.

"I fell through a portal. I thought I thought I was gonna die, and… and I thought about this place. I thought about growing up here." Neal replied to her. "That's how portals work. They take you to wherever you think of."

"And I was knocked out, when we came here." Caitlynn told her.

"Well, what's it like, the other world?" Mulan asked to them.

"Uh, well, for starters, they think that this place is just a fairy tale." Neal replied before Caitlynn could. "Like a… like a legend, like we're all just characters in a story."

"I'm in a story?" Mulan asked confused. Caitlynn stood there listening their conversation.

"Yeah." Neal explained. "They made a movie about you. It's actually pretty good."

"What's a movie?" Mulan asked to him.

Then Aurora woke up and she sat up, looking at them. "Uh… It's worse than I feared." Then she stood up, with the help from Philip. "I couldn't make contact. I wish I could be more help. I… I fear no one can."

"My father can. He always had a plan." Neal told them. "Uh, he would've left something behind, if he ever found himself back here. Something that can be used to contact Emma, to get to her. I know it. I just need to get to his castle."

"Who's your father?" Philip asked to him.

"Rumpelstiltskin." Neal replied to him.

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Caitlynn, Neal and Mulan were walking around to the Dark one castle. Then Mulan asked a question to Neal. "Can I ask you a question?"

"Yeah, I don't know how to explain what a movie is."

"You say that you're fighting for Emma." Mulan glanced at him as Caitlynn walked after them, listening. "But she never mentioned you when she was here. Why is that?"

"Because I broke her heart." Neal explained to her. "I let her go so that she could break the curse and fulfill her destiny. And when it was broken, I could've gone after her. I could've told her I loved her. But I was afraid she would never forgive me, so I wound up taking the easy way out, which is not trying."

"Your belief in love wasn't strong enough to overcome your fear of rejection." Mulan concluded.

"Yeah." Neal told her. "Greatest regret of my life, not one I wish upon anyone."

Then Mulan turned to look at Caitlynn. "And did you confess about Gold, that you love him?"

"Yeah, I did." Caitlynn glanced at Neal. "Now he thinks that he and I are dead."

"What do you mean?" Mulan asked confused to her.

"Gold is Rumpelstiltskin." Caitlynn replied to her as she pointed at Neal. "His father."

Mulan nodded to her as then they spotted the Dark one castle, walking closer to it as then they finally arrived to it. Then they walked inside to if as Mulan comment. "It appears abandoned."

Neal spotted a cup, he walked to it and tasted it. "No. Someone's here." Then an arrow went for his face in to the wall. "Whoa!" Caitlynn had a fireball ready as Mulan had her sword ready.

"The first was a warning, milady." A voice said as then they looked to see man standing there. "Chivalry and all that." He stepped off the windowsill and held his bow and arrow ready.

"Who are you?" Caitlynn asked to the man.

"The name's Robin." The man… Robin replied to her.

"No way. Robin Hood." Neal exclaimed.

"I'd bow but this quiver's rather tight." He asked to them. "Now… What are you doing trespassing in my castle?"

"This castle belongs to The Dark One. It is you who trespasses." Mulan countered.

"He hasn't been seen since the queen's curse." Robin told her. "If he ever shows up, I'll be happy to vacate."

"No, no need. In fact you can have it. I just I need to look around for a bit." Neal told him as he wanted to avoid a argument.

"And who would you be to grant such title?" Robin asked to him.

"In this land, I'm known as Baelfire." Neal replied to him. "I'm his son."

Robin put his bow and arrow down. "My apologies." He waved with his arm. "Go ahead."

"You don't want to see I.D.?" Neal asked to him.

"Who would claim to be that who wasn't?" Robin asked back to him.

"Yeah." Neal nodded to him. "Good point."

"Your father would not stand for imposters." Robin told Neal. "He had quite a temper." Caitlynn chucked a little.

"You knew my father?" Neal asked to him.

"We crossed paths once, yes." Robin replied to him.

"Most crossings with my father don't end well." Neal comment.

"It was touch and go." Robin reassured him. "He spared my life. I owe him a debt."

"Well, I'm happy to collect." Neal clasped his hands together. "I'm looking for something he left here. A magical item."

"Well, I'm very sorry to disappoint, but I arrived shortly after the curse." Robin told him. "The place was cleaned out. Nothing of any value remains."

"Well, thieves and looters would only take what they could see." Neal comment.

"Well, you are right." Caitlynn comment to Neal as then he spotted a cane, he recognized it.

Neal picked it up as then Mulan asked to him. "What's magical of a knotted old cane? It probably belonged to one of the looters."

"No, it belonged to him." Neal pointed at the markings on the cane. "See these markings? He was keeping track of me growing." Then Neal waved with the cane as then a door appeared on the wall.

"I've handled that walking stick a dozen times." Robin told him. "It never released a cloaking spell before. My father enchanted objects so that what might be a useless piece of wood in the hands of a looter would become magical in his."

"Or in the hands of his only son." Mulan comment.

"He called it blood magic." Neal told them. "Might not always seem like it, but family was important to dear old dad."

"So…" Robin asked to him. "What's in there?"

"Let's find out." Neal replied to him.

They all walked to the door and Neal opened it, then Neal found something that could help them, a crystal ball. He put he hands around it. "I spent my entire life running from magic. Now it's the only thing that can help me." He focused on it, but it wasn't working. "It's not working." He turned around and put it on the table. "Why isn't it working?"

"Don't think of a place. Think of her, of my sister Emma, how you feel about her." Caitlynn replied to him. "Use your emotion."

Neal nodded to her as he put his hands on the crystal ball again as then a image came from Emma. "No. It can't be."

"What's wrong?" Mulan Frowned. "Isn't she there?"

"Yes, but that's not Storybrooke." Neal told them all. "Emma's in Neverland."

"We are going to never land, then?" Caitlynn crossed her arms.

"Yep." Neal replied to her.

"Great." Caitlynn sighed.

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