A/N: Hey, everyone! This is my first fanfiction. I hope you enjoy it!

Chapter 1: Pilot: And the final battle begins

Present time

It was raining, when they arrived.

Everyone was in his own thoughts.

Three days ago, Emma had found the perfect house in a small town in Maine. It sounded great. Small, not many visitors, everything in peace. There was no better place for kids growing up in.

Neal and his adoptive sister Lace immediatly knew that this was the place where everyone from the enchanted forest were sent to.

But Emma and the kids didn't. It seemed easier not to tell them what was going to happen. As much as Neal and Lace knew, breaking the curse was just the beginning. So they planned to tell Emma when they had settled down and had gotten an oversight of the town.

And there it was: The sign saying Welcome to Storybrooke. Here was the beginning of their great adventure. If you could call it adventure.

19 years ago

She was scared. Lace knew how reckless Pan could be.

So she just had to get out of this cursed island.

And Baelfire had a plan. A plan which could mean their freedom.

She could get her life back. She was dreaming about going home for so many years now.

Bae looked at her. "Let's get out of that island." He smiled and she smiled back.

11 years ago

It had been years know since they escaped from Neverland.

Lace and Bae had lived for some years with the Cassidys until they weren't able to take care of them anymore so they ran away, because they had heard so much bad things about the forster care system.

They also went with Lucy and Neal Cassidy now because those names were more common in this land than their real ones.

Living as thiefs and sleeping in a yellow bug wasn't the perfect life but it was a good one. They weren't alone, they had each other.

One day while Lace was on her way getting some breakfast, Neal waited at their car. They had stolen it years ago.

But when Lace came out of the shop with their breakfast Neal was already in front of the shop. And he wasn't alone. The girl with him had tried to steal their already stolen car.

It turned out her name was Emma Swan, she was a year younger than Lace and obviously a thief just like them. And from that moment on it wasn't just the two of them anymore it had become just the three of them. But even that didn't last for long.

Neal and Emma were already in love for some time when turned out that Lucy and Neal were wanted for stealing some watches a long time ago.

But of course this wasn't enough. A guy calling himself Emmas guardian angel wanted them to leave Emma. To make them listening he showed them that he knew that Neal was Baelfire. But they didn't. They couldn't. Emma had become a part of their family. Whatever Emmas destiny was, her destiny wouldn't change by them staying with her.

And all three of them started over in Tallahasee.

Where it turned out that Emma was pregnant with Neal's baby.

3 days ago

Lace knew that her life was supposed to change.

But when she was a child she had never thought about to have this kind of life she had now.

Changes were normal for her.

She had grown up in the enchanted forest until she as five.

When she was ten she ended up in Neverland for four years.

And then everything with Emma happened.

From the little girl in the enchanted forest to the grown up woman who had a sister-in-law, a nephew and two little nieces.

She remembered her former adoptive brother she didn't have seen for years.

They were adoptive siblings back in the enchanted forest, so he was obviously in this town. She was so happy to see him again.

Thinking about Augusts words, she wondered why he didn't know about her being Lace. Maybe he had never heard of her. You can't know about everyone in the enchanted forest.

She packed her bags.

Since she was transported out of the enchanted forest she was dreaming of going home. In Neverland she thought they would go back there, but they didn't. With meeting Emma it was the right decision to live in his land and not to go back. But now she was about to go home and she couldn't tell how happy she was.

Storybrooke. There was home. There was her family. Just like Emmas and Neals.

"How are you feeling?", Neal asked.

"Great. I'm going home. Finally. And you? I know how you are feeling about your Dad, so…"

"Scared. But also happy about you and Emma. You're going to see your families again. Especially Emma. She is going to meet her parents after she escaped that curse as a newborn. She is going to meet them finally."

Lace smiled at him, hoping it would help him. Facing his father after all those years wasn't easy.

"Let's go home.", said Neal. Laces smile became bigger, when she remembered Neals words about leaving Neverland. Let's do this. Let's go home.

Present time

The new house was blue and had turrets. It was wonderful.

"A castle!", shouted Claire, the youngest. She was six just like her twin sister. Between them were only minutes. "Everything looks like fairy tale in your way.", said Henry.

Emma knocked at the door. The former owner had said they would meet at the house. The door opened immediatly. It was like the former owner had waited behind the door all the time.

The kids made a step back. The old man looked scary with his short brown hair and the stick in his right hand.

Neal stood behind everyone, so noone saw his shocked face. His father.

He didn't know what to do, so he just stood there hoping Emme knew what she was doing.

"So you are the new owners. See, normally I just rent the houses, but for you I'm going to make an exception. I just need your names to complete the contract.", he said. He didn't seem to be changed since they saw each other the last time in Neal's opinion. But he hoped he was wrong.

"Neal, Lucy, Henry, Zoey, Claire and I'm Emma Cassidy."

"Emma! What a lovely name!", said Neal's father. It had looked like had woken up from something. Neal's first idea was to curse, but how? How could he wake up from something he didn't created? Or he created it.

"Thanks.", said his wife not knowing what was going on.

"Here are the keys. Enjoy your stay, Emma. And of course the rest of the charming family.", he said. Charming, now it was clear: His dad remembered.

His dad made his way to the road, but not without looking at Lace. His face looked like he couldn't understand something.

"Let's go!", said Neal interrupting the scary moment.


Miles away a little girl read in her favorite book.

When the story ended, she put the book under the pillow.

Protecting not only the book, the little hope she had, from her mother, also the saviour, who was supposed to arrive someday in the little town to save everyone.

She looked up to get a last look at the clock tower before she was going to sleep.

And in that moment the clock moved for the first time in twenty eight years.

The little girl smiled. The saviour was here. The curse was going to be broken. Full of hope the little girl went to sleep.

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