Samantha was at Granny's diner with Hook, Regina, Emma, Snow White, Charming and Henry. They were trying to figure out what to do with the info the "Author" had given them. About the savior aka Emma going dark.

"I'm going after Gold. He made this happen. He needs to pay for it." Emma said. Samantha looked at her and shook her head. Knowing that if she went after her father that wouldn't be good. Samantha was also worried about the fact her mother Belle wasn't there. But she shrugged it off.

"Careful don't go after him half corked." Hook said Samantha nodded at that.

"Yeah take it from me. Going after him is the worst thing you can do. Trust me I seen what he can and will do to people." Samantha told her honestly. Thinking back to the men he was tutoring and was going to skin alive but then her mother Belle let the men go.

"Yeah Hook is right he wants you angry." Charming said trying to reason with her. Samantha growled at him. She heard how Snow and Charming took Maleficent's baby and what they did to it. So at the moment she hated them.

"Yeah will I am angry it doesn't mean he is going to get what he is after. Do I wish I could change what I did to Cruella yeah. But that's regret. Not darkness. I think we all done something we regretted." She said looking at her parents. Clearly she was pissed at them too for what they did. "Right now I need to focus on one thing. That is how to keep Gold and the Author from causing any more damage."

"Kill Cruella wasn't your fault...will it is. But it was a mistake Emma. You didn't know she couldn't hurt Henry or kill him. So you did what you thought was best. I would had done the same thing. But don't go after my dad. That will only give him what he wants." Samantha told her.

Samantha was of course reading everybody's mind as they spoke. But then she read Maleficent's mind as she walked into the diner.

"She's not here to hurt us." She told everybody softly. So they would do something that would make Maleficent turn on them.

"I might be able to help with that." Maleficent said. Samantha gotten up and moved beside Emma. "It now appears we have a common foe Rumpelstiltskin." Samantha looked confused at first. But then she read Maleficent's mind more and she gotten it.

"But he brought you back to life." Charming said looking confused himself. Samantha looked at him then back at Maleficent.

"To help himself not me. Cruella's death only confirmed that." Maleficent replied.

"Ah so you want to turn on him before he turns on you." Hook said getting it. Regina was smirking as she said.

"I knew Gold couldn't keep the dragon on her leash for long." Samantha's eyes went wide at that. Thinking of everything Maleficent has done and what she could do to the whole town now. Not good at all.

"What do you want?" Snow asked in a tone. Samantha growled and was about to go after her. But Emma grabbed her arm to stop her. Samantha just sighed and looked at Maleficent again.

"Nothing from you." Maleficent told Snow flat out. "But your daughter..." She said looking at Emma. "I hear has a talent for finding people. Also that Samantha can read minds. I think they both can help me." Samantha nodded at that reading her mind more. Knowing what Maleficent needed help with. "I'm in." She told her.

"Yeah I do who do you want found?" Emma asked Maleficent.

"My daughter." Maleficent said softly.

"She's alive?" Snow gasped out.

"Yes she survived the journey to this land. The journey you sent her on." Maleficent told her. Snow and Charming looked away feeling guilty. Samantha smirked thinking they deserved it and much worse for what they did. Sam was normally a good kid but when it came to hurting the people she cared about. It was hell to pay. Maleficent is Sam's cousin and even with all the bad stuff Maleficent done in the past. Sam still loved and cared for her deeply.

"You want to pro vent Rumpelstiltskin from doing whatever it is he wants? What better way then leaving this town and helping me?" Maleficent continued. Samantha nodded at that thinking it was a win-win. They could help Mal and get away from her father at the same time. To stop him for a while and figure out what they could do next.

"I'm not running away from Gold." Emma said Samantha groaned at that.

"It's not running away from him. It's hindering him." Maleficent told Emma. Samantha looked at Emma.

"It is a win-win. Face it we both know what Maleficent can do to everybody. If we help her the dragon in her might settle a little bit. This will also give us time to think about what to do about my father and his plans." Samantha said. Emma knew Sam was right.

"What do you know about her?" Emma asked.

"Just what the dark one showed me. That she was banished to this world. 30 years ago. To a place called called Minnesota, where she was adopted by a couple and they named her Lilith." Maleficent said.

"No." Emma said running out of the diner.

"Emma what is it?" Hook tried asking her. He looked at Sam. "Do you know?" Samantha nodded turning to face them.

"She thinks she might know her from the past. So I have to tell mama that I am leaving and make sure she will be okay. No doubt in my mind dad would be going after her. Regina can you handle Emma?" When Regina nodded at Samantha. Sam ran out of the diner to go looking for her mom.