A/N: So here's a random story idea I thought of, this takes place a few days after the the wraith is sent into the portal. In this story Emma and Mary Margaret don't fall into the portal and go to the Enchanted Forest, so that's why they are still around. I think I might see how much interest this gets to see whether I make it a multi-chapter story, it's all up to you guys who read it! Hope you enjoy?

Disclaimer: OUAT and the characters do not belong to me.

Henry woke up and yawned, trying to protect his eyes from the sun shining into his room. He frowned as he sat up, adjusting to the light and overall trying to wake up. It took him a few minutes before he was actually ready to hop out of bed and once he did he turned and saw his bedside table. He frowned at the book sitting there, for a moment he thought it was his old book, but when he saw the title, 'Ever After' he quickly opened the book and looked inside. He gasped as he turned through the book before yelling out, "Emma!"

Meanwhile downstairs Emma had just taken a sip of her coffee, Mary Margaret and David had gone out early so she was by herself. However she almost spat her coffee back out when she heard Henry call. She instantly got up, swallowing the coffee in her mouth before she ran upstairs, "What is it!?"
Henry turned around to face her, holding a book in his arms, one that looked almost identical to his first book.
Emma gasped and quickly walked over, "Is that your old book?"
Henry shook his head and opened to a page, showing a picture of when he was in hospital and the curse had been broken by Emma.
"What the hell," Emma took the book from him, flicking through the pages, "this is recent!
"Would my mum know anything?" Henry looked at the book as Emma looked through it.
"I don't know…we should go see, she's in here as well."
"Everyone's in there! Look, there's Ruby and Granny, Mary Margaret and David and Leroy!"
"Grab your coat kid, we're gonna go visit Regina." Emma closed the book and waited for him to go downstairs.

Barely ten minutes later, Emma was knocking on Regina's door with Henry by her side. Regina opened her door, hoping that it wasn't another angry mob, her frown faded only slightly when she saw Emma and Henry.
"We need to talk to you, Regina." Emma brushed past her, walking into house, Henry doing the same.
"I don't recall inviting you inside, Miss Swan." Regina looked at them before slowly shutting the door behind them.
"There's another book, mum." Henry walked into the dining room, placing the book on the table.
Regina frowned again, another of those cursed books, "Show me."
Henry opened the book to a page, the picture of Regina at the moment the curse broke.
Regina's eyes widened as she read and looked at the picture, it was indeed recent.
"Did you already know about this, Regina?" Emma walked in front of Regina, looking her in the eye.
"I had no clue where the first book came from, just like I have no idea where this one came from either." Regina looked at Emma before looking back down at the book.

The trio spent the better part of an hour reading the book, seeing everything that they had been through recently on paper and then finally, someone else. Well two other people actually, from the Enchanted Forest. It didn't make sense though, Regina thought they looked oddly familiar but at the same time she had most certainly never seen them around the town. Neither Emma nor Henry could place them either, but eventually they managed to find an explanation. As they turned to the page with both Rumplestiltskin and the two Regina put two and two together, and once they had read the deal, all three of them looked up at each other before continuing to read.

Finally they were near to the end of the book, after learning about the pair's time in the Enchanted Forest a bit more it had changed to the world they now lived in, allowing them to see what the couple had been up to during the 28 years of the curse. They had a daughter now, named Lauren and they had settled in Portland, Maine, not very far away at all from Storybrooke, seeing as they could have gone anywhere in the United States. Emma was at a loss, these people had managed to find a way to escape the curse- the same curse that had left her alone all her life-and the rest of the Enchanted Forest had been unable to do the same. It didn't make sense to her at all, but Henry snapped her out of it as he turned to the final page. The page had a picture of a car crash on it, one involving the couple and their daughter; it also happened to say that it had happened at 11:30am, today, the time now was just after 11:50am.

Lauren groaned slightly as she opened her eyes. Her head was pounding and when she held a hand to her head it came back wet and sticky. Her eyes widened as she saw the blood and it took her a minute before the events that had just taken place clicked into her brain. If she wasn't in shock she would've screamed when she saw her parents. Even though her brain went into overdrive she still knew she needed help. She cried out in agony when she opened her door, before unceremoniously falling out onto the ground. She should have stayed in the car, because now she was lying on the ground, somewhere in the woods with the blackness seeping in.

Emma couldn't help but think in a part of her mind, that perhaps she was imagining all of this. Maybe she'd gone crazy; it wouldn't be that far of a stretch. After all she was sitting in the passenger seat of Regina's car, heading towards the outskirts of the town just because it was written in some book. Also she was sitting in Regina's car, not her bug. That had happened after Regina refused to even lay eyes on the car. They stopped when they reached the border of the town, Regina requesting Henry stay in the car, causing him to protest until Emma backed Regina up, the crash looked nasty and Emma didn't want Henry seeing anything horrific. Henry begrudgingly stayed in the car as Emma and Regina walked followed the tyre tracks into the woods.

Regina was the first to spot the car, "Down there!"
Emma ran down the slope, Regina following behind her closely, inspecting the occupants of the front seat, she couldn't see their chests rising and falling but she could clearly see that the car was in bad shape, "Regina! Call an ambulance!"
Regina quickly obliged, grabbing her phone out of her pocket as she ran back up to the road.
Emma ran round to the other side of the car, stopping when she saw the girl lying on the ground, she quickly dropped to her knees, "Hello? Can you hear me? Squeeze my hands if you can hear me!" Emma wasn't that surprised at the lack of response so she quickly turned her head to the side, listening to see if the girl was still breathing while watching her chest. Lauren's breathing was still there, it just didn't sound that good, she also didn't look that good either.

Emma was glad when she finally heard the ambulance, it had only been a few minutes but it felt like hours. She had run back and forth between the car and the girl lying on the ground, looking for any of them to move, but the girl was unconscious and her parents were that or dead. The latter seeming more likely the longer Emma watched them. The paramedics focused their attention on Lauren as the rescue crew started to extract the couple in the car. Once they were both out they were loaded onto the ambulances, Emma walking back over to Regina's car, Henry looking at both of them wide eyed. "Let's follow them to the hospital, Regina."
Regina glared at Emma, she couldn't believe the woman thought she could just order her around, "Don't think this temporary…alliance means you can order me around, Miss Swan"
"Regina, can we please not argue and just go to the hospital."
Regina continued to glare at Emma before she turned her car on, waiting for the ambulances to rush past before she pulled away from the edge of the road.
"Did they look like the people in the book?" Henry piped up from the back seat.
Emma kept her eyes glued to the ambulance in front, "Yeah kid, they did."

A/N: Follow, favourite or review if you wish! Follows and Reviews would be much appreciated to let me see whether I should make this a multi-chaptered story! Thanks for reading!