When I woke up on that cold November morning I was not prepared for the events that were going to take place. It was the day of my nineteenth birthday, which I had no one to celebrate with seeing as I was an orphan. I wasn't scheduled to work at the diner so I decided to stay inside in my PJ's all day. I watched multiple movies and I even took a nap before I decided to head to the store for a cupcake, kind of my own personal birthday treat to myself. I quickly picked it out and was on my way back to my apartment. When I arrived there was a women sitting in front of my door her long blonde hair seemed familiar to me. When see looked at me i knew instantly who it was.

"Emma?" I asked puzzled.

"Ava, we need to talk." The woman said in a sincere tone.

I let Emma in and we sat next each other on the couch. She was about nine years older then me and until she ran away from the children's home when I was six, we were thick as thieves. She checked up on me every so often even now that we were older.

"You know when you were really little and I would tell you stories about finding my parents and when I did I'd come find you too?" She looked at me.

"Yeah, it gave me hope that one day I wouldn't be alone." I said.

"Ava, this is going to be really shocking and hard to understand." Emma says grabbing my hand.

I looked at her with a sense of worry across my face as I shook my head.

"I found them but Ava there your parents too and it's a really long story that I will tell you and I need you to believe, ok?"

I again nodded my head but at this point I didn't know if I should be upset or happy.

"We are the daughters of Snow White and Prince Charming. I was given up when I was born for my safety and so I could return to save everyone from a curse. You were taken from our parents when somehow against all odds they fell love well in this curse where they had no clue who one another were. The curse didn't break because I was the only person that could achieve that."

I was in complete and utter shock, I looked at Emma and couldn't say a word. Then I remembered the book, my baby blanket, and my birth certificate from a place I didn't know existed.

"What is the name of the town Emma?" I asked panicked.

"Storybrooke"

I ran to my room and pulled out the box full of stuff that I had from my childhood. Walking back to the living room with it in tow, I was trying to process everything. I sat next to Emma, pulled out everything that was in the box and laid it on the coffee table. The last thing I pulled out was the story book.

"These are the things from my childhood, but this book magically appeared in my dresser last year I've read it cover to cover but I didn't think any of it was real. I just realized you and I are both in it. Who took me from them?"

"Rumpelstiltskin."

I quickly flipped to the page and read the last paragraph.

"Baby Ava was ripped from her parent's arms and whisked away to a land without magic by the evil Rumpelstiltskin. He used what little magic he had to make the town forget all about the last year. Little did he know years from now that baby would return as the one and only healer of her people. Just like her sister before her she was special and she would make everyone have the hope to go on."

Emma and I looked at each other in shock, the book had never written about events in Storybrooke so this was a first and that surprised Emma the most. The pure shock of who I really was made me a little uneasy as well. All the emotions came over me at once. I was angry, sad, confused, and happy.

"I need you to pack a bag. We are going to go to Storybrooke. Mom and dad are waiting for us at home. One thing, your powers will work there so don't let that alarm you I will teach you how to control them." She says.

"Powers." I asked panicked.

"It's kind of a girl thing in our family. I'll explain more later." She said.

The whole time I was packing I was thinking this can't be true, is Emma just tricking me into going with her. If I didn't trust her I wouldn't have gone at all. I knew deep down she was telling the truth and that made me feel amazing to finally find my family.

The whole car ride back from Boston we talked she told me that we had a baby brother and not to freak because our parents looked young it was all part of the curse. I learned I had a nephew named Henry and that I needed to ignore everything I ever thought I knew about fairy tales. When we entered town I instantly felt different it was like a rush of something came over me.

"Ava this is our home." Emma said looking at me.

It was a small quaint town, it was actually nice to be away from the hustle and bustle of the city. We pulled up to a building and Emma motioned me out of the car, I followed her upstairs to an apartment and we both went in. There she was just as I imagined her, I have her smile, which was bigger than I ever thought it could be.

"Mom, dad this Ava. Your daughter." Emma says with a grin.

Snow slowly walks up to me and you can tell she is fighting back tears.

"Can I hug you?" She asks tearfully.

I nodded yes and when she hugged me, I felt an instant connection. Behind her I saw the man who I looked a lot like. I had his brown hair and blue eyes. I was comfortable with them, I thought I'd be mad but I wasn't I felt safe and loved for the first time in a long time. I had a family. I think it also helped knowing I was taken from them and not willingly given away, even though the background of who my family was, was a lot to take in all at once. I had read the book cover to cover every day since I found it, deep down I knew there was a connection but I thought I was crazy.

"So Ava what do you want to know?" Snow says pulling herself together.

"I think Emma covered a lot of it for me or maybe it was the book. I'm not sure." I said tears streaming down my face.

"Do you want to meet our brother?" Emma asked walking over to a playpen and lifting the little boy out of it.

"Yeah." I said wiping tears off my cheeks.

"Ava this is Neal." Charming said as Emma handed him to me.

"Neal I like that name." I said.

"He was named after Henry's father, he passed away." Snow said.

"Kind of how I was named after Grandma Ava? It was in the book." I asked my mother.

"Yeah exactly like that." she stated.

"Where's Henry? I want him to meet his aunt." Emma asked.

"He went with Regina." Charming said.

"Wait back up, Regina as in the evil Queen who tried to kill mom Regina?" I asked confused not realizing I had called her mom way too soon.

"Yeah, she isn't evil anymore and I share custody of Henry with her. I put him up for adoption when I had him and she adopted him." Emma said trying to get me to understand.

"That wasn't in the book." I said puzzled.

"Your story is the only one that's in the book, that's from this town. Everything before you were born is from the Enchanted Forest." Emma said.

We spent the next three hours discussing everything about our confusing family. Who to trust, who not to trust, and just the town in general. Emma was known as the Savior which I could understand from the stories she told me and that's what the book even referred to her as. The book referred to me as the Healer, I was confused by what that meant exactly but I was sure I'd find out soon enough.