Well here's the truth I'm not sure if anyone is enjoying this story but I'm having a BLAST writing it sooo if you like it please enjoy the next chapter and leave a review if not still leave a review and tell me how I can improve it. Also my deepest apologies for all of the grammar/spelling errors in the last chapter like I said I'm a little rusty and also lacking a beta *cringing emoji face* Anywho enjoy!

Silence envelops the group. Emma is stricken all the color drains from her face. Killian staggers back as though in pain, he looks at Emma with a love that permeates the air.

"She's dead? She dies? How? Can you stop it is that why you're here?"

Leia takes a deep breath steadying herself, "I don't know."

All the sounds and colors blur around her as Emma tries to process this revelation. She, Emma Swan was going to die and leave her daughter motherless? She had sworn to herself endlessly that she would never abandon her kids, but death had never been a factor. After all it takes a lot to kill a savior. But, even a savior is human and doesn't have power over death. Slowly and carefully she reaches out to Killian. He takes her hand kissing it and she places the other protectively on the stroller. As though attempting to shield her still innocent daughter from some lurking danger.

"Who does it? What happens?"

Leia shakes her head, "It's not really a who well it might be…but it's more of a what and it wasn't just you. It was a full-blown epidemic. Dad and Henry were there and they said it wiped out half of Storybrooke, no one could stop it…"

Killian steps in front of Emma subconsciously "Wait did you say epidemic? It was a disease?"

"Technically it was a virus."

"I don't give a damn about technicalities love, are you telling me my Emma is going be killed by a bloody ailment? Well there must be a cure or what do you call them vacuums?"

Both women smile at his blunder and respond simultaneously, "Vaccines."

Leia looks Emma dead in the eye, "There isn't a vaccine or a cure…yet that's why I'm here. Even though I was too young to remember anything Henry told me what happened and wrote every detail he could remember in the notebook." She reaches into her bookbag and pulls out a leather-bound notebook and hands it to Emma who immediately flips it open, scanning the first entry and reading a list of names aloud.

"Regina Mills, Zelena, Rumplestiltskin, Gideon, Blue Fairy, Aladdin, Elsa…I don't understand what's this list for?" She hands it to Killian and he begins thumbing through the pages.

"Henry wrote down the names of everyone who died of the virus."

"They all died?"

She nods, "And they all had one thing in common, magic. Henry and I, came to the conclusion that the virus was somehow tailored or created to attack people with inherent magical abilities. But, we don't have any idea who created the virus or how or even why…"

"Well that's bloody perfect. If you don't who made it or even what it is how the hell are you going stop it? No offense love but you don't look old enough to be a physician or an alchemist."

Leia blows out her breath in frustration and Killian marvels at how much the gesture reminds him of Emma. "Dad…" She can see he's uneasy about the title, as he glances at his tiny daughter who only hours ago he had been imploring to gurgle 'Da Da'.

"…Killian…", it comes out forced and unnatural "DAD! Argh! Please just trust me? I have a plan I'm not going to let this happen without a fight. I want baby Leia to grow up with her mom more than anyone and more importantly we need mom and all the magic wielders in the future. Even though we don't know who or exactly why the epidemic happened we finally concluded that it was a power move. By killing off everyone who possessed magic Storybrooke is left defenseless. But if we can prevent the virus or cure it or even just stop it from spreading future Storybrooke might stand a chance against whatever thing was after Henry and I before he sent me through the magic portal with Dad's old compass."

Killian smiles knowingly at Emma, "See love? I told you that 'sentimental piece of junk' would come in handy someday."

Emma rolls her eyes, "Don't look so pleased with yourself pirate you're romanticism may have come through but that doesn't change the fact we are facing a massive and do not have time to stroke your ego."

The incorrigible pirate just laughs and kisses away the worry lines on her forehead

Leia shakes her head imperceptibly thinking to herself that "This playful, cocky, grinning man cannot be the same sad, serious man who raised me? Could he? It's not like I've never seen him smile before, but I swear I've never heard him laugh like that…" She shakes those thoughts away, "Alright well first you should probably drop off the baby with Grandma Snow then we need to go see Mayor Mills about a spell. If we can figure out a way to splice a tracking spell with a protection spell so that we can prevent anyone's magic being stolen or altered, we might be able to stop this thing before it starts."

Emma nods affirmatively, "Alright kid, first stop the Charmings' residence, but before we get to the town hall you better get used to saying Aunt Regina, she won't like the formality.

"And a name is a powerful thing love. The name Mayor Mills, left Regina and this town a long time ago…"

What did you think? Remember you review and I write it's a give and take relationship ;P

K. Kelly