Hay Everyone, thanks for the Alerts etc and special thanks to moodymel for the review, it means a great deal to me.

None of the characters belong to me i just like playing with them =D I've changed the title of the fic from the beginning of the end to all it takes is a little... magic. I changed it because the first title just didnt sit well with me, no idea why.

Spoilers - Anything up until the Mad Hatter episode also a small reference to Tin Man

Rated - T

Unbetaed

Pairings - now that would be telling...

Dedication - Dedicated to moodymel for her review of my first chapter

"Belle? As in beauty?" Emma asked.

"I'm sorry" Belle replied "I don't know what you mean"

"Never mind, lets get you out of here then Belle" Emma closed the hatch and ran towards the office, they had spent so long talking Regina could be back any minute. Emma scanned the office searching for the keys to the cell, she found them resting on a hook on the wall. She ran back to the cell, trying all the keys on the chain, the 6th she tried fitted the lock; she turned the key to hear metal scrapping on metal as the lock slid out and the door swung open.

Belle stood there beaming at Emma "Thank you! Thank you so much!"

"Don't thank me yet" Emma replied "We need to get out of here first" with that Emma turned back down the corridor Belle following closely behind. They ascended the flight of stairs stopping at the top so Emma could listen at the door, all she could hear was the hustle of a busy hospital, she cracked the door open slightly and peered out. Regina was nowhere in sight. Emma turned back grasped Belle's hand and calmly walked out the door and towards the exit.

As they neared the exit Emma spotted Regina, she was bust talking to a nurse to noticed the pair of them as they quietly slipped out of the hospital. "What is this place?" Belle asked staring in disbelief at what she saw in front of her eyes. "What do you mean?" Emma asked. Belle didn't answer, she just stood there taking in everything that was around her, she knew nothing of this world. "Belle, I'm sorry but we have to get out of here, if Regina sees us…" The name Regina seemed to snap Belle back to reality and she realised that for now it didn't matter, she just needed to hide.

Emma grasped her hand and they walked towards the police station as quickly as they could without actually running. As soon as they entered the police station Emma felt safe again, she knew that Regina could still find them here but somehow she just felt safe here. "What is this place?" Belle asked. "It's a police station" Emma replied "I'm the sheriff here"

Belle looked at Emma with complete confusion, then her face changed as she realised what Emma was "A tin man? You're a Tin Man?"

"Erm, I'm sorry I don't know what that is"

"A law man, you uphold the law?"

"Ohh then yeah I guess I'm a Tin man" Emma said this as they rounded the corner into her office, Mary Margaret stood in her cell "About time, I'm starv…" Before she could say anything else Belle was running to the cell "Snow? Snow is that really you?" Both Emma and Mary Margaret just stood there complete shock evident on both their faces. They both knew that in Henry's mad theory, Mary Margaret was indeed Snow White, but this women had no way of knowing that she cannot have had any contact with Henry, let alone Henry tell a complete stranger his theories.

"Snow White?" At this point tears were openly streaming down Belle's face as she looked into her friend's eyes and saw not even a glimmer of recognition. "You don't know me do you?" Belle asked. "I'm sorry" Mary Margaret replied as she shook her head. "My name is Belle, I am one of your closest friends, and I have been held captive by Regina for so long"

"What?" Mary Margaret said looking to Emma for confirmation

"I found her locked in a cell hidden under the hospital, she doesn't know how long she was kept there, but she knows nothing about this place. When I bought her outside she was in complete and total shock, like she'd never seen this place before" Emma said staring at Mary Margaret completely understanding the repercussions of what it was she was saying.

"That's because I haven't" Belle replied clinging to the bars of Mary Margaret's cell for strength "This isn't our home Snow, we shouldn't be here, the evil queen sent a spell… it was supposed to take away all our Happy Ever After's… not that I had one" She said with a smirk.

"Why didn't you have a Happy Ever After?" Mary Margaret asked, Emma gave her a 'why do you have to encourage her' look.

"Because the man I love rejected me, he claims he prefers to be the monster he thinks he is" She stared off into the distance as if remembering an old memory. Mary Margaret looked to Emma and mouthed one simple line "Beauty and the beast"

At that point Emma couldn't stand it anymore and said the only thing her brain was capable of saying "Ok… what the hell is going on?"

"What if Henry's right?" Mary Margaret said

"What? Are you mad? Think about what you're saying…"

"Emma, what other explanation is there?" Belle whipped her head around at that point at stared at the women who had rescued her.

"Emma?" Belle said with a look of absolute amazement on her face.

"Yeah…"

"Your name's Emma?"

"Yeah… So?"

"How old are you?" Belle asked

"What's that got to do with anything?"

"Please" Belle replied "Just tell me"

"I'm 28" Emma said, Belle turned back to face her friend.

"You got her to the wardrobe!" Belle said with tears threating to leak from her eyes. "You saved us all!" a smile spread across Belle's face, her first real smile since Rumpelstiltskin had thrown her from his home.

Emma just stared at the women in front of her, if she was to believe what her brain was telling her, they were her mother and The Belle. She shook her head "No" she said aloud "This isn't happening, it can't be, it's insane"

"We must break the spell" Belle replied, ignoring Emma's previous statement "There is only one man I know capable of performing such a task… Rumpelstiltskin"

Hope you enjoyed the 2nd chapter, please review