Chapter Two: We are Both


Previously On Once Upon a Time Travel

"We're going to find Neal," Emma said.

"Before Tamara gets to him," Killian added.

"I'm so sorry about your daughter Emma," Peter said to Snow and Charming.

"EMMA! Look out!" Zelena screamed.

"What's that saying? The bill comes due?" Lucy asked. "I don't think they care about timelines."

"We have magic on our side," Henry pointed out. "Rumplestiltskin is the Dark One. He's more than capable of bringing down one of them."

"How great of a length will he go to prove he has changed when he finds out what you did?"


Enchanted Forest, Many Year into the Future's Past

Lucy and Henry hurriedly placed items on a table in a dimly lit room. A pounding noise came from the heavily boarded doors behind them.

"Hurry," Lucy moaned. She began rummaging through all the items.

Henry took each item that Lucy handed him. "Slow down. It has to be perfect for the spell to work." He placed a blood red apple at his feet. "Hatred." He walked to the left of the apple in a curving manner. "Impurity," he added, setting down a candlestick that was black on one end and white on the other. Henry took a glass box containing a glittering golden brain. "Stupidity," he whispered as he placed it across from the apple. The brain dissolved into grains of sand as it was set on the ground. "Cowardice," Henry murmured. He set a black cuff down across from the candlestick.

"Last ingredient," Lucy said hurriedly. Her head whipped back to look at the doors which received a harder and harder pounding by the second.

Henry picked up a golden necklace. It had a glowing green orb in the center. He tossed it into the center of the four objects and began to move his hand in a circular motion. A swirl of magic rushed from the four objects and met the necklace at the center. They twisted around each other until a portal was formed. At the same time, the doors burst open and the people on the other side ran in.

Regina, Robin, Snow, Charming, Belle, Rumplestiltskin, and Hook stared at Henry and Lucy.

"What did you do?" Regina yelled. "Henry Daniel Mills-!" But she didn't finish because her feet flew out from beneath her and she fell on her back, quickly being dragged into the portal. A red blur rolled after her.
"Emma's heart!" Hook cried out. He dove after it, following Regina and Emma's heart through the portal.
"Hook!" Charming exclaimed in alarm.
Henry pulled his grandfather towards the portal. "I'm really sorry, grandpa," he told Charming, "but I need to save my mom." He shoved Charming back towards the portal.
Henry did this for the rest of them. Snow, Belle, Rumplestiltskin, and Robin.
"Henry!" Lucy called.
Henry turned to face her. "Hold the portal open, Lu. I need to make a quick stop before I return to my past self."
Lucy laughed tonelessly. "Oh, Henry. You're so serious," she whispered, walking over to him. Upon reaching him, she caressed his cheek. "Too serious," she finished quietly, fingers falling from his face to his shoulders. She gave him a kiss. "Go, your family needs you."
Henry nodded. "Love you, Lu. See you on the other side."

"And you, Henry," Lucy smiled. "Take care of yourself, okay?"


Storybrooke, Present Day

"The dreams stopped," Emma said. She held up her hands. "And so has the twitching and shaking. Whatever it was, isn't a threat anymore."

"Maybe we beat it during the time our memories are missing," Belle suggested. "I mean, Henry's book keeps popping out new pages following your journey to the Underworld. It makes sense, right? I mean, I didn't cut Rumple out of our child's life this time. I wasn't really that torn up about it to begin with, but in the other time I was! Maybe there's this small part of us that knows everything and acts accordingly, but we still have the emotions and impulses that we should have if going to the Underworld actually was the last thing we did."

"True," Gold agreed.

"Speaking of," Robin said looking at Dior in Belle's arms. "Why hasn't Hades come to collect?"

"Gods exist out of space and time," Killian said. "Regardless of our time travel or even jumping into a different reality, whatever it is, Gold has paid his dues. In exchange for keeping his child, Gideon, safe, Gold did what Hades requested. Once that's been fulfilled, and it has, the debt is paid and Hades cannot come to collect on the debt in the form of Dior. She isn't even his second born."

"Exist out of space and time?" Henry repeated. "Does everything exist out of space and time?"

"Anything that's immortal," Killian nodded. "That's what I've been told. Gods, angels, the like."

Henry sat back. "Cool," he mumbled. "Uh, I've got to go to the bathroom," he blurted before running out of the room.


Narnia, Present Day

Lucy let out a small sigh of relief as she slipped out of the wardrobe and into the darkness of her room. A lamp flickered on.

"There you are," someone said.

Lucy gasped, but turned to see Edmund sitting in a chair opposite her bed.

"Where have you been?"

"In the gardens for a midnight walk," Lucy lied easily.

"And this midnight walk lasts for a week?" Edmund asked, raised eyebrows. "Lucy, we thought someone kidnapped you."

"That's ridiculous," Lucy snapped. "I was only gone for an hour most! I told you, I took a walk in the gardens. I couldn't sleep."

"Lucy, you've been missing for days," Edmund said shaking his head. "Susan and Peter were beside themselves with worry. We've send out a search party for you, I suppose we ought to call them back now. Where were you?"

Lucy sighed. "Okay, I wasn't in the gardens, but my absence shouldn't have lasted a week. I don't understand. I suppose I'll have to ask Henry, but I'm not sure even he would know," she mused.

"Who's Henry?" Edmund asked with narrow eyes.

"A good friend," Lucy answered with a smile. "Where are Peter and Susan?"

"Out," Edmund shrugged. "Looking for you."

"We have time then," Lucy said to herself. "Okay, Edmund. Follow me, please." She opened the wardrobe she had just left and pulled her brother walked for some time before Lucy reached out and opened another door. "Welcome to Storybrooke."


Storybrooke, Present Day

Lucy dragged Edmund to a brightly lit building.

"What the…?"

"This is Granny's," Lucy explained. "I left the phone Henry gave me here. I'll call him and hopefully he can meet us." She looked at the people in the diner and gasped. "We'll have to go the back way." She once again dragged Edmund off.

"Lucy?" A voice whispered.

Lucy spun around. "Henry! Just the guy I was hoping to see!"

Henry hurried over and looked around in worry. "Okay, so new development. Immortal being exist out of space and time. Gods, angels, et cetera. That give us like maybe a few months."

Lucy took a deep breath. "Okay. So we need to solve the Jadis problem soon. How long was it? Two years?"

"Yeah, and it's been just over a year. Time works differently in the Forest, so I can't be certain."

"We have six months at the least though," Lucy pointed out. "That much is guaranteed.

"What are you talking about?" Edmund asked.

Lucy and Henry exchanged a look.

"It's time to tell them," Henry agreed.


"Uh, hey," Henry said awkwardly to his family. "So me and two others have something to tell you."

Emma and Regina looked concerned.

"Lu? Ed? Come on in," Henry called.

Lucy and Edmund came into the room. Lucy waved uncertainly.

"They're from a different realm," Henry explained.

Lucy nodded. "Yeah. I'm, er, Lucy. Lucy Pevensie. I'm a Queen of Narnia."

"And I'm Edmund," Edmund added. "Er, a King of Narnia."

"Narnia's real too?" Emma asked in disbelief.

"Apparently," David said in shock.

Henry nodded. "Yeah, and Lucy and I are the ones who sent us back in time."

"What?" Gold gapped. "How did you manage a spell of that magnitude?"

Lucy rolled her eyes. "Well I wanted Henry to just write us all back but he said that authors can't do that. Anyway, we used Zelena's idea but changed it up a little. Plus we had a little help from an outside source."

"Which is…?" Regina prompted.

"Can't tell you that," Henry shrugged. "I don't even know how Lucy got it from the guy that had it."

"Everyone has to sleep at some point," Lucy giggled. "I just waited and used the ring I got to sneak in and take it. Easy peasy!"

"Why did you send us back?" Snow asked in confusion. "And why take our memories?"

Henry looked away. "Something really bad happened. The memories would be too much. At least, we think so. Lucy and I can't really tell you for certain. We don't remember either."

Lie, Lucy wanted to say, but she just nodded in affirmation.

"I still don't understand what's going on," Edmund said, annoyed.

"You and me both kid," Neal muttered.

"I am a King," Edmund said insulted.

"You're what, 12?" Neal scoffed. "I'm a few centuries old."

"This is Emma, Killian, Henry, Regina, Robin, Belle, Rumplestiltskin, Snow White, and Prince Charming," Lucy said slowly, pointing to each she named. "Henry and I did a spell to send them back in time."

"I got that part," Edmund snapped. "What's this about Jadis?"

Lucy looked sad. "She didn't die, Edmund. I don't understand why, but she came back. She kidnapped Peter, Susan, and you. I was able to escape and I found Henry and his family. They helped me rescue you guys."

"Sure sounds like you remember," Snow said frostily. "Care to share?"

"Trust me, you don't need to know," Lucy retorted. "You're safer staying in the dark on this one."

"For six more months," Henry mumbled under his breath.

Regina looked at Henry. "Whatever it is, we can handle it. We're a family, right? This kind of thing is what our family does."

"You sound like Snow," David said looking at Regina weirdly.

"It was not a hope speech," Regina argued feebly. She glared at David.

"Look," Lucy began, "one of you almost died. We don't know if by letting you know how and remembering it that person might become sick like how they were before. That's why we came back. You guys were so...so dead looking."

"Well it wasn't Belle," Robin noted. "Belle was two months pregnant when she arrived, right? And personally, I don't think Killian would be too beat up about Rumplestiltskin's death. Neither would I really. No offense," he added.

"I doubt the crocodile would be upset over my death as well," Killian pointed out. "So it can't be Belle, myself, or Gold."

"I can't really see Gold getting upset about anyone's death," Regina said dryly. "At least, anyone who isn't Belle."

Lucy frowned. "It does you no good to guess. We won't tell you." She looked at Henry. "Edmund and I need to get back. Use this to contact me. I'll be telling Peter and Susan when they get back so I won't be here for a while."

Henry peaked in the bag. "Okay. London, Hong Kong, New York, or our friend?"

"Our friend," Lucy said rolling her eyes. "Who else is stupid enough to let a little girl steal something so important."

"It's not that important," Henry pointed out. "Just gems that broke off and got collected and turned it this." He held up a hand held mirror that had blue gems lining the edge. "What do I do?"

"Say my name," Lucy explained. "I'm wearing the bracelet version. I thought the mirror would be more fitting for you."

"Ha ha," Henry said dryly. "See you later, Lu."

Lucy grinned and pushed her brother back into the wardrobe. "See you, Cobra."

Henry shrank under the inquisitive looks. "So, uh, that was Lucy." He cleared his throat. "Um, so I think now would be a good time to deal with the Graham issue."

"Let him go?" Emma offered.

"No," Henry frowned. "We can't. We have to keep him in the asylum for now. There's really no need to go to the Forest anymore since we don't need to get Robin. Right now we need to figure out how to get rid of Jadis."

"Who is Jadis?" Robin asked curiously.

"A celestial," Gold answered. "Once of the weaker ones. They're similar to gods and goddesses of mythology, but much older. They're said to predate the Norse gods." He closed his eyes and exhaled. "Jadis crossed my path years ago. She had been looking for a way to jump across realms, but all normal ways had been unsuccessful. She came for Zoso, the previous Dark One, thinking he could help her. It was maybe a few months following Zoso's death." Gold looked at Henry. "I suspect she was trying to reach Narnia now that I have hindsight. How was Lucy Pevensie able to manage this feat while Jadis, a celestial, could not?"

Henry bit his lip. "Well, think of the universe as outer space. Each realm is a planet within a system. Ours is the Magic System. Within that system is Neverland, Land Without Magic, Oz, Wonderland, Enchanted Forest or Misthaven, Arendelle, Land Without Color, and the Land of Untold Stories." Henry grabbed a sheet of paper and illustrated this. "Some are easier to jump across than others. For example, Arendelle and Misthaven are touching which allows easy access between them, but the Land of Untold Stories needs a key to get in. It's a lot harder to jump to that realm, so you have a barrier here," he said drawing a squiggly line separating the Land of Untold Stories from the rest of the realms. "Narnia is a single planet in the Narnanian System. A side branch is the real world that the Pevensies are from."

Belle looked at the drawing. "Huh. But that still doesn't explain how Jadis was unable to get to Narnia."

"Well, Aslan has the power to jump," Henry said, "and jump people. He banished Jadis. But he lives while Narnia lives. He can use Narnia's power. Jadis just didn't have that power nor did she know what to look for." He drew a few squiggles around the Magic System. "Those are the entry points. Jadis didn't know those existed and she didn't know to look for them. The Pevensies use the wardrobes as doorways across those gaps."

"Fascinating," Gold murmured. "However, if I'm not mistaken, celestials come from the Yggdrasill Realm. Or is that a system?"

Henry shrugged. "Lucy's the celestial expert."


Emma opened the door to a dark room.

"Hello?" a weary voice called.

Emma paused in the doorway. "Graham?"

The voice chuckled. "Emma Swan? Come to kill me?"

"No," Emma said steadily. "Look, Graham, I really am sorry. I did want you to know that."

"If you were really sorry, you'd let me go."

"I can't do that yet," Emma answered. "It's complicated. Just know that you will be home soon."


Narnia, Present Day

"Edmund?"

Lucy and Edmund hurried to the entrance of Cair Paravel. Peter and Susan were standing there.

"Lucy!" Susan cried in relief.

Lucy smiled. "Hello, Susan."

"Where have you been?" Peter asked sternly.

"Storybrooke," Lucy answered. "It's actually something I need to tell you. It's a bit of a long story though, so you ought to sit down."

The siblings ended up going to Lucy's bedroom. Lucy sprawled herself out on her bed with her head at the end so she could prop herself up to look at her siblings. Peter and Edmund sat on the couch directly across from the bed, and Susan sat in the window seat.

"About four years into the future, we get attacked," Lucy began. Holding up a hand she continued, "Bear with me okay? Susan shoves me into a wardrobe that sends me to the Enchanted Forest. Specifically to Snow White and Prince Charming's palace. I asked them to help me rescue you three which they accepted. Something went wrong and one of them almost died." Lucy looked down. "It is a fate worse than death though. The person is frozen forever. Henry, one of the people who helped me, and I start to research ways to save this person. We end up finding a way to send memories and souls back in time which is what we did."

"I thought time travel was a myth!" Susan whispered.

"It's suppose to be," Peter murmured. "Lucy, how?"

"I can't say," Lucy answered. "Time travel...it's unnatural. No one should mess with it."

"Like you are?" Edmund said bitterly.

"It's different," Lucy protested. "Henry and I didn't understand what we were doing! We were fifteen! Now that we've experienced it, we see how wrong it was."

"Well if you were going to go back to any time you could, why wouldn't you go back far enough to fix everything?" Edmund spat. "Like, I dunno. Maybe stop us from coming here?"

"You're mad I didn't stop you from meeting Jadis!" Lucy accused. "Grow up, Edmund! It was an important life lesson for you." She glared at Edmund. "Look, I'm so sorry you didn't have a good life, but at least it drew us closer together. Or...I thought it did anyway." She crawled under the bed covers and looked away from her siblings. "I told Henry I'd bring you guys back to Storybrooke with me. Are you going to come with me in the morning?"


Storybrooke, Present Day

Henry beamed as Lucy entered Granny's followed by her three siblings. "Lu!"

Lucy looked up and waved. She pointed her siblings towards Henry and his family.

"Hi," Henry greeted them.

Peter nodded. "Ah, Henry, was it?"

"Yep," Henry confirmed. "This is my family. It's big," he added unnecessarily.

"Emma Swan," Emma said holding out a hand. "I'm Henry's mom. This is Tallahassee," she said nodding at the sleeping baby in her arms.

"Our daughter," Killian finished. "Killian Jones. Also known as Captain Hook."

"Snow White," Snow smiled.

"David Nolan," David introduced. "Or Prince Charming, but I go by David."

"Emma's our daughter," Snow added.

"I'm Henry's father," Neal said. "Neal Cassidy."

"Regina Mills," Regina said. "Henry's adoptive mother. I'm the mayor of Storybrooke." She fixed a smile on her face as she added, "Former Evil Queen. This is…"

"Robin Hood," Robin said. "Steals from the rich-"

"And gives to the poor," Susan finished for him. "You're real?"

"Evil Queen, Snow White, Prince Charming and the first one you go for is asking if I'm real," Robin said shaking his head.

"Sorry," Susan apologized, "but Robin Hood was my favorite story as a child. It's incredible really that I'm getting to meet you."

"That's lovely and all," Gold interrupted, "but I'm afraid we haven't quite finished introducing ourselves. Rumplestiltskin, or as I'm known in this world, Mr. Gold."

"The baby stealer?" Peter asked, perplexed. "Are you a pedophile or something here?"

Neal choked on his laughter. "I mean his wife is a couple hundred years younger than him," he managed.

Belle huffled. "Technically, he and I are the same age. He's just been that age for a long time now." She smiled at Lucy's siblings. "Belle, uh, Gold. We were married in the future. Or is it the past? Anyway, this is Dior Gold." She held up a baby girl with short brown hair.

Lucy clasped her hands. "Great! And now if you three will introduce yourselves?"

"High King Peter."

"High Queen Susan."

"King Edmund, but you guys knew that already."

Emma stood up. "Alright. What's first?"

"We need to figure out how Jadis is still alive for starters," Lucy put in. "Aslan himself was the one to rip her apart."

"Jadis is a celestial though," Gold pointed out. "She can't be killed, not technically."

"Do you have lots of experience with celestials then?" Peter asked curiously.

Gold shook his head. "Book knowledge from my old castle. There wasn't much. Celestials aren't from the Enchanted Forest. They're in the Yggdrasil Realm. Very old realm and very hard to find portals to."

"That's a system," Lucy said shaking her head. "You are familiar with Norse Mythology, correct? Yggdrasil is the tree that connects the Nine Realms. Asgard, Alfheim, Vanaheim, Midgard, Muspelheim, Nifelheim, Jotunheim, Nidavellir, and Svartalfheim. Celestials reside in the Midgardian System. Uh, the Midgardian System is located in the Yggdrasil system," Lucy added. "It's also called the World of Heroes. The Norse gods are...more active in the real world in that realm. That means so are the Norse monsters, so the humans need heroes. Honestly, not the best world. Unfortunately, I have to make a stop over there soon and go to New York. Our friend has put up defense measures against my wardrobes," she said grinning at Henry. "I need a ring to cross the realms."

Henry laughed. "Only you. I don't think anyone but you could do that."

"I'm the only wardrobe traveler he knows," Lucy shrugged. "The rings are used by a whole cult or whatever they're calling themselves. He can't block those."

"How did he block you anyway?"

Lucy bit back a grin. "Ah, well, I didn't exactly pay for those communication mirror bracelet things. He told me never to come back."

"Who are you talking about?" Snow asked.

"The Collector," Henry and Lucy answered in unison.


A/N: Okay, so I hope I had Henry explain the systems and realms thing okay. If not, I'll try to explain here. The Enchanted Forest and all other CANON realms are like planets in a galaxy, just like how Earth, Mars, Saturn, et al. are all planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. The name of the "galaxy" that the Enchanted Forest and all other CANON realms are in is called the Magic System. Think of it as having a membrane that surrounds the different realms in OUAT. In another membrane is Narnia and its real world. The membrane surrounding this is called the Narnanian System. Likewise with Yggdrasil. The Yggdrasil System is made up of the Nine Realms and is surrounding by a membrane. One of the realms, Midgard, is a System within a system and it is called the Midgard System or the World of Heroes. The comparison for that is there are galaxies containing solar systems which contain planets. The galaxy being the Yggdrasil System, the solar system being the Midgard System or World of Heroes, and the planets being the realms inside the Midgard System or World of Heroes.

Personally, I'm not sure if I have too much going on in this story. I plan to have arcs just like the TV show. Season 2a is Narnia obviously. Season 2b is, well, its the Infinite Universe. If that's not a big hint, I don't know what is. Plus, all the hints this chapter. I don't want to give it away completely yet, but as this season goes along, I think you'll be able to figure it out.

Edit after Chapter... uh... well, most of the first half is written: Season 2a is Narnia and something else. Season 2b is a different something else.

Chapter Three: Lady of the Lake; Neal, the beginnings of a plan, CaptainSwan wedding plans, and lots of OUAT family fluff involving babies!