I kissed Henry's forehead and dropped his duffle over his shoulder. Regina hugged him too and we tried to keep this moment as private as anyone could with a crowd of people watching. With all these people in town and no idea why the mysterious man would give them a time portal and send them here we decided it might be best if we got Henry out of town for a couple of days. Neal was taking him up to his apartment in New York. Henry was slightly bitter about this as he loved being involved in anything and everything magic related but he was also pretty excited about spending a couple days with his dad. "Have fun, okay?" I told him, giving his hand one last squeeze.

"Make good choices Henry!" Regina called out after him. We watched as Neal's car pulled away and I gave Regina a small smile.

"Make good choices?"

"You know what I meant." I grinned and looked up at my parents. And everyone else. I sighed. "Normally saying goodbye to Henry is the hard part." Regina muttered. "But figuring this out might be even worse."

"Do we believe their story?" I asked glancing at young Killian and his brother.

"That mysterious cloaked man gave them a time bean and told them to come find older Killian Jones to save someone?" She suggested. I nodded. "I think that much is true but I think they know more than they are saying. This mysterious man, whoever he is, is going through an awful lot of trouble to save someone, you'd think he'd at least tell the men who they needed to save." I narrowed my eyes.

"Who do you think it is?" Regina looked at me.

"Honestly?" She asked. I was confused.

"Of course."

"You."

"Me?! I'm the Savior, why do I need saving?"

"Beats me but the minute Hook called you Emma they both looked directly at you very oddly and they haven't taken their eyes off you since." I glanced at her sidelong. This was weird. This being perpetually on the same side thing. It was weird, but it also felt right. She looked back at me and I could tell she was thinking the same thing.

"So if they turn out to be imposters counting on killing us all," I began.

"I'll be on your side." She finished nodding.

"Two moms against the world." I said grinning.

"Two extremely powerful and magical moms against the world. Who could stop us?" I outright laughed at that and we made our way back to the group. Mary Margaret took my arm and quietly whispered in my ear.

"You and Regina seem to be getting along." I nodded.

"We both just want what's best for Henry and right now we agree on what that is. That tends to foster an odd sort of friendship between the two of us." I glanced over at David. "What's going on with David and Hook, they seem to be thick as thieves right now." She followed my train of vision with her own eyes.

"Hmm. That's weird. A minute ago I was talking him out of sword fighting with the guy for your honor." I choked and sputtered.

"What? Why?" that had come out an awful lot louder than I had originally intended and the entire group looked over at us. I smiled weakly and after a minute they turned back to their own conversations. "Why?" I repeated much more quietly.

"While you and Regina were seeing Henry off Killian made a comment to us about how beautiful our daughter was and Hook seemed to get pretty jealous and insinuated that you and he were involved and that Killian needed to back off. Killian just looked amused which angered Hook even more and he made another comment about how he understood where Killian was coming from and that he really was missing out on something incredible. Pair that with his lovely smirk and your father was ready to draw his blade."

"That sounds a lot more dramatic than I am sure it was." I returned rolling my eyes at Hook but secretly feeling rather pleased. This was going to be weird. I had begun to refer to Hook as Killian in my head but now, with pre-hook Killian Jones I would have to be extra careful not to say it out loud. I glanced back at my father and Hook, in the middle of a heated discussion until moments later they seemed to reach some sort of agreement before furtively looking around and leaving the group without a word. What the hell was going on there?

My eyes moved about the remaining assemblage of fairy tale characters and stopped to rest on Liam and Killian. They were both staring at me. When they saw that I returned their gaze they smiled and looked away pointedly but I noticed that Killian kept glancing back in my direction. Regina was right. They knew something about me that they weren't telling anyone. Well I hated surprises, if they knew something I was going to get it out of them. I walked over to the two of them.

"Hi, excuse me, can we talk for a minute?" They looked at me expectantly "Like, in private?"

"Of course!" Liam Jones replied with a debonair smile that looked oddly like a more polite version of Hook's classic smirk. "Where can we go to speak?"

"Um, why don't we just head back to your ship? We won't be bothered there." They nodded and I glanced over at Regina raising my eyebrows significantly. She seemed to understand what I was communicating and she smiled and nodded. I walked with the time travelers back to the marina passing many a Storybrooke citizen on the way. They stared as we walked past but I didn't as much as glance their way. We boarded the ship and I looked around warily. This may be the ship that would become the Jolly Roger but it was clear that it wasn't there quite yet. With 'Jewel of the Realm' painted on the ship's side and an obvious obsession with tidiness, it looked about as different from Hook's ship as it possibly could have.

"Welcome aboard the Jewel of the Realm your majesty." Liam said bowing deeply. I looked up startled.

"Oh, no. I'm not royalty or anything. You can call me Emma."

"Yes, but according to your story you are the daughter of Prince Charming and Princess Snow White. They are now the King and Queen of their realm. I believe that makes you a princess. It is correct to address you as such."

"Yeah, I guess," I tried to respond, my brow furrowing in confusion. "But seriously, just call me Emma."

"If you wish, Princess." Liam responded sounding so much like Hook I had to double take.

"Look, I'm just going to get down to it. I know you aren't being entirely truthful. You may not be lying but you know more than you are saying. This mysterious person went through an awful lot of trouble to save someone, I would assume that they at least told you who you going to save." I repeated Regina's words. "And the two of you seem like smart people, I doubt you'd just listen to a random stranger in a cloak with no idea of who they were or why they were doing this." The two shared a furtive look and glanced back at me. I didn't need my superpower to figure out if they were telling the truth, they were the worst liars I had yet to come across. "Well that answers that, who was the guy, who are you supposed to be saving and what are you saving them from?"

"Princess, we are here to save you. But past that I'm afraid we can't tell you anything."

"Why not? What do I need saving from?"

"I'm sorry, we can't tell you Princess."

"Why not?" I insisted angrily.

"Because it will jeopardize everything we are here for." Killian insisted.

"How?"

"Because if you knew you'd resist everything and we couldn't save you! Okay! Just know that we are taking care of you! We are going to keep any harm from falling upon you. You have nothing to fear, Princess."

"Okay, great. But around here I'm the savior. I don't need help from a bunch of time travelers." I turned to leave but Killian's voice stopped me.

"If that is your wish we certainly shan't do anything however we only were given one bean. We are stuck here whether or not you wish for our services and this is where we shall live."

Thank's for reading! I hope you enjoyed this chapter-I am feverishly working on the next! Let me know what you think and stay tuned for more!