Chapter 3

I was elated by the sparks of hope I saw in his eyes. "Then I will help you." He jumped up. "I'll help you...and then you will age...but first..." He pressed the ring box into me hands and knelt again. "Marry me? I promise we'll find them...but I love you. That doesn't change. I don't care how long it takes. You're the one I love and that won't ever change."

I couldn't help but laugh for joy. "Yes. Absolutely yes!" Bae wrapped his arms around me and kissed me. I didn't think I'd ever been happier. Just a few months later, we were married. I was Adelaide Morgan Eastwood. The wedding was small and quiet. We had to invite nearly everyone we knew...especially to make up for the lack of family members. He even invited his students. I felt like a princess...A fairytale princess. My dress was beautiful...with ornate, silvery crystalline floral patterns along the hem and covering the bodice. The dress was flared swirled around me when I spun. It had a train, but it wasn't some crazy long one. The laces in the back were shiny silver. The sleeves were to my elbows with a little bit of a lacy flare at the end. We were married at Lake Harveston on a little pier and opened into a kind of large gazebo over the lake. Beautiful lights were strung up along the edges of the gazebo roof and the railings. Bae's adoptive sister Caroline (He was adopted a little bit after he left the fairytale world) was the wedding planner and had done a brilliant job. She had beautiful white fabric wrapped around the pillars and had somehow managed to find enough white and pink flower petals to cover most of the lake. She had bouquets of white and pink roses tied along the railings. We were married just as the sun was going down and several candles could be seen. It was something I would never forget. I'd seen many weddings before...And as I say this, I might be a little biased...but I felt that mine was the best...and that Caroline was a genius. We actually had become good friends. Carrie was 20 years old and was born a just a little bit after Bae was adopted by Connor and Daisy Eastwood. Carrie new about Bae...or rather, she believed him. She believed that there was a fairytale world and that he had come from it. Carrie was quite intuitive for a human and could feel it was true. Bae told her about me and she said she would keep her eyes and ears open for anything that sounded like the place we were looking for. She was attending a college in Maine and had flown out to help with the wedding. We promised to stay in touch. Bae and I travel a lot. We are very happy...so happy...we almost forgot to keep looking for the fairytale place...but it's always been in the back of our minds...

And now I've reached today. We've been married for about 8 years...and the exodus was roughly 28 years ago...I got the call from Caroline yesterday. We're already packing. Her neighbor, Emma Swan, got a visitor last night. A little brown haired boy named Henry. Emma doesn't usually get visitors and Carrie was getting one of intuitions...So she hung out in the hallway eavesdropping under the guise of smoking a cigarette. She learned that Henry was Emma's biological son...knew that Emma would have to return him to his mom. Carrie had become a cop and had some friends in the FBI who gave her useful gadgets as gifts from time to time...so she put a listening/tracking device in Emma's car before Emma got to it.

Now, Bae and I are heading off to Storybrooke, Maine. It looks like we've found our fairytale place...and my ticket to mortality.