By now the love potion had worn off, but it had the desired effect, so they were more comfortable around each other and even felt free to take liberties on each other's behalf. They surely were at a point of loving each other by now.

They eventually decided to ask Stacy about it, and she told them, "Come here." She opened her magic computer, touched a few stones and crystals, and broke the news to them, "Yes you love each other but not enough to have magic from it. It is not true love yet. There is something between you that you need to resolve to be able to cross that threshold to true love."

Regina, upset, asked, "What could possibly be left for us to work out?"

Stacy, baffled, replied, "I have no idea, because it is not magical in nature. If you were cursed or something that was detectable, I could detect it then I could help. Whatever this is it is personal,not magical so only you can figure it out. It is beyond my power."

Emma grabbed Regina's arm as she approached Stacy as though she were about to kill her. While Stacy ignored them and Emma urged, "Come on Regina, we have work to do." And they left.

Outside, Regina asked, "Why didn't you let me fry her?"

Emma, tempted to restrain Regina again, more forcefully insisted, "We still need her. Besides, I thought you were good now, try acting like it."

They then went off to take a quick nap to prepare because they needed 24 daisies, each picked on the hour every hour from 1AM to midnight, all with the same number of petals, by dropping a pinch of sea salt on them, plucking a single petal and then cutting the stem with a bone knife at an angle. When they woke, they found a field of daisies, and using their flash lights, they started counting petals and marking them with ribbon to find them again. As the time ticked by and they collected their flowers, they talked, trying to figure out what could possibly be holding them back.

They pondered all the secrets they knew but they shared all those. They pondered all their thoughts, actions, and words to or about each other. But they had already shared all those too. They could not figure out what was wrong, why couldn't they love each other pure enough to be able to save their son, and at about 9:30 PM, they figured it out. It was their intentions.

Their intentions were not pure and selfless. They were trying to love each other to save their son, not to love each other. For love to work it needs to be love for love's sake. They have to love each other for no other reason than they do love each other. But how can they get their intentions out of the way? How can they stop thinking it and just feel it? How can they stop loving each other for Henry, and love each other for no other reason than they do?

The next day, they found Stacy again, she was in Granny's, and Emma was happy to have discovered the problem and was eager to tell her, "We figured out the problem. We are loving each other to save Henry and love can't work, can't be true, if it is not love for no other reason than you do. So what do we do? How can we get out of our own way?"

Stacy, thrilled that they figured out the problem, tried to restrain her enthusiasm so as not to tip her hand that she knew plan A was likely to fail, now she was trying to figure out a way to help them solve it, "Well, that is a dilemma and you are quite right. That is exactly your problem. All I can say is, that if you know that that is the problem and you wish to change it and you mean it. Then only time can fix it. If you decide you want to love each other for no other reason then you love each other, then just keep doing what you are doing and try your best to be as sincere as you can. Time will do the rest. But you will need to decide you are no longer trying to love each other for Henry and mean it with all your heart. You will need to make up your mind soon though because we are nearly ½ way there and if you don't love each other in time, then the potion might or might not work but plan B definitely won't, and this means Henry will be gone forever and I won't be able to change the world. And I want to change the world."

Outside, they decided that for Henry's sake, whether the potion worked or not, they would always love each other to the best of their ability. They got in Regina's car and they headed over to see Snow and David to talk about love with them.

At snow's place, David was at the sheriff station, but as it was a Saturday, Snow was home. They discussed their problem with her,and she was a bit shocked, having misunderstood the problem, "You mean you two are trying to have what Emma and Hook have?"

Emma was taken aback, "What?! No!" And at the exact same time, Regina was equally as shocked, "Ew! No!"

Regina chimed in, "No, we are not looking for romantic love any more than the love for Henry that broke the curse the first or second time. We are trying for friends or sisters, that sort of thing."

Snow, relieved, sighed, "Oh. Phew. Don't get me wrong, I don't have a problem with two women loving each other that way, but you worked so hard to have a good thing with Hook and I was looking forward to more grandkids. Don't get me wrong, I could love an adopted child as much as a natural one but it just would not be the same."

Emma quickly added her say, "First, I'm still in love with Hook and if I have any kids, it will be with him. Second, I don't know if he wants kids. And third, if I were to be romantically into Regina, there is this thing called a sperm bank so I would still be able to give you all the grandchildren you could handle. That's not why we are here, we are here to learn more about how to go from loving each other to save Henry, to loving eachother for no other reason than we do.

Snow, disappointed that she couldn't help, apologized, "I'm sorry, but I've never had to deal with it, so I don't know. But, if I had to guess, I'd say just being aware of the problem and deciding you want it to be different is the key, and the rest is just time. If you really want it then give it time and it will happen."

They left Snow's and went out to hunt for ingredients.

A few days later, Emma and Regina, while out, came across a boulder that looked like it had fallen from space and landed in a field. Emma made Regina pull over to take a look. As they got closer, they could sense the magical energy radiating off this rock and Regina warned against getting too close, but Emma was too curious and reached out. A bolt of energy jumped off it and hit Emma then Regina and for a moment, they knew what it was like to be the other. They shared each other's memories, and feelings and they were as one. This quickly ended but the experience left an impression on each of them, then, as they quickly backed away, they soon realised they could hear each other's thoughts and feel each other's feelings. They rushed to Stacy, worried it might interfere with the potions and spells.

Stacy opened her magic computer and as she started she confessed, "The meteor was my doing. I thought you could use some help to cross the threshold so I borrowed some ingredients from Gold and summoned a rock saturated with magic and enchanted it to allow you to see into each other's hearts and souls. I thought that might help."

Regina was pissed, "How dare you? You have no right."

Emma chimed in, "Did you think maybe we might want a say in the mater?"

Stacy challenged, "You want your son back right? And you would have undoubtedly have said no. So I took it upon myself to do what you could not, and would not, do to make you able to feel what you need to feel to get your son back. So hate me all you want but know I did you a favor that will help you get your son back."

Regina was hysterical but tried to restrain herself, and asked, "Well, how long will it last?"

Stacy, still calm, tried to reassure them, "A couple hours, and it looks like it is having the desired effect. If you embrace this opportunity, then, if it doesn't make you love each other with true love, it will at least guarantee you do have true love in time." She finished with her magic computer and continued, "Ya see there? It will pass in a couple hours and it is doing what it is supposed to. Just embrace it. Use it. Stop hunting for a while and just do things together. now shoo."

Regina, irate, lashed out, "I'll shooo you!" As Emma grabbed her arm and dragged her outside. After that, they spent a few hours doing things together like magic, gardening, and, as Emma chose, playing video games, untill the magic wore off 6 hours later, then they went back to hunting for ingredients.

A week later, they gathered in Gold's lab to make the next ingredient for the final potion. They mixed a potion, pulled a hair from the corpse, and put it in, then they poured the potion into the corpse's mouth, and chanted. The corpse took a breath, and exhaled a glowing light, which they captured and added to yet another potion, then Emma took the potion home to Regina's to freeze it in order to separate it, then, when thawed, they poured it into 2 bottles and labeled them C.