Land of Untold Stories, present day…

Gabriel showed Rumple into his living room and offered him a seat on the couch. Gabriel sat in an adjacent chair.

"So how did she end up under a sleeping curse inside of Pandora's Box?" Gabriel asked.

Rumple looked down at the box in his hand and cringed as he relived the memory of Belle choosing to curse herself and his kiss failing to wake her once Hades had torn up the contract for their unborn child he was holding over Rumple's head.

Rumple took a deep breath and then told Gabriel the whole tale beginning with Belle's arrival in the Underworld as concisely as possible.

Once Rumple had finished, Gabriel rubbed his face in his hands. "Alright. There is a way to awaken her without true love's kiss. But, I must warn you. It comes with a great price."

Rumple was not surprised at this. All magic always comes with a price. But he really wasn't hoping it would be too great of one. "And that price is?"

"I don't know. Its use requires something different from each person."

"How will I know what that price will be for me?" Rumple asked.

"It will reveal itself to you upon your arrival."

"Tell me what I need." Rumple demanded with a hiss.

"You need the Heart Stone of Atlantis." Gabriel got up and walked to one of the many bookcases lining the walls of the room. He pulled out a book and pulled a piece of paper from inside of the cover and came to sit down next to Rumple on the couch. "Here. You can find it at the Museum of Lost Artifacts."

Rumple set off on his way and about thirty minutes later arrived at the museum. It was really more glorified lost and found that looked as if no one had been there in a few decades. You could tell which items had appeared more recently as they were less covered in dust and cobwebs than the others.

He took Pandora's Box from his pocket and whispered. "Belle, I cannot wait for you to see all of this. I promise we can return anytime you wish."

Rumple knew Belle would love discovering and documenting everything here. Perhaps she might write a book of her own on all of this. He smiled at that thought: his Belle, an author.

He put the box back in his pocket carefully.

While Belle may enjoy spending hours upon hours in here discovering all that was here, he was rather impatient. Rumple waved his hand in an arc in front of him, palm facing away.

Slowly an aqua glow began to appear from a door in the far back corner of the large room.

Rumple entered that room and found the Heart Stone of Atlantis hidden under a dusty book entitled: Once Upon an Untold Story.

It was a perfectly round stone with a flat bottom. Crystal clear aqua like tropical waters with gentle white swirls that looked like waves.

Rumple flipped through the book and found that the Heart Stone would break any curse when held to the lips of the one cursed.

He went to pick up the stone and the instant he touched it he knew what the price of its use would be: their unborn child.

Why was the universe conspiring against this child?

As selfish as the Dark One was, using the stone to awaken Belle at that price never entered his mind. Family was everything to him even if he didn't always treat them that way. Family was the one thing he didn't really have when he was young and the one thing he always wanted. Saving his son was the reason he became the Dark One in the first place.

He screamed and flipped over an old end table behind him loaded with papers that flew up and around him before settling on the ground.

He grabbed the stone and the book and swiftly left. They would likely come in quite handy in the future and he was never one to leave valuable magic for another to take.


Storybrooke, present day…

Emma stormed off ignoring Killian's calls behind her. At least he was smart enough to give her some space. She'd likely shoot him if he didn't give her time to think before she gave him a piece of her mind…or whatever she decided to do.

She got into her bug and drove to the town line before she stopped.

How could Killian do this to her? They had just proven their true love. She had just gone to the Underworld to get him! What about everything he had done to help her when she was the Dark One?

None of this made any sense. If she hadn't witnessed it herself she wouldn't have believed it. Come to think of it, if Granny hadn't seen Regina turn baby Robin into a furry blue monster she wouldn't have believed it either. Killian and Regina had changed.

Lucy was the mistress of temptation. She'd lost everything because of it and now she was using it to take everything away from her family. She had to go warn Zelina and her father before they were torn apart too.

As she went to start the car, it hit her. Regina would never have gotten caught, but if she wanted a witness she would have ensured that it was Zelina, not Granny.

She had to find Regina. If she could figure out what happened there perhaps she could figure out what had happened with Killian. She was turning into her mother with Snow's constant hope and positive outlook even in the worst of situations.

Something told Emma that she would find an answer in Regina's vault so that's where she headed.

She parked just outside the graveyard and walked quickly. Just as she came upon the vault she saw Regina hiding behind a tree spying on her own vault. What was going on?

"Regina? What are you doing?"

"SSHHHH!" Regina hissed. "Get over here and be quiet!"

Emma got behind her. "What's going on?"

Regina didn't answer so Emma she stared at the vault as well.

After a few moments the door began to open and out came the Evil Queen with a sinister grin spread across her face, then she vanished.

Regina straightened up. "Come on. Let's see what she's taken this time."

"But Regina…Snow said you destroyed her!" Emma said completely stunned.

"Apparently not. Lucy says I need to control her so let's go get this figured out."

They went into the vault.

Once they got down there Regina began looking her supplies.

"Regina, I'm sorry." Emma said.

"For what?"

"I shouldn't have doubted you. I so easily believed that you could turn your niece into Stitch." Emma said.

"Stitch?" Regina asked turning around to look at Emma confused.

"Long story. Point is, I'm sorry I believed so quickly." Emma apologized.

"You're lucky the Evil Queen is elsewhere or I wouldn't forgive you so easily. Do it again and I won't. I have changed. But, I can't say I blame you. There was a witness."

"I wish there was something I could do to make it up to you." Emma said.

Regina went back to looking through her stuff. "Help me deal with my other half." Emma nodded. "Something else is wrong. What is it?"

Tears began to well up in Emma's eyes and she told her what happened. "But I feel like it can't be true though. Not Killian's fault. I just want to make sure before I decide that I'm okay with it. Well maybe not okay but you know what I mean."

"This just happened?" Regina asked.

"Yeah." Emma wiped away her tears.

Regina came over and touched Emma's shoulder. "It wasn't Lucy. She found me knocked out in a ditch thanks to the Evil Queen. It must have the Evil Queen impersonating you just as she did with me."

"Makes sense." Emma said as she processed the information. "She wants us to catch her."

"She wants to tear us apart." Regina said.

"Well we can't let her! We have to show a united front! I'll go and get Killian, Zelina, and my father and bring them back here." Emma declared.

"No." Regina said emphatically. "We need her to think we've fallen for her tricks. Act like we're going after each other when we're really going after her."

"Alright." Emma said.

Regina finished looking through her things and then sat down in disbelief.

"What'd she take?" Emma asked.

"Nothing." Regina said. "It doesn't make any sense."

Suddenly there was a loud bang on stone against stone. They looked at each other and then up at the ceiling and ran to the vault's entrance to discover that they were trapped inside. They could hear the Evil Queen just outside laughing with victory.

"It was all just a trap." Emma whispered. Her eyes wide with terror as she looked at Regina.


"Will you please get that THING under control? It's making a mess." Leroy sneered.

"SHE's making a mess in your mine?" Zelina spit back.

Stitch was digging and kicking around the dirt and rocks.

"It's okay Grumpy. Stitch is just playing." Happy smiled at Zelina.

Zelina, David, and Stitch had gone to meet the dwarfs in their mine to see if they had any information on Dr. Jumba and where he might be in Storybrooke if he'd come to town with Hyde.

Hyde seemed to have eyes everywhere above ground so this seemed to be a safe place to conduct their business.

Unfortunately there was no such luck. No Dr. Jumba. David called Mary-Margaret to see if they had any information on him in one of the books in New York.

They hadn't. So while Zelina and Leroy were 'discussing' Stitch's behavior, David took a moment to catch up with his wife.

Suddenly Henry piped up in the background. "I found him! Grandma, let me talk to grandpa."

Henry was quickly on the line. "It's Dr. Jekyll! His first name is Dr. Jumba!"

"Great work Henry!" David said.

"Weird name. Jumba Jekyll. Glad my mom didn't give me a weird name like that." Henry said.

David finished up the phone call and relayed the message to Zelina. "I'll call Emma on the way." He said.

Zelina whistled and Stitch was quickly at her side and they headed off with Leroy to the hospital as Dr. Jumba Jekyll was now working there with Dr. Whale.

"Good luck." Happy called as he picked up the axes Stitch had knocked over.

Up next:

-We'll finish Lucy's backstory

-Will Dr. Jekyll be able to turn Stitch back into Robin?

-Will Emma and Regina stay trapped in the vault?