Past
"Alicia, if you don't give me that key, somebody very untrustworthy could get it."
"Charles, how do I know I can trust you?"
"Alicia, I'm your brother."
"I still haven't known you for my whole life. Sam and Daniel are more my brothers than you."
"Alicia, please, I need that key."
"Charles, why are you so determined to get the key?"
"Because I want to protect it."
"But I can protect it. I can keep it in the castle, where nobody Aunt Anne doesn't trust could ever have access to it."
"Look, Alicia... I just think it would be in everyone's best interests if you gave me the key."
"In everyone's best interests? Or in yours?"
"Alicia!"
"Charles, you don't know me. If you did, you would call me Lissa, like everybody else does. You may be my brother by blood, but as of now I have no reason whatsoever to trust you. How do you even know about the key?"
"I told you, I researched this castle."
"And it told you about the key?"
"Alicia... Lissa, the room is in this castle. The key is here too. Do you want somebody getting into that room?"
"I can keep it safe, Charles. Calm down, would you? Anyway, would you like to meet Aunt Anne?"
Present
"I might have a way to get back Lissa's memories," said Belle.
"Yes? Anything!"
"We need to use something that could unlock them. Something that you feel strongly enough about to unfreeze your memories-something you love would work."
"But I don't know!"
"You have an aunt."
"Not here."
"But we can try to contact her."
"That would never work. No, we have to undo whatever it was that froze them."
"But how can we, when we don't know what that was?"
"It was a potion," said Regina. "I figured that much out. In fact, I think it was the one that sent her here."
"Um... okay. Can it be undone?"
"Well, yes; something has to trigger her, though."
"Belle," said Lissa.
"What?"
"I remember Belle."
"You were three..."
"Well that's all a bit hazy, yes, but I mean later... about... right before the curse froze us, I saw you again. In the marketplace. You were working for Rumpelstiltskin."
"Yes, that I was..."
"And Charles... Charles tried to make you fall in love with him!"
"What?"
"That was it. And Rumpelstiltskin grew very angry at Charles, said they were enemies. That was when Charles... when he tried to steal the key. He wanted to destroy Rumpelstiltskin, but I knew he wouldn't stop there."
"What?"
"Then... I was running... protecting the key from Charles... how did I end up here?"
Past
Aunt Anne smiled. "Hello, Lissa. Who's your friend?"
"My brother, actually. Charles."
"Brother? I didn't know you had a brother."
"Neither did I. He was kidnapped when I was three."
"That's strange. Hello, Charles."
"Hi, Aunt Anne. It's good to meet you."
"Yes, you too. Oh, you must meet the boys! Sam! Daniel!"
While Charles and her cousins did whatever boy things they were doing, Lissa looked at the key. Could it really be the key to so many weapons? Did she truly hold something capable of so much destruction? If she did, she would need to protect it heavily; maybe she should give the responsibility to Charles. Then again... she didn't exactly trust Charles... what should she do?
9 Months (And 28 years) later
"Sam! Sam!"
"Yeah, Lissa?"
"I need your help."
"With what?"
"Protecting this key from my brother."
