Chapter TEN: A Strange Corset

The next day, the quartet set off for Snow and Charming's castle again. "We're getting close," Mary Margaret said, who was in the lead.

"Aurora, you've gotta keep up," Mulan said.

"Sorry, but I'm not exactly dressed for the woods. It's cold out here," Aurora said.

"Then maybe you should've listened to me and stayed back."

"Here," Emma said, offering her red, leather jacket to Aurora.

"But I tried to kill your friend," Aurora said.

"Actually, she's my mom and I have a feeling she can take care of herself. And I get it. You're not the only one who's been screwing up lately."

Aurora took the jacket and inspected it. "What kind of corset is this?"

It's a jacket, actually, the Professor's Eldunarí said. You put it over your upper body.

Aurora did as she was told, putting the jacket over her, still looking at it strangely.

"Up here!" Milan exclaimed, standing up on a hill and looking over at a lake.

They all joined her up there, where they saw a castle, in ruins, overlooking the lake. Emma asked. "Is that it?"

"Yeah. That's our home," Mary Margaret said.

The gang went on to the entrance of the garden, where Emma inspected the place in awe. "Oh, my God. I recognize this from Henry's book," she said.

"Come. We'll stand watch at the gate," Milan said, as she stayed with Aurora, letting Emma and Mary Margaret go into the castle.

"I never thought I'd see this place again," Mary Margaret said, walking to the nursery. When they got there, Mary Margaret said, "This room. It was your nursery."

"I lived here?" Emma said.

"You never even got to spend a night. This is the life I wanted you to have. I was going to teach you how to walk in here, how to talk, how to dress for your first ball. You never got to do any of it. We never got to be a family."

"We have a family... in Storybrooke and right now they need us to get back there," Emma said, then went over to the wardrobe. "So... how do we get this to work?"