Caitlynn and Emma put their children to bed in Granny's bed and breakfast. When their children were asleep, they walked downstairs as they saw Mary Margaret sitting in a chair, David and Hook standing. Emma and Caitlynn walked over to the bench as then they sat down.
"Okay, Henry and Aubrey are asleep upstairs." Caitlynn told them.
"If they wakes up, you two are helping me with the case, okay?" Emma looked at her parents. "So, what the hell happened here? I mean, besides the obvious."
"We don't know." Mary Margaret told to the twins. "We watched you drive over the town line with Henry. Regina started to cast her spell to take us all back to the Enchanted Forest. And then everything went black."
"And the next thing we remember is waking up in our beds like it was any other morning in Storybrooke." David told them.
"Except it clearly wasn't." Mary Margaret rubbed her stomach.
"Almost harvest time, but you can't remember the planting." Hook looked at David. "That's bad luck, mate."
"For us it was for 3 years and for you guys just a year, how?" Caitlynn asked them.
"We don't know." Mary Margaret replied to her.
"And we don't know where the hell we were." David looked at the twins. "We don't even know if we left Storybrooke."
"Aye, you did. I was with you all." Hook revealed.
"In the Enchanted Forest?" Mary Margaret asked to him.
"Regina's spell brought us back." Hook replied to her. "We spent a brief time with a Prince and Princess named Phillip and Aurora. But I wasn't feeling the community spirit, so I ventured off on my own. Last I saw of you lot, you were making your way to Regina's castle."
Emma sighed. "And now you're cursed. Why doesn't that surprise me?"
"Regina seems as clueless as the rest of us." Mary Margaret told her daughter. "I'm not sure she was involved in this."
"So she says." Caitlynn scoffed.
"I don't understand." David looked at Hook. "If you left the Enchanted Forest before the curse, how did you know to find Emma and Caitlyn and come to Storybrooke?"
Hook explained it to them. "As I was sailing the realms, a seagull landed on my ship's wheel with a note instructing me to retrieve Emma and bring her back here. There was a small vial of memory potion tied to its leg."
"Who sent it?" Mary Margaret asked to him.
"I assumed you did." Hook replied to her.
"Message via bird that does sound like you." David looked at his wife.
Just then Leroy and Happy walked into room as David asked to them. "What is it?"
"We lost another one. We're down to five now." Leroy informed them.
"Four, actually Bashful's not answering." Happy told them as he looked on his phone.
"Wait. What is going on?" Emma asked confused.
"Thank God you're back, sister." Leroy comment.
"It's not just our memories that are missing. Ever since we woke up, people have begun disappearing." Mary Margaret explained.
"Whoever cursed us is picking us off one by one." Leroy comment.
"Who exactly is missing?" Caitlynn asked to them.
"Aside from those dwarfs, we're not sure." David replied to her. "There's been a lot of confusion over the past few days. It's been hard to keep track of everyone."
"Wait. Neal is he here?" Emma asked to them.
"Well, we haven't found him yet." Mary Margaret replied to her.
"So he might have been taken, too." Emma told to her.
"Smart money's on, yes." Leroy told her, instead.
"Leroy!" Mary Margaret scolded.
"He'll turn up, Swan. He always does." Hook reassured Emma.
"Some folks are starting to set up camp in the woods at the edge of town." David looked at Emma. "Neal might be there."
"Or he may not have gotten swept up in the curse at all." Mary Margaret suggested.
"There's only one way we're gonna figure all this out." Emma began.
"We need to get your memories back." Caitlynn finished.
"How are we going to do that?" Mary Margaret asked to the twins.
"By figuring out who took them in the first place." The twins replied simultaneously, looking at their parents.
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The next morning, Henry, Emma, Caitlynn and Aubrey were in Granny's. Just then Ruby came to them and had hot cocoa with cinnamon. "Here you go, Hen…" She caught herself as then she put it on the table. "Young man. A nice hot cocoa."
"Hey." Henry called her back. "With cinnamon. How did you know?"
"Uh, lucky guess. You've got a cinnamon kind of face." Ruby told to him as then she walked away.
Then the door opened from Granny's, revealed to be David and Mary Margaret. "Henry, Aubrey, this is David and Mary Margaret." Emma told to the kids.
"Are you helping my mom with the case?" Henry asked as then he whispered to Emma. "Or are they the ones who jumped bail?"
"Oh, no, they are…" Emma stood up. "They're just old friends."
"Friends? From where?" Henry asked to his mother.
"Phoenix." Mary Margaret said as then on the same time Emma said to her son. "Here."
"Well, Phoenix and then here." Emma told to her son.
"But I thought you were only in Phoenix for being in that place." Henry looked confused.
"Right." Mary Margaret told to Henry. "We were cell mates."
"Really?" Henry looked now interested. "What were you in for?"
"Banditry." Mary Margaret replied to him as David smiled at them. Then they sat down by them. "People make mistakes. The important thing is to find a way to keep moving on."
"Did you know my dad?" Henry asked to Margaret.
Everyone went uncomfortable as David told them. "Should we order? Let's order."
Just then a sound of a cup was breaking on the ground, they looked at person who did it, and it was Regina. "Oh I'm sorry. I… I didn't mean to startle you." She said to them.
"Oh, um T… that's okay." Henry looked at her.
"Regina." Emma told her. "Regina, we need to talk. Come on."
They walked away as then Caitlynn looked at her mother. "Mom, can you take over?" She glanced at her daughter in her arms.
Mary Margaret nodded. "Of course."
Aubrey was placed into the arms of Mary Margaret as she looked at her, with her big brown eyes. "She looks a bit like him." She comment.
"Yeah, I know." Caitlynn told her mother as then she followed the others. Who were at the area of the bathrooms.
"He looked right through me." Regina told to the twins.
"Because he doesn't remember you." Emma told to her.
"But you clearly do." Regina told them as then she asked to them. "Why are you here?"
"Storybrooke, a new curse, missing year why do you think?" Emma comment.
"No, what I mean is, how did you know to come back?" Regina looked at them. "I gave you and Henry a new life, new memories."
"Well, I remembered, thanks BTW." Caitlynn replied to her.
"Hook found me, gave me a potion that made me remember." Emma looked at her. "There wasn't enough for Henry."
"Well, how convenient." Regina defended herself. "Look, I didn't cast this curse, if that's what you're thinking."
"The thought did cross my mind." Emma told her as Caitlynn agreed.
"Why would I do this? Why would I erase an entire year of my life?" Regina asked to them.
"Maybe it was a bad year for you." Emma comment. "Maybe this curse was your way of getting me to bring Henry back here."
"And maybe made it so that for it was 3 years?" Caitlynn crossed her arms.
Regina eyes widened to her. "How is that possible?" Caitlynn just shrugged. Then Regina answered to Emma. "With no memory of me? If I wanted my son back, do you think I'd put myself through this kind of torture? I cast curses to hurt other people, not myself."
"Maybe so. But I need to start crossing people off the list." Emma told to her.
"How? By walking around, using your superpower on everyone?" Regina asked as Caitlynn laughed a little.
"You got a better idea?" Emma asked to her.
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Then later that day, Caitlynn walked with Aubrey to the shop from Gold, when she arrived there she sees someone there, who she doesn't recognize. She asked to the woman. "Who are you and what are you doing here by this shop?"
"I'm Belle and I was looking for Mr. Gold." The woman replied to her.
"I'm sorry, but Mr. Gold is dead." Caitlynn told to her.
Belle gasped. "He's dead, but we… I… I supposed to make him good, that's what a hero does."
"Princess, you can't make him good, he has to choose that himself." Caitlynn countered. "You can't make him good."
"How dare you to say that? Who are you?" Belle asked to her, looking angry.
"I'm Caitlynn and I'm his true love, darling." Caitlynn replied to her. "I have every right to say something like that."
"What?" Belle asked shocked.
"You heard me." Caitlynn looked at her.
"I did hear you, but I thought I was his true love." Belle looked confused.
"And he thought you were dead, he mourned you, came over you." Caitlynn told to her.
"I was locked up in the castle and here in the asylum." Belle explained it to her.
"Oh and you never thought to escape?" Caitlynn asked to her.
"I did, when the first curse was broken." Belle replied to her.
"And you never thought about you could find Gold?" Caitlynn looked at the girl.
"I couldn't, I went to my dad first, since then he didn't let me out his sight." Belle replied to her.
Caitlynn found it suspicions as then she asked to her. "And how are you now out your father sight?"
"I don't know." Belle replied honestly.
"You just thought to come here and look for Gold, who is dead?" Caitlynn checked.
"Yes." Belle replied to her.
"Well, you can leave now." Caitlynn told her boldly.
"What?" Belle asked shocked.
"You heard me, go." Caitlynn looked at her.
Belle looked disappointed as then she leaves, she walked back to her father shop. Then Caitlynn sighed as then she opened the shop from Gold and went inside of it with her daughter.
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Caitlynn let everything see to her daughter, Aubrey looked at everything with widened eyes. Caitlynn looked at her daughter. "This was your father shop, Aubrey."
"Papa shop?" Aubrey looked at her mother.
Caitlynn nodded. "Yes, Aubrey."
"Papa house?" Aubrey asked to her mother. "House?"
"You want to go to your father's house, don't you?" Caitlynn looked at her daughter.
"Yes, mama." Aubrey replied to her mother.
"Okay, we are going then." Caitlynn told her daughter.
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Not much later, they arrived at Gold and Caitlynn's house. Aubrey thought that it was only her father's house, Caitlynn didn't tell her that it was also her home. Caitlynn opened the door and let her daughter inside of the house. Aubrey looked at everything and anything that was in the house with her mother Caitlynn. Then they went to a bedroom with toys as Aubrey looked at it and she told her mother. "Toys mama."
Caitlynn tensed up as she sees that the toys were from Neal as a kid. Then she looked at her daughter. "Yes, Aubrey. These are toys."
"Can I play?" Aubrey looked up to her mother.
"No, not now, sweetie." Caitlynn replied to her daughter.
"Oh." Aubrey looked at her mother.
"Come on, we still look into the other rooms." Caitlynn suggested.
Aubrey looked disappointed as then Caitlynn let see the other rooms.
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Later in the evening, Caitlynn and Aubrey went to Mary Margaret's home. Caitlynn opened the door to see Mary Margaret and Henry there, so she couldn't say 'mom' to her, Caitlynn sighed. "Hey, Mary Margaret."
Mary Margaret looked at her daughter and granddaughter. "Hey, Caitlynn, Aubrey."
Caitlynn put Aubrey by Henry on the couch as then she walked to her mother. "It's been a long day for me."
"How so?" She asked to her daughter.
"Well, Belle is alive and came to the shop form Gold today and I told her to go away." Caitlynn replied to her mother.
"What?! Belle is alive! But you told us she was dead." Mary Margaret looked at her daughter.
"Yeah, that's I thought, that's what Gold had thought, but she is really alive." Caitlynn told her mother. "She looked for Gold and I told her that he is dead. She gasped and goes away back to her daddy."
"Must has been hard on you." Mary Margaret looked at her daughter.
"It was." Caitlynn told her.
Just then Emma and Regina came into the home. Emma walked towards Henry as she asked to him. "Hey. How was your day?"
"Good. Storybrooke is a weird place, but cool." Henry looked at his mother. "Did you know there's a library inside a clock tower?"
"I do. I've been there before. Come here. I want you to meet someone." Emma told to her son as they walked towards Regina. "This is Regina Mills. She's the Mayor of this town, and she wanted to meet you."
"Is something wrong?" Henry asked worried.
"No, no. No, nothing's wrong." Regina replied as Caitlynn and Mary Margaret looked them. "Uh, your mother just told me a lot about you. I hear you like school and that you're good at English."
"Um yeah." Henry looked at her. "Why'd she tell you all this?"
"Because she couldn't be prouder of you." Regina replied to him. "Uh, while you're in town, I was thinking maybe I can give you a tour sometime you know, show you around. Maybe we can even stop for ice cream."
"Yeah. I'd like that." Henry smiled. "So um it was nice meeting you." Regina took a step towards Henry to give him a hug but Henry offered his hand for her to shake, Regina took a moment then she shook it. Then Henry walked away from them, he grabbed his mobile and sat back on the couch.
"How was that? You okay?" Emma asked quietly.
"It was a start." Regina replied to her.
Then David and Hook walked into the room as David announced. "We need to talk."
"Outside." Emma looked quickly at Henry and a sleeping Aubrey.
They walked outside of the apartment as then Mary Margaret asked to them. "They're being turned into flying monkeys?" After they heard the story from David and Hook.
"Yes." Hook replied to her. "He took on simian form with the added bonus of wings."
"Do you think that's what happened to the missing dwarfs, too?" Caitlynn asked to them.
"It would explain why we haven't found any trace of them." David ran a hand through his hair.
"And Neal?" Emma asked to them.
"No sign of him, either." David looked at her. "So yeah, it's possible."
"Wouldn't be the first flying monkey I've dated." Emma comment as Caitlynn let out a laugh.
"The person who escaped our trap disappeared in a cloud of green smoke." Regina told them seriously. "And now there are flying monkeys in this town? I think we know exactly who cursed us."
"The Wicked Witch of the West? Seriously? She's real, too?" The twins asked simultaneously.
"Says the daughters of Snow White and Prince Charming." Hook looked amused.
"I don't get it. It's not like we're in Kansas." Emma began as then Caitlynn finished, both looking confused at the others. "Why would the Wicked Witch of the West want to come to Storybrooke?"
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