Ava drives back into town talking with her sister on the phone, "Neal is gone? I don't know what to say. Emma, I am so sorry."
Ava listens to her sister telling her about something called a "trigger" that would destroy the town and everyone in it. "Okay, I will be right there.", Ava says.
Speeding up she thinks about what had happened in Salem and how much her shoulder was hurting.
(Flashback)
Ava had only spent two full days in the town. She was walking through the graveyard where Helen and Mark were buried. She had already left flowers when she heard someone walking up behind her. "Hello, my sweet Ava. I have been looking for you." Allen, he had been stalking her in Storybrooke and followed her to Salem. She turned around and saw the gun. "I saw that one-handed freak dressed up like a pirate. I saw what you were doing with him. You have become quite the little slut in the last few weeks, haven't you?"
"Allen, please... don't come any closer." Ava begs, backing away only to hit a gravestone.
"What right does he have to touch my property? ANSWER ME!", he yells. His face turning red and still holding the gun at her.
Ava doesn't have time to think. She didn't even notice the blue light that was coming out of her hands, "I am NOT YOUR PROPERTY!" she screams. Then a shot.
She stood there, with pure hate in her eyes. He had shot her, but missed, only grazing her shoulder. Blue smoke forms around her, "his name is Killian Jones." Raising her hand, the gun flies out of his hands. He tries to move but he can't. She walks up to him, "stay away from me, my family, and my town. Or else you will have first-hand knowledge of who he truly is, Captain Hook."
"You are fucking insane.", he says.
"Maybe I am. But you will never touch me again.", she walks off.
(End flashback)
Ava opens the door to her parent's apartment and finds that they are not alone. Emma, Henry, and Regina are also there. Before anyone can speak. The ground shakes. Ava rushes over to hug her mom and dad.
"The triggered is activate." Regina says hugging Henry, who has just asked if that means we are all going to die. "You were born here, so you'll live. Ava too."
Emma is screaming at Regina. Blaming her and ordering her to make it stop. Henry joins in, "STOP! I already lost my dad. I don't wanna lose anybody else. We have to work together."
"From the mouths of babes. I'd say the lad has a point." Killian says as he walks into the room.
David punches him in the face. "That was for the last time we met." Killian mutters under his breath. David pulls out his gun, "tell us why you're here before I use something other than my fist." Ava moves closer to Killian, wanting to throw her arms around him.
"I think threatening to kill me seems a bit redundant when we're all about to die anyway.", Killian smiles at Ava.
"Regina told us that you are working with Tamara and Greg to get revenge!", Emma screams at him.
"Well, that was before they told me I had to die to get it." Killian says. Ava raises her eyebrow in shock.
"We don't have time for this. We have a real problem.", Emma is staring at Ava. Who is now being torn between two worlds.
"Which is why I'm here, 'cause staring death in the face has made me realize if theirs is one thing, I want more than my revenge, it's my life…", his eyes quickly go over to Ava, hoping she knows what he is really saying. "So, should we start this thing now, and then resume bickering?"
No one says a word for a few seconds, "there is no stopping it. And the best thing I can do is slow it down, but that will only delay the inevitable." Regina says and with that everyone starts talking.
David, still staring at Killian, tells the group that they are going to steal back the beans and use them to get everyone into the Enchanted Forest before Storybrooke is gone. Emma looks at him and says that they don't know where Greg and Tamara are. Killian agrees to show them.
"You'll take them and leave us all behind. Why should we trust you?", Emma asks while giving him a look of pure rage.
"No, we won't have to. I'll go with and if he tries anything, I'll shoot him in the face." David says, making Ava shudder at that thought.
"Quite hostile, aren't we?" Killian asks.
"I'll take Regina to slow down the diamond, give you guys time. Mary Margaret, takes Henry, and Ava, and gather everyone. Make sure they're ready to go as soon as we have those beans." Emma tells everyone, but Ava doesn't like this. However, she doesn't think she should fight with them. With a plan now on the table, everyone leaves. Killian and Ava share a quick glance before walking away from each other.
Everyone is gathered at Granny's waiting for David and Killian to return with the beans. Mary Margaret walks to her daughter and sits beside her, "You worried about what is going to happen?"
"Yeah, but you just have to have faith that everything will work out." She answers and looks up to see Killian and her dad walking in with the beans.
"Dad, you're hurt!", Ava cries at soon as she saw the bleeding. He tells her that he is fine, it is just a graze. Without thinking whispers "I know that a graze still hurts." She touches her own shoulder, absentmindedly. No one had heard her, well, almost no one.
"Alright, let's get going. "Emma says to the group.
"Where is my mom?', Henry asks, looking around. Ava's heart breaks for him. He doesn't know that his mother is willing to sacrifice herself to save all the town.
"Regina can hold off the self-destruct device long enough for us to escape, but…" Emma stops and looks down. "She won't survive."
"No! We can't do this! She's family! We don't leave family behind!" Henry is now yelling, and everyone can hear him.
"This is what she wants. We have a way out. We have to take it.", Emma is trying to get the point across, but Henry is going to keep fighting her.
"We saved her from being killed by the Wraith. How is this any different? ", he cries. Mary Margaret and Ava both get the same idea.
"We sent it through a portal. Why can't we do the same thing with the self-destruct?" Mary Margaret points out, but Emma and David both think that there is a risk of it not working and no one would go along with it.
"Look, Snow White and the Prince have always led us before, and we've always won. So, who's willing to let them lead us again?', Archie stands up and everyone else in the room agrees.
Emma still wants to use the portal to get away, but Ava speaks up, "we can't let Regina die. Her blood would be on all our hands. Could you really live with yourself? Because I couldn't."
Emma finally agrees, and David tosses her the beans, but Killian grabs it, "You're all mad. I can live with myself. If she wants to die for us, I say let her."
Emma speaks again, "We're gonna do this. It might be stupid, it might be crazy, but we're doing it. So, you can join us and be a part of something, or you can do what you can do best, and be alone.'
Killian hands her the pouch containing the beans, "Quite passionate, Swan. Why are you really doing this?"
Emma tells him "Henry just lost his father, and she is not going to let him lose a mother too." She turns to Ava, "come on."
"Go on, I will be right behind you." She tells her sister
"Ava, who is Henry's father?", he asks, walking up to hug her.
"Neal… Baelfire.", she notices the look in his eyes, "What is wrong?"
"Nothing, love.", was all he said, walking her out the door.
She is about to kiss him, but he quickly grabs her and throws her over his shoulder.
"KILLIAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?", she is screaming and beating her hands on his back. Trying to get away.
"I am not going to lose you.", Killian answers and takes her to his ship. Once on board, he sets her down.
"Killian, if you do this, I will never forgive you. I can't leave my family!". Ava pictures them in her mind, with a wave of her hand; she is gone, leaving him screaming her name, trying to get her back.
Ava wakes up on the ground, the blast from the trigger being destroyed has knocked her somewhere else. She hears voices, at once she recognizes them, Tamara, and Greg. And Henry!
She quickly gets up and runs toward the sounds. She is only two hundred feet behind them. They stop at the end of the dock and throw something in the water, a bean. "STOP!", she screams as she is closing in. Tamara raises her arm up, points a gun at Ava; who is still running towards them. There is a shot and sounds of her family screaming. Nevertheless, she keeps going. Tamara and Greg force Henry to jump with them, with Ava following. She doesn't make it to the portal in time.
She surfaces a few moments later, "Ava, are you okay?", her father is rushing to help her out of the water; while her mother is trying to comfort Emma.
"Yeah, I think so." She struggling to pull herself up, when she feels someone grab her arm. "I am just freaking freezing." She looks up and sees that it was Killian, his eyes go wide when he looks at her stomach. She doesn't know why.
Suddenly, the pain hits her. She reaches down and touches her belly. Pulling her hand up to her face, "is this blood?" Her world goes dark and she passes out.
She can hear people talking, but she can't make out what they are saying. She is floating in a void. The outline of a woman appears, bathed in the brightest light. She is speaking to her, but her lips are not moving.
"Ava, my dear, you are not ready to be here. You must go back.", her voice sounds so familiar.
Helen. It is Helen. "Yes, Ava. I love you, always."
She is gone in a flash. Ava can hear Killian yelling at someone, telling them to heal her.