A/N: Here's the next chapter! I hope it's okay...I had a lot of trouble with this. I did beat my longest chapter though, by almost 600 words, so that's good! This is set in 2x20 so I hope it's okay. This chapter has Archie, Emma, Mary Margaret, David, Henry and Hook as well! Archie wasn't in the episode but that doesn't matter! I hope you guys like it because it's taken me a while! Your reviews, favourites and subscriptions are greatly appreciated! But I am sad that this story will probably only have two more chapters, I do possibly have a sequel that I can do, but I would really need some feedback to see whether it would work. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own OUAT! Stop accusing me of owning it! I only own Amelia!

The next day after had passed all too slowly for Regina. She had found it rather difficult to explain the beans to Amelia, not what they did, but why they were being hidden away. Amelia had said she didn't want to go back anyway, saying that this world was a lot more fun. Obviously Amelia was missing Regina's point, but she didn't press the matter any further because it was well past the girl's bed time. So Regina had made Amelia go to bed before she had gone out to find Mary Margaret and David.

Regina found them sitting on the docks, so she quickly transformed herself into a fisherman and sat down, starting to fiddle with fishing gear. They were talking about going back, back to the Enchanted Forest. It was once her name was mentioned that she made sure she caught every word they said. It only gave her more reason to hate Charming, how anyone could fall in love with that idiot was beyond her. He wanted to give her the choice of being left behind or living out her days in Rumplestiltskin's jail cell? She wouldn't choose either, so she got up and walked out of sight before transforming herself back, "Jail cell? I don't think so."

Regina barely slept a wink that night, much like the night before. She just couldn't get to sleep with everything going on. She was thinking about Henry, the failsafe she had inbuilt into the curse, amongst everything else. It wasn't until late in the morning that she was snapped out of her thoughts by her bedroom door opening. She turned her head to look as Amelia walked in, a frown on the girl's face as she walked over to Regina's bed.
"Why are you still in here?" Amelia climbed onto the bed, facing Regina as she sat down on her legs.
Regina let out a small sigh before looking at Amelia, "I was just thinking about some things."
"Are you sad?" Amelia shifted closer, ending up in Regina's lap even though she was still looking at her.
"Well I wouldn't say I'm sad, but I wouldn't say I'm happy." Regina smiled slightly.
"Stop thinking then!" Amelia tried to look angry but when Regina grinned at her she couldn't help but laugh.
Regina chuckled as she pulled Amelia into a hug, "I'll stop thinking then."
Amelia gave Regina a big hug back before pulling away, "Good! Cause I want food!"

After breakfast the pair went out, Regina had arranged an appointment for Amelia with Archie. Not because she thought the girl needed help, but because she just wanted to see whether Archie could find out why she had so many nightmares. Regina knew it would partly be because of what had happened to their parents, but she really just wanted Amelia to be able to have a full night's sleep. It also gave Regina time to find Henry and talk to him. So once she had dropped Amelia off at Archie's, she wandered off to find Henry.

Amelia stared at Archie as he smiled at her, "Where'd Regina go?"
"She has to see to some other things, so she wanted me to have a talk with you." Archie continued to smile at Amelia, noticing how she was zipping and unzipping the bottom of her jacket.
"Why do I have to talk to you?" Amelia glanced at Pongo briefly.
"I can see you're nervous Amelia, but it's okay to be."
Amelia shook her head and looked down, "No it's not."
"Why is that?" Archie watched her let go of her zip.
"Mummy wouldn't like it."
"Do you still do what she would like all the time?"
Amelia looked back up at him and bit her bottom lip, "I sometimes forget to do things."
"Do they matter a lot?"
"I don't want to make her angry."
"But she's not here anymore, Amelia. Regina's here, but Cora's not anymore."
"She came back before and the last time she got angry with me…" Amelia couldn't help but shudder as she brought her knees up to her chest."

Archie couldn't help but feel sorry for both Amelia and Regina. They both loved their mother even after everything she had done. "It's okay Amelia. I can promise you that this time around, she won't come back to hurt you."
"But, I love her, I want her back." Amelia continued to stare at the ground.
"What she did was wrong."
"She's my mummy, though."
"It's okay to love her, but you need to know that she wasn't doing the right thing." Archie placed a hand on Amelia's knee.
"What about daddy?"
"He was a good man, Amelia. If he could come back, he would in a heartbeat. I'm sure he loved you and Regina more than anything in the whole wide world."
Amelia nodded her head, "Regina tries to make up for him, I think."
"Does she?" Archie smiled at her.
"Yeah, I just don't want her to leave as well. She promised she won't."
"Is that what gives you nightmares? You don't want to be abandoned?"
Amelia looked at him and nodded, "I don't want to be the only one left. In my nightmares, they're all dead."

Regina had finished her conversation with Henry about 20 minutes ago, but she had allowed Amelia and Archie an hour. Now that the hour was up though, she walked into Archie's office and knocked on his door. A few seconds later she was greeted by Archie, she smiled at him and walked in, seeing that Amelia was playing Pongo. Amelia turned her head to look at Regina, smiling before returning her attention to Pongo. Regina and Archie began to talk in hushed whispers about the session. It was a little heartbreaking for Regina, hearing what gave Amelia her nightmares.
"She just doesn't want you to leave her like your mother and father." Archie glanced at Amelia, keeping his voice low as he spoke to Regina.
"Is that it? There's nothing else? She didn't say anything about when she was in hospital? Or when she first arrived here?" Regina watched Archie intently.
"Well, she did mention what your mother did to her…but she said she doesn't want to be the only one left, because it's in her nightmares that you're all gone."
"Thank you, Dr. Hopper. I really do appreciate." Regina gave him a slight smile before she got Amelia and walked out.
"Bye Archie!" Amelia called out as they left, causing Archie to smile as he closed his office door.

The pair had taken a stop at the hospital first, to get Amelia's stiches out finally. So Amelia was happily walking along with Regina, intrigued by the marks left behind on her skin. It had been a bit difficult to get Amelia in with the nurses that worked there, but once they had been avoided it was a lot easier. Now they were walking back to her office with her arm around Amelia's shoulders, listening to Amelia as she talked about her session with Archie, well mainly about how cute Pongo was. "I'm sorry Amelia but we're not getting a dog."
"Why not? They're so cute!" Amelia frowned as they arrived at Regina's office.
"Because they're too much work and they destroy everything." Regina entered her office and took off her jacket.
"I guess…what did you do?" Amelia unzipped her jacket but left it on.
"I went and talked to Henry." Regina walked over to the magic bean plant she had growing in the corner of her room.
"Was it a good talk?" Amelia sat on a chair and watched Regina.
Regina just shrugged, "It didn't go as planned but I enjoyed his company."
"That's good, I think?"
Regina nodded before they both jerked their heads around at the sound of footsteps. Regina walked over to her desk as Hook walked in.

"Captain…you look like you've had a rough time." Regina was slightly shocked to see him and Amelia just looked at him gobsmacked as he walked in.
"Indeed I have, I've come to ask you for your protection." Hook walked towards Regina.
"From Gold? I'm surprised you'd show your face in this town, once you noticed your murder didn't take." Regina watched him as he stood in front of her, Amelia eyeing him off from behind.
"Well we've got bigger problems. That man, Greg Mendell, the one who hit me the night I shot Belle; well he's in league with some woman, she abducted me in New York and dragged me back to Mendell," Hook watched Regina as she looked at him in disbelief, "They want me to make an alliance with you, and then betray you, that's why they let me go. Now I say lets you and I make an alliance and we'll- we'll skip the unpleasant betrayal business."
"Why should I trust you?"
"I took up with your mother for a reason, perhaps the three of us could re-establish our alliance?"
Regina looked down before looking away, noticing that Amelia shifted uncomfortably in the background, "Our mother died."
Hook turned and saw Amelia, for what seemed like the first time, "Well that is sad news indeed. I'm sorry, she will be missed," Hook looked back at Regina as she looked back up at him briefly, "I will tell you this, Regina. I knew her well enough to know that what she wanted most in the world was to see you win. Now I failed in my revenge, the best tribute I can give her is to help you with yours."

"When can I-," Regina swallowed the lump forming in her throat, "Let me show you something." Regina walked past Hook, over to the magic bean she had growing,
"An escape plan. Oh she'd have loved that, she brought that giant for the beans, so she could go back and start over with you." Hook smiled at Regina and looked at Amelia as well.
"Well I'm going to do that with Henry. If you'll help me? This is how we're going to escape the total destruction of Storybrooke, if I can trust you." Regina walked close to Hook.
"Now when you say total destruction, including the crocodile yes?"
"Ooh yes, Rumplestiltskin will die, if you help me." Regina looked at Hook almost pleadingly.
Hook nodded his agreement, "We should go now then."
Regina shook her head, "Someone needs to watch Amelia."
Amelia got up, "I can look after myself!"
"No you can't, but I don't want to send you back to Archie."
"What if I went with Henry? I haven't even talked to him!" Amelia looked at Regina pleadingly.
"I doubt Emma will agree." Regina crossed her arms and looked at Hook who was just watching Amelia until he heard Emma's name.
"Try then!" Amelia gave Hook a smile before Regina reluctantly got out her phone.

Emma was just about to answer Henry's question about Tamara when her phone rang, causing her answer to his question to be cut off. She frowned at the caller ID and walked away from Henry before answering, "Hey Regina, what's up?" Henry's eyebrows rose as he walked towards Emma and started to listen.
"Oh you want someone to babysit Amelia? You want me to? Really? Oh because of Henry, right that makes sense. Oh straight away? That's fine, wasn't busy at all. See you in a few? Yeah, bye."
Emma put her phone back in her pocket before looking at Henry, "We'll go out with Amelia I guess."
Henry smiled but at the same time he felt nervous, "Did she say why we have to babysit Amelia?"
Emma shook her head and leant against the kitchen bench, "Just that something had come up that she couldn't ignore."
"I guess it will be cool to actually meet Amelia for real. But, what's the relation? Cause she's younger than me but she would be my step-aunt or something?"
"Whoa, kid! Everyone in this town has a weird family relation, just look at her like…a cousin or something?"
"Okay…" Henry walked over next to Emma and waited for five minutes before there was a knock on the door.

Emma readjusted her top before she ran over and opened the door, smiling slightly at Regina, "Hi Regina," Emma looked down at Amelia, "Hi Amelia."
Amelia grinned up at Emma before running past her into the apartment, "Hi Emma!"
"Amelia! Where are your manners?" Regina smiled sheepishly at Emma, "Thanks for having her on such short notice, I hope she's not too much trouble."
Emma watched Amelia walk off with Henry before looking back at Regina, "That's fine, I'm just a little surprised you picked me to babysit seeing as you don't even trust me with Henry."
"Not many people would be willing to babysit my sister, so I didn't really have a choice." Regina fixed her gaze on Emma.
"I see…well I guess you need to go do your important job?" Emma wanted Regina to leave as soon as possible.
"Yes I do, can you drop her back at my place at seven?"
Emma nodded her head, "Sure thing."
Regina smiled slightly before walking away, the sooner she got this over and done with the better.

"Your comics are cool!" Amelia grinned at Henry as he smiled at her shyly, "Is that the right word?"
"Yeah it is, people wouldn't think you'd come from the Enchanted Forest!" Henry didn't really know what to say but fortunately he was interrupted by Emma coming into the room.
"Amelia we were going to head out to Granny's so I hope you don't mind?" Emma bit her bottom lip as she watched Amelia.
"Nope!" Amelia ran past Emma, with Henry following behind.
"Well then let's go I guess…" Emma grabbed her keys off the bench and grabbed her coat before following them out to the car.

"Operation Cobra was about breaking the curse, this is about keeping Storybrooke safe." Henry spoke to Emma as they all sat in her yellow bug. Amelia had shut up about ten minutes ago and she was now playing Angry Birds on Emma's phone.
"Operation Tiger." Emma finished her sip of coffee and looked at Henry.
"Why?"
"I need a why? You never need a why!"
"Operation Unicorn!" Amelia yelled out from the backseat, never taking her eyes off Emma's phone. Perhaps Emma shouldn't have let her put two extra sugars in her hot chocolate.
"I want something like the town, something that hides in plain sight, something like a Praying Mantis."
Emma contemplated it briefly before the bell from Granny's Bed & Breakfast rang, "Duck!"
"What?" Amelia leaned forward into the front seat as Henry and Emma both ducked. Emma grabbed Amelia's jacket and pulled her down, until she looked up, seeing it was neither Neal or Tamara that had come out of the Bed & Breakfast.
"We're spying on people! So we have to be sneaky, Amelia!" Emma let her go, "So when we say 'duck' you duck!"
"Quack…" Amelia poked her tongue out at Emma, "We're in a bright yellow horseless carriage…"
"Don't dis the bug, this car has driven me everywhere!"
Henry just laughed and Amelia joined in, occasionally quacking.

Once they had settled down, Henry spoke up, "Stakeouts are fun."
"Not usually," Emma said it through a mouthful of delicious, sugary pastry as she looked at Henry, "But this one, yeah kinda."
"Only because I'm here! Die piggies!" Amelia lay back on the backseat.
Emma simply rolled her eyes and Henry grinned, "I thought by now we'd be having adventures, over there you know? Riding horses, shooting bow and arrows…this is cool too."
"It's not that fun…" Amelia muttered under her breath in the backseat before destroying another structure.
Emma looked at him seriously, "Is that still something you want? I mean if there was a way to go back to the Enchanted Forest."
"The Beans…"
Henry obviously didn't hear Amelia as he frowned at Emma, "Is there?"
"No! Don't be crazy!"
"There is! A way back, a bean or something, the giant brought it, didn't he?" Henry smiled.
"I told you!" Amelia groaned from the backseat, "That's what I just said!"
"You are a smart kid…" Emma sighed slightly.
"That's awesome! We could get like a castle, you, me and Neal!"
"Oh hey, whoa, no way, that, we're not, that's not-" Emma was shaking her head before Henry yelled for them to duck.
"Quack!"

This time it actually was Neal and Tamara so, as Henry said, "Operation Praying Mantis is on."
They waited until the couple was out of sight before they got out of the car and walked into the Bed & Breakfast.
"You two stay out here and watch, okay?" Emma looked down at Henry and Amelia as they both nodded.
"What if someone comes?" Henry questioned.
"Just, kind of fall against the door or something, make it look like an accident." Emma demonstrated causing Amelia to grin. Emma walked inside the apartment, leaving Henry and Amelia outside.
"Do you do this all the time?" Amelia asked Henry.
"Not usually…" Henry smiled at Amelia, "Sometimes we don't do anything all day!"
They continued chatting for a few minutes before they heard Neal come back in.

The two shared a look of horror before Henry started to pretend to fall on the door. Amelia just smiled at Neal, before looking at the ground.
"Hi Henry and…little girl…" Neal looked at what Henry was doing, before frowning, "Oh hell no, I taught her that, Emma!" Neal opened the door and walked in.
Amelia just stayed outside, keeping watch again. It was a few minutes later that Emma and Henry walked out, both looking a little deflated. "Did you find something?"
Emma shook her head, "Let's get going, kids."
It didn't even bother Emma when Amelia slipped her hand into her own for the short walk back to the car.

When they returned to Mary Margaret's apartment they sat and had ice-cream together. Regina truly was going to kill Emma if she found out how much sugar Amelia had consumed that day. There were only a few more hours before Emma and Amelia headed off back to Regina's. Amelia said her goodbye's to Henry, Mary Margaret and David before they left. When they arrived at Regina's home Emma frowned as she saw there were no lights on anywhere. She knocked a few times and they waited, but when Regina didn't answer Emma got the spare key from under the mat, opening the door before calling Regina. It was only when Regina didn't pick up that Emma was starting to worry. She didn't let on though, telling Amelia that Regina must just be running late.

Emma didn't even notice how late it got until she noticed that Amelia was asleep on the couch next to her. She had waited and waited, had a few calls from Mary Margaret, played a few card games with Amelia and overall she tried to not look too worried. When her phone rang again and it was Mary Margaret, for the fourth time that night, Emma had a sinking feeling that Regina wasn't coming home. She agreed with Mary Margaret to bring Amelia back to the apartment, stating that she would be there in a few minutes. Emma walked upstairs and into the room that looked like Amelia's, grabbing the girl's pyjamas and a few other items of clothing before putting them into a bag.

When Emma walked back downstairs, she picked up Amelia carefully, thankful that she was smaller and lighter than Henry. She froze as Amelia shifted, curling up against her warmth, before she walked outside to the car. She dumped Amelia's clothes in the backseat and then placed the girl in the passenger seat. Emma went back to the house and locked it up, before going back to the car and driving off.

Mary Margaret and David were waiting for her when she got back home, they both looked worried. A feeling that Emma couldn't shake, seeing as it was nearly midnight and none of them had heard anything from Regina.
"Henry's asleep, has been for a while." Mary Margaret took the bag from Emma and put it on the bench before turning back to her.
"Amelia has been as well, in case you hadn't noticed." Emma adjusted her hold on the girl only for David to take Amelia from her.
"Where do you think Regina's gone?" David held Amelia tightly in his arms.
Emma shrugged, "I guess I'll sleep on the couch tonight, Amelia can have my bed."
"Doesn't it worry you, though? Regina wouldn't just leave us with Amelia." Mary Margaret had her hand up to her mouth, thinking intently as she watched Amelia sleep.
"It worries me more than I would like it to." Emma sighed, "The hardest part is going to be explaining to Amelia why she's sleeping here when she wakes up in the morning."
Mary Margaret and David both agreed, and Mary Margaret spoke up, "We'll go get her into bed."

David had gone back downstairs after he had put Amelia on Emma's bed, leaving Mary Margaret along with the sleeping girl. She was having difficulty getting the girl into her pyjamas, especially when she had to take off Amelia's shoes. She knew one thing she was going to ask Amelia in the morning though. The numerous fresh scars on Amelia's arms and legs hadn't come from nothing. Mary Margaret intended to find out what, it made her upset for some reason. She didn't understand why, but maybe it was just because Amelia had Cora for a mother. Once she had finished with her thoughts she tucked Amelia into bed, hesitating slightly before she placed a kiss to the girl's forehead.

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