(Hi! Back again, this time with lucky chapter 13. Glad you guys understood my position of not knowing why David should die. Waking Emma up will not be easy, but, if it happens, it will be sweet, hopefully just as sweet as the show itself. But that will obviously not happen in this chapter. Athena Skywriter, I am not sure what you mean by the "say something horrible to them" thing, so I have no idea how to reply to that. And by the way, there is absolutely no need to apologize. As I sometimes say, good or bad, I will love to know your thoughts about this. Yes, the reference in the last chapter was totally from Sleeping Beauty and I am, for some reason, glad I included it. It felt cooler, at least to me. This chapter was made to set up the next few ones, so I hope you like it and that you keep reviewing!)

David stood there, unable to move for a few seconds. First, they took his wife from him, and then his daughter? He tried to conceal the anger, to not allow himself to blow up, but it wasn't easy. He closed his eyes, turned around and took a few deep breathes. He didn't want to decay into an ocean of darkness, to let himself be consumed by the thought of revenge, but that seemed harder at every minute. In those moments, he thought he really was just like his dead brother, with the only difference being that he would maybe be turning dark by love. A huge amount of love which had been lost and had to be avenged. But that was something he had to try to fight. For Snow. For Emma.

"David, are you okay?" Regina had seen him turn around, maybe trying to deal with the latest crisis. She was worried that wouldn't end well. While he still had the spark of hope of bringing Snow back, she thought he would be okay. Under the circumstances of course. But when that hope died, which she was sure it would, since she didn't think bringing Snow back was ever going to happen, that would be when the real struggle would begin. That was why she had to try to help him before then.

David turned around slowly, and just nodded. He looked again at his daughter and his pain only grew. She wasn't dead, he knew that, but with that curse on her, she seemed as much dead as his wife, because he couldn't be able to do anything to save neither of them.

Ignoring David was the least thing Regina wanted to do, but she had to figure out what was going on, so she could try to break that newest curse. She may not be able to bring back Snow, but bringing back Emma was something she thought she could do. With some hard work of course. "Rumple, how is this possible? How can a curse create more curses?"

Rumple still had his eyes on Emma's body, in an attempt to try to understand what was going on and, more importantly, how to reverse it. "There seems to be a sort of shield around her, which prevents the kiss from work. And which also backfires into anyone who tries to break the curse underneath it."

"And Hook. Is he under the same curse?" Regina really wanted to understand what was going on, but it seemed that at every new piece of information, she understood all of that a little less. She was practically the Queen of sleeping curses, and she didn't think she could ever think about something that twisted.

Rumple walked around the bed, getting closer to Hook's body, and put his hands above the pirate, trying to sense the magic. "I don't think so. His sleeping curse seems to be one which can be broken normally. But of course, it will still require true love's kiss."

But they all knew true love's kiss was something none of them could give Hook. It may have taken some time for most of them, but eventually they accepted him into their huge family. They saw him as one of them, as a hero, as a friend, but they knew there was no one expect for Emma who could wake him up. And she was in no condition to do so.

"How can we break it?" Henry said, stepping forward to take a better look at his mother. She was right there, she was alive and waiting for them to wake her up, but they couldn't. They couldn't do anything.

Regina stepped closer to Henry and put her arms around him, in a hug the Author gladly accepted. "Don't worry Henry, we will figure this out. We will bring her back. I promise."

"So, where do we start?" Belle looked at both Regina and Rumple, ready to receive instructions. She didn't have magic, but she knew her way around potions. And of course, she didn't want to do nothing while her friends were in trouble.

"Right now, the best we can do is go home and try to get some sleep. I am sure we will be more able to think of something after we rest." Regina said, continuing to hug Henry and push him close to her.

"Sleep? You can't be serious. We need to get my daughter back, to get Hook back. And you want to go to sleep?" It was late, David knew that. And he also knew they were all tired from the battle, and from walking all the way there, but sleep was the last thing he wanted to do. And even if he wanted to sleep, he was sure he would never be able to. Not after everything which happened in the last couple hours.

"David, calm down. I know that is the last thing on your mind, and I am not crazy about this idea either, but we need to sleep. We can't think straight right, not after… everything." She knew David hadn't forgotten about his wife's death, none of them had, but she didn't want to be the one to say it out loud.

"Regina's right. You should go to sleep. I'll try to find more things about this curse in the meantime." Rumple waved his hand, and lead them back to Regina's house. "I put Emma's body in your vault. I'm sure you won't mind me helping myself to a few things."

That was really just typical Rumple right there: getting whatever he wanted from whoever he wanted. But Regina was glad he was actually trying to help, and she also had bigger things to worry about, so she just shook her head. She grabbed David and Henry and led them upstairs. She knew she couldn't send David home. Even if he stayed inside all night, which Regina didn't think he would, that house would remind him too much of Snow and it was still very very soon for that. She let Henry go to his room, something he did without complaining, and took David to the guest room, the one which was being occupied by Zelena a few days before. Or even better, the room Zelena slept the night before. It may seem like days ago, but 24 hours earlier, things weren't neatly as chaotic as they were then.

"Regina, you don't really expect me to sleep, do you?" David continued to think that idea was beyond crazy, not to mention a waste of time. He was following her to the room, but only by courtesy, nothing else.

"Don't worry, I'll help you fall asleep. Trust me David, it'll be good for you." They arrived in the guest room, and Regina started pushing the blankets back, so he could lie down. He looked at her, his expression saying, without a doubt, that he thought they should be doing something productive instead. Sighing in defeat, he went to bed and Regina covered him, just like any momma bear would do to her child. "I could tell you it gets better with time, but it doesn't. But the pain does go away after a while. She'll live on in you."

"Why are you saying those things, if we are going to bring her back."

"Of course we will." She said smiling. She waved her hand over David's head, immediately sending him to Morpheus' little world. She was worried about him. Of course it was great he had hope he would see her again, but that was false hope, and it would just make him lose her all over again. She knew that all too well, because she went through the exact same with Daniel. She kept his body, she tried to bring him back several times, and every failing attempt just made her lose him all over again. Just made her pain grow.

Putting that thought behind her, she walked to her room, lied on the bed with her clothes still on, and almost immediately fell asleep.

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A few hours later, after a dreamless sleep, Regina woke up. She knew sleep would be good for her, and it really was. She may still have had no idea how to bring Emma and Hook back, but she knew exactly what she had to do to try to force Adda to reverse his spell. And maybe even to force him to bring back Snow.

She went downstairs and saw no one there. Henry and David were probably still asleep. She grabbed a pen and a few pieces of paper, and started writing practically the same message in all those pieces. Then, using a lot of her magic, she made them magically appear in the people she was thinking about. How could she not have thought of that earlier? If Adda could recruit some villains to help him on his insane quest, then why couldn't the heroes not call backup too? Because when Henry and David woke up, that was actually what Regina had just done.