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Autumn came down the stairs the next morning and breakfast was on the table, with her parents sitting around her set place. They were holding hands and smiling at her, in an eerie way.

"Umm.. good morning."

"Good morning love. Your mother and I have some things to talk to you about."

"Am I in trouble?" she asked.

"No… your father and I talked things through, as well as made an appointment with Dr. Hopper. And there is one thing that we are sure we need to tell you." Belle smiled.

"You… have an older brother." Her brother said. "His name is Bae… and I am working to break the new curse of not leaving the town so I can go and find him."

"I know." Autumn shrugged, eating her eggs.

"What?" Her father asked. "How?"

"Because… I'm the daughter of Rumpelstiltskin, I can see a person's history in their eyes… it's the only thing I'm good at." Autumn mumbled the last part.

"It is not the only thing you're good at." Belle defended her daughter, her father looked completely unconvinced with his little daughter's answer. Autumn can feel him drilling into her with his eyes, and sighed.

"And Henry's book may have… mentioned him." She added.

"Really?" Gold asked, a bit embarrassed.

"Yeah. Even the portal thing." She told him. His eyes grew wide,

"Autumn I want you to know that I would never…" but she stopped him.

"I know." She smiled, "Can I come with you to the shop today Daddy?"

"I see no problem with that." Gold smiled.

"I think it is perfect. Ruby is going to help me get started on the," Belle cleared her throat and held up a key, "Library." She sing songed.

"What? No way! Yay!" Autumn giggled excitedly.

"Yes way!" Belle giggled and leaned across the table and kissed Gold's cheek. "So finish your breakfast and off with you two." She kissed Autumn as well. Autumn ate the last bit of toast and went and put her dish in the sink.

"Autumn.. in the monster." Gold reminded her, Autumn sighed and put her dish in the dish washer.

"Monster?" Belle asked, watching Autumn.

"It is what Dad calls the dishwasher, in our fake memories… the dishwasher used to scare me, I called it the monster." Autumn shrugged. Belle actually laughed, " And yes it's function, just as it sounds."

"Finally, I love this world." Belle kissed Autumn, and Autumn left with her father to the shop. She watched him polish items, and they made up stories about various things in the shop, even though they now knew the stories behind them, it was still a fun way to past time.

"I see an overrated doctor that did not learn his lesson last time about trying to bring back the dead." Her father gestured to Dr. Whale, who was carrying a cooler under one arm and his other seemed to be gone. He came in the shop and placed the cooler on the counter. "Some men never learn."

"Oh Victor," Autumn said, her voice playfully accented. "Is it really in here?" she excitedly opened the lid and squeaked, "What happened?"

"I… I tried to get on Regina's good side." Whale panted, "Please Gold." He pleaded.

"Please what?" Gold smirked, Autumn giggled.

"Please… can you put it back?" Whale asked.

"Why…" Gold chuckled, "Of course I can. And I will."

"Really?" Whale said, hope dripping from his voice.

"Yes. But I wonder, why did you not rely on your precious science for this feat?" Gold asked, Autumn laughed.

"Can you just put it back?" Whale growled, Gold looked at Autumn.

"You know what he wants to hear Victor." Autumn said, taking another peak at the arm. "Although this would be a cool contribution to our collection."

"Magic is better than science." Whale said lowly.

"Beg your pardon? My old ears, you know." Gold put his hand to his ear.

"Magic beats science." Whale said louder. Gold turned to Autumn.

"I don't think your mother would enjoy this arm." Gold waved his hand and Whale's arm appeared back in its rightful place. Whale looked at Gold and left the shop.

"How rude, he didn't even say thank you." Autumn said. Gold gave her his credit card and handed it to Autumn,

"No worries. How about you go get us lunch at the diner? Get something for your mother and Ruby too." Gold said. Autumn smiled and left walking to the diner. When she was turning to go into the diner when she ran into someone and felt something hot all over her.

"Autumn, I am sorry." It was Henry. Autumn smelled the pungent smell and almost gagged.

"Henry… is this coffee?" Autumn asked, he looked down, "We're ten. Well… you're ten. I'm thirty-eight. But still."

"I just… picked it up I guess." Henry said, "Sorry again Autumn." He tried to walk away, but Autumn grabbed him by the arm.

"Oh you are so lying… what's wrong?" she tugged him back, she saw him visibly wince in pain. He looked where her hand was placed, and so did Autumn. She yanked his sleeve up and there was an angry looking burn from his palm and it disappeared into the sleeve. "Henry… oh my gods. What happened?" she let go of the hand.

"I've been having dreams… that are real. A woman is in my dream, and she is trying to say something to me but I can't hear her over the flames, and I tried to get closer and I got burned in the dream. And I woke up and it was there in real life." He explained.

"Have you told Charming?"

"No… or my mom." Autumn looked at him, "She's seeing Archie, so Grandpa is letting her see me." He smiled at the thought of seeing Regina.

"Come with me, Daddy will know what's going on. Or at least he can help your burn." Autumn took him by the good hand and she dragged him in a full on run back to her father's shop. The two burst through the door and her mother and Ruby were standing there.

"Autumn… where's lunch?" Belle asked before turning around and taking a look at her daughter's clothes, her face, and her death grip on Henry's hand. "What's wrong?"

"Henry needs Daddy." Autumn said.

"Here I am. What is wrong with the little mister Mills?" Gold came from the back and looked at Henry. Henry looked nervous, and Autumn nudged him. He rolled up his sleeve and Ruby and Belle both gasped in shock. Gold looked on knowingly. "Miss Lucas, you should call Charming, and I hear Regina is having a role in her son's life. So she is welcome to come as well." Belle came to Henry and wrapped his arm in what Autumn assumed to be a cool cloth.

"Here…" she wrapped it in his burn slowly. He gasped slightly. "That's better, isn't it?' Henry nodded and began to tell Gold all about his dreams of the fire room. Autumn felt bad. Charming and Regina came bursting through the door.

"What happened to Henry? What did you do imp?" Regina snarled.

"Actually… it's what you did Regina." Gold replied calmly. Belle lifted the cloth and let Regina and Charming see the burn. "Do you know what happens after someone awakens from a sleeping curse?"

"I… never cared before." Regina said, looking guilty.

"Part of their soul is still trapped in a netherworld. A room of fire. It fades over time but never completely leaves that world. Henry is there now. I just wanted you two here when I gave him this." Gold said, pulling out a talisman from a black leather satchel.

"Will this stop me from going to the room?"

"No. But it will let you control it." Gold told him.

"What's the price?" Regina asked.

"Fixing your mistakes are always free." Gold smirked back. "I have a cot in the back. I want you to lie down. I want to see if you can handle it before I send you off with it."

"That's a great idea." Charming said. Leading Henry back. Belle made tea while Ruby ran to get everyone food. It was a very tense and awkward encounter waiting for Henry to wake up.

"So Belle, I hear you're finally getting the library open."

"Yes. Once we get Emma and Snow back, I was going to hold an opening block party. Something for the whole town to enjoy." Belle smiled.

"Really?" Regina said, Autumn felt the room grow more tense. "The um… the children will love it. Autumn spend the curse trying to open the library."

"Yes. Well I am glad it wasn't, I heard talk of a dragon being held below." Belle said.

"It's good Emma slayed it then." Charming said. Ruby came back with food, and they all ate, Autumn took her French fries and went to watch Henry, who was still sleeping soundly. After a few minutes she noticed he was breathing hard and his eyes were moving behind his lids quickly. "Papa… Charming." And all the adults came back.

"What is it love?"

"Something is wrong with Henry." Autumn said.

"He must be in the nether world. Do not wake him up, understand flower?" Gold ran his hand through her hair. Before Autumn could reply Henry sat straight up.

"They're alive!" he said.

"What Henry? Who's alive?" Charming asked.

"Emma and Mary Margaret. They're alive. Aurora told me so. But they are fighting someone to get home." Henry said.

"Who are they fighting someone named Cora." He said. Gold turned to Regina.

"That's… that's not possible." Regina said. "She's dead."

"No she's not." Autumn said, then added. "I had a vision. I told you she was alive Daddy."

She told him... dundunddduunn..

Yes I know it was AU from the show... but she told him. Hahahaha