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We Are Both

Grace walked around the apartment in boredom. David wouldn't let her leave the building since the hat incident. She had watched from the window the panic on everyone's faces when the dwarves ran up to the middle of town. She had to remind herself that they were dwarves and not munchkins but from what her mother told her, they weren't that much different. As soon as the door opened, Grace ran towards the living room. David came in with a large bag followed by Henry.

"What happened?" She immediately asked as David set his things down and moved towards the mirror. Henry continued to explain the situation with the town line. How once a citizen crosses it, everything from their former life disappears and their cursed self is their only self. Grace paced around the room as David practiced his speech in front of the mirror.

"People of Storybrooke. I know we're trapped together again, and things look bleak. But… They're not," He paused with a look of confliction crossing his face.

"No, keep going," Henry encouraged, "You were on to something."

"No, I wasn't," He shook his head, "I did the fighting, Snow did the talking." David moved the bag up towards him, pulling out the torn hat. Grace immediately stopped as she rushed over to them.

"Can I see that?" Her eyes wide. She'd only seen it once or twice around the house. Jefferson had moved it around the house multiple times to hide it from her but she'd always managed to find it.

"Yeah," David said a little confused at her excitement. Grace held the hat with a huge grin.

"I know whose this is," Grace smiled and the two looked at her expectantly, "It's my papa's. It transports portal jumpers like my parents between worlds. Henry knows him as the Mad Hatter." Henry widened his eyes as he pulled out his book to flip to Jefferson's story.

"The Mad Matter…" David mumbled under his breath.

"You know him?" Henry asked as he continued to flip through the book. David stopped him.

"That's Alice," David pointed out at the picture of the two, "It's the guy she's seeing isn't he? Who is he? I-I mean, who is he here?" They turned to Grace.

"He goes by Jefferson here," Grace explained before hesitating, "Mama didn't want me to go after him yet, the time isn't right yet."

"Well, do you know where he is?" He asked the younger girl and she shook her head dejectedly.

"Maybe he'll check in at the Crisis Center," Henry suggested, "You could check after the thing."

"What thing?" He asked, completely forgetting.

"The meeting?" Grace said amusingly, "Where you tell us about your plan, remember? The speech you were doing?"

"Right. I'll be back for that," David said before rushing out the door. The two moved to follow him.

"Gramps, you got to use me. Come on! The curse was broken cause of me. Let me help!" Henry yelled and Grace tugged him by the back of his shirt to avoid the door slamming in his face with a smile.

"Or…not."

"You haven't found your father yet?" Henry asked as Grace sat by the window to stare out of It. She turned her head to him and shook her head.

"Mama said he wasn't ready yet," Grace said sadly, "I think it's because he thinks I'm angry at him for leaving."

"Are you?" Henry hesitated to ask after a moment of silence. He didn't want to cross a line with her. She paused before pulling her legs up to her chest, wrapping both arms around them.

"No," She answered simply before getting an idea and moving to the couch where Henry sat, "But you can talk to him for me." Henry looked up at her in shock.

"I don't know…" He started.

"Please," She pleaded, "Mama still wants me to go to school and since you won't be there, you can talk to him for me." She noticed the hesitant look on his face, "Please Henry, I just need him to know I'm not upset with him." Henry stayed silent before nodding.

"Okay."

David got out of his car, potion and hat in hand. He drenched the hat with the potion before placing it on the goof of the car. Nothing happened. A buzz was heard and he went to fish for his phone out of his pocket before the hat started to lift up and flew up in the air. David went to reach out for it as it flew away from him. The hat stopped by a flipped car. He could hear a voice calling out from inside it. David pried open the door to reveal a strange but familiar man.

"Ah, thank you. No one heard me," He thanked with smile as David helped him up.

"You okay?" David asked in concern. The man nodded. David dropped his act before dragging the man by his jacket.

"Good. That means we can talk." David led Jefferson to a table outside, the hat lying between them. Jefferson was hiding his annoyance at the prince. He had been in more than a bad mood the past few days. He was delusional to think because everyone remembered; everything would go back to normal. But no, they were still stuck in this stupid town, Alice was nowhere to be seen, and he was still too scared to go find Grace.

"Can you get me through?" David asked as Jefferson wiped off any remaining glass off of him. He had been on his way to get things ready for when his family did move back into his manor. He figured if they were gonna be stuck here, he might as well make the most of it.

"No," Jefferson grumbled placing the napkin down.

"Can you get them back?" David asked again, forgetting to mention exactly who went through the portal. Jefferson merely rolled his eyes at the man. He didn't understand why everyone was so willing to bow down to this prince. He was really irritating to listen to. Then again, Jefferson always did have a problem with royalty.

"Can you get it to work?" At that question, Jefferson let out a laugh. Oh, the irony.

"If you only knew," Jefferson flashed him a mad smile. He really had no idea, guess his one true love didn't tell him what had gone down that night.

"Okay. You had a little girl's tea set in your car and a stuffed rabbit toy, so I'm thinking you have a daughter you love," David started, causing Jefferson to frown, "Well, I do, too. And a wife. And they're out there somewhere. In the Enchanted Forest, or a void, I don't even know. But I'm going to get them back." David sighed in frustration when the man remained silent when he remembered something.

"Alice," Jefferson's head snapped up at the name.

"What about her," He practically growled. David smiled to himself.

"She's there with them," He explained, "She fell into the portal with them." Jefferson leaned back in his chair with a sigh. That explained why he hadn't seen her yet. The two were inseparable before the curse and it didn't explain why she had been gone this long until now.

"They're in the Enchanted Forest, that's for sure," Jefferson said before glaring at the man in front of him, "I just can't get there."

"It still exists?" David asked and Jefferson never wanted to punch a man more than him. Did he not just say the Enchanted Forest? Jefferson needed to get away from him. If the hat worked, then maybe one of the hats at home worked.

"It exists. I don't know if that matters, since we can't go there," Jefferson bit at him in frustration.

"So, you won't help me?" David asked in disappointment. Oh he was going to help alright, but not with him. Jefferson didn't know how long he could stand to be around the prince before wanting to smash his head in at his questions. He could take Alice asking questions, to him it was endearing. But this prince was just repeating everything he said in the form of a question and it irked him.

"I'm a portal jumper, and you destroyed my portal," He gestured the burnt hat in front of him, "So you're out of luck." Jefferson remained calm as David went and grabbed him by his scarf.

"Well, I'm the closest thing left to a sheriff here," David growled, "so I can just throw you in a cell until you figure out a way." Jefferson glared at him with immense dislike.

"Then all we'll do is both sit. Stuck. Two lives in our heads, cursed worse than ever," Jefferson said catching the prince off guard, "Two lives, forever at odds. Double the pain, double the suffering." As David contemplated on what that meant, Jefferson took the chance and bolted from the table. Without turning around, Jefferson felt a sense of panic at the fact that Alice was no longer in the same world as he. He would have to go see Grace alone. He couldn't leave her without a mother. And he couldn't leave Alice back in the enchanted forest not knowing the dangers that now lie there. He needed his other hats to work.

Alice felt a sense of familiarity of the barren field but she couldn't put her finger on it. She stumbled as the rope tugged on her wrists. Two women sat up on the horses with ropes bounded on her and Emma and Mary Margaret, pulling them along behind the horses.

"What is this place?" Alice asked, curiosity getting the better of her.

"Our home," Mulan simply answered. They arrived on an island, the area no longer abandoned as inhabitants roamed around. Alice looked around and saw the civilization they had built up.

"It's like they're refuges," Emma commented as she looked around as well.

"We're survivors," Mulan stated. All of a sudden, Mary Margaret kneed Aurora in the abdomen and made a run for it.

"Guys, run!" Mary Margaret called out. Emma and Alice exchanged a look before following after her. Mary Margaret was suddenly struck down by Mulan, knocked unconscious. Emma and Alice rushed to her side.

"Mary Margaret! Mary Margaret!" Alice panicked, the familiar name slipped from her mouth as Emma glared at the woman.

"What did you do?!" She snapped.

"Take them to the pit," Mulan turned away from them.

"Be careful!" Emma shouted at the guards as Alice knelt down by Mary Margaret.

"Come on… Wake up. Can you hear me?" Alice lightly patted her cheeks as Emma crouched down beside her.

"Do you need help?" A voice called out causing Alice to completely go rigid. She knew that voice. She had heard it once and it stuck with her this whole time.

"Alice?" Emma whispered to her when she noticed how tense her friend was and the clear fear glimmering in her eyes.

"Who are you?" Emma asked out loud, immediately suspicious.

"A friend," It called out. Alice whispered the word 'no' under her breath as she shook her head, her hands shaking. Emma looked at her friend in alarm as a figure emerged from the shadows. Alice's eyes followed up at the person, her eyes wide in terror. Emma grabbed her friend's shaky hand as she followed her gaze.

"My name's Cora," The woman greeted before flashing the frightened girl a sickly sweet smile, "Hello Alice."

UH OH, DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUN. Wonder how Alice will react to Cora being here and everything. Even though this chapter was really short and in this episode we barely go to see Jefferson, sassy Jeffy is better than no Jeffy am I right? I'm not even kidding, I went back to this episode so many times just to see Jefferson and his attitude towards David and it cracks me up everytime!

grapejuice101: And I love you….(Too soon?) Update is for you my love!

chibichibi98: Ugh there's gonna be some tension between my favorite little trio, but don't you worry your pretty little head about it. As for Alice having magic, I did a lot of debate over this before I started the story. Alice will not have magic and I have a whole explanation so feel free to just skim over this if I get too rambly kay? I felt like the hat had to have some kind of connection with its owners for it to work right? They never said anything about Jefferson having magic and Regina always went to him for the hat to work. If you had to have magic to make that hat work, Regina could've just used it herself and taken a guard or something to get her father through the portal. That's why I made Alice spin the hat instead of Regina, it didn't work for her before so why should now be any different, right? SORRY ABOUT MY RAMBLING IM TOTALLY WORKING ON IT HAHAHA. Yeah Alice's past is a little wonky but it'll come together soon enough, especially when season 3 rolls around. I LOVE REGINA SO MUCH. I honestly think she has the best character development and (minus the magic part) the most realistic which is partly the reason why I want to build some sort of friendship between her and Alice.

Female whovian: IM SORRY IM SORRY OKAY. AHAHAHAHA, YOU'RE TOO AWESOME YOU KNOW THAT? OH MY GOODNESS, I had a good laugh at this at my SAT class, so thank you, my entire class thinks I'm a freaking nutcase laughing to myself.

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*No outfit for this since Alice is basically wearing the exact same thing*

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