AN: Glad to know a lot of you are still tuned into this fanfiction, thank you all for sticking by my side as I was going through a rough patch. I was very pleased to see the reviews come in. Sorry, I couldn't get this in earlier, I lost internet for an entire week, and then I had Christmas shopping and then on Christmas day when I was going to upload we lost power for 2 days.

In this chapter, you're going to see a lot of flashbacks, and there's going to be a surprise too.

Asked by Oncer4life11: Will Emma and Killian's moment on the beanstalk create a new baby jones?

I guess you'll just have to keep reading to find out. Maybe Emma and Killian create a new life while they're in Neverland or the Underworld ;)

Asked by Number Ten: Did Dr. Whale's arm really get ripped off in the show?

Yes, Daniel did rip off Dr. Whales arm, later on, we see Whale go to Mr. Gold to reattach his arm, using magic (Something he never believed in)

Chapter 24: The Beanstalk

Both lay there on the cold stone floor breathless, just realizing how good and real the pleasure was after having to wait so long to have one another, as their real selves.

"That was..." Killian began as he took long breaths. His skin was sticky and slightly pinker than usual, his arms under him supporting his neck as Emma lay with one hand on his chest and her head on his shoulder.

"Amazing," Finished Emma, "Ten years is way too long." She couldn't remember the last time she had felt that amazing, oh wait, yes she could. It was the morning before she found out she was pregnant with Henry. They never believed in having intercourse while pregnant, it just wasn't sexy to have your unborn baby while trying to get it on.

"Aye." He agreed, they both waited for way too long for this. "I almost forgot how you sound like a kazoo" He joked as he flung himself up knowing that he was in good need of a smack.

Emma gasped as she jumped up with him too, hitting him softly on his arm. "I do not! If anything you sound like an old worn out car engine," She teased.

After he pulled on his jeans and pulled over his shirt he grabbed a hold of his lady's waist, bringing her closer and lowered his lips low enough to just graze her ear, "You love it."

She smiled and gazed into his eyes as her hand laid over his heart and she felt it throbbing under his warm flesh. Everything was once hers again, all she needed was to find this compass once again and then return home to their son. "I love you."

"I love you" Killian whispered back as he leaned in to kiss her creamy peach lips when suddenly Emma softly started to stroke his forearm carefully. When he looked down, he saw her face, Milah, Emma was stroking the tattoo of his Milah. "What is it, love?"

Emma shook her head, "I just can't even imagine the feeling of losing the one you love the way you lost Milah. If I were to lose you, I wouldn't know what to do with myself."

"I was in a dark place for a very long time, love. Nobody should ever have to go through the darkness that I went through," He spoke softly as he imagined all the pain that came with losing Milah just a couple of years after losing his brother.

"Tell me, love, before we met, have you ever been in love?" He was curious, it was something that he never thought of before, but since they were now talking about the topic he thought why not.

Looking down at the old dark stone beneath her feet and explosion of memories from long ago came to mind. A young boy lost in the woods, a summer of romance and then a winter of heartbreak. "No, I have never been in love before I met you."

Suddenly the ground began to shake, everything around them vibrating or falling to the ground. They both knew exactly what was happening.

"Who's there?!" Shouted Tiny as he ran out of the large grand entrance doors, he held a large sword in his hands and looked like he was about to go out to battle.

Emma guessed he still wasn't ready to completely trust humans just yet, even if it had been over ten years since their last encounter and Emma got to show Tiny the good side of humans.

"I know you're there human! Show your self! I can smell blood!" The giant shouted once again, stomping his feet. Suddenly Tiny kicked down a large statue that sat next to the grand doors, the one Emma used to blow poppy powder in his face last time. It exploded into a thousand pieces all around the stone yard.

Killian arched a brow, blood? That's when he noticed the red from the corner of his eye. Emma was bleeding from her lady parts, it was starting to soak through her pants. "Love?"

Emma looked over at him and noticed how he nudged his head down. As she looked down she saw the blood. "Shit."

"Is it your...?" He didn't know what was going on, usually if a women bleed it only meant one thing.

Emma softly slapped the side of his forearm, "No...this Emma has not had sex for over ten years." She tried her best to cover it up y taking her jacket and tying it around her waist...it would have to work for now.

"Humans! Come out!" Tiny shouted once again, stomping his feet.

They forgot all about the shouting giant for just a brief moment. When Killian saw Emma hurt, everything else disappeared, she was his first priority.

"Tiny, mate! it's just us!" Killian shouted below the giant before he got in an even bigger rage. He held his hands out letting Tiny know that they weren't there to harm him or cause any trouble.

Tiny looked at them cautiously, was his eyes playing tricks on him or were these two humans standing below him..."Emma? Hook? Is that really you two?"

"Aye mate, it's us."

Lowering his sword, he put it back safely in place in its sheath. "How can it be? You two working...together...Is Cora trying to destroy this land once again? Is another curse going to be cast?" He asked quickly, you could hear the panic that came out.

"We took care of Cora, Tiny, she's gone, she lost, and no, there is no curse that's going to be cast again," Said Emma so she could calm down the giant first, "We're actually here because we need your help with something very important."

Tiny pointed at himself and cocked his head to the side, he was confused, why would anybody want his help? "Me? Why? With what?" He had so many questions in just a short amount of time, he guessed any giant who just had humans come up to him asking for help would have a bunch of questions at the moment.

"Killian and I both got carried away from our family in the world without magic, Storybrooke, the town created by Regina's curse. We need your help to get back to our son, Henry," Explained Emma, "I only got two seconds with my baby boy before I was ripped away from him once again, it was my first time seeing him since he was born...I can't abandon him again, I know how it feels to not have any parents, I don't want him to feel like that."

Stunned, Tiny couldn't believe what he was hearing. Princess Emma and Captain Hook have a son. "How can I help you? I'm just a simple giant."

"That's exactly why we need you, mate," Killian said, "That compass you gave us last time, we destroyed it, and that's our only option we got left to create a portal and get back home."

"Do you think that somehow when we destroyed it all of its magic returned back here? Maybe another compass?" Asked Emma. She desperately wished for there to be a copy, each minute she was away from her boy, the more pain she could feel in her heart, she just wanted to cry and give up, but she knew that's not what Henry would want, he would want them to keep going, to push through all these obstacles.

"Unfortunately when you destroy something that powerful the magic only stays tethered to that object, so it's unlikely that it would have come back," Spoke Tiny as he saw the two look at each other with nothing but sadness in their eyes, "But, if you want, we could go take a look, maybe there could be something else that could help you."

Both accepted, they were going to make sure they did everything before even thinking of giving up, that's not what heroes do.

As Emma walked into the room filled with trinkets and gold coins, she felt Henry's baby rattle rub against her leg, and the memory of her baby boy crying next to her rung in her ears, her eyes filled with tears.

Killian held onto his wife's hand and noticed how she began to suddenly squeeze tighter. As he looked over and saw the tears filling up he immediately got worried, he didn't want his Swan to be upset or hold up those walls. "Love, everything alright?"

Immediately she blinked and the teats disappeared back into her eyes, "Yeah, I'm fine. Come on, let's try to find a portal."

All three of them spent that afternoon searched and searched for a portal, nobody took breaks and nobody quit. They had to check every object twice.

sixteen-year-old Emma sat on a boulder, watching the frogs in the royal pond jump lily to lily. It was her birthday and she couldn't have wished for it to be over more. It wasn't just the fact that she hated having thousands of people come to throw a ball and celebrate her for an entire day, it was the fact that it was just too much for her. All she ever wanted was just a small little get together with her parents, god-parents, the dwarfs and maybe just a couple of friends, but not every kingdom. She couldn't even go out to town without seeing birthday posters or villagers giving her gifts and food, she felt bad for taking them, sometimes she wished she was born into a regular, average family, not royalty.

"Emma! Come get your dress on, everybody will be here soon!" Snow shouted from the grand doors that led into the gardens. In her hands was a lavender gown that had a bodice of lace and just the right amount of beading that had the design of small buttercups.

"Yes, mother!" Shouted Emma as she rolled her eyes and jumped off the boulder, dusting herself off.

As she walked closer Emma started to hear rustling in the bushes, when she looked there wasn't anything there. Ignoring it, she decided to just keep walking forward.

"Out of the way!"

When she turned her head all she saw was a large white steed before she jumped off into the dirt, coming down with such a hard hit she was most likely going to regret it in the morning.

"Shit!" The man ended up jumping off his horse and running over to the women with beautiful blonde locks, but little did he know who she really was. "Oh my god, I'm so sorry Miss, I wasn't watching where I was going and..."

Once he reached her and saw that familiar face that he's been seeing on every banner for the last week he knew he was dead. "...Princess, I'm so sorry, I..."

"No, it's alright, I should've watched where I was going." Emma jumped up and brushed off her gown.

"Please, if there's anything I can do..." He spoke fast, he was panicked, he just knocked down the princess.

Emma quickly cut him off, "No, it's fine, trust me, this isn't the worst thing that's happened to me, my family is known for dealing with much bigger and deadlier things...I'll live." She gave him a quick smile before everything then went to an awkward silence.

"At least let me buy you a drink of wine, to make it up to you" He felt bad for what he had done, if the King or Queen saw, he would've been put in the dungeon.

"I'm not going to drink with somebody I just met...I don't even know your name." That's when she gave him a smile that said 'nice try, better luck next time' and started to walk away, her mother was probably getting worried she wasn't in her room putting on her gown.

"It's Neal..."

Emma stopped in her steps and turned around with a bright smile on her face, "Nice to meet you, Neal."

Regina knocked on the familiar door. The last time she left here she saw Daniel standing out in the rain, and hours later she lost him all over. It had only been a couple hours since she said goodbye, so before she could change her mind, she had to do this.

"Regina?" Dr. Hopper was shocked to see her back after she stormed out their last meeting he didn't think she would be back.

"I used magic," She chocked out as she tried to hold back the tears.

"Why don't you come in and tell me what happened." He stepped aside, letting the mayor step into his office.

Regina whipped away a stray tear and slowly stepped inside of the small office, walking over to the leather couch that she sat in more than once now.

Dr. Hopper walked in after her, walking over to his seat. "So what is it, Regina? Tell me from the very start."

Regina started telling Hopper about everything. About how when she left his office the last time she saw a glimpse of Daniel for a second in the rain and then quickly went over to her vault where she found Daniels body not there.

"So, somebody stole his body?" Hopper asked.

Regina nodded, "Whale, he thought that if he brought Daniel back to the living, I would return him back to his home."

"Daniels alive, that's fantastic Regina...why are you so upset about it, shouldn't you be ecstatic?" He questioned. The whole feud with the Evil Queen and Snow White was over this Daniels death.

She had to shack her head, "He wasn't my Daniel. He was a monster, and in pain, he tried to hurt Henry...I had to let him go...and that's when I used my magic on him."

He understood now, Regina had lost Daniel all over again, but instead of it being to somebody else like her mother, or Snow, it was her whom she lost him from. "But, you used your magic for good, Regina. This Daniel almost harmed somebody you cared about...you did the right thing."

Did she? That's what kept going through her mind. Maybe she could have helped him, maybe she could have brought the real Daniel back. "Did I?"

"Regina, the best thing to do with these kinds of problems is to forgive yourself," Hopper said, "This is not at all your fault, you were protecting Henry, the whole town for that matter."

She listened in carefully. She did protect the town, she was a hero for once in her life. But when it came to forgiving herself...that was the one thing she could not do.

Time was going by faster than usual, it seemed like only a couple of hours had gone by, but there was no more light peaking through the windows into the treasure room, it was pitch black outside which only meant that they were all running out of time.

Emma was starting to get frustrated, there was nothing. She pushed over a pile of gold and grunted, this all just seemed pointless now. "There's nothing here!" She fell down onto the floor and ended up cupping her face in her palms.

Killian sat next to her and placed an arm around her, he was getting frustrated too. "It's alright love, we'll find something to help us."

Sighing she asked, "How can you be so sure? We're searching for something that may or may not even exist, to look through everything in this room would take days, if not weeks."

He held her close, he hated to see her like this, "Don't give up, Henry needs us."

She laid her head down on his shoulder and took a deep breath, "I'm not giving up, I just don't know if we'll ever find a way back home...at least not here."

"We'll never know if we stop," Killian said as he stood up and placed out a hand to which she grabbed. "Come on, let's go search a different pile, one that looks more promising."

Emma nodded, it couldn't hurt to try again, maybe they might even find something.

He didn't want to say anything, but he was losing hope himself. Killian was starting to think that they were never going to return home and see their son or family again. And then he thought about Will...he may never find him and they would never make-up, Killian could never make up for the sins he had done to his nephew and the broken promises he made to Liam.

And then that's when it happened when before he even knew it, Emma was grabbing him by the waist and pressing him against her like there was no tomorrow.

"Well, you can't seem to keep your hands off of me again, can you love?" Killian arched a brow as he held her close and looked into those emerald eyes.

Emma lovingly giggled, "Tripwire." She pointed down at the wire that he had almost tripped over and then up at the cage that was hanging from the ceiling. "Tiny, I see you never got rid of your security system."

"Oh that," Said Tiny as he looked up from the pile of gold, "Well, I didn't want to be too careful..you know..." That's when he became quite and noticed a shine coming from Emma's pocket. "What's that?" He pointed.

Both Killian and Emma looked down and noticed he was pointing at Emma's pocket.

Reaching in she took out the golden rattle. "It was supposed to be our son's...Henry."

"Can I see it for a moment?" There was just something about this piece that seemed different...special even.

"Oh...I guess it's just a baby rattle, nothing special." As Tiny swooped his large hand down, Emma dropped the miniature rattle into his palm.

Tiny was very careful with the fragile rattle, he didn't want to harm such a valuable piece, it must've meant a lot to them if they were carrying it around with them.

As he examined it closer, he could see a small glow from inside, it warmed up his hands, it was almost like a tingly feeling all over his body. There was magic inside of this tiny human creation. "Where did you get this?"

Emma looked over at Killian who looked at her with an arched brow, they were both confused, "Um...We had it custom made before Henry was born, why?"

"There's magic inside this," Said Tiny as he passed it to the Captain.

"How the bloody hell is there magic inside this? A baby rattle?" Asked Killian as he looked at his sons' treasure.

Tiny shrugged, "Is it possible that it was made from the metal of the compass?"

Emma and Killian both thought about it, was it possible?

Suddenly that's when it hit Emma, "Actually, I do remember the maker saying it was made from a special gold piece that he found mysteriously on a dried up...lake..." As she was finishing her sentence it hit her...the gold that her sons' rattle was made from was from the compass they destroyed.

"Bloody hell" Mumbled Killian as he looked at Emma. The answer was with them an entire time.

"Tiny, could this make a portal? Could this be our way back home?" Asked Emma, she was more than thrilled.

Tiny nodded, "I don't see why not, you just have to find another magical source to create the portal with."

Great, where were they going to find another magical source? The magic was gone in this land, you couldn't even find a portal anymore, before the curse, you were able to go to any village and somebody would've had some kind of portal.

"We'll find something alright, we already got the rattle, we're one step closer to getting home," Killian assured her as he held her close and placed a soft kiss on her forehead.

Emma and Neal walked along the river, the moonlight glistening off the water. It had been a couple of months now since Emma's Birthday and she and Neal had hung out almost every day, after finding out Neal had no home, her parents arranged for him to live at the castle...they became closer each passing day, it was only a matter of time before...

"I love you." She said it out of nowhere, it had been eating her from the inside for the last couple of weeks, and now that it was out...she was scared he was run.

Did he hear what he thought he heard? "I love you too."

And before both of them even knew their lips were locked and the realm felt like it had paused, nothing else mattered at that moment, it was only the two of them.

Two weeks later

Emma sat under the apple tree, she had left a note outside Neals door, telling him to meet her here at noon. She didn't understand why, but ever since the night they confessed their love for one another, he was being distant...strangly distant.

She waited for an hour and once the sun was starting to set she started to get worried, this wasn't like Neal to just leave her waiting.

She walked inside and went up to Neals room, she knocked before entering but when she didn't hear anything she walked in and saw that his room was cleaner than usual, it looked like nobody had ever slept in or lived inside. Her gut turned.

Then sneezy was walking by.

"Oh, Sneezy," Called out Emma, "Do you know where Neal is?"

"Neal? He left this morning, said...he had some business to attend to." When he finished talking he ended up letting out a loud and snotty sneeze, whipping it away on his handkerchief that he left in the pocket of his vest.

But Neal never did come back, he left for good, never to return. Emma didn't know if anything bad happened to him or if he just ran off, there were search parties that lasted for weeks, but they never did find anything, the only thing found was a broken-hearted Emma in the comfort of her chambers. A week later, they came to a village, which only had one...her true love.

Killian had his arm wrapped around his wife's waist, the rattle was tucked away safely in Emma's pocket once again. They were both happy they had a portal home but upset that they needed another magical source just to return to Storybrooke, this was like a never-ending journey.

"Well find that source love,"

"I know, I still have hope, I'm not going to give up," Emma said with a smile as they walked closer to the beanstalk.

"That's my Swan," Killian said as he pulled her smugly to him and pressed his lips against hers, giving her a sweet, chaste kiss.

Emma smiled as the kiss broke apart, she couldn't explain how much she missed his lips on hers when the curse was still intact.

"And thank you Tiny, without you we would have still been stuck, not knowing what to do next," said Killian, "so thank you mate." He pulled out his spare flask since He used his other on Emma's hand and raised it to the giant before taking a sip and passing it to Emma who did the same.

"It was nothing," Tiny blushed, he wasn't used to people being this nice to him. It felt good.

"Thanks to you, we can return how to our son," Emma said with a smile, "which reminds me, we should get going before Aurora and Mulan start to worry."

Killian nodded in agreement, he wanted nothing more than to get off this beanstalk and have a nice nap before going to search for the second part of their way home.

As both Killian and Emma stepped onto the bricks that surrounded the beanstalk they looked back once more at Tiny, this was probably going to be the last time they saw him.

"Ready?" Killian asked Emma as he grabbed her hand. She nodded in response and held onto his hand tightly, not ever wanting to let go.

They both jumped and grabbed a hold of the stalk, their hands still intertwined together. No magic could ever come between the bond they shared.

As they climbed down, there was only one thought on Killian's mind, which was that magical evening in the fields with blooming middlemist flowers, he could never forget that happy moment Emma told him he was going to be a father.

It was mid-evening and the sun was just about to set, it had brought the most golden glow to the land. Emma and Killian were having a couple of moments to themselves before they had to get back to the duty of prepare for the Evil Queen to strick again or stressing over her threat from the wedding, which Emma was losing sleep over, it felt good to get away for a while.

As they reached the old oak tree Emma could feel her heart pounding, this was it, this was the moment she was dreading all day. What if he wouldn't be happy about her news? She knew that they had talked about starting a family many times but they always said that they would wait for when they defeated Regina and the land was safe from her Evil. What if he was disappointed?

"Love, is everything alright? You're being quite silent and looking off in the distance, which only means one thing...your mind is not at ease" Killian said as he took her hands and held them firming under the shaded oak tree.

Emma nodded quickly, "Yeah, I'm fine, there's just something important I need to tell you and I don't know how you're going to take it." She sighed and looked down at the ground, wishing that this moment would just be over already and they were back at the castle.

"Try me." Killian knew whatever she had to say couldn't be as bad as what he had been hearing lately, with Regina plating to kill Emma, or Regina trying to destroy everybody's lives...just this morning she roasted an entire village because they wouldn't tell her what the royal family had done there the day previous.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, this was it, this was the do or die moment. This was the moment that could either go brilliantly good or terribly bad.

Looking up into her husbands' eyes she could see nothing but love, which made her heart feel a bit more at ease. Here it was, it was either now, or never. "...I'm pregnant."

It took no more than just a few seconds for Killian to register what she had said, was it true, or was his ears just playing pranks on him. "Your pregnant...are you serious, I'm going to be a father?" Emma nodded and that was all the answer he needed before he picked her up and started spinning her around with the biggest smile on his face.

Emma laughed at how happy he seemed, which was a big relief to her. "I was scared you would be disappointed that we didn't wait until we defeated Regina."

"Now, we have an even bigger reason to defeat Regina...our family." Killian knelt down on his knees and placed a soft hand gently on his wife's stomach, she wasn't showing yet, but that didn't mean there was no baby inside. "Hey there little one, I'm your daddy, I'm going to teach you how to sword fight and how to be a real pirate."

She giggled, "I don't think David would be too happy about that one."

As he stood up he shrugged, pirate or prince, he was happy with both. "I love you."

"I love you."

That night it was only them, they shared a kiss in the field and the entire universe stopped, Killian promised to take care of her and the baby, he said nothing would come between them, and if it did, they would always find their way back to one another.

Mulan looked up at the beanstalk, she didn't see anybody descending yet. She was never told any orders to cut down the beanstalk if they didn't return within ten hours like the last time, but she wished she had. It was just about going on the tenth hour, Aurora was sleeping and the sun was going below the horizon, it would be dark soon and she hoped that everything was alright with Hook and Emma.

Suddenly Aurora started stirring in her sleep, making a high pitched breathing noise and sounded frightened. Of course, Mulan was fast to act on it and softly shook her awake.

"Aurora? Is everything alright?" Mulan asked concerned, she understood it was probably just a nightmare, when she was in the war she had nightmares every night about what she saw on the battlefields and what was to come.

Aurora took a deep frightened breath as she shook her head, "It was horrible."

The princess really did seemed frightened to Mulan, more frightened than what she should have been. "Why don't you tell me about it? It could be a time passer." Mulan sat down on the log that Aurora had been using as a pillow, it wasn't very comfortable.

She took a couple more deep breaths, still feeling the shock. "It was the same as last time, I was in this room, this red room and there was bright blood red curtains, and there was no windows or doors so it didn't make any sense and I couldn't get in or out. I was trapped. The curtains-they were on fire. it was horrible."

Mulan had felt sorry for this girl, first, she lost her true love, then she was having these nightmares. "It's okay, it was just a dream" Mulan comforted as she softly stroked the girl's auburn hair.

Aurora shook her head, it seemed so real. "I was hunched in a corner, I looked over into the other corner, and I saw someone...I could only see their eyes but they were looking straight at me."

"It's okay, it's over now, these nightmares will go away, believe me, I've had my fair share of them in the war," Mulan told her, "Now come on, I'll sit here with you until you fall back asleep."

"Are you sure?" Aurora didn't want to take Mulan away from her duty.

Mulan nodded, "Yeah, I wouldn't want anything more than to help a friend."

Aurora laid down her head and felt the comfort of her friend, she only wanted happy dreams of her and Philip, but she knew she was never going to get that dream.

Aurora laid fast asleep on the small cot that Mulan had assembled for her in a large clearing. They had set up camp once Killian and Emma had returned. From what Mulan had understood was that they had the way home with them ever since they left the castle, they just never knew about it. But then they said they needed another magical source, which the only person left around with magic here was Cora, which meant they had to go against her once again.

Emma had taken a small walk to a nearby river, she wanted to soak her pants, try to get the soaked through blood off, she knew it would stain but she still wanted to try.

"Hey." Killian had walked up behind her, making her jump and almost fall into the river, good thing he was fast enough with his hook or he would never hear the end of this.

"Hey," Was all Emma said.

Killian could hear the sadness in her voice, "What is it, love? You haven't said much since our return from the beanstalk."

She shook her head, "It's nothing...just thinking."

"Why don't you tell me about it? Maybe I can help make your mind ease," Killian told her as he watched her hang her now soaked pants on a branch to dry.

Emma said down on her jacket that she laid down on the forest floor and watched him as he sat next to her. "I'm just thinking about Henry, he must feel so upset, we abandoned him, Killian...I abandoned him again."

Killian wrapped her up in his arms, he wanted to take away her stress. "It's alright, we will get back to him, love, and we won't ever leave him again. I'm sure he knows we didn't mean to leave him behind, he has his grandparents and a whole town of people there to learn him about the one thing this family always had...hope."

She looked up at him, "But what if that's not enough? What if we don't return home, what if we can't find that missing piece of the puzzle?"

"We always find another way" Killian reassured her.

"What if there isn't another way" Emma said softly as she leaned into Killian as he laid them both down on the ground to look up at the stars.

Nothing else was said after that, they just laid there in silence until they both ended up falling asleep. Both dreams were about Henry, he looked happy, they were all at Granny's enjoying a hot cup of cocoa with cinnamon and a plate of grilled cheese. The only disappointing part was waking up from that dream.

Snow jumped up and took a deep shaky breath. She was sweating, she felt hot all over. She couldn't believe it, she thought it was just a nightmare, but once she woke up she knew it was real, somehow she managed to go back to that godforsaken place, the place she never wanted to return to again. "Charming? Charming, wake up!"

David slowly opened up his eyes to see a terrified Snow, "Snow, what is it?"

"I went back, the red room with no doors or windows...I went back," She told him as she took deep breaths.

"Wait, I thought you couldn't return back? I thought you learned to control it?" David knew all about this room, he knew Snow used to go there, she would tell him all about it.

"I did but for some reason, I went back," Snow said, "But this time was different, this time, somebody else was in there with me...I looked over into the shadows and I saw a girl, she looked frightened."

"Did you recognize her?" David asked, maybe this person was the reason his wife was returning.

Snow thought about it for a moment, from what she saw the girl was wearing a lavender gown that looked slightly torn, and darkish hair. She shook her head, she didn't recognize her at all, she didn't see much anyway.

"Alright, well, how about I stay up with you until you're ready to fall back asleep," That always worked back in the Enchanted Forest, but he also had a candle to light and would tell her it would replace the nightmares with good dreams.

Snow nodded as she sunk back into the bed, snuggling up to her husbands' side. She never did fall back asleep that night though, instead, it was a constant worry about that red room and why she went back, was it because her daughter and son-in-law were in trouble? Or was it just because she went in too deep of a sleep? She would never really know the answer to that.

Neal ended up waking up early, which gave Snow an excuse for getting out of bed, Charming tried telling Snow to go back to bed, he would get the baby, but Snow knew that if he did, she would just end up falling asleep and returning to the place nobody should ever go.

Another Chapter done! Woohoo! I hope you liked it if you did please leave me a review telling me what you think and asking any questions you may have.

I hope you all had a good Holiday and got what you wanted. We went through a blackout here on Christmas, we ended up cooking our turkey and veggies on the woodstove.

Next time: Chapter 25 Child Of The Moon