Boom. I am here. Sorry I had to cut the last chapter short but it was getting to long and I had to stop. It's like how The Deathly Hallows got cut into two parts, I cut this episode into two parts.

"So," Emma started, "what is up with this cave."

Hook sighed, "the Echo Cave."

Sara looked up at him, "do you know this place, Hook?"

"All to well," he said solemnly, "I lost half my crew there."

Everyones eyes grew round as he continued.

"The only way to rescue someone from inside it is to reveal a secret," Hook told them.

"A secret," Mary Margaret repeated, "that's all?"

"Your darkest secret," Jack said suddenly.

Everyone looked over at him and he seemed nervous.

"The cave derives it's name from an old saying," he continued, " 'the deeper the lie, the more truth in its echo'."

"The cave demands that you reveal a truth about yourself," Hook stated, "a secret you would never reveal to anyone."

Sara's mouth went dry.

"This is ridicules," Emma protested before Sara could voice her own opinion.

"Don't kill the messenger, love," Hook impossibly joked.

"Even if we spill our guts," Emma continued, "how do we know Neal is even still alive."

"Because," Hook started, "this is what Pan wants, he wants us to rescue him."

"Them," Will corrected irritably.

"Why?" David asked.

"So that we reveal our secrets," Hook continued, "he believes that once we do.."

He stopped and swallowed nervously.

"Our secrets will destroy us," Jack finished staring straight ahead, he looked up and fear was clearly visible in his eyes.

All seven of them looked at each other uncertainly.

Sara stepped out into a huge stone cavern with a soaring ceiling. There was no natural light and everything was dark and gloomy.

She found herself standing on a ledge in front of her the floor swooped down into a deep canyon.

In the middle was a rock platform, there was no way of getting across the abysses. Sitting on it was two bamboo cages side by side. In one a small white shape and the other. Neal.

"Emma!" he cried out his voice echoing off the surfaces.

"Neal," Emma whispered.

"Will, is that you?" a small voice called out.

"Yes," Will shouted, "I'm right here, we're going to rescue you."

"It must be a hundred feet across," Snow sighed.

"Even if we fashion some kind of rope, there's nothing to attach it to," David said.

"So what do we do?" Emma asked nervously.

"I told you what needs to be done," Hook told her.

"Consider this the moment of truth," Jack stated.

"Literally," Sara added.

"So what?" Emma questioned, "we give off secrets and start sprouting wings?"

"I don't know the particulars," Hook said, "only what I've been told."

"How do we know it will work?" David asked.

"Only one way to find out I suppose," Hook turned around to face the hole.

"Dramatization please, Hook ," Sara snickered.

He looked back, "Sara usually I love your fantastic sense of humor that is obviously genetic, but," he sighed, "I need a very solemn atmosphere for this moment."

He turned back and took a breath, "I kissed Emma."

Sara raised a brow and smiled.

"You did what!" David exclaimed.

"David, now is not the time," Snow stopped him.

"I already told Mary Margaret so technically it's not a secret," Emma said, "but it was just a kiss. How is that your darkest secret?"

"It's what the kiss exposed," Hook told them.

Here it comes.

"My secret is I never thought that I would be capable of letting go of my first love, of my Milah," he continued, "to believe that I could find someone else. That is until I met you."

Suddenly the ground shook and a path sprouted out of the platform reaching partway across the empty air.

"Mary Margaret, I-," David started.

"No, no," Snow stopped him, "me next."

She took a breath, "ever since the curse broke and we found each other, we found Emma, in all our happiness there was something I didn't want to admit. Our daughter is a beautiful, smart, amazing woman whom I love very much and of whom I couldn't be more proud of."

She paused.

"But she's all grown up, and as much as I want to pretend I'm okay with that, I'm not. We missed it, David. What we have is unique, but it's not what I wanted. We were cheated out of everything! Her first step, her first word, her first smile, we missed it all!"

"What are you saying?" David asked.

"When we got off this island and go back to Stoybrooke, I want another go at it," Snow blurted out, "I want another baby."

They all stumbled as the pathway grew out a bit more.

"Nothing in this world would make my happier and I know with all my heart that you will make an amazing mother." David started, "but it can't happen, at least not with me."

"What do you mean?" Snow asked.

"When Hook took me to find the sextant," David told her, "he was really taking me to find a cure."

"A cure for what?" Snow asked angrily.

"Dreamshade," David said softly.

"The lost boys, the arrow," Snow said, "you pushed me out of the way-"

"I wasn't fast enough," David cut her off, "I was hit. Hook was able to find a cure but it comes at a price. I can't leave Neverland, if I do I'll die."

Poor Mary Margaret.

The path jutted out some more.

"I'll have a go at it," Will said, "my secret is that I can't handle my own pain."

He stopped for a second.

"Someone once broke my heart and to avoid the misery of that I had it ripped out," he continued.

Sara inhaled sharply.

"Long story short, the said person took it and controlled my for a time," he told them, "someone got it back for me but even then I was still to much of a coward to face it so I hid it instead."

The path shot out again.

"My turn," Jack said, "when I met you Sara I didn't know that this was the way it would turn out. And honestly I don't know how to do it."

"D-do what," Sara asked.

"Love someone," Jack answered, "truly love someone."

He swallowed.

"When we broke that curse it seemed so right, but now I realized something," he continued, "I realized that no one has loved me for so long that now I-I don't know how to love someone else."

There was silence then the path burst out again.

"You don't need to love me, Jack," Sara said, "because I don't love you either."

"W-what?"

"I saw something you didn't, "she blurted out, "right after the curse broke, I saw Lillian and Sean and they were, well, you know."

"What do you mean?" Jack asked.

"They say True Loves Kiss can break any curse," Sara told him, "but our didn't break it, theirs did."

She paused, "we couldn't have broken it, Jack. Because we don't have True Love."