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Henry stood alone on the now deserted Storybrooke street.

The wind had died down, the magic in the air was gone, everything was completely normal again as if it were any average, cool Storybrooke night. Except that, Henry's biological mother had just tried to kidnap him from his bed and she and Killian had disappeared into thin air.

Henry rubbed his knee which was developing a bruise from where he had fallen after Killian had separated him from Emma's grasp. He could still feel her grip on his upper arm, the sound of her crying out his name when they separated echoed in his ears.

Now what? He wondered. Emma hadn't told him where they were headed and he suspected that it wouldn't be so easy for her to come back, at least for now. That meant Killian would be stuck with her now, wherever she was, and she would no doubt be very angry at him for ruining whatever it was she had wanted to do with Henry.

And what had she wanted with him? The Emma he saw tonight reminded him of how she used to be, before she settled in town with their family. She was desperate to get out of town, more desperate than he had ever seen her. Henry wondered if his safety was just what she was telling herself, or what the darkness was convincing, she was doing. He couldn't imagine whatever was waiting for Killian when he appeared with Emma would be good.

But Henry had to have hope, he was sure that the mark he saw on her skin was the result of the darkness infecting her. Henry figured as long as she wasn't completely transformed there must still be time to save her.

"Henry!" His adoptive mother, Regina's voice cut through the silent night and Henry's thoughts.

"Mom?" For the second time that night, he was surprised by the appearance of a mother. Regina was practically sprinting down the street to get to where he stood.

"Thank god." Regina murmured as she came up to him, grabbing Henry by the shoulders to hug him to her chest. "Henry, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, I think, but Mom how did you—", Regina hugged him once more, cutting him off.

When she finally let go, Henry realized that she holding her phone in her hand. Regina raised it to her hear, saying, "I found him, I found him, he's fine. We're around the corner from there—okay."

Regina turned back to him and took his shoulder and again for the second time that night Henry found himself being pulled down the road by one of his mothers.

"Where are we going?" He asked, hoping that this time, he might get an actual answer.

"We're getting off the street, I want to get you somewhere safe."

As it turns out "safe" meant Gold's shop which was only a block around the corner from where they had been standing on the street. His grandparents were there now, having shown up shortly after Regina had hustled him in, or he supposed he should say both sets of his grandparents were there. Belle had ushered them in when they entered, taking them to the back room where Henry could sit. Snow and David had shown up several minutes later to join them so that they were currently standing around him with Regina.

"They just disappeared?" Belle was asking him after he had recalled all the events since Emma had arrived in his room that evening.

"One minute she was gripping my arm, the next they were gone. Poof." He said, snapping his fingers. It occurred to Henry that he also didn't know how Emma had opened a portal like that in the first place, she had seemed very particular about its location though.

"And you said you found him on the street?" Gold asked Regina, Henry's grandfather might be thinking along the same lines. There was some reason she was so dead set on returning to that spot.

Regina nodded, "It was the exact spot Emma disappeared from before, I'm sure of it."

"Do you think there's something significant about the location?" David interjected also catching on.

Gold merely frowned.

Henry wondered if Emma would come back for him again. She was sure that once they were away they could "escape" for good, did that mean once she went through the portal she couldn't come back? But then Killian was with her and he was familiar with realm travel so perhaps he could get them back, if Emma couldn't. Henry kept replaying those last moments when Killian had shown up in his head. Emma had her dagger now, if she returned or if they somehow were able to find her, they had no sure way of stopping her.

It was while he was thinking about Emma and the dagger that he remembered, "Lily."

The adults in the room, who were still discussing the significance of his location amongst themselves, turned to Henry when he spoke. "What was that, Henry?" Snow asked, sitting down beside him.

"Lily's been helping my mom. I just remembered, she mentioned it before." Before everything went to chaos.

A look passed between the adults in the room. Henry knew what they were all thinking.

"We never should have trusted her." David finally said, rubbing his temples, then turning to his wife he added, "I should have listened to you in the first place, Lily always had questionable motives."

They all should have known, they had all wondered what would move Lily to helping them. Snow shook her head, "You couldn't have known."

"Well now we do, so perhaps we should focus on bringing her in. She might know where Miss Swan has gone with the pirate." Henry could tell his mother was getting frustrated but if Lily was Emma's confidant while she was in Storybrooke these past few days she might have valuable information on where Emma was headed.

Henry's grandparents, David and Snow, understood that as well and nodded. With one last squeeze of Henry's shoulder Snow took her husband's hand and they headed to the front of the shop and out into the streets of Storybrooke no doubt to bring Lily in for questioning.

"While they're gone we need to figure out a way to make a portal, now. It's time we stop with all this dilly dallying." Regina turned to Gold, "I know you're working on something, what is it?"

Henry was surprised his mother was being so forward. Since he had lost his powers, no one could suspect Gold of anything. The man didn't exactly give off the evil mastermind vibe without the Dark One's powers backing him up. Sure, Killian still didn't trust him but that was something that would never change between them. To everyone else, Gold was just Belle's estranged husband who was trying to make up for his past crimes, apparently everyone else except Regina.

For his part, Mr. Gold took Regina's accusations very calmly. He came around to stand next to Belle, sharing a look with the librarian as he did. Henry wondered how much Belle knew of what Regina was suggesting but figured, since it was Belle, if she did know anything then it could only be something she thought was for the good of everyone.

"I'm afraid I won't be much help in what you're after just yet."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

Gold's eyes shifted away from her, clearly he didn't want to discuss it.

"Rumple." Belle gave her husband a pleading look. The time for hiding things needed to be over. They were out of time, Emma needed them—or really Killian most likely did—now.

He sighed. "You're right, Regina. I have been working on something—although I'm afraid as I said it won't be much use to you."

Regina crossed her arms over her chest. "Well, tell me, what is it?"

Gold shuffled away from them in the direction of his desk, he returned a moment later carrying a large book in his right hand. Henry noticed that several of the pages were earmarked but he couldn't see the book's title or figure out its purpose.

Gold however, handed the book over to Regina, "Go ahead, open it."

Henry's mother flipped open the volume to the first of the earmarked pages, "It's a spellbook, from the Enchanted Forest." She flipped through a few more of the pages, "How did you get it here?"

Gold shrugged, "It came over in the last curse I suppose. Read the last page I've marked."

Regina's eye widened as she did so, making Henry more curious about what the book's purpose was. "What is it?" He finally asked when instead of sharing Regina read the page to herself.

Gold turned to him, "It's a spell, or the ingredients for one at least which could allow the caster to duplicate a former occurrence of magic."

"What, so, if someone used magic to say turn that book into something then this spell you're talking about could do that again?"

"Precisely or in our case it could reopen the portal Miss Swan used to leave Stoybrooke."

Henry didn't understand why this spell was such a big deal if it was as simple as that, Regina however, did, "However, it would take someone quite powerful to cast a spell like that."

Gold turned to her, shrugging, "When you're the Dark One that isn't an obstacle."

Regina narrowed her eyes. "But you're not."

Belle looked between the two of them before she interceded, "Enough. You see? He's only been working to help us."

"Then why didn't he come forward about this to begin with?" Regina voiced the concerns Henry himself was having. Maybe the spell was less simple than he thought but if Gold really intended for it to help them he could have told them what he was working on from the start.

"I wasn't sure it would work. Aside from the fact that we would need more magic than you yourself possess dearie, the spell also requires certain ingredients."

"Aren't they listed in the book?" Henry asked.

Belle shook her head, "They are but what you can find in the Enchanted Forest differs from what's available to us here in Storybrooke."

"I have some of these in my vault." Regina said as her eyes scanned down the page in front of her. She pointed out the specific items as Gold, both hands placed on his cane, leaned forward to glance at the page.

"There's just one ingredient I'm still missing then." He said after a moment, "It's a rather delicate matter actually." Belle gave her husband a sidelong glance as he spoke.

"What is it?" Regina pressed.

"Dragon blood."

"No."

David and Snow had since returned, Lily in tow. Henry was now standing amongst them as Lily was sat on the bench in the back room a Gold's shop, her arms crossed while Regina recounted what they wanted from her.

"It's the least you could do since it's your fault Miss Swan is gone in the first place."

Lily straightened. "You think I wanted her to just up and disappear again? That's not what I was bargaining for."

"What were you bargaining for?" Snow asked, frowning.

Lily looked away from them, refusing to give any more answers. She had been talking easily enough, telling them about how she had been hiding Emma in her room at Granny's, how she realized now that Emma had only wanted the dagger so that she could get away from all of them (a move Lily in her current position seemed to want herself).

It was odd for Henry, watching Lily now. This was a woman who had known his mother when she was his age, not only that, but Lily held all the potential for darkness Emma would have naturally had. Henry could almost see Emma sitting there before them; if things had been different would she have turned out this way?

"Look, I gave you a chance once," David began, kneeling down to Lily's eye level, "whether you knew you were or not you helped my daughter run away. Now you can either sit there and do nothing so that none of us get what we want or you can step up and do the right thing now, maybe you'll even find we can help you too."

Lily bit her lip, her gaze shifting back to them, "I want to find my father."

Regina pursed her lips, David nodded, "Fine, you help us find Emma and we'll help you find your father." He held out his hand.

Lily gingerly took it. "How much blood do you actually need?"

They were standing in the street in the exact spot where Henry had stood hours before with Emma.

Belle and Gold were standing with him, working out the order the components needed to be used in order for the spell to work, "You're sure this is the spot you were standing?" Gold was asking Henry.

He nodded. He could almost perfectly picture his last glance around him when he thought Emma was going to take him away from Storybrooke forever, before Killian arrive. Now, he wasn't so afraid to be going through the portal.

"It's not safe." Regina wanted Henry to stay behind with his grandmother and baby uncle while she and David went after Emma and Killian.

"I'm not a child anymore." In the last several weeks Henry had had a number of his own adventures, he wasn't about to be left behind as if he were a baby like Neal.

"Henry—", Regina started, still not convinced he should come.

"No. I have to do this, she would do it for me."

"She would also want you to be safe, who knows where portal is going to take us?"

"She was taking me there before for my safety, no matter where it is I'm sure I'll know where she'll have gone next once we get there."

That put an end to the debate of whether or not Henry would be coming.

At Henry's approval, Gold with Belle's help began inscribing a symbol into the road around where Henry stood.

Not far off from them, Robin and, oddly enough, Zelena were there now as well. Although Regina alone might not be powerful enough to enact the kind of magic they needed, the combined powers of herself and her sister, Gold revealed might be just enough.

The wicked witch was being carefully watched by everyone there to ensure that she wouldn't try anything to ruin their plan. However, aside from a few impudent remarks and a lot of eye rolling at the measures being taken, she was behaving herself. Henry glanced at Zelena now, her hand absently resting on her still flat stomach, as Robin moved away from her, leaving her in the care of the Charmings, in order to talk to Henry's mother.

"I'm coming with you." He started when he reached Regina, taking her hand.

Regina, who like Henry had been staring at her sister, turned to face him. "You can't."

Robin shook his head, tightening his grip on the hand of his true love as he pleaded, "Regina, if you think I'm just going sit idly by while you enter that portal, you're wrong."

"I'll be fine. You need to stay here—for Roland's sake." Roland was with Granny again that night, the scene here not being a safe place for the young boy. What would happen if he got pulled in the portal too?

"Roland doesn't need me here, you do."

Regina sighed, her eyes sliding from Robin's face to Zelena. "It's not just Roland. Someone needs to stay here who can keep my sister in line, and as much as I hate to point it out it's your child she's having. You need to stay here for the sake of both your children as much as I need to go for mine." Robin looked like he wanted to argue further but Regina wouldn't let him. "I'll be fine. And when I get back we can finally start focusing on our future again."

Robin pulled Regina toward him then touching his lips gently to hers once, then kissing her more firmly again, Henry looked away to give his mom her private movement with her true love before they would be separated yet again.

Gold and Belle were almost done. Lily stood awkwardly to the side of them, rubbing her palms together, "Just a couple of drops and then what?"

"Then Regina and Zelena will use their combined magic to ideally re-open the portal Miss Swan used to leave Storybrooke."

"And then how do we get back?" Regina said, slightly flushed from her goodbye with Robin, as she joined them.

"Hopefully with whatever magic Emma was able to use to open the portal in the first place." Belle answered, although Henry wasn't sure she was sure that plan would work.

He however, knew how they would do it, "Merlin will help us."

His mother's gaze shifted to him, her hands resting on her hips, "Henry, we don't even know that this portal will take us to Camelot. Emma could've gone anywhere."

"Have faith mom." The wizard's words to Henry, his encouragement that they would be able to work it all out, save Emma, that they had the means to do were giving Henry his hope and courage now.

"Everything ready?" David asked, coming up to the group. While Snow White would be staying behind with her still young son, David on the other hand was determined to aid his grandson in rescuing his daughter.

"I believe so, if Lily is ready to do her part."

Lily rolled her eyes, taking the knife from his outstretched hand. She grimaced as she slid the blade down the palm of her hand, allowing the drops of blood that immediately began flowing to splatter along the design Gold had inscribed in the street. When he motioned for her to stop, she welcomed the cloth Snow offered her and pressed it tightly to her wounded hand as she moved out of the way.

Regina and Zelena both closed their eyes and from their outstretched palms, Henry saw the harsh glow of magic break out. Seeing the two women working together, combining the magic they had both been trained by Rumpelstiltskin to use, it was easier to see their resemblance. Although not obviously similar in appearance, they shared a certain decorum, a confidence in their stance that Henry imagined must be part of what Cora gifted her daughters with, along with their magic.

For all the dislike between them, the combined energy of their powers was something more than Henry had ever seen, granted he was often not present when either of his mothers fought the various monsters in town with their magic. Within a few seconds, the air around them began to swirl, just as it had the last time Henry had stood on the street. Clouds gathered above them, the air itself seemed to come alive with magi, and this time Henry saw the portal open.

Both his mother and her sister dropped their arms, their magic having done its work. Robin took Zelena, who looked a little more tired now than before, by the arm and pulled her away from the scene although his eyes never left Regina's. Regina for her part, stood by Henry and when David motioned them, they leapt into the swirling vortex without looking back.

A/N: Yay for a long chapter? Although, I know it was kind of a whirlwind. I'm so sorry this chapter took longer than I ever thought it would, this past week has just been incredibly busy! (But can we talk about that promo?! September 27th can't come soon enough.)

Things are definitely picking up in this chapter, I've always thought everything suddenly begins to conveniently work itself out for the heroes right before the end (but maybe that's just me). There's still a couple chapters to go though and we still have to see what's going on for Emma and Killian right now (I can tell you it's not going smoothly where they're at) but we're almost there!

Thank you so much for reading, I know I always say it but I really do mean it every time!